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Bad Valentines day Gifts

For those of you looking for that special someone for V-Day tomorrow you should look at this list.

I nearly fell out of my chair laughing! 🙂

So then scroll down to the ‘Whole fresh rabbit‘ (one might ask how a rabbit you order on amazon can possibly be ‘fresh’ – but thats a different question)… Now look ‘Customers who bought items like this also bought’… Again – NEARLY FELL OFF MY CHAIR…

SUCH a dork

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So far I’ve had a completely geeky weekend… Its been raining cats and dogs here so i’ve used that as an excuse to stay inside and be a geek. Last night after my chiropractor appointment I cooked myself some dinner then spent the evening playing with my new camera taking pictures of some film stock and an old film reel I broght home. Its a little pet project of mine for something i’m working on at work..

Then today – well I cleaned the house some and then spent the afternoon figuring out how to set up a QuickTime live video stream. The goal here is so that my dad can broadcast his wedding for family that can’t make it but the fact is i’ll use any excuse to learn how to do new things like this.. So now I’m able to stream video from my living room out to the web which is kinda cool.. Sorry – not gonna put it in a public space (can’t have people spyin on me) but its still kinda cool… 🙂

Question is what does my day have in store for me tomorrow… Probably more work and a little more geekey tasks..

My man and his lady! ;)

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Kevin’s got a new best bud in Guatemala (ok – few weeks ago) and was just browsing her pictures and found this one of them.. So cute… She’s also got one of her plucking his eybrows.. Now THAT i’m not even sure what to do with…

Too funny… Had to share…

A few movies worth seeing….

Killed some time with movies over the past few days and figured I’d pass along:

Pan’s Labyrinth – Saw this one with Drew and Adrian on Thursday night. Its a REALLY well done movie in Spanish about a little girl’s fantasy world that she uses to get her through a really horrible childhood after in post war spain.. The cinematography is gorgeous, the characters are facinating, and the story was great – a really interesting adult take on a child’s fantasy world…

Sophie Scholl: The Final Days – This movie is about the last days of Sophie Scholl (duh) who was part of a group of students during nazi Germany who opposed Hitler and the National Socialists. The Movie starts with their last leaflet distribution and arrests and follows her through her jailing, ‘trial’ (not much of a trial), and execution. The movie was really well done and thought provoking. I found it particularly interesting the charges against them including ‘demoralizing the troops’ (sound familiar to anyone? Hmmmm)… Very worth seeing.

Dusty Bobbles

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Ok.. this lens they got me for my Camera ROCKS.. Takes amazing shots… granted most of the time i’ve t aken pictures of things that I really need to clean.. but still cool! 🙂

Leave it to me

Mom and Me

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Last night my mom, little sister, and I got together for dinner and a little belated Christmas (since I was out of town)… My mom drove out from Sacramento (the drive from hell – I-80 west was closed from 11am to 6pm yesterday cuz of an accident – YIKES).. So they got over here ’round 7 to see the place and hang out before dinner..

They also brought Christmas presents I missed which was very sweet (I sent mine for them to share over christmas).. Well, leave it to me to go ahead and buy exactly what my ‘rents were going to give me before they could.. Before the trip I bought myself a nice Digital SLR to use while I was gone.. I actually tried to figure out if they were going to get it before I got it and got enough signs that they weren’t that I decided to risk it (its also more expensive than they should be spending on me)… Well – as it turns out thats exactly what they were gonna give me – and, whats worse, my mom didn’t find out until she talked to Katie YESTERDAY… Uggg… I felt like SUCH a jerk… I KNOW better but I convinced myself it wouldn’t be a problem… They did get me a really nice lens and flash for the camera though that is FANTASTIC.. i’ve been playing with it all morning…

After that though we went to Faralon for dinner which was fantastic.. were there for like 3 hours and had a great time…

Ugggg.. I’m a fool…