Does this look like me?

Roy emailed me this picture earlier this week. "Not sure why, but this reminded me of you." :P

Joss Whedon's new tv series!!!!

YESSSSSSS!!!!! Joss Whedon spilled the beans today about a new tv series he's working on for Fox (fingers are crossed! please don't cancel them!) called "Dollhouse". And it's going to star Eliza Dushka (aka Faith the Vampire Slayer)! What *spectacular* news!!! (Read more about this here.) WOOHOO!

Roy gets his first kick from the baby!

Roy felt the baby for the first time Monday night. Li'l baby Janelle has been kicking me and moving around for several weeks now, but every time Roy put his hand on my stomach, she'd get very still. It was almost like a game with our little stinker! Finally, on Monday, Roy and I were talking and he had his hand on my stomach, and she decided then to give him a good kick! :D :D :D

Our 24 week sonogram

This video is amazing. Shortly after beginning, the tech zoomed in on the baby's face, and you can very clearly see our baby opening and closing her mouth. (Gives me goosebumps!) You also get a good view in the video of her feet, spine, and ribs. But the closeups of her face are just really amazing!!

Our little stinker is a...

… GIRL!! Roy and I went in this afternoon for our second try at seeing what this baby is (last time, baby’s legs were crossed and curled up), and it’s a girl!! Little stinker did still have her legs crossed again this time, but the tech managed to get a good look when she kicked a few times. Needless to say, Roy and I are really, really happy! :) :) :)

I'll post the video from the sonogram tomorrow. :D :D :D

Lizzie

I just have to post this... Look how beautiful Lizzie (my baby sister) is. I was going through her myspace pictures, and I totally stole these from her. These are a couple of my favorites.





Love ya *BABE*!!

My first preggo picture post

Well, I figure the time has come for me to post a preggo picture of myself. As you can tell in the picture below, I'm definitely showing. This picture was taken about two weeks ago when I was at 20 weeks. Today, I noticed that I can no longer see my toes when I look down. :P

More U2 Humor

In continuing with the U2-related humor, I found some funny U2-ish clips online. Thought I'd share with you guys. Enjoy!

Vertigo (U2) Spoof

A friend of mine sent this to me, and it just had me rolling!! HILARIOUS!!

Here's our li'l stinker

Below is the video from our sonogram yesterday. It's a nice, long video since the poor technician was trying to turn every which way to figure out if this baby's a boy or girl. :D Looks like this babe was just chillin' out!

It's a...

...BABY!!!! A very shy baby. A baby who kept its legs crossed at the ankles the entire sonogram. My new name for the baby? The Stinker! ;D

Ah well. My shopping spree will have to wait. We'll have another try on October 16th, when they do another sonogram to re-check the umbilical cord. This sonogram was amazing, though -- we saw a close-up of the baby's heart, the spine, the face, feet, its little rump, stomach, bladder, cute little button nose. It's a healthy, wonderful baby ... but still a stinker!!

We were able to record the sonogram again this time, so I'll digitize the video tomorrow if our studio is available, and I'll post it tomorrow evening.

So, we have a little less than four weeks to go before we get another chance to see what this baby is. Wish us luck!!

Project Playlist

Yet again, my 17-yr old sister Lizzie showed me another really cool site. (My apologies if you've known about this for years.) Project Playlist lets you build a playlist of songs for you to post on your myspace, facebook, or any other social network site. I've permanently added my "Pandora Favorites" playlist on my Facebook account. I've also posted it below so you can get a preview of the wonderful music I'm finding on Pandora. Thanks Lizzie!

Next sonogram (aka "the big one")...

Greetings guys and dolls. My apologies for the delay in posting anything. Things have just been busy this summer. Anyway, just wanted to let you know that the next big sonogram (aka "the big one") will be on Sept.20th at 2:30pm. We'll find out then what this baby is -- a boy or a girl. (!!!) We'll post when we find out! :D

Baby Super Model!

