Long Weekend

It's nice to finally have a long weekend. Saturday I went hiking with Suor to Franklin Falls. Some photos are here. Yesterday I went to party at Kevin's and today I helped Nabeel move. (His couch was bigger than the elevator. We had to carry it up nine flights of stairs. That was an adventure to say the least)...Being so busy, I don't think the weekend was long enough!

Mount Rainier

Some photos from hiking through the snow at Paradise on Mount Rainier last weekend.

Fog of War

I watched Fog of War last night. It is an interview with Robert S. McNamara about eleven "lessons" that he learned from his involvement in World War II with the Air Force as well as the Cuban Missle Crisis and the Vietnam War as Secretary of Defense.

For some reason I thought it was about Henry Kissinger. [How can you rent a documentary and not know who it is about, you ask? Well, it was playing at the Princess Cinema last year, but for some reason I never went even though it looked interesting. I know Ram went and said it was good, so that's sufficent :-)].

I found it to be interesting and thought provoking. It is also fairly topical. (i.e. It doesn't take a degree in rocket science to apply what he says to current US foreign policy).

It was good, but listening a single person talk for almost two hours stretched my attention span a little. Overall, I'll give it 3/5 stars. (3.5 if I wasn't limited to an integral amount of stars).

Episode III

Star Wars rocks. I watched Revenge of the Sith early this morning. I was impressed. I won't say anymore in case you haven't seen it yet.

Modern Library

An interesting list that I found: Modern Library's 100 best books of the 20th Century. (Actually it's four lists of one hundred - two fiction and two non-fiction).