tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67095272011-07-08T08:46:28.174-04:00Just because you love the game, it doesn't mean the game loves you.Stephen Tilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11696665769711363642noreply@blogger.comBlogger1981100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6709527.post-72100180136033454462008-11-07T23:06:00.001-05:002008-11-07T23:06:33.784-05:00

I'm not this Stephen Tilson. Nor this one either, though I've been a huge Thomas Dolby fan since about 1983. Sorry to disappoint anyone. I don't even like soccer very much. Read down a bit and you'll see what my preferred game is.

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If he's doing this kind of thing now, what will he do once he has the full power of the state to back him up?Obama's Missouri Truth Squads http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIenDGSAdPAQuestions:If I point out how ridiculous it is for Michelle Obama to try to commiserate with the poor while she's pulling down hundreds of thousands of dollars a year as an official at a hospital that Barack

Stephen Tilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11696665769711363642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6709527.post-41027057887081207102008-06-16T20:03:00.001-04:002008-06-16T20:05:36.750-04:00

I LIVE! I LIVE! I LIVE! I LIVE! I LIVE! I LIVE! I LIVE! I LIVE! I LIVE! I LIVE! I LIVE! I LIVE! I LIVE! I LIVE! I LIVE! I LIVE! I LIVE! I LIVE! I LIVE! I LIVE! I LIVE! I LIVE! I LIVE! I LIVE! I LIVE! I LIVE! I LIVE! I LIVE! I LIVE! I LIVE!I LIVE! I LIVE! I LIVE! I LIVE! I LIVE! I LIVE! I LIVE! I LIVE! I LIVE! I LIVE! I LIVE! I LIVE! I LIVE! I LIVE! I LIVE!I

Stephen Tilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11696665769711363642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6709527.post-1148323512415241582006-05-22T14:36:00.000-04:002006-05-22T14:45:12.416-04:00

Just a quick update to let everybody (all three of you) know that an update will be coming soon.Just as soon, that is, as I get a spare moment to breathe.What's been going on, briefly:1. Basketball has NOT ended for the year. In fact, thanks to the miracle known as "youth basketball," I've been watching our girls and boys continue to play during the off-season. It's nearly as good as the

Stephen Tilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11696665769711363642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6709527.post-1141617839737440312006-03-05T23:03:00.000-05:002006-03-05T23:04:02.360-05:00

June Carter Cash WAS a real woman, you airhead.

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It came within a minute of not happening at all.Dalton's boys, smarting from the two defeats they'd been handed by our boys during the regular season, hit the court in the second-round game of the Region 7AAAA basketball tournament at the Northwest Georgia Trade Center determined that there wouldn't be a third.  The night before, they'd beaten Hiram in the first round -- Hiram, one of the two

Stephen Tilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11696665769711363642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6709527.post-1139116896214949522006-02-05T00:21:00.000-05:002006-02-05T00:21:39.270-05:00

The regular high school basketball season ended last night, with a Murray County sweep of all four games at Ringgold.  So today was my first Saturday since November without a basketball game to go to.I went to the movies (Capote, parts of which I slept through), bought Luther and the SNL Best of Will Ferrell DVD, and caught up on last night's episode of Battlestar Galactica.  I also got some

Stephen Tilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11696665769711363642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6709527.post-1138511426718310722006-01-29T00:10:00.000-05:002006-01-29T00:10:26.773-05:00

J.J. Redick is from Roanoke, Virginia.  He should be playing ball for either UVA or Va. Tech, not scoring forty points for Duke against UVA.I'll be a Redick fan when he's in the NBA.  I wish I could be one now.

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If the span of a man's life is three-score and ten years, I have reached the midpoint.Thirty-five today.I woke up this morning thinking that there are more days behind than there are ahead.  Who knows?  Maybe there are, maybe there aren't.  In any case, I spent my morning shower contemplating what I've done in my years on earth, compared to my ambitions when I was younger.  Here's what I came up

Stephen Tilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11696665769711363642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6709527.post-1136516305033444572006-01-05T21:58:00.000-05:002006-01-05T21:58:25.270-05:00

How I identify myself, in order of priority: highest to lowest.1. Christian2. Member of my family3. Friend of my friends 4. Teacher of my students (see also above)5. AmericanI reserve the right to revise and extend.

