YouTube - Barenaked Ladies "One Week" Parody
Saturday, January 24, 2009
Friday, January 23, 2009
Streaming: Monty Python Puts Free Videos Online, Sells 23,000% More DVDs
Streaming: Monty Python Puts Free Videos Online, Sells 23,000% More DVDs
If only the RIAA and MPAA would pay attention to this.
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Mark Bittman’s Bad Kitchen
Mark Bittman’s Bad Kitchen - Well Blog - NYTimes.com
I suddenly feel better about my tiny, tiny, TINY kitchen.
Great Book Mash-ups
: "'Green Eggs and Hamlet' - Would you kill him in his bed? Thrust a dagger through his head? I would not, could not, kill the King. I could not do that evil thing. I would not wed this girl, you see. Now get her to a nunnery. (Robin Parry, Arlington)"
Sphere: Related ContentSaturday, January 17, 2009
Home Away From Home: Why my autistic children don't live with me.
Home Away From Home: Why my autistic children don't live with me. By Kent Miller for Babble.com.
It's so rare to see anyone talk publicly about what it is like to have to place a child (or children) into a group home.
Friday, January 16, 2009
10 Sci-Fi Books That Even Non-Geeks Would Love - Neatorama
10 Sci-Fi Books That Even Non-Geeks Would Love - Neatorama
Possibly the best SF list that I've seen in terms of great SF. I'd substitute Sideshow for the other Sheri Tepper book, and The Time Traveler's Wife for Neal Stephenson, but they are all excellent suggestions if you need reading material.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Holiday pictures are up!
Flickr: Your Photostream
And hopefully today I'll even get around to organizing them (right after I take the Christmas tree down).
Thought for the day
"No woman will ever be truly satisfied because no man will ever have a chocolate penis that ejaculates money."
Yes, it's sexist, but I still laughed. I'm pretty satisfied, but chocolate? Count me in!
Monday, January 12, 2009
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Something I read while on vacation
“I have watched painful relationships between parents and children. I have seen parents who control and parents who neglect, parents who make terrible mistakes that hurt their children deeply, and parents who forgive children who have done awful things. I have seen nobility and courage; I have seen dreadful selfishness and utter blindness; and I have seen all these things in the SAME parents, raising the same children.
What I understand now is this. There is no harder job than parenting. There is no human relationship with such potential for great achievement and awful destructiveness, and despite all the experts who write about it, no one has the slightest idea whether any decision will be right or best or even not-horrible for any particular child. It is a job that simply cannot be done right.”
(Orson Scott Card, Ender in Exile, 2008, p. 300).
I have numerous philosophical, religious, and moral differences with Orson Scott Card. I've been a science fiction geek for many, many years, and Ender's Game was definitely one of the novels that touched me early, and deeply, and in a lot of ways really encouraged me to become an SF geek. The last five or six books of his that I've read have only served to inform my decision not to buy any more of his books- with his stance on gay marriage (among other things), I made a choice not to support him financially any more by buying any more of his books.
That decision went by the wayside (I'm weak), when I found myself in the middle of the ocean without anything to read, and picked up Ender in Exile from the ships' library.
I was lucky in that I really had a happy childhood. My biological parents were divorced early in my life, but I ended up with a truly wonderful stepfather and basically had a pretty great upbringing. It's always seemed kind of weird to me that so many of my friends hadn't, and that they still truly love parents who (in my opinion), have done horrendous things to them. I've never really understood how they can still "love" their parents after some of the things that have been done to them.
I also look at this quote in the context of me sending Dylan away to live in a group home- although it was (I still believe), the right decision for all of us (including him), I'm not sure that he'd see it the same way if I could understand his communication.
There really isn't any possibility that anyone is prepared to become a parent, or any possibility that children are prepared for the parents that they are born to. Every child deserves love, and nurturing, and the chance to be whatever they can be. And although I think that this quote could imply an exculpation for parents, I don't believe that's how it's intended...I think that it's saying that we can't always know the outcomes of our decisions for our children, and sometimes bad decisions can go hand in hand with the good decisions that we make for our children. I don't think that I've made too many bad decisions for my kids (although I'm sure that I have)...I just hope that when they're older, they realize that I made the decisions that I've made with the best of intentions. None of us have practice in this, and I believe that in a "good" family, we all learn from each other.
Cat turns up on weatherman's set
BBC NEWS | Europe | Cat turns up on weatherman's set
Very cute :-) It probably would have caused a meltdown in a North American studio :-)
(we're home safely- trip pictures coming soon!)
Thursday, January 01, 2009
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Happy New Year, everybody!
YouTube - Electrabel - Happy New Year (2009)(FR)
Yes, it is an ad, but it's beautiful.
Friday, December 26, 2008
Autism can't tear twin brothers apart
Autism can't tear twin brothers apart - St. Petersburg Times
Interesting article- this is something I think a lot about.
Thursday, December 25, 2008
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
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