February 2012
21 posts
Whiteboards for name cards on the cubicles? Srsly?
“‘HTML’ is an abbreviation for Highly Temporary Markup Language.”
Buying a dorm fridge as a temporary until my new refrigerator is delivered is my Two for the Road moment of the year.
Lifeboating some groceries to the office refrigerator.
Margin Call (2011): A little too much air. 3/5
I took pictures of a grandmother who was introducing Flat Stanley to the big Calder hanging in the East Building.
Russell Greenberg gave an interesting presentation on his team’s research into birds beaks as thermoregulators, specifically among sparrow subspecies of the coastal salt marshes and California.
The Artist (2011): [Silent applause]. 4/5
The Wikipedia page for Chandler Robbins is live.
Hugo (2011): seen in 2-D, at least, the film drops into the uncanny valley. Blue-eyed and lifeless. 3/5
Oh, my. Truman Bradley, a face and voice from the past, in a fake Person to Person interview as the opening segment of a Perry Mason episode. Where have all those Science Fiction Theatre episodes gone?
A musical that I haven’t seen before, for WATCH: Baby at PWLT in Manassas.
Multiple phone calls for two-agent informed consent today.
Another noisy conference call, another couple of months of care from the nice ladies at ACC.
Sunset Blvd. (1950): Leta’s first time. 5/5
Next up in the studio, The Practice of Public Relations, 11/e, by Fraser P. Seitel. Marred by (among other things) an appallingly disrespectful dedication.
And today I received my refund check for my remaining escrow funds. Now I’m really on my own.
Something I used to know and have completely forgotten: how to invert a matrix.
“Sadly, frictionless sharing has the same drawback as ‘effortless poetry’: its final products are often intolerable.”
Yes, the AC adapter for the music keyboard has definitely gone missing.
“We don’t want to feature pictures of starving children, dead cattle and dried crops.”