Today is Brandy's birthday, possibly the worst day to be born after christmas day itself. Yet we still managed to make an ok day out of it, and to top it off my mom gave her one of those Flip HD recorders she had won from one of her hundreds of contests, so this will christmas will be recorded in digital HD!
24 hour marathon of A Christmas Story on TBS.
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Just cooked and ate king prawns, banana prawns, scallops, calamari, lobster and Red Emperor with just the right amount of garlic, chilli, lime and lemongrass and I feel like King of the Fucking WORLD!
Such is Life...
Originally Posted by Dattu
24 hour marathon of A Christmas Story on TBS.
Fa ra ra ra ra.....I love that part in the Chinese restaurant.
I got Sonic Colors, and it was the first white Christmas since my family moved here.
I enjoy blank walls.
White Christmases are so nice. We had some pretty flakes falling earlier, but weren't lucky enough to be in the snow zone. Yet. Where did you move, Mario?
White Christmas here too! Just started as we left the parents' house 2 hours ago.
I know it is cliche but I've never ever seen more than flurries on Christmas. And this is the third snow we've had this month; unheard of here!
Nowhere.
I've been where I am for 12-15 years, but we'd still never gotten a White Christmas before.
Sorry for the confusion!
I enjoy blank walls.
Got an E-mail from VBSkins telling me that they'd have an updated skin ready within a few days. That means we can very soon buy a domain and host to get a new home for the old DBZ CC again. Can't wait to customize the forum's icons, banners, smileys, rep system and other add-ons.
Tomorrow is like an empty canvas that extends endlessly, what should I sketch on it?
found our xkcd makeout spots, upon returning to home screen i saw "sixtynine"
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
A foot of snow today! Unheard of in December; it's rare enough if it happens in February!
I haven't decided if this will be making me happy much longer though. Kaitlyn is too small to enjoy the snow. And tomorrow we were hoping to go to Busch Gardens in Williamsburg for their Christmastown event. Looks like it will be cancelled.
So, it is only tipping the scales towards the happy thread because it is beautiful, and I have nowhere I have to be at the moment.
d'awwLast week, my husband left the room for 10 minutes to get dinner started, and returned to find that he was now a member of a Flickr group called Tiger Loverz. ("This is for all people who believ tigers are the most beautiful, most majestic animals ever! Do u love tigers THIS is the group 4 u!") Later, he discovered he had also favorited some photos of a Brazilian drag queen. It probably goes without saying this would not be typical Flickr activity for my husband.
My son Max has always been interested in the computer and likes to watch over my shoulder while I answer work e-mail or read the news. E-mail is boring to a 3-year-old, though, so sometimes I'd type in the name of an animal in the Flickr search bar and pull up a slide show of, say, tigers. Or giraffes, or elephants, or wolves, or whatever. Usually he asked for tigers, though.
My husband and I spent many hours debating the acceptability of this practice. He said it was like letting our kid watch TV, which we have scrupulously avoided so far. We don't own a TV and only occasionally stream a movie on the laptop after the kids are asleep. Since they rarely sleep, our own screen time is very limited. But we agree that TV for a 3-year-old, as a replacement for adult interaction, is probably a Bad Idea. I argued that it was more like looking at a book about animals, since I'm sitting there with him and we're talking about the pictures together -- just as I'd do if we were turning the pages of a book.
We gave up the ideological debate pretty quickly when we discovered that Flickr was a foolproof 10-minute distraction when we needed to throw in a load of laundry. I'd start the slide show for Max, set a time limit and run down to the basement to check the dryer. Max would dutifully close the computer the second his 10 minutes were up.
Pretty soon, he caught on that he could type the word "tiger" in the search bar himself, employing the hunt-and-peck method with liberal use of the backspace key. He figured out how to click "search" and "slideshow."
But all of this was good news. Max has autism, and he struggles with fine motor tasks and hand-eye coordination, enough to qualify for occupational therapy covered by our insurance. He can't put on his shoes or zip his jacket; his fork skills are on par with his 1-year-old brother's. He gets frustrated and gives up easily, resorting to "Want Mommy to do it" after 30 seconds. But we obviously just haven't found the right motivator. I have seen him spend his entire allotted 10 minutes in dogged pursuit of a successful double-click using the wonky, unpredictable track pad on a decrepit laptop. He accomplishes this by standing up in the chair, fanning his elbows out at a 90-degree angle, and jamming the index, middle and ring fingers of both hands down on the track pad simultaneously. It can take up to 30 tries before a successfully timed double-click is achieved, but he will let nothing stand between him and a screen full of polar bears.
We started to notice that the Flickr search bar would sometimes auto-complete with previous searches like "hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhsjk;d;;;;;;;;;." We also discovered that if you search for "gazelle" on Flickr, you will find a couple of pictures of actual gazelles, and a whole lot of pictures of a drag queen named GazeLLe. I have no objection to my son viewing photos of drag queens. But when he doesn't get the gazelles he's looking for, he gets frustrated and bangs at the keyboard -- sometimes sending the laptop into Safe Mode. And a 3-year old typing random strings of text at the C-prompt is a recipe for disaster.
