Is he an Albert Pujols??
a David Beckham??
maybe a Tiger Woods...
We don't know yet but we do know he's... just Adrian.
Tuesday, August 28, 2007
...Just Adrian
As most of you may know, I have a fondness for Photography. One of my favorite subjects is my son, Adrian. He's got a great disposition in photos and it makes taking photos of him easy. The girls are fun too and photos of them may come soon. Here are some of my favorite ones of Adrian... enjoy.
Is he an Albert Pujols??
a David Beckham??
maybe a Tiger Woods...
We don't know yet but we do know he's... just Adrian.
Is he an Albert Pujols??
a David Beckham??
maybe a Tiger Woods...
We don't know yet but we do know he's... just Adrian.
Sunday, August 26, 2007
She’s SoOoOo Unusual!
Ok so I'm such an unusual thing.
Everyone has their "thing" they get into and it effects them like nothing else.
I guess we can say it's your passion.
So one of Richard's passions is computer engineering. He gets all excited about the love of circuit boards and it's all about the 01010110 that gets him umm... excited.
We can talk about computers stuff and that's our geek glue bond like none other.
Well one of my things is typography. It's all about the type. I'm not professing to be the great all knowing typographer I just like it. It's a part of being a graphic designer. I like looking at typefaces. I was downloading fonts one night from a free font site. I browsed through them having had some very emotional comments about some of them. Some typefaces were just pointless rubbish people made just to make it. Others were useful and those were the ones that really annoy me. I love a beautiful typeface. Rich just laughed at the different somewhat spontaneous reactions I had. I saw a typeface full of stars. With an emotional outburst my reaction is "OMG Stars! I need Freakin Stars!! As I proceeded to download with glee I looked to see the font was called "Freakin Stars" I laughed and thought yeah this designer is awesome and moved on to the next download.
That same night, while cuddling with my honey I said out of the blue... "Honey the term is typeface..." Rich was like "Wha?" said all British like of course. "Yeah honey, typeface is what it looks like, font is a computer file. It's like calling the photo you hold in your hand a Jpeg." Rich replies "Ohhhh...riiight" As I smiled with content feeling that I had enlightened someone he was probably thinking (in his British accent of course) "Ok that was random."
So do you ever have those moments when your "thing" really get to you all tangled up emotionally and it makes you go all random? It's a beautiful thing. It's even better when your spouse understands it. My husband and I are geeks with no shame. We are geeks in different areas of geekness. He's more geek than me though. We cuddle and talk computers. Weird? Nope not in our house!
After reading my blog Richard informed me that the already knew it was called typeface... oh well whateva!
Everyone has their "thing" they get into and it effects them like nothing else.
I guess we can say it's your passion.
So one of Richard's passions is computer engineering. He gets all excited about the love of circuit boards and it's all about the 01010110 that gets him umm... excited.
We can talk about computers stuff and that's our geek glue bond like none other.
Well one of my things is typography. It's all about the type. I'm not professing to be the great all knowing typographer I just like it. It's a part of being a graphic designer. I like looking at typefaces. I was downloading fonts one night from a free font site. I browsed through them having had some very emotional comments about some of them. Some typefaces were just pointless rubbish people made just to make it. Others were useful and those were the ones that really annoy me. I love a beautiful typeface. Rich just laughed at the different somewhat spontaneous reactions I had. I saw a typeface full of stars. With an emotional outburst my reaction is "OMG Stars! I need Freakin Stars!! As I proceeded to download with glee I looked to see the font was called "Freakin Stars" I laughed and thought yeah this designer is awesome and moved on to the next download.
That same night, while cuddling with my honey I said out of the blue... "Honey the term is typeface..." Rich was like "Wha?" said all British like of course. "Yeah honey, typeface is what it looks like, font is a computer file. It's like calling the photo you hold in your hand a Jpeg." Rich replies "Ohhhh...riiight" As I smiled with content feeling that I had enlightened someone he was probably thinking (in his British accent of course) "Ok that was random."
