21 Tishrei/9 October, 2009
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bearshortyObama won a Nobel Peace Prize this morning. It is a little unexpected but I’m more concerned with how Fox news will spin it.
The most eye raising thing I’ve read today: Marge Simpson posing for playboy
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091009/ap_on_en_ot/us_playboy_marge_simpson
because cartoon characters are super sexy and need a centerfold, I guess.
Of all the chores that have to be done, the worst is washing the floors. Especially because Mama wants it done a certain way. I prefer washing dishes and cooking and even washing the bathroom to washing the floors.
I think I came up with my midterm question. It will be about the limits of technology like a past midterm but instead of asking who should define that limit I’ll let them try to figure out where the limit is. They talked in class about this; let’s see if they can get their thoughts together.
Dollhouse S2E3. This episode was completely awesome. It had many metaphors and layers that I will need to think through more before I even can get them all – which a sign of a great Whedon episode. There were two interacting storylines: a serial killer who uses women to reconstruct his family and basically treats them as his toys with no identity and power and a medieval literature professor who wants Echo to be his student so that he can seduce her. Ignoring the fact that a regular medieval literature professor can’t afford the Dollhouse and pretending that he has a secret cash fund, that story deliberately introduced the discussion of Chaucer’s “Wife of Bath” and the arguments about the uses of female sexuality and power juxtaposed with manipulation of that power. Kiki, Echo’s dimwitted college student imprint (who took medieval lit because it was better than advanced evil ) thinks she is learning about power of sex and seducing the professor for a better grade while she herself has been programmed and can’t really make her own choices. I found this interplay very interesting and worthy of more contemplation. The women the serial killer caught also managed to get together and attempt to escape before all kinds of rescue, which I appreciated. Also, when Echo’s Kiki imprint was transferred to Victor in a nightclub, it was all kinds of fun. Victor dancing like a sexy girl was just hilarious. Overall, this is one of the strongest episodes of “Dollhouse” so far. The act breaks really kept the suspense and had Papa and me on the edge of the seat. Why can’t Joss Whedon have shows on cable where the numbers don’t matter as much and it won’t get cancelled? Episodes like these make me wish so many other people were watching.
Exodus WTF moment of the day: The last five chapters of Exodus were the most boring reading I ever had to read. Mainly because I already had to read it earlier, when God was giving Moses instructions on how to build the tabernacle. Four chapters are just about people building the tabernacle in excruciating detail and then a list of all the parts again. And the last chapter is about God telling Moses to put the tabernacle up, listing all its parts, and then Moses putting it up, part by part in detail. If I had to write these five chapters it would go like this: “And then craftsmen built everything pertaining to the tabernacle according to God’s earlier instructions. Here is a list of everything. God told Moses to assemble it and Moses did. God guided people. The End.” That’s not even a paragraph! I guess people cared because it was the house of worship but these chapters are the reason while the Bible always bored me before and why the children’s version always skips this. Well, the good thing is the Exodus is done! Three more books of the Torah to go. I was thinking of taking a little break before I tackle Leviticus but I should just work through it before I lose my nerve to continue.
The most eye raising thing I’ve read today: Marge Simpson posing for playboy
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091009/ap_on_en_ot/us_playboy_marge_simpson
because cartoon characters are super sexy and need a centerfold, I guess.
Of all the chores that have to be done, the worst is washing the floors. Especially because Mama wants it done a certain way. I prefer washing dishes and cooking and even washing the bathroom to washing the floors.
I think I came up with my midterm question. It will be about the limits of technology like a past midterm but instead of asking who should define that limit I’ll let them try to figure out where the limit is. They talked in class about this; let’s see if they can get their thoughts together.
Dollhouse S2E3. This episode was completely awesome. It had many metaphors and layers that I will need to think through more before I even can get them all – which a sign of a great Whedon episode. There were two interacting storylines: a serial killer who uses women to reconstruct his family and basically treats them as his toys with no identity and power and a medieval literature professor who wants Echo to be his student so that he can seduce her. Ignoring the fact that a regular medieval literature professor can’t afford the Dollhouse and pretending that he has a secret cash fund, that story deliberately introduced the discussion of Chaucer’s “Wife of Bath” and the arguments about the uses of female sexuality and power juxtaposed with manipulation of that power. Kiki, Echo’s dimwitted college student imprint (who took medieval lit because it was better than advanced evil ) thinks she is learning about power of sex and seducing the professor for a better grade while she herself has been programmed and can’t really make her own choices. I found this interplay very interesting and worthy of more contemplation. The women the serial killer caught also managed to get together and attempt to escape before all kinds of rescue, which I appreciated. Also, when Echo’s Kiki imprint was transferred to Victor in a nightclub, it was all kinds of fun. Victor dancing like a sexy girl was just hilarious. Overall, this is one of the strongest episodes of “Dollhouse” so far. The act breaks really kept the suspense and had Papa and me on the edge of the seat. Why can’t Joss Whedon have shows on cable where the numbers don’t matter as much and it won’t get cancelled? Episodes like these make me wish so many other people were watching.
Exodus WTF moment of the day: The last five chapters of Exodus were the most boring reading I ever had to read. Mainly because I already had to read it earlier, when God was giving Moses instructions on how to build the tabernacle. Four chapters are just about people building the tabernacle in excruciating detail and then a list of all the parts again. And the last chapter is about God telling Moses to put the tabernacle up, listing all its parts, and then Moses putting it up, part by part in detail. If I had to write these five chapters it would go like this: “And then craftsmen built everything pertaining to the tabernacle according to God’s earlier instructions. Here is a list of everything. God told Moses to assemble it and Moses did. God guided people. The End.” That’s not even a paragraph! I guess people cared because it was the house of worship but these chapters are the reason while the Bible always bored me before and why the children’s version always skips this. Well, the good thing is the Exodus is done! Three more books of the Torah to go. I was thinking of taking a little break before I tackle Leviticus but I should just work through it before I lose my nerve to continue.
