Megan - ProfilesArchive

About Me

Living in Ellicott City, MD right now, check here daily for changes.

My Interests

Bomaroo for my superconductors

Movies:

The Bicycle Thief, Crash, Why We Fight, The Fog of War, JOE VS. THE VOLCANO, Big Trouble in Little China

Books:

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Creation, Marley and Me, Life of Pi, Engineering Marvels of the Modern World, A History of the English Speaking Peoples (abridged for god sakes), The Incas, Naked Pictures of Famous People, Best American Short Stories of the Century

Heroes:

Dwight D. Eisenhower and Jack Burton

My Blog

BOOK REPORT-Enemy At the Gates, The Battle for Stalingrad by William Craig

The movie by the same title originally brought my attention to this WWII battle. Stalingrad is now known as Volgograd but everyone in that city knows the name of Vasily Zaytsev; the sinper extrodinare...
Posted by Megan on Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:43:00 PST

BOOK REPORT--The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon

Christopher Boone has Aspergers Syndrome, a form of Autism. He has a photograpic memory, high capacity for logical thinking and mathematics, however he refuses to eat foods that are the color yellow, ...
Posted by Megan on Fri, 19 Jan 2007 10:53:00 PST

BOOK REPORT Confucius Say: from Gore Vidal's Creation

So my favorite part of Creation is when Cyrus Spitima travels east and becomes a sort of disicple of Confucius'. Here rephrasing a Confucian ideal:"Everything has been said before, and if one knows th...
Posted by Megan on Sat, 06 Jan 2007 07:19:00 PST