We have our first snow here in Terre Haute, Indiana. Fucking-A. And it’s been snowing all morning. This is why I need a cam’ra (anyone else stuck in a loop of quoting Scary Movie due to its extremely detrimental effect on their lives? No? Okay, then…). I could be posting pictures and stuff. I don’t know what the “stuff” part of that would be, but I would definitely be chewing up some Rose-Hulman bandwidth with pictures. Oh, and ahem. I can’t even form a strong opinion about the book other than a bland “how interesting”. Now I get to start Letters from an American Farmer by Crèvecoeur, finish Dune, and…

Some completely crazy nut sent me the complete set (Seasons 1, 2, and 3) of the Fox show Family Guy. I say “completely crazy nut” because he knows I’ll just take a weekend and watch the whole damn thing, and resume walking around “Oh, yeah“ing everyone to death. Tsk, tsk, Miguel. In other news, I’m feeling sympathy and compassion for a fellow blogger with big toe issues. I want to sign up for anti-clumsiness classes, too. I sure as shit need ’em. My big toe has a huge lump just below the middle “knuckle”, and any attempts to bend it (without using my hand) causes excruciating pain all the way…

I have been doing some mad Internet searching lately. Some of the questions to be answered: Who is Noam Chomsky? This may seem like a trivial question for more educated folks, but I have never heard anything other than passing references to his name, often in a critical context. I have George to thank for renewing my curiosity regarding Chomsky. Basic biographical and bibliographical information can be found at his MIT site. While this is nice for learning that (big surprise) he’s a famous linguist and involves himself in “intellectual history, comtemporary issues, international affairs, and U.S. foreign policy”, it didn’t cough up any information on why he’s so controversial…

I wanted a change. Not a big one, but a change nonetheless. Thanks to the joys of ASP (and the fact that I can’t preview some of these pages on my own computer), I’ll be working kinks out of the layout for a while yet. Bear with me and some pages are inaccessible and some disappear completely. One or two new pages may even appear. [Listening to “Safe House/Calling You” [Spooks / S.I.O.S.O.S., Vol. 1]]

I will shamelessly admit that, despite my low opinion of Matrix: Reloaded (which still stands), I loved Revolutions. Something about the movie was so… human, so real that it touched me. I don’t know why. I just liked it. I’m still against Neo vs. Smith fight scenes, as I think the whole wired flying karate/megapunching thing is a little tired and uninteresting, but the epic look the directors were (hopefully) going for was definitely achieved. So I feel better about the Matrix series now. At some point in the future, I will probably shell out bucks to buy the second and third movies (I already own the first). I spent…