Newsflash

This just in: I married an artist. I hadn't realized it but it came to me yesterday, when this appeared:

A pretty amazing dress, and I like the color.
It's a familiar color, too, perhaps like I had seen it somewhere before?

A detail shot of the top

Here's a shot of the bottom detailing: The buttons and colors are very awesome. Lorian says that my photography really got the colors well, but I think she's being polite - the two tones around the button detail are just gorgeous and it's not my photography that put them there!

Laughter is happiness

Two awesome videos. Pick one depending on if you like Hungarian or just Blink 182 music accompanying the video. I actually prefer the Hungarian - the priest is clearly teaching the kids watching him, and it just makes me happy to see someone genuinely interested and helping people laugh. I guess it's that laughter makes me happy, at least when it's not at someone but with someone. I also really appreciate clergy who really try to connect with people no matter how different they may be; but then again, I really appreciate empathy, especially in those who are looked up to and respected as examples. :)





Here's the article that lead me to the above videos:
Skateboarding Priest

Baseball

So the the angels angels of Anaheim have a new center fielder. I just saw some of his highlights and man he's fun to watch:   (Man he can dive) and (That's some speed!)

Also he was in a nice suicide squeeze play, but that's one of my favorite plays in baseball when it's executed. Here's the one he was in: (Bourjos squeeze). Here's one by the Braves earlier this year, that won the game for them: (Conrad squeeze play woot)

A powerful statement

Jimmy Carter makes a powerful statement. I always had a good impression of Carter as a president when I was growing up. I found out later that may not have been terribly accurate, but I still think that his work after being president has been even more important. I hope many people read the linked article and are affected by it, to change in good ways. I know most of the people who read this blog are not those who need to be changed by it, but I think it's interesting nonetheless.

Barney

Barney (Neil Patrick Harris) pulls a Leeeeeroy Jenkins. (via Bluesnews)

Random

Today's post is rather random. I've been paying attention to gas prices at various gas stations around town. The gas station I've always heard has the lowest prices (corner of Union + Lake) was not actually the cheapest, but it did beat the median sample by around 10 cents/gallon. The cheapest was about 20 cents/gallon cheaper than the median - just across from Borders on Lake. Most other gas stations in Pasadena were all at the same prices ~ 3.27$ per gallon, so that was easily the median sample. I just found it odd that there were two fairly extreme outliers.

Other cities had different prices, though not by much: Glendale was right around 3.27, but I did see one station there that was 10 cents cheaper.

Anyways... gas prices are odd, even on a local scale.