So this week, my husband registered a firstname_lastname@yahoo.com address for our son (a Yahoo address is required to join Flickr). Of course, he used Max's actual date of birth, and we soon learned that Flickr does not allow 3-year-olds to create accounts. You have to be at least 13. Rushing to wrap this registration up during one of Max's rare naps, my husband created a second Yahoo account, this time using a nickname and fudging the birth date. And in his haste, he misspelled the nickname. As a former state spelling bee champion, it bothers me that my son's first Internet "handle" is misspelled_nickname@yahoo.com. But I guess he will fit in just fine with the other Tiger Loverz.
Later that evening, Max was sitting on the other side of the room, using his allotted 10 minutes. My sister, sitting next to me and facing the back of the laptop, asked, "How do you know he's not looking at porn?"
"Well, I don't think he knows how to navigate away from his own photo stream yet. And I'm pretty sure that if he ever did find any porn, he'd be yelling for me to help him get back to the screen with the animals."
But I went over to check, just to make sure he wasn't re-creating the chat-room scene from "You and Me and Everyone We Know."
Nope. Just tigers.
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
Lulz at the thought that internet being better than TV though. Where have people been the last 50 years that TV has been in households?
The class action lawsuit againist EA for inflating games prices after they attained exclusive rights has been certified.
http://www.hbsslaw.com/signup/suit/308 For anyone thats owned an EA branded NFL game since 2005. Its a long shot, but I'll support any chance I find to open this up so other developers can attempt to make better games (which is why EA signed the exclusive rights to begin with).
My new Keurig (bought today, as a part of my post Christmas shopping) is awesome.
We're stuck in a bloody snowglobe.
Oops! I bought a car.
Which?!
Marja's funeral today, ten days after she died, the big send off. All my brothers and sisters were there, and a lot more people, some of which I knew, some of which were complete strangers to me. The white hearse to take her from her home to the auditorium wasn't a surprise in the least, even though it was a shock to realise what I was seeing when it moved into my sight.
There wasn't enough room in the auditorium for everybody to sit. Her sons had set on a big TV-screen that looped pictures of Marja in happier days to one side of the auditorium. Some family-members of every generation spoke, so did some of her friends. After that she was brought to the site of her grave where her sons and some nephews lowered her into the grave.
I threw a handfull of dirt on the coffin, and somehow it felt right to do that.
What made me smile afterwards was how her sons had decided to have birthday cake served. So typical her.
Strange how a 'good' funeral helps with getting closure even on the most terrible of deaths.
Congratulations America
The birthday cake sounds sweet, never seen that before. Glad it went well Hazir.
Sweet Potato Lemonade!
Greatest invention since vanilla lemonade, basil lemonade, and Rosemary limeade!
Last edited by Bitter Jeweler; 12-30-2010 at 07:11 AM.
WTF? Sweet potato lemonade.... ummm ok.
Such is Life...
Buddy Boy really likes my Keurig. He started with asking me to show him how it works and make coffee while he watched, now he's moved on to asking if he can make me a cup of coffee.
Need to buy some decaf.
We're stuck in a bloody snowglobe.
Regardless of all my bitching and whining, I am actually a very lucky woman. I have a nice, warm home with plenty of food and all the other necessities. As I look outside, I am damned glad I don't have to go out there for any reason!
I don't have a problem with authority....I just don't like being told what to do!Remember, the toes you step on today may be attached to the ass you have to kiss tomorrow!RIP Fluffy! 01-07-09 I'm so sorry Fluffster! People who don't like cats were probably mice in an earlier life! My mind not only wanders, sometimes it leaves completely!The nice part about living in a small town: When you don't know what you're doing, someone else always does!
Atari bullshit refugee!!
It's currently 63°F outside.
Hard to believe that a week ago it was miserably cold, and that yesterday there was still unmelted snow and ice on my porch.
This is what makes living in Georgia worthwhile.
We're stuck in a bloody snowglobe.
It's 60 degrees here too.
But you'll have more cold than I will.
We're stuck in a bloody snowglobe.
Scarlett is sick, caught a 24 bug that the family has been passing around. Clears your bowels uncontrollably out of every hole you can imagine.
Luckily I got sick over New Years, and I'm currently at work while Brandy has to deal with the worst moments with poor scarlett.
Oh trust me when you get home it will be your problem.
*knock on wood* We've only gotten the sniffles here. That's bad enough since Kaitlyn doesn't understand why she can't breathe well out of her nose. The one nice thing is that she doesn't fight the nose bulb anymore now that she knows it helps clear her nose a bit.
Today is better than yesterday, so that is making me happy!
Not sure how violent diarrhoea gets into the happy thread but hey whatever floats your boat OG.
I'm happy because its wifey's birthday and we're going out for dinner.
Such is Life...
Picture having a baby that needed bathed and her clothes changed even time she crapped. Needed her sheets changed every time she napped, had to be herded all day so that she doesn't end up in carpeted parts of the house.Not sure how violent diarrhoea gets into the happy thread but hey whatever floats your boat OG.
I'm happy because its wifey's birthday and we're going out for dinner.
Now picture not having to deal with any of that
Yeah, whatever it was we caught sucked ass, and I likely gave it to half my coworkers (3 already called out today), but I still think I got off lucky. Just need to remember to pick up some flowers or something sweet on the way home.
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