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I wish there were enough hours in the day for me to both live the life I'm living and tell you all about it in excruciating detail.  I can only hint here at the highlights of the last few weeks, but I can do it in one word: basketball.Or, to be more precise:!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!BASKETBALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!For it is the season of my contentment, the time of year in which boys and girls and men and women

Stephen Tilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11696665769711363642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6709527.post-1132195810406995042005-11-16T21:50:00.001-05:002009-11-24T11:30:17.771-05:00

It's ON!The 2005-2006 basketball season has begun locally. Our 7th and 8th grade girls played their first games last night, and the freshmen who were the apples of my eye last year begin their schedule with a scrimmage Friday night.Last night, I was happy again, at last.Our season openers were at home, against the other county middle school, our arch-rivals and sister school. Fiat from on high

Stephen Tilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11696665769711363642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6709527.post-1130043944132648552005-10-23T01:05:00.000-04:002005-10-23T01:07:09.263-04:00

I should really update this thing more often.Recent developments:1. Softball season ended in a double-header a couple of Saturdays back, both games of which we dropped to the one team we'd managed to beat during the regular season.  That team is in the state tourney now, and are still playing.  In late October.  As one of the softball coaches remarked to me last night at the football game, "It

Stephen Tilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11696665769711363642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6709527.post-1127531737993893042005-09-23T23:15:00.000-04:002005-09-23T23:15:38.416-04:00

NO!!!!Not January.  Not January.Now.Now!NOW!!!Are you listening to me, Ronald Moore?  ......I guess not....is it January yet?......is it now?......how about now?

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There are two trailers for the upcoming fourth Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, now available for those interested.This one is the teaser trailer available at the official Harry Potter movie site. It clocks in at about eighty seconds and opens with a very nice montage of Harry, Hermione, and Ron, showing their growth over the course of the movies. For anyone who's

Stephen Tilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11696665769711363642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6709527.post-1126669392629645392005-09-13T23:43:00.000-04:002005-09-13T23:43:12.630-04:00

They did it.The streak is over.  The corner is turned... for tonight, anyway.  The books are balanced and all is right with the world.Tonight, our girls scored their first softball victory.Both the varsity and the JV teams won -- and though of course my primary concern was with the JV, I freely admit that the varsity game was the more exciting.  It was won in the top of the seventh, with the

Stephen Tilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11696665769711363642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6709527.post-1126320398979016712005-09-09T22:46:00.000-04:002005-09-09T22:46:38.986-04:00

I've become a contributor to World Magazine's movie blog, Cinema Veritas.  CV is a blog about movies from a Christian perspective, but don't let that scare you; it's hardly one of those sites that ranks films in terms of their "family-friendliness."  Not that there's anything necessarily wrong with that, but CV's aims are a bit higher.Follow the link in this post or the permanent one in the

Stephen Tilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11696665769711363642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6709527.post-1125973446718414272005-09-05T22:24:00.000-04:002005-09-05T22:24:06.723-04:00

Saw Transporter 2 this afternoon.  It was preposterous and obviously great fun for everyone involved, including me.  Three stars.The only truly distasteful part of the movie was the commercials that played before it; specifically, that stupid Coke commercial ("Everybody Chill," I think it's called) where a bunch of apparently unemployed and meticulously multi-ethnic twenty-somethings gather on a

Stephen Tilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11696665769711363642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6709527.post-1125862475738292192005-09-04T15:34:00.000-04:002005-09-04T15:34:35.743-04:00

Hurricane season isn't over yet.

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A couple of times this weekend, I've started to write a post that would summarize my reaction to Katrina.  I've started and stopped, overwhelmed by the enormity of it.  But James Spurgeon at The Howling Coyote has spared me the burden by posting a four-part series about God's purpose in sending the storm, which I think is spot-on.  A summative excerpt:We may not know why God brought this disaster

Stephen Tilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11696665769711363642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6709527.post-1125633960478426472005-09-02T00:06:00.000-04:002005-09-02T00:06:00.540-04:00

Funny how a song you absolutely hate the first time you hear it will grow on you once it's recontextualized for you.For example, right this moment I'm listening to Israel Kamakawiwo'ole's version of "Over the Rainbow," a song I detested when I first heard a few bars of it on that old eToys.com commercial (no link as it's long out of business) in about 1999.  But a couple of years later, when Dr.

Stephen Tilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11696665769711363642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6709527.post-1125525501547089132005-08-31T17:58:00.000-04:002005-08-31T17:58:21.606-04:00

I see I had a visitor from Hiltons, Virginia.  This pleases me.  One of my fondest memories is the time I went to Hiltons and saw Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash, and Tom T. Hall at the Carter Family Fold, back in 1999.  Hot summer day, thousands of people crammed into a barn on a hillside, lawn chair digging into my backside for ten or eleven hours before the Cashes took the stage to sing a

Stephen Tilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11696665769711363642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6709527.post-1125361095372700472005-08-29T20:18:00.000-04:002005-08-29T20:18:15.380-04:00

If you aren't, you should be reading Michael Yon's blog.I mean it.  Go read it now.

