Weekly Swanspiration

In honor of my buddies who got married this week and celebrate today.  I hope this is what we all look like in a couple of hours.  Congrats, my dears.  :)

Going the extra mole...

Went upstate with some friends last weekend and spent a really relaxing time in the country which involved a lot of lounging, a little swimming in a local lake, and some light hiking.

Opting out

Originally titled "Facebook Can Blow Me" but that would have been fueling the "antisocial" take on the argument.

Cohesion on the Space Station

Initially saw this on Jezebel and Buzzfeed. The narrator is really digging his experiment. REALLY digging it. The narration and the visuals... don't always correspond.


"...so I'll end up drinking my experiment. You've gotta conserve your resources when you're in the frontier."


A Philosophy shared by many...

Cheers, hoopleheads and anachronistic swear words.

Best line of the narrator: "I'm gonna give it another puff. Just because I'm in space and I CAN."

That guy is having the greatest time.

Beginner's Film

A few weeks ago, I went to the Museum of the Moving Image with some of my former students.  We made a bunch of stop motion animation videos.  Here's mine.

It's about a girl's journey backwards in time, where she ultimately must confront the demons of childhood and come to terms with the darkness within her own mind. Narrated by Morgan Freeman.


Nah I'm kidding, it's a bunch of crap I had in my bag and some of the props from the museum that I futzed around with for 11 seconds worth of footage that took about 11 minutes to make.  Narrated by Morgan Freeman.

Kidding again.  It's narrated by Samuel L. Jackson.

Enjoy.

Geeking out on semiotics and graphs

Or How I Fell into an Internet Wormhole and Lost Several Hours of my Life

I'm not overly fond of the word "cute."  In specific instances, yes, it is perfectly appropriate. Volkswagon bugs are kinda cute.  Babies are cute.  Baby shoes are really cute.  Dogs are cute.  Puppies are paralyzingly cute.  Kittens are the embodiment of cuteness. Teenage objects of teenage crushes are cute.  Plastic buckets and shovels for the beach are soooooooo cute.  This fan-freaking-tastic little Dark Knight is unbelievably, extraordinarily cute.  It enthralls quickly with its cuteness.  I am in its cute thrall.

 

Yet more signs of the times

Wait, wait.  I'm confused... who's allowed in this room?