My favorite sentence from this article --> Buckalew went to an apartment where some of his friends were and told them that he had chopped off the head because he was bored, according to The Caledonian-Record.
And to state the obvious --> A psychiatrist has diagnosed Buckalew with mental health issues.
You can touch history
or something that touched Alec Baldwin's ears...
Yes, it's true -- you can buy Alec Baldwin's old iPod. This is how the internets is changing our lives. It's really made the whole stalking/celebrity obsession thing way too easy. Now, everyone can be a stalker without even really trying. Takes the fun out of it, I think.
Yes, it's true -- you can buy Alec Baldwin's old iPod. This is how the internets is changing our lives. It's really made the whole stalking/celebrity obsession thing way too easy. Now, everyone can be a stalker without even really trying. Takes the fun out of it, I think.
Just a bit geeky...
Microsoft released Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3 yesterday. I've been using Beta 2 and have found it really solid and much better than IE6. I love tabs (so that you don't have to open multiple instances of IE to switch between sites) and it's much more secure. I haven't totally stopped using Firefox (yes, they let me use whatever I want at work!), but I'm using it a lot less. I recommend checking it out. If you don't like it, you can uninstall and it reverts back to IE6.
Six Degrees & Superman's Bulge
I was hanging out at a friend's apartment in NYC the other day (she was at work) and wandering through her DVD collection. She had a bunch of academy screeners (the DVDs the studios send out to folks who vote on the academy awards) and I saw one for a film I didn't recognize. Turns out one of the folks in it (and listed for consideration) was one of my bestest friends! Go Dawn!
Went to the Cinerama in Seattle last night to see Superman. The theatre's like the Cinerama Dome in LA - not as big, but same general idea. Definitely the nicest theatre I've been to up here.
So, Superman's got HUGE feet. I know the studio was concerned about his bulge being distracting, but it didn't really compare to those honking feet. Movie was fun. Interesting seeing that kind of flick on opening night. Serious fan-boys. Theatre wasn't sold out though, which was surprising. It's a good summer flick, but try to see it on a big screen. I just think that Kevin Spacey is one of the best actors out there. The new Superman is cute, but so young! Oy. I'm old (but immature, so I figure it's ok).
Went to the Cinerama in Seattle last night to see Superman. The theatre's like the Cinerama Dome in LA - not as big, but same general idea. Definitely the nicest theatre I've been to up here.
So, Superman's got HUGE feet. I know the studio was concerned about his bulge being distracting, but it didn't really compare to those honking feet. Movie was fun. Interesting seeing that kind of flick on opening night. Serious fan-boys. Theatre wasn't sold out though, which was surprising. It's a good summer flick, but try to see it on a big screen. I just think that Kevin Spacey is one of the best actors out there. The new Superman is cute, but so young! Oy. I'm old (but immature, so I figure it's ok).
How to solve a vexing problem
Okay, so when the rapture happens, only the bad people are left behind. And they get to write history. Someone has written a piece of software that will automatically send out emails after the rapture to your friends and family to let them know that you've been saved but they're SOL. So not kidding.
This is how the letter begins:
Dear Friend;
This message has been sent to you by a friend or a relative who has recently disappeared along with millions and millions of people around the world.
This is how the letter begins:
Dear Friend;
This message has been sent to you by a friend or a relative who has recently disappeared along with millions and millions of people around the world.
Trip to the land of Humid
Ahhhh....humidity. You know, I stepped off the plane at JFK airport and there was all this energy and people of various nations and I was happy. Then I inhaled. I am just not built for humidity. I love NYC but cannot stand it in the summer.
I wrote a list of amusing things from the flight. I wonder where it is.
Night 1: Stay with Lora in NYC. Shop for gift for mom & stepdad's anniversary party. Bloomingdales is still entertaining. Walking through streets of NYC while sweating profusely is still unpleasant as ever. No gift yelled out to me. Yummy. Sushi.
