So long, and thanks for all the fish
Was Douglas Adams right?
Animator vs Animation
This is a great video:
Getting the band back together
David Lee Roth and Eddie Van Halen star as Jake and Elwood. I can hear the four horsemen now…
A Somber Warning
This story, Pool Drain Pulls Small Intestine Out Of Young Girl, is a bit graphic, but a warning I felt should be passed on. Poor little girl. 🙁
Feed me, Seymour!
I have recently started using Google Reader as my RSS reader. If you’re not, you should check it out; it’s really quite nice. And Ajaxy. At any rate, Google Reader lets you share items on your feed in your own feed, which you can share with others. If you’d like to see my shared items, you can do so here. There’s an RSS feed available from that link should you like to add my shared items to your feed. 🙂 Enjoy! Or not. 😉
Why won’t you sleep?
For the most part, I can’t really complain about how Noah sleeps. He usually falls asleep easily, and sleeps through just about anything, it seems. Given how much Andrew fought sleep at the same age, I should be extremely grateful for any sort of improvement, and I am. However, Noah has had a rough night or two over the past few days, so I have had to get up a couple of times a night to go pat or rock him to get him to go sleep: Stumble in the room; Start the classical CD playing again; Re-insert the pacifier (which I hate using, btw, but what do you do?); Starting patting or rocking. This morning at around 2:00 or 4:00 (you lose track eventually), as I was losing feeling in my arm from patting, listening to the CD and praying he’d drift off, I got to thinking, “Noah, the sooner you learn that you’re supposed to fall asleep when classical music plays, the happier we’ll both be.” 😉
I Hate Pit Bulls…
.. but this story makes me think better of Jack Russells.
RSS Killed the Web Browsing Star
One of the outlets/time-killers for office works the world over is browsing the web, and I’m certainly no exception. There are times when you just need a break, and hitting the various news and geek news sites often does the trick for me. There is, though, a technology that has become increasing popular over the last few years that has managed to ruin things for me: RSS.
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A Run to Remember
I ran in my first marathon yesterday, though it was only a relay — a 5K leg at that — but I ran! 🙂 Our team’s goal was to finish, and that’s what we did, with no one walking, so we feel pretty good about that. By other’s standards, we didn’t do too well. Luckily, we weren’t out to impress anyone. 🙂 My brother-in-law, though, ran the whole thing, and did pretty well. He ran 26ish miles. I ran 3.1. I felt pretty silly getting my picture taken with him afterwards for our accomplishments, but, graded on a scale, I guess it was a big thing for me. 🙂
Funny “Dance” Video
I got to talking to my brother- and father-in-law over the weekend about a video about Steve Ballmer on YouTube that I found pretty funny, if not somewhat embarrassing. To really appreciate it, though, you have to sit through a couple of others, or at least be somewhat familiar with them.
Here‘s the “original” Steve Ballmer video, lovingly referred to as The
Monkey Dance. You don’t necessarily have to watch the whole thing, but it’s only a minute 12 long, and your life will be that much better. 😉 Then there’s this video. A little less hyper, but just as…um… dumb. 😛
Take those two appalling displays, layer on a catchy beat, and you have
some High Techno fun! (You like that? High techo + techno? 🙂 We all at one point or another will embarrass ourselves in public — I’m exhibit A on that one — but this guy doesn’t seem to be aware of how…crazy he comes across, or maybe he doesn’t care. Either way, the dance mix is pretty funny stuff. 😛