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The latest on Liz Murray
Tuesday, December 02, 2003
Mexijew.com has, apparently, become one of the top ten sites on the internet for people searching for information about Liz Murray. I figured it's time to follow up on my previous entry, which I wrote just after watching Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story for the first time.
First of all, no, Liz never answered the e-mails I sent to her. I figured she wouldn't, as she's probably been receiving thousands of them by now, and can't get around to answering everyone's questions.
Liz didn't throw away her life when she left Harvard. Liz is now attending Columbia University, and is studying film. Ironically, making the movie with Lifetime about her childhood led Liz down the path to discovering she loved filmmaking, and now wants to pursue a career in it.
Liz is also finished with her first book, Breaking Night: A Memoir. It's not out yet. According to Amazon.com (which has the book incorrectly titled Breaking Unit: A Memoir), it's due to be published by Hyperion in April of 2004.
Liz is an exclusive speaker for the Washington Speakers Bureau. She has a small webpage on their website, which has a little bit of information on her, the topics she speaks about, as well as four video previews of her speeches. I've only watched the first one, "Lost Childhood", but if you thought the Lifetime movie was emotional, go watch the first video on her WSB page. I had a lot of trouble watching the whole thing, especially near the end.
That's all I know. If I hear that she's coming to my area for a speaking engagement, I'll be going there for it and will take pictures or record it, if that is legal and/or possible.
Quick Picks
- Converting from Blogger to Wordpress. For my own edification.
- The Onion hits the mark again. I lol'ed.
- A fascinating look at job loss over the current and previous recessions with highly detailed charts. Very Nice
- Lifehacker: Battle of the Hardware-Boosting Hacks
- More Lifehacker: Most Popular Desktops of 2008
- Last one, I promise: HD Hacker Backs Up Your Master Boot Record - A good utility to have if you're constantly screwing around with different operating systems on one machine.
- SubModal: "A usability technique for web browsers that allows you to show floating content over other content." For my own (future) edification.
- Here's something neat: Kalyway (OSx86 Project) tutorial, a way to install OS X 10.5 on my new Acer Aspire One netbook. Very cool!
- Looks like my favorite new book, World War Z, is being made into a movie.
- Marc Ambinder points out something my coworkers and I have noticed for weeks.
- I really, really love the sign up form at Huffduffer.com!
- From the Washington Post: A simplified chart of the McCain tax cuts vs. Obama tax cuts.
- Matt Damon on Sarah Palin: "You do the actuary tables, there's a one out of three chance, if not more, that McCain doesn't survive his first term, and it'll be President Palin. It's like a really bad Disney movie, "The Hockey Mom.' Oh, I'm just a hockey mom from Alaska, and she's president. "She's facing down Vladimir Putin and using the folksy stuff she learned at the hockey rink. It's absurd." Amen!
- Google's new browser, Chrome, passes the ACID2 test with flying colors. w00t.
- Karl Rove calls Joe Biden a "big blowhard doofus". Yeah, coming from the closest thing to a real-life Emperor Palpatine that really stings. LOL.
- McCain's running mate has a pregnant and unwed 17 year old daughter. Family values indeed!