This is for Jenny’s Make Me Laugh Monday, a leftover picture from Halloween.
This is my friend’s 2 year old boy as a TIVO remote. 
She said they got a lot of “positive responses” about his costume. See his little antenna?
We love our TIVO. 
Join the fun with Jenny each Monday!
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Posted in Bainbridge Island, WA
We visited the San Diego Zoo recently (and I might have gloated slightly about it). While they have tons of animals (literally), it was the young-uns who won the prize for most adorable.
Let’s just cut to the chase: baby panda. Could she be any cuter?
Mom has the baby stay in the tree sling (available at amazon.com for us?) while she sleeps, eats, and poops. Not necessarily in that order. I can testify that the baby panda had her scene figured out, too, and pooped from the sling, hanging her rump over the edge. In such a cute way.
When we first walked up to their exhibit, two of three pandas pooped in the first minute. I’m sure that’s some kind of warm, welcome greeting in pandaland.
Well, warm at least.
Still cute. Tummy sunbathing.
While across the yard, mama began the big excitement for viewers: no, not more poo. Eating bamboo! I look the same way when I’m eating some that beef jerky the hubs made.
The hubs could have stayed as long as his camera held out. I think he has 53 minutes of Panda Eating Bamboo. Which I’ll probably post here tomorrow on a slow news day.
Kid was not so taken with the pandas, however, and tugged and moaned to leave. This, after tugging and moaning to see the pandas from Bainbridge Island across the park.
Although she did like her new hat.
The other remarkable creature was this:
The Chacoan Peccary. Thought by scientists to be extinct, they were discovered alive and well in the Chaco region of Paraguay in the 1970′s. Those were good drugs back then.
And recently had a river sandal named after them. OK, they’re not so much cute, as alive.
He is cute:
And baby girl giraffe, also cute:
Interestingly, she was trying to get to mom, the farthest one away (head cut off in shot–hey, YOU try to get pictures of giraffes fast!), blocked by the other females. Mom was trying to avoid nursing, so baby would eat leaves instead. Her posse helped her out.
When she needs her alone time, you just don’t mess with mama.
Can I hear an Amen?
So, those were the kids at the zoo. Hope I didn’t bore you with all the cuteness.
Now, we’re just back home to our fuzzy beast.
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This just in:
Rachael at Scientific Nature of the Whammy had this link, ZooBorns, that has photos of babies at zoos around the world. Such jaw-dropping cuteness.
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Combine rain with a no-school day, and what do you get? A mob scene at the local movie theater. No parking spaces, long lines, it was like going to a movie in L.A., without the smog or the parking fees.
Should you go see it? For a kid’s movie sequel, I’d say it wasn’t bad. I laughed out loud a few times and felt it mostly moved along fine. But I have to ask: are these things getting louder? With more choppy action scenes? I was tired by the end. And the Kid had several breakdowns from the moment we left the theater, but that could be coming down from her Junior Mint high.
As with the first Madagascar, those penguins stole the show. Shana and I totally agree on that. The penguins fly the gang out of Madagascar and end up in Africa. At first (perhaps an homage to Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods???), they think they’ve found all that they’re looking for: wild animals that look like them, a place they belong, a place they are from, a beautiful setting, all that good stuff. Alas, it was too early in the movie for a happy ending.
I thought overall the movie was a little intense (from my third row seat) in terms of action, noise, music, and there were a few fight scenes with a crazy old lady New Yorker with a pocketbook (and a rifle later) against the animals. So sensitive middle-aged parents youngsters might be overwhelmed. The crazy mob of kids in the theater, however, enjoyed it.
I also appreciated the “being different is okay” theme and the “finding love with someone different” theme, especially in this current Prop 8 world. Warning: interspecies love involved!
In sum, I mostly grinned, laughed a little and didn’t groan, so go see it with your kids. You could do much worse.
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adjective:
Cheap and showy, tawdry; also, spurious, counterfeit.The distortions they bring on damage society and fuel defiant behavior, encouraging everything from immigrations to the Cayman Islands, to active distortions of reality through brummagem corporate filings.
– William F. Buckley, Jr., “Reforming the Rich”, National Review, January 20, 2006Brummagem is an alteration of Birmingham, England, from the counterfeit groats produced there in the 17th century.
I mostly liked this word for the example sentence about the dubious corporate filings. Seems like everyone is lining up for money lately. The hubs We made some real bad investments. I wanna be bailed out! Don’t you?
Also, this definition and its origin made me look up “groats” which I know as food, like oat groats (which the hubs buys so I can break my arm grinding them into oatmeal). Why would someone in the 17th century pawn off fake oatmeal?
See, I’m getting smarter by the second with the weekly words….aren’t you?
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Hey, turns out there’s an online form to apply for government money. I read about it here. Yea, I got your Troubled Asset Recovery Program right here…..
Or, maybe we skip the official route and start making our own brummagem groats. What’d ya say?
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Posted in brilliant ideas, food, words
We’re getting another Pineapple Express going on here. Are they really supposed to issue flood warnings before the rain even starts?
And if you haven’t had the pleasure of a Pineapple Express, you can read about them here. Apparently, if you don’t go to Hawaii, it will come to you. Minus the sun part.
How do you cope with this wetness?
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Posted in Bainbridge Island, WA, regional, weather
Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net
This is for all you Puget Sound people who got soaked this past week. It’s not for me. It’s for you. Why? Because while you guys were getting as much rainfall within 48 hours as fell in all of October, I was in sunny, warm San Diego, California.
Oh, yea, baby. Eating tortillas, drinking margaritas, wearing shorts, sunglasses, and sunscreen (remember that stuff? you probably have a bottle from 2003).
Finally, I timed a vacation just right.
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Posted in Bainbridge Island, WA, life is good, regional, weather
Otherwise, I’m sure that wild mustang would be long gone by now.
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