Sadie love

Our Northern California winter this year had been unusually dry.  Fortunately, early spring storms are bringing both rain to lower elevations and snow to the Sierras.  Unfortunately, rain in my neck of the woods means muddy dog paws.  Still, it’s difficult for me to be long annoyed with Purveyor of All Things Muddy.

She looks very serious in this picture, and it must be due to having brought a stick in the house from the backyard.  She knows it’s naughty, and responds to the command Take the dirty thing outside by taking the dirty thing outside.  I’ve had employees who are less compliant.

 

More spirit

Hausfrauen Experiment’s version of Hawkwind’s Spirit of the Age.

 

Little green men

Virginia Rometty is the CEO of IBM.

She will, as so many IBM execs have done in the past, attend the Masters Tournament at the Augusta National Golf Club.

Membership in this club is exclusively limited to men who, if their application for membership is accepted, have the honor of wearing the Club’s signature green blazer.

Rometty is a CEO of an iconic organization so she’s politically savvy enough to steer away from controversy of the sort associated with the club.

I am perhaps not quite as savvy, or maybe it’s just that I have less to lose.   Or it could just be that I’ve realized it’s 2012 and the mores of the 1950′s should be dead and buried, thank you very much.

Nevertheless, I need not really say anything at all in the body of this post.  The title covers it much more succinctly.

Spirit of the Age

My husband found an old Hawkwind recording online, and has been obsessively restoring a cut of Spirit of the Age.

When he commented to me that he ought to buy a HW tee shirt after listening to the song a dozen times over, my inner sartorialist was compelled to do a search and found this:

It’s very strange and humbling to me that a song presumably written from the perspective of a man who is the clone of a man who left earth for the far-reaches of outer space, now rueing that his girlfriend would be long dead once he could return to the big blue planet.

Now that I say this, I’m reminded of Moon, the 2009 film  (warning: spoiler!) in which a man is seemingly temporarily stationed on Earth’s moon tending to a mine, poignantly missing wife and child – and it turns out he’s a clone.  Was Duncan Jones inspired by Hawkwind?

Pi Day

Happy Pi Day!

Unfortunately, despite all reason Pi Day is not a holiday.  And I didn’t make the appropriate arrangements in advance so I am going in to the office today.

However, that will not stop me from celebrating in my own way.  Food is involved of course.