My niece Hawley has tiny hands (as do 110% of infants) and here is a picture of her fingers curled around her grandpa Peterman’s thumb. I was able to take this shot with my Nikon 5700 at a macro distance. In short I could blow this up so that it fit on an 8X10 really, really easily. This means that there could be a hand that is 20 times larger than her actual hand with very little effort. She’s so cute, quiet and she sleepy most of the time that when she cries it makes you sad for her. We love her very much and I can’t wait for her to call us on the phone some day and say, “Crazy Uncle Randy, will you please stop blogging about me?”
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Napoleon Dynamite Part II
OK, so I watched this movie again tonight with my family and it’s better the second time. Most movies lose something in repetition, this one got better. I laughed a lot and then saw the wedding scene after the credits. I have to say that the cow vs. shotgun bit is still one of my favorite parts, but mostly because it left so much to my imagination.
If you can rent this to watch it twice, preferably with others who have seen it and can laugh ahead with you.
Abby Quote of the Moment
This morning, like many mornings, Abby woke up early and came into our room. Jessica mumbled to me, “It’s too early, please put her back into her bed.” Abby told me she had to go pee-pee so we headed to the potty and she showed me the play scissors that she got for Christmas. I took them away from her and had her go to the bathroom. As I was putting her into the bed she said to me, “Daddy, can I have scissors in bed?” I told her, “No, we never have scissors in bed.” She then asked, “Never? Never, ever, ever, ever have scissors in the bed?”
Yeah – we pretty much don’t let her have any fun.
Garden of the Gods Again
Today we went to Garden of the Gods again, this time with the whole family (11 people I think). Here is a picture of Brennan and Abby proving they’re super cute cousins.
And my sister and her Groom, Kurt, who managed to survive a round trip with me driving.
And my brother and his family (sans Hawley who was sleeping in the stroller all bundled up)
And my parents, Vern and Nancy.
And some random stranger who has no idea he’s on the internet here
I’m a little daft apparently and didn’t get Becky, or one of the others (Becky took High School Photo like I did), to take a picture of Jessica, Abby and I. However, Abby got to be in another picture. Therefore we’ll have to have someone take another one of us. As a place holder I give you: My Big Fat Digital Camera Mistake
Baby Hawley
Here is a picture of my nephew, Brennan, kissing his sister Hawley, my first niece (if I have other nieces, just because you’re not first doesn’t mean I don’t love you, it means I have had less time to love you and that is all).
I need to get some good pictures of Abby, Brennan and Hawley together so that I can become a world famous photographer. Getting a good picture of three young children is nearly a miracle. I’m pretty certain that one good picture will make me notorious at the vary least 😉
Happy Valentines Day!
A few days early. Jessica was sick yesterday so I gave her a special valentines day present, which by the above image was obviously an iPod Shuffle. She loves it. I love that she loves it. She said as she opened it, “This is a present from you to me to you, isn’t it?” I strongly told her, “No, this is for you because you’ve been wanting something like this for a while.” She’s learned how iTunes and the shuffle work together and used it this morning while cleaning the apartment. She was singing away (quietly) while listening to Five Iron Frenzy and whatever else she had on there.
It’s cool enough that she even seemed to indicate she was looking forward to later in the year when we’ll hopefully replace the desktop in the kitchen with an Mac Mini. I love my wife very much – apples or not.
It doesn’t quite harken back to the Garden of Eden, but the apple, my beautiful wife and a snake named Windows XP bring things around 🙂
GM Adds a Podcast!
The post GM FastLane Blog: Cadillac, Buick Reveals in Chicago contains a podcast of the announcing of the cars (which sounds so much better than ‘reveal’, which is a verb being used as a noun). So I posted about FeedDemon 1.5, and now here’s a chance to test it out (you have downloaded the demo to at least try it haven’t you?) if you’re an auto buff.
Shire Slammed on Drug Move
I really enjoyed the Lord of the Rings books. I also enjoyed the movies. So when I saw Shire Slammed on Drug Move I was pretty upset since I had no idea the hobbits were partaking in such activities. According to the books and movies drugs were purely the realm of orcs, Gollum and Ray Charles.
It turns out that if you go actually read the article that they’re just referencing a pharmaceutical company. What’s up with that? I call that poor reporting.
IT Geek says Matrix is so 1992
In an interview with an anonymous IT geek who went by the screen name of ‘1337hozer’ I learned that while many geeks enjoyed the Matrix for its very interesting approach to special effects, philosophical implications and Carrie Anne Moss some were really disturbed that Neo, the main character and hero of the Matrix series and the rest of the gang ‘plugged into the matrix.’
Come on! Wireless would so be the norm of the time if they had hovercrafts that were polidirectional in their control.
Other geeks were not available to comment as my Internet Explorer browser contracted yet another virus.
By A. Macintosh
Evening Soap Star Doesn’t Get Her Show
Marcia Cross is not gay. Or so the report on CNN.com (this is important journalism mind you) quotes her as confirming. However, what really, really, really, really amused me was the brilliance of her statement about people’s obsession with her sexuality:
“I do think it was really weird, though, that there was all this curiosity about something, like that — about sexuality,” she said. “And I thought what a world we live in that that’s so important.”
Marcia, can I call you that? OK. Marcia, you are on Desperate Housewives which is basically a show about sexuality. People have apparently been watching it and you [the show] have won a few awards along the way for it. When you wonder why people think sexuality is so important, look at your pay stubs, that’s the answer. America is particularly obsessed with sexuality. The people don’t care if you’re gay, straight, bi, trans, tri, or any other sort of sexual as long as the information that they’re given is slightly misleading, feels edgy, naughty or graphic. If you don’t know why people wonder… it makes me wonder.