Day 1: Back to Bloomies to find something for rents. Found something. Not fabulous, but should prevent mother explosion, which is always a top priority. Train to the burbs. Walk into rents house and they're sniping. That's their primary method of communication. Oy. Two hour drive to Pennsylvania - left headphones in bag in trunk. Tried to dig my way to trunk from the backseat, but the damn talking car caught me. Pretended to sleep instead. Arrived at gay B&B and appear to be the only one that notices the note with details of what to do if the proprietor has a seizure. Hmmmm. Decide not to mention it to anyone else cause said mother will freak out. Walk around and look at art in closed galleries. Dinner at a historic inn. Lie on bed at night and watch movie on personal DVR. If only it recorded the end of the movie...
Day 2: B&Bs require that you are friendly and chatty with strangers in the morning. The lesbians staying there found me rather amusing. (I am.) Gallery hopping with the rents. Lunch at another historic inn. They put a dead bug in my lobster bisque. Lost my appetite. Brother and girls arrive late afternoon. We all pet the baby goats together and go out to a (you know it) historic inn for dinner. Bro & I stay up talking about life, love and failure. Good times.
Day 3: Brunch at mom's friends house. I miss my homos. It's a bad sign when I have to adopt my mom's homos. Chatted it up with mom's friends and homos. Good food. Kids ignore everyone, lie on floor and play with paper dolls. Apparently, this is what is perceived as good behavior. Hmmmm....wonder if I can make that work for me. Two hour drive back to NYC - minimal sniping. Much appreciated. Overcooked shrimp for dinner at a trendy Italian place with my 18 year old cousin who just graduated high school. We talk about life, love and drugs. Then we go on a tour of a 24 hour news operation. Interesting even though I was prevented from taking pictures or leaving anyone little notes. They fear me.
Day 4: Lunch with Eileen. We've been friends forever. We talk about life, love and private schools. Lora and I go to a vet and I convince her to adopt kittens. Alright, I only had a small part to do with it, but they're awfully cute. And she got a replacement goldfish for her dead goldfish (Spicy Tuna Two). I think I'll call him Spicy Two.
Flight back sits on runway for 2.5 hours. Lady next to me is creeping me out for no reason. She's only breathing. Arrive home at midnight and it's 77 degrees. Unusual for Seattle. Damn global warming - oh yeah - jury's still out on that one. Note to self - leave a window or two open when you go away in the summer.
I wrote a list of amusing things from the flight. I wonder where it is.
Night 1: Stay with Lora in NYC. Shop for gift for mom & stepdad's anniversary party. Bloomingdales is still entertaining. Walking through streets of NYC while sweating profusely is still unpleasant as ever. No gift yelled out to me. Yummy. Sushi.
Day 1: Back to Bloomies to find something for rents. Found something. Not fabulous, but should prevent mother explosion, which is always a top priority. Train to the burbs. Walk into rents house and they're sniping. That's their primary method of communication. Oy. Two hour drive to Pennsylvania - left headphones in bag in trunk. Tried to dig my way to trunk from the backseat, but the damn talking car caught me. Pretended to sleep instead. Arrived at gay B&B and appear to be the only one that notices the note with details of what to do if the proprietor has a seizure. Hmmmm. Decide not to mention it to anyone else cause said mother will freak out. Walk around and look at art in closed galleries. Dinner at a historic inn. Lie on bed at night and watch movie on personal DVR. If only it recorded the end of the movie...
Day 2: B&Bs require that you are friendly and chatty with strangers in the morning. The lesbians staying there found me rather amusing. (I am.) Gallery hopping with the rents. Lunch at another historic inn. They put a dead bug in my lobster bisque. Lost my appetite. Brother and girls arrive late afternoon. We all pet the baby goats together and go out to a (you know it) historic inn for dinner. Bro & I stay up talking about life, love and failure. Good times.
Day 3: Brunch at mom's friends house. I miss my homos. It's a bad sign when I have to adopt my mom's homos. Chatted it up with mom's friends and homos. Good food. Kids ignore everyone, lie on floor and play with paper dolls. Apparently, this is what is perceived as good behavior. Hmmmm....wonder if I can make that work for me. Two hour drive back to NYC - minimal sniping. Much appreciated. Overcooked shrimp for dinner at a trendy Italian place with my 18 year old cousin who just graduated high school. We talk about life, love and drugs. Then we go on a tour of a 24 hour news operation. Interesting even though I was prevented from taking pictures or leaving anyone little notes. They fear me.
