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Re: Stuff we're reading / watching / listening to

Posted: Sat May 10, 2014 9:29 am
by Digit
Scientists add new letters to DNA. They created molecules X and Y that don't occur in nature and got them into the DNA of some bacteria with all the A, C, G, and T, and it took.

Re: Stuff we're reading / watching / listening to

Posted: Wed May 14, 2014 11:08 am
by Portia
Weezer's Blue Album is $5.00 on the Amazon MP3 store. (The 20th anniversary was on Saturday.) Listening to it front to back. SO GOOD.

Re: Stuff we're reading / watching / listening to

Posted: Thu May 15, 2014 11:55 am
by Portia

Re: Stuff we're reading / watching / listening to

Posted: Fri May 16, 2014 2:52 pm
by Dead Cat
Just read Redshirts by John Scalzi. It bent my brain in half and I loved it.

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Posted: Fri May 16, 2014 3:21 pm
by The Moo
I have a coworker who has an audiobook of Redshirts. He listens to it on an average of once a week. :)

Re: Stuff we're reading / watching / listening to

Posted: Sat May 17, 2014 2:25 pm
by Katya
Dead Cat wrote:Just read Redshirts by John Scalzi. It bent my brain in half and I loved it.
I loved that book. I reread it the day after I finished it.

Re: Stuff we're reading / watching / listening to

Posted: Thu May 22, 2014 9:35 pm
by Digit

Re: Stuff we're reading / watching / listening to

Posted: Fri May 23, 2014 1:31 pm
by Katya
Digit wrote:Black Jeopardy! on SNL :)
I loved the BYU shout out!

Re: Stuff we're reading / watching / listening to

Posted: Mon May 26, 2014 8:57 pm
by Imogen
Watching "The World Wars" on the History Channel. SO AWESOME.

Re: Stuff we're reading / watching / listening to

Posted: Tue May 27, 2014 10:55 am
by vorpal blade
The June 2014 issue of the Ensign. There is a picture of me in the magazine. Can you guess which picture?

Re: Stuff we're reading / watching / listening to

Posted: Tue May 27, 2014 5:36 pm
by bobtheenchantedone
My guess is the family history picture. Unless you're cheating and you're a picture of hands or something.

Re: Stuff we're reading / watching / listening to

Posted: Wed May 28, 2014 12:26 am
by UffishThought
I've been trying to find the version of Falcon in the Dive by Rex Smith in the Scarlet Pimpernel soundtrack all day, but Amazon and iTunes both have the wrong version in the mp3 downloads for that album. I keep seeing people say that the Terry Mann version is superior, and maybe if I were more musically inclined, I'd think so too, but since I'm not, I don't. And the one I accidentally bought sounds like the singer is bored by comparison. I guess I could buy the actual physical cd and then rip my own mp3 of the right version, but that's a lot of expense and work for a soundtrack that's not that good as a whole. Get it together, music selling places.

Re: Stuff we're reading / watching / listening to

Posted: Wed May 28, 2014 11:52 am
by vorpal blade
bobtheenchantedone wrote:My guess is the family history picture. Unless you're cheating and you're a picture of hands or something.
No, it is not in the article about family history. It is a picture showing my face, as well as the rest of me in my Sunday suit. I'll give you a hint, I'm in a group photo.

Re: Stuff we're reading / watching / listening to

Posted: Wed May 28, 2014 12:10 pm
by Tally M.
vorpal blade wrote:
bobtheenchantedone wrote:My guess is the family history picture. Unless you're cheating and you're a picture of hands or something.
No, it is not in the article about family history. It is a picture showing my face, as well as the rest of me in my Sunday suit. I'll give you a hint, I'm in a group photo.
Priesthood power article? First page?

