drink yr poot

after news of gov. palin’s teen daughter’s pregnancy broke, i thought to myself (and to erin), i hope obama doesn’t use this. it’s typical to go for the groin shot in politics, use an advantage like a teenage pregnancy in the family (or a wife’s alchoholism, or whatever) to drag your opponent’s name in the mud.  if barack is everything he says he is, he wouldn’t stoop to those tactics.  well, fox news (!!) reports that obama says palin’s family is off limits, citing his own mom’s 18 years when she had him.

thank god.  this just goes to confirm my beliefs that obama is, in fact, awesome.

gavin really likes blue’s clues.

he’s started finding clues throughout the house.  he says “A clue! A clue!” when he sees something paw-shaped around the house.  this is a really post-modern experience for me and brings up an interesting question.

what is this thing that we’re finding clues for?  i haven’t written down all the clues in my Handy Dandy Notebook or sat in my Thinking Chair to Think.  Think.  Think. yet, but still…

i also think we’ve found more than 3 clues.  this is definitely an elaborate game of blue’s clues.

this time hosted by the new jazzsequence community network site. w00t.

(erin found a neat photoshop tutorial on creating bling text)

alright folks, i got the movie to work.  it may still require you to download the divx codec so it’ll play (i recommend getting some sort of all-in-one pack like this), and it won’t work on macs (specifically calls windows media player) but it’s not in some weird format and it streams so it doesn’t take forever waiting for 47mb to download over dialup (although, i can’t imagine it’ll be terribly fantastic over dialup anyway).  anyway, it’s back over on the original post

i also grabbed, and made internet-ready, the short movie i did with josh, a guy in a hat kills another guy in a hat, which i’m planning on posting soon, too.

 so i’m feeling kind of disoriented today.  i finished my last web site on friday, which was a half day since i was on call last week.  i deliberately did not ask for another project because by the time the site was approved it was close to 5pm and i didn’t think i’d be able to call another client before the end of the business day so i’d probably just be sitting on it all weekend, and i thought it would be nice to have a weekend.  so now, on this fabulous weekend i constructed, i keep checking my email, doing things on the computer for no apparent reason and generally waiting.  why am i waiting?  i have no idea.  it’s like i’m waiting for something to happen but nothing will because there’s nothing pending.  so the first real weekend in which i don’t really have anything to do, i’m too busy expecting to have to do something to just sit back and chill, like the intent was.  grrrr…

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i’m gonna start making more interesting and descriptive tags.  because, you know, that’s fun.

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i found some sesame street stuff to download before demonoid went down, the old school stuff, which gavin seems to like.  we read an article that was about stuff we already were starting to think in which the fast-paced and more violent (or at least depicting violence as funny, like the bop the guy over the head and laugh type stuff) kids programming is bad for attention stuff, so…sesame street and baby einstein and lots of other stuff like that it is.  it’s weird watching sesame street and it’s weird watching gavin get into this stuff that we both watched as kids, and occasionally some of the songs are so surreal and post-modern that it’s hilarious (like the crosby, stills, nash, and young-worthy “I Live in a Capital I” which has harmonies and minor chords like “A Horse With No Name.”)

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there’s some new pics i took today in the gallery and i uploaded some pics of us (and the same gavin pics) to flickr, cuz i decided it was time that there was at least some pictures of, you know, us.  on our flickr account. also, i did some updates to the forums, and since wordpress isn’t the best for having an actual conversation i encourage everyone (if anyone is listening) to head over there if ya wanna hang out in a virtual sense.