Yay Griffith Observatory! We just opened a new show in the planetarium up there.

I'm sorry about the Mac drama, msbelle. I wish I had something helpful to say about it. I don't. But I am sorry it's so hard.

Sometimes I imagine things from my school days, only with cell phones. When I was on an overnight chorus trip, with several buses of students, the bus-drivers got lost on the way home and we were very, very late. Instead of calling with a cell phone, which no one had, we had to stop at a laundromat, and use payphones for 2 kids from each bus to call their parents, give them all our parents' names and phone numbers, and then the one set of parents per bus had to call everyone AND drive to the school to let the parents waiting there know.

Then when we arrived at something like 3 am, we all had to line up to use the pay phone to let our parent's know to come get us! Although I think some people's parents just waited in their cars in the parking lot all night!

I believe it's an Egyptian belief that your spirit is destroyed if no one says your name, which leads to all those monuments with people's names that other people vengefully chip off.

I bet we could all come up with millions of uses for Giant Googly Eyes.

Superhero Saints

Neatorama sez:

Igor Scalisi Palminteri purchased a few images and figures of saints from street markets in his native Palermo. With a bit of acrylic paint and presumably some modeling clay, he turned them into serene and contemplative superheroes. You can find Superman, Catwoman, Spider-Man and more at the link.

Warning: possible time suck!

The Image Language

You type a sentence and it finds a picture (via google) that matches each word. So you end up with a "sentence" made up of pictures.

I love how much Liese is enjoying her telescope.

It is so great! It's kinda the "don't be bored, be interested" thing that I'm constantly telling my kids. But it really was the ideal extravagant gift, because I had the interest, but I never ever would have bought it for myself, and we wouldn't have afforded it out of our regular gifts budget. But from something like the SO's unexpected side job, it was a sacrifice for him, but something I've gotten a lot of joy from using. And he loves it too, so bonus.

Yay Griffith Observatory! We just opened a new show in the planetarium up there.

Oo, which show? I'd love to take the kids and tell them I know one of the people who put it together.

I've worked on all of the shows in the Planetarium. The latest one is called Time's Up.