I love stuff like this: It turns out that autistic children & adults are very good at working with 3-D models: Google Sketch-Up gallery.
Kind of sickening to read about the mass of garbage in the Pacific Ocean that is twice the size of Texas. (HT: Jason)
I use a self-hosted Word Press install for this site (and anybody else’s site I help with). These people have a very interesting product to offer - conversion of a .psd (Photoshop) file to a Word Press template. The reality of this is you could have a professional designer design your site in Photoshop for an hourly rate and then have these people turn it into a Word Press site for less than $1,000 all-in. This option would be any turn-key design from a firm in both price & features on the back end.
I’ve seen a trend on websites like Lifehacker and Flickr where people show off the contents of their bag. Their bag is unloaded and the items are methodically laid out for others to review. (personally, I think 90% of this is designed to show off their Mac toys…)
I’ve decided to play along and show off what is currently in my bag, see below:
A quick review of the inventory (from right to left):
A banjo - I can really only play one song, which my mom doesn’t like because it sounds depressing. I have always felt this was quite a feat - to play a depressing song on a banjo.
The Complete Book of Breastfeeding - I currently don’t breastfeed, but if I ever start I’m fairly sure that if I suddenly start it will come as such a shock that I’ll require the use of a manual.
Canned Pumpkin Pie Filling - This is good to get gum out of hair.
Roomba - for quick carpet cleaning, as required.
My super-cool iBook. I know you’re jealous. It’s a vintage 1998 model.
A stud finder - for the joke that never gets old (where I hold the stud finder up to my chest and say “beeeeeep”).
Prestone De-Icer - obviously for hair styling.
My universally despised, yet oh so comfortable fur-lined crocs. I’m a slave to fashion.
Ulysses by James Joyce - for light reading on the toilet.
I’m just glad this wasn’t around when I was in school. It just would have been one more thing that I felt like I was missing out on.
By the way, don’t you love it when technology parents don’t understand meets irrational media-fed fears? As if the kind of kids who are sending naked pictures of themselves would be in bible studies if it weren’t for cell phones. These were the same kids sending naughty messages via telegraph.
I really think that I could start a rumor that satanic drug gangs are using Facebook to get kids hooked on meth as part of an initiation ceremony via subliminal messages left in rock music. I just need to find a way to also involve Obama’s secret birthplace & muslim heritage, gluten-free diets and the do-not call registry. I am open for any ideas you may have.
This site has a very useful page that let’s you analyze your Netflix history. I’ve been a big netflix fan for a long, long time. I’ve had a membership on and off for years now. I remember when I was first a member back in 1999 or 2000 you had to mail your DVDs to San Francisco, so it took forever to transfer them back and forth. So I ran a pretty recent batch of data into the analyzer and it gave me this data:
NetFlix History Analyzer
Analyze your Netflix DVD rental history and determine how much you’ve been paying per DVD, compare it to what you would have paid somewhere else, and compute your savings.
Your results
You’ve rented 62 DVDs over 38 months from December 19, 2005 to February 16, 2009.
Your plan costs $14.99/month so you’ve paid $569.62 total.
Your average price per rental was approximately $9.19 each.
Average rental costs elsewhere are $3.75 each (not including late fees).
You’ve overpaid approximately $337.12 over that time period or $8.87 per month.
Here’s some more about your renting habits…
You kept each rental for around 29 days on average.
The longest you kept a single DVD was 194 days: .
You rented about 2 DVDs each month.
You’re not taking full advantage of your current plan. You could be renting 13 DVDs each month.
Ouch. It really seems that we have wasted a lot of money on Netflix. I feel a lot better about putting the subscription on hold last week.
In case you’re wondering - the movie we kept the longest was Terms of Endearment, we eventually did watch it. The movie with the fastest turn-around time was Redbelt. The best movie I have ever rented from Netflix: The Last King of Scotland or The Queen.
Evie and I spent the weekend (without kids) in Kansas City, primarily sleeping late and eating barbeque for as many meals as we could stand. We did tear away from the burnt ends long enough to visit the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. It is a really good museum with some real masterpieces - my favorite was this painting of John the Baptist by Carvaggio.
I was in the early modern (20th century) gallery which had a bunch of stupid dada stuff in it and I overheard a conversation between two kids (probably 10 & 8 years old) while their mother was browsing:
Older Brother: Do you see this chair, it’s not to sit on. It’s art. (he repeated this a few times to get her attention)
Little Sister: How is a chair art?
Older Brother: Anything can be art.
Little Sister: (going for the little-sister-kill) What about this floor? Is it art?
Older Brother: Anything can be art.
Little Sister: (while dancing in place now) Look at me, I’m dancing on art.
The mother wisely stepped in before it turned into a serious art debate.
Their immensely clever debate came to mind when I saw this new video from the Improv Anywhere group, enjoy:
I will be the first blogger (that I’ve ever heard of) who has the skill and savvy to live blog an event that appeared on TV last night. In a few minutes I will fire up my DVR and live blog a taped version of American Idol.
Why?
Because I am awesome.
What, you question me? Did anyone ask Neil Armstrong why he walked on the moon? Did anyone ask Magellan why did he sail around the world? Did anyone ask Eddie Murphy why did he make Norbit… because they should have. Nevertheless, here is my pointless live blog:
