Wednesday, May 02, 2007

dr. house md. - TV show

dr. house md. - TV show

i watched the first season dvd. the show is very good, but i do not know how anyone can follow this properly without subtitles during the scenes with a lot of medical lingo.

hugh is a lovely actor. i liked him from his jeeves/wooster shows. His rendition of wooster was exactly how i imagined, although jeeves (stephen fry) in that show was not so much to my liking, he was a giant compared to wooster and that is not how jeeves dominates wooster.

Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 Stephen Ambrose

Nothing Like It in the World: The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 Stephen Ambrose

Fantastic book about building the railroad that opened up the west. I learnt about the history of the united states, lobbying, western US, california, immigration labor, racism against the asian americans, ingenuity of the engineers, ruthlessness of the early capitalists, government-industry nexus of colloboration and exploitation, poor working conditions, business competition, visionaries, wallstreet and financing in the early years and much more.