Posts from — January 2009

Having heard mostly bad reviews for X-Men: The Last Stand since it came out, I had been hesitant to pay money to see it. Finally, it appeared on cable last night, and I got a chance to see what everyone had been so angry about. I have to admit, for about the first half or so I didn’t think it was such a crappy movie, and couldn’t understand why everyone had been so angry. I should note that I think that none X-movies have been very good and this one suffers from the same defects as the prior two movies. These specific defects alone wouldn’t have caused me to hate the movie, and there were some decent additions that made me think it wouldn’t end up being that bad, but on the whole, if I tally up the pros and cons for the series as a whole, I end up with way more bad than good. I’ll put the rest under the cut, in case anyone wants to avoid two year old spoilers.
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Oy, why me?
1. Redo resume, upload to site, send a copy to dad
2. Clean up iTunes library: Artist tags (3880 cut down to 3771), genres
3. Running map and log
4. Photo/Visual page
5. Writing Page: Add menus, add writing samples.
6. Email Ali about possible volunteer work.
7. Write Bridezilla Shameless post.
8. Read up on wireframes, practice using site
9. Pixen project
10. Freak sounds – finish cutting and loading to site.
11. Start and keep monthly budget.

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RACES:
Beaches 10K, July 27 – 1:08:05
Toronto Waterfront Half-Marathon, September 28 – 2:40:56
Philadelphia Half-Marathon, November 23 – 2:15:42

MILEAGE TOTALS:
283 miles (between July and November)
Average miles/month: 56
First run of 2008: Mar 26
Last run of 2008: Nov 23

GOALS FOR 2009
Run a half-marathon in under 2 hours.
Explore new parks and trails.

Several months ago I read a truly inane article about the Proposition 8 debate on Huffington Post. The author claimed he just couldn’t determine if he was for or against Prop 8 because the two sides refused to discuss the matter in a calm and measure manner, and that somehow his Jewish belief in intellectual rigor prevented him from making a decision. The comment section limited the length of my response, so I chose to write the author instead. The following is the full text of my response:
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