My toe got pretty black after banging it against the chair on my way to the computer. (Shut up!) Anyway, it made me think of one of the funny scenes in Lost in Translation, a movie I enjoy quite a bit.

I was telling Dawn about the scene a couple days ago, but for some reason I started thinking of it again tonight and did a quick look-up of the script online:

Charlotte: [after Bob tells her of his back pain] I'm in pain, I got my foot banged up. Wanna see it?
Bob: [to Chef, sarcastically] How do you say no?
[sees the foot]
Bob: Oh, my gosh! When did you do this?
Charlotte: I did it the other day, it hurts, y'know?
Bob: Didn't you feel any pain?
Charlotte: Yeah, it really hurt.
Bob: That toe is almost dead.
[Charlotte laughs]
Bob: I think I got to take you to a doctor, you can't just put that back in the shoe. Well, you either go to a doctor or you leave it here.
[regarding Chef]
Bob: He's smiling. You like that idea? See they love black toe in this country.
[Charlotte continues laughing]
Bob: [to Chef] You got a sharp knife?
Bob: [to Charlotte] Gotta be, you know, in this country--somebody's gotta prefer a black toe. Uh, "brack" toe. We should probably hang around until someone orders it.

Lost in Translation is one of those love it or hate it films. I for one think it's fantastic. I don't have the guts to ask our sushi chef if they'd like to have my black toe however. (What if he said yes?) And besides, it's getting better.

I think you have to click on this to make it bigger. Anyway, I don't think this is supposed to happen!

Since my family never twitters any more, I'm posting this helpful and instructional video:

Well, I went browsing around the Internet as I do when I need a break from whatever it is I do -- in this case trying to decide what colors I might like for the logo. And I found this video which includes a perfect rendition of Pumpkin.

Here's a shot of her in front of my old monitor for comparison...


I love you Pumpkin. :p

Tom, I just learned that we actually did build the collider in Texas. However, it destroyed 99.9999 percent of the planet... and human race. We used all of our remaining resources to research, and then build, a time travel device that would send a single traveler back in time.

That mission was successful, and the LHC is now in Geneva, and smaller. However, not having the collider in Texas deprived us of vital information and another traveling is coming back from a different future to teach us how to use the collider in Texas properly.

So before you know, the LHC will be ours, and America will be one again top-dog in the world of physics.

By the way, if the time travel has you confused, check out this old Steven Colbert, Tek Jensen
video.

Thanks to Nik for this link and clip. The Daily Show has been a little hit or miss lately, but this is brilliant. It's nice to see someone compile the hypocrisy of the conservative propaganda machine.



I love it when Nancy Pfotenhauer almost says "from a feminist perspective." Funny line they have to toe now.

Anyway, I miss Hillary.

It's all good.

This picture is how I feel about computers most days, especially doing anything at work where we actively strive to crush innovation and good ideas at every turn. Nothing specifically has happened to cause me to write this tonight, only that I came across this really, really, really cute video and I giggled hard at the particular scene above.

I have to say that not only is this video cute, it's really well done. There are great nuances in the facial expressions throughout the whole thing: a shift of the jaw after "do you know why you're here," and a twitch of an eyebrow after, "it looks like you're witting a letter!" Brilliant, brilliant stuff.

And if you didn't catch it on Twitter, the video below is also wonderful. Aside from the voice actress getting a little too close to the mic/loud after at the end of the robot bit, it's perfect. I showed it to Dawn and told her I imagined her like this as a little girl. I didn't get much of a response on that, so who knows. But what a cute video!







The voices aren't the same, but somehow the voice actress in this short reminds me of Kirsten Dunst in Kiki's Delivery Service. (Which she did an amazing job in.)

For the love of all that is good! Why? Why?

Cakes gone horribly, horribly wrong:
http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/

Wait until you get to the "baby cake." You'll know when you get there.