I Think This is Really Neat

Last week Jackie was over and we got into a conversation about the art and science of photography.  If you haven't ever really thought about the way a photograph works you should talk so someone who does or find out through research.  The process is really really neat and it is really remarkable that someone figured out that we can capture an image on a piece of paper using this little box called a camera that works a lot like the human eye and the brain, chemicals, and light exposure. 

Well, this morning I found a really neat article on the National Public Radio website.  Keeping the Photography 101 course I had last week in mind, it was really mind blowing to see the quality of the images you are about to see from photos taken so long ago.  

Also, what is even cooler to me about these WWII era photos is that they have been shown to us in color!  I don't know about you, but when I think of "old times" I imagine them in black and white... because that is the only image we have of way back when.  I can remember looking through my grandmother's old photographs and wondering what color the women's dresses were.  I even asked my mom one time what color her dress in the photo from her childhood and being so shocked that what looked like gray was bright red!  So it is really really neat to me to look through these pictures and really see that people "back then" lived in color!

Go to this website and then scroll down to "A Vibrant Past."

Post Not Meant to Call Anyone Out and Also, This Post is Kind of Inside Jokey, Or So I Thought.

So last night I was having dinner with my favorite "their last name begins with L" friends.  I needed some clarification on a topic that came up: the (querky) pet peeve of the Comic Sans font.  So I asked this Comic Sans Hater, "what exactly is Comic Sans, I know it's a font, but what makes this font so annoying to you?"  

I understand having pet peeves and annoyances about things like 

• people that drive 60 mph in the left lane
  
• people that wear socks with their sandals
• people that interrupt too much

But I had never heard of a pet peeve against... a font??? (Am I the only one here?)

Anyway, so I asked and what I got from the answer was that it was a font without the little marks on the ends of the letters.  Ok, fine.  I thought nothing more of this conversation for the rest of the night.

This morning.  Sipping my coffee, watching Sopranos, wondering "what can I post what can I post" and the thought came to my mind, "google comic sans and see what happens."  Apparently there are a LOT of Comic Sans Discussion going on out there... a lot.  Here are a few that I thought were interesting.

• Hater site 1
• Informative Site
• Informative Site

Global curse, eh?

What's your stance on Comic Sans?

Church

The great thing about being at home on a cold rainy Sunday with sick children and hot coffee is that God is here too.  I don't have to be in a sanctuary to marvel at His miracles.  I see them in the way H's perfect tiny fingers reach for the colorful music making toys that dangle above her head and the way that L is stretched out on her stomach in sleep so deep and peaceful that it makes me envy curling up in her white crib and listening to "rainforest" sounds.  Watching my children, and remembering our time in the NICU, has the power to stop me in my tracks, tear up a little, and whisper, "Thank you Lord, thank you so much."

Saturday Night

It is the weekend and it seems that we have reached the point of the decline of the RSV horrifics.  L is having a hard time tonight but it only took H a day and a half through the worst part...L should be catching up. H is almost back to her sweet observant self.  When she is well she is cool as a cucumber and checking things out.  When L is well she is chatty and silly.  Tonight, after L had been asleep for a couple of hours she woke back up (of course just as we sat down to eat supper) so we gave her a bottle and a breathing treatment, and some cuddles.  She sat in my lap just shrieking and shrilling like she was telling me all sorts of things.  Harper never budged.  Hopefully tomorrow will start to look normal.

Nick and I split a bottle of Pinot Noir and he Top Cheffed a cuisine of Portabello Tortelline, break sticks with marinara, and a side of Cesar Salad.  We have 4 episodes left of season 2 of The Sopranos.  

Have I ever mentioned that somehow I manage to get into some of the greatest TV like 2-3 years after it has gone off of the air?   Sex and the City - I fell in love with this show 2 years after it ended.  Now, I have every episode on DVD and have watched the entire series at least 5 times through.  This week we started The Sopranos and though I am enjoying (but wincing) the show I am pretty confident I won't be watching this one over and over.  

Now the question on all of your minds:  When will I commit to West Wing?  Yea Yea... it's coming.  

(Technically I have seen every episode of West Wing, subconsciously, since Nick has played 1-2 episodes before he goes to sleep EVERY night in bed since we have been married 3 year now.  Occasionally, I will pop my head up when I hear a great tune i.e. New York Minute, Brothers in Arms, Hallelujah because it is hard to pass up peeping in on the some of the greatest episodes.)

Would also like to watch:

Grey's Anatomy

Friends

Mr. Ed