Birth photos are tricky things--you're inevitably going to capture "too much" but you can always crop that stuff out.

I was taking video! I think I caught the boy crowning, I don't know. I honestly was in autopilot/immediate witness mode, just hanging the camera up high and largely ignoring it. But that is really personal, you know? Lord, where it aimed.

This all harkens back to my personal prudity. I taped stuff I wouldn't have if it were me. But it seems welcome, for which I was glad.

The most hysterical part of watching my son's birth video is DH looking every few minutes for progress. The camera was on a tripod unattended. The doctor that delivered was a tiny woman likely not 5' and she and Brendon were a mighty cute combo delivery team.

The geeks would appreciate DH watching the monitors and telling me when I was having a contraction. "Yes dear, I know."

Reminds me of that Murphy Brown episode where Murphy is hooked up to the machine that monitors and predicts her contractions and Jim yells "She's going to blow!"

I need a good name for it, though. iBob was the name of the last one. Any suggestions?

iMike?

iMike?

The one-armed iPod.

Shrift, sorry your trip home was sucky. Looks like we were in intermission by the time you got home.

I arrived home to learn that my building has been sold.

That doesn't seem right, aurelia.

Fight Science on National Geographic this weekend

Hee! And I think I will be in places with cable access, too!

Heh. Well, even when I was making next to no money, in college doing work-study, or after college temping, somehow I have never lived paycheck to paycheck. Honestly, I don't even budget, really...I mean, I know that my actual bills (rent, insurance, utilities) are less than my pay, and I guess I just...spent less when I made less? I dunno. I think I never bought clothes in college. These days I buy lots more clothes.

But thinking about that and feeling oddly guilty about it and then reading the "go send Buffistas money" means I just did. :) Yay guilt!

Ooh, thanks for the heads up, ita! I shall watch, or rather, set the TiVo up to do it's magic stuff.

I keep telling the higher ups at krav that they have to sell the fact that it works for smaller women. *I* know it works for the smaller sex, but I never viewed it skeptically or with fear. Or for self defense, honestly.

They tend to show off with the biggest guys. Why in gods name would I be convinced by a fight system this guy finds effective? I wager he finds everything, up to and including badminton effective self defense. I am more interested in what she can use.

Did they take what I said to heart? Tune in this weekend to be sure, but it's basically an escalating arms race (no pun intended). Some nice arms, though.

Huh. Very simple, almost obvious idea for water conservation.

I can't help but seeing this method of organising bookshelves as missing the point.

It's pretty common for people to come into the library and say, "I was using this book, about X. I can't remember the title or author. It's blue..."

(When we find it, the book is invariably about Y, and red, of course.)