Week of 2007-04-07 17:00 to 2007-04-14 16:59

• Free Coffee: 1908 | Shorpy I’m guessing no WiFi. ;) “A line of unemployed men drink free coffee at the Bowery Mission in New York City on Jan. 2, 1908. The long table is covered with cups.” (tags: coffee 1908 history photography )

A hero of mine died today.

Kurt Vonnegut, Writer of Classics of the American Counterculture, Dies at 84.

I am saddened, but I am not sad, because he will always exist.

The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist. The Tralfamadorians can look at all the different moments just that way we can look at a stretch of the Rocky Mountains, for instance. They can see how permanent all the moments are, and they can look at any moment that interests them. It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever.

So it goes.

• iBudget : Simple finance management for Mac (tags: ibudget mac osx budget finance money )

Despite the heretical “May 4th” challenge to my May 25th as Star Wars Day declaration, I am forging ahead with plans. Of course, with anything this momentous, there are logistical issues to work out. Such as: how do you cram six long movies into a single day?

Below is one possible schedule, assuming you start at 8 in the morning and keep 15 minutes between each movie. Naturally, there will be pause-breaks for various reasons — like acknowledging “Han Shot First” with a moment of silence. ;)

Also, there’s nothing to say the movies have to be seen before midnight (especially on a Friday like this one).

The actual length of each episode (assuming special editions of IV-VI, which are slightly longer) is based on information from IMDB: