17 Tishrei/5 October, 2009
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bearshortyHouse S6E4. That was an awesome episode. The old team being back together felt a real surreal, although the growth of the characters over the preceding years was there, mostly because they act more mature. Chase calling Cameron “Alison” at one point felt very strange because I always forget that is her first name. James Earl Jones as an African dictator was, of course, completely awesome and interesting. I kept wondering how the show will solve the dilemma it presented: should one heal the patient when you know he will kill thousands of people and have genocide in his country. A doctor’s oath not to harm the patient should, of course, triumph over everything else and, as Dumbledore would put it, killing rips a soul (look on Chase’s face at the end…) but I could see the very human thought process of the doctors having to live with the outcome of the situation. I could tell as soon as Chase offered to draw up the blood what he was planning so I wasn’t surprised when the dictator died and Chase admitted to deliberately substituting blood. I hope the show won’t drop the consequences since Chase clearly crossed the line. What makes it even more interesting is that Chase faked a diagnosis that House suggested? Would the patient died if Foreman listened to House earlier? In the B-plot with House and his neighbor it was an unexpected hoot to see House pull a Dexter and stick a needle in guy and tie him up to cure his pain. I do hope they keep up with the House feeling better theme. He can still be a bastard but a happier bastard. Wilson’s vampire joke made me really laugh – he watches “True Blood”!
The ability of the students to ignore information and not follow instructions always amazes me. I repeated in several classes that they need a folder when they turn in Paper 2, and yet about a quarter of the students remembered this. I emphasized how important it was to bring in on Thursday. We worked on grammar today because I had nothing else to do with the midterm coming up but it went surprisingly well.
Watched “Lie to Me” after “House” because James Marsters was in the episode. Wasn’t a bad episode, better than Season One episode I caught last year. However, they pretty much had two unrelated stories and the second one about a cult leader felt very stereotypical and too predictable. Can't we have one cult leader (whom the show establishes as a true believer) not be a misogynistic bastard who exploits children while thinking his world is a utopia. At least James Marsters wasn’t playing a bad guy this time and had nothing to do with that storyline.
Daily Show with Jon Stewart! Colbert Report! We got tickets! This was the most exciting part of the day because I’ve been checking the shows’ websites for a while and they never have tickets. And today, I check and the Daily Show has almost all January and February open. I think they added shows. But yeah, Daily Show tickets!
Exodus WFT moment of the day: chapters 16 to 20 are about the manna they all ate, God showing himself to people in a cloud above a mountain and the Ten Commandments. First of all, I would think that eating the same food for forty years would get a bit tiring. And all those children who only ate manna – how would they know how to cook and eat anything else when they get out of the desert. Couldn’t God have varied the diet a little bit? I also enjoyed the image of Moses sitting on a rock while Aaron and another guy held up his hands all day to guarantee Israelites’ victory in battle. Seems like torture for all three. And God promises to come down to Mt Sinai to speak to the people and the same time fences the mountains so that no one could approach it on a penalty of death. All they saw was a large cloud. Moses even points it out to Him when God tells him that people should be consecrated. Then God is like “Ok, Aaron can come up.” The Ten Commandments themselves are pretty cool. One book I read broke them down as the first five are really about relationship with God/parents and the last five are about relationships between people. Several years ago I read an article on adultery for one of my women and gender classes. And they kept mentioning commandments 6 and 9 which did not track with a list I had of Ten Commandments. I wasn’t sure what to make of it. I learned later that what number a Commandment is depends on the religion/sect. Catholics, Protestants, Orthodox Christians and Jews all number the commandments differently, just like the biblical canon consists of different books for each religion/sect. The article I read used a Catholic version of the commandments. Here is a link with the breakdown for each religion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_commandments
The ability of the students to ignore information and not follow instructions always amazes me. I repeated in several classes that they need a folder when they turn in Paper 2, and yet about a quarter of the students remembered this. I emphasized how important it was to bring in on Thursday. We worked on grammar today because I had nothing else to do with the midterm coming up but it went surprisingly well.
Watched “Lie to Me” after “House” because James Marsters was in the episode. Wasn’t a bad episode, better than Season One episode I caught last year. However, they pretty much had two unrelated stories and the second one about a cult leader felt very stereotypical and too predictable. Can't we have one cult leader (whom the show establishes as a true believer) not be a misogynistic bastard who exploits children while thinking his world is a utopia. At least James Marsters wasn’t playing a bad guy this time and had nothing to do with that storyline.
Daily Show with Jon Stewart! Colbert Report! We got tickets! This was the most exciting part of the day because I’ve been checking the shows’ websites for a while and they never have tickets. And today, I check and the Daily Show has almost all January and February open. I think they added shows. But yeah, Daily Show tickets!
Exodus WFT moment of the day: chapters 16 to 20 are about the manna they all ate, God showing himself to people in a cloud above a mountain and the Ten Commandments. First of all, I would think that eating the same food for forty years would get a bit tiring. And all those children who only ate manna – how would they know how to cook and eat anything else when they get out of the desert. Couldn’t God have varied the diet a little bit? I also enjoyed the image of Moses sitting on a rock while Aaron and another guy held up his hands all day to guarantee Israelites’ victory in battle. Seems like torture for all three. And God promises to come down to Mt Sinai to speak to the people and the same time fences the mountains so that no one could approach it on a penalty of death. All they saw was a large cloud. Moses even points it out to Him when God tells him that people should be consecrated. Then God is like “Ok, Aaron can come up.” The Ten Commandments themselves are pretty cool. One book I read broke them down as the first five are really about relationship with God/parents and the last five are about relationships between people. Several years ago I read an article on adultery for one of my women and gender classes. And they kept mentioning commandments 6 and 9 which did not track with a list I had of Ten Commandments. I wasn’t sure what to make of it. I learned later that what number a Commandment is depends on the religion/sect. Catholics, Protestants, Orthodox Christians and Jews all number the commandments differently, just like the biblical canon consists of different books for each religion/sect. The article I read used a Catholic version of the commandments. Here is a link with the breakdown for each religion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_commandments
