Below are the 6 most recent journal entries recorded in cartaufalous' LiveJournal:

Friday, July 25th, 2008
12:50 pm	Book List Meme Joining Tam and Sal in the book meme; here's how it works: 1) Look at the list and bold those you have read. 2) Italicize those you started but did not finish. 3) Underline the books you LOVE (or loved once). 4) Reprint this list in your own blog so we can try and track down these people who’ve read 6 or less and force books upon them. 1. The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger 2. The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams 3. The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood 4. Lord of the Flies - William Golding 5. Life of Pi - Yann Martel 6. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett 7. The Color Purple - Alice Walker 8. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 9. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 10. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 11. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 12. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell 13. His Dark Materials (trilogy) - Philip Pullman 14. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 15. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller 16. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien 17. Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger 18. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh 19. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky 20. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll 21. Chronicles of Narnia - C.S. Lewis 22. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – C.S. Lewis 23. Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne 24. Animal Farm - George Orwell 25. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley 26. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck 27. On The Road - Jack Kerouac 28. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens 29. Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White 30. Hamlet - William Shakespeare 31. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl 32. Complete Works of Shakespeare 33. Ulysses - James Joyce 34. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad 35. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo 36. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 37. The Bible 38. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald 39. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy 40. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck 41. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy 42. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini 43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 44. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen 45. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon 46. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov 47. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery 48. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole 49. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 50. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling 51. Little Women - Louisa M. Alcott 52. Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy 53. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier 54. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks 55. Middlemarch - George Eliot 56. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell 57. Bleak House - Charles Dickens 58. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame 59. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens 60. Emma - Jane Austen 61. Persuasion - Jane Austen 62. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres 63. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden 64. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown 65. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving 66. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins 67. Anne of Green Gables – L.M. Montgomery 68. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy 69. Atonement - Ian McEwan 70. Dune - Frank Herbert 71. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons 72. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth 73. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon 74. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens 75. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez 76. The Secret History - Donna Tartt 77. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold 78. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas 79. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy 80. Bridget Jones’ Diary - Helen Fielding 81. Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie 82. Moby Dick - Herman Melville 83. Dracula - Bram Stoker 84. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson 85. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath 86. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome 87. Germinal - Emile Zola 88. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray 89. Possession - A.S. Byatt 90. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens 91. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell 92. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro 93. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert 94. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry 95. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom 96. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton 97. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks 98. Watership Down – Richard Adams 99. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute 100. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, February 22nd, 2008
10:41 pm	more of 15 movies Due to popular demand, I've added several quotes to the unsolved entries on the movie list. (Comment on this)
Monday, February 18th, 2008
