Thursday miscellanea #3

One of our soccer parents this time around is an outgoing and charismatic speech therapist. I spent some time talking with her at practice tonight. I had a moderate stutter—and by moderate, I mean it was always a nuisance and occasionally debilitating—until the sixth grade or so, and speech therapy made a major difference. It recurs once in a while, generally when I’m tired, but I couldn’t imagine living my life today speaking the way I did when I was ten years old. God bless speech therapists.
College football kickoff is less than a week away. I’ve done a good job not thinking about it to this point, but now I’m excited. Bring it. Love it!
I’ve been starved for another good Star Wars game, and this looks like it could be it. Now, do I want the superior graphics of the Xbox 360 version, or what is sure to be nifty lightsaber remote action on the Wii? Perhaps I’ll simply try to forget it’s coming out. I’m damned sure not playing the demo. (What I really want is KOTOR III—a sequel to this.)
Folks, dig: you do not have the right to not be offended. In a healthy society, even the most well-adjusted denizen shall occasionally encounter something which pisses him/her off. If you find that it’s you at some point, then the First Amendment works both ways, and by all means, fire away. But calls for the silencing of whatever got your hackles up are ridiculous.
My last grandparent, my mother’s mother, died in January 2003. She left secrets—truths and circumstances that Jenny and I only discovered going through her effects after her death. They’re not things I can share, but they’re things I wish we had known when she was alive, and I’ve questioned her motives in continuing to keep them from us after we reached adulthood. It’s made me consider how much I don’t want the boys to have a similar experience with me.
Cuil isn’t taking with me. Its searches aren’t flexible enough, and despite claims of using the largest index, it generally fails the diagnostic searches I perform in which I look for something obscure that I know is out there. I still expect Google to be dethroned one day, but my view so far is that Cuil is a pretender. I’ll give it a while longer.
Have you ever considered the absurdity of The NeverEnding Story having a sequel?
A few of my blogging buddies do regular features on certain days. I’ve shied away from that, mostly out of fear of feeling constrained. However, I might keep the Thursday miscellanea post around for a while. I have a lot of thoughts that don’t really warrant full posts, so the ground will likely remain fertile. I’ll see how it goes.

5 thoughts on “Thursday miscellanea #3”

gerry rosser

August 22, 2008 at 6:35 am

Every Ben Stiller movie I’m familiar with seems like it was put together by retards. As for those who object because movies contain something they don’t like: get a life.

Tropic Thunder is definitely not on my watch list, the trailers make it look stupider than s* * *.
Lee Boutwell

August 22, 2008 at 6:44 am

I’ve been very pleased with ask.com lately. Search results are at least as good as google and it has the same minimalist interface that (or is it “which”, I never know. I must have been sleeping that day) originally attracted me to google years ago.
Mrs. Chili

August 22, 2008 at 7:40 am

I’ve heard a lot of talk about the Stiller movie, mostly on NPR. I think that the article (at least, what I’ve skimmed of it) is correct; the point of the film is to parody the excesses of Hollywood. People need to see stuff for what it REALLY is (and I give absolutely ZERO credence to people who protest books or films without having actually READ or SEEN them first. NOTHING turns me off faster than people who go off on vehement opinions without having ANY basis for the same).

I kind of like my weekly features. I know I don’t HAVE to post them if I don’t feel like it, and they give me something to fall back on. Mondays are usually the days I reserve for randomness, but I sometimes throw a meme in there or, if I’ve got something to say, I write a “real” post. It’s YOUR space, Honey – no one is telling you what to do here but you.

The bit about your grandmother intrigues me. Would you consent to a private email conversation about it?
Buzzregog

August 22, 2008 at 3:31 pm

Cuil pretty much sucked. The random non relevant images with the links, particularly the scientology images threw me for a loop. Hits were generally pretty bad too.

Ben Stiller movies to date have not really been up my ally, however Tropic Thunder looks like a possible Netflix rental for me.

Why do people find the need to mention things in blogs that they have no intention of actually talking about?

Force Unleashed looks like a win.

Basing your opinion on other peoples opinions is just asking to look like a jackass.
Bo

August 22, 2008 at 6:13 pm

Gerry: I think Ben Stiller is a talented comic actor. Loved Dodgeball and Meet the Parents; liked Zoolander, though I see the points of people who dismiss that one as silly.

Lee: Thanks for the word. I’ll give it a go. I’d certainly like to use something besides Google. It feels subversive. 🙂

Mrs. Chili: I’ll give it a go. I have an odd love/hate relationship with regimentation in some environments, and this might be one. Like you say, if it sucks I’ll stop.

Buzzregog: It wasn’t for nothing. I did talk about it, in terms of a negative example for what I want to do with our boys. They are things for which we received partial truths as children, and such was defensible–but we should have gotten the whole story as adults. Sorry if you continue to find that lacking. Insert relevant Ricky Nelson quote here. 🙂

And I’ll probably get the game, but what I really want is KOTOR III. Did you play those? They’re awesome.

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