Posting delayed due to Weddings Sunday, Apr 29 2007

So some friends got married yesterday. I’ve known the groom for almost 10 years now, and the bride for 7 (I feel old). So since late Thursday night/early Friday morning, I’ve been in the Rio Grande valley helping with wedding preperations until the wee hours of the morning. My in-laws, with whom we stayed, have no high speed internet, so our visits are always a tad painful. This has nothing to do with you, my adoring readers, but now I’m back, and boy do I have stories to tell now…

After I get some sleep.

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I was sexy a century ago. Sunday, Apr 22 2007

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is under renovation, and sent a bunch of pieces by the French Masters out on tour. They’re in the Houston Museum of Fine Arts now through some time in May, and I highly recommend the exhibit. That is, if you can tolerate annoying old women who stand with their noses two inches from each painting, inspecting each brush stroke for authenticity.

Works of the French Masters from ~1800-1917. There were a not insignificant number of nudes. And while I was looking at these paintings, from classical births of Venus to naked chicks with parrots, I realized something…

All these painted women have the same body type as me. The chunky-ish thighs. The butt dimples. The high but reasonably pronounced waist. The flabby tummy. It’s all there. I wan’t alone in noticing – The Husband noticed it too.

I’m not really sure how I feel about that. The Husband thinks, and is very insistant that, I’m beautiful. And, well, I try not to argue with him about it. I just don’t think of myself as beautiful. And I don’t really care. All in all, I’m very comfortable in my skin. Comfortable with butt dimples, and tummy flab, and calfs that are too muscular to wear any of the really sexy knee high boots because they’re built for chicken legs. I’ve worn glasses for the last twenty years, and I refuse to get contacts, because I happen to like the way I look wearing them. Despite my residual discomfort over the 10 remaining pounds of baby fat and grief induced cookie fat, I’m comfortable as me.

But I’m oddly uncomfortable knowing that my shape was once the epitome of sex appeal.

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Requested. Friday, Apr 20 2007

My mexican husband is really really hot.

This post brought to you by the letter V, the number 3, and Il Grigio Chianti Classico Reserve 2003.

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This is why you label everything Friday, Apr 20 2007

When I die, I’m going to haunt the medical school. Because this project, it is going to kill me. And I will haunt every dumbass who doesn’t label his samples with his name, the date, the project name, and the sample identities. And put them in a secure location in one of the -80 C freezers. Because I’ve spent the last week hunting down samples from someone who left, determining their identity, and isolating protein from them.

And my boss is pissed it took this long – see, it’s my fault, not his.

Therefore, I’m pissed as well.

It’s very very simple. Label with name, date, project, and identity. Place in freezer. Write down location on Freezer inventory. No one else move them. See?

Gah.

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I can’t think of a witty title… Friday, Apr 20 2007

…mostly because I haven’t finished my first cup of coffee. Oh well, I’ll let it slide. Most of the puns on leopards and the changing of spots have been done to death anyway.

So Leopard is delayed until October. Whoop de do. Some people are upset. Some are hyperanalyzing how delaying OS X could possibly delay Leopard. Some have gone full out whack-job conspiracy theorist on it. And some people *coughTheHusbandcough* rejoice that it gives them more time to save for a MacBook Pro.

Here’s my take on things:

1. Were Leopard’s programmers really diverted to the iPhone? Who knows. I don’t know enough about developing to make that call. I’ll merely point out that the original press release didn’t say programmers. It said resources. And there are all sorts of resources. Computers. Money. Time.
2. Everyone is in a hurry to compare Leopard’s delay to Vista’s. Except that Vista’s chief amusement wasn’t the delay in itself, it was that it was delayed trying to offer features that OS X already offered, and in some cases had offered for years. (I’m actually being more severe here than I should be, but that’s a whole post in and of itself.)

Ultimately, I don’t care if Leopard is delayed as long as it’s a good product. I suppose this restraint makes me less of a geek. But I think it’s silly to get worked up over one four month product delay.

I also have to face facts: I’m poor, and the longer I have to save my pennies for Leopard, the more likely I’ll be able to buy a copy when it becomes available.

I mistook some dates earlier, the years are starting to blur together for me :-/ Yes, Tiger came out in April 2005, not 2006, and it’s been 2 years since an update. The major event that happened between times was my laptop dying and my switch. Sorry. I still think that fussing over the delay is unwarranted, though.

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