It’s quite the time for getting married. I’ve gone to two weddings within a week of each other, and now I hear that one of my all-time favorite singer/songwriters just tied the knot (again). He’s also working on his next album. I’m looking forward to its release.
I’m not aware of any blogging tools that provide a spellchecking solution, so SpellCheck.net is an easy (and free) way to keep your entries void of spelling errors. Isn’t it nice when the URL describes exactly what the site contains?
I went on a short hike up to Donut Falls tonight. It was a lot shorter than I had expected but still a fun little hike. On the way back I saw a friend of mine who I haven’t seen in over two years and it was nice to get acquainted with her again. Back at the trailhead we realized we were missing some people who rode in the car with us. We didn’t want to leave them stranded, so we began to wait, and wait and wait.
The good thing was that during the wait I had an excellent view of a very starry night, unmarred by city lights. I got to see some spectacular falling meteors. Some of them left a huge trail of light across the sky, almost like a jet’s contrail.
We finally went home, but it turns out that the missing hikers had gone farther up the trail to see some mines and it took them a lot longer than they expected to descend the trail in the dark. Thankfully they all got down safely.
The Sight and Sound Top Ten Poll lauded Citizen Kane as the best film ever, by both the critics and directors . As I said before, I don’t see what all the fuss is about Citizen Kane. It wasn’t very entertaining and was almost a chore to watch. It baffles me that what I saw as a lackluster movie could have earned first place for the past forty years in this poll (they have one every 10 years). I think it must be like eating green beans when I was a kid. I hated eating them, but I was told I had to because they were good for me. I plan to watch the rest of the films listed to see what I’m missing, but I can assure you my list would be quite different.
More information can be found in two articles as well as a metafilter thread discussing the poll.
