Just got this email from the director of the library and thought I'd pass the word along:
Today between 3:30 and 7:00 PM there will be sound testing at MI Stadium. The sound will be very, very loud and will be similar to the sonic boom created by fighter jets.
... given that I've never taken any Spanish . Five years of French and some educated guesses ...
Your result for The Spanish Test...
The Native Speaker
73% educado!
You scored 73% educado. If you aren't hispanic, then you've done a great job learning. You know specialized vocabulary, and you can pass for un hispanohablante. !Felicitaciones!
This Tuesday at 7 p.m., the Michigan Theater is showing The Black Pirate, silent with live organ accompaniment, starring Douglas Fairbanks. The description reads:
"This swashbuckling nautical adventure, starring the incomparable Douglas Fairbanks, made film history as one of the first full features shot entirely in Technicolor. Here, he plays a nobleman who wants to avenge his father's murder, so he boards a pirate vessel disguised as one of the thieving, villainous rapscallions, and sets about achieving his goal. On the high seas, the athletic Fairbanks provides a no-holds barred, rip-roaring, stunt-filled voyage -- complete with a one-man takeover of a merchant ship. Featuring Steven Ball on the Barton Organ! Not rated. 94 minutes."
colomon and I are planning to go. Would any of the local crew be interested in joining us?
Just wanted to give public thanks to tlatoani for putting together the first draft of a new swashbuckling card game and bringing it out to Mombasa for playtesting. colomon and I were very sorry not to get to play it again tonight after the first tweaking, and we're hoping to get to try it again very soon!
My iPod has been acting up for the past several weeks. We took it to the Apple store a few weeks ago, and after much pressing of buttons (but no actual hard testing), the Apple guy sent us home. It seemed like he had decided the problems weren't trouble enough, even though I was having to do a hard restart on it almost every time I used it.
The problems continued. Yesterday, I couldn't get it to power all the way up -- it would get partway there and then power down. This time, the Apple guy seemed skeptical about the problems at first, but he actually tried to plug it in and run some diagnostic tests on it. He didn't say much to us, but it was clear from how he acted that things weren't going properly. Finally, he picked it up, looked at it, and said, "It just crashed halfway through the diagnostics. You get a new one."
I was pleased -- new one presumably doesn't have the problems we've been having. Sol seemed blue. About an hour later, I was saying something like, "All we have to do is plug it into the computer, and we're good as new."
He said, "The laptop that died this morning?" The power supply on the laptop we've been using for iTunes started beeping a high-pitched beep and the computer has stopped charging. So -- no new iPod until we get that fixed too. Sigh.
Based on its ad campaign's reference to several movies I have disliked over the past few years, I predict the #1 film I will not be seeing this holiday season to be:
Juno
It bumps "The Darjeeling Limited" thanks to its skillful use of unplanned pregnancy. Thanks, Fox Searchlight, you're getting better at signaling.
amused
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