Siri is pretty awesome. And it probably makes sense that she's not allowed to download things for you. It's annoying though _

There is a hockey game going on on our TV right now. Having never watched hockey before, I was surprised that there is a neutral zone.

me: "There's a neutral zone?"

K: "Yes."

G: (walking back in) "Did you say something about the neutral zone?"

me: "Yes, I didn't know there was one."

G: "Given the number of French Canadians who play hockey, there are occasionally players whose last name is Picard."

me: "Wait, really?"

G: "Yes. Sometimes Picard enters the neutral zone!"

Such better roomates than I had last time around, with S who would sneer when I watched Star Trek. _

On a whim, we watched Disney's Sleeping Beauty on bluray earlier this week. It's been ages since I saw it, and I had forgotten just how beautiful it is. At the end, when they are waltzing through the clouds, you can see that the clouds are watercolored and everything else is some other kind of media. It's the kind of thing that's lost with digital animation.

Also, they were more clever back then. I noticed, possibly for the first time, that when she is waltzing with her make belief prince, made of the rabbits and the owl and the real prince's boots and cape, she isn't actually waltzing. She's approximating, but the steps are wrong. And then he steps in, and sweeps her into a real waltz, and the feet are making the right steps and everything.

There are flaws, of course, there are always flaws. Like, how do you spend 16 years pretending to be normal humans only to be stumped by making a cake and a dress? Really? You haven't figured these things out yet? But. Still.

Also, my very quick internet research into when the "girl" color switched from blue to pink suggests that it was sometime in the 50's, which is when Sleeping Beauty came out. Which makes the color changing dress more interesting, I think.

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It had been about half a year since I last got my hair trimmed. The bottom inch and a half were seriously unhappy with  me. The girl who cut my hair seemed totally bewildered that I would have let my hair go so long without getting trimmed. "Well," I said, "I moved three months into the last haircut." She wouldn't let me out of her sight afterwards without making sure I'd booked my next haircut. It was kind of hilarious.

Also, my hair looks fabulous. Hairdressers do this thing with a blow dryer and a circular brush that makes my hair mostly straight with just a bit of wave that I cannot for the life of me do. I like my curls, but I like a little variety, too. _

Since I started the nerd out thing about the pluraziation of octopus over on Neil's blog, I'm going to bring this here. Has anyone else noticed, and found excting, that there are osme journalists out there who have started saying "hoi polloi" instead of "the hoi polloi"? _

I was emailed a picture of the snowman outside the kitchen window of the house I grew up in (currently being rented by friends of ours), and I thought "Aw, you shouldn't be able to build snowmen before you go trick or treating!"

And then I remembered that, wait, they probably went trick or treating already, because it's Central PA and weird as hell and, sure enough, I was right. Fairview Township trick or treated, as usual, on the last Thursday of October, between 6 and 8.

The coolest year was the year Fairview, Lewisberry, and New Cumberland trick or treated on seperate days and so we went trick or treating in all three. _

Search for Sam should be the next Where's Waldo.

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