I’m actually excited about LA. We are using a lot of old facilities, and I have family that lives close by. Gonna take my eight year old son to see the opening ceremony and some games, I think it will be a great experience.

Beautiful.

Would probably be good at a kid’s party, in fact.

Huh. I have never once gotten the cheese here, too busy with their daily pizzas and salads. I’m missing out.

I personally saw my A1C go down while I was intermittently fasting. Don’t know if there are studies on that and I don’t know how to distinguish that from generally keeping my weight down.

That’s because he could not stomach shaking Candy’s hand. I truly don’t think he went in insisting on violence. But some things are just too disgusting to do.

The “real ending” that makes you angry is fictional. The “fake ending” that you wanted to be real is fictional. Atonement really isn’t about this specific story but about the value of writing. This article has a nice little summary of the basic argument with some tidbits from McEwan, the novel’s author, about how the book is really about writing and writers.

Someone might actually install this one!

It’s a funny read purely from a “is Dracula a corporation?” perspective. Dracula comes in, buys a lot of land, basically trying to do some takeover of London. They form a corporation to defeat him - Mina is their secretary! - full of people so that if one dies, they can replace them, so they’re also their own undying entity. Only way to beat ‘em. I enjoy this book and the Coppola film as very silly stories that take themselves seriously. They are incredibly cheesy.

I maintain that this is an unintentionally hilarious book. I was taught that it was an extended metaphor for corporations (undying entities), which makes the scene near the end where they stab Dracula and coins come out, all the funnier. The movie cracks me up too, although for different reasons.

There are plenty of very poor people that don’t even file tax returns so having it be tax deductible wouldn’t really help them.