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March, 2010:

Best cat-sitter ever

Mar 8th, 2010
by Gillian.
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And I’m not even biased, because I’m talking about my mom.

If my cat hadn’t been fed, I’d have wondered if Mom had misheard me when I handed her my spare keys. This is because her full service included

  1. Giving me $100.
  2. Driving me to, and picking me up from, the airport.
  3. Mopping my kitchen floor.
  4. Replacing my microwave with one built more recently than 1987.
  5. Putting dinner in my fridge.

And the cat’s alive, so, bonus.

In other news, it turns out visiting friends and family in Vancouver does not constitute a vacation. Luckily it was 1/20th the cost of what Maui was going to be, so I can’t complain there.

Same song, awesomer video

Mar 2nd, 2010
by Gillian.
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So OK GO put out a second video for their single “This Too Shall Pass”, this time of a Rube Goldberg machine running for the duration of the song, synced with the music, and filmed in one take:

(I blogged about their first video to the song two weeks ago).

Between this sort of stuff and Mythbusters I keep wishing I’d become an engineer instead of a computer scientist. Not that I’d be good at it, I come from a long line of crap engineers (so a great-uncle once told me).

I like, and agree with one of the comments on this video posted at BoingBoing: “shit like this restores my faith in humanity.”

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