Day 4: Lunch with Eileen. We've been friends forever. We talk about life, love and private schools. Lora and I go to a vet and I convince her to adopt kittens. Alright, I only had a small part to do with it, but they're awfully cute. And she got a replacement goldfish for her dead goldfish (Spicy Tuna Two). I think I'll call him Spicy Two.
Flight back sits on runway for 2.5 hours. Lady next to me is creeping me out for no reason. She's only breathing. Arrive home at midnight and it's 77 degrees. Unusual for Seattle. Damn global warming - oh yeah - jury's still out on that one. Note to self - leave a window or two open when you go away in the summer.
Hitler or Ann Coulter
This site displays quotes and you have to select whether the quote is from Adolph Hitler or Ann Coulter. I got 9 out of 14 right. Scary.
Do you have DirecTv?
I recently switched from DirecTv to Dish Network cause they have lots more hi def programming. That means that I have two DirecTv TiVos that I'm not using - if anyone wants them, they're free - you just pay for the shipping.
I also have a high def DirecTv TiVo, but since it's only a year old and cost me around $700, I'd love to get some dough for it. Contact me if you're interested.
I also have a high def DirecTv TiVo, but since it's only a year old and cost me around $700, I'd love to get some dough for it. Contact me if you're interested.
One of those silly email things
Thought I'd post here rather than via email (thanks Eirlys):
Four jobs I have had in my life:
1. Briefly worked as a waitress as a teenager. I think the job lasted about 9 hours.
2. Data entry for my dad. He fired me.
3. I worked at a factory - they did stuff with chemicals. I don't remember what I did. It was high school.
4. Geek in training
Four movies I would watch over and over
1. High Anxiety
2. Manhattan
3. Princess Bride
4. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Four places I have lived
1. Eastchester, NY
2. West Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA
3. Queens, Manhattan, NYC
4. Bellevue, WA
Four TV shows I love to watch
1. Grey's Anatomy
2. Daily Show
3. Colbert Report
4. Lost
Four places I have been on vacation
1. Solomon Islands
2. Galapagos
3. Moorea
4. Big Island
Four websites I visit often
1. Gizmodo
2. Engadget
3. Slog
4. Defamer
Four of my favorite foods
1. Pizza - real Pizza, which means from NYC.
2. Indian food
3. Sushi
4. Thai food
Four places I would rather be right now
1. On a boat in the middle of nowhere
2. On a hammock by the ocean
3. Under the sea (with a regulator please)
4. Anywhere there's water nearby
Four things I fear
1. That I'll become boring
2. That I'll stop learning and growing
3. That I'll sabotage myself
4. That people won't think I'm funny
Four things I like about myself
1. My humor
2. My inquisitiveness
3. My willingness to be willing
4. Openness in many areas
Four things I don't like about myself
1. Speaking without thinking
2. Over-sarcasm-ing
3. Hard for me to put things off
4. Impatience
Four things I am hoping will happen this year
1. New opportunities at work
2. Make new friends in WA
3. Get focused on taking better care of myself
4. Update my kitchen
Four things that always make me laugh
1. Rosie, who always makes me laugh until I cry
2. "The Word" - See the Colbert Report
3. Eddie Izzard
4. Gus
Four jobs I have had in my life:
1. Briefly worked as a waitress as a teenager. I think the job lasted about 9 hours.
2. Data entry for my dad. He fired me.
3. I worked at a factory - they did stuff with chemicals. I don't remember what I did. It was high school.
4. Geek in training
Four movies I would watch over and over
1. High Anxiety
2. Manhattan
3. Princess Bride
4. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Four places I have lived
1. Eastchester, NY
2. West Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA
3. Queens, Manhattan, NYC
4. Bellevue, WA
Four TV shows I love to watch
1. Grey's Anatomy
2. Daily Show
3. Colbert Report
4. Lost
Four places I have been on vacation
1. Solomon Islands
2. Galapagos
3. Moorea
4. Big Island
Four websites I visit often
1. Gizmodo
2. Engadget
3. Slog
4. Defamer
Four of my favorite foods
1. Pizza - real Pizza, which means from NYC.
2. Indian food
3. Sushi
4. Thai food
Four places I would rather be right now
1. On a boat in the middle of nowhere
2. On a hammock by the ocean
3. Under the sea (with a regulator please)
4. Anywhere there's water nearby
Four things I fear
1. That I'll become boring
2. That I'll stop learning and growing
3. That I'll sabotage myself
4. That people won't think I'm funny
Four things I like about myself
1. My humor
2. My inquisitiveness
3. My willingness to be willing
4. Openness in many areas
Four things I don't like about myself
1. Speaking without thinking
2. Over-sarcasm-ing
3. Hard for me to put things off
4. Impatience
Four things I am hoping will happen this year
1. New opportunities at work
2. Make new friends in WA
3. Get focused on taking better care of myself
4. Update my kitchen
Four things that always make me laugh
1. Rosie, who always makes me laugh until I cry
2. "The Word" - See the Colbert Report
3. Eddie Izzard
4. Gus
Happy Summer Solstice!
Yesterday, I went to Fremont, a funky (though not a funky as it was before Adobe moved there) neighborhood of Seattle. Suffice it to say that Fremont has declared itself "the center of the universe" and has a giant statue of Lenin towering over restaurants and eclectic shops.
Every year, Fremont throws a fair to celebrate summer solstice and I went to check it out. The main bridge into Fremont is closed for the celebration so you park and hike on in. Gus came along and really was not into the whole "walk on the bridge" adventure, so I carried him across like a baby on my shoulder. Once we got across the bridge, it was packed with people waiting for the parade to start. The whole day is free, but folks were collecting money to fight poverty, and for a day's entertainment, it's sure worthwhile to kick in some dough - and help fight poverty at the same time.
We walked (I carried Gus-baby the whole time cause of the massive crowds) until we were able to push our way to the front and sit on the sidewalk to watch the parade. Crowd was packed with all kinds of yuppies, hippies, families - and the requisite Jesus guy telling us we were all going to hell.
The parade begins with the naked bicyclists. This year they had almost 200 of them (apparently a record). They use body paint and other accoutrements and it's hysterical and fun to watch them all. There were a few naked folks just sorta wandering around enjoying the opportunity to revel in their exhibitionism and not worry about being arrested.
That was followed by floats and bands and dancers - lots of color (Indian music & dancers, belly dancers - never saw so many of them), the legalize marijuana folks, lots and lots of anti-Bush stuff (yay!) - there was a float where they spun a wheel to determine what to do to a huge George Bush. When they spun the wheel, it landed on putting underwear on his head, which they then proceeded to do. There was a giant Condi Rice, Bush, Cheney, etc etc being chased by police and giving us the finger and so on...you get the tone. These were my people.
And, all of the floats and everything had to be man powered - no motors allowed and no corporate sponsorship allowed. People were really creative and it was just a great time. Afterwards, everyone walked down to Gasworks Park, where I'd never been before. Incredible views of downtown Seattle and right next to Lake Union. Bi-planes (I think that's what they're called) land and take off on the lake, which is very cool to watch. Anyways, back to the festival.
Kids had been drawing with chalk on the road (oh yeah, so had the Jesus guy in case we forgot that we were going to hell) and I grabbed some colors and chalked Gus's back and head. While walking to the park, we came on an area where people were throwing beads from their balconys to the throngs - just like in New Orleans. I picked up Gus and waved him at the bead-throwers and sure enough - one of them started yelling "these are for the dog" and kept throwing beads at me until I was able to get some and wrap them around Gus (pix to follow shortly). Suffice it to say, that between Gus' chalked colored back and his string of purple beads he looked incredibly gay, yet comfortable with his masculinity. He also looked adorable. People loved it and kept commenting on him and kids kept coming over to pet him.
They had some bands at the park, including an angry accordianist who did an accordian version of "Hey Ya" which was pretty hysterical. The MC was some dating advice lady, who was horrible and gave me a headache. People were flying kites, there were all sorts of veggie (and other) restaurants selling food, lots of people dressed up from the parade or cause they just liked the opportunity to dress differently...
Then it was time for the pageant. Hard to describe. Very Age of Aquarius - there was an evil man in charge, lots of minions - the earth tried to fight him off, as did the sea, laughing dead people, fire, etc etc etc. (All represented by people in very colorful costumes dancing) and there was a live band and it was weird and funky and hippy and I had a headache. And then the kids (tiny - 4 years old or so) came running down the hill and vanquished the evil ones and the sun came out (it was a giant sun they raised up) and everyone ran down and joined them and started dancing.
