Life, books, cars, big ideas
Thursday, February 23rd, 2006 12:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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bridgetminerva's yummy spicy chili. :-)
Lots going on, of course. Let me explain. -- No, there is too much. Let me sum up. -- No, still too much. Let me skip the recap of recent goings-on (work, shul, social, musical) and make notes about things I'm actually thinking about, instead.
Bothbethr and derspatchel now have the Best of The Electric Company 4-DVD set. This should mean I get to see it soon (not the least likely outcome being that ablock will also buy it). Awesome!
Fans of my former employer, The MIT Press, will be interested to know that they have started a blog. They also have RSS feeds (available broken down by category) of their new releases. These have been syndicated to LJ as![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-syndicated.gif)
mitpresslog and mitpress_new (the complete feed), respectively. Go ye forth and enjoy. (Can blog.akpeters.com be far behind? ;-)
After rewatching A Room With A View (one of my favorite movies ever) with Tiger Boy last weekend, I am now rereading it. I'd really forgotten how wonderful it is. Not just in that vicarious-trip-to-Italy way, not just in that lovable-engaging-characters way, but in that mind-and-heart-expanding chock-full-of-Romanticist-ideas way. It actually makes me feel like my old college-era self again, the one who fell in love with Wordsworth and Shelley and Goethe and Emerson. Guess I could add that tolifecollage's call for inspirational reading.
The abovementioned entry has also introduced me to Your Money or Your Life, which I think I now have to read and integrate.
On the other hand (speaking of financial matters), I still want to buy a car, but am finding the activation energy* prohibitively high. (Yes, it'd be lovely to buy a Vespa or a bicycle instead, but I won't be able to take those on the Mass Pike every day, now, will I?) Would ideally have liked to make this happen in time to drive myself to the shul retreat March 3-5, but that looks unlikely. Grumble.
*Here's something I particularly want to know: When I do find someone selling a car I might want to buy, HOW exactly am I supposed to go about "getting it checked out by a reliable mechanic"? Say "Thanks for the test drive, now can I please borrow it for two days before I make a decision"? I am serious, I do not get this at all. Yet another sticking point.
[Poll #678753]
And now, back to the Cryptoclub.
bridgetminerva's yummy spicy chili. :-)Lots going on, of course. Let me explain. -- No, there is too much. Let me sum up. -- No, still too much. Let me skip the recap of recent goings-on (work, shul, social, musical) and make notes about things I'm actually thinking about, instead.
Both
bethr and derspatchel now have the Best of The Electric Company 4-DVD set. This should mean I get to see it soon (not the least likely outcome being that ablock will also buy it). Awesome!Fans of my former employer, The MIT Press, will be interested to know that they have started a blog. They also have RSS feeds (available broken down by category) of their new releases. These have been syndicated to LJ as
mitpresslog and mitpress_new (the complete feed), respectively. Go ye forth and enjoy. (Can blog.akpeters.com be far behind? ;-)After rewatching A Room With A View (one of my favorite movies ever) with Tiger Boy last weekend, I am now rereading it. I'd really forgotten how wonderful it is. Not just in that vicarious-trip-to-Italy way, not just in that lovable-engaging-characters way, but in that mind-and-heart-expanding chock-full-of-Romanticist-ideas way. It actually makes me feel like my old college-era self again, the one who fell in love with Wordsworth and Shelley and Goethe and Emerson. Guess I could add that to
lifecollage's call for inspirational reading. The abovementioned entry has also introduced me to Your Money or Your Life, which I think I now have to read and integrate.
On the other hand (speaking of financial matters), I still want to buy a car, but am finding the activation energy* prohibitively high. (Yes, it'd be lovely to buy a Vespa or a bicycle instead, but I won't be able to take those on the Mass Pike every day, now, will I?) Would ideally have liked to make this happen in time to drive myself to the shul retreat March 3-5, but that looks unlikely. Grumble.
*Here's something I particularly want to know: When I do find someone selling a car I might want to buy, HOW exactly am I supposed to go about "getting it checked out by a reliable mechanic"? Say "Thanks for the test drive, now can I please borrow it for two days before I make a decision"? I am serious, I do not get this at all. Yet another sticking point.
[Poll #678753]
And now, back to the Cryptoclub.
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Must. Buy. DVDs. Now.
Date: Thursday, February 23rd, 2006 06:57 pm (UTC)...aaaaand when are we hosting the viewing party? March weekends are somewhat open, still, or we could have it near my birthday in April. (Now, if we could just get them to release Via Allegra or 3-2-1 Contact, I'd have everything from my childhood on DVD.)
Second: A Room With A View...so noted and so added. And thank you for your other suggestions.
Re: Must. Buy. DVDs. Now.
Date: Thursday, February 23rd, 2006 07:02 pm (UTC)Re: Must. Buy. DVDs. Now.
Date: Thursday, February 23rd, 2006 07:12 pm (UTC)Remind me, where did you grow up? So far, only El Mango and I have had all of those shows as reference points.
Re: Must. Buy. DVDs. Now.
Date: Thursday, February 23rd, 2006 07:20 pm (UTC)You want obscure 1970s kids' TV? Here's mine: The Magic Door. Literally the first Jewish exposure I could possibly have had (who'da thunk it?). It was on at about 6 in the morning when I was very small. And to this day I can't hear Beethoven's "Pastorale" (think the centaurs in Fantasia) without hearing it as the theme song from this show. "Open, come open the Magic Door with me..."
Re: Must. Buy. DVDs. Now.
Date: Thursday, February 23rd, 2006 08:23 pm (UTC)Mine wasn't nearly so obscure: The Magic Garden. Yay, trippy mushrooms and talking flowers.