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• watching Special Agent OSO w/ Kate on Playhouse Disney site http://ping.fm/eCsjt #
• listening to a Disney podcast, Inside the Magic #219 http://ping.fm/bwFZA #
• had a busy day with family for Father's Day. Now relaxing and clearing out space on computer. #
• g'night! #
• time for lunch. don't know what to eat yet… #
• ate some wheat noodles and a slice of homemade bread. good stuff #
• 95F… with humidity it's probably 100+… eck #
• good morning! #
• eating lunch. ham sandwich with ice water (dash of lime juice) #
• time for bed. busy day ahead #
• home from work. tired. was going to do chores but then remembered I haven't eaten yet. #
• waiting til 9pm EST to listen to @FatherRoderick on http://ping.fm/s5GiV in San Antonio #
• cooking wheat noodles and fixing a glass of ice water w/ lime juice #pabl #
• about to listen to @FatherRoderick on http://ping.fm/Ad6wf who is in San Antonio for the CNMC #cnmc #cnmc09 #
• chatting in the SQPN ustream room during @FatherRoderick's interview http://ping.fm/j1P48 #
• watching "The Many Faces of Sherlock Holmes" http://ping.fm/XZYLV #
• time for bed. I bid you all a good night… #
• good morning! about to fix some pancakes with blakcberries and rasberries for breakfast. Starved! #
• finishing pancakes while watching @FatherRoderick 's outdoors ustream from other day in Texas http://ping.fm/LABzd Aw kittens! #
• time for laundry #
• cooking dinner #
• One of my fav MJ songs, little known "Someone in the Dark" from the ET storybook http://bit.ly/XuwX
  song is at :37 #
• watching live the CNMC in San Antonio TX and chatting with 60+ in the chatroom http://ping.fm/sFboh #cnmc #cnmc09 #
• @GSPN good luck Cliff! looking forward to hearing your talk #cnmc #cnmc09 in reply to GSPN #
• watching @FatherRoderick and maybe hear @gspn at the CNMC http://ping.fm/FFNbI @cnmc @cnmc09 #
• waving back at @BarbInNebraska in reply to BarbInNebraska #
• @GSPN very good. I hope you don't have gremlins! in reply to GSPN #
• @GSPN I told @FatherRoderick also but he may not see it since he's not in the chat in reply to GSPN #
• @GSPN I got to see most of your interview before being yanked away by my 2yr old. Great job! and no gremlins! #cnmc #cnmc09 #
• took kids to Burger King. Kristi was hoping to get Pokemon toys. But BK switched to Transformers. She got Ravage, Katie got Bumblebee #
• Katie loves Bumblebee. She keeps pressing the "transform" sound effects button. Over and over… and over… and over… #
• going to bed. Had a lot of fun watching the #CNMC earlier today and chatting with people. Maybe actually be there in person next year? Hmm.. #

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June 28th, 2009 | Tags: tweets, twitter | Category: twitter | Leave a comment

• home from store. eating lunch while watching another Holmes story: "Man with Twisted Lip" http://bit.ly/14B1Lj #
• working on dinner. as usual I plan to venture off a bit from the recipe. #
• @NameCheap Colorado in reply to NameCheap #
• Katie is watching Toy Story for the second time. She watched the teaser for TS 3 sooo many times, I thought she would like the 1st #
• home from work. fixing something small to eat #
• watching the rest of "Man with the Twisted Lip" http://bit.ly/2vn78 #
• wound down enough to go to bed. good night! #
• just got home from an outing w/ Kate. enjoying orange sherbert while watching @FatherRoderick live http://ping.fm/TvsTV #
• heading to bed. have an earlier start for tomorrow. good night! #
• saw this twitpic http://twitpic.com/7o67l #iranelections #
• @TheeRebel thanks but (just to avoid any confusion) I didn't didn't take it. I saw it posted on http://iran.twazzup.com/ #iranelections in reply to TheeRebel #
• watching @realjohngreen 's video "Iran Election Fraud: 5 Reasons to Doubt the Results" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mqf00InV9E #
• have an even eralier day tomorrow. good night Twitter world/ Plurkville / Facebook Town #
• morning! already ate breakfast: pancakes and fresh fruit (strawberries, raspberries, and blackberries) #
• watching @FatherRoderick 's & Archbishop @Eijk ustream about FuturePriests.com http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/1681560 #futurepriests #
• @NameCheap Sahara desert? in reply to NameCheap #
• back from lunch with fam. Always fun when Katie & nephew (also 2) get together. Should have taken pic of them after eating BBQ beans, LOL #
• watching @leolaporte and @thegizwiz live on Daily Giz Wiz http://live.twit.tv/ #
• @jmfield in reply to jmfield #
• @jmfield be prepared for 90ish degree weather here in central FL . It's scorching outside in reply to jmfield #
• laundry folded and put away. One less chore to do! #
• cleaning out my computer. Got several gigs already 6 feet under #
• @FullTimeMom smart kid you got there! in reply to FullTimeMom #
• RT @uncultured: #FollowFriday ANYONE FROM IRAN. Also, help @alandistro & his charitable org (free!) w/ this blog post: http://bit.ly/aoktq #
• @noebie rofl! I'm never going to watch those Sesame Street segments the same again! in reply to noebie #
• good night all! #
• RT @shelisrael . @wadenick The girl being killed vid is back up, preceded by graphic content warning http://bit.ly/P4oh #iranelection #
• made the kids Boca Bugers and mac & cheese for dinner #
• listening to Daily Breakfast podcast "Visible Priests" http://bit.ly/8YNoN
  #futurepriests #
• good night! #
• good morning! Happy Fathers Day! #

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June 21st, 2009 | Tags: Father Roderick, John Green, nerdfighter, Nerdfighters, Sherlock Holmes, sqpn, Toy Story, tweets, twitter | Category: twitter | Leave a comment

• putting up my feet after a long day #
• good morning! First day of summer break (cause weekends don’t really count ) #
• watching Toy Story 3 teaser http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f-MYl-HzNw YAY! #
• just started watching @FatherRoderick live on ustream about to record a Daily Breakfast http://ping.fm/TxvjE #
• cooking beans and rice for dinner #
• Kristi – “When I’m old enough, I want to try root beer!” That got a laugh out of me #
• raining in the backyard. Not in the front yard. Go figure #
• now it’s raining on both sides of the house #
• @NameCheap Greece…though I’m sure someone has replied by now, lol in reply to NameCheap #
• Sims 3 is the most tweeted about game right now according to “Tweet My Gaming” http://ping.fm/EFf2V #
• good night! Bring on Tuesday!! #
• watching with Katie the behind the scenes of Sid the Science Kid done by Wall Street Journal http://bit.ly/cXt3b #
• btw, good morning! #
• watching Colbert Report where it was filmed in Iraq in front of troops http://bit.ly/68MFc #
• @realjohngreen if your still typing, then you survived it . That’s the bright side of it in reply to realjohngreen #
• @NameCheap Estonia in reply to NameCheap #
• @Sims2 there’s http://angieslist.com/ for “contractors, service companies and doctors” in reply to Sims2 #
• @NameCheap Georgia in reply to NameCheap #
• good afternoon #
• watching a mashup of Doctor Who and Star Trek TOS. Smartly done! http://ping.fm/3izwE #
• watching 2nd part to Doctor Who/Star Trek mashup “Trek Through Time”. This is a lot of fun! http://bit.ly/5MQp0 #
• @Nutronic Here’s part 1 http://bit.ly/MlUgX

  . I love how they used both Chris and David in this whole project in reply to Nutronic #

• watching @FatherRoderick live on ustream http://www.ustream.tv/channel/sqpnlive #
• @Nutronic that was very cool…second trailer was wicked!! in reply to Nutronic #
• watching @truckertom ’s “Hackettstown New Jersey” vid. Makes me miss traveling with the circus http://bit.ly/W4uQP #
• listening to The Stone Rose audiobook, read by David Tennant #
• RT @chrispirillo: “There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.” (Martin Luther King, Jr.) #
• feeling under the weather. watching “Six Napoleans”. Sherlock Holmes vs the Italian mafia http://bit.ly/15FvTc #
• good afternoon! Just turned on my computer… still feeling under the weather #
• writing parts of my Roman story. Always cheers me up #
• listening to The Verve’s classic “Bittersweet Symphony” http://bit.ly/pV4Wl

  I’ll now have it stuck in my head, LOL #

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June 14th, 2009 | Tags: Ancient Rome, Doctor Who, Father Roderick, Sherlock Holmes, Sims, Sims 3, sqpn, star trek, television, tv, tweets, twitter, uStream, writing | Category: twitter | Leave a comment

• while wating for ex, I put in laundry and going to see how much writing I can do. Still working on the Star Trek review followup. #
• Mark just left with the girls. Hope they have a good time #
• home from work. Heard that the kids had a good time with their dad. #
• read that last Titanic survivor died. 97! She was 2 mo old when it sank http://bit.ly/T6K4i #
• good night, one and all! #
• morning! just ate lunch #
• morning! folding laundry while Katie is playing #
• listening to Daily Breakfast “Angels, Demons, Spock and Kirk” http://ping.fm/sj3yv #
• listening to music from No Idle Frets podcast #213 http://bit.ly/11C9nX #
• watching @FatherRoderick live on ustream for a little bit before heading to work http://www.ustream.tv/channel/sqpnlive #
• home from work, and ready for my weekend! #
• finishing up my dinner and watching @FatherRoderick ’s Daily Breakfast ustream from earlier today http://ping.fm/TM2k0 #
• fixed the small problem of my blog posting both daily and weekly digest tweets. Now it should be just weekly. http://ping.fm/1F2Uk #
• gooood morning! Already dropped Kristi off at school and took Katie to the store to pick up some things. #
• watching Wheels on the Bus with Katie…sung with Roger Daltrey? Yup, it’s her generation now http://bit.ly/8HrQZ #
• is singing “There’s a hole in the bucket” to Katie. Here’s the Muppets version that I 1st saw: http://bit.ly/omjFs #
• @NameCheap Sydney, Australia? in reply to NameCheap #
• Struggling to find out why my external hard drive is not being seen by my pc. Everything is connected but not showing up in My Computer #
• good night! will have to tackle hard drive problem tomorrow #
• good morning! watching kiddie songs on Youtube with Katie #
• RT @NancySBrandt says RIP David Carradine. http://plurk.com/p/yex76 #
• oh, how lovely… Yellow water coming out of the tap! Anyone want a glass? #
• found this: prayers for this little boy with GERD (Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease) http://bit.ly/kLK8v #
• noticed some of my pants are getting baggy. More fruit and nuts and less sweets does actually work! Just call me fruity and nutty! #pabl #
• watching @ipadre on ustream http://ping.fm/0rhMj #
• still working on my Star Trek movie review followup (hard to do any writing with crazy work schedule and kids! ack!) #
• if you’re into string theory, it’s being discussed on TWIT.tv http://live.twit.tv/ #
• listening to Pray As You Go’s breathing exercise http://ping.fm/x05Id #pabl #
• Does Tonight Show’s new backdrop looks like a Super Mario game? http://ping.fm/22bOF and tweet from @BigBley http://ping.fm/8CADG #
• having fun watching Red Wing and Penguin fans’ tweets #
• very nice… I can do a Google search for Orlando Magic (Go Magic!!) and find out what the score is jsut by looking at the top search result #
• Good night! #
• watching @Father Roderick live on ustream http://ping.fm/u13pa I’m a bit late, already an hour #
• listening to Travel with Rick Steves podcast “Rome: Beneath the Surface” http://bit.ly/WiiB2 #
• raining and 82F #
• @GSPN love the new look Cliff in reply to GSPN #
• I like Google’s Tetris logo today. Can it be that the game is 25 years old already? http://www.google.com/logos/tetris09.gif #
• after a tiring day at work today, I think I’m ready for bed. good night! #
• home from church. making mac & cheese for the kids. Katie is being really impatient, wanting it *now*! #
• trying out Ping.fm’s song posting. Should be U2’s Beautiful Day http://tinysong.com/4aN #

