Apparently the ottomans are perfect for Oz to watch the firetrucks go by.
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Happy Birthday Ozzie!
Ozzie turned one yesterday. He got a doggie cupcake (made from dog-friendly ingredients) and a new globe toy.
Aren't you so proud of him for posing with the cupcake? He wanted to eat it so badly, he kept sniffing at the counter and trying to steal it. But he was a good boy and took a proper birthday picture first.
The cupcake looks like a people cupcake, but it tastes horrible. He liked it though; he ate all the icing-like stuff first and then scarfed it down. So apparently it tastes really good to dogs.
It looks like it'd be good, doesn't it? Happy Birthday little doggie!
The cupcake looks like a people cupcake, but it tastes horrible. He liked it though; he ate all the icing-like stuff first and then scarfed it down. So apparently it tastes really good to dogs.
Monday, June 7, 2010
Saturday, June 5, 2010
No, I'm Not Panicking, Why Do You Ask?
Whenever I get panicked, like I am SO NOT DOING right now about moving, I like to remember this handy saying.
It makes me feel all better. For now.
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Thursday, May 20, 2010
The Bechdel Test
I'm not a feminist by any stretch of the imagination (although apparently I should be) but saw this video and had to share.
Kinda ridiculous that so few movies pass the test. And when I think of ones that do, they're mainly HORRIBLE chick flicks. I wonder why it is that so few movies have women as the kickass leads. You know, Transformers would have been just as cool if Shia Lebeouf would have been played by a girl - no arguments about whether he IS a girl.
Bechdel Test for Movies
1) Two or more women (with a name)
2) They talk to each other
3) About something other than men
Kinda ridiculous that so few movies pass the test. And when I think of ones that do, they're mainly HORRIBLE chick flicks. I wonder why it is that so few movies have women as the kickass leads. You know, Transformers would have been just as cool if Shia Lebeouf would have been played by a girl - no arguments about whether he IS a girl.
Bechdel Test for Movies
1) Two or more women (with a name)
2) They talk to each other
3) About something other than men
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Hope that the future will actually arrive
As beautifully written by Wil Wheaton (who played Wesley Crusher in TNG):
some of us are looking at the stars
On January 28, 1986, I was home from school with the flu. I remember that, no matter what I did, I couldn't get warm, so I was sitting in a hot bath when my mom knocked on the bathroom door.
"There was an accident with the space shuttle," she said, in the same voice she used when she told me that my grandmother had died.
For the next few hours, I sat on the couch, wrapped up in as many blankets as we had, and watched one of the local news networks - probably ABC - cover the unfolding disaster. Because of the fever and the years between now and then, I can't recall a single detail other than how impossible the whole thing felt. How could something like that even happen? And did it mean that we'd never put people into space again?
This morning, I sat in my office and watched the shuttle Atlantis launch into space via a NASA TV stream through VLC on a monitor that is bigger than my family's 1986 television. When mission control gave the order to go with throttle up, I held my breath like I have every single time since the shuttle program was reinstated in 1988, and when the shuttle separated from the boosters and glided into orbit, I got something in my eye. Just take a moment, if you don't mind, and think about what it means that we can leave our planet, even if we've "only" gotten as far as the dark side of the moon. Think about what it means that something as incredible as putting humans into space and bringing them back safely to Earth today earns less media attention and public excitement than the typical celebrity breakup.
It is amazing that we can do this, and even though I've come to believe the shuttle program isn't the best way to spend NASA's tiny budget (which is a pitiful fraction of what it should be), I hope that there was a child watching the launch today who will feel inspired to reach out to the stars and see what's out there.
We humans are a flawed species, to put it mildly, and I think we could do a much better job taking care of our planet and each other ... but when I see what we're capable of doing, it gives me hope that the future I pretended to live in twenty years ago will actually arrive some day.
FSMspeed, Atlantis.
"There was an accident with the space shuttle," she said, in the same voice she used when she told me that my grandmother had died.
For the next few hours, I sat on the couch, wrapped up in as many blankets as we had, and watched one of the local news networks - probably ABC - cover the unfolding disaster. Because of the fever and the years between now and then, I can't recall a single detail other than how impossible the whole thing felt. How could something like that even happen? And did it mean that we'd never put people into space again?
This morning, I sat in my office and watched the shuttle Atlantis launch into space via a NASA TV stream through VLC on a monitor that is bigger than my family's 1986 television. When mission control gave the order to go with throttle up, I held my breath like I have every single time since the shuttle program was reinstated in 1988, and when the shuttle separated from the boosters and glided into orbit, I got something in my eye. Just take a moment, if you don't mind, and think about what it means that we can leave our planet, even if we've "only" gotten as far as the dark side of the moon. Think about what it means that something as incredible as putting humans into space and bringing them back safely to Earth today earns less media attention and public excitement than the typical celebrity breakup.
It is amazing that we can do this, and even though I've come to believe the shuttle program isn't the best way to spend NASA's tiny budget (which is a pitiful fraction of what it should be), I hope that there was a child watching the launch today who will feel inspired to reach out to the stars and see what's out there.
We humans are a flawed species, to put it mildly, and I think we could do a much better job taking care of our planet and each other ... but when I see what we're capable of doing, it gives me hope that the future I pretended to live in twenty years ago will actually arrive some day.
FSMspeed, Atlantis.
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