Showing posts with label american idol. Show all posts
Showing posts with label american idol. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

America Voted and...

Wow, did they blow it this week. I must be totally out of tune with the American Public, because I just don't see how Jason Castro made it out of the bottom two. I'm completely floored. Who is voting for him? Do teenage girls somehow find him attractive? Or a good singer? Or does this guy just have a million cousins voting for him. I just don't get it... And then voting off Carly before Brooke? Huh?!?!

On a slightly different topic, my wife and I were watching the show last night (Tuesday), when suddenly she says, "hey, he was at Bouchon when we were there!". "Who?" I asked. "Him!" she pointed. It was Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber. There are very few celebrities who I would bother for an autograph if I saw them in public -- he would have been one of them. Too bad Monique didn't recognize him at the time.

We also saw Michael J Fox by the craps tables. I didn't ask him for an autograph...

Hey, who here is reading from http://oasisofblue.blogspot.com ? Most of my referrals are coming from there, and I'm really curious what it is. Could someone leave a comment and let me know?

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Hump day

Well, it has been quite a week already. On Sunday we had some friends over for an Easter cookout. We had some yummy tri-tip, chicken, and hot dogs. The kids played Super Smash Bros. Brawl on the Wii while the adults chatted.

Monday, there were some posts on the Business Week B-School forums that Wharton admit notifications were made by phone on Easter Sunday. I hadn't gotten the call and was a little worried until eventually people realized that that the notifications had only gone out to those who had requested early notification. So the waiting begins again...Most people on the forums (who I should know better than to trust by now) are anticipating results at the end of this week, despite the official notification deadline of 4/15.

Yesterday, I left work a little early to get ready for our Den Meeting. When I got home, I noticed something different about the hummingbirds -- one was perched on the side of the nest. They have been looking ready to fly for a couple of days now. Naturally, I got the camera out and shot a couple of pics, but I must have gotten too close, because one of them suddenly flew out of the nest! He (she?) flew over the roof of the house, and I have not seen him (her?) since.

The remaining baby was looking quite lonely, and I quickly set up our webcam to record to try to catch her (his?) first flight. We were soon treated to a visit from the mama bird, who came back to the nest briefly, seemingly to give some encouragement to the remaining baby. As of this morning, the baby is still there. I do have a video of the mama coming back posted. You will want to download it and view it in a bigger window than what's on the blog. Mama makes her appearance about 50 seconds into the video.

By the way, I finally fixed the port routing, so you can now see the video at http://pictures.migdol.net (without the ":81" on the end)

Does anyone know about hummingbird babies? Once they fly out of the nest for the first time, are they expected to come back?

I caught American Idol last night and was glad to see a couple of my favorites, Kristy Lee Cook and Michael Johns, make some "breakout" performances. I think the two that are in trouble tonight are Jason Castro (how stoned was he last night?) and Chikezie. I was sad to see Amanada Overmyer go last week. I liked her style, although I knew she didn't have nearly enough charisma to survive this type of popularity contest.