Mousetrap styley car commercial. Over 600 takes to get it right.

LWD
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Little Wee Diary escapes the “more” section.

Wee and I are having a lovely Saturday. What with the shops open this morn, I went down to Plus searching for hay. They didn’t have it, but the petshop did. Three bucks, ouch. But it was worth it because one of the cages at the shop had several cavies and a larger grey hare. One of the guinea pigs was literally riding on the back of the hare. That was very cute.

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It is the birthday of Chuck Babbage, creator of the analytical engine.
Yet even more fascinating to me the life of
Lady Ada Lovelace, who was his valuable assistant. She was perhaps the first person to envision AI.

When I was a sophomore in college, Matt Vavrock was my roommate. He had a Gibson, loved Star Trek, had a burning passion for Full Moon straight-to-videos, slept with the TV on.
His dad was a nearing-retirement mail carrier who became afflicted with Bells Palsy–parallysis on one side of the face. You can’t bat one of your eyes and you literally talk out the side of your mouth. This gave Matt’s dad a vague manner of speaking and resemblance to a latter day Brian Wilson.
Mr. Vavrock is a veteran, and was trained as a morse code correspondent. I asked him if those guys ever “knock” in their sleep, thinking myself oh so clever. He answered no, matter of factly. But sometimes a guy would wake with a start, sit up in his bunk and begin to go ” da daa da da daa ” in a panic. Creepy.

Little Wee to the Dee to the Eye to the A to the Ree
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Lil Wee Diary Xmastide
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I left the house to take in the third Lord of the Rings. A great film as long as there were some orcs to kill with a chunk of trebucheted masonry. The rest of the film was pure Schmalz. And two words for the misties: Rock Climbing, Joel. Rock Climbing. Just about every scene with Frodo was like the climax of Rocky II. Get up, Rocky! Grab onto the ropes and get up! The internal dynamics worked well in the book, but in the film gave me a hernia.

Lil Wee 13
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Hey Seamonkeys.

Sad news. The Inventor who gave us seamonkeys, and was apparently a klansman, has died.

Antibubbles?

Lil ole Wee Diary Day twelve
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