John, Adam, Olessia and I watched
title=”Primer”>Primer last night. Its only showing in Cleveland is
at Cedar Lee Theatre. It was just us in the threatre and right as the
movie started, 2 additional people came in. So we ALMOST had the
threatre to ourselves. We caught the 9pm show which worked out great
for everyone. The added plus was we were able to watch the eclipse of
the moon before and after the movie.

This movie was AWESOME. If you haven’t seen it yet and you plan to see
it, you might wish to skip over this. The Primer web site doesn’t go
into a lot of details about what the “box” is and does. So I’m sitting
in the movie and for some time I’m trying to figure out what this “box”
does. It was fun. Then it becomes clear and the movie explores the
paradox that is time travel. Like, what do you do if you go back? What
happens if you take your cell phone back and it rings? What do you do
with your double that’s living in another time? Does the universe fork
when the machine is started or stopped? The science was awesome.
Olessia identified and verified the fungus and bacteria discussions in
the movie were very accurate (its what she does at work!).

This was definitely a “thinking” movie. You’re left thinking during the
movie and then after the moving you’re thinking “what if?” which is
always a lot of fun. And to know this movie was produced with a budget
of $7000 is really amazing too!

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You don’t often hear of Civil Air Patrol (CAP) in the news. When you do, its
usually because something in the avaiation industry went lost (aka:
crashed). Here’s a story that’s a bit more up beat:
href=”http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/TV/10/18/odd.television.reut/index.html”
title=”Flat-screen TV emits international distress signal”>Flat-screen
TV emits international distress signal

On a side note, I thought “civil air patrol” would be capitalized in the
article since it is an official auxiliary of the US Air Force (note here
US Air Force is capitalized). I mean, “civil air patrol” IS the
organization’s name and the last time I checked, organizational names
are capitalized. Although I’m not an English major…

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A supper busy and supper fun weekend!

Friday night: not fun or exciting. I was busy trying to figure out
rates of change in various calculus word problems.

Saturday was crazy fun. I was way over due to update my clothes.
Olessia joined me this time and we turned it into an adventure. I
needed EVERYTHING. I needed everything because everything was literally
falling apart, torn, dirty, or didn’t fit right anymore. I think we
managed to get just about everything within the first half hour. It was
rather amazing and we were both quite pleased with the results. So we
went to one of Olessia’s favorite restaurants and enjoyed lunch. Note,
this was all done in Parma. After lunch, we sprinted to a little town
that is a few blocks away from Perry nuclear power plant. We stopped at
a farm and picked off the vine and bought some pumpkins. We then
sprinted back home and took care of some minor house chores before Poker
Night.

Poker Night was a blast. Lots of people came over and they brought all
sorts of goodies. We ordered pizza and mingled about. Then we got the
game started. We don’t play for money, just bragging rights and having
the most chips. We played 3 games (up till 2am!) and had various
winners. It was a great time.

Sunday was a recoup from Saturday day. I worked on more calculus. Then
removed the tags on all the new clothes from Saturday. Then we went
over to Olessia’s friend’s house to help her with zooming in and out of
her documents. Then went home and cooked dinner. This was sort of
cool: We ran out of milk and our Stove Top box said we needed milk. So
I walked (yup, walked!) down to the corner to Gabor’s and picked up a
gallon. It was cold out, but it wasn’t a big deal. I got back in no
time and we were back to cooking. Then we crashed in front of the TV.
And yes, the resting paid off. I’m feeling really rested right now.

Continue reading “Shuffle up and deal!”