Is this really my life?

I'm out of my depth...

2008-02-19T22:41:38Z

so I'm writing an article for my prospective jewish wedding newsletter on having an "eco-kosher" wedding. And so I read through "eco-chic weddings" and "simply green parties" and I have half a dozen additional books on the subject on order at the library (no point in purchasing just yet).
I've also reviewed a number of websites dealing with this.

Here's my first, of what I'm sure will be many, questions on the subject.

One of my notes of a tip I keep seeing repeated is is "only include direction cards for guests who don't use the Internet." But all that would do is encourage guests to use their own printers and use more paper, whereas most venues have stock of pre-printed direction cards. Usually you can get 4 cards to one sheet of 8 1/2 x 11 paper, unlike people who print their own maps and may use 1-2 sheets. So it would seem to me the more eco-friendly choice is to use the paper that's already been printed, no? Not sending them to guests with GPS seems like a good idea, but how on earth would you know which guests have GPS and which don't?
Am I missing something here, or are the sources I've read missing something?

more advice sought: really long term media storage

2007-11-30T16:02:32Z

Computers have a life span. Companies, no matter how fantastic, often have life spans. While I'm willing to risk uploading all my pics & videos of Shevs to google for now, I want a long term back up. You know, for when she's all grown up and stuff (though that'll never happen, will it? she's staying this small and cuddly forever, right?).
Are DVDs really the best way to go for backups of this stuff (pics & videos, mostly)?
Thanks!

Funniest hubby

2007-11-30T14:20:24Z

My husband is just the funniest... we have the sandra boyton books. and he read through "blue hat, green hat" but instead of reading "oops" at the end of each page, he said "but not the hippopotamus" (blue hat, green hat, red hat, but not the hippopatamus!) and then he read "but not the hippapotamus" but said "oops" instead of "but not the hippopatomus!" (the hog and a frog cavort in the bog, Oops!). the whole way through both of them. Shevs stared at him like he was nuts - and at me for laughing so hard.
I guess you have to know the books to get the joke...

Best way to dispose of old computers and parts?

2007-11-29T16:44:48Z

Anybody have advice on how best to dispose of some old, relatively useless, computers and random computer parts? I'd prefer something charitable, but I'll settle for just environmentally friendly.

Need some help of the technical sort

2007-11-07T22:59:41Z

I have dozens of short videos of Elisheva saved on my hardrive. Most are also uploaded to google videos and posted in her blog. I'd like to also copy them to a dvd. I don't have a dvd burner, but that's the 2nd problem. The first problem is that I'd like to organize and add short titles to them before burning them so that if we watch the dvd on the t.v. there's a brief introduction.
Anybody know of a website/company that does this? I dont' mind paying for the service... just want it done so I can clear some space on my hardrive. (over 15 GB just of pics and videos of Shevs...)

Why I still love sesame street

2007-10-25T15:27:55Z

GNN = Grouch News Network. Oscar the grouch is our host.
He's going around showing all these "bad news" stories around Sesame street. So Oscar here's a breaking news story alert (you hear a plate breaking) and we go to the scene to discover that poor cookie monster's cookie has broken. He's devastated! He's going on and on about how his cookie is broken. Oscar, attempting to make it worse, turns to the camera in a somber voice and says something like "Tragic story of monster with one perfect cookie now has to settle for two broken ones" or something which leads cookie monster to realize how terrific - two cookies! Now he's happy again! Oscar shlumps back to the "newsroom" (his garbage can) and takes a call from his girlfriend who tells him how terrible and awful it is that he reported good news! he has to report BAD news or she's going to change the channel and his ratings will plummet! So Oscar goes to the scene of Prince Charming trying to play checkers with SLeeping Beauty, but she keeps falling asleep! Oscar, again while trying ot make it worse, accidently tells the prince if he kisses Sleeping Beauty, she'll wake up so he does and all is well. Oscar returns to the newsroom devastated by his failure to report bad news! His girlfriend calls and says:
"If I wanted to watch trash news I'd change to FOX NEWS!"

Hehe.