Stephen Tilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11696665769711363642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6709527.post-1125359988039141482005-08-29T19:59:00.001-04:002005-08-29T20:05:53.593-04:00

I note, by glancing off to the Blogdom of God links on the left of my page, that Andrew Sullivan is in the BoG.Interesting.I wasn't aware of Sullivan's religious leanings... ie., that he had any.   But I see from various sources -- not all complimentary (note apparently family-unfriendly links at bottom of page; you have been warned) -- that he's Roman Catholic.Of course, the only scandal here is

Stephen Tilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11696665769711363642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6709527.post-1125357953907857822005-08-29T19:25:00.000-04:002005-08-29T19:25:53.906-04:00

Model Classrooms are a geek's dream -- a 40-inch interactive computer screen called a Smartboard, a Jeopardy!-like classroom quiz-by-remote-control system called CPS, and various other gadgets designed to make learning fun and engaging.  They're the future of classroom instruction, and to get one, you have to apply for one with our technology office.  The application is a questionnaire designed

Stephen Tilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11696665769711363642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6709527.post-1125277270659264122005-08-28T21:01:00.000-04:002005-08-28T21:04:49.280-04:00

It's not basketball, but it'll do.Softball season has begun.  Three of the girls from last year's eighth grade girls' basketball team, apples of my eye, are on the JV softball team this year.  Thursday, I drove thirty miles to Fort Oglethorpe to watch them play against the number 1-rated 4A team in Georgia, and on Saturday I went back to the same stadium to watch them play three games in an

Stephen Tilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11696665769711363642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6709527.post-1125273606296761452005-08-28T20:00:00.000-04:002005-08-28T20:00:06.296-04:00

Now it can be told, and who will despise me?... I love "Time (Clock of the Heart)" by Culture Club.Love it.Listening to it right now, actually.DON'T YOU DARE JUDGE ME!Closets are for clothes, people.

Stephen Tilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11696665769711363642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6709527.post-1124759855818455922005-08-22T21:17:00.000-04:002005-08-22T21:17:35.823-04:00

Wow... four posts in one day.  That's gotta be some kind of record.Actually, technically, since I was posting the first couple of these posts early this morning, just after midnight, to me it seems like these posts have been divided up over two days.  So... no record.But still... four posts in two days is also some kind of record for this place.Well, I suppose I owed the content-starved masses

Stephen Tilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11696665769711363642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6709527.post-1124759279001235022005-08-22T21:07:00.001-04:002005-08-22T21:09:03.386-04:00

I may be a little slow on the uptake, but last week's news that Hugh Jackman has turned down the role of James Bond strikes me as singularly good news.Not only because Jackman needs to stay available for X-Men 3, but because Jackman is just too... too... too not Bond to play Bond.I've never heard of the contenders recently mentioned in British tabloids, except for Goran Vijnic, whom I would

Stephen Tilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11696665769711363642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6709527.post-1124685241378647182005-08-22T00:34:00.000-04:002005-08-22T00:36:43.396-04:00

Venture Brothers is on now, bay-bee!!!When, oh when, will we see the second season?"Brock... is it okay if I cry?"

Stephen Tilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11696665769711363642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6709527.post-1124684486059893932005-08-22T00:21:00.000-04:002005-08-22T00:32:34.466-04:00

Tonight, Adult Swim showed the Harvey Birdman episode that purports to be an actual one from 1967.I am happy, because I taped it.Which means that now I can hear Birdman yell "BIiIiRdman!" any time I want, and thereby revisit my memories of watching the show in black-and-white on a friend's TV set in Mexico.Adult Swim's schedule has gotten much stronger lately -- I credit the hiatus of Tom Goes to

Stephen Tilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11696665769711363642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6709527.post-1124589061973993612005-08-20T21:51:00.000-04:002005-08-20T21:54:13.593-04:00

Finally got to see it, and I can see why Hollywood is embarrassed by it:  it depicts Americans as heroes and liberators and as victims of Japanese brutality in WW2 rather than complicit in it (as even "Pearl Harbor" managed to imply).  Worse, from Hollywood's POV, it portrays the American military as competent and heroic, rather than as drug-crazed rapists and cold-blooded murderers -- or as

