For all the knitters in the world, particularly those who like Wii Sports and babies, I give you the pattern for Mii Miittens.
This encourages me to not want to move to/visit/come within a hundred miles of Australia.
You should go ahead and read this story, you will probably laugh. Here is the intro to give you some idea of what you will be dealing with it.
As I sit here behind this laptop, I now realize that this definitely wasn’t the brightest idea I have ever had. I was going to rope a deer, put it in a stall, feed it up on corn for a couple of weeks, then kill it and eat it.
The first step in this adventure was getting a deer. I figured that, since they congregate at my cattle feeder and do not seem to have much fear of me when we are there (a bold one will sometimes come right up and sniff at the bags of feed while I am in the back of the truck not 4 feet away), it should not be difficult to rope one, get up to it and toss a bag over its head (to calm it down) then hog tie it and transport it home.
To match the inauguration of Barack Obama, whitehouse.gov is completely new and revamped. Design wise, it is exceptionally nice, following the same overall look and feel of Obama’s campaign materials. There are a couple of interesting things from my five minute looking over the site. For the first time, the White House now has its own official blog, with RSS feed and the ability to sign up for an email list (Though it seems to be broken at the moment). This is the sort of thing I have felt all government organizations have needed for awhile. We have very simple and established technology for allowing people to easily get information without having to look for it.
I personally think there should be an RSS feed of all legislation that comes before Congress. I would like to be able to follow what is happening, but as things are now, it is extremely hard to get to that information. Along those lines, one of the initial white house blog posts states that for all non-emergency legislation, the full text will be posted to whitehouse.gov for 5 days before Obama will sign it into law. During that time, the public will be allowed to review and comment.
Here’s to the government moving in the direction of transparency and accountability.
For all you computer owners out there, if you haven’t maxed out the RAM on your computer, you should do that now. It is insanely cheap right now.
The celebrity culture is infantilizing us. We are being trained not to think. It is not about the disappearance of film critics. We are the canaries. It is about the death of an intelligent and curious, readership, interested in significant things and able to think critically. It is about the failure of our educational system. It is not about dumbing-down. It is about snuffing out.
via Death to film critics! Hail to the CelebCult! – Roger Ebert’s Journal.
Well, after 4 family gift exchanges, 2 white elephant events, a last minute successful creation of a gag gift, 1 Christmas dinner, somewhere in the area of 15 batches of cookies, 0 loafs of pumpkin bread, 35 hours of driving, 1 bad decision to trust the GPS, 6 states and a district visited, 6 hours of Bones, 10 or so hours of Playhouse Disney, 2.2 viewings of Kung Fu Panda, a poor performance of Oliver at the King Center in Melbourne, a fantastic performance of West Side Story at the National Theatre in Washington DC, an impromptu walk to the White House, a highly anticipated visit to Orlando Ice, 4 very dead paper targets by way of a couple boxes of lead by way of 4 pistols, a wedding rehearsal, a wedding dinner, a wedding reception, an actual wedding, a fast trip to Walgreens to pick up honeymoon car decorating supplies, a wedding toast, 4 car packings, the largest game of hand and foot I ever want to play, a rousing game of Bond-opoly, a traumatic wasp sting to a sleeping 7 year old, a carsick episode 9 minutes before the end of a 9 hour trip, a sad but close Clemson bowl game, 17 relaxing days off from work, and one arrival back at home, the 2008 Christmas season is complete.