Merriam-Webster Online

You now have to pay to use Merriam-Webster Online. How are we supposed to look up our words for Boggle? I'm pretty upset.

Test Your Geography Knowledge- Africa

If you want to be humbled, check out this geography quiz. Test Your Geography Knowledge- Africa You can test yourself on other areas such as the US, Europe, and Asia. I found the African test particularly galling because in Middle School I knew the locations of all the African nations.

Urban Discovery Channel

This afternoon, while I was sitting on the couch, a hawk snatched a pigeon from the sky right in front of the window. They landed on the ground with a loud thump and I looked out the window to see the hawk nervously watching the cars drive by while the pigeon flapped its wings slower and slower. I didn't think stuff like that happened in cities, but apparently it does. It was definitely interesting.

This weekend we saw The Bourne Supremacy and The Village in the theater. Both were pretty good. I haven't decided which one I liked better yet, though. I liked Signs a lot when I saw it, so I expected more from The Village. We also saw two movies on the latest greatest invention, On Demand. Hysterical Blindness and Lovely and Beautiful. Both were extremely so-so.

First Post

I haven't blogged before. I hope I keep this up. Maybe it will become the place where I can keep track of all the movies I see and the books I read. I'll most likely stop posting on this within a week. I hope I don't.