Stephen Tilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11696665769711363642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6709527.post-1124417524576128352005-08-18T22:12:00.000-04:002005-08-18T22:13:02.506-04:00

This is a test of Blogger's new Blogger for Word software.I'm hoping it works, because I fully intend to write all future posts in Word instead of on-line.  I've come to this cross after only two instances of losing long, thoughtful, well-written posts to random Firefox crashes, including a really nice one that I wrote last night about the first week of school and how things are going better than

Stephen Tilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11696665769711363642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6709527.post-1122253955969543032005-07-24T21:01:00.000-04:002005-07-28T21:00:42.476-04:00

I'm back from summer vacation.Back in Georgia, where it's a good 20 degrees hotter than it is in Virginia.Back in Georgia, where work awaits.I'm hoping things will be as good this year as they were last year. I don't know how they could be. But then, I never thought I'd have as good a year as I did last year, so who knows?Things are developing that may lead to this year's being good. Or really

Stephen Tilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11696665769711363642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6709527.post-1116457799258969122005-05-18T18:45:00.000-04:002005-05-19T02:53:03.006-04:00

Despite days of protestation to various and sundry that in no wise would I ever join the throngs of benighted geeks who will be going to see Revenge of the Sith tonight at midnight...... I caved.Drove by the theater this evening after dinner and thought, "Howzabout I just mosey on in there and see whether the midnight show is sold out?" I figured it'd be a hoot. I figured I'd go up to the

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Grabbed from Dave Robson. Post answers in Comments. Who are you?Are we friends?If we've met, when and how did we meet?What social event or place would you like to go to with me?Would you kiss me?Describe me in one word.What was your first impression?Do you still think that way about me now?What reminds you of me?If you could give me anything what would it be?How well do you know me?When's the

Stephen Tilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11696665769711363642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6709527.post-1115079812290226302005-05-02T20:10:00.000-04:002005-07-24T21:18:20.456-04:00

(This post has been edited, after being up for a LONG time, in the interests of the privacy of the photographed. Including me. In case any of the visitors who come to this site but never leave comments are, you know, degenerates.)(If you want a copy of the doctored pic, feel free to contact me. Assuming I know you. If I don't know you, the answer is NO, so don't even bother.)

Stephen Tilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11696665769711363642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6709527.post-1114912325494189182005-04-30T21:40:00.000-04:002005-05-02T20:24:09.816-04:00

Saw Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy today. As a fan of the books since I was twelve, I'm happy to report that it's a terrifically good adaptation, preserving not only the vast majority of the events and memorable dialogue of the book, but also -- and far more importantly -- its irreverent spirit. Yes, it's all there -- towels, Belgium (though only mentioned once), and bad Vogon poetry. Even

Stephen Tilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11696665769711363642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6709527.post-1114187612901071752005-04-22T12:28:00.000-04:002005-04-22T12:33:32.903-04:00

At first light, lay proud foundations. Sense the greatness that before you unfolds. Seek no more for hollow answers, answers that lay within you all along. Farewell to dawns seen through saddened eyes. Farewell to pasts to sorrows chained. Forget your fears and want no more. You will be strong and want no more. You'll be adored. You will have everything. You will be strong and want no

Stephen Tilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11696665769711363642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6709527.post-1112412391320679332005-04-01T22:22:00.000-05:002005-04-02T09:38:13.793-05:00

I'll be in Virginia from Saturday (tomorrow) till sometime next weekend. During that time, no Internet access for me. I am increasingly conflicted about vacations, because I enjoy being here. Of course, I enjoy being home, too. Penny Arcade's Tycho puts it best, I think:"I will miss our time together desperately. I understand that vacations are supposed to be awesome, but I don't think of my

Stephen Tilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11696665769711363642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6709527.post-1112038521821422102005-03-28T14:27:00.000-05:002005-03-28T14:38:05.990-05:00

Our first track meet was on Thursday, March 24. I went as an unofficial assistant to the coach and official photographer for the school website. The boys' team won their portion of the meet; the girls placed third overall, with a number of individual wins (notably the high jump, won by Whittney in a tense tie-breaker round). It was a blast, and I just hope this week's meet isn't rained out.You

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Pearl's Girl by Underworld.rioja rioja reverend al green deep blue moroccothe water on stonethe water on concretethe water on sandthe water on firesmokethe wind the salt the bright boat coming dave in the water old man einstein on top of his house white deep blue andalusia red yellow red yellow black car red light far black place walls blue chair morocco hamburg paris the pieces of the puzzle are