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Posted: Wed May 28, 2014 5:30 pm
by vorpal blade
Tally M. wrote:
vorpal blade wrote:
bobtheenchantedone wrote:My guess is the family history picture. Unless you're cheating and you're a picture of hands or something.
No, it is not in the article about family history. It is a picture showing my face, as well as the rest of me in my Sunday suit. I'll give you a hint, I'm in a group photo.
Priesthood power article? First page?
Nope. Not that one.

Re: Stuff we're reading / watching / listening to

Posted: Wed May 28, 2014 7:29 pm
by Digit
Jim Carrey's Graduation Speech to the Class of 2014 at Maharishi University. I wonder what the accounting majors thought of it.

Re: Stuff we're reading / watching / listening to

Posted: Wed May 28, 2014 8:34 pm
by Katya
UffishThought wrote:I've been trying to find the version of Falcon in the Dive by Rex Smith in the Scarlet Pimpernel soundtrack all day, but Amazon and iTunes both have the wrong version in the mp3 downloads for that album. I keep seeing people say that the Terry Mann version is superior, and maybe if I were more musically inclined, I'd think so too, but since I'm not, I don't. And the one I accidentally bought sounds like the singer is bored by comparison. I guess I could buy the actual physical cd and then rip my own mp3 of the right version, but that's a lot of expense and work for a soundtrack that's not that good as a whole. Get it together, music selling places.
Wow, I have a hard time imagining a better version than the Terrence Mann one, but I haven't heard the Rex Smith one, so now I'm curious to hear it, too.

Re: Stuff we're reading / watching / listening to

Posted: Wed May 28, 2014 11:37 pm
by UffishThought
Katya wrote:
UffishThought wrote:I've been trying to find the version of Falcon in the Dive by Rex Smith in the Scarlet Pimpernel soundtrack all day, but Amazon and iTunes both have the wrong version in the mp3 downloads for that album. I keep seeing people say that the Terry Mann version is superior, and maybe if I were more musically inclined, I'd think so too, but since I'm not, I don't. And the one I accidentally bought sounds like the singer is bored by comparison. I guess I could buy the actual physical cd and then rip my own mp3 of the right version, but that's a lot of expense and work for a soundtrack that's not that good as a whole. Get it together, music selling places.
Wow, I have a hard time imagining a better version than the Terrence Mann one, but I haven't heard the Rex Smith one, so now I'm curious to hear it, too.
This is the closest I can find. http://youtu.be/vbwNQc2qhJY?t=2m31s It's very live. And I don't think he was AS shouty in the version I used to have, but there was still a bit.

Re: Stuff we're reading / watching / listening to

Posted: Thu May 29, 2014 12:39 pm
by Katya
UffishThought wrote:
Katya wrote:
UffishThought wrote:I've been trying to find the version of Falcon in the Dive by Rex Smith in the Scarlet Pimpernel soundtrack all day, but Amazon and iTunes both have the wrong version in the mp3 downloads for that album. I keep seeing people say that the Terry Mann version is superior, and maybe if I were more musically inclined, I'd think so too, but since I'm not, I don't. And the one I accidentally bought sounds like the singer is bored by comparison. I guess I could buy the actual physical cd and then rip my own mp3 of the right version, but that's a lot of expense and work for a soundtrack that's not that good as a whole. Get it together, music selling places.
Wow, I have a hard time imagining a better version than the Terrence Mann one, but I haven't heard the Rex Smith one, so now I'm curious to hear it, too.
This is the closest I can find. http://youtu.be/vbwNQc2qhJY?t=2m31s It's very live. And I don't think he was AS shouty in the version I used to have, but there was still a bit.
Oh, I read "Falcon in the Dive," but for some reason I was thinking "Where's the Girl" (which is the one I can't imagine better than Mann's). Smith's version of "Falcon" is very different from Mann's, but I like it, too. :)

Re: Stuff we're reading / watching / listening to

Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2014 12:54 am
by Portia
Finally reading The Bell Jar. It's a hobby of mine to fantasize about what reviews of a book I might write would say. Being compared to this book would be the best thing that could happen.
“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.”