Woodpress

Recently I was talking with a couple friends about spam, and was pleased to come up with the phrase “imitation superhamway”. I was even more pleased when I googled for it and found no hits.

On Saturday we went to a dinosaur/natural history museum where my friend Darrin did some of the mural work and other artistic things. I took some pictures. This one turned out well, I think:

Today I found a spider eating a fly in my house, and took pictures. Here are a couple of the better ones.

This is the track at my daughter’s junior high school.

This is my son’s Halloween costume this year.

A red leaf from the tree in our front yard.

This grasshopper is missing a leg.

This picture was taken while waiting in an emergency room a couple years ago. My son had accidentally stabbed a shard of broken glass into his leg, and was waiting to get stitches. He still has a big scar. Counting the lines on the scar, it looks like he got six stitches.

Here are a few recent pictures I’ve taken.

A little while ago, I ate at a local Japanese restaurant and played with my food. This is the result. The green is skins of edamame (soy beans), and the brown is soy sauce. The black is just ink from a regular pen.

This is a building under construction next door to where I work. It’s fun to see the progress.

I took this picture in my garage. It’s a black widow. I guess it’s time for some spraying.

Today I tried to see my orthodontist, but the office was closed. It wasn’t a complete waste though. In the parking lot, I saw this corn chip. It reminded me of a logo or something, but I wasn’t quite sure what it was. I described it in chat to some friends, but none of them seemed to know what I was talking about. Finally I showed them this picture and one of them (Steve Taylor) immediately recognized it as the Klingon symbol. Steve is a guru.

If you’re interested, you can use google to see the actual Klingon symbol.

Over the long weekend, I watched the first two episodes of the Heroes TV Show.

The first episode set up some interesting (and hot, according to my 14 year old daugher) characters. They also made some Star Trek references, which could have been cool, but instead I found them irritating. If they’re going to make inside jokes, it’d be nice if they made sense. Maybe the references were there to establish (for non-nerds) that the characters were nerds. For people familiar with Star Trek, they established the characters as the sort of people who PRETEND to watch Star Trek. Oh, right… THOSE people.

Oh well. They probably won’t alienate their target audience with inaccurate Star Trek references. I mean, even IF Star Trek fans were to care about details, how likely is it that someone will like both Star Trek AND superheroes? If Star Trek fans were into superheroes, there would be comic books at Star Trek conventions.

In the second episode, there was almost no new material. It seemed like 90% flashback/recap. Clerks tried the idea of the second show being a flashback episode. It’s hard enough to pull off as a joke. For an action/drama, it’s… harder. I understand the need for suspense, but if they hire some writers, I bet they can cram some minor storylines in between flashbacks. Otherwise they run the risk of me losing interest. THEN what will they do???

Now that I’ve got the mandatory sarcasm and ranting out of the way, I can say that I’m definitely interested in the series, and I’ve mostly enjoyed it so far. It reminds me (in a good way) of Marvel’s New Universe (and X-Men, of course). If they just run everything past me for final approval, they’ll be set.

I have a few more pictures to share.

I don’t normally carry pictures of my kids with me. I had my pocket camera with me in Norway, so when people would ask me about my kids, I only had the pictures on the camera to show them. Here’s the picture I showed them of my youngest:

Here’s the picture of my son that showed:

Unfortunately, I didn’t have any pictures of my fourteen year old with me.

I also had this picture on my camera, which amused a few people:

On the street where I encountered the prostitutes, there was a McDonald’s with silver arches:

At work, there was a bathroom/watercloset door with this on it:

It’s a good example of how easy it can be to figure out the basic meaning of Norwegian phrases.

When I saw this pipe, I immediately knew I had to take this picture:

Maybe I’m a pervert, but to me it looks like this troll is about to flash us:

Here’s a tiny car. They weren’t very common in Norway, but certainly more common than in the United States.