Being the vain, self-interested creature that I am, I… often check the blog stats provided by WordPress. It seems as though I have hit a milestone. In a week without new posts, my hit count never went all the way down to zero. That means that over the course of 24 hours at least one person has enough hope an update to check. I’m honored guys.
Category: Journal
'Meh'st Week Ever – April 12, 2009
This week has been killer. As will be the next two weeks. Here’s some more of the internet flotsam and jetsam that you come here for:
1. Deadpan, Inc.
A super funny daily web cartoon made with the super cool software found at xtranormal which is fun and easy. You should all go there and try it out.
Somehow, the wooden actions and computer generated speech makes it even funnier.
2. Firefighter dresses up as Spiderman to get autistic child down from ledge
Never fear, Thailand – Spiderman to the rescue! A young boy was saved from a third floor window ledge by a fireman dressed as the comic book superhero after the autistic lad refused to come down.The eight-year-old ran out onto the ledge of his special school in Bangkok after he had a panic attack and neither his mother nor teachers could coax him back inside.
Even firemen couldn’t bring the boy to safety – until his mother remembered his passion for Spiderman.
Fireman Sonchai Yoosabai pulled on a Spiderman outfit which was kept by a school guard for alarm practices.
And even though he couldn’t actually spin a web, it still worked a treat!
The boy came back inside as soon as he saw his hero at the door of the classroom and threw himself laughing into his arms.
3. Mentoring
More in the next coming weeks, I promise.
Best Week Ever, or at least a different one
So, for the last couple of weeks I have been without a computer, and therefore constant internet access. Obviously, I cannot do a regular post today, because I don’t really have anything interesting from my two days of browsing, but I thought I would write about what I discovered about myself during a seemingly simple change in routine. It is also my explanation of why I am giving up Twitter. Continue reading “Best Week Ever, or at least a different one”
Back from the Dead!
So, I have my computer back. Actually, a lot happened in the time that my computer was in the shop. Here’s the list:
Movies Watched:
All About My Mother
Volver
Talk to Her Pedro Almodóvar
Gone Baby Gone Ben Affleck
No Country for Old Men Coen Brothers
The opera Salomé Richard Strauss
Listened to:
Welcome to Mali Amadou & Miriam
El Tango Gidon Kremer
Sibelius Symphony No. 2
Attended:
The opera La Calisto
Read:
The Road Cormack McCarthy
The Rest is Noise Alex Ross
Cat’s Cradle Kurt Vonnegut
I may write about them later, but probably not.
Famous Last Words
So, apparently the Macintosh gods overseeing the internet hate it when mere mortals promise posts in advance. Right after that last post, my MacBook’s hard drive failed catastrophically. I may be posting infrequently this week, but for the first time since starting the series, I will not be doing a Mehst week ever, because this week has been rather bad.
In other news, I learned the definition of “fatuous,” which is my new favorite word.
hammer & jack 