Monthly Archives: July 2008

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9367 – Tuesday – Date night!

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Let’s reuse a graphic I’ve already posted this week!

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Taking my pumpkin to a 3-d movie. (BHK’s nickname is pumpkin, amongst others. Sorry, GP.)

Journey to the Center of the Earth We’re hustling to see it… we’re fearful it’s going to leave the theater before we can catch it…We loves us some 3-d movies. Review later.. we won’t be disappointed.. it can be Dr. Tongue’s 3-d house of pancakes… if it’s in 3-d, we’re all for it.

Speaking of which – The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, the folks behind such innovations as the color bar test pattern, want to codify a standard for watching 3-D content in home theaters. They’re casting the net wide to include all possible sources and displays, from over-the-air broadcast to DVDs and Blu-ray. Ars points out that Hollywood is both excited to sell you their movies again, this time in glorious 3-D, and worried about potential lost revenues at 3-D theater screenings of, say, George Lucas’s 3-D Star Wars remake. via Ars Technica

[edit] Back from the movie, and we had a lovely time. The kids in the audience enjoyed it, the giggles and screams and the “pop-up” parts added to the overall appeal. It was a lot of fun, and I wouldn’t call it a stinker at all, contrary to popular opinion. BHK feels that it’s her fave movie of the year, thus far. I don’t know if I’d go that far, but I liked it, too. Fave bits fpr me included pseudo-snakehead fish and aquatic dinosaurs, and lots of gratuitious “look! 3-d, in your face” bits.

Now, it’s off to Red Robin for supper, and then toddle on home!


A factoid I just came across: If not for the Beatles, we wouldn’t have CT scans, aka CAT scans, the advanced medical scanning technology.


1 year ago – Potterdämmerung, Jaspers with Cyn, terrible slang, honeymoon photos, Apocalypto, superdupergames, upcoming games

2 years ago – postcard, tiny Tarzan, MW network, golden age red tornado, Stevie wonder sesame street , comic book eras

3 years ago – Books added to palm, Australian link, Bus station security, Apollo Mission, HTML cleaner, Google lj friend map, geek quiz, looking forward, Friday fine

4 years ago – Mango, Spyware, Pi Approximation, Look out, Ghost tour

5 years ago – Sam Jack, Ghosts, MRI, filters

6 years ago – dreams, sounds, guns, action comics #1, hello kitty stress test, bike named, infinity

7 years ago – Cohort, fwap, morning speech quiz, coloring game, kitty cookies,sunflower bread, web indexes, English language, Olestra conspiracy

8 years ago – X-men with Dan, Robb’s Radio, went to Hops, April reading my LJ Geotarget



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9365 – Monday –

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Fresh harvested this morning for ratatouille tonight. delicious. Larry had hot dogs, as he’s not a veggie guy, excepting corn… more ratatouille for Chris, BHK, and me!

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The garden keeps tossing us more eggplant! ichiban, white and green. yum. note the sneaky, almost camouflaged placement of another okra. Hm.

Slow night tonight… just visiting and eating for the most part. Back tweaked up a little bit, but nothing to be concerned about.

Until later, dear journal.


Goodbye, Blue crab. I’m sorry you’re so low on the survival priority totem pole.


1 year ago – Adam’s 18th birthday with pics, cake info, Mr. Nelson (a teacher) bringing alcohol to minors, wrote to bro, all the lonely people

2 years ago – mixed bag day, newt pics-color filters, tp-roll shreds, outback with gg, toes poem, shiny superman pic,

3 years ago – RIP Scotty, bleeder likes my eyes, thumb drive apps, paper rocket, logo toy, taters, London transport

4 years ago – politics, monster poll, last time meme, job market

5 years ago – mah jongg, zombie movies

6 years ago – Visiting Danny, played Pokemon, orcs n the hood, reign of fire with Dave, beef recall

7 years ago – eremite, watched the sun come up, poll creation, why I trim, cooking poll

8 years ago – got the first LJ client, movie pondering Geotarget

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9364 – Sunday – Adam’s Birthday!

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ADAM!!

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BHK managed to grease Adam’s nose, with a minimum of struggle. total surprise. We watched The Seeker: The Dark is Rising -(not bad, but seemed more than a little “Mary Sue“-ish, even for a fantasy movie. Christopher Eccleston was totally misused in the film. I know he can act, I’ve seen it.) and re-watched National Treasure 2. (BHK and Adam really like the sequel… while I like the first, the second fell a bit flat for me…. I am looking forward to the next one.)

Chips and dip, Hot dogs and corn on the cob for all, with a confetti-birthday cake, yellow cake with whipped white icing and sprinkles. It was devoured before a photograph could be recorded. I fear we may soon grow weary of hot dogs, but I’m doing OK so far. In-laws left at about 6, and Adam at 7. We hit the sack pretty early again tonight.. need to recharge the batteries for tomorrow.

We gave Adam coupons for his birthday, as we couldn’t find anything his size that was something special.

Coupons included:

  • 1 use – Get out of being nagged by BHK Free. (He almost had to use it re: cigar smoking on special occasions.)
  • Hug from Pyewacket (renewable)
  • Headbutt from Newt (renewable)
  • 1 full tank of gas (please to use before it gets higher than $10 a gallon, and no more than 18 gallons – (his car holds 12))
  • Girl advice from either a girl (BHK) or a Boy (me) or both – he is not obligated to take said advice.
  • free trip to the drive in
  • free pizza night!
  • emergency help, anytime he needs it.



via eavesdrop dc –

Guy to girl in Springfield Mall:

“I got a BMW. Bus. Metro. Walking.”


1 year ago – rated r, simpsons doughnut tongue / t-rex arm picture, Harry Potter spoiler fear, Slow Mexico, Busy weekend plans, Andy Rooney quote, lollipop, mosquito-hunting dream, return to disney world, told Aardvark about Compleat Strategist, got Chez Goth, too much ice cream.

2 years ago – world jump day, world party, mom heading north, netflix wakes up, availabot, electric bill, stress and sleep

3 years ago – pics, singing fountain, atarax, google moon, charity paypal link, digg, hurricane emily, operation predators, fishstories, ID badge, random wifi

4 years ago – I Robot, working with wimmin, Operation Valkyrie, moon landing.

5 years ago – bro, monkey mummy, teen titans, moon landing hoaxes, animal sounds asring tones, hunting for bambi, newtcam, consumer reports condoms,awesome earth image, pancakes

6 years ago – bike name poll, palm doodles, planning to visit Danny with his busted leg

7 years ago – rough night, slake, ambisinister, voice activated tech, how far would you go poll

8 years ago – counting days, finished first Harry Potter, books I repeat read, abortive attempt to track intake Geotarget