Happy Birthday Amych!

1st snowfall of the year here.

Edit: Pictures! [1] [2]

Happy Birthday Amych!

Hello 6:15 on a Sunday morning. So glad to greet you, especially since I've been awake since 5:00. I'm trying to knock out this confounded ( confounding?) paper before 8:00. I think I can. I think I can. I think I can.

Happy birthday Amych!

Tom's snow pictures are better than mine. The camera phone doesn't like shooting through windows.

I can't get the face recognition thingy to work -- it goes through all the steps, and then gives me a blank page. I tried it in Safari, and it told me to go back to Firefox. Woe is me, for I have not been algorithmically compared to any celebrities today.

Tom, I love those pictures. Thanks for posting them! [Edit: and Jessica, too!]

Kat! You can! You can! You can!

Happy Birthday Amych!

Snow!

The Face Recognition thing is the good crack. My son Brendon gets Beyonce too. As manly as he is in his 12 yo photo [link] he gets all girl matches. When I put in a photo that I think looks like me I get Janica Kostelic, Anna Lindh, Kevin Spacey!, Gene Kelly!, and Ingmar Bergman! It looks like it picks up the dimples and goes from there.

Tom and Jessica, your pictures are provoking a profound sense of nostalgia and wishing for snow for me. Even though I can get to snow here by going to the mountains, it's not the same as seeing city streets covered.

Thanks, Nilly. I have about a page and a half left, which means even with internet breaks, I have written about 3 pages this past 40 minutes. Which means I can finish this before I go to breakfast.

Then I have one more short paper and an incredibly long paper to go. The short one is actually harder than the long one because the long one is planned and merely needs to be written, while the short one is of the SUCK!

First snow pictures are always so pretty. We've not got enough accumulation here to make it pretty. Just some sucky, freezing rain.

Time to buy some salt for the sidewalks.

I have written about 3 pages this past 40 minutes

That's impressive.

What's the short paper about? Did you finish all the papers you had to do during THanksgiving (I hadn't posted with you since)?

Happy Birthday Amych!!!

ION, a Slate article that makes fun of the "Left Behind" movies - for their low-budgetness:

In Left Behind 2: Tribulation Force, for example, Kirk Cameron has to take Ben Judah, a respected rabbi, to the Wailing Wall so that he can tell Jews everywhere that Jesus Christ is Lord. Israel is represented by a few stone walls obviously made of plywood, some Christmas-tree lights, and 500 volunteer extras wearing leftover costumes from a Nativity pageant. The Wailing Wall is patrolled by soldiers dressed in World War II army uniforms. The producers have also dubbed in the sound of goats during scenes set in downtown Jerusalem, which leads to the unusual notion that modern-day Israel is populated by WWII re-enactors, nervous-looking people in bathrobes, and goats.

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Many Happy Returns of the Day, Amych!

I almost typed re-runs, but I think we've all seen that episode, and while it is usually entertaining, not something I'd wish on someone I liked.