Author: marylowd

It is standard practice to approximate dogs as spheres.

Having finally watched all of Babylon 5, I’m finally qualified to hold the opinion that Deep Space Nine is better than Babylon 5. (And it is.)

I’ll even take it a step further: Farscape’s better too! And, possibly even Stargate: SG-1. Though, that wouldn’t be worth getting into a holy war over.  (Note added 14 years later, after watching all the way through Stargate a second time: yes, it would.)
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The problem with two-year-olds is they fall into the uncanny valley.

“My grandpa used to say cheddar cheese chunks and mathematical equations make a ladder.”

–animal wearing a blue hat in Reader Rabbit

I made Elaine alphabet pancakes for dinner. The batter held out through “U.”

Listening to TMBG is like mild, recreational brain damage. The five-minute version of watching a season of Farscape in a week.

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Oh my goodness, TMBG looks like a band of four Xanders. It’s like the episode of Buffy where Xander got split in two… except it happened again and the four of them formed a garage band. Soooo bizarre.

I love it when my two-year-old daughter quotes a sixty-year-old Meryl Streep in Mamma Mia, saying “It’s okay, we have time.”

I decorated my house and giant tree with lights!

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Life may, in fact, be strictly better when wearing an elf hat.

I have a voice in my head that tells me to put duct tape on things.

It’s interesting watching Elaine struggle with Reader Rabbit. The game clearly expects that any difficulty will stem from not knowing the names of shapes and colors. Whereas, in reality, her trouble stems entirely from being unwilling to listen to and follow directions. Continue reading “Reader Rabbit”