Christine Lukasik

Jonathon Coulton sings Code Monkey

Jonathon Coulton sings Code Monkey


got to see Jonathon Coulton this weekend - awesome!

Update-wise my wrist has been healing well - so far well enough that I'm on track NOT to have surgery. Sure hoping the goodness continues.

One handed typing *still* sucks, even with the super-cool one handed keyboard but is getting faster every day.

Workout wise I'm staying sane by doing as many abs and bodyweight lower body things I can dream up (lunges, squats, etc.) every day. With the super calorie restricted diet I adopted as soon as this happened things are actually going quite well. I've actually lost over 5 pounds but it's all muscle so that's nothing to celebrate really as my body fat percentage is likely going up accordingly. I'm definately losing some mass in nice areas so perhaps there is an upside. I've been avoiding most cardio as it makes the broken bits throb like mad, really doesn't help with swelling, and it makes my cast stinky! Hopefully things will continue to go well and I'll be back to running in time to train for a few races this summer - and the Seattle marathon - of course!

The Departed - available when?

The Departed - available when?

nice spelling mistake caught during live tv viewing by Scott. His mind is quicklikeaflash, I tell you.

Just a tiny bit cute

For your Friday enjoyment - "the rabbit" letter opener.

Extreme Makeover air date

We've just found out that the episode of Extreme Makeover Home Edition that we volunteered for will be airing Sunday, January 15th from 7-9pm Pacific Time as a two hour special. Watch for us - we're the ones in the blue shirts and yellow hard hats covered in mud (ha ha!).

Extremely fun!

Some camerphone shots of our time on the set of Extreme Makeover Home Edition this weekend here.

The new Jungle Moc?

Will Z-Coil shoes soon be as ubiquitious as the you-try-to-resist-because-they-are-SO-geeky-but-finally-give-in-'casue-they-make-your-feet-feel-like-they're-walking-on-oh-so-fluffy-cotton-candy Merrell Jungle Moc?

I can't wait to try some!

Similar concept to my Swopper office stool, which is bounce-tastic!

Posted By: Chris Lukasik

Art, People, and the World of Tomorrow

Coming in November at the Kirsten Gallery (Seattle), Paintings of Mt. Rainier in the Japanese manner (click the purple arrow toward the bottom of the page to load the first image).

WorldChanging.com is an incredible site that links people, technology (new & not so new), tools, research and ideas from around the world who are working to change it. They work from the position that the tools, models and ideas for building a better future lie all around us. That plenty of people are working on tools for change, but the fields in which they work remain unconnected. That the motive, means and opportunity for profound positive change are already present. That another world is not just possible, it's here. We only need to put the pieces together.

Oh, yea!

Many thanks to hubby Scott for the link.

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Cornel West on NPR.

Goodness gracious. Yesterday morning, KUOW the local Seattle station had Cornel West on Weekday (listen to it here).

This guy is so smart and so well spoken I swear I was a drooling idiot during the entire show. My mouth hung open as my teeny tiny little brain scrambled to keep up with the brilliance that flowed out of this man.

He discusses democracy, the role of America in the world, hate, history, imperialism, religion, politics, hip hop, and September 11th, and says that one thing we might have done post September 11th is to avoid "spewing our counter bigotry and our counter venom". Yeeeaaaa, that! He discusses how we in the US have a representative democracy rather than a direct democracy, and that we have a system where democratic processes are in place, but that it is a limited democracy - evolving like good jazz music, having started with only white, landownding males, opening to non-landowers, then other races, women, etc. ..AND that if you're trying to promote democracy, you don't do so with the point of a gun.

*sigh* Let's all go back to college and debate political & social issues, ok?

Background wise, He's a professor of Religion at Princeton (formerly Harvard), and is the author of Democracy Matters and Race Matters. He's been praised by the New York Times for "his ferocious moral vision" and called "an elegant prophet with attitude" by Newsweek.

In his new book, DEMOCRACY MATTERS: WINNING THE FIGHT AGAINST IMPERIALISM, West issues a call to action for the deepening of "true democracy" both at home and abroad, and urges us to move away from our current climate of imperial overreach and fundamentalist rage. His impassioned argument will reshape the debate about America's role in the modern world.

Posted by: Chris Lukasik

Oh Wiki you're so fine....

Further proof that I could
A. Not at all waste most of my days reading stuff on the internet
B. Learn more on the internet than I did in all my days of school combined
C. Find more educational amusement "

Doing some research today on cryptography, and stumbled upon this page in Wikipedia! It's the disambiguation page for hash, "resolving the conflict that occurs when articles about two or more different topics have the same natural title. " in case I was searching for hash, the food, the drug, the informal running game, the software company or the computer crypto term for converting data from a large range to a smaller range. Wiki is awesome! Joy!

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Frozen Deep Fried Twinkie Maker

Oh, I keep forgetting to tell you about this! We saw this frozen deep-fried twinkie maker for sale in a Wal-Mart somewhere in Tenn (I think) while on our camping trip. Can I just tell you how close we came to buying one? According to this article, they taste like Beignets.....YUM!