Roy and I just had our third sonogram this morning, so I figure I should get on the ball and post some pictures!! (No problems or anything -- I had my first at 5 weeks, which was too early, and my second was last week, and today's was part of some routine testing.) Baby Adams, fyi, is currently the size of a large lime ... at least according to the books and websites we've been reading. *grin*

Below are scans of the sonogram from last week. This morning's pictures still need to be scanned; however, we did get a dvd of the procedure so I captured it and uploaded it to Google Video. Enjoy!!

Click on the images below to see a larger view.

July 12 (10 weeks, 4 days)







July 17 (11 weeks, 2 days)

Baby Adams Blog Debut!

Hi Folks! Last week Roy and I went in for our first sonogram. At that time, the baby was the size of a small grain of rice. This week, the baby's about the size of a peppercorn. I've uploaded the picture from the sonogram. It's two shots side by side. If you click on the image and go to the flickr page, I have notes on the image explaining what you see. :D

WE'RE PREGNANT!!!

Roy and I found out last Friday at that are expecting! I'm about 4-5 weeks along right now, and the baby will be due around Feb.4. Can you believe it?!?! Needless to say, Roy and I are really ecstatic!

Watch out world - Roy's got a digital camera!

Roy's birthday is coming up (May 30), and last month I got him a digital camera. Now he's snapping pictures left and right. He's even created his own Flickr collection of photos. Below are some of my favorites. (As always, click the image to see a larger view.)

Do you Jaiku?

I posted recently on Edugeek Journal about Twitter vs. Jaiku, and I'm quickly moving over completely to Jaiku. Really nice functionality and just too easy to use and incorporate other feeds. I'm planning on putting a widget to this blog so you guys can get minute-to-minute updates on just what I'm up to ... b/c I'm sure you're just dying to know! :P

Can't Stop the Serenity - June 23!

Attention Browncoats in the DFW area! Be sure to pick up your "Can't Stop the Serenity" tickets soon! Your chance to enjoy "Serenity" on the big screen and support a charity all at the same time!

Catching up... March Dallas Comic Con

I have absolutely no excuse for not posting in such a long time. So, as I sit here at a Starbucks in the Austin Radisson hotel, I realize that I have internet connectivity and time to kill. So, let's catch up...

Back in March (I know, it's been too long...) I attended the Dallas Comic Con fan day, and there were several special guests that were of interest. I originally went to meet Morena Baccarin (Inara, from Firefly), but I ended up getting to meet some other actors. (It turns out I'm much more of a geek than I'd originally realized!)

Morena Baccarin - She was nice, but very rushed. Not nearly as cozy an experience as Ron Glass, but then again there were about 100 folks behind me in line, so I understand.



Clare Kramer - (Glory from "Buffy the Vampire Slayer") At that time, I hadn't yet seen Clare's character in "Buffy", but I decided to meet her and snap a picture b/c I knew I'd end up loving the character. And sure enough, now that I know who Glory is, I cannot believe I actually met her. She's such a funny/interesting/great character in the show. Anyway, she was incredibly nice!



Ernie Hudson - (Winston from "Ghostbusters") I couldn't resist getting my picture taken with a Ghostbuster! He was so incredibly nice, too. And it was cool seeing the various Ghostbuster fans walking around in full costume.



Walter Koenig - (Chekov from "Star Trek") Nice man. Made me realize just how long ago the Star Trek show and movies came out. He seemed very tired when I met him, but then the ST fans that were in the "line" were kind of ... fanatics... so I'd be tired too.



Peter Mayhew - (Chewbacca from "Star Wars") Nice man. It was the end of the day, and he was nice enough to smile for a quick picture as things were closing up.



Good times!

My Heroes Theory....

Damn, I love this show. I have never before speculated so much on the future of characters in a tv show. I was just discussing a theory that I came up with, and I received approval/interest from two friends, so I figure it's legit enough for me to post it here.

