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20040704 Sunday July 04, 2004

The Red Dragonfly

As we spent another afternoon by the pool, where our son has migrated out of the spa, and continues to get comfortable with his new life as a diver by horizontally body slamming the water in the big pool, we noticed that there was a lovely red dragonfly checking us all out.

It was hard to get close enough to see exactly what it looked like, but the image linked above seems to be pretty close. Very nice picture Laryl; thanks for sharing. That was photographed in Arizona. I wonder if the habitat for these beautiful insects also includes swimming pools in Northern California...

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( Jul 04 2004, 04:45:14 PM PDT ) [Listen] Permalink

Cat in the Hat

Parents of small children will relate to this. You watch a lot of "entertainment" that you wouldn't even consider thinking about if your child hadn't said that they really really wanted to see it.

The Cat in the Hat film with Mike Myers falls into this category. The book is a classic. Wonderful. The film is a disaster. We watched it on Pay-per-review so it was a relatively cheap disaster but it was 1 1/2 hours of my life that I'll never get back again.

I did a double take when it was starting up and said it contained Adult Content. For a childrens story? Hmm. I don't know why they put the adult content in. If they were trying for humor on two levels, then they failed with this. There were a few good jokes that the grown-ups would get. There wasn't a need for some of the other attempts.

The special effects were okay. Our son laughed twice, but also, as I looked across a few times, he had some strange puzzled looks on his face.

Mike Myers can do great comedy when he's given the right material. This wasn't it.

P.S. The popcorn was good.

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( Jul 04 2004, 12:08:28 PM PDT ) [Listen] Permalink Comments [1]

Some special Sun logos?

Here's an idea. Sun marketing, are you listening?

I visit Google probably on a daily basis. When ever it's a special day (and recent ones have been Father's Day, the Transit of Venus and today it's Independence Day), the Google logo is something special to see.

We've got a great logo. As Paul Lamere recently mentioned it was designed near the start of Sun's existence by Vaughn Pratt, an Aussie working at Stanford (who I was lucky enough to meet in November 1984). It hasn't changed in 20 years. Even Apple have taken a bite out of a different apple.

We definitely do seem to be changing our marketing style recently and letting our hair down now and then, so to speak. Have you checked out Jack, that Mary pointed out last week?

So how about a jazzed up Sun logo once in a while.

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( Jul 04 2004, 07:47:33 AM PDT ) [Listen] Permalink Comments [3]