-1 72% 18% 0mph W bar30.10 steady windchill-1 winter
Full Winter Moon
I now have sound going from the DVR/Cable box to the receiver and the 5 speakers. I also have sound going from the new Blu-Ray DVD player to the 5 speakers. This is close to total success, but I still have two hurdles remaining. I have not been able to get any radio signals yet, in spite of connecting the antennas and I have not run the test microphone which will balance the speakers. Still, I feel largely done with this project.
In order to get Blu-Ray quality movies you have to get Blu-Ray discs. Not cheap. I watched one this evening, Beowulf and Grendel. This movie takes a spare approach to the story and gives a backstory for Grendel. It is gorgeous, shot in Iceland by an Icelandic director. I liked it a good deal, though I’d not heard of it.
The big screen, HD TV setup came from my love for movies. This is a stunning way to watch movies at home and, with the surround sound, surprisingly close to the cinema experience. Movies are as important to me as literature, music and the fine arts. I’m glad to have this way to view them.
Now: It can finally be said.
“WASHINGTON (AP) – A study by two nonprofit journalism organizations found that President Bush and top administration officials issued hundreds of false statements about the national security threat from Iraq in the two years following the 2001 terrorist attacks. The study concluded that the statements “were part of an orchestrated campaign that effectively galvanized public opinion and, in the process, led the nation to war under decidedly false pretenses.”
The study was posted Tuesday on the Web site of the Center for Public Integrity, which worked with the Fund for Independence in Journalism.”
The life and times of celebrities must be difficult. Heath Ledger’s death today, whether suicide or accident (and I would wonder if accident isn’t suicide by another name), puts another name in the column of this felled by fame. To those in the limelight all the time there must be a moment when you either choose life or choose self-destruction, a decision many of us face only obliquely, perhaps at the dinner table.