Blogger, baby Mar 24, 2005
As an update to a previous post, I'm no longer using just plain text for my website.  Sorry.  I recently decided to start using Blogger to post to my blog.  It has a setting that automatically publishes to my website and I can even control the formatting and stuff like that.  So I just went through the process of copying and pasting all the blog stuff from my website into Blogger.  This way, if I want to change styles at some point, I can just change the style from within Blogger without having to change every single friggin entry in my blog.  Some may say that this was a big waste of time.  Absolutely right!  Anyway, Blogger also has this thing where you can email postings to a certain address that you set up, and it automatically posts to your blog.  Amazing stuff here.  I'm impressed.  But as for the rest of my website, it's all still plain text. #technology
The Village Mar 24, 2005
I saw "The Village" last night. Great movie. But like some of M. Night Shyamalan's other movies (Signs, the Sixth Sense), you can't really watch it more than once. His movies are very mysterious and have a tremendous amount of building. And then when they're done, you realize all this stuff that you had overlooked during the movie. Great quote:

   Ivy Walker: Why can you not say what is in your head?
   Lucius Hunt: Why can you not stop saying what is in yours?

Thus the story of my life. Although this scene was borderline sappy and there was a lot more involved, I like to take little snippets and use them for my own purposes. What was interesting is that the movie touched on some major points concerning human nature: for one, human beings are inherently evil. Somehow, in some way, a murderer evolved from a quiet, tiny, pure village. Two, fear consumes people. The people in the village were told that if they crossed the border, they'd be attacked by nameless beings. So the whole existence of the town was kept in order through the use of fear. Three, love knows no bounds. Lucius acted out of love for a girl by attempting to cross the border to get medicine, despite being overly quiet and fearful of the creatures. Ivy crossed the border to get medicine for her future husband, despite being blind and a woman. #entertainment