Book Commercials & Misanthropic Observations

I’m not sure I mind the fact that we all seem to have lost our retirements; that we aren’t as rich as we used to be. There was something disturbing about the idea that it was my American Duty to have this enormous nest egg, and to retire at 60 with enough money to last me 25 more years. It made me feel irresponsible if I wasn’t a socking it away for the future instead of giving it to a kid going on a short-term missions trip. I breathe better in this culture of less entitlement and more gratefulness when our daily needs are met. More community, less self-sufficiency.

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Finally!

Brandy — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 23:14:48 +0000

I finally like the bags and wrinkles and flaws in my face- so much character. I’m even ok with the snaggly tooth; this will be a favorite portrait for those reasons. I’ve been erasing bags under my eyes for years and it’s freeing to accept them.

I know, so vain- but really I don’ think I’m the only woman to have wished I could keep my younger face forever, just one of the shameless few to talk about publicly.

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self portrait

Brandy — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:10:49 +0000

I always wanted a good ‘at the computer’ photo of myself; so much a part of who I am. It reminds me of one of my favorites ever of Paul at his computer back in the day- our romantic computer days..

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How I spent my week of vacation

Brandy — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 01:54:51 +0000

We’ll add rock details and plants next year. I’m done now.

Yes, those are Christmas lights on the house. We’re those people and feelin’ festive.

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It’s really all about me, even when it’s about you.

Brandy — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:03:35 +0000

I’m chewing on a new concept.

I’m thinking about how people decide who they like, who they choose to interact with. And I’m also looking at the utter self-absorption of human beings. I get a vision of 1 person seeing other people as big toys or robots or an arcade game- the kind with a talking clown face and a whack-a-mole table.

If this toy lights up enough to capture my attention as I walk by, and gives me something fun to do, and doesn’t go too fast – makes me feel like I’m good at something, I will decide I like this game. Do we also choose who we like based on similarly self absorbed criteria?

Now I’m not saying that it’s even possible to be less self absorbed on our own strength. I’m just wondering how often my judgment calls about people are so way more about me.

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Google Chrome & Netflix

Brandy — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:31:22 +0000

*update: will this work with Silverlight?- Netflix started using Silverlight last month. augh. Scratch entire post… who knows. or try this

I didn’t care much when I first heard about Google Chrome. I never went for firefox, either. BUT when i heard this morning on NPR that Google is launching an OS called Google Chrome OS, I got interested. But for me the LInux Killer was firefox’s incompatability with Netflix (among many other things), so I looked into this before I even started googling Google Chrome. The following is a workaround that I plan on trying, original cred here.

“Oh Yeah.. Out comes a sleek looking web Browser from, Chrome Looks very simplistic yet does everything we are used to from the un-tuned firefox.

This is a nice array of very easy to use integrated apps from google (bow to the allmighty), The only thing I could find so far is that Netflix don’t want you to use it.

It seems by ID-ing your browser alone they throw you a message that your using an incompatiable browser. Ok there maybe some problems on a string of machines in a certain OS. Although I’ve been using it for a while now on Vista 32 and 64 without a single proble.

To enable Chrome to view Netflix instant watch streaming simply create a shortcut to google chrome. Then open the properties and add

–user-agent=”Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_3; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.2.1 Safari/525.19

after the Chrome.exe in the target area, It should work for now. Maybe they’ll come up with a more sophisticated way of blocking chrome in the future.”

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