C-SPAN Fun
At desk today, a Polish woman complained that the key I gave her did not open her door. After going to her room to attempt to use the key, I found that it did indeed unlock the door. When I showed her this -- she was not surprised and then went to close the door and said "see, it does not lock the door." That's when I showed her the little doorknob lock button, perplexed at her perceptiveness. Embarassed, she said, "Sorry, I'm from Poland." And so, for the first time in my life, I can say that there really might be something to Polish jokes.
Life was resurrected from room temperature today when I discovered that CSPAN has webstreams of each of its three channels. So, as I sat in the lobby of Baker for my 6 hour shift, I watched Bush, Kerry, and a host of others. While it's true that there's no better bedtime channel than CSPAN(-2 preferrably) to put me to sleep at night, sometimes, I find it's the best thing on TV. Or the Web, as the case is now.
Updates:
-Stevie Wonder is still in my head.
-Going to LA this next week for my screenwriting extravaganza, via NY for the cheaper ticket.
-No toyota prius for me. Decided it's just too expensive -- going to go for a $10k civic, I think. This depresses me, though. First, no mini cooper. Now, no prius.
-Watched (most of) Oliver Stone's "JFK" today -- damn good movie. And if you thought the original was long, this was the Director's Cut (a full half hour longer than the original 3 hour release). Too bad Cheney or Rumsfeld aren't behind the Kennedy coverup -- that would just complete me.
In Politics:
1. W: "We have freed and liberated over 50 million people" -- current stump speech... impressive.
2. Newsweek reports that Tom Ridge is working on a plan to postpone the November elections if terror attacks. On the whole, it doesn't sound very sneaky. Only... it's got a bad ring to it. The Feds have no legal authority to do this, and should it really be done to "prevent the public from changing their minds due to terrorism" (a la Madrid). The more I think about it, it sounds quite politically motivated, but again, it doesn't sound like a bad idea.
Life was resurrected from room temperature today when I discovered that CSPAN has webstreams of each of its three channels. So, as I sat in the lobby of Baker for my 6 hour shift, I watched Bush, Kerry, and a host of others. While it's true that there's no better bedtime channel than CSPAN(-2 preferrably) to put me to sleep at night, sometimes, I find it's the best thing on TV. Or the Web, as the case is now.
Updates:
-Stevie Wonder is still in my head.
-Going to LA this next week for my screenwriting extravaganza, via NY for the cheaper ticket.
-No toyota prius for me. Decided it's just too expensive -- going to go for a $10k civic, I think. This depresses me, though. First, no mini cooper. Now, no prius.
-Watched (most of) Oliver Stone's "JFK" today -- damn good movie. And if you thought the original was long, this was the Director's Cut (a full half hour longer than the original 3 hour release). Too bad Cheney or Rumsfeld aren't behind the Kennedy coverup -- that would just complete me.
In Politics:
1. W: "We have freed and liberated over 50 million people" -- current stump speech... impressive.
2. Newsweek reports that Tom Ridge is working on a plan to postpone the November elections if terror attacks. On the whole, it doesn't sound very sneaky. Only... it's got a bad ring to it. The Feds have no legal authority to do this, and should it really be done to "prevent the public from changing their minds due to terrorism" (a la Madrid). The more I think about it, it sounds quite politically motivated, but again, it doesn't sound like a bad idea.
posted by devdoot majumdar at 1:26 AM
2 Comments:
Good luck with your screenplay retreat, dev.. hopefully, you will become a wealthy hollywood screenwriter/director someday and then oneday I can be the next Keanu Reeves in one of your films.
Yeah, C-SPAN is awesome. I especially like watching the British argue about stuff.
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