FOUR THINGS MEME

Stolen from TSC:

Four jobs you’ve had in your life:
1. Veterinary Assistant (I love animals)
2. File clerk (filing 8 hours a day, 5 days a week for an insurance company)
3. Police Officer
4. Intern for the District Attorney’s office

Four movies you could watch over and over:
1. Star Wars (the original)
2. Say Anything
3. Monty Python, Search for the Holy Grail
4. Die Hard (I, II, & III)

Four places you’ve lived:
1. Atlanta, GA
2. Nashville, TN
3. McLean, VA
4. Center City Philadelphia, PA

Four TV shows you love to watch:
1. The Simpsons
2. Survivor
3. Amazing Race
4. The McLaughlin Group

Four websites you visit daily:
1. SCOTUS Blog
2. Dilbert (& Dilbert Blog)
3. TSC Girl
4. Opinionistas
(I’d add Legal Insanity, but it is down right now…)

Four of your favorite foods:
1. Spaghetti
2. Mongolian Beef (Chinese)
3. Chicken Tikki Masala + naan (Indian)
4. Chicken Parmigiana

Four places you’d rather be:
I am happy where I am.  I think I’ll stay, thank you.

Four albums you can’t live without:
Can’t think of any right now.  I’ve been painting the nursery all day.

Pictures From the Second Ultrasound

Here are the new ultrasound pictures. These were taken at 7 months on a newer machine (4-D) so the resolution is better than the last set of ultrasound pics. They may be more difficult to make out though because the baby is so much bigger now. Whereas before, the entire baby fit in one frame, now just a part of the child does. These are of the baby's face (on the right). The second one shows only the mouth, but the others capture the full face pretty well. Except the last one -- that is of the spine.

Everything looks perfectly normal. The baby is now 4 lbs 1 oz. Only a couple more months to go! I can't wait, but my wife really can't wait!

Also, here is a newer recording of the baby's heartbeat. The louder sharper thumps (for the first 8 seconds or so and most of the recording) are the baby kicking. The more pounding sound is the heartbeat. These were taken with a digital recorder, then edited with audacity and converted into mp3 using LAME. (Thanks again, JV, for hosting the sound file)

Silly Putty at Google

I love Silly Putty. But I think some people might love it a little too much.

Clay Bavor, an associate product manager at google might. He discovered that Silly Putty can be ordered in bulk. So he got together with some friends and ordered 250 lbs of Silly Putty. That is a lot of Silly Putty. Only he found out that separating the Silly Putty was not as easy as it might seem. The pictures are definitely worth a look!

• Ok, so let's take a look at silly putty....
• Click here for a brief history of silly putty
• What does 50 lbs of silly putty look like when dropped off a building? Take a look!
• Want to make your own silly putty? Try this.
• AND if you can't get enough silly putty. Click here to learn how to order 100 lbs silly putty.

Google & braille

Did you see the Google logo today?








If you click on it, you get this.
Apparently, this is Google in braille. Cool.

Living in Center City Philadelphia

“Is there a chance the track could bend?
Not on your life, my Hindu friend.”
The Simpsons, Marge vs. the Monorail (season 4)

That is to say, I think I have gotten a little off track.

Center City Philadelphia . . . .

I moved into Center City Philadelphia.  I now live in Center City Philadelphia.  I love Center City Philadelphia.

I am purposely repeating Center City Philadelphia because I want search engines to pick it up.  I did a search today for other Center City Philadelphia bloggers, and was quite frustrated.  I did find a few, but not many.  I’ll post some of what I found another time.  But my own blog did not even show up.

Then I realized why.  How often do I mention Center City Philadelphia?  Barely at all.  And it is a shame too.  I really like Center City Philadelphia.  I moved here (Center City Philadelphia) because I wanted to live in a healthy, lively urban setting where I could walk to work, church, shopping, and almost everywhere else I want to go.  

That being said, I want others searching for Center City Philadelphia bloggers to be able to find this blog.  I also hope to write more about the Center City Philadelphia and living in Center City Philadelphia.

So, by repeating Center City Philadelphia a few times, that is what I hope to do.  If you found this post through a search engine and you were looking for a blog by someone in Center City Philadelphia -- then let me know.  Drop me a comment.  Then look back (or forward) at some of the other posts.

I’ll try to post more about Center City Philadelphia too.  It is an awesome city (Center City Philadelphia, that is).  I’ll try to write more about Center City Philadelphia too.  My previous posts about the underground pedestrian concourse are some of the most viewed posts(1, 2, 3).  That is probably because there is not much else out there about them (I tried searching for info last summer and was pretty disappointed -- that’s why I posted the info and pictures I did).

Anyway, I think I have mentioned Center City Philadelphia enough now.  If not, I’ll say it one more time: Center City Philadelphia.  There.  I said it again.