And the OSCAR goes to

Local kid, Shaun Tan for his film short "The Lost Thing"



I can actually say "I knew him when...."

From Twitter 02-27-2011

• 09:20:38: Bad Movie Night on @Syfy ..Area51. All prepped&ready.
  
• 09:38:08: @elizadushku Pass on the pin, stick with the splint. Having to have a pin removed from a bone is not something you want to experience.
  
• 10:07:53: @markos Re: Planned parenthood video: That's not surprising. They have learned well from Not-So-Breitbart.
  
• 10:08:11: RT @markos: Video reveals anti-Planned Parenthood activist never 'told' nurse she was underage http://t.co/RdCxD87
  
• 10:40:37: @BrentSpiner I would say they were more beige than white.
  
• 10:49:17: #BadMovieNight on @Syfy is "Area 51". Body count: Monsters 9, humans 0. Taking bets which aliens are bounty hunters which are criminals.
  
• 10:55:16: #BadMovieNight Monsters 10, Humans 0. but Photographer to his shot before *ACK*
  
• 11:07:14: #BadMovieNight Monsters 17, Humans 0.
  
• 11:21:31: #BadMovieNight Monsters 21, Human 1. (about time)
  
• 11:25:11: #BadMovieNight on @Syfy @NarcolepticGoat and I were right. Quiet sergeant was alien in disguise.
  
• 11:28:44: #BadMovieNight on @Syfy Monsters 25, Humans 1. Humans really need to up their game.
  
• 11:33:27: @NarcolepticGoat Beginning to think Patient 0 is bounty hunter, but really bad one, cuz killing people not just "Lady Death" #BadMovieNight
  
• 11:38:28: @Syfy #BadMovieNight Monsters 29, Humans 1. Call crossover police: Alien, Aliens, John Carpenter's THE THING mash-up!
  
• 11:49:45: #BadMovieNight Monsters 30, Humans 2.
  
• 12:02:19: #BadMovieNight Final body count: Monsters 32, Humans 3. Was decent Bad Movies. Had fun with running commentary with @NarcolepticGoat
  
• 12:35:26: Smaller but still great http://t.co/OqgPQsu
  
• 18:02:08: @elizadushku might be sucky but you really didn't want to experience surgical pin removal.
  

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Smaller but still great

This is the new smaller pool, fully prepped, ready and in use for Summer Survival. It's big enough to cool off, small enough to be able to walk completely around it. It's big enough that when I rest my head on the front part, my feet don't reach the hose for the vacuum. Floaty bliss!

I did find that I have to remove the cover before the sun comes over the top of the house. The dark color of the cover absorbs heat, and heats the water up.



There is some amusement too, because when Loki is in the house, he will come out to the enclosure and YOWL at me. His human is trying to drown herself! Oh Noes!

Only down side is leaves tend to build up next to the house. Oh well, we do have leaf vacuum/Blower with a mulching feature. Just make sure we do that with the pool cover on!

The good, the bad, the unnecessary and knowing the difference

Wing is at day 2 of "How to Use Photoshop" course. If he takes one thing away from this course, I hope it is this: Just because you know how to do a certain process on a photograph doesn't mean you have to do it with each and every one.

I got the OnOne photo suite for him in hopes he would stop flattening/desaturating colors. It worked for a while, as it did help him color correct photos, but then he started doing the same thing with it, using it on every photograph even when not needed. He is getting better with it, but I think this Photoshop class will really help him along.

From Twitter 02-26-2011

• 00:05:23: Midnight. Time to sleep well&late. As lat as the furry godlings allow, that is..
  
• 07:51:01: @elizadushku I use Suli SL-7. Small,does thejob.Don't need it to have camera or phone. Already have those. Nerdz rule!
  
• 08:00:29: @GeorgeTakei Happy b-day, Brad!
  
• 08:29:06: Loki just defended his territory from intrusion of neighbor's cat. Fenced in back yard is his & Keito's.
  
• 09:48:51: If you spot mushroom cloud hovering over Melville its because ranger spoke to roaming Akitas owner.
  
• 10:21:18: @KeithOlbermann Tick tock.. have egg timer going.
  
• 10:31:13: @KeithOlbermann Been there, done that, got the bookmark to prove it.
  
• 10:33:23: @KeithOlbermann I have a good throwing arm, and great aim. be glad you aren't in water balloon range.
  
• 10:43:58: @BiffPendragon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parody
  
• 19:22:31: Wing made green curry for dinner. yum. http://twitpic.com/43xkwd
  
• 19:23:35: @Lapswood See if you can order a ham&cheese on rye when you get to the teller.
  

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Sorry, guys, it's a data cable, not a magic wand

I have been reading some of the forums about the Suli SL-7, and what a bunch of idiots.

Of course the Android tablet isn't as fast as your laptop or desktop. Complaining that a small 1ghz (cpu and gpu combined) tablet with 256 megs of memory to run very small footprint/system resource using programs is rather silly. Whining it doesn't have a camera when it stated quite clearly there is no camera again is silly.

The Suli SL-7 has a capacitive screen, WiFi, can use my 3Mobile Broadband modem, reads different ebook formats, can play audio and video, and even though the OEM installed browser (and haven't found a way to install a different one.. yet) can't handle flash sites, there is an installation file on the device for YouTube. This means, you go to YouTube (or other flash video) and the browser will have pop up window asking if you want to use the YouTube app as default flash video viewer. How simple is that?

As for the chronic complainers, Methinks they have their expectations too damned high or are secretly longing for an iPad.

From Twitter 02-25-2011

• 10:46:02: @GeorgeTakei I must learn to not read your tweets when sipping coffee. Spittakes hazardous to tablet&sinus health!
  
• 11:24:36: @PanasonicAU Been trying to login to site. No joy, even password reset request not working. Getting emails from PAU so obviously registered
  
• 11:25:46: @PanasonicAU Have already jumped through "forgotten your password" hoops & sent email because reset requests never arrived.
  
• 11:26:08: My bet is yes. (@NathanFillion)http://yfrog.com/h0vajguj
  
• 19:21:28: @SanctuarySeries @recess1231 I keep saying 'Syfy channel. Last best hope for Stargate/Farscape actors.'
  
• 19:25:20: Been using L 70-200 w/2x MarkIII extender. Definitely need monopod at the very least. Makes camera very front heavy.
  
• 20:18:34: @prkaye Because of the Y chromosome.
  
• 20:19:26: @ariannahuff But wait!! There's more!
  
• 20:45:45: @prkaye Sometimes the truth is. *chucklechortlesnicker*
  

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