Monthly Archives: October 2007

Giving a fat kid a cookie

CSEA signed a new con­tract.  There’s a healthy com­ment thread about it on Capi­tol Con­fi­den­tial.  Keep an eye on this one.
At least some­one other than the usual crew is commenting.

Crush with Internets

I like to play with pho­tos, but I don’t have the Pho­to­shop skills or patience to change my appear­ance sig­nif­i­cantly. I also have a low bud­get and not much skill with makeup. I love play­ing around with makeover sites, and I was sur­prised at how well Makeover Solu­tions worked. It has a

Girl on a bike climbs off. :(

Inter­net Dick­wad Syn­drome strikes one of my heroes.

Power!

My dad sent me this link. You can see the Tug Hill wind­mills from satel­lites already, and they’re rec­og­niz­able. It’s excit­ing to see.  I didn’t think that there would be satel­lite images of that region avail­able yet.  Google Earth hasn’t even hit the neigh­bor­hood where I grew up yet.

Freezing our paws off

All hamster-related news items and blog posts make their way to me, so let me pre-emptively announce:
I have already seen this.
And I lol’d.

First Happy Endings, now Westcott…

Oh, no!  The West­cott is where I got to see “Amélie” for the first time–the Hamil­ton French club made a spe­cial trip when I was in col­lege.
I never ven­tured there when I lived in Syra­cuse, though, which is indica­tive of the prob­lem here.  I shouldn’t com­plain when I’m part of the cause of the prob­lem. 

Hamsterinsomnia

Bai­ley hasn’t slept in over 24 hours. She’s been run­ning non­stop. I would guess that she some­how got into the chocolate-covered cof­fee beans, but she’s on some whole other level. I think maybe she and the mice have a tiny rodent-sized meth lab under­neath our oven.
I stuck my hand in her cage to

Colleges compete…humanity wins!

I was lis­ten­ing to NPR a while ago and hap­pened to catch inter­views with some mem­bers of the MIT team tak­ing part in the BP Solar Decathlon. It piqued my inter­est in the project and made me start think­ing about solar energy, con­ser­va­tion, and self-sufficient homes in gen­eral. Prepar­ing for another win­ter with

Hamsterrrrr!

New ham­ster video! I can’t get this to work embed­ded, so here’s the link.
Early on, some­one in the com­ments com­plained about the music I used.  My mom agreed, so I stopped ask­ing peo­ple.
I really like that song.  It’s one of the top tracks on my gym playlist, for exam­ple. Maybe just the first part is

Where did it go?

What hap­pened to Para­nor­mal Death­match?! Help!
I feel like I should be mourn­ing. That game really was a lot of fun.  I like things that are silly and low-tech like that.  I used to play it on MacOS 9 when I worked in the com­puter labs at Hamil­ton.  Not as much fun when peo­ple