Kristian Marcus Leth, DO NOT mess with the BIOS settings on your computer!
Month: February 2008
twins?
I joked once or twice when Kristian was a bit younger that since he was growing so fast and Abigail is such a tiny thing that I would soon be able to say that they were twins because he would be the same size as she is. He is quite close in size to her now, he’s only a little bit shorter than she is but he’s a lot chunkier where she is slim and dainty.
One day a week or two ago I was in Spotlight with my mum. It’s a split level store and they have a ramp for prams and wheelchairs to get between the two levels. There were a few women standing talking blocking the way to get onto the ramp and so my mum was waiting there pointedly for them to get out of the way. WHen one of them turned to move she actually did ask “Oh, are they twins?”
They may be the same size and have familial similarity in their features, but they certainly don’t look like twins. She looks like a little girl, and he looks like a baby. He has hardly any hair, and he still has the baby look about his face. To actually think that they were twins would take a monumentally stupid person.
Seriously, WTF?
oops
I got myself into a little bit of trouble at kinder today, sort of.
They have a questionnaire that they ask you to fill in at the start of each year. It’s things about your child.. their favourite activities, what they don’t like, if they have any fears, how they are progressing with toilet training, if they have any special needs like dietary or medical or religious. On the question about what methods or techniques you use when trying to help your child with toilet training, I wrote “Asking nicely. Crossing fingers. Giving encouragement.” Then I was feeling in a silly mood, so after that I wrote “Animal sacrifice.”
When I went in this afternoon to pick Abigail up, the leader in her room said she just had to ask me a question, and got Abigail’s little folio book out and opened up to the page where the questionnaire was and I said “Oh, is that about the animal sacrifice? I was just being silly.” She got such a look of relief on her face. She said she just hadn’t been sure if I was joking or if maybe we had some kind of religious beliefs like that or what and she didn’t know how she should approach it. I assured her that it was just completely a joke. (Which I thought had been quite evident.. are there still people in western culture who practice animal sacrifice??)
Evidently, not as amusing to them as I had found it. At least when I told it all to my mum just now on MSN she was laughing, so I know it wasn’t completely unfunny. :)
I think she had been quite worried about it. Today Abigail wore underwear all day for the first time ever, and I’d asked her before we left if she wanted to go to the toilet first which she declined. Then when we got to the gate she decided she did want to go, so we went back inside and Jane was in the office telling the other ladies there that it was alright, it was just a joke.
he’s there, inside my mind
In a week an a half I am going to see The Phantom of the Opera with my mother and Gayle and her mother. I am getting quite excited :)
This will be my third time. I should probably go and see something different the next time I decide to go to the theatre, as this will be my fourth show in all. I have seen Phantom in Melbourne with my mum, and in London with Daniel, and I also saw Jesus Christ Superstar with my mum in Melbourne. Daniel has seen a few more things than me as one of the places that his dad used to work liked to do something for all the employee’s kids at the end of the year and a couple of times it was a trip to the theatre apparently. I think he said he has seen Cats, Les Miserables and Starlight Express. Maybe when the small people are less small we will be able to see some more things together.
being a picky geek
I saw this article linked to from trekmovie.com: Sexy Aliens: 17 Heavenly Bodies from Sci-Fi and thought it sounded interesting so I went to have a look.
That dude seriously needs to learn how to check his facts. There were a couple of glaring errors that I noticed, and I am not even familiar with all of the shows/movies on there, so there could be more. First, on Christopher Eccleston. It states him as being on Doctor Who from 2005 to present. Um, no. There have been another two seasons of the show with Mr. Eccleston’s successor since then. (And though it is of course subjective, I would rate Mr. Tennant as a much sexier Doctor.)
This is the one that really annoys me, though. Jadzia Dax. “This tall drink of synthehol is a symbiote — which, in Star Trek-ese, means that she’s got a little slug living inside of her. And that’s a joke I’m just gonna let sit right there, unmolested.” To start with, she is not a symbiont, she is a Trill. The “little slug” is the symbiont. If you want to talk about a symbiote you need to get into the Stargate universe. That is how the Goa’uld and Tok’ra are referred to when making the distinction between the host and the parasite, and they are quite different from symbionts. The symbiotes can make the host’s eyes glow and voice sound different, which is something that the symbionts can’t do; but on the upside, the symbionts are all quite nice docile creatures, whereas the majority of symbiotes are.. not.
And it’s not so much an error as an oversight, but there was no mention of Worf’s four years on DS9 after TNG finished. And I’d say that the nicer First Contact style uniform he had from then on made him and his warrior braid look even better.