Back in the Saddle Again

It's been awhile since I've blogged, so here's what I've been up to:

Reading (some): I've finished "Lord Hornblower" and "Admiral Hornblower in the West Indies," the final novels in the Horatio Hornblower series. Hornblower is an interesting hero for sure. I've started Michael Crichton's "State of Fear," and Stephen Donaldson's "The Mirror of Her Dreams."

I'm also reading several books on programming theory, as well as applying the new concepts I've learned in the past few months to my day-to-day work.

I just finished watching M. Night Shamylan's "The Village," which I thought was fairly interesting, but it didn't have the "gotcha" ending that his other movies have had, nor did it really end the story well. It was still an interesting watch though.

In music I'm looking forward to getting the new album from Tori Amos and the upcoming album from Mudvayne.

I'm supposed to be on spring break this week, but I'm a bit behind on some of my homework so I've been studying as well as trying to get all my other mess taken care of. Somewhere in this week I need to squeeze in learning to play racquetball with my friend J..

I've become an addict of the sci-fi channel's "Battlestar Galactica." If you haven't seen it, it's the best sci-fi program that's been on tv in years, (although I'm sure Ice Scribe would still prefer "Firefly.") I think I like a lot of sci-fi because it provides an interesting tapestry against which to explore philosophical and psychological issues. Sci-fi, more than any other genre, asks and answers the question "What would happen if..." Battlestar Galactica captures that spirit in spades while presenting a slew of heros who are both larger-than-life and down-to-earth. That's a hard tightrope to walk, but the writers for that show are doing it.