Filipino and Danish researchers “have found a way to generate helico-conical, or spiral-shaped light beams.” Hmmm, will this lead to Lasik surgery being an even quicker procedure? Maybe Lucas should delay the release of Star Wars Episode III and insert a scene featuring spiral laser whips. Oh wait, the Balrog got there first, didn’t he?
(via geekpress)
Sideways was called by one critic “a movie that’s nothing more than a grown-up version of “American Pie” (only with less heart).” I just saw it last night and I tend to agree with her. But I also see why it got a 96% Tomatometer rating.
The movie reminded me of my own all-male excursion to the wine country last year. Our trip had all the lush scenery and leisurely activity but none of the shenanigans.
I’m no big fan of end-time stories but I think I’ll check out Revelations premiering tonight on NBC. I’m currently listening to an interview with its producer, Gavin Polone (Panic Room, Curb Your Enthusiasm), on the Michael Medved Show. Polone admits he’s attempting to do a “stepped-up” version of the Left Behind movies, in terms of production, writing and acting, which should give the genre a shot in the arm.
Eschatological matters largely elude me. All I know is the Creator of the universe triumphs in the end. And we all better know on whose side we’ll be before then.
Here are pics from several weeks ago when we took the foreign exchange student on a tour around San Francisco. We tried to stick with the 49 Mile Drive scenic route as much as we could but we had to bypass a few of the landmarks to finish before it got dark.
I almost forgot about the photos I took last September of our local mission, Mission San José de Guadalupe, until I read Phisch’s entry on the mission in her area. Like Phisch, I was unwilling to pay the $5 entrance fee to check out the mission so the images here are of its exterior surroundings.
The plaque on the side of the church has this to say:
At the Ohlone Indian village of Oroysom, Padre Fermín Francisco de Lasuén founded this fourteenth of twenty-one Franciscan missions June 11, 1797. Taught by Padre Narcisco Durán, the Ohlone orchestra and choir became famous. By 1830 almost 2,000 Indians were living at the mission. The mission was secularized in 1836 and its lands divided into ranchos. The 1868 earthquake destroyed the adobe church and most other mission buildings. The church was rebuilt in 1985.
