Energy of Spring, Trappings of Winter

Reena and I joined Mike and Sarah to experience Solas at the Somerville Theater on Friday night. This theater has great world and folk music shows in a beautifully restored theater and movies in a few other rooms. The only drawback to the kinetic energy and entertaining band was the space left for your legs after you sat down. The seat backs in front of us forced us to sit at strange angles. The music, however, transported one away from the setting and made me want to get up and dance.

In response to making a gloomy winter fractal, I made a spring themed one to celebrate the upcoming season that is now sure to be a while in coming. We are blanketed in ice with more snow on the way. So view this fractal and dream of spring.

Winter Snow and Ice

Yes, we have been hit, and we didn't miss a day of school. Today, I helped quite a few people out of the ice, and I am a firm believer in Yax Trax. They kept me on my feet across the many sheets of ice formed by last night's melt freezing.

In honor of real winter weather, I have created a fractal that I call Winter Storms.

IMAX

What fun. Gigantic forms so much bigger than life. Hollywood expressed as it wishes to be seen. IMAX theaters really let you get into a picture. I was struck by the visuals of the opening credits of Night at the Museum. They were computer graphics that took various perspective angles as if they were solid forms floating in space amongst the museum displays. In the IMAX, they were outstanding. The seat rumbling with deep bass sounds was entertaining, too. All told, seeing Stiller and Williams do their things was a wonderful reintroduction to the living world outside my apartment. The 3-D clip before the movie was mesmerizing, too. The group that went consisted of 6 people of whom 5 were teachers. It was amazing how many of the lines translated to what we often want to tell kids. At one point Robin Williams admonishes Ben Stiller who wants to hit the animated monkey, "Remember who is evolved." I know this movie got poor reviews, but I enjoyed the silliness and fantasy of it.

Solid food once more

As I recover this Friday, I am again back on that wonderful solid food of saltines.

Jim pointed out to me that the image of the virus and the image of the cupcakes look remarkably similar! Enjoy his chop to the right. Too bad I didn't get any of the cupcakes in my belly instead of the viruses.

Roomba is busy in the living room circling around and chasing bunnies. Did a few new spirographs today and will post them soon as I lug the scanner over to my computer and scan them. I think my spirograph buying addiction is over as I have almost all the different pieces out there. What a fun toy!

Been playing with the template for my blog. Upgraded to the new formats which are foolproof and take quite some time to transfer over old template info. Updated a few links and rearranged my links a bit. What do you think of the new look?

Third time's a charm

Yep, got the stomach bug a third time. Here is one for you to look at. Say hello to the norovirus. Many people in this area are saying hello in all kinds of personal ways.

I found this helpful blog entry to explain what is going on.

Here is a Globe article about it.