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An unexpected thing: a weekend with no obligations. Original planning called for me to go to Virginia to pick up my sister from her spring break, but thanks to poor weather up there -- and an uncle unwilling to endure any more of it, and heading south to warmer climes -- I get to stay right here in Georgia instead.It isn't that I don't want to go home. It's that I don't want to travel. There's

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This particular one (via New Trommeter Times) requires more jumping through hoops than normal, but it's amusing.My Inner Hero - Paladin!I strive to help others, and to bring truth and harmony to the world however I can. Whether times are good or bad, you can always count on me. I'm a shoulder to cry on, a champion for the helpless, and an all around nice person.How about you? Click here to

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I'm headed up the road tomorrow to Virginia. By Saturday night, I intend to be sitting on the sofa at my parents' house, watching TV.That's about it.I'll be in Virginia for about a week, then back probably late Sunday. Posting until then will be non-existent. Sorry for that. I know y'all miss this site like crack when I don't post stuff.When I return, posts about:* Sore losers* Why chess is

Stephen Tilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11696665769711363642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6709527.post-1108423364065120152005-02-14T18:14:00.000-05:002005-02-14T19:59:30.433-05:00

Below I profess to hate Valentine's Day. And I do. It may have started off with the best of intentions, but it's evolved into a massive assault on the self-esteem and mental well-being of anyone not romantically involved with someone else.So as an antidote to the consumerism of this holiday, and of the hatred I expressed earlier, here's a few words from the ultimate authority on love.If I speak

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I hate this day. I hate this day. I hate this day. I hate this day. I hate this day. I hate this day. I hate this day. I hate this day. I hate this day. I hate this day. I hate this day. I hate this day. I hate this day. I hate this day. I hate this day. I hate this day. I hate this day. I hate this day. I hate this day. I hate this day. I hate this day. I hate this day. I

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Been a while since I wasted blogspace on things I find entertaining (other than basketball), so here goes a quick one.Movies: Finally got time this weekend to see the remake of John Carpenter's Assault on Precinct 13. A very decent effort; not on par with the original, perhaps, in terms of emotional or cultural impact, but I'm hardly the one to judge because I haven't seen the original. (Pause

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Our 8th grade girls' basketball season ended today. I already miss it like a drug addict on forced withdrawal.It ended with a bang. The NGMSAL tournament began last Tuesday, with our girls facing off against their in-county rivals, whom they'd already beaten twice in the regular season. Despite a shaky second quarter (when an assistant coach was told to send in the subs, she sent ALL of them

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It's 1990. All this cold fall night we've been working hard on a joint Ed School project, Laura and Laurie and I, at Laurie's place in Lambeth. Near midnight we put the finishing touches on it and decide to call it a night. Laura asks me to walk her to her car on the U-Hall parking lot across the street. I do it, gladly and a little smugly, the big strong man escorting the woman through hostile

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It's about 10:10pm and I'm watching the Cleveland Cavaliers clawing their way back from a 15-point deficit against the Miami Heat. It's now 77-74 and Cleveland has the ball... LeBron spins, shoots, is blocked, snatches the ball from mid-air and shoots again, and is blocked again... somehow the Cavs score anyway. One of those nights. LeBron James has 28 points and 10 assists. He just

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Today's fortune cookie: "Somebody is glad that you're his/her friend." I didn't realize I had any transgendered friends.

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The invitation came as a surprise yesterday morning: one of the girls on the 8th grade basketball team had backed out of the team's trip to Knoxville to watch the Tennessee/Georgia game, and the coach wondered if I'd be interested in taking her place. A little background. I've been coming to the girls' games this year because the 8th grade team is comprised almost exclusively of the best

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Back in November, I wrote about the fall of the Berlin Wall, and how that day felt to people who had grown up in the grip of the Cold War. It was a day when we felt history take a decisive, and welcome, turn toward the good of mankind. Today is a day like that, as millions of Iraqis go to the polls to vote in their first free elections, the elections we promised them when we toppled Saddam

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Just some quick initial thoughts upon finally getting to see the first two episodes of the new Battlestar Galactica series: When I first heard about Sci-Fi's attempt to remake BSG, I was highly skeptical, to say the least. The advertised changes -- Starbuck and Lucifer, the high-ranking Cylon official tasked with the destruction of the Rag-Tag Fleet (you'll remember him from the original series

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It's always been hard for me to think of where I'm currently living as "home," unless it happens to be under the same roof as my folks. I imagine this will change if and when I ever marry... but that doesn't seem to be an imminent threat at this point. I'm "home," in the sense that I have returned to the domicile closest to my employment, the place I spend most nights of the year. But it is

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I'll be heading home tomorrow for Christmas, so no new posts till after New Year's. As infrequently as I've been updating lately, this would likely have gone unnoticed. I'll do better next year. That's my resolution: blog more, about topics both more and less serious. God bless you all both.

