Kiss My Knits!

On further reflection, this turned out looking so bad that I’m putting it behind a cut.

Trying something new today.
Stay tuned.

Him: And what name can I call for your coffee order?
Me: Spock.
Him: Spock?
Me: Sure.
Him: Awesome.

Todays Emily art is full of detail.

Emily’s best friend in class this year is a girl named Lilian. Here she is with Em in art class. She’s always immaculately groomed (smock aside) with earrings and hair bows, etc. So what does this bring out in Emily? Why, the art to the right, of course! “Lilian’s Beauty Salon.” There are some other classmates there, and mentions of others.

Kids’ job is to grow up, and a lot of times in their art you can see them trying to figure it all out, with adult themes love interpreted through childlike eyes. She tells us she has a crush, but apparently it’s not a crush on anyone, she just likes the idea of having one. So it is with encouraging friends to get married. But, apparently, get a makeover first.

I have no idea what’s up with the flower, though. Heh.

Remember I told you the Mattel knitting machine came with some little powder-blue puffs that someone had made back in 1974?

+ + =

Which, I suppose, is why you don’t give unfelted yarn toys to cats. Heh.

According to dailygalaxy.com, the Mars Phoenix vessel has its own Twitter stream. It’s a chipper, upbeat little spacecraft, too! If you want to hear frequent, short updates on what Phoenix is doing (as interpreted by a staffer at NASA, no doubt), check it out.

Also, didn’t Richard Pryor do this in Superman III?

Today after picking up my daughter, I noticed not one but two news crews parked outside my daughter’s school. One might be a fluff “end of school” piece. Two means something happened. So I pulled up to the second one and asked what the dealio was. I said, “is this something my daughter should hear? If not, I don’t want to know.” Apparently, someone who wasn’t supposed to be there was exposing themselves. That’s all I got out of them before I started going basically “LA LA LA NOT LISTENING” because, hello, my child was in the back seat.

Em doesn’t seem to know anything about it, thankfully. I haven’t seen anything on the news yet, and I’ve got a call in to Em’s teacher.

In light of events, let’s go with a bad guy-themed picture today: Repo Man. Yes, that is what my daughter said, “repo man.” In this picture, the repo man has come to take the family baby. Note the evil moustache and pleased expression on the villain, as well as the open O mouth of alarm on the mother and, I assume, father. Oh, the humanity!

ETA: I found a news story about the flashing. They got the time wrong by a good hour, and they spelled my kid’s school name wrong. I e-mailed. It’s been a hour and no correction. Journalists today stink!

Emily selected a game today to play with her speech therapist and was not enjoying it.

Em, with a sigh: “I hate this game.”
Therapist: “But you’re the one who picked it out.”
Em, thoughtfully: “Good point.”

Hee! That’s brand new. Also, hilarious.

Today’s Emily art: Sneaky Sam. Looks like she’s tiptoeing. That’s sneaky, all right!

I’d been interested in this, and Planetary Joe mentioned it at the Schiele yesterday, but looks like it worked!

Phoenix touches down safely on Mars

Emily Lakdawalla at JPL labs is diligently posting on the Planetary Society blog as things happen, including “you saw ’em here first” pictures of Mars from Phoenix. A young woman named Emily helping with the Mars mission? Is there, perhaps, time travel involved here?

While we’re at it, a few other science-y links:

Earth to Jupiter: it’s called Clearasil.
New telescope designed to look for oceans.
Teen figures out how to get plastic bags to degrade in mere months.
Best viewing spots for the Northern Lights

Not strictly scientific, but fun:
That one looks like a bunny.

And now, goodnight!