A public service announcement

2007-10-24T20:22:53Z

Important info for those who cook:
http://www.barricksinsurance.com/KitchenOilFire1.wmv
NEVER THROW WATER ON A POT ON FIRE

And something lighthearteded. (I think this should be a Kilmer entry.)
"Breasts like Martinis":
http://www.slate.com/id/2174671/nav/tap3/

Ah Sesame Street, I've missed you

2007-08-24T18:51:47Z

What the heck happened to you anyway?

They changed the opening. The "Sunny Days" song is still there but they've changed it. There are new characters - which is fine w/me, since most of the old ones are still there. What I'm finding the most amusing is the amount of actor crossover between sesame street and saturday night live. Tina Fey as a book-a-neer was hysterical. Alas, Shevs didn't get the joke.

I remember Sesame street was brought to you by the letters of the day, a number of the day and the Helena Rubinstein foundation. Now McDonalds, and a bunch of other companies have their names in there. Thats kind of depressing to me, but I guess that's life. They have to take the $$ where they can.

Shevs and slept a bit better last night and I'm finding I have much more patience today than yesterday. I'm truly hoping that tonight she wont wake up at all at 3 a.m. She'll just skip and sleep straight 'til 6 a.m. (8 a.m. would be ideal, but I'm aiming to be reasonable and take what I can get here). I think in some ways it might be a good thing that Shevs is difficult at night. She's such an angel during the day I could see myself pushing for #2 ahead of schedule if she'd been an angel at night too. That wouldn't be good. I'm definitely not ready for #2 yet.

Another funny fact about Shevs, which won't surprise anyone: she's very giggly. She giggles at everything. I guess that's expected as I've been told I'm somewhat giggly myself. :-p

Oy. there she goes again trying to eat my wireless card. Why won't she play with HER toys? why does she keep trying to eat MINE?

AND THE DEMS DON'T SCREW IT UP!!

2006-11-08T04:09:34Z

CNN is projecting that the Democrats have taken control of the House of Representatives!

Holy cow... they didn't screw up. I'm speechless. Now to wait for the senate...

POLL - Major World/US Events from the past 100 years

2006-10-25T02:11:15Z

Name some major world or U.S. events from the past 100 years (1907-present day)

Examples:

WWI breaks out
JFK is assasinated
Women get the vote
Refrigerator is invented

oh - try to include the year, please.

Thanks in advance!

Out with the veggies, in with the chocolate

2006-10-11T01:14:56Z

Ok, so spinach and lettuce are out.. now carrots can paralyze you...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061010/hl_nm/tainted_juice_dc

So, I should skip the veggies and stick with chocolate and ice cream? Is that what the world is trying to tell me?

Alton Brown's take on the veggie crisis: http://www.altonbrown.com/adventure/knowledge/edible_news.html

and we're off....

2006-08-25T14:04:10Z

We're going camping. Yep... tents and everything. It's a four hour drive and Micah's doing the driving.

Wish me luck!!

Where Micah's been hiding...

2006-06-06T02:37:10Z

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/05/technology/05cnd-google.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/14748060.htm

http://www.thestreet.com/_googlen/tech/software/10289912.html?cm_ven=GOOGLEN&cm_cat=FREE&cm_ite=NA

marlarose @ 2006-04-25T22:57:00

2006-04-26T02:57:21Z

When did Boston Legal go all meta on me?

It's funny but... weird. Are they ending the show?

chometz on ebay?

2006-04-06T19:06:44Z

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=9505530539&rd=1&sspag

marlarose @ 2006-02-21T17:55:00

2006-02-21T22:51:26Z

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/17/AR2006021702499_2.html

marlarose @ 2006-02-09T16:48:00

2006-02-09T21:48:04Z

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STRIKE IS OVER

2005-12-22T16:26:05Z

The Strike is over!

Calling all artisty types

2005-11-30T14:13:30Z

I'm looking for a graphics person to design an animated (not flash) html banner ad AND to design an html-based email ad. Will pay. Somehow.

Ok, so I changed my mind.