And I got choked up when the kids came running down the hill. I have an old hippie living inside of me, I think.
It was a great, fun, weird, exciting day. I can't wait until next year.
The pictures on this site are from Jill's visit a few weeks ago, an anti-Bush rally I went to a few days ago when he was in the area and the naked bicyclists. My camera battery died early on yesterday (I was not happy), but Shoshanna took more pix and I'll post them when I get them from her. Click on the image to see larger versions of the pictures.
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Every year, Fremont throws a fair to celebrate summer solstice and I went to check it out. The main bridge into Fremont is closed for the celebration so you park and hike on in. Gus came along and really was not into the whole "walk on the bridge" adventure, so I carried him across like a baby on my shoulder. Once we got across the bridge, it was packed with people waiting for the parade to start. The whole day is free, but folks were collecting money to fight poverty, and for a day's entertainment, it's sure worthwhile to kick in some dough - and help fight poverty at the same time.
We walked (I carried Gus-baby the whole time cause of the massive crowds) until we were able to push our way to the front and sit on the sidewalk to watch the parade. Crowd was packed with all kinds of yuppies, hippies, families - and the requisite Jesus guy telling us we were all going to hell.
The parade begins with the naked bicyclists. This year they had almost 200 of them (apparently a record). They use body paint and other accoutrements and it's hysterical and fun to watch them all. There were a few naked folks just sorta wandering around enjoying the opportunity to revel in their exhibitionism and not worry about being arrested.
That was followed by floats and bands and dancers - lots of color (Indian music & dancers, belly dancers - never saw so many of them), the legalize marijuana folks, lots and lots of anti-Bush stuff (yay!) - there was a float where they spun a wheel to determine what to do to a huge George Bush. When they spun the wheel, it landed on putting underwear on his head, which they then proceeded to do. There was a giant Condi Rice, Bush, Cheney, etc etc being chased by police and giving us the finger and so on...you get the tone. These were my people.
And, all of the floats and everything had to be man powered - no motors allowed and no corporate sponsorship allowed. People were really creative and it was just a great time. Afterwards, everyone walked down to Gasworks Park, where I'd never been before. Incredible views of downtown Seattle and right next to Lake Union. Bi-planes (I think that's what they're called) land and take off on the lake, which is very cool to watch. Anyways, back to the festival.
Kids had been drawing with chalk on the road (oh yeah, so had the Jesus guy in case we forgot that we were going to hell) and I grabbed some colors and chalked Gus's back and head. While walking to the park, we came on an area where people were throwing beads from their balconys to the throngs - just like in New Orleans. I picked up Gus and waved him at the bead-throwers and sure enough - one of them started yelling "these are for the dog" and kept throwing beads at me until I was able to get some and wrap them around Gus (pix to follow shortly). Suffice it to say, that between Gus' chalked colored back and his string of purple beads he looked incredibly gay, yet comfortable with his masculinity. He also looked adorable. People loved it and kept commenting on him and kids kept coming over to pet him.
They had some bands at the park, including an angry accordianist who did an accordian version of "Hey Ya" which was pretty hysterical. The MC was some dating advice lady, who was horrible and gave me a headache. People were flying kites, there were all sorts of veggie (and other) restaurants selling food, lots of people dressed up from the parade or cause they just liked the opportunity to dress differently...
Then it was time for the pageant. Hard to describe. Very Age of Aquarius - there was an evil man in charge, lots of minions - the earth tried to fight him off, as did the sea, laughing dead people, fire, etc etc etc. (All represented by people in very colorful costumes dancing) and there was a live band and it was weird and funky and hippy and I had a headache. And then the kids (tiny - 4 years old or so) came running down the hill and vanquished the evil ones and the sun came out (it was a giant sun they raised up) and everyone ran down and joined them and started dancing.
And I got choked up when the kids came running down the hill. I have an old hippie living inside of me, I think.
It was a great, fun, weird, exciting day. I can't wait until next year.
