Tales from the Technoverse

Category: Entertainment

  • The Spirit of the Beehive (El Espiritu de la Colmena)

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    This morning I finished watching the Spanish movie, The Spirit of the Beehive. Made in 1973 and directed by Victor Erice, the film is set in 1940 in a small Spanish village. It tells of a girl Ana, and her sister, Isabel. The two girls go to a mobile cinema which plays Frankenstein. Ana for…

  • The Buck Stops Here

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    There are, at least, two things that my daughters mention that I never did for them. I never took them fishing (of course I have almost never fished) and I never took them horseback riding (I guess I did that a little bit myself but it violated my ‘feet-are-on-the-ground happy place’ approach. The movie I…

  • Life’s Little Annoyances

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    When one represents that shrinking number of people who actually still rent actual DVD’s to watch (my Netflix queue is up to around 490), some things end up being a mild irritant that others would not even notice. It is normal that when a DVD starts there are a series of previews of films that…

  • Chak De! India

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    As I have mentioned before most (it should really be all) mornings I walk on an elliptical walker down in the basement and watch movies. It usually takes 3-5 days to watch each movie, or if it is a TV show series (for example, I just finished season 1 of Once Upon A Time), I…

  • Treeless Mountain

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    Most mornings I walk on an elliptical walker in the basement and watch movies (or TV shows) from DVD’s from my over Netflix queue (now over 400 DVD’s long). Many of the films I watch are foreign films. I find them interesting both because I feel I gain a bit of knowledge about the country…

  • What I Learned From My Birthday This Year

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    As many of you know my birthday was earlier this week. Most of the day of my birthday I spent working on responding to discussion posts and grading midterm papers for the graduate class I teach at the University of Maryland University College. During the day I talked to my two wonderful daughters. I spent…

  • Being The King

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    This morning, Ellen asked me to keep my shower short (scheduling issues). My response was that since I was the man, and thus the King, of the house, I could do whatever I wanted. In over thirty years of marriage, I am not sure I have ever experienced such out-loud laughter from Ellen, a reaction…

  • Still More Proof That the Bob Newhart Finale Was the Best Ever

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    So last night was the finale to the TV show, How I Met Your Mother. As some of you know I only on a regular basis watch four TV ‘shows’ on a regular basis: Hockey games Baseball games (and wasn’t the Nationals season opener something) The Big Bang Theory (as I tell people I was not…

  • Lego My …, Oops Wrong Analogy

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    I have a feeling that the new Lego movie, called creatively The Lego Movie, may be one of those that I will have to go alone without Ellen. Even though the initial Rotten Tomatoes rating is the rarely achieved 100%, http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_lego_movie/. From the WSJ article about the movie, we learn: Lego estimates that children spend 5 billion…

  • Wendy and Lucy

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    I just finished watching Wendy and Lucy, http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/wendy_and_lucy/, which I very much enjoyed.  The story line is pretty simple. A young woman played very well by Michelle Williams, Wendy, and her dog, Lucy, on her way to Alaska to hopefully get a good paying job is stranded in a small town in Oregon when her car…