Sesame Street Is 40

Yesterday, Google had Big Bird as part of its logo. Today, it’s Cookie Monster – my personal favorite.

I grew up watching Sesame Street (although happily I can say I was a few years away from seeing it from the beginning). I watched it again when I was home sick on day recently. My knowledge of Spanish is based on things learned from that show (and love of Mexican cuisine).

I know of very few people who cannot say that Sesame Street was an integral part of their childhood.

V

So I’m all set to watch V (the second time around – yeah, I’m that old), turn on the local ABC station, and see something about the Titans instead of aliens.

Seems that Tuesdays at 7 Central is the Titans recap show with Jeff Fisher, and not the regularly scheduled programming you’d expect. Oh, but V will be shown later tonight – 12:05am, to be exact. Yeah, that’s convenient.

Hopefully I’ll be able to watch it online after tonight, because it looks like there’s no chance seeing it on tv first run unless I’m up late, which is not going to happen.

Grrr.

Has It Really Been That Long?

From my brother’s email:

Over two weeks and no blog update? I thought I would have some backlogs to keep me busy after my trip.

Does this count?

Don’t worry, Dear Reader, I got things to say – just haven’t had a whole lot of time to do it lately. I’ll catch you up soon.

Giant Microbes

All the talk of swine flu and vaccines reminded me of Giant Microbes, producers of some of the Big Black Dog’s favorite toys. I believe BBD is partial to Ebola and Sleeping Sickness. C. diff had to be retired due to unrepairable holes.

The blue guy in the photo is the common cold (rhinovirus), and sits on the shelf above my computer at work, to keep cooties away.

Yeah, I’m a science nerd. What of it?

Brett Domino Trio

I can’t help but have a crush on Brett Domino and the Brett Domino Trio.

Who are they, you ask? Feast your eyes on this bit of awesomeness.

Doing Michael Jackson’s Beat It:

Covering Katy Perry’s I Kissed a Girl (I love how they leave out some lyrics about boyfriends – ha!):

No Flu For Me

Thanks to my employer, I’ve received both the seasonal flu and H1N1 flu vaccine shots. Hooray, no flu here!

“But, but, but… you’re not a healthcare worker!” you ask.

Well, yes, I sort of am. Not directly, mind you, but I do interact with a lot of healthcare workers and some patients. It’s all about herd immunity. And in case of serious pandemic and collapse of civilization due to an influenza outbreak, I may be recruited to help, so it only makes sense to take care of things.

Besides, I didn’t have to pay for the shots, just show up, scan my ID badge, and expose enough arm to get a stick and a nice Snoopy band-aid.

Yeah, nothing makes a Friday like a Snoopy band-aid.

So Why Am I Still Single?

From Asylum, the best and worst professions to date:

BEST
Librarian
She’ll be pretty smart about lots of random things, great at Googling and a good connection for free books. Bonus: say goodbye to those nasty overdue charges. Plus, everyone knows librarians are sexual dynamos waiting to explode. Right?

Damn straight. I rock Google. The “sexual dynamo” bit you’ll have to find out for yourself.

(h/t Neatorama)

Sort of related, I love this image.

Mad Men Must Wait

I’ve mentioned before about my conversion to Mad Men fan. Well, I finally got through all the DVDs for seasons 1 and 2 — thanks to Netflix, one of the best ideas ever, and one of the cheapest forms of entertainment around — and was excited to dive into season 3.

That’s when things went bad.

I was able to watch the first episode of season 3 on the AMC site, but no other episodes. I don’t have cable, so I can’t catch up on reruns. The only legitimate thing I can do to watch the show right now is to get the episodes off of iTunes at $2.99 a pop or $34.99 for a season pass (13 episodes). I wouldn’t mind getting a couple of them that way, but all of them?

Yeah, that’s not going to happen, when I’ve got other expenses right now.

(And yes, I know episodes can be found online through BitTorrent and other places, but the librarian in me hesitates to do something illegal like that.)

Looks like I’ll have to wait FOREVER for the DVDs to be released and watch it then, or wish that someone with cable invites me over to watch. Getting cable again is a no go.

In the meantime, I found this:

Sorry, New Jersey

But thanks for taking a hit for the team.

Based on information from the Zombie Research Society, I feel a little better about my chance of survival when the zombie apocalypse hits.

h/t: the always wonderful Polly!

30 Dumb Inventions

From Life Magazine: 30 Dumb Inventions.

I don’t know, some of those seem kinda cool, like illuminated tires. It’s a wonder those don’t make a comeback.