Well, better late than never?

I got a new camera tonight and Curry is less than thrilled with it. Can't say I don't blame him, he does have the largest album of all my photos on Facebook.

Plus I got a great one the other day of him "yelling" at his daddy.



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Jackets and tee-shirts have words on them, which don't always make sense. What does Omphalos have to do with "anglo-american style?"

While on my morning run, I stopped to talk with these folks. The whole extended family makes sticky rice, combined with coconut cream and beans, steamed in bamboo. After the desert is cooked, they shave off the outer layer of bamboo, leaving a thin layer which easily peeled off so the sticky rice can be eaten.

19 November 09
Vientiane
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These trees are like mini-billboards, advertising house moving, cars for sale, houses for rent, etc. With a little photoshoping to bring out the signs.

Vientiane
18 November 09
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It does get cold in tropical countries. At night, the temperatures gotten down to around 60 degrees F. in Vientiane. The cats have been pooling and five cats chose the shelf above the toilet as the ideal warm location.

Vientiane, Laos
17 November 09
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Had fun with photoshop and a drab photo of my guesthouse room in Bangkok.

15 November 09
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People walk along footpath on Friendship Bridge to take photos.

Thai-Lao border
13 November 09
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I just got an email from my mom about her cat Baron (he's in the icon). He's getting older, about 12 now, and he's not been doing so well since Milky (they may as well have been brothers - Baron lived with him his whole life) died a couple of months ago. This is what she said was happening:

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Has anybody heard of anything like this before? Baron's always been kind of a sickly cat - he has a very sensitive stomach, and can only eat certain kinds of foods or else he'll throw up all over the place. The last time he had a physical (or "mature cat checkup", I think the vet called it), everything came back just fine. Any info you guys may have, or even just some good thoughts, would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks, all!

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It's been a decade or more since the last Sinclair Lewis book I read. I went through a spate in school reading everyone I could get my hands on. Arrowsmith wasn't one of them but my local library had a copy and feeling nostalgic for an old favorite author, I snatched it up.

Martin Arrowsmith, the title character, is a high spirited medical student, and later doctor. He's in constant fear of selling out while the women in his life wish for him to be a rich and famous doctor. Or at least successful.

The book covers his entire career from medical student, to resident, to country doctor, to researcher and his work down in Jamaica. My favorite part of the book by far was his time in college because Lewis managed to capture what college life is like in the sciences. Having been with my husband through his entire college education I saw a bunch of points of similarity between Arrowsmith's education (the lack of free time, the juggling of different papers, the research, the oddball advisors) that I was often laughing as I read through this section.

What fascinated me most though was how Arrowsmith compartmentalizes the different aspects of his life. There's Dr. Arrowsmith, world famous doctor, Sandy Arrowsmith husband, Martin the student and so forth. Throughout the book the plot pauses for Arrowsmith to have dialogues with the different aspects of his life and personality.

Like a typical Lewis novel, Arrowsmith ends without a pat resolution. Martin's life goes through good parts and bad parts as does his career and even when he finally has a huge success, becoming a household name, Martin Arrowsmith still isn't satisfied with himself or his skills. Thus the book ends with him just about to start another internal dialogue.

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I've decided to drag my mid-level mage out of the mothballs and am looking for some good resources about the class. Obviously there's Elitist Jerks and the WoW Mage forums, but I'm looking more for blogs along the lines of druids' Tree Bark Jacket or Restokin. Google appears to be full of "Buy my mage levelling guide!" or "Buy Zygor's addon!"

What are some of your favorites?

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Dunno if I've mentioned this in comments along the way, but I need to get this off my chest. Each time I see the Wrath loading screen I can't help but notice the little ornamental head carved on to top of Arthas's crown. I always imagined it talking to him and arguing with him for some reason - well, I've figured out where the idea must have popped up from deep inside my head!

Did you ever see Labyrinth (1986)? There's a scene where an old wise man instructs Jennifer Connelly which way to go and his hat argues with him - he admonishes the hat to be quiet. I couldn't find a video of him and the hat, but here's a wav file of the audio of the conversation, and the picture to the right. I don't think I could do the lore here justice, but I wonder what their conversation would sound like?

Raid for the Cure brought people from all over the Warcraft community to the Kael'Thas realm to raise money and awareness, and to allow people to honor those they know who have been afflicted with breast cancer. Sponsored by the guild Sidhe Devils, this event was in honor of a member of their guild, Julie, who shared her diagnosis with guild members in late October, and began treatments earlier this month. The event was announced on the the popular blog Big Bear Butt, as BBB is the leader of Sidhe Devils, and many other bloggers and websites helped spread the word about the event. The event itself was simple but fun. Alliance players started in the Night Elf starter zone and ran to Darnassus, took the boat to Auberdine, and then ran through Ashenvale to the Barrens, stopping near Crossroads

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