A couple years after Evil_Bastard’s suggestion, I finally watched this recording of Kevin’s lectures of misc colleges. It was interesting, I had to check the numbers on some things. Chasing Amy and Jersey Girl both booked $25M in box office returns. The difference is that Chasing Amy cost $250k to make and Jersey Girl cost $35M.

Hugh Glass (c. 1780 - 1833) was an American fur trapper and frontiersman noted for his exploits in the American West during the first third of 19th century. A sailor, a reluctant pirate, an honorary Pawnee, and an explorer of the watershed of the Upper Missouri River in present day South Dakota and Montana, Glass was famed most of all for his legendary cross-country trek after being mauled by a grizzly bear. A 1971 movie entitled Man in the Wilderness, starring Richard Harris and John Huston, was loosely based on this story.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Glass

Who do you call when the police are the armed thugs in your neighborhood?
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PHILADELPHIA — A Philadelphia family said they are outraged over the arrest of one of their family members.

The family of Neftaly Cruz said police had no right to come onto their property and arrest their 21-year-old son simply because he was using his cell phone’s camera. They told their story to Harry Hairston and the NBC 10 Investigators.

http://www.nbc10.com/news/9574663/detail.html

This is the letter I’m mailing today to the Reston Multiplex Theater Manager because of the ultra crappy experience I had last Friday Night at Superman Returns.  I did leave out how it was being shown in an ultra crappy small theater because he can’t control the theater infrastructure.  He can control his staff though.  I’ll let you know if I get a response.  I’m expecting none.  As for the Movie… the beginning was good, the ending was good, the middle - ehh  typical action flick - shoot, punch, blow up, flip car, blah blah 

Dear Manager:

On Friday, July 21^st my husband and I attended the 9:50pm showing of Superman Returns.  We chose to visit the Reston Multiplex because the show time of the movie worked best with our schedule compared with other area theaters.  However, we were seriously disappointed by our experience at your theater. 

Thirty minutes into the movie your staff decided to empty the trash can.  With thirty minutes left in the movie, your staff decided to open the exit door by the screen.  My husband and I have two small children and we go to the movies for the experience – no disruptions, no distractions.  My husband had to close the door to the theater after the previews ended and there were no paper towels in the ladies room. We could have received the same experience at home and have saved the ticket money.  I’m sad to say that if we had a choice of going to see a movie at the Reston Town Center Multiplex or waiting for it to be on HBO, we would wait for it to come out on HBO.  I hope you take this feedback to heart so other guest will not have an unsatisfactory visit like we experienced.

This morning I rode to work for the first time since my infamous crash on May 31st at the Guard Shack where I flipped over my handlebars.  I was taken by ambulance to the hospital and got six stitches in the chin, had a banged up knee, cuts around the eye, fat and bloody lip, banged up shoulder, sprained writs, and other injuries that didn’t show up for a month later.  Lucky for me Jason digs chics with scars. 

I have ridden twice since my crash and I’m on my bike a month earlier than my doctor would have liked.  Last weekend I bought a new helmet since my old one saved my life and shattered into a gazillion pieces.  I paide $5 more and bought the girlie pink/purple helmet.  I tried to buy the boy helmet but it just didn’t fit right and since my old girlie helmet saved me from being a vegtable for the rest of my life, $5 is nothing… however it is pink.  My old one wasn’t a girlie color.  I also bought scar medicine last week.  Zinger went with me to the plastic surgeon two days after my accident.  The quack tried to sell me $60 worth of silicon gel for my face.  I’m married with two kids.  I come to work with oatmeal and kid snot in my hair.  My face isn’t worth $60.  However whenever I go to the caffeteria with Julie, she looks up at my chin on the escalator, and goes “Adrienne, you really need to do something about that scar.”  So I went online and found something for $11 that has the same ingredients as the $60 version and I can pick it up at the grocery store.  And since I no longer get to see Jason on a somewhat daily basis any more  :(     , no one will dig me and my scar.  I’ll see if I look better in 6 weeks.

Tonight I was working on my fishtank. I’d recently rearranged some corals to let them get a little more light and also free up some new space for some new ones. The side effect was that I’d noticed that one coral was stinging another one (too close together) and had decided to move them apart. While I had my hand in the tank, I noticed a pins-and-needles feeling in my arm that was underwater and moving the coral.
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“WASHINGTON - President Bush effectively blocked a Justice Department investigation of the National Security Agency’s warrantless surveillance program, refusing to give security clearances to attorneys who were attempting to conduct the probe, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Tuesday.”
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/4056228.html

me - “This nicotine patch says to apply to a dry, hairless locations.”
steph - “Do you have locations like that?”

“I will purchase the $100 laptop at $300 but only if 100,000 others will too.”
Nicholas Negroponte has previewed of the $100 laptop that he has designed for students in the developing world. ” One Laptop Per Child - a Preview of the Hundred Dollar Laptop http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/00… ”

The suggestion has been made that he also offer it for sale for ~$300 to the rest of us so that we do have an interesting machine and can help to support the cost computers for the developing world. If he does offer it, then I will buy one at three times the cost and thus contribute to supplying two to the proposed users.