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Tom Hanks 007

Posted by Mike - November 28, 2007 at 09:11:21 am

Please… call me Frog

Posted by Mike - November 20, 2007 at 09:11:18 am

The Berkeley Repertory Theatre is showing a play entitled After the Quake which is really quite excellent. A little while ago Jules bought some tickets for a pair of friends and us to go see it this past weekend. I didn’t know anything about it other than it was getting good reviews and a couple of Jules’s friends seemed to like it. But I must say that I was pleasantly surprised.

I had never been to the Berkeley Rep before. It’s a small theatre in downtown Berkeley. We probably had some of the worst seats in the house. The very last row in the back left corner. That being said, I don’t think any seat is a bad seat. The last row is only maybe a dozen rows up from the front and for the most part the actors did a good job directing their dialog out to the audience so we didn’t get many back views.

Anyway, I don’t want to spoil anything for you so I’ll wait until after it finishes playing to describe it in more detail. With that in mind, it closes Dec. 2 (it was extended). So get your tickets and rush over.

Submission

Posted by Mike - November 18, 2007 at 12:11:43 am

Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord.
For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior.
Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her
to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,
and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.
In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church—
for we are members of his body.
“For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.”
This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church.
However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.

– Ephesians 5 (22-33)

My friend was married today and this passage seemed to be an important part of it. The pastor spoke on it for a good 30 minutes. Emphasizing the husband’s role as head of the family and the wife’s as, well, subservient. He pointed out that while the wife has the right to speak her views and make suggestions, the final word would be that of the husband.

I was waiting for Jules to get up and light her bra on fire in protest. But our friend seems happy enough with the arrangement even though they only met in December. But, good luck to them. I hope their marriage is happy and fulfilling.

Rebates

Posted by Jules - November 13, 2007 at 07:11:53 pm

In June, I decided to renew my service with ATT DSL. In return, they were supposed to refund me 50$ for renewing. I sent off my postcard and rebate sticker in July, and waited. It was supposed to arrive in 4-6 weeks. When I didn’t hear or see anything from them after 4 months, I decided to give them a call. So apparently, they had been holding it in limbo, as the lady on the phone said, “Oh, we didn’t know what to do with it, because we didn’t know the reason for the rebate- was it for retention, new service sign up, new modem?” So she was telling me that, while they had access to my phone #, billing history, service history, password, and SSN, they had no way of emailing/calling me to ask this question, and they had no way of figuring out why I got this rebate? Riiiiggghhhttt. I just said, “It was a retention”. And then she said, “Ok, we’ll mail it right off”. Are you kidding me? That’s why they were holding it in limbo for 4 months?? I guess it’s a good way to get out of giving rebates to people who don’t double check. I just got a check in the mail, dated 1 day after I called.

CAL Marching Band

Posted by Mike - November 13, 2007 at 05:11:38 pm

Almost makes me want to go to a football game… almost.

Biology: Transparent

Posted by Mike - November 7, 2007 at 08:11:05 am

So I was looking at the pretty colors in The Colors of Your Degree article over at the Colour Lovers site. They list the hood colors for graduation gowns. It’s good to see that agriculture (maize [that's a color?]), physical education (sage green), and theology (scarlet) all have colors. But, what happened to biology? Chemistry? Are all of the sciences that they don’t have listed lumped together under science (golden yellow)? Why would oratory (silver grey) and library science (lemon) have colors when the major fields of science are lumped together? How upsetting.

Robo Cars

Posted by Mike - November 5, 2007 at 09:11:58 am

Well, looks like Carnegie Mellon wins this time. Sorry Stanford.

This kind of stuff amazes me. Who wants to build a robo car with me? Here’s a PBS video from 2005 of the race.

It’s amazing how much it’s changed in the last few years. From not being able to finish a desert race, to negotiating traffic. Yay robots.

Techno Parrot

Posted by Mike - November 1, 2007 at 08:11:59 pm

I thought this was hilarious. Enjoy.

An Apple a Day

Posted by Mike - November 1, 2007 at 05:11:08 pm

Last night Jules and I went to the Apple store and picked up a few goodies. iWork for her and the newer Apple keyboard for me.

It’s pretty nice. Sounds like a laptop when you’re typing. It also feels a little more comfortable because it’s flatter so my wrists don’t tilt up as much. You get the same effect with the wrist pad, but I don’t really like those all that much. Anyway, thumbs up. Go get yourself one.

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