watermelons

I found the following info VERY useful:
here is what you should watch for to get a sweet watermelon.
- Tap the watermelon with your knuckles and listen for a hollow sound
- There should be little color contrast between the green stripes
- The end should be going from white to light yellow
- Press your thumbs into the skin from all angles. It should be hard all around.
- the stem should still be green. If it's brown and withered, that thing's been off the vine too long

I eat SO much watermelon in summer - they are my absolute favourite fruit - EVER. :-) so sweet and red. I love the seeds. I don't know why they keep producing the seedless kind - that's like nature all messed up. How are we going to have watermelon plants if they don't have seeds? and I am still waiting for the plants to grow inside my stomach!! :-P

Speaking of reproduction, can you imagine birds doing it? It boggles the mind