One button dorm party - Utilizing their MIDAS (Multifunction In-Dorm Automation System), these two MIT kids have built an awesome party system into their dorm room.
Try the video captioned “a reenactment of a typical Thursday night party.”
My next lens? - I’ve been needing a faster (but cheap!) lens for some time … and this would allow me to take candids of acceptable quality in low-light situations (weddings, etc.).
More about her at Wikipedia.
Will Ferrell as the devil - I said the GUITAR is out of TUNE!
Strap on wings that let your fly unpowered for 25 miles - Yes, jump out of a plane, and this special suit allows you to fly for long distances at high speeds before deploying your parachute.
This thing, with root ball, weighed in at like 500 pounds. I sure am glad it survived after we transplanted it.
Knightley’s performance is so light and yet fierce that she makes the story almost realistic; this is not a well-mannered “Masterpiece Theatre” but a film where strong-willed young people enter life with their minds at war with their hearts.
— Roger Ebert, on Pride and Prejudice
My parents celebrated twenty seven years together today, and the event got me thinking about the blood, sweat, and tears that go into a partnership of almost three decades. It seems to me, from limited experience, that relationships are founded on the buoyancy of optimism, which initially keeps them afloat on the turbulent waters of life. It then also seems inevitable that one must (at some point) decide whether to jump ship or instead choose to be vigilant against the shoals that will founder and also avert becalming far out at sea. My sea-faring analogy stretches both your patience and my nautical vocabulary to the breaking point, so I must discontinue it … but surely you can see what I mean? After optimism, eventually you must make a decision.
An added bonus: you have no way of knowing if your decision is the right one. You may never know. All you know is that its effect on you and those you love is inevitably profound.
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