mushin no shin

• Success! I sampled the first bottle of my homebrew tonight, and it turned out quite tasty. Well, the shitty thing is that it’s a standard issue golden pilsner-style lager, since that’s the mix that came with the kit — will have to brew a good stout or something for the next batch. At which point I’ll be able to properly dub it “JonathAle”.
• Saw Ghandi tonight, and well, just wow. I mean it’s not like I didn’t already know what he did, but seeing it dramatized can really, perhaps ironically, sometimes make you better grok the reality of something. One interesting tangent was seeing him in a meeting with some of the Brits, and hearing them explain that Britain couldn’t possibly withdraw because India needed them to protect the religious minorities and that chaos would ensue if they left. Gosh, where have we heard those excuses among more recent events?
• w00t! It looks like Prison Break is coming back for another season. That last episode really felt like a “we’re going to clumsly wrap things up so we can end the series” thing. Happy to find out otherwise.
• From the “you know you spend too much time on Teh Internets when” files, I saw a breathtaking trailer for a new film about Antarctica. And when they showed a clip of some walruses, all I could do was try and imagine a caption regarding their search for a “bukkit”.
• I think I had more, but I don’t remember them. I think I’m just going to call it an early night and wrap up the holiday weekend on a quiet note for once.
• Oh, wait, another thing that popped into my head while watching Gandhi — it’s striking how often those people who have been important agents of great social change have been assassinated. Which made me wonder, has Obama really been acting like a douche lately just as a matter of political triangulation … or does he figure that if he reveals himself to just be yet another scumbag politician, his chance of survival goes up exponentially?

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