The pictures on this site are from Jill's visit a few weeks ago, an anti-Bush rally I went to a few days ago when he was in the area and the naked bicyclists. My camera battery died early on yesterday (I was not happy), but Shoshanna took more pix and I'll post them when I get them from her. Click on the image to see larger versions of the pictures.
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Our fearless leader
Today, at a presser, this exchange happened with Peter Wallsten of the Los Angeles Times:
Bush: You gonna ask your question with shades on?
Wallsten: Yes...
Bush: But there's no sun out here.
Wallsten: It depends on your perspective.
Bush: Touché.
Wallsten is blind.
Thanks to Daily Kos.
Bush: You gonna ask your question with shades on?
Wallsten: Yes...
Bush: But there's no sun out here.
Wallsten: It depends on your perspective.
Bush: Touché.
Wallsten is blind.
Thanks to Daily Kos.
Bringing down the average...
Seattle is the best educated city in the USA, according to the Business Journal, which ranked the 53 largest American cities by average education level. Forty-seven percent of Seattleites have a bachelor’s degree or higher, the highest education level in the country. (Only two other cities, Austin and San Francisco, had college-grad rates above 40 percent.) At the bottom: Miami (where 47 percent of adults didn’t even graduate from high school), Cleveland, and Detroit.
Just so you know
here's some info about the NSA/ATT scandal that the big media haven't noticed yet:
Formerly sealed documents from a lawsuit against AT&T for allegedly helping the National Security Agency spy on Americans' communications without a warrant were released in redacted form Thursday, and confirm the legitimacy of documents published earlier by Wired News.
The papers, which were obtained by Wired News through an anonymous source, included a declaration written by Mark Klein, several snapshots of a secret room in an AT&T facility in San Francisco that Klein alleges is used to spy on a wide swath of domestic internet traffic, and eight pages of wiring diagrams marked "AT&T Proprietary."
Here's the entire article from Wired.
Formerly sealed documents from a lawsuit against AT&T for allegedly helping the National Security Agency spy on Americans' communications without a warrant were released in redacted form Thursday, and confirm the legitimacy of documents published earlier by Wired News.
The papers, which were obtained by Wired News through an anonymous source, included a declaration written by Mark Klein, several snapshots of a secret room in an AT&T facility in San Francisco that Klein alleges is used to spy on a wide swath of domestic internet traffic, and eight pages of wiring diagrams marked "AT&T Proprietary."
Here's the entire article from Wired.
People, People, People....
The New Scientist reports that the NSA plans to mine social networking sites like MySpace to gather information about its users:
Pentagon's National Security Agency, which specialises in eavesdropping and code-breaking, is funding research into the mass harvesting of the information that people post about themselves on social networks. And it could harness advances in internet technology - specifically the forthcoming "semantic web" championed by the web standards organisation W3C - to combine data from social networking websites with details such as banking, retail and property records, allowing the NSA to build extensive, all-embracing personal profiles of individuals.
Everything you post on the web, everything you put in email can easily be read and searched and used by potential employers (article in Sunday's New York Times talked about companies searching FaceBook, MySpace, etc. for info about folks). Yes, I know we like to think that our email is private, but kids, it travels across the internet unencrypted. It can easily be read by anyone. And the NSA has been collecting information about all internet traffic flowing across AT&T's network - see http://www.wired.com for more details about that. Don't write it down unless you are willing to have the US government, your boss, your potential loves and your family aware of it.
Oh yeah, cell phones are really easy to tap too.
Pentagon's National Security Agency, which specialises in eavesdropping and code-breaking, is funding research into the mass harvesting of the information that people post about themselves on social networks. And it could harness advances in internet technology - specifically the forthcoming "semantic web" championed by the web standards organisation W3C - to combine data from social networking websites with details such as banking, retail and property records, allowing the NSA to build extensive, all-embracing personal profiles of individuals.
Everything you post on the web, everything you put in email can easily be read and searched and used by potential employers (article in Sunday's New York Times talked about companies searching FaceBook, MySpace, etc. for info about folks). Yes, I know we like to think that our email is private, but kids, it travels across the internet unencrypted. It can easily be read by anyone. And the NSA has been collecting information about all internet traffic flowing across AT&T's network - see http://www.wired.com for more details about that. Don't write it down unless you are willing to have the US government, your boss, your potential loves and your family aware of it.
