we threw the animated dark knight thing to the top of the netflix q in anticipation of the release of both the animated thing and the next dark knight flick.  and wow, i am so....underwhelmed by the animated thing.  for those who aren't die-hard nerds: its a collection of anime short films meant to bridge the story gap between batman begins and the ( Read more... )

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so our year-long membership is up (we got an extra 6 weeks because of the pool being closed for so long last spring) and J looks at me and says 'i think we should see other pools'.   he's sommat displeased with our current pool, for a number of reasons: during the summer the youth swim teams take up most of the pool, either by reserving the space, ( Read more... )

ok, so i posted frog pix last night and not friday, i have a pile more from the newport aquarium to go up later, also ( Read more... )

i admit it.  
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the weather people keep telling us that the cold front, and all those storms that keep sliding north of us, will actually be sliding our way. and apparently no one has mentioned this to the cold front, or any of those big storms. i could pass on the tornados, but a break in the 90+ heat index wouldnt suck ( Read more... )

watching the premiere of 'in plain sight' on usa, grooving on the characters, and the writing...though the plotlines are...well, not especially surprising given the premise; but it's not like i feel unhappy for the ride, really enjoying it actually. the pilot appears to be available online, but i cant vouch for anything else ( Read more... )

remember kids: when dialing up your friends late at night, DIAL THE RIGHT NUMBER. this is especially important with the proliferation of mobile phones, allowing you to reach out and annoy a stranger in some other time zone, who simply happens to have a phone from your area code!

The socks will not, in fact, be striped. I'm about two inches down the cuffage, and they are most certainly splotchy. On the upside, the splotches hide the part where i didnt start at the same point in the color pattern on both socks. whee! there shall be pictures of both sweater and socks soon, likely on flickr(same username) and the sweater doesn ( Read more... )

i've finally finished my sweater, which almost became a single sleeved sweater - after all the trouble of figuring out how to get the sleeve right...i then finished it and realized i just had to start over at the beginning and do it again. but now the pieces are done, the ends are tucked, and i've seamed, so just in time for the hot, humid summer, ( Read more... )