Monday, October 31, 2005

The Civ 4 Modern soundtrack

The Civ 4 Modern soundtrack
Composer - John Adams

AnfortasWound
ChairmanDances
Chconne
ChristianZeal
CommonTones
GrandPianola1
GrandPianola2
Harmonielehre
HymingSlews
LoopsAndVerses
MeisterEckhardt
ShakingAndTrembling
ThePeopleAreHeroes
TrombaLontana

Thursday, October 27, 2005

If you can read this article while making the toast, you could be saving valuable seconds

"But it doesn't pay to be too obsessed with how much time we spend on the minutiae, because even the greatest achievements break down into minutes of mundanity."

Wednesday, October 19, 2005

With dozens of novels, essays, short stories and translations, Mr. Ba established himself decades ago as one of China's greatest modern writers. Along with Lu Xun, Mao Dun and Lao She, he helped describe and define modern China's awakening and upheaval early in the 20th century.

I remember vaguely as a child (or maybe the memory is constructed) that I saw the television redition of "Family". It was the scene where the youngest child leaves home behind and sails up river. However the significance eluded me then and it was not until last year, when I actually read the novel that all the parts connected.

Let this be a homeage to this literary giant.

Tuesday, October 18, 2005

Monday, October 17, 2005

Something that transpired during the weekend:

Happened downstairs

At first I thought the uproar was just over the game, but minutes later I open the window the parking lot was filled with police cars and ambulances.

Sunday, October 16, 2005

Renaissance for the nationality that dared not speak its name

"while it has the defence of being a Plasticine fantasy, is also guilty of sentimentalising and simplifying England; but unexpectedly this vision no longer feels like the concoction of a 'heritage' country for export but as a heroic refusal to bend to American expectation. In a culture enraged by US arrogance and expansionism, parochialism becomes a form of radicalism and resistance."
"Then Amnon... said to her, 'Get up and get out!'"

Enjoyed no sooner but despised straight;
Past reason hunted; and no sooner had,
Past reason hated, as a swallow'd bait ...
a heaven that leads ... to ... hell

(sonnet 129)