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June 7th, 2009 | Tags: Father Roderick, GSPN, kirk, Rome, spock, sqpn, star trek, tweets, twitter, uStream | Category: twitter | Leave a comment

One thing I should have added in my last post was the Jewish connection with Spock. I had know for a while that both William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy were Jewish. But what I found out a few days ago was where the Vulcan salute came from.  I was curious and did a search on YouTube.  I could tell you about it, but Nimoy does a much better job:

(if the below video does work, here’s a direct link)

So there you have it, the Vulcan salute is the name of God .

For more info on the  Jewish connections in Star Trek, check out TrekJews.com run by Rabbi Yonassan Gershom.

June 5th, 2009 | Tags: God, Jew, Jewish, Leonard Nimoy, salute, sci fi, science fiction, spock, star trek, Vulcan | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

First, thanks to those who told me how much they liked my review.

I have thought of other things that I wanted to add to it:

Random thought: Was anyone else surprised that Winona Ryder was in it?  And that she played Spock’s mom? Assuming that you did not know who was in the movie prior to seeing it, that is . That surprised me when I was watching the credits and thought “She was in this?”

More on Roman history: And while watching the TOS episode “Amok Time” (the one where Spock returns to Vulcan and first does the Vulcan salute),  I suddenly remembered the relationship of Vulcan (the Roman god of fire) and Spock’s home planet (D’oh!). It’s because the planet is volcanic (ah, the wonders of Roman mythology on the English language!), and therefore hot and the air is thin. And then I remember the scenes in the movie seeing the outside shots of Vulcan. I knew there had to be something connecting the two!  My mind just went blank when writing my earlier review.

And to talk about something not directly related to the movie, here’s a connection with TNG:  Back in 1976, BBC aired a 12 part television series called “I, Claudius” about the goings-on of the Julio-Claudian household from Claudius’ point of view (like a soap opera, but with more literal knife stabbing and poisoning and it’s pretty close to being historically accurate). Claudius was one of the family members and would later become emperor.  It had a big cast, among them Patrick Stewart who play Sejanus, the captain of the Praetorian Guard (the emperor’s elite bodyguards) under Emperor Tiberius, and who is believed to have tried to become emperor by killing off people.

Eleven years later Stewart would become Captian Jean-Luc Picard of the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) , a much more noble man.

I hope to write a review of that BBC series. I’ve seen it a few times and love it.

June 4th, 2009 | Tags: Ancient Rome, BBC, I Claudius, movie review, mythology, Roman mythology, sci fi, science fiction, star trek, television, The Next Generation, TNG, tv, Vulcan | Category: Uncategorized | Comments (1)

• morning! folding laundry while Katie is playing #
• listening to Daily Breakfast “Angels, Demons, Spock and Kirk” http://ping.fm/sj3yv #
• listening to music from No Idle Frets podcast #213 http://bit.ly/11C9nX #
• watching @FatherRoderick live on ustream for a little bit before heading to work http://www.ustream.tv/channel/sqpnlive #

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June 2nd, 2009 | Tags: tweets, twitter | Category: twitter | Leave a comment

• home from work. Heard that the kids had a good time with their dad. #
• read that last Titanic survivor died. 97! She was 2 mo old when it sank http://bit.ly/T6K4i #
• good night, one and all! #
• morning! just ate lunch #

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June 1st, 2009 | Tags: tweets, twitter | Category: twitter | Leave a comment

• Jay’s last Tonight show was really good! Loved James Taylor simple style and the kids were cute! #
• and now it’s time for some shut eye! good night #
• morning! #
• is expecting Mark (exhusband) soon to come and spend time with the girls. They haven’t been together since Christmas. Kristi is excitied #
• while wating for ex, I put in laundry and going to see how much writing I can do. Still working on the Star Trek review followup. #
• Mark just left with the girls. Hope they have a good time #

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May 31st, 2009 | Tags: tweets, twitter | Category: twitter | Leave a comment