A Cat Nap

As part of my work with T!, I keep up to date on current happenings in the comics, manga, graphic novel, and related pop culture world. In particular, I enjoy reading Wonder Woman comics, and so I was pleased to read today that DC is creating a Wonder Woman movie. I am a bit disappointed that it’s direct to DVD, but it’s an animated movie and despite the fact that she’s one of their big 3 characters, maybe she doesn’t have enough of a following to merit a theater release? Anyhow, the movie will feature Keri Russell and Alfred Molina as voice actors, both people who’s work I respect. So I’m definitely looking forward to it. But I’ll have to wait until Spring 2009!

I am LOVING the White Stripes radio station on Pandora.

I wish I had been managing to write more lately, but I’m spending the majority of my awake, focused at-home time working on the company.  It’s become apparent that the company might come up again and again now, so I think it needs a fun pseudonym.  Let’s call it … T! Yes, the site is affectionately abbreviated to T!  And I’m off again to keep writing up the T! business plan.

*P.S. Bonus points if you can name the song and artist.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine arrived from Netflix yesterday, and today we will be watching the premier episode, as we continue my education in the details of the Star Trek universe. Recently, we completed watching all of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Even after a full seven seasons, I didn’t feel ready to say goodbye to Captain Picard and his crew. Luckily, I didn’t have to just then, because we then watched each of the TNG movies. I loved the whole “Next Generation” series, especially their vision of the state of politics in the future: a mostly peaceful universe, where the pursuit of knowledge really does often come before power through war.

Some of the movies featured the original cast of Star Trek. Speaking of the original cast of Star Trek, George Takei recently got married to his long-time partner due to the new California law. Congratulations, Sulu.

Just wanted to share in case you haven’t seen this yet.

“I’m voting Republican so that my little Caitlin can be in a classroom with at least 30 other children.”

Check it out.

I have been seriously craving an immersive gaming world for weeks, but am worried I’ll lose too many hours to it if I dare touch it. I’m thinking like a MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role-playing game) or a really well-done RPG.  I still have access to Lord of the Rings Online, because I paid for a 3-month subscription at once back before we were shit broke, so maybe I’ll play that…if I dare risk the addictive nature of these games at a time when I’ve got so many important things to do for the company (which I am now Chief Marketing Officer and Manager of Operations and Finance of).  I’m really, really enjoying working hard on the company that Husband started in early 2007, working together towards our dream of having enough success to provide ourselves with fun, self-designed jobs.

So it’s been a few days since my last post and I’ve been thinking about what I might like to post about today.  I considered sharing an article on Ray Kurzweil and the singularity following his appearance at the World Science Festival, or talking about how enthusiastic I am about embracing future technology while I share tidbits from an article on seeing a bright future.  But while these articles are interesting, I don’t have the time to say all that much about them.  I’m busy working on the details of our business plan for our next pitch, and I’m feeling totally crunched for time.  Not because there’s not enough time between now and the pitch, but because too much of that time is already committed to babysitting and being in the lab to train the new undergrads.  The business stuff is going well and it’s all feeling very real - we have an expanded, capable team working hard on bringing everything together.  That’s all I have time to share though for now, so this’ll have to be a short entry.  Until next time!

I love to play computer games, and for years now I’ve been eagerly anticipating Spore, the next big game by Will Wright, the creator of The Sims. Recently, new videos about the game were released, including a great video on the science behind Spore. It includes evolutionary science beginning with single celled organisms and growing into creatures that you design; sociology as species grow from small tribal groups to large societies; and astronomy, planetary and space science as your beings explore the universe beyond their planet. I think it would be a great game to encourage kids to play to show how science can be fun!

I’m in the kitchen, mixing up some buttercream frosting (I have to admit, I was adding it to the gingerbread cookies Jenny sent, because I have such a sweet-tooth I thought “mmmmm more sugar!”). I’m trying to open the bottle of vanilla extract, which is stuck. I grasp the cap hard, and try to turn it, applying torque through my hands. What I end up doing is grating my hand against the ridges in the cap, which hurts. Finally, I give up, and go find Husband. Where is he?

“Husband, I need your help!” I call. I find him in the bathroom, struggling to get the plastic seal off of a new bottle of contact lens fluid. We look at each other, exchange an amused expression, and trade bottles.

Seconds later, we both have what we needed and couldn’t do ourselves.

I am currently soothing myself with some delicious lemon ginger tea that Jenny F. Scientist so kindly sent as part of a feel better package. It was incredibly sweet of her, and I am touched! I wanted to share you with her thoughtful gift.

A gift, with a nice handwritten note.

Mmmm, fresh teas! And a delicious organic blueberry and walnut chocolate bar…must find a place to get more of those! (And of course, labeled with lab tape. ;-D)

Homemade cookies! I love cookies!

Thanks Jenny! It really did help brighten up my weekend to come home on Saturday and find the package!

Today, the California Courts affirmed the right to gay marriage!  Awesome!  I actually happen to have a friend in California who recently got “domestically partnered.” I’m so glad that now he can get married if he wants!