As Douglas Adams put, humans really can’t deal with having a sense of proportion. We aren’t capable. But we can stretch for it…
(I can touch my toes, but I can’t bend further over… but I should try to)
Take 5 minutes and read this fantastic piece on an image from Hubble Ultra Deep Field. It’s a great reminder of what we know about space and a few tools to help you start to realize that you can’t ever come close to grasping a true sense of proportion.
I may well get around to uploading pictures of it myself, but until then… I’m going to ride on the accolades of giants… My mom flew into town and has already posted a bunch of photos with captions:
http://picasaweb.google.com/cathypennington/AnitaSBabyShower
Update: 2007.12.26
I finally got around to uploading the images for this babyshower in my photos.
I’ve been working part time for AudiologyOnline for months (after hours and on the weekends), and have finally started there full time as of Nov 15th. It’s been wonderful, not only has everyone been very nice and supportive, but I’ve ben able to jump in with both feet and get to work.
It’s meeting time central. I’m in LA for a conference on Local Search this week and in Dallas for a company meeting next week.
This site [hearthsong] looks like they have a lot of really cool stuff for kids… In a couple of years I suspect we’ll get a bunch of stuff from here – a lot of learning toys and slightly less corporate-nickelodeon commercialism (it seems).
This is about the best news ever. (my stomach thinks so)
We just heard about this today, and went to Maido’s (in Louisville, KY – map)…. it was absolutely fantastic!
For less than $9, you get to pick over some of the best Japanese food in Louisville. As of now, it’s only been open for lunch for about a week and there were few people there. So go quick.
I suspect when word of this gets out, it will either stop or get ridiculously busy.
So, I’ve been remiss to put anything about us on here recently. I’m thinking that I might split the blog into two seperate blogs… one on the Blounts, and one on general stuff I feel like talking about… 2 weeks. (the perpetual two weeks)
Anyway…
Anita’s very pregnant… always holding her belly and still, gloriously asymptomatic. She’s working at a low cost mdeical center pharmacy for this month’s rotation. not very interesting for her.
Sadly for Bush and Cheney, Greenspan decided to put prudence aside in his new book, The Age of Turbulence, and answer the most neuralgic issue of our times – why the United States invaded Iraq.
Greenspan writes:
“I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.”
Everyone knows? Would that it were so. But it’s hardly everyone. Sometimes I think it’s hardly anyone.
This is a fear inspiring story, all too easy to imagine. Carol Trainer could hardly process what was happening. To her, a
60-year-old grandmother and Vietnam veteran, of all people. On Memorial
Day, of all times. Arrested for protesting the war…
“He comes up to me and says, ‘Drop your sign,’” Trainer recalls. “I
said, ‘Why?’ He said, ‘I told you to drop your sign.’ He grabbed it out
of my hand when I didn’t drop it.
Well… it’s been a day – just like any other day. I wore black… biked to work… worked… biked home and walked in the park with Anita and Nova. A beautiful day. Nothing in my day to tie this date with six years ago… I was looking for it to come up.
Perhaps if I watched television more, or talked to strangers more… perhaps if I got out of my daily life and tried to make a change in the world which reflected my beliefs (such as they are)… perhaps if I didn’t live so comfortably I’d work to fix what seems obviously wrong with the world.
This is an excellent article, discussing the specific misunderstandings and mistakes made by the US government in response to the 911 attack on the WTC and Pentagon.
“Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward … and freedom will be defended.” In other words, George W. Bush thought that the reason the United States was attacked was that the attackers hated our freedom. How did he reach this conclusion?