Thursday, December 16, 2004

Timeline Index - People, Periods, Places, Events

Here's another useful resource to have handy, courtest of John Dvorak - a Timeline Index.  When you don't need to memorize them for some silly history class or standardized test, exploring how event relate to one another in time is a fascinating way to spend some time.

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Found time

The confluence of Tivo, the blogosphere, and my otherwise busy schedule have now netted me 4 hours of found time since I can now delete the episodes that I recorded safe in the knowledge that they have so little connection to the the story or the author I enjoyed years ago. Make it three and a half  hours, after accounting for the time I did enjoy reading LeGuin's comments.


Ursula K. Le Guin on the television version of her Earthsea books: "When I looked over the script, I realized the producers had no understanding of what the books are about and no interest in finding out. All they intended was to use the name Earthsea, and some of the scenes from the books, in a generic McMagic movie with a meaningless plot based on sex and  violence
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