2005-11-20T18:39:51Z

I know I said I wasn't going to read Harry Potter 6 until book 7 came out but I was bored and it was there...

So those who said that this one wasn't as bad as book 5, I agree. I wasn't as frustrated at the sheer unnecessary torment heaped upon Harry in book 5 and, to some degree, book 4. There still was unnecessary wordiness and, while I can understand that some plot points were entertaining, editing out the unnecessary would have helped reduce the page numbers. Seriously, as decent (sorry, this still wasn't the fabulousness of the first 2 books) as this one was, it could have been better if her editor weren't so damn afraid of her.

I'm trying to decide whether or not there is any doubt as to Dumbledore's demise or if I'm just as naively hopeful as those who don't think Snape is really gone over the dark side. I'm willing to consider that Snape is really a double agent, but... I don't know. I like to think, like everybody else, that Dumbledore had a really good reason for trusting him. But he's always unnecessarily mean to the weaker students like Neville. He may have been tormented by other students when he was a student, but Harry was as well in the last 2 books and yet Harry hasn't let rage eat away his ability to be kind and understanding. Book 7 would have to do a complete reworking of Snape's character to convince me that there's anything good left in him - even if he is on Dumbledore's side. Not being evil doesn't necessarily mean there's anything good left in him.

Dammit.. now i'm going to have to preorder book 7. I've managed to avoid that until now.

Overall, I'd rank this one as my 3rd favorite (1 & 2 being tied for first and 3rd being 2nd). Not as good as the first few but definitely an improvement over the last 2.

update on my day

2005-11-03T22:14:12Z

I had 2 reese's peanut butter cups. Those were nearly orgasmically good. I was riding that wave through a fabulous Happy Shake from Great American Health Bar and a pretty good salad from the same place.

Returned to work. And was promptly smacked over the head with the period-induced MIGRAINE FROM HELL.

please... just shoot me now. please? I don't want to know what else is coming today...

supremely cranky

2005-11-03T17:34:58Z

whyyyyy is my period a whole entire WEEK early???
Not just 4 days like last month ... a whole F(*)#(@ WEEEK!!!!

Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.

AND I'm at the law firm today. Did I get ANYTHING done yesterday with my precious day off? Nooooooo... I finished editing one lousy article for my website and got some laundry done. No progress on the kitchen mess. No progress on the filing mess. No progress on the other 12 articles I want finished by next friday. AND, naturally, practically no progress on Nano. Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.

Did I mention that my period is a #@()@$%( WEEK EARLY??

I want chocolate and I want it now.

marlarose @ 2005-10-31T17:00:00

2005-10-31T22:03:17Z

It's not every day you overhear in the office: "The senior partner needs his skull back. Make sure to wrap it up well, he wants it to be a surprise."

Just putting that out there.

new "wag the dog" phrases needed

2005-10-10T04:45:32Z

We need a few new "wag the dog"esque phrases: one for the irritating phenomenon where a politician losing ground announces heightened security due to a potential threat for the sole purpose of deflecting attention of him and his ever-increasingly-obviously corrupt administration. No, not Bloomberg (since i dont' think this particular one made him look great). Bushie is at it again, except this time things didn't go quite as planned since Bloomberg beat him to announcing it and - gasp! - took actual steps to try to protect the city, while Bush probably had some plan to announce that under his fearless leadership a credible threat to NYC had been thwarted. Now he just looks inept, as usual, since once again the communication between local (i.e. those who are first responders by necessity) and Bush's inept admin.

I"m stumped as to an appropriate phrase for this one.

THe other for when the politician indulges in blatant innappropriate cronyism - like appointing a horse trainer to be the director of the Federal Emergency Management office, or when he appoints his personal lawyer and sycophant to the supreme court. For this one, i'm thinking "tapping that shit" could be the phrase, since it's slang for screwing someone, and simultaneously describes the candidates qualifications for the job in question, but I doubt that the CNN comentators would bandy it around as much as they did "wag the dog."

THoughts?

If you see this on your flist, quote some Shakespeare.

2005-09-23T04:04:23Z

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

oddly morbid considering it's my birthday.