Archive | July, 2010
From Baby Fever To Baby Pox

From Baby Fever To Baby Pox

by on July 31, 2010 in Uncategorized

Two words: Chicken. Pox.

If you’re reading this – then it’s likely that you probably had them at some point in your life. If it was early enough in your childhood, then you have vague recollections of misery, pink calamine lotion and the first bitter taste of wanting what you couldn’t have: to peel the tingling flesh off your tiny body with nothing but your fingernails. Sure, there would be scraped knees, bloodied noses and fevers – but the chicken pox was its own dastardly rite of passage of youth.

The one redeeming quality of chicken pox is that more often than not, you only had to go through it once. Or so you thought.

Or so I thought, rather.

Point of clarification – I don’t have chicken pox. I believe I have its evil distant cousin: Baby Pox.

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How Helpful is Your University Website?

by on July 30, 2010 in Alderdice, Comics, Corey, Education, Entertainment, Science and Technology, Social Issues

Before having Gatton Academy students in my life, I had never really heard of XKCD, the crudely drawn though almost always head-nod worthy bit of internet miscellany. Heck, Gatton Academy students even went so far as to stage an elaborate riff on one of its most famous cartoons. (Search “Justin Howell” on the page.)

It should come as no surprise, then, that this little jewel showed up in my Twitter feed this morning. What’s particularly funny is that this Venn-Diagram comes along just as WKU is planning and executing a major revamp of the main university website. Take a moment to study the cartoon diagram below and meet me after the jump.

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Do Not Hate, Just Decorate!

Do Not Hate, Just Decorate!

by on July 28, 2010 in Uncategorized

We’re a little over two weeks away from Elliott’s due date. The onesies have been washed. The hospital bags are packed and waiting by the front door. My hair has been fixed and photo-ready for the big day. Clearly, our priorities are in order. And, as many folks have asked, the nursery is ready and waiting (sans toys and books for now). Feel free to click through and get a glimpse of our robot themed room. One day we’ll look back and marvel at how clean it once was.

IMG_1142 Natural Light View From Door Loveseat Crib Dresser Top Fisheye From Door - 3 Fisheye From Door - 2 Fisheye From Closet Corner - 1 View From Lamp Corner - 2 View From Closet Corner - 2 View From Crib Corner
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Open Letter: To the Man Who Came To Child Birth Class Alone

by on July 24, 2010 in Stephanie

"Come here often?"

Hey Guy,

I know the whole group technically introduced ourselves in class today, so I’m kind of a jerk for not remembering yours. I think it was Bill, but I don’t know. I hope you won’t be offended if I call you Guy.

Not gonna lie – I was really relieved to not be the only singleton in the class today. I was a little surprised at first that the other person flying solo was male – but hey, no gender bias. Okay, a wee bit of gender bias – but you were polite and sober and took notes on the pamphlets so it was cool. You were a good table-mate.

See, I had been dreading it since Breastfeeding 101 when I saw that 95% of the people in attendance were couples. After deciding that it was best that my husband miss the child birthing class so he’d have fewer graduate classes when the baby arrived – I was not looking forward to flying solo in what I knew was going to be a four-hour “couples skate” at the “Nightmare Fuel Roller Rink”. I mean, dude, let’s be real. We knew watching a baby being born was going to be horrifying. But at least when you hose that sucker down – there’s something chubby and cute underneath the gore.

But delivering the placenta?! SERIOUSLY?! You know what you get when you hose that down? A one-legged jellyfish that just got initiated and is limping out of the human body. Gross, right? I know you agreed with me, because we both made those sounds of revulsion and we both seemed quietly apprehensive about what the next 4 hours would bring.

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Stabbed in the Eye with Nerd Awesomeness

Stabbed in the Eye with Nerd Awesomeness

by on July 24, 2010 in Alderdice, Comics, Corey, Entertainment, Games

As you may have guessed, I’m not at Comic-Con International this weekend.  Thanks to the magic of the interwebs, though, I don’t have to worry about missing out on updates, livestreams, photos, and video from the hundreds of panels taking place.  Seriously, people.  DC and Marvel have a panel going on in just about every time block of the Con.

Better yet, I don’t have to worry about being stabbed in the eye by some crazy guy because I’m sitting in Hall H with 4,000 other people hoping to see the cast of the Avengers movie.

I guess we’ll just call it a break even situation.  That is until I stumbled across this little bit of awesome-sauce this afternoon: the newest trailer for the Sony Entertainment/DC Comics massively multiplayer online (MMO) game DC Universe Online.  Jim Lee, Geoff Johns, Marv Wolfman, and other major creators have spent the last five years working on bringing the world’s greatest super-heroes to life for the PS3 and PCs.

Check out the trailer and join me for a little chat, okay?

You know what? Just go ahead and watch it again…or five more times. I’ll wait.

Back again? Good. CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS?  I’m not even sure where to begin.

Corey’s Top 10 Head ‘Sploding Things in the DC Universe Online Trailer

10.  Superman’s five-o’clock shadow.

9.  Cyborg looks awesome.  Please, DC. Realize this character has the potential to be a major player in the DC Universe and give him the respect he demands.

8.  Joker uses Harley Quinn as a human shield.

7.  Every hero in special armor means things are really, really bad.

6.  Wonder Woman with a delicious Kryptonite-filled interior.

5.  Deathstroke using Batman as a piñata thanks to Wonder Woman’s lasso.

4.  You can never go wrong with Kevin Conroy as Batman and Mark Hamill as Joker.  Seriously.  After twenty years of two fine actors playing the characters, you’d think audiences would want the producers to move on to someone else.  No…such…thing.

3.  Superman burns off Black Adam’s face with his heat vision!

2.  Black Adam calls down the lightning and destroys the entire city.  C’mon.  Why doesn’t the Shazam family get more love in the comics?

1.  A storyline that is good enough to be a movie.  Stop wasting time on these direct to DVD movies and simply make this happen.  Villains win.  Time travel.  The trinity.  Awesome animation.  Great voice acting.

At least I know what I’ll be doing at 3 a.m. this November when Elliott won’t sleep.

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Hypothetical Gift Suggestion

by on July 21, 2010 in Uncategorized

Our anniversary is Monday July 26th. Corey’s birthday is August 2nd. Elliott could be appearing…well…any day for all we know. How could we commemorate such profound events? Two words: Micro Pig.

I say this in 99.999% jest, given that I was on the verge of putting our dog on Craigslist yesterday and sending her off to the first guy in a trenchcoat to respond. And I know there’s probably something a little genetically and ethically sketchy about trend breeding nature’s own breathing Bacon-Bit. But there’s a .001% part of me that will secretly think of names for my imaginary micro-pig.

Maybe I’ll name him Bacon-Bit.

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Dog For Sale

Dog For Sale

by on July 20, 2010 in Baby Gaga, Lily, Stephanie

Not really.

Though, if you had called my cell phone at around 11:24 this morning she probably would have been going home with you. At least until Corey got home and talked me out of it.

Allow me a bit of back-story, if you will.

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