SLC and Other Stuff

Here are a few random pictures from SLC.

At the Dry Creek Steakhouse in Sandy with Haley and Mom.

At the Garden Restaurant in the JS Memorial

Beehive house

 City Creek mall

 Broadway in the park...

 This Javert sings better than Russell Crow. The girl in the red is Haley's friend's sister who is moving to New York to be in something.

I recently watched these two documentaries on Netflix and recommend them.

On The Way To School

This is inspiring and entertaining

 

Jumping at the Edge of Space

This is interesting from a scientific perspective

 

I recently finished two Russian novels; War and Peace by Tolstoy, and Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky. War and Peace chronicles the effect of Napoleon's invasion of Russia on the fictional characters of the novel while accurately portraying the historical events.  Tolstoy includes an essay on Free Will and Inevitability. He argues that the closer you are in time and space to an event, the more you see the free will of individuals shaping the outcome of the event, but the farther you are away in space and time, the more you see that there was inevitability in the occurrence as if guided by a power shaping the trajectory of history.

 

Crime and Punishment is a dark novel about a young intellectual who recognizes that extraordinary men in history are always criminals because they break laws while overturning them. Examples: Moses, Christ, Lycurgus, Solon, Caesar, Napoleon (most recent example at the time the book was written. Napoleon was responsible for over 1 million lives lost). The character in the book fancies himself extraordinary and believes an old pawnbroker woman that he owes money to should be eliminated because she is a louse on society. After he murders her, he begins to realize that he is not an extraordinary person who can change the world but actually a person who has committed a terrible crime and a sin. He finally turns himself in and is sent to Siberia as punishment.