la lune - Eclipse 2008

"On Wednesday evening, February 20th, the full Moon over Europe and the Americas will turn a delightful shade of red. It's a total lunar eclipse—the last one until Dec. 2010." - spaceweather.com

One way to celebrate? Watch the first(?) Sci-Fi film "A Trip to the Moon" a.k.a. "Voyage dans la lune." (MST lunar eclipse info)

Suz

On Air: Cookie Monster

I'm new to blog posting and I don't really know what to post about yet. So I'll post stuff that I think is worth wild to check out on the web. For this posting an interview with Cookie Monster, that was done by NPR. I'm a big fan of NPR radio by the way.

Enjoy, Eric

Disney to boost games division

This article was in the Salt Lake Tribune newspaper today, it talks about the future plans that Disney may have in Utah.

Eric

That's Entertainment

We've been catching up on our culture... seriously.

The Museum
In December Eric took me on a date to see the "Cinderella" and "Warhol" exhibits up at the UMFA. It was interesting to see Warhol's work first hand, I had no idea he had worked with diamond chips/flakes (looked like chunky glitter). The "Cinderella" exhibit was lighthearted and cross cultural and I wish it had been a little larger exhibit, not just one room, sigh. I love fairy tales.

Macbeth
Okay, I had no idea what we were in for when Emily and I went to the Metropolitan Opera (live broadcast) at our local movie theater. I had understood the scene to start with 3 witches, but there was a whole chorus line (so to speak) of the best group of gnarly witches I have seen! They had moved the story to take place in the 1940's. Lady Macbeth had such a beautiful voice, but holy cow, she was evil incarnate! Thank goodness Macduff stopped Macbeth and boy did Lady Macbeth get hers, ewwww horrible end to her! Very good production.

U2
I was a little uncertain about it when Eric announced he had family tickets to the the 9:20pm showing of the U23D concert event on a school night, but wow it was great! Very good imagery on social responsibility like "coexisting" with our fellow man/religions (have you seen the coexist stickers? WWJD? I think he'd coexist.) Very cool 3D effects. Plus great music! The stage was built out with two arms, way out into the audience and when they got the crowd to sing along, wow.


Coming Soon
Eric's birthday present: tickets to Video Games Live in March.

Suz

My first post...

A few weeks ago I pre-ordered World of Goo and the World of Goo Chapter 1 Preview is available today! If you have time and like puzzle games check it out.

Eric

Sunshine at Last

It's a very good day for the sun to be out. Emrie is in her own hospital room and out of PICU. I'm sure the sun is out in a lot of people's hearts today! Just in time for Valentine's Day! It is so nice to see the blue sky today, it feels like it's been winter forever.

Emily's science fair project was selected to represent her class at the school level competition. It was about the melting point of international chocolate. Thankfully she included a taste test in her studies. It's so tough being included in a chocolate tasting study. (hehehe)

P.S. If you're looking for some cool desktop backgrounds visit: vladstudio.com He comes up with new images pretty regularly.

Suz