So do you ever have those moments when your "thing" really get to you all tangled up emotionally and it makes you go all random? It's a beautiful thing. It's even better when your spouse understands it. My husband and I are geeks with no shame. We are geeks in different areas of geekness. He's more geek than me though. We cuddle and talk computers. Weird? Nope not in our house!
After reading my blog Richard informed me that the already knew it was called typeface... oh well whateva!
Thursday, August 23, 2007
America: The Endogamous Melting Pot
I was forwarded via email an article titled "Mr. Right Might Be White." Isn't that clever title? Isn't that "Something New?" No and if you think so you are seriously cracked. Funny this topic made news because isn't America supposed to be a Melting Pot? Are we the land of the free? No because of racism has us bound and articles such as "Mr. Right Might Be White" will continue grace the front page news.
If we were a true melting pot then people wouldn't be so shocked about Interracial relationships? Our friends raise their brows at the fact that my husband, who was a single white male, married me, a divorce black female with children. Oh the shock! Is it really? Our friends apparently really don't know us beyond their own wrong assumptions. We'll he's not American, he's British and I wasn't stereotypically looking for that "Good Black Man." If he married a white female with kids, would it be much of an issue? No and because of that get asked asked off beat rude questions. We get double takes, and have been subjected to betrayal. Why then is America the melting pot? Why would we claim such a name when our history says opposite. How can America claim that they are a melting pot when they have a history of things such as strange fruit and outlawed interracial marriages?
Have we grown any? I'd say we have but there is still racial tension and the out cry for change. Why do we cry out when we are the ones keeping it going? How do we keep it going you might ask? I have friends of many races and I hate brutality etc. We don't stop or realize the racial thoughts we have. We do nothing about the racism in our own towns. We sit back and consider the racial tension on the news someone else's problem until it hits our families. Our voices remain silent as others are suffering from hate crimes.
Interracial marriages and couples are "cute" and "different" as long as they remain outside the typical American family enforcing endogamy. So stories such as "Mr. Right Might Be White" will always make front page news and we will have the need for web sites such as Loving Day celebrating interracial marriages when our nation isn't really a melting pot.
hmmm Interesting Read...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/meltingpot/melt0222.htm
Links used...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loving_v._Virginia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interracial_marriage
http://www.lovingday.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Fruit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melting_pot
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endogamy
If we were a true melting pot then people wouldn't be so shocked about Interracial relationships? Our friends raise their brows at the fact that my husband, who was a single white male, married me, a divorce black female with children. Oh the shock! Is it really? Our friends apparently really don't know us beyond their own wrong assumptions. We'll he's not American, he's British and I wasn't stereotypically looking for that "Good Black Man." If he married a white female with kids, would it be much of an issue? No and because of that get asked asked off beat rude questions. We get double takes, and have been subjected to betrayal. Why then is America the melting pot? Why would we claim such a name when our history says opposite. How can America claim that they are a melting pot when they have a history of things such as strange fruit and outlawed interracial marriages?
Have we grown any? I'd say we have but there is still racial tension and the out cry for change. Why do we cry out when we are the ones keeping it going? How do we keep it going you might ask? I have friends of many races and I hate brutality etc. We don't stop or realize the racial thoughts we have. We do nothing about the racism in our own towns. We sit back and consider the racial tension on the news someone else's problem until it hits our families. Our voices remain silent as others are suffering from hate crimes.
Interracial marriages and couples are "cute" and "different" as long as they remain outside the typical American family enforcing endogamy. So stories such as "Mr. Right Might Be White" will always make front page news and we will have the need for web sites such as Loving Day celebrating interracial marriages when our nation isn't really a melting pot.
hmmm Interesting Read...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/meltingpot/melt0222.htm
Links used...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loving_v._Virginia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interracial_marriage
http://www.lovingday.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Fruit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melting_pot
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endogamy
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