*Takes deep breath*

Ok... we know that Hiro from the future goes back in time to tell Peter to 'save the cheerleader...." We find out from the online novels that the reason he did this is b/c when Sylar was about to explode, Hiro stabs him but Sylar heals and proceeds to blow himself up. Hiro says that this is b/c Claire can heal herself and that Sylar got her brain; however, we don't know if hiro knows this for sure or if he just assumes it b/c he knows about claire's ability. However, claire is not the only "healer" in this group. Which might explain why after informing Peter about saving Clair, Hiro goes back into the future and nyc is still leveled. What if instead Hiro stabs Sylar, Linderman heals sylar (we know L. wants the explosion to happen b/c this puts N.P. into office), Sylar explodes, nyc still leveled, and saving the chearleader didn't really help anyone ... except Claire. Maybe Hiro did change history, but Linderman somehow either found out about it and made the future still happen ("you can't fight the future") or just ended up being in the right place at the right time.

What d'ya think??

Very cool "No Cellphones" advert

U2 3D

I can already see Fatima and me at the theater, arms up and screaming. "Booonoooo!"

Supermarket 2.0

Found this on Boing Boing this morning...

glumbert.com - Supermarket 2.0

History of Religion

EduGeek Journal

Great news folks! Matt, Darren, and I just recently started up a blog called the EduGeek Journal, where we'll discuss all things concerning educational technology. (This means many of my "geeky" posts will now go to that blog, which many of you might be happy to hear.) Eventually, we plan on expanding our blog to include a wiki, a podcast, and a Second Life presence ... but all in good time. We already have several interesting posts up. When you get a chance, please stop by and take a look! Thanks!

I'm Willow!

Willow You're loving, caring, and sweet! You're very smart, and have a lot of friends that care about you!
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What really happened...

My faith in American voters has me convinced that this is what actually happened.

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"Back in the day"

This weekend, I was cleaning out a shelf in the office, and I came across a cd full of pictures from "back in the day" when I still worked at Angelo State University with the Lab Assistants ("Lab Asses"), Multimedia guys ("Mmedia Gurus"), and Helpdesk folks. Man, those were great times. My best friends today I met while working there.

Anyway, I uploaded all the pictures to my flickr account. Click here to see the entire set. Below are some of the group shots of us.





















Looking through these pictures, though, I found myself wondering what ever happened to several folks, so I also created a myspace group for us computer lab student workers, past and present.

Ah, those were good times.

Spring Has Sprung

Some photos I took of a tree outside the back of our apartment.

Lovely ladies having birthdays

(This is a few weeks late, but ... well, you know me.) Three lovely ladies I know have had birthdays recently...

February 28: My "baby" sister Lizzie (who's taller
than I am now)turned 17
(Man, I feel old!)


March 2: My cousin Cristina
(who's quickly approaching the one-year birthday
for her babe Gabrielle)


March 2: The Goddess of Blue, Ja'Nate'
(Vicki and I actually flew down and surprised her
for her 30th birthday ...
Click here to see the photo set from our trip.)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LADIES!!!

My Nerd Score

What's yours?

Zeroes

Being a complete "Heroes" junkie, I have to post this. Enjoy.

10 years ago, Buffy Summers came to Sunnydale

A snippet from Wikipedia's front page...
Click the image below to read the clip.



Oh, and an update: Spike is now my favorite character. Love him! (Sorry Xander.)

Spike: "I may be Love's bitch, but at least I'm man enough to admit it."

Xander: "Where is it written that quiet reflection can't be combined wiht cake and funny hats?"

midomi

Heard about this a few weeks back in a SecondCast podcast, but I finally tried it out just tonight. Midomi is a fun website that allows you to sing (or hum) bits of a song, and it searches its database to find matches. It's harder than you think, though -- so far it's only recognized my singing "Happy Birthday to You" and "Friday I'm in Love". You'll get strange looks from your spouse, but it's worth it. Hours of fun!

Memory

Over the past couple of days, I've been listening to a four-part audio-series about memory. How it works, why it doesn't work, and what makes our memories act screwy. It's all really amazing. (That being said, Cognition was one of my favorite classes in school.)


Part 1: What is memory?

