The leaves are now gone from the trees and my winter jacket is on. The results from my course have been pushed forward until December. I have prepaid for next year studying biology but should start January 2009. I needed the break but I do feel a little purposeless and I suppose anxious because they delayed the results. Having said that, in less than 8 weeks time I will be sure to be up to my eyeballs in ecology and biochemistry and wishing I was on this break… but it isn’t a break because I am working a lot on technical writing and support for a company here in Brno. They are releasing a portal to their site builder and the project is colossal.
I finished watching Heroes - Season One. It’s not bad, sort of like X-Men though. I also finished watching Kenneth Clark’s ‘Civilisation’ a 13 part documentary made during the 1960s that looks at European history through art. It was a precursor to Attenborough’s works and Carl Sagan’s Cosmos. I enjoyed Civilisation and it gave me a perspective on human development that I had never thought about before. To top it off I also finished watching Lost 4. Shame it was so short (because of the writer's strike) but it was a lot of fun. If you haven't watched Lost then I suggest you check out what could be one of the best shows on TV.
I played the games Crysis and Bioshock. I recommend them both if you have the machine to run them. I also played Unreal 2 but wasn't impressed. I finished reading The End of Faith by Sam Harris. It put a whole new perspective on 9/11 for me. It is also one of the most controversial books I have ever read. Speaking of controversy, a new documentary on Intelligent Design has been released that paints evolutionist to be Nazis. It is called Expelled and is a horribly dishonest anti-science piece and what I think is dangerous propaganda.
The better news is that I have several books I am reading right now. I am halfway through “The Story of Philosophy” by Will Durant. “The Selfish Gene” by Richard Dawkins and “The Counter-Creationist Handbook”. I am also playing a new called Dead Space. Scary stuff for Halloween… :)
I finished watching Heroes - Season One. It’s not bad, sort of like X-Men though. I also finished watching Kenneth Clark’s ‘Civilisation’ a 13 part documentary made during the 1960s that looks at European history through art. It was a precursor to Attenborough’s works and Carl Sagan’s Cosmos. I enjoyed Civilisation and it gave me a perspective on human development that I had never thought about before. To top it off I also finished watching Lost 4. Shame it was so short (because of the writer's strike) but it was a lot of fun. If you haven't watched Lost then I suggest you check out what could be one of the best shows on TV.
I played the games Crysis and Bioshock. I recommend them both if you have the machine to run them. I also played Unreal 2 but wasn't impressed. I finished reading The End of Faith by Sam Harris. It put a whole new perspective on 9/11 for me. It is also one of the most controversial books I have ever read. Speaking of controversy, a new documentary on Intelligent Design has been released that paints evolutionist to be Nazis. It is called Expelled and is a horribly dishonest anti-science piece and what I think is dangerous propaganda.
The better news is that I have several books I am reading right now. I am halfway through “The Story of Philosophy” by Will Durant. “The Selfish Gene” by Richard Dawkins and “The Counter-Creationist Handbook”. I am also playing a new called Dead Space. Scary stuff for Halloween… :)
