Archive for January, 2007
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23 Jan 2007
In 2006, I hardly did any better than the year before. I've hardly seen any of the Oscar-nominated movies.
Category # seen Best Picture 1 Best Actor 0 Best Actress 0 Best Director 0 Best Screenplay 1 Best Adapted Screenplay 0 The Departed, The Queen, and Children of Men are all still very high on my "to-see" list. Those three alone would push my combined total up to 9. The AP contrasts this year's Best Picture nominee field with last years -- they claim that there's no immediate widely-accepted favorite. (Of course, last year's favorite didn't win..)
Update 26 Feb: For the first time since 2003, I saw the winner of the Oscar for Best Picture (The Departed) in a first-run theater before the night of the awards. That was the only additional top-award nominee I saw, but it brought my total up to six. The only other award winner I've seen is An Inconvenient Truth, which I coincidentally saw just this weekend.
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16 Jan 2007
Gedanken game time: What is the largest (in volume) gift you could buy or make for under $20? Some ground rules:
- You can't get anything for free. i.e. "ask family and friends for all of their packing peanuts."
- On the other hand, anything you can make or do yourself is okay. Inflating balloons with your own breath, for instance.
- No one else can help you. This is an individual project.
- Machines and devices to help you are okay, but buying anything you don't already own will go towards the $20.
- On the other hand, things you already own can't be used as a part of the end-result.
- You have to be able to bring the gift itself to a party.
- The party is in one week.