back at base, bugs in the software flash the message: something’s out there… Twenty-seven years ago today, a man named Stanislav Petrov saved the entire world. Petrov was a Lieutenant Colonel working in a top-secret Soviet nuclear defense bunker outside of Moscow. One of his co-workers called out sick, and [...]
we need a montage!
I had a lot of fun with the first project for my video class, and am really enjoying digging back into FinalCut Pro.
let’s get a few facts straight
Things the Nazis said about the Jews:
1. Communist/socialists
2. Not “real”/loyal citizens
3. Had a homosexual agenda …
Editing Palin
Vanity Fair sics an executive editor, a factchecker, and a copyeditor on Palin’s resignation speech. The result is pure art. vanity fair | palin’s resignation: the edited version
8 things that need to go away in 2009, revisited
A mid-year check-in on my “Things that need to go away in 2009″ post, to see how much progress we’ve made as a culture.
Justice[s] for all
So, this Souter thing. Interesting.
Mostly, to me, because it opens up the possibility of getting a second (and maybe, eventually—wait for it!—an unprecedented third) woman on the bench. 8-to-1 is simply NOT RIGHT!
a crush on rbg
Sometimes I have days when Ruth Bader Ginsburg is my favorite person in the entire world. Today is like that:
I made this.
Because he’s totally not Vader; he’s Old Man Potter grumpface, all that whippersnapper Bailey’s Savings and Loan is nothing but a miserable little socialist scam!
On #amazonfail
When I was in high school, the American Taliban took over my town’s school board.
One of their first moves was to create a policy banning the school from “encouraging, or supporting homosexuality as a positive lifestyle alternative.”
Leave Michelle’s arms alone!
Anyone who has a problem with Mrs. O’s off-one-shoulder beaded white gown obviously doesn’t remember that Nancy Regan wore an almost identical dress at her husband’s first inauguration
It’s a good new year.
I’m so glad I used a fraction of my zillion hours of banked time-off to extend the holiday into the Inauguration; this was just a fantastic weekend. I’ve been invited to put some art in a ladies’-only Valentine’s Day themed show at All Asia next month; more on that closer [...]
8 things that need to go away in 2009
In the spirit of my recent “Things that I bought that I love” tribute post, and with a nod to Arianna Huffington’s “Bye-Bye 2008: Things I Want to Forget,” here’s a list of things which all sane and rational humans should resolve to avoid in this young year. Some are altruistic, some are practical, some tongue-in-cheek. But I’m deadly serious about them all.
sneak peek
I’m frantically writing a blog entry encapsulating the amazing wonderfulness of the past two weeks, trying to finish my final project for my 3D animation class, and percolating a few dozen other plans. But I had to share http://dressregistry.com.
rehabilitation of a role-model.
No, Stephie, not Britney Spears. An article called Samantha Power Working On Obama’s State Department Transition Team came across my desktop last week, and makes me absurdly happy. I assume if you’ve been reading my blog for any length of time, you’ve figured out that I’m a bit of a [...]