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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince will be published in July, according to the BBC. I used to laugh derisively at these books... then I picked one up and read it... now I'm hooked. I won't be lining up at midnight or anything, but I'll definitely be looking for my copy within hours of its release. Via Instapundit.

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In the fortune cookie I just ate: "Faith moves mountains. Lucky #6, 28, 29, 39, 40, 41." Okay, maybe I'm the only one that found that a funny juxtaposition.

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In 1987, a game designer named Sid Meier released a little game for the Commodore 64 (or was it the Amiga? -- it doesn't really matter) named PIRATES! PIRATES! was a groundbreaking game in many ways. It blended many genres of game -- adventure, role-playing, action, and strategy -- into a seamless, and largely open-ended, non-linear whole. In previous videogames, you had an objective --

Stephen Tilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11696665769711363642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6709527.post-1101677675189321332004-11-28T16:12:00.000-05:002004-11-28T16:34:35.190-05:00

I am somewhat touched to see that even during a horribly long absence, my four dedicated readers continue to check this page daily. Thank you, sirs. And madams, as the case may be, though I doubt it. Went home Tuesday and spent the weekend in Virginia. Very nice, as always. Movies: National Treasure is very so-so. Hard to recall the last time I saw such a purely mediocre movie. It has

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Well, well; via Instapundit, news that the nazis will run for President in '08. Their press release: NS greetings, we would like to proudly announce our intention to field National Socialist Movement candidates in the 2008 Presidential Race. These probable Candidates would be for the Presidency and Vice-Presidency of the United States of America. We will announce the names of these individuals,

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There's a website where people upload pictures of themselves saying how sorry they are that the US was myopic, intolerant, uneducated, and just plain stupid enough to reelect George Bush. Example: Uh... whose?

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Fifteen years ago tonight, we watched the wall come down. The symbol of the division between east and west; the wall of shame and grief that had cost many brave people their lives, and that had riven a great city long after the evil that had occasioned it was gone; the Berlin Wall, intractable, immovable, implacable... ...fell. Fell under the hammers and crowbars and jubilant stomping feet of

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... what is it with Adult Swim tonight? Apparently, the funniest thing the writers of tonight's shows -- whatever they are, I can't be bothered to check, but they aren't Harvey Birdman or ATHF -- is "My human father put his penis in my shark mother." This seems to have struck them as hysterically funny, because they're repeating it about every 10 seconds. This bodes ill, methinks. At least

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It's begun in Fallujah. I had a dream last night in which I had enlisted in the Navy. I was being told to report for boot camp in Charleston, SC... and was going to have to leave immediately. I was hurriedly telling everyone good-bye and wondering exactly where and when I was supposed to report, because nobody had given me written orders. (Several details in the above should have tipped me off

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Saw The Incredibles this weekend. It is the best Pixar movie yet, and that's saying something. It's the first Pixar movie I want to see again before it leaves theaters. Just a couple of quick comments: 1. A familiarity with comic-book tropes and superhero lore is helpful but not essential to enjoyment of the movie. Particularly helpful, perhaps, would be some knowledge of the Fantastic Four,

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Folk singer Joan Baez was in C'ville Wednesday night. Reason's science correspondent Ronald Bailey was there. Apparently, there was some commiseration between Baez and her audience about Kerry's loss to Bush... and then things got weird. ...Joan stopped singing and announced that she had "multiple personalities." One of her multiple personalities is that of a fifteen year old poor black girl

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The Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith teaser trailer is up in various places. Look around, you can find it. My favorite images: Anakin's bionic fist clamps around Obi-Wan's neck. Obi-Wan is forced to the floor... ... by a very irate-looking Anakin. Substitute May 19, 2005 for Kerry's concession speech in the list of Things That Can't Come Soon Enough. The teaser trailer,

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Moby wants to secede. can someone remind me why secession is not an option at this point? i mean let's be realistic, we live in a divided country. can't we have the breakaway republics of 'north-east-istan' and 'pacific-stan'? wouldn't the red states be happier without us? we could still travel freely and trade freely with them, but can't we just leave? You can leave, but don't think you're

Stephen Tilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11696665769711363642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6709527.post-1099508086537405002004-11-03T13:48:00.000-05:002004-11-03T13:54:46.536-05:00

When I wrote this, I was very much afraid that the last item on the list was also going to be the last one I got... if it ever came at all. Next: HL2!

