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Yet another couple of evenings with a TV show, a movie, and a crappy deck of cards.  It’s the best use for bad cards I have found. 

I had about eight positions in this but I realized that the sun went behind a cloud half-way through shooting so I had only 4 to work with.  Oh, well.  =]

I was trying to set up the aperture so only the me in the middle had focus but it didn’t work.  I’ll play with that next time.

I made a new screen saver that is based on pendulums.  It doesn’t have the correct physics but it is a little more energetic this way.  It’s fun to watch at times…

Here’s another example of how quickly she is growing and learning.

I decided I would take a good portion of my free time this weekend to work on a screen saver idea I have had floating around.  I always have liked the idea of Zen gardens and the geometry and such.  I decided I would try to do something similar.  This is based on the Zen garden idea and unfortunately does not look like an actual Zen garden; that may have to wait until I have a lot more time…

This is written in C# and will likely require all kinds of frameworks.  I’ve got Visual Studio on all of my machines so I already have them and do not know which ones might be needed.  I’ll install it on Laura’s computer sometime and find out.

I like origami.  I find that all the instructions are extremely cryptic unless you actually know all of the lingo.  I don’t.  I have to guess from the illustrations.  Fortunately, this one had very good illustrations.  Unfortunately, some of the illustrations were the origami equivalent of “do a triple back flip” and even though I understood what I was supposed to do; pulling it off took skill I didn’t have.  You can see that one ear is split and fortunately, the biggest tear is on the back and is not visible.  I think it turned out pretty cool, though.

It all started with Nordstrom’s.  They sold license plate frames that catered to a group of people (mostly women, I think) that wanted to show their loyalty to the store.  It really seems a shallow gesture, though: it’s just for show and doesn’t say anything more than, “I spent $19.95 on this license plate frame.”  If they really wanted to show loyalty, they’d go the Harley-Davidson route and get tattoos.  That’s a tangent, though.  “I’d rather be shopping at Nordstrom’s” was the first that I saw in the long line of “I’d rather be…” license plate frames.  Since then, I’ve seen anything from shopping at [store of choice] to sailing, hiking, flying, and driving a Titlist (which I thought was very clever originally).  The thing is, I’d rather be driving.  I have always liked to drive.  I like going places and listening to music.  I like trying to guess which lane would be better down the road.  I just like driving.  All these other people that would rather be doing other things are just clogging the roads in my opinion.  Because of that, I have thought of making a license plate frame that says, “I’d rather you were doing something else, too…”

I realize that I haven’t updated this too much lately.  Between work, school, and family I haven’t had much time to do a lot so the most important thing gets the posts: namely, family.

This is Jillian with one of her favorite snacks: a Baby Mum Mum (actual product name).  They kind of look like the sharpening stones you put in parakeets’ cages but they’re like lightly sweetened rice crackers.  I do make it a point to try all of the food and snacks that I feed Jillian.  If I won’t eat it, it doesn’t seem fair to make her…

Click on the cuteness above to see all the latest pics we’ve taken of the Jilly-bean monster. =]

Laura has been very good at taking pictures of Jillian for the past month and she has taken some really good ones.  They are all up on Flickr in the Mar ‘09 set.