Random Thoughts about life in general, living in the big city of Toronto
The other day I taped the movie Snakes on a Plane. I thought I heard good things about that movie? I guess it was ok, but at the height of the snake attacks it was just too unbelievable and corny for me. The beginning and end of the movie were fine.
Did you see the movie? Did you enjoy it? I’m certainly glad that I didn’t go to the theater to see this one!
I’m still trying to decide if I’ll be going to Las Vegas in November for P0stiecon or not. There hasn’t been as much information about the event as I’d like so I’m having trouble deciding whether we should go or not. I’ve also been sicker than normal lately and if that continues there’s no way I’ll be able to go.
I’ll have to decide soon though as we’ll need to book a hotel and flight if we’re going. There’s two conventions together and hey it’s Las Vegas, so I’m sure there’s lots of conventions going on there all the time.
If we do go to Las Vegas I hope we’ll be able to see some sights while we’re there. I’d love to go to Caesars Palace and catch some Vegas shows too. Neither Chris or I are much into gambling, but you never know we might try our hand at it.
One reason that I’d like to go is to meet several of the new blogging friends that I’ve made over the past nine months or so. It’d be great to get together with some fellow posties.
Who else is going to to the Blog World Expo and P0stiecon?
My gosh my husband can talk a lot. Yesterday evening he was supposed to be home from work by about 8 o’clock. It gets to be 8:30 and I’m wondering where he is so I went and looked out the door and he’s down the street talking to one of our neighbors who also happens to be an extremely talkative man.
When Chris finally came home I asked him what they’d been talking about. I guess our neighbors sons are expanding their gas station and garage. They’re going to renovate their shop, which is just a block from here and where we often get our car tuned up or fixed. Our neighbor was talking about how they need to get more body shop supplies and so on to prepare when the reno is finished. I guess they’re adding another car bay or two.
Chris was babbling so much I didn’t fully get all the information.
It just astounds me how much that man can talk though. You know, whenever we’re having a BBQ I have to remind Chris not to wander out to the front of the house. If he does he gets talking to anyone who walks by and the next thing I know we end up with burned food.
Does your spouse talk too much? Especially to the neighbors or even strangers passing by the house?
Have you been watching the new ABC television show I-Caught? I think the show is on Tuesday nights. I’m not sure because I recorded the show and didn’t watch it until last night.
I’ve watched two episodes of I-Caught so far and I really like the show. It seems to center around the crazy things people do, and how they broadcast there ideas on the internet, often through videos submitted to YouTube.
The shows About page states:
What is i-CAUGHT? Well – we all know there’s a video revolution swirling around us all – 24/7. Ask yourself… how many times were you caught on surveillance video today? Did you – like more than 100,000 other people – upload a video onto the internet? Did you go online like millions of others and watch a video?
We’re ALL a part of this new video revolution.
But it’s more than just entertainment. Every one of these videos has a story behind it. Who made it? What was going on behind the scenes? What came after it? And how much can we really believe what we see?
An awful lot of it is also news. The politician caught on an open mic. The policeman caught doing the heroic – or the opposite. The patrol on the streets of Baghdad. Or the moment when Mother Nature wreaks havoc on the ususpecting. We’re watching – literally – as every single person with a video camera can gather news for all the rest of us.
We call this new television and internet experience i-CAUGHT. Because that’s how so many people feel these days. Everywhere you look – cameras – catching everything: breaking news… making headlines… turning unknowns into celebrities… turning others into laughing stocks…
And for all the world to see – in an instant. It’s video at the speed of life.
Every week, i-CAUGHT brings you the real stories – reporting on the real people – behind the videos that millions of us watch and share everyday.
I didn’t see last weeks episode, but they apparently asked their views to submit via video three words that they feel are important to them. The words could have something to do with life in general or reflect how the person felt about their day or week. It didn’t matter as long as it was three words.
At the end of this weeks episode they showed a video they’d put together. It was composed of many of the submissions that people had provided over the last week. I’d put the video in this post, but I fear that it’s autoplay and I loath autoplay videos on websites.
Some of the submissions were humorous, others were inspiring and some were just sad. As I watched the video my eyes got a little misty. That’s how deeply some of those simple three word submissions touched me. If you’d like to watch the video just visit “Your 3 Words”. You might even be inspired to submit your own video.
Yes, they are still accepting submissions. When Chris and I heard that we decided that we’d each make a short three word video too. Who knows maybe our videos will become part of the I-Caught Your Three Words video montage.
Wordless Wednesday
We have some garden decorations in our garden and one of the latest items to adorn one of the surrounding walls is a large metal sun. It looks really cool with the vines growing around it.
Yesterday while I was out take just a few pictures I took this close up photo of the face of the sun. I think it looks kind of cool.