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Picaso at the Lapin Agile by Steve Martin
February 9, 10 and 11
7:00pm
Ironwood High School

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Totally wish I knew how to embed…because I would.  Instead I will just link.

The Internet on the desktop had been out for the past couple of days. I stayed home from the church business meeting with two sick daughters this afternoon. I decided, “Hey! I’ll get the desktop up and running again.”

The fact that Space Buddies was playing in the background was not a help. You should know that we have sneezed so much that my youngest is currently fake sneezing, saying, “Achoo! Oh, bless you!” over and over again in a sing-song voice.

I went on Microsoft’s Social Problem website to find a fix to my Internet connection (I browsed using the MacBook – Internet to the home was just fine). The solutions ranged from “re-install Windows 7″ to “don’t let your computer go to sleep”.

Don’t let your computer go to sleep? Wasn’t that Nightmare on Elm Street?

I tried one option that involved ipconfig and the typing of subnet masks. When that didn’t work, I tried the whole “unplug the router, modem, and computer then watch Budderball pass gas in his space suit then reconnect everything” option.

That one always works.

And Windows 7 Help Desk people – when my Internet is down, please don’t offer “have someone remotely connect to your computer” as the only Troubleshooting Wizard solution.

But kudos on Office 2010. I’m digging Word and Excel. PowerPoint, why can’t you be more like Keynote? [PowerPoint hangs its head and shuffles away.]

Internet’s up, I’m typing away, and now I will collapse on the couch.

It looks like their movies won’t stink:

Lightning Thief

and

Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Diary Of A Wimpy Kid

Also, book three to the Hunger Games has a release date. August 24, 2010 (see? I told you it would be one a year).

We have a firefighter in the library talking to our students. Two pieces of superhero wisdom from him:

1. All fires eventually die out; it’s just how much damage they do we try and prevent.
2. All cats eventually come down from trees.

You should see one of the .asf (who uses .asf?) movies I converted for a HazMat specialist today. A silo caught on fire and rocketed hundreds of feet in the air. At first I joined the students with, “Whoa! That was awesome!” and then realized: this is one of our student’s dads. Imagine if that’s your dad running into the giant explosion.

Timothy, you have my respect.

So when NBC debuts The Cape, about an angst-ridden ex-cop who turns to the superhero lifestyle, I will probably view it more like SuperBabies(and does NBC really need more angsty heroes? Because Sylar’s doing so well, I hear (only rumor, since I haven’t watched that whinefest for a season now)).

I’m going to be playing in the staff basketball game next month. Jean Claude and I have one thing against us when trying to revisit athletic competition (at least I actually played my sport).

We’re both old. As I’m looking at our team’s roster, I’m hoping the other school’s staff is just as decrepit. I have a torn ligament, this guy just got done with knee surgery, this woman just had a hip replaced…

Remember when they called Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson old at 33?

It’s starting. Being President is making Obama’s hair turn gray.

I have to admit that I kept refreshing my browser (all the good sites were blocked) during the iPadapalooza whereas I wasn’t as glued to the State of the Union. I think that may be because we all have a general sense of the state of the union versus anything from Steve Jobs always promises to be a turtlenecked spectacle.

I still think that Obama should have presented a keynote using the tablet and then ended with, “Oh? What’s this, you ask? Why it does…” and then list off the tech specs. I also think that, of the stuff the iPad has, it was a big oversight to leave off a microSD slot. Of course they want you to spend more money on the bigger hard drives, but that instant expandability needs to be built into most devices these days.

If you remember a post from a while back, we looked at how being President of the United States was proof that stress causes gray hairs. Expect to see Obama’s hair get even grayer in the coming years.

His production company has a pilot TV show for NBC about a judge who becomes a private practice lawyer. Is this a simple ploy to win back fans to NBC? I don’t even know if Conan will star in it.

It was when I was in Battle School preparing for the third Formic invasion.

More random facts from books I read today:

The Jungle Cruise in Disneyland was told to ditch the red and white canopies to match Indiana Jones’ gritty realism.

Egroeg Sacul is one of the names paged in Star Tours.

Dustin Hoffman was originally picked to play Tom Cruise’s character in Rain Man. Steven Spielberg had to decline directing the film because he was busy with Indy 3. A young German composer had his first big break writing the soundtrack: Hans Zimmer.

Vangelis (composer for Blade Runner) had never done a movie soundtrack before Chariots of Fire. He was hesitant until he became inspired and wrote the entire soundtrack in a day.

Now that our late nights have a gap of free time (watch Leno? Tontería), I can practice more Spanish:

Vierta el hormigón aquí.
Pour the concrete here.

Este es la ventana.
This is the window.

Brad Pitt y Angelina Jolie se separan definitivamente.
Even worldwide there’s TMI about celebrities.

Let’s add to the review from previous lessons:
Me llamo _____.
My name is _____ .

Tengo un martillo y clavos.
I have a hammer and nails.

¿Mi barba es muy buena, sí?
My beard rocks.

¿El X-wing rota puede consigo un paseo?
My X-wing broke down. Could I get a ride?