Monthly Archives: June 2008

Entertainment QotW: Movie Prices

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How much does a ticket cost at your usual movie theater? Does the price affect the number of movies you see at the theater?
Submitted by Kristie.

(Yay! This question was recommended by my friend Kristie!)

A movie ticket here is $12. That’s a lot, and it does affect the amount of movies we see in theater. On weekends though, all showtimes before noon are $6. So sometimes we’ll go in early and see something. This weekend we did that – we went to an 11:15am showing of WALL-E.

They are opening a movie theater in Hoboken though, and I’m very excited for that. It should be cheaper, and so much closer! We’ll be able to walk to it. They just started construction, and it’s supposed to open next year.

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Shelfari and Twitter

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I signed up for Shelfari about a year ago, but never really used it much. I rediscovered it a few weeks ago and decided that I really like it. I’ve logged all the books I’ve read during the last two years onto my shelves. I’m also trying to begin the process of putting all my “to be read” books into my shelves. My favorite part is the cute little red hearts it puts on the lower right hand corner of your favorite books.

If you’d like to check it out, my shelves are here:
http://www.shelfari.com/chowmeyow/shelf

I’m also using twitter now. I like it. I’m still figuring out how I want to use it, but it’s fun. I don’t have any real followers, but I have fun using the site and I think the updates will be amusing for me to look back on sometime. I don’t expect my twitter updates to be interesting to anyone else, but here’s the link regardless: http://twitter.com/chowmeyow

Does anyone else here use Shelfari or Twitter? If so, feel free to connect with me. :)

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Links for 06.13.08

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Used booksellers share the funny, interesting, and odd things they’ve found in books. (found on Kimbooktu)

Beautiful and whimsy decorating project on Design*Sponge: using your computer to create printable wallpaper with camo-photos hidden within the design. I wish I had a staircase (besides the four flights of stairs up to our walk up).

Way too expensive, but still fun: Pimp My Billy (IKEA bookcase novelty shelf). (found on Kimbooktu)

Fun human calendar. (thanks Ryan!)

If you click on only one link, I recommend this one: Extremely fun art project alert: a blogger creates real life photographs from pictures kids have drawn. (found on How About Orange)

….and in case you missed this, Stephen Colbert’s dance off with Rain.

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Mother Night

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I finished Mother Night. It’s going to take me a while to remove myself far enough from the book to judge fairly where it ranks in my list of favorite Vonneguts. Because if I were to answer right now I’d without hesitation say that it’s my favorite, in no uncertain terms. I loved it. It’s a fascinating plot that I could not put down, but had to put down sometimes to scribble quotes and passages down in my notebook. Like the other best novels of Vonnegut, it’s a shining example of how the issues he writes about are still relevant today.

Here are my favorite lines:

“Since there is no one else to praise me, I will praise myself – will say that I have never tampered with a single tooth in my thought machine, such as it is. There are teeth missing, God knows – some I was born without, teeth that will never grow. And other teeth have been stripped by the clutchless shifts of history–
But never have I willfully destroyed a tooth on a gear of my thinking machine. Never have I said to myself, “This fact I can do without.”

“I had taught myself that a human being might as well look for diamond tiaras in the gutters as for rewards and punishments that were fair.”

“There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too. Where’s evil? It’s that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side. It’s that part of every man that finds all kinds of ugliness so attractive.”

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Reading Update

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Mother Night
Kurt Vonnegut
I’m only 71 pages into Mother Night so far, but I’m already getting an inkling that it might be my favorite Vonnegut yet, which is no small compliment.

I’m also still churning along in Mansfield Park. It’s getting much more interesting, but I still have over 100 pages to go.

I started Anne of Green Gables on the way home from the Strand yesterday, but I think I’ll put it aside until these two are done.

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Crazy!

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Today I won an iPhone!

This is pretty crazy and I’m still digesting it.

I subscribe to an email newsletter called “Midday marketplace update” that American Public Media puts out. They had a giveaway, new and old subscribers were all entered into a drawing to win an iPhone. They’re giving one away a day for 11 days. I won today’s iPhone.

I’m super excited, but now I need to think seriously about whether I want to switch to AT&T. (I know, I know, not a bad problem to have.)

The reason I don’t have an iPhone yet is because I hate AT&T. I think they are an ancient company that does not support progress or innovation. I hate their advertising and how they are desperately trying to be cool since buying poor Cingular. I also hold a grudge against them because a long time ago they tried to stop the internet from happening.

I also really like my current provider, Sprint. I’ve been happy with Sprint for over 6 years.

Anyway, I’m very excited, and would love any AT&T insights/opinions from my lovely Vox neighbors.

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Flickr Photo Meme

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This is one of the most fun memes I’ve seen in a while. Thanks to all the neighbors who posted it!

The Instructions:

a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into flickr search
b. Using only the first page, pick an image.
c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd’s mosaic maker.

The Questions:

1. What is your first name?
2. What is your favorite food?
3. What high school did you go to?
4. What is your favorite color?
5. Who is your celebrity crush?
6. Favorite drink?
7. Dream vacation?
8. Favorite dessert?
9. What you want to be when you grow up?
10. What do you love most in life?
11. One word to describe you.
12. Your flickr name.

(The only thing that came up when I searched for my flickr name was a different mosaic. That was kind of cool, but it looked goofy. So I just searched for half of my flickr name.)

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QotD: Homes Sweet Homes

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How many houses have you lived in? How is where you live now different from where you grew up?

I have lived in two houses. One I do not remember, we moved before I was one year old. The second I lived in for 17ish years.

Since then, I have lived in:

-Brody Hall, Michigan State University

-Apartment above Blockbuster, East Lansing, MI

-Mason Hall, Michigan State University

-Apartment above Blockbuster, East Lansing, MI

-Mason Hall, Michigan State University

-Apartment in Rome

-731 Burcham Apartments, East Lansing, MI

-Apartment in Hoboken

That’s eight different places in 6 years! I’ve been in Hoboken for just over 2 years, so it was also eight different places in 4 years.

The main difference of where I live now verses where I grew up is that our square mile block at home has maybe 100 people, and Hoboken is about a square mile and has 40,000+.

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