Spinning on that dizzy edge

OMG, guys, my Farscape vid won an online award! Granted, it's only a round 1 win, and the other vid I'm up against for round 2 will blow me out of the water, but still!



I submitted it on a lark, and it wasn't until sabaceanbabe posted about the voting that I remembered. Even though round 1 is done, you can still vote for Viewer's Choice and such, so go vote for me and sabaceanbabe and all the other righteous vidders on that list!

In other news, I totally failed as a parent this week. The Emperor has been watching Futurama again, and we blazed through to Jurassic Bark. We got to the end of the episode, and I went upstairs to get dressed. The next thing I knew, a sobbing Emperor threw himself at me; he was upset for the next half hour, all the way though being dropped off at daycare. (I don't think the teacher approved of us letting him watch an adult show like that.) I should have just skipped it. Man, I felt like crap after that, on top of being sad myself at the ending. :(

The Emperor is shaping up to be quite the philosopher. Today he informed me that we're all a part of "God's big dream", and unlike all the other garbled religious stories he tells us about, this one came entirely out of his own head. Now if only I could break him of his distressing insistence that he wishes that everything was dead, because sometimes he hates being alive.

Right now, I've got Muse's concert video on in the background. I have to laugh at myself; I keep hearing songs and thinking "I love that song! I didn't know they did that one!" You'd think I'd have clued into their distinctive sound by now...

Happy weekend, everyone!

...AKA the tabs I've left open for whatever reason.

First, a meme that skirts the edge between funny and unsettling, because it hits close to home:

( Haiku? Thank you! )

And from another option on that site, my blog-word is Other. Huh.

From an oblique chain involving miniglik, prose so purple it's practically octarine.

synecdochic's post on Ada Lovelace Day makes me think about my favorite women in technology, most of whom are fictional (Willow from Buffy and Mac from Veronica Mars, for starters). I've never had a female boss that was a programming mentor, nor have I had a lot of female classmates or co-workers in the field of programming. My female friends in other areas of technology seem to be (for the most part) singletons as well. I hope the numbers improve for the Gen-Yers and beyond.

Soon, I'll be leaving to pick up the Emperor. Hopefully he's had another awesome day, because I could really get used to walking in his classroom and not flinching at another razzer-frazzer incident report standing up in his cubby.

As long as I'm tempting fate, I'd love to go a couple of months without car troubles, because the amount I dropped on getting the brakes on my van fixed last week is just now catching up with me. OUCH.