Monday Morning Musings
Monday - 15 August 2011
A new week greets us with sun and scattered clouds. This comes after a night of thunder, lightning and rain - I’m not really sure “who” did “what” to Thor, but he was really on one last night.
The weekend was good. And, as is often the case with weekends “too short.” This isn’t to say that we didn’t get a lot accomplished - we did - but I wouldn’t have argued with a little more downtime. Highlights of the weekend include:
- Hearing Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture - complete with cannon - at the Deer Valley Music Festival
- Judging a ‘Clix tournament for Dr. Volt’s Comic Connection
- Seeing Cowboys and Aliens with SaraRules! and suzie_lightning
- Setting up/putting away more baby items
- Putting together a gallery of invitations from our baby showers
- FINALLY cleaning out the detritus left under our deck by our home’s previous owners!
- Dinner with the in-laws, including my first Charlie Chan movie
Cowboys and Aliens was fun. It was a decent western. It was also a decent alien movie. And, even better: It combined the two fairly well. Daniel Craig is almost always a pleasure to watch act. It was also fun to see Harrison Ford in a role as a… less-than-savory character again. (It’s been a long time since Han Solo was a true scoundrel…) And, the movie also had Thirteen Quorra Olivia Wilde, which is a “Win” in my book. Well done, Mr. Favreau.
Chew on This: Food for Thought
Stop Coddling the Super-Rich, from Warren Buffett (Yes… “THAT Warren Buffett“).
Stray Toasters
- Google to but Motorola Mobility for $12.8 billion
- The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan
- The Alpha Male
- The 16 longest gaps between Interstate exits
- Astronaut Photographs Perseid Meteor… From Space
- London Police Use Flickr to Identify Looters
- State Challenges Seen as Whittling Away Federal Education Law
- I’m hoping not to be - or turn into - this guy…
…or this…
- Flight failure won’t stop ‘mad scientists’
- Resist
- As Networks Speed Up, Data Hits a Wall
- Star Wars icons join Queen Elizabeth on Pacific Island coin
Right on to the friction of the day…
Namaste.
Current Mood: workin' for The Man...
Current Music: The theme from "Darkwing Duck" running through my head...
Originally published at Random Access
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