Monthly Archive for December, 2005

megan’s movie madness 2005

2005’s Top Movies that are now out on DVD

Since Beef mostly watches cartoons, I decided to step up and write this post. First off, I watch a lot of movies and I watch all kinds. Some days you want to watch crappy movies because you can’t knit and read subtitles at the same time. Secondly, I decided to just write about DVD released movies. They’re more accessible. And lastly, get netflix. It kicks ass and you can see all of the movies I’ve watched and rated (I’ve rated over 1500 movies.)

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books/authors i’ve enjoyed in 2005

I’ve had a chance to read a few books this year. The Seattle Public Library is a good resource to get all my books. You can reserve them online and they will ship them to the branch of your choice. Amazon works well in finding new books i might want to read.

If you want, take a look at the books that were read in 2005. Mainly hard science fiction, some science and history non-fiction, a little fantasy, and a little surrealistic fiction to top it off. I enjoy faster than light travel, shunting personalitities/brains in new bodies, and deciphering new life forms.

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lake 22

a lazy rainy day. megan, the pugs, me, and a whole bunch of rain. this hike is located outside of granite falls, wa, about an hour north of where we live. the hike, lake 22 was enjoyable with some nice views of the surrounding hills(mtns) and a nice glacier created lake on the north side of mt. pilchuck. here are a few pictures of the day. for the rest of the set click here.

Shows 2005

Recent Shows

books 2005

February 2005

    Neil Gaiman / American Gods
    Charles Stross / Singularity Sky
    Darby Conley The Get Fuzzy Experience

March 2005

    Alastair Reynolds / diamond dogs, turquoise days
    Steven Baxter Coalescent
    Neil Gaiman / Stardust
    Kenneth M. Pollack / The Persian Puzzle
    Steven Baxter / Exultant

April 2005

May 2005

    william gibson / pattern recognition
    Steven Baxter / manifold: space
    Richard K. Morgan / Altered Carbon
    Richard K. Morgan / Broken Angels
    David McCullough / Mornings on Horseback

June 2005

July 2005

August 2005

September 2005

    Dan Simmons / Olympos
    Haruki Murakami / Kafka on the Shore
    Chris Moriarty / Spin State

October 2005

    John C. Wright / The Last Guardian of Everness
    Robert Morgan / Market Forces
    Charles Stross / Accelerando

November 2005

    Larry Niven / Ringworld’s Children
    ken macloed / cosmonaut keep

December 2005

    Robert Morgan / woken furies
    chris genoa / foop!
    Neil Gaiman / Neverwhere
    ken macloed / dark light
    John C. Wright / Mists of Everness

    Haruki Murakami / The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

top 5 cds

everyone does it, so why not a get a few entries out of it. it’s the end of the year. so i’ll spend a few short moments of your time disseminating what i liked best in the year 2005.

these are cds i have purchased in 2005 and have enjoyed thoroughly. most of them came out this year - i think. they goodness also comes in no particular order.

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brain + karaoke =

december

it has been a bit since i have put anything in this glorious space. it’s not due to the lack of eventfull occurences in the past month or so. quite the opposite. sack was in town. turkey day was fun. a wedding with guests that had not been seen in a while. a work christmas party. a 40th bday party.

so many things. mainly it lies within the camera. crappy pictures have been taken and they just don’t seem worth the effort to put up. but hopefully all of this will change, i’m looking for a new camera - something smaller, a faster speed between pics, sound capture, hopefully reuse by 512K xd card which limits me to olympus and fuji i think. if you have any ideas, drop a line and i will take any advice into consideration.

here are a few pic collections of a couple of events. the first is sack’s visit to the great northwest for supercomputing and general tomfoolery.

sack’s picture post and the full archive

here are photos from wedding v3 - the seattle story starring jason and beatrice

ed’s interpretation and mr. bellman’s eyes