Good morning! For once it's kind of a dawdling weekday morning. Michelle doesn't have to teach a class and her chemotherapy was postponed to tomorrow. The kids have scheduled two hour delayed starts. And I'm going to be working from home. Maybe I can actually enjoy breakfast rather than snarfing it down.
I'm very jealous of my Chicago area friends and family: This weekend is the Chicago Auto Show. I used to love going to that!
Playing with (related link) - a lightweight Twitter client that doesn't try to be the uber-screen-dominating app.
After putting the boys down to bed, I watched season 1 episode 12 of "Chuck", "Chuck vs. the Undercover Lover" with Michelle and our girls. (related link)
Bookmarks I made today:
Twitter / Jeff Miller
Comment: One of my favorite tweets yesterday... [Thanks Jeff Miller]
Excerpt: "Why do you look at the notes that is in your brother's hand, but do not notice the telemprompter that is in your own eye?
Cost Comparison of the Major Cell Phone Plans
Comment: I mention this because every so often folks start to consider whether they're are getting ripped off on their cell phones and might find a better deal elsewhere.
Excerpt: Having previously crunched the numbers on smartphone features and cost of ownership, service comparison site BillShrink now offers an informative infographic showing the costs of every carrier's 500, 1000, and unlimited minute plans, with and without texting and data.
‘”Whatacutiepiekittahbooboo”
Comment: Someone really should tell the women in our house... ;-P [That cat looks a lot like our ol' cat George - as in, "I will love him and squeeze him and call him George"]
Excerpt: Whatacutiepiekittahbooboo is not a word in English language
Twitter / Jim DeMint
Comment: My vote for wittiest tweet today, courtesy Senator Jim DeMint [via DrudgeReport]
Excerpt: It's going to keep snowing in DC until Al Gore cries "uncle"
Audio updates for Feb 10th
Comment: My audio updates for Feb 10th. (~2 1/2 minutes)
Newt Gingrich and John Goodman: Ten GOP Health Ideas for Obama - WSJ.com
Comment: If the President is really willing to listen to both sides now...
Excerpt: In The Wall Street Journal, Newt Gingrich and John C. Goodman offer health-care reforms that both Democrats and Republicans should be able to agree on.
St. Scholastica
Comment: Did today's saint, St. Scholastica, start that publishing company that's always trying to sell books to my kids? ;-D
Excerpt: St. Scholastica, sister of St. Benedict, consecrated her life to God from her earliest youth. After her brother went to Monte Cassino, where he established his famous monastery, she took up her abode in the neighborhood at Plombariola, where she founded and governed a monastery of nuns, about five m...
Snowlapse 2010
Comment: Cool time lapse video showing the effects of last week's snow storm in DC.
Excerpt: Time lapse video of the Feruary 5-6 snowfall in DC. Nikon D200 set to make an exposure every 5 minutes. 328 frames at 12 fps.
Aging Hippie Paradise
Comment: See the backstory and lyrics here. It's a quite a bit off key, but funny if you're tired of seeing liturgical experimentation at the Mass.