I Never Promised You an Organic Garden

I just can’t resist these videos. I swear they are modeled after my psycho cat.

This video is hilarious and quite poignant.  It defiantly makes you think.  Leave it to MADTV to make fun of Steve Jobs and George W. Bush at the same time:

As promised in an earlier blog post, I have created a photo album of some of my favorite Wii playing photos.  I will add more photos over time, so don’t be surprised if you see yourself or one of your friends.  There are some quite entertaining photos, so check them out!

Anyone who has a cat, as I do, will find this quite familiar:

As the Presidential campaign heats up and we move closer to the 2008 elections, the potential problems with electronic voting become more and more pressing. Between the lack of a paper trail, closed-source software, and the hackability of voting kiosks, there are some serious potential concerns.

Personally, I think if done the right way, electronic voting could be safe and possible, but it would require open-source software, stronger checks and balances, a paper trail, and most importantly, our shadowy overlords preventing Diebold from leaking the election results early:

Definitely makes you think!

For all you Star Wars fans:

This weekend Matt and I participated in Iron Chef Bethany. For those of you who don’t know a lot about Iron Chef, it is a Food Network TV show where two chefs (an Iron Chef and a competitor) compete to cook six dishes in an hour using a secret ingredient. Each dish is judged on plating, taste, and originality and an overall winner is determined by three celebrity judges.

Obviously, Iron Chef Bethany had to be slightly different, but we had a blast anyway. There were three teams, four judges, and one very orange secret ingredient — CARROTS. Matt, Karen and Travis Poling, Chris Hardie, and myself formed the Fairview Five and made 6 carroty dishes:

• Carrot jello jigglers
• Carrot, cabbage, broccoli, and bean sprout spring rolls
• Homemade carrot pasta with carrot marinara sauce
• Spicy peanut carrot soup
• Carrot ginger sorbet
• Carrot cake with cream cheese frosting

All the dishes turned out great, and I even helped cook. I didn’t burn anything, break any dishes, set anything on fire, leave out any ingredients, or cause anything to fall on my head. All in all it was a very successful day in the kitchen.

Unfortunately our team only received the “most creative use of the secret ingredient” award, but there were lots of great carrot dishes, and everyone had a wonderful time.

If you want to see some more photos, checkout my Facebook photo album or, if you don’t use Facebook, my Picasa Web Album.

I just finished reading The Golden Compass for my book club and loved it. After some rousing conversation about what our daemons would be at this evening’s meeting I took the online test at the Golden Compass website.

Now you can see the results and chime in about whether you agree.

I heard this song recently on net@nite then saw the video in Amber Mac’s blog. It keeps getting stuck in my head so I thought I would share.

The video is actually created by cutting and pasting together various Apple iphone commercials to make the lips of the man match the words in the song. Pretty impressive if you ask me.

This has been quite a fun filled and varied weekend…

Friday night we had a group of people over to have dinner and play with our new wii. It was quite a spectacle! Seeing 7 grown adults shaking the wiimote like sugar crazed children was very entertaining. We took plenty of photos, and after looking at them, I think I will definitely have to create a wii photo gallery in my Picasa web album.

Here a few samples of what is yet to come:

Saturday Matt and I joined a large group from the church and went to the ice skating rink at Miami University of Ohio in Oxford. We only skated for 2 hours, but it was quite a workout. Unfortunately, at the end of our time I took a catastrophic fall and landed hard on my knee. I have a nice black and blue goose egg but fortunately no real damage.

I also spent some time indulging my geekie tendencies.  I built the newest version of banshee (an open source Itunes equivalent) from the source.  It was a quite a different experience than installing a program that comes prepackaged.  After installing things from the command line, I felt a much greater since of accomplishment than just clicking install in Windows and letting the computer do it itself.   I also spent time playing tech support for my grandparents.

All in all it was a great weekend!