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Just a thought, given the early exit polls yesterday that gave Kerry a huge lead over Bush, and how Kerry's going to have to talk about them now: "I actually did win the election... before I lost it." Must... resist... gloat... of death! Seriously, I'm glad he's done the right thing and conceded. I hope the rest of the Democratic party is as reasonable, but given their attempt to spin a 3.5

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From a commenter on DailyKos: The entire progressive/democrat/GOTV machine is in place to launch the largest grass roots impeachment movement in history. It's there. We've got it. The evidence is a mile high. No business as usual. Impeach Bush! Impeach Cheney! Impeach Ashcroft! And Impeach Rumsfeld First!Please, my progressive friends, ignore idiots like this. For the sake of our nation and our

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Senator Kerry: As of this writing, political experts from both sides project that President Bush will win reelection, defeating you despite the best efforts of your supporters, your staff, and yourself. The race has been hardfought and at times extremely bitter. However, it is entirely possible that the margin of victory will be so slim that some in your party will urge you to continue to seek

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Fox News Channel calls Ohio for George Bush, bringing his electoral vote total to 266. I predict Bush 274, Kerry 264. UPDATE: If the latest numbers on Iowa hold up, maybe it's 281-257.

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A report from Bradenton, Florida that MoveOn.org is giving cookies to anyone who says they voted for Kerry. A long shot, perhaps, but consider the scenario: 1. Tired, hungry voter goes to the polls and votes for Bush. 2. On the way out, s/he is offered a nice refreshing cookie in exchange for the little white lie of saying s/he voted for Kerry. Remember, the voter is tired and hungry, and the

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... without Adult Swim. At least TV Land has its nightly Cheers double-header.

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Wretchard thinks Usama's new tape is nothing less than a surrender: It is important to notice what he has stopped saying in this speech. He has stopped talking about the restoration of the Global Caliphate. There is no more mention of the return of Andalusia. There is no more anticipation that Islam will sweep the world. He is no longer boasting that Americans run at the slightest wounds; that

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The whole Al-Qaqaa story has gone non-linear. I can no longer be bothered to care about it. Not that I ever did, much, anyway. 380 tons of RDX and HMX? Missing? Oh, in Iraq. I thought it was somewhere that kind of thing shouldn't be expected. 380 tons of explosives missing in New York City? Uh-oh. 380 tons of explosives missing in Charlottesville, Virginia? Wow. 380 tons of explosives

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Laura Ingraham is subbing for Joe Scarborough tonight on MSNBC. Laura Ingraham is tearing Sam Harris, author of a new anti-religious book, up one side and down the other. She is articulate and impassioned and devastating in her critique. And I'm sitting here watching her powerhouse rhetorical performance and I'm thinking, grrrowr. Y'know... the liberals have Jennifer Anniston and Kate Moss

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Via Instapundit, this report from a Minnesota ABC station that had a camera crew at the facility in mid-April, a week after the 101st arrived and two weeks after 3ID's arrival (under fire, and having read David Zucchino's excellent Thunder Run, I find it hard to believe anybody in the 3rd was doing anything but scrambling for cover and returning fire during the first week of April). This crew

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Things are moving too fast for any one person to keep up with them. No matter the outcome of the election, we should all be grateful for the blogosphere -- whatever its warts -- for focusing the talents and attention of so many extraordinary people, on both sides, on the maneuvers and outright attempts at subversion of the election. I'm thinking primarily of CBS, which followed its Rathergate

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1. Half-Life 2 2. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King Platinum Series Extended Edition DVD 3. John Kerry's concession speech

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I want to blog about the phony explosives story that was supposed to destroy Bush's chances for re-election -- until NBC, of all people, torpedoed the plan, but not before the Kerry campaign spent time and money assembling a campaign ad excoriating Bush for, among other things, not personally standing guard over the Al Qa Qaa facility with an M-16, and also for being a mean bad stupid little

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The Washington Times is reporting that John Kerry's claim -- made as recently as the second presidential debate -- to have met with "the entire security council" for "a couple of hours" before voting to authorize the use of force to disarm Iraq in October of 2002, is as false as Joan Rivers's face. Four of the five members of the security council at that time that Joel Mowbray was able to

Stephen Tilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11696665769711363642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6709527.post-1098570150136266572004-10-23T18:21:00.000-04:002004-10-26T23:32:23.450-04:00

I knew Halliburton was evil, but I didn't know they were, you know, EVIL. Just listen to this. From IMAO.