8:15 pm	15 movies Many of my friends are having '15 movies' fun, and I want some too. 1: “I'm going to rip your heart out, then I'm going to piss on your lungs through the hole in your chest! And the best to Marian . . .” "It's the truth that you should never trust anybody who wears a bow tie. Cravat's supposed to point down to accentuate the genitals. Why'd you wanna trust somebody whose tie points out to accentuate his ears?" Debbie - State and Main 2: "I had a bad day at work. I had to subvert my principles and kowtow to an idiot. Television makes these daily sacrifices possible. Deadens the inner core of my being." Tam - "Trust" 3: Self-realization. I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, who said, "I drank what?" raaga123 - "Real Genius" 4: “I wanna be with her more, I wanna be with her all the time, and I wanna tell her things I don't even tell you or mum. And I don't want her to have another boyfriend. I suppose if I could have all those things, I wouldn't really mind if I touched her or not.” Debbie - About a boy 5: “You know the difference between men and boys? Boys bet everything on everything! Boys think every hand is a royal flush! You play cards with a man, he knows his limits.” "Why is it that you never got married, Freddy?" "All the best girls were taken." "I can't hear you, Ray." "See, Officer, in Garrison, when the car you're gonna tag has got a PDA sticker, I'd advise you to think to yourself, 'Hey, that's one of the good guys. I think I'll go catch me a bad guy.'" "If we didn't pull over P.D., there wouldn't be any violations in this town." "What you've got here, sheriff, is a town that scares the shit outta certain people." 6: What are we gonna tell the cops? "Fuck it if she can't take a joke, Sarge"? "Now I've seen a lot of bullshit... angel dust, switchblades, sexually perverse photography involving tennis rackets... " "Is this turnout weak or what? I had at least 70 more people at my funeral." indigo rose - Heathers 7: "Listen, Rob, would you have sex with me? Because I want to feel something else than this. It's either that, or I go home and put my hand in the fire. Unless you want to stub cigarettes out on my arm." "No. I only have a few left, I've been saving them for later." "Right. It'll have to be sex, then." "Right. Right." Debbie - High Fidelity 8: "What are you thinking, Archie?" "I'm just trying to think of one good reason why I should take you to South America with me." "How about. . . because I have the key to the safety deposit box? "That's a . . . good reason." Sally - A Fish Called Wanda 9: “I've always been kind of a pacifist. When I was a kid, my father told me, "Never hit anyone in anger, unless you're absolutely sure you can get away with it." I don't know what kind of soldier I'm gonna make, but I want you guys to know that if we ever get into really heavy combat... I'll be right behind you guys. Every step of the way.” "You can't leave. All the plants will die!" "Lighten up, Francis." Debbie - Stripes 10: “First, don't fuck with me. I'm a desperate man! And second, I want some fresh coffee. And third, I want a recount! And no matter how it turns out, I want my old job back!” grieve - robocop 11: "Please let it be cancer, please let it be cancer, please let it be cancer..." raaga123 - Saved! 12: “Isn’t she a little young, Mr. Buscafusco?” indigo rose - Vibes 13: “Hi, I'm Fred. I like tacos and '71 Cabernet. My favorite color is magenta.” "Like they're staring right at us." "Gross! Let's move. " "What? I didn't think her haircut was that bad." "Do you think she really does all the stuff she says?" "I mean, who could make up 'That stuff tastes like Clorox.'?" "Where do you work?" "At my parents' store." "What do they sell?" "Health foods." "That's cool." "Like, it's not cool at all! Like, it's all this stuff that tastes like nothing and it's supposed to be so good for you. Why couldn't they, like, open a Pizza Hut or something?" "Well fuck you, for sure, like totally!" Debbie - Valley Girl 14: "Restraint"! Some discipline! Don't go out and buy a Range Rover when you livin' with your mama! And pay your mama some rent! "There are three things that Black people need to tell the truth about. Number one: Rodney King should've gotten his ass beat for being drunk in a Honda a white part of Los Angeles. Number two: O.J. did it! And number three: Rosa Parks didn't do nuthin' but sit her Black ass down!" "Hey, don't drop the soap!" Debbie - Barbershop 15: “You could always make it up to her. When a girl runs out like that, she generally wants to be followed.” ...and as they both sink beneath the waves, the frog cries out, "Why did you sting me, Mr. Scorpion? For now we both will drown!" Scorpion replies, "I can't help it. It's in my nature!" "There. That should make her happy." "Who's she?" "Don't know. Who is she?" Tam - The Crying Game (24 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
12:22 am	What? Bigger? 1978 Reese's Pieces; that's how many there were. I guess that Reese's Pieces are larger than M&M's. So much for my assumptions. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
6:01 pm	Reese's Pieces The jar sits by the front door. Full of Reese's Pieces, it's a cylinder with an internal circumference about 15" and 6 and 1/4 inches high. The question is, how many Reese's Pieces are in the jar? Thanks to a research breakthrough and a possibly unjustified assumption, I calculated 2,420 Reese's Pieces. This seemed too high for such a small jar, so I made my official guess 2300 Reese's Pieces, still rather more than anyone else has guessed. Guess we'll see tomorrow! (Comment on this)
Thursday, March 9th, 2006
6:26 pm	100 miles I have to drive 100 miles this weekend. In my new truck, which doesn't have license plates. Or an inspection sticker. Or a registration sticker. In fact about the only sticker on the truck is the one on the windshield, pink neon, four inches tall and blinking, that says, "Please Officer, pull me over now!" You see, you can't get license plates or a registration sticker until your car has passed inspection. And you can't pass an inspection until your car has been driven 100 miles since the last time the engine computer was reset. And my mechanic did just that during the general tune-up this morning. Now the good news is, apparently the car is still legal until Monday. Texas gives you a grace period to get all your registration done when you buy an out-of-state car. So, where shall we drive this weekend? No small towns in Texas, for a start. (3 Comments |Comment on this)