Substance!

That is, if substance can consist of shiny pictures.

I filled up my camera memory for the first time today, and emptied it into my computer. What was the occasion of filling up the memory? Snow! Yes, contrary to my sarcastic comments to various people about the chances of snow here, it did snow. After raining all morning, it fell, and fell, and fell... for five or six hours in all during the day. It even fell during a brief thunderstorm (thundersnow?). At first it wasn't sticking, but then it collected on the roof, and then on large parts of the ground, sometimes over an inch thick! Going to the library today was already ruined, and I'd done what work I could from home, and so I decided to hitch up and take a walk around the complex, snapping pictures. Those pictures are linked to below.

I also uploaded other pictures I took that I like. There are a few of Leslie (including one where I inadvertently chop her forehead off - except for that, it's a nice picture), one of a reverse-icicle in the ice tray, a few from Christmas, and a lot featuring Legos. I downloaded Picasa to get them online.

Other than that, if you're curious about the Rushdie course, he gave a lecture last Sunday that gave his broad thoughts on film adaptions of novels. If you saw in the media reports of him rejecting Slumdog Millionaire, it was from this lecture taken out of context. I couldn't be there, but I have read this handy report in the Guardian which I'm assured follows the lecture decently well: Rushdie . It's a bit long. He says hasty words about, amongst other things, Tolkien (he prefers Jackson's adaption), but it's still interesting.

Other than that, does anyone know anything about King Thoas?

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Christmas

Misc

Legos

Snow