Part 2: The fallibility of memory

Part 3: Memories in distress

Part 4: Treatments

Be careful, though. As with reading medical books about various illnesses, you might find yourself trying to label your own memory issues, as I did.

Google Cheat Sheet

I found this recently and thought it was interesting. Someone took the time to create a cheat sheet for all the numerous Google services and tools.
Click the images below to download the pdf.

Roy gets a Second Life

Welcome all to the newest avatar ... well, he was the newest avatar on Saturday when he signed up -- ladies and gentlemen -- Roytoo Grut!


(Vicki also got a SL account on Saturday, but I have yet to snap a picture of Ms. WhosA Lusch.)

Really good joke

My friend Milena sent this to me recently, and I thought it was too hilarious not to blog about. HOWEVER... I must warn you, this is *not* something you'd tell your kids. Enjoy!

(Highlight the text below to read...)

Subject: Who is Jack Schitt?

For some time many of us have wondered just who is Jack Schitt? We find ourselves at a loss when someone says,'You don't know Jack Schitt!'

Well, thanks to my genealogy efforts, you can now respond in an intellectual way.

Jack Schitt is the only son of Awe Schitt. Awe Schitt, the fertilizer magnate, married O. Schitt, the owner of Needeep N. Schitt, Inc. They had one son, Jack. In turn, Jack Schitt married Noe Schitt. The deeply religious couple produced six children: Holie Schitt, Giva Schitt, Fulla Schitt, Bull Schitt, and the twins Deep Schitt and Dip Schitt. Against her parents' objections, Deep Schitt married Dumb Schitt, a high school dropout. After being married 15 years, Jack and Noe Schitt divorced. Noe Schitt later married Ted Sherlock, and because her kids were living with them, she wanted to keep her previous name. She was then known as Noe Schitt Sherlock. Meanwhile, Dip Schitt married Loda Schitt, And they produced a son with a rather nervous disposition named Chicken Schitt. Two of the other six children, Fulla Schitt and Giva Schitt were inseparable throughout childhood and subsequently married the Happens brothers in a dual ceremony. The wedding announcement in the newspaper announced the Schitt-Happens nuptials. The Schitt-Happens children were Dawg, Byrd, and Horse. Bull Schitt, the prodigal son, left home to tour the world. He recently returned from Italy with his new Italian bride, Pisa Schitt.

Now when someone says, 'You don't know Jack Schitt,'you can correct them.

Sincerely,
Crock O. Schitt

Across the Universe

I'd heard about this a while back when Bono signed on to play a small role, but I'd forgotten about it. Today I stumbled across the trailer for the upcoming musical "Across The Universe". I'm intrigued. I love the Beatles. (I have to. It's genetic. Had my Mom had the chance, she would have traveled great distances and slept outside of arenas to see them. Sound familiar?)

A love story set against the backdrop of the 1960s amid the turbulent years of anti-war protest, mind exploration and rock 'n roll, the film moves from the dockyards of Liverpool to the creative psychedelia of Greenwich Village, from the riot-torn streets of Detroit to the killing fields of Vietnam. The star-crossed lovers, Jude (Jim Sturgess) and Lucy (Evan Rachel Wood), along with a small group of friends and musicians, are swept up into the emerging anti-war and counterculture movements, with "Dr. Robert" (Bono) and "Mr. Kite" (Eddie Izzard) as their guides. Tumultuous forces outside their control ultimately tear the young lovers apart, forcing Jude and Lucy – against all odds – to find their own way back to each other.

Death Of A Snowman

The recent frigid temperature reminded me that I had some pictures Roy wanted me to post. A couple of weeks ago, it snowed enough to make a few decent snowballs. Since I was sick that day and couldn't go out and play, on his way upstairs, Roy filled his thermos with enough snow to make a snowman or two.



Sadly, however, it was a little too warm in the house for our snowmen to survive. So Roy, being the sicko that he is, had me take periodic pictures of the melting of our two friends. Out of the 55 pictures we took (I kid you not), here are a few of the highlights.






*sniff*