Oh yeah, cell phones are really easy to tap too.
Jon Stewart's the coolest
The Daily Show has now posted the video interview with Bill Bennett. Tune in and watch Jon Stewart verbally thrash him.
I've always suspected
Hey, who knew the Germans had a sense of humor?
Bush Pilot (with English subtitles)
Once again, thanks to Bob for making me laugh.
Bush Pilot (with English subtitles)
Once again, thanks to Bob for making me laugh.
Amy Update
I guess I'm due to slip in a little Amyfotainment along with all of the amusing links I've been posting lately. My friend Jill came to visit from LA last weekend and we had a really good time. I must admit that I had a moment of concern about her being a therapist and all...never happened before and I have way too many therapist friends! I got a little paranoid that she has a running dialog when I say stuff and she's thinking "whoa, Amy's really messed up" 'n stuff like that. She claims she turns it off when she's not working. I'm not really capable of that - when folks talk about technology around me, I kick into geek mode immediately. However, she didn't run screaming for the hills, so apparently I'm not crazy enough any more...
We did a lot of the Seattle tourist stuff - Experience Music Project which is a very cool rock museum, ran in the rain, had lunch on top of the Space Needle, Pike Market, cruised the original Starbucks, Elliott Bay Bookstore (my favorite cause it's huge and the wooden floors creak when you walk from room to room)...and then on the second day....
We took the ferry to Bainbridge Island. It's about a 35 minute ride and I'd recommend it to anyone who's visiting Seattle. You get great views of the city and mountains if it's clear (we were able to see the Olympics, the Cascades and Mt. Rainier). There's a little town about a 5 minute walk from the ferry dock and it's very cute. We wandered around, shopped a little and ran into 3 Westies! Turns out they're very popular there. A lady told us that on the Fourth of July, the town has a parade and everyone brings their dogs to march in the parade. But, there's a special section just for Westies - it's the Westie Brigade! (It's right behind the bagpipers.) I know where Gus and I will be on the Fourth...
It was a really nice visit and gave me a chance to see some new things about this city I now call home. This weekend, Orin is coming to visit. I'm planning on taking him to see the locks and the Museum of Flight. Not sure what else we'll do, but I'll keep you updated...
We did a lot of the Seattle tourist stuff - Experience Music Project which is a very cool rock museum, ran in the rain, had lunch on top of the Space Needle, Pike Market, cruised the original Starbucks, Elliott Bay Bookstore (my favorite cause it's huge and the wooden floors creak when you walk from room to room)...and then on the second day....
We took the ferry to Bainbridge Island. It's about a 35 minute ride and I'd recommend it to anyone who's visiting Seattle. You get great views of the city and mountains if it's clear (we were able to see the Olympics, the Cascades and Mt. Rainier). There's a little town about a 5 minute walk from the ferry dock and it's very cute. We wandered around, shopped a little and ran into 3 Westies! Turns out they're very popular there. A lady told us that on the Fourth of July, the town has a parade and everyone brings their dogs to march in the parade. But, there's a special section just for Westies - it's the Westie Brigade! (It's right behind the bagpipers.) I know where Gus and I will be on the Fourth...
It was a really nice visit and gave me a chance to see some new things about this city I now call home. This weekend, Orin is coming to visit. I'm planning on taking him to see the locks and the Museum of Flight. Not sure what else we'll do, but I'll keep you updated...
What are my friends up to?
Jason's album is now available on iTunes. I bought it this morning and am really enjoying it. Check it out - you can listen to clips of the songs via iTunes before buying.
Matthew won third place in an underwater video contest with night dive footage he shot 30 feet down, 4-5 miles out in the ocean. The video is really stunning - wait for the last animal...
Definitely sacrilegious
(hey, the dictionary says that's the right spelling).
Do not click through if you're going to get insulted by Jesus humor.
(Thanks to Bob!)
Do not click through if you're going to get insulted by Jesus humor.
(Thanks to Bob!)
Diet Coke + Mentos
Apparently, if you drop Mentos into Diet Coke, it creates a fountain. Watch what happens when a couple of science geeks take this to Bellagio Fountain levels...
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