I know nothing about acting and filmmaking, and I loath award shows, but my friend Possum has issued a challenge for the best Oscar predictions and I'm going to give it a stab. I only remember seeing 4 movies this year, and I doubt any of them will win a prize, so this is pretty much a shot in the dark, but here goes...

Actor in a leading role: Hoffman
Actor in a supporting role: Gyllenhaal
Actress in a leading role: Huffman
Actress in a supporting role: Keener
Animated Feature: Corpse Bride
Art direction: Pride and Prejudice
Cinematography: The New World
Costume Design: Memoirs of a Geisha
Directing: Crash
Documentary Feature: March of the Penguins
Documentary Short: The Mushroom Club
Film Editing: Munich
Foreign Language Film: Tsotsi
Makeup: Star Wars
Music (score): Memoirs of a Geisha
Music (song): It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp
Best Picture: Crash
Short Film (animated): One Man Band
Short Film (live action): Ausreisser
Sound Editing: King Kong
Sound Mixing: King Kong
Visual effects: King Kong
Writing (adapted screenplay): Brokeback Mountain
Writing (original screenplay): Crash

So, we told a few of you how we needed two different tests to convince ourselves that we weren't seeing things. Well, in the course of getting the pictures for the last posting, I stumbled across some images that I forgot that we had taken, and I thought it might be fun to illustrate our confusion.

Test one:

The second, "positive" line is definitely there, but in less-than-convincing fashion.

Test two:

Last night, we finally got our first real snow of the year and it feels great! It makes us miss Bozeman! Kona loves it too. So in celebration, we got bundled up and headed outside to play in the good stuff for a little while. Click continue reading for a few pictures and a movie.

Hey all, Brooklynne here.
Miles has been begging me to post since we started this "web journal" (I hate the word blog)...
I thought the event of our family growing would be the perfect introduction.

I just loaded an updated version of my Clio homepage. There are a few glitches and style errors, so I would appreciate comments and suggestions on the style and function of the page, but only if you are using Firefox, Safari, or another standards-compliant browser (not IE). Although I am not a member of the "windows/IE is Satan" club, I have learned enough to know that IE does not display webpages the way they should be without elaborate hacks, which I have not incorporated into my design.

In the past I have designed pages that worked fine in IE, but they worked because I was programming wrong, and the way I was programming will not get me a job. So, now I am programming correctly, and until I learn how to tailor my correct programming to IE, my clio page will only display correctly in browsers that adhere to international standards.

All of that is to say, get yourself a free copy of firefox, and then help me out by critiqueing my design.

I just stumbled upon another blog that I'm excited about. The new Timothy Lives! site chronicles the lives of Tracy and Donald Brown, good friends from my days as a Tarheel pre-alum. Check it out. I'm also adding a link in the left sidebar.

Yep, you heard me right!

Well, finally I have the time to think through some of my thoughts on the meeting from Monday. I have made some images that mimic some that McLaren used in his discussion, so to save room, I'm posting the bulk of this entry in the extended section that you can read by clicking the link below. But first a few disclaimers on the images... 1) they only represent what I thought he was saying 2) they probably don't match his images exactly, 3) they aren't to scale and the proximity of named denominations in the first couple is random doesn't mean anything, and 4) they remind me of the Kraftwerk website!