On the Inside

Well, I just got back from seeing the movie 3:10 to Yuma with my wife and the Hedricks (friends from work/church). I really enjoyed the movie... a great Western, but quite a sad story. I can't help but feel like it shows the futility of nobility, but it does it while glorifying nobility. Without giving away too much, there is a man who is doing the right thing because it is the right thing and he needs to prove that that is good to his son. To reach his final goal, he has to accept the help of a man of dubious character... but that man is only motivated to help him because he is inspired by the noble man's desires. It seems like being noble doesn't quite cut it, but then again nobility may inspire even the least likely persons to contribute to the good cause.

Now if only you all had seen the movie already that wouldn't have been so confusing.

(Good performances from both Christian Bale and Russell Crowe, by the way!)

This is a wide ranging blog post of a few topics on my mind with no necessary or imagined interconnectivity. However, there is a certain tendency toward insufferability that begs me to try to draw connections for the sake of it... (For those of you who don't know, you can click the read more links under my blog posts to view the whole thing!)

First, I'd love for you all to check out this news story: Amazon boss shows off spacecraft. Ahh, my ticket to the moon. It even has a video you can watch of this cone shaped spaceship lifting off and floating back to earth. Solid ground. Land... oh, I'd love to leave it and lose myself (and hopefully not my lunch) in the weightlessness of space. The other article I have for you isn't as cool, but it's interesting nonetheless: Black hole found in ancient lair. Makes me think a black hole is like a dragon... hoarding its wealth, the glory of the stars.