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Via Power Line, this report of Democratic voter intimidation in Florida. One woman who voted early in Boca Raton, at the Southwest County Regional Library, complained that as she stood in line, two men behind her were "trashing our president," Fletcher said, declining to identify the woman. She tried to ignore them. Then the man touched her arm and said, "Who are you voting for?" "I said, `I

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In 2000, one of Al Gore's tactics in his attempt to steal the election was to disenfranchise military voters. We weren't at war back then... or at least, we didn't realize we were. We are at war now, against one of the gravest threats we've ever faced, and our soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines are engaged in some of the most brutal combat our armed forces have ever seen, to keep us safe

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You can now view the movie John Kerry doesn't want you to see: Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal, posted in its entirety for free. It's very low-res, but it's a nice free way to see the film, now that Kerry's cronies have managed to suppress its showing on TV. (And where were the Republican intimidation operatives when all those ultra-lib rockers were having their bash-Bush concert on the

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For the sake of the thousands of people he and his buddy Che Guevara murdered when they first came to power in 1960... for the sake of the thousands more he's imprisoned unjustly... for the sake of the dissidents who were jailed after they spoke out against him, at Jimmy Carter's urging... for all the political enemies he's tortured and the people he's enslaved to an outdated and barren ideology,

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Kerry has claimed that most of our nation's policemen endorse him. Not so fast, says Fraternal Order of Police president Chuck Canterbury. "As the elected leader of the largest organization representing America's Federal, State and local law enforcement officers, I believe it's important to point out yet again that we do not support his candidacy for President," Canterbury said. "And to be

Stephen Tilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11696665769711363642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6709527.post-1097856314375598862004-10-15T11:36:00.000-04:002004-10-15T12:05:14.376-04:00

A page that would be in the DNC handbook, if they were honest about it: Step 1: Commit massive voter fraud. Step 2: Republicans will attempt to get fraudulent registrations thrown out. Step 3: When Step 2 happens, accuse Republicans of suppressing the vote. For Step 3, it helps greatly to be operating under the air-support of liberal mainstream media who will ignore what happened in Step 1,

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Today's Bleat contains good stuff about the whole Mary Cheney thing that erupted yesterday. My take on it: I wasn't really offended until Liz Edwards weighed in (sorry) on the matter, opining that Lynn and Dick Cheney's taking of exception over having their daughter dragged into the campaign by their political opponents indicates that they're somehow ashamed of her. This statement exhibits

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... but I love her because she is bitter, and because she says stuff like this: Imagine President John Kerry at the Berlin Wall. "Mr. Gorbachev ... I challenge you to get to an emotional place where you can imagine a different kind of non-wall reality, that fully respects the 'wallness' of your current reality, yet takes us on a spiritual journey in which ..." And this: As if it means something,

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Via Little Green Footballs, a Drudge report that the DNC is urging a "pre-emptive strike" against voter intimidation, in places where there is none. Innuendo isn't exactly lying, is it? No, not exactly... By the way, I wonder how many felons and dead people will be voting for Kerry this year?

Stephen Tilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11696665769711363642noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6709527.post-1097757191083835252004-10-14T08:23:00.000-04:002004-10-14T08:33:11.083-04:00

It seemed to me, in the midst of watching it, that Bush was winning hands-down. He did this mainly by holding his own on turf considered to be strongly favorable to Kerry, and getting some good shots in while remaining presidential. His biggest gaffe, I think -- excluding moments when he said things that turn out not to be quite so true as one would hope -- was making that sideways reference to

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I'm tempted to liveblog the debate... ...nah.

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I said somewhere below that if Republicans were targeting Democratic campaign offices for vandalism or attacks, it would be all over the news. Apparently, I was wrong. Unacceptable. Reprehensible. Cowardly and bereft of any shred of decency, the extremists of both sides present an intolerable threat to political discourse in this nation. It must stop, no matter who's doing it to whom.

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Having finally obtained high-speed Internet access in my apartment, I am now able to blog without mooching the resources of others. Of course, now that I have the means, I don't have the time. Not that I had the time before. Tonight, I need to be writing the pre-test/post-test for my classes -- a single document with a modular structure that will allow me to change it for the things we cover

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I'm going home to Virginia for an extended week-end, so there probably won't be anymore posts until Wednesday. After this break, I should have more reliable Internet access, so blogging may be heavier later in the fall, approaching the election.

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