Timber
29 December 2010
Awesome, yes, but I'm not looking forward to the clean-up...
Aren't you glad you weren't taking tea with us in the back yard?
Just had a 100-foot redwood tree come down in the back yard. Here's our ratty old rattan sitting-area, post-crash. The base of the tree that came down looks to be about six feet in diameter, but it's beyond my reach at the moment because of all kinds of big horizontal trees.
Lovely.
The High Definite » The Beauty Of Pixar
www.thehighdefinite.com
After spending 11 days re-watching all 11 Pixar feature films, Leandro Braga took 500 hand-selected scenes and made an amazing tribute to the best animation studio on the planet.
Now THIS is a god worth a comic book. Step off, Mighty Thor.
5 Real Deleted Bible Scenes In Which Jesus Kicks Some Ass
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I would like someone to retcon me without joint pain. Or reboot me darker and grimmer, so that at least I could get some story mileage out of it.
Got halfway through the second Indiana Jones movie tonight when we realized it was way, WAY too much for our youngest. I forgot it was pretty grisly, what with the monkey brains and the hearts torn beating from human chests. Also Kate Capshaw.
28 December 2010
As this rainy Tuesday fades out, I'm reminded of the fact that it's named after Tyr, the one-handed Norse war god. Because of that, he was linked to their god Mars by the Romans, thus the "Mardi" of "Mardi Gras" — Fat Tuesday.
I finally figured out how to stop the cursed cat from bothering me at night (by treading on the keyboard, getting between me and the monitor, clawing gently at my leg for attention, etc.) I simply turn on the gooseneck reading lamp and lower it a bit and he basks under the warm bulb happily for an hour without bothering me once. You CAN teach an old dog new cat-tricks.
27 December 2010
Today's profile picture from the Sebastian Krüger website.
http://www.sebastiankruger.org/index.htm
Wonderful work, especially his blues legends.
The Art of Sebastian Krüger
www.sebastiankruger.org
26 December 2010
We had a very, very nice Christmas, an immediate-family morning and then a full-on Evans/Williams/kith-and-kin wingdaggle over in Santa Cruz. Everybody healthy and happy, the niece (our Girl) and Boy and all the various nephewlim Wii'd on each other for hours while the grownups ate, drank, and had some really good conversations. Many laughs were laughed. Perfecto.
