Carleen and Mike » 2004 » December http://www.huggin.net/blog raising loki in okie land Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:28:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Relief aid for tsunami victims http://www.huggin.net/blog/2004/12/28/relief-aid-for-tsunami-victims/ http://www.huggin.net/blog/2004/12/28/relief-aid-for-tsunami-victims/#comments Tue, 28 Dec 2004 19:44:28 +0000 Carleen Huxley http://www.huggin.net/blog/?p=235 A blog has been set up to help provide information for people interested in becoming involved in relief efforts for the survivors of the tsunami that hit the coast of south Asia this past weekend. The death toll has risen to 40,000 and over 250,000 have been left homeless.

http://tsunamihelp.blogspot.com/

Thanks to Mitch for the link.

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Just snapped this shot of Turbo sitting in the sun staring out the window. I got this shot due to two things: luck and reflexivly thinking “Get the camera!”. I like this shot.

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Scroll down to the middle of the page to read about the crazy genetic mutations being performed on goats.

]]> http://www.huggin.net/blog/2004/12/23/spider-goat/feed/ American Cinema and BASF http://www.huggin.net/blog/2004/12/23/american-cinema-and-basf/ http://www.huggin.net/blog/2004/12/23/american-cinema-and-basf/#comments Thu, 23 Dec 2004 12:05:38 +0000 Mike Huxley http://www.huggin.net/blog/?p=232 Do you remember those commercials that BASF (is this company still around ?) used to do? The tagline was always something to the effect of “We don’t make the products you use, we make the products you use better.” This is starting to apply to American Cinema. “We don’t make the movies you watch, we make the movies you watch better.” The “better” being subject to opinion of course. I”m talking about this rash of remakes flooding the movie theatres recently. Especially centering around the horror genre. At first I was excited, I mean, there’s horror movies in the theatres, that’s all I need - remakes or no. But it’s gotten way out of hand at this point.

First, many have probably heard about the Spielberg/Cruise “modern re-telling” of H.G. Wells’ “War of the Worlds”. What many may not know is that at the same time, another director is making a lower budget version of the movie which he says stays truer to the original work. So we get two versions of the same movie in theatres on or about the same time. You can read more about this here

Second is the, atrocity that is the “Evil Dead” remake. Evil Dead is the movie I cut my horror teeth on. It represents my transcendence from someone who likes horror, to a true horror fan. A lotta love goes out to this movie from the entire horror community and no true horror fan would list this movie any lower than 3 on his or her list of Top Horror Movies Ever Made. But now it has been tainted by the remake. No one seems to care about all this except the horror fans. I wonder if it’s because it is horror and the genre has never truly been taken seriously. I wonder what would happen if a remake of, say, Breakfast at Tiffany’s or Wizard of OZ? Would people get fed up? I thought the remake of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory would be enough to make people sick of remakes.

]]> http://www.huggin.net/blog/2004/12/23/american-cinema-and-basf/feed/ So, what do you do during Christmas weekend? http://www.huggin.net/blog/2004/12/22/so-what-do-you-do-during-christmas-weekend/ http://www.huggin.net/blog/2004/12/22/so-what-do-you-do-during-christmas-weekend/#comments Thu, 23 Dec 2004 00:49:36 +0000 Carleen Huxley http://www.huggin.net/blog/?p=231 Mike and I have been getting some very strange responses from people when we tell them we are dedicating our Christmas weekend to spending time with our family. It’s like they think we’re nerdy or something. Jeeze, people, this is what Christmas is supposed to be for. I have a brother coming into town that I hardly see but once year, twice if I’m lucky. Maybe I’m being to sensitive about this or maybe I am getting old and nerdy but, damn-it, this is Christmas weekend and the rest of the world is just going to have to wait!

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On the other hand, I don’t mind the fact that I won’t be working for Wal-Mart. To work for Wal-Mart would clash a bit too much with my morals. and I couldn’t live with that.

]]> http://www.huggin.net/blog/2004/12/15/wal-mart/feed/ Ta-Da!! http://www.huggin.net/blog/2004/12/14/ta-da/ http://www.huggin.net/blog/2004/12/14/ta-da/#comments Tue, 14 Dec 2004 16:10:23 +0000 Mike Huxley http://www.huggin.net/blog/?p=228 Well I was going to wait till we were ALL finished, but I guess I can post these pictures now, they’re photo’s of our before (the purple) and after (the green) paint jobs on the bathroom.

Bathroom Before Bathroom After

The green is much more yellow than in this picture, but I’ll post more photos once we are truly finished, we plan on pulling down all the tile and installing a new bathtub and shower enclosure (ambitious for a home improvement newbie like myself, don’t you think?), and also putting in a new floor with more wainscot on the walls. I’ll be an expert at bathrooms my the time I’m done.

]]> http://www.huggin.net/blog/2004/12/14/ta-da/feed/ Make your own digital snowflake http://www.huggin.net/blog/2004/12/13/make-your-own-digital-snowflake/ http://www.huggin.net/blog/2004/12/13/make-your-own-digital-snowflake/#comments Mon, 13 Dec 2004 16:52:12 +0000 Carleen Huxley http://www.huggin.net/blog/?p=227 This was cute.

]]> http://www.huggin.net/blog/2004/12/13/make-your-own-digital-snowflake/feed/ note to self- don’t miss the discussion http://www.huggin.net/blog/2004/12/13/dont-miss-the-discussion/ http://www.huggin.net/blog/2004/12/13/dont-miss-the-discussion/#comments Mon, 13 Dec 2004 14:52:42 +0000 Carleen Huxley http://www.huggin.net/blog/?p=226 Second in the Digital Future series on CSPAN. I watched the other one online and it came through pretty good.

“Monday, December 13 at 6:30pm ET
Brewster Kahle, Digital Librarian, Director and Co-founder of the Internet Archive. Kahle is the person who first developed the idea and tools to archive the Web. He will explain how he did that, and why it’s important to our everday use of the internet. The title of his talk is “Universal Access to Knowledge.”‘

Here’s another one I’m hoping to getting around to watching.
Internet Society Conference, Harvard University

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