exploring the future of man and machine

today i got a book at the library called The Singularity is Near.

"Kurzweil further expounds his conviction that the human being will be succeeded by a superintelligent entity that is partly biological, partly computerized."

trying different blogging platforms

i decided to go ahead and try out some different blogging platforms just to see what they are like and see if i like blogger better or not. my first try is wordpress. click the link to see the result. it has a function where you can import all the posts and comments from your blogger blog --which i did-- but it only imported SOME. i think that it only imported the posts i'd done before i started to tweak my blogger template. whatever. additionally, the free wordpress blogs do not allow you to tweak the template. i don't like that, either. so far, i'm not particularly impressed.

connection connection

a singificant dream that i experienced last night involved my attempting to make a phone call to my mother. i was in a strange town and needed her to come and pick me up. every payphone i tried to use was somehow unusable. all of the phones were foreign contraptions. i had trouble putting the money in, dialing the numbers, trouble with connections. after dialing the number on one phone, i heard myself having a conversation from the past. the dream just went on and on with every phone i tried to use causing some kind of problem for me. it amazes me how varied the problems were. one phone looked like some sort of rusty fire alarm pull-thing and the cord was only about five inches long. there was a phone arcade where all of the phones were also a game of some sort. one phone had a stack of bills sticking out of the coin return slot. other people were all using phones, but somehow they could not help me figure out how to use one.

happy birthday bob marley

how to celebrate bob marley's birthday once i saw this documentary about bob marley that said he was thought to be a reincarnation of the biblical Joseph of the coat of many colors fame. i have always wanted to paint a portrait of bob marley. should i start one today? will i?

i love the whole wal-mart debate

here's a recent discussion i came across on a blog. the post is done by a guest blogger and the comments that follow are also interesting. also: an NPR story on The Walmart Effect

i'm bad

today i got in trouble because i was trying to vacuum. i'm supposed to be resting. blah blah blah! it made me mad, because i am stubborn and do not like to be told what to do! prideful. arrogant. egotistical. sorry. so, i wanted to make snacks for the super bowl. it's just the thing to do. so, i wheeled the computer chair into the kitchen and did it sitting down. the cats do not understand that the baby's room is not for them. they think they are the babies. poor kitties. but it makes me mad. reese's wants to sleep in the bassinet and get up on the changing table! she's in for a rude awakening!

last night we finally watched thumbsucker, a movie i've been wanting to see since i saw the preview in the theatre a million years ago. it was good. my kind of movie. it had vince vaughn and tilda swinton-- two of my faves. it was a movie that is close to realistic. for me, that is a kind of escapism, because it feels so real to me, it's as though i'm living someone else's life for a little while, but i could relate to the main character's plight, somehow. keanu reeves has an amusing role as some sort of spiritual guru orthodontist, too.

i am huge

pecker is a funny movie. i feel very large, now. cumbersome and hardly able to move. tired, too. i'm supposed to have another month of this? i'll have to try and sleep through it. the parody commercials on SNL always trick me. like, i'll mute them, thinking it's a real commercial, or i'll think real commercials are actually the parody ones. it's confusing, but funny.

dave chappelle

I am looking forward to watching Dave Chappelle on Oprah today.

i made a sock creature

Most people would rather be certain they're miserable than risk being happy. - Robert Anthony

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle. - Ken Hakuta

my feet are swollen

i have nothing positive to say at the moment. everybody is grouchy around here.

sorta weird

You Are 40% Weird

Normal enough to know that you're weird... But too damn weird to do anything about it!

How Weird Are You?

more inspiration

this guy makes some very interesting sock creatures. gives me some ideas. broadens my horizons.

chopping broccoli

here is the beautiful broccoli it's good for you

let's get to the point

we watch a lot of baby shows on discovery health and the learning channel. shows that show babies being born and the first couple of days and weeks at home. it always reminds me that i have a whole baby living inside of me. it's weird when i think about it. she could be outside, but she's inside.

blog diggity dog

i am a huge dork. it is totally official, now. there is no escaping my complete dorkiness. when i was a teenager, my mom was the same age that i am now, and i used to be embarrassed by what a dork she was; but, now i have become her. i don't know, but i do know this: i don't get out much at all, anymore. i mean, before, i was at least a college student, so i had some social interaction. now, however, i am a shut-in and have next to no social interaction whatsoever. i went with scott to the bank and i was like a kid in a candy store. i realized that i was acting so lame. i hadn't brushed my hair, my face was all puffy from sleep and i started organizing the teller's brochures (a habit leftover from my former career in banking). i act totally strange when i am in a bank, because i feel really comfortable in banks and i feel like i work there, but the people who work there don't know me from adam and probably just think i am a whack-job. also, i blurt out whatever partly-formed thoughts happen to be in my head at the moment without having even thought it through to see if it makes any sense or is socially appropriate. it makes me feel like a child. then we stopped at the grocery outlet and i was like, ooh look at this. look at that. look at this. to every little thing. i had to get these pompoms to make my arts and crafts. hahahahah i am so un-avant garde that i am avant-garde now i will make broccoli out of felt.

in small doses

today, i had to have a glucose test to determine whether or not i have gestational diabetes (just as a precaution). i had to fast from midnight last night until 1:30 this afternoon. that's because i didn't wake up until 10 AM, so i got to the hospital at 10:30. they drew my blood, made me wait twenty minutes and then i had to drink this extremely sugary orange soda stuff, wait an hour, give blood again, wait another hour and give blood one last time. then i ate a peanut butter sandwich, pop tarts, a chicken sandwich and some popcorn chicken. i was starving. then i took a nap for two hours. i don't know the results yet. while sitting in the waiting room, i played tetris on my laptop and felt really sleepy and the workers at the lab were way too cheerful.

i'll settle for a cup of coffee

this, too, would be a good thing to leave around a coffee shop and people would want them.

something to do

this is fun! you can play pong for free. i've only played twice. my highest score was 697.

down by the old mill stream

SIGH

my life seems SOOOOOO monotonous lately.

geisha

the back of the neck is left unpainted in this three-pointed style. it is considered highly sensual to have this area of the skin exposed. today i made enchiladas with chicken, basmati rice, black beans and cheese as the filling. they were good. i only ate one and then for dessert i had a peanut butter and jelly sandwich dipped in chocolate milk, for old-times' sake.

here is the donut

i tried to make a face for it, but didn't like any of the ideas for a face that i came up with.

is it important?

i'm reading memoirs of a geisha. it's interesting. it doesn't really seem like fiction. there are a lot of details describing sensory information. suddenly pictures of geisha are fascinating to me.

sweethearts

kind of pathetic, probably

last night my dreams were strange, which is not unusual. i remember trying to compose a poem. a person has to be in a certain state of mind.... perhaps a more receptive state... in order to allow poetry to come to the surface. in me, i guess it is usually subsumed. here is a funny thing that says something about something: the other day, scott said, "do you want to go to the beach after we eat lunch?" we were already out and i realized i didn't have my camera with me. i said, "i want to, but i don't have my camera." why bother doing anything good if i can't document it. i have begun to live in that removed place where i view things through blogging, ultimately. will i blog about it? if i go to the beach without my camera, did it really happen?

my thoughts exactly

"Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world." --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

sick!

i want to find a big whale loogi (lugi?) how do you spell loogy? worth $300,000! read this awesome story.

you get what you need

here is what i ate for lunchhere is what i wanted to eat for lunch: i went to the doctor today and i weigh 190 lbs! i started crying. part of it is because i ate a few very salty dill pickles yesterday and am therefor retaining water.... part of it is because i am pregnant and part of it is because i've been comforting myself with ice cream and brownies quite regularly. i enjoyed my healthy lunch very much. it's just sometimes more fun to eat naughty stuff.

here is the monster

fear of buttons

i find it fascinating that so many people have a phobia of buttons!

mustard

i finished this penguin just now. lately, i have been interested in food but i don't eat as much because most things give me heartburn and indigestion, which sucks royally. i recently read that if you eat a spoonful of mustard, it would help with that. i don't know. i haven't exactly tried that. i don't think i've really had much in the way of hot dogs during my pregnancy, but for lunch today i ate three hot dogs on buns with mustard. yum! and so far, no heartburn. right now, i'm watching Oprah and it's about terrorism but i might change the channel because i'm not sure if i really want to know all this stuff.

awesome

cat abuse, i tell ya! i stumbled onto this site from whatsername's blog. i should send them the picture of my cat with the mustache! poor kitty.

sad and funny but true

here is a funny blogpost about blogging. which makes me also feel like linking to this post about blog addiction.

cupcake

cupcake was ahead in the polls when i started making my next thing. so after this will be a penguin. this is fun.

hay

our coffee table is a decent piece of furniture, but it needs to be refinished. i just got the idea to decoupage it. this would be cool, cuz i have that very deck of tarot cards that i basically never cared much about. the only thing is that some people might come to my house and think i'm a witch or a cult person or something freaky like that. or i could do it with something else. i'd have to make scott do the lacquer part cuz of the fumes.

copycat

hot potato

i was trying to make a baked potato using the microwave's "baked potato sensor" setting, but for some reason the potato caught on fire! i'd poked holes in it and everything! now the whole house smells smokey. i'm watching the movie pumpkin with christina ricci and it's awesome. i totally like it. it's about how being politically correct can be taken to extremes and limit peoples lives with shackling stereotypes. maybe it's not completely awesome, but i still like it. my sister sent me a TON of baby clothes and stuff. it was really fun to get that in the mail.

xo

the cat is going helter skelter because it's raining and she wants to go outside. i guess i should just let her out. that'd teach her. so here is my first valentines heart made of felt. i need to learn how to embroider.

dinosaur prototype 2

this one has a few things about it that i dislike. the black stitching (i'd run out of colored thread, the legs are too big and fat, the head is tilted too far up). the next one will be even better!

boxing is so brutal

we watched cinderella man. i enjoyed it. it was interesting to consider what it may have been like to live during the depression era.

true facts

when i was little, i liked avocado sandwiches until one time i got some bad avocado and it made me sick. after that i hated even to see an avocado for years. now i love them again. one time, i ate 12-15 Andes after dinner mints and got sick. i have pretty much never had a taste for chocolate mint since then. i have kind of a phobia about jumping into water. i don't really like swimming much, either. it just seems like more trouble than it's worth. i have enjoyed swimming at times, especially in a nice river in the mountains, but really i avoid swimming in general. when i was a kid, if i asked my mom "can i have a pickle/spoon of peanut butter/ piece of cheese" and her answer would be "i don't care" i would feel like she literally didn't care about me. the first time i saw puff the magic dragon, i cried and cried and wouldn't go to sleep that night cuz i was so sad.