Bookpile: October 2009
How to Train Your Dragon and How to Be a Pirate - First two books about the heroic misadventures of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III, a viking in training of the Hooligan tribe. Picked them up because there's an animated movie coming out next year and I wanted to catch the story. (And

No cheering for infidelity
Not going to do it.Don’t care how bad you make their situation. Don’t care about soulmates. Don’t care how much romantic music you swell up in the background.I’m not cheering for infidelity.It’s a common theme in movies and books. People trapped in a loveless/abusive/neglectful (pick one) marriage discover love with someone not their spouse. And now we’re supposed root for them to abandon their vows, seek happiness without regard for consequences and run off into the sunset with each other.Get real.There is nothing romantic about infidelity. And there is little permanent about selfish happiness.So stop it al

Paisley's review of PlanetDog disc
So, our friend Anthony over at k9cuisine sent Paisley a new frisbee* recently. Chasing frisbees is her main source of exercise since she hates walks (weird dog) and she had finally broken her last one. This is a blue and orange disc from PlanetDog with the orange part a hard plastic like a regular frisbee and the blue part a softer rubber-like material.She loves it. She will choose it every time over the regular frisbee. (Although, if they're both out there, she'll try to pick them up together. Hilarity ensues. :-) The humans - we'd rather use the regular frisbee. Guess who wins?The Pl

Recapping TEDxSMU 2009
I'm not going to tell you every little detail of the event. Although maybe I should. I was one of the few people I saw taking any kind of notes, much less copious ones.All in all, TEDxSMU was a well-run event, very consistent in tone and style with the main event held in Long Beach and all the more impressive for having been pulled off so quickly.

New glasses have arrived
Video post!! I really should do more of these. Showing off my new glasses from Zenni Optical, which arrived Monday. (That was one fast boat from China!) I got four pair, including a pair of sunglasses for the whopping price of $167 - about $50 less than what I paid for my last pair of glasses from the doctor.I screwed up with one pair - ordered too narrow a frame, although I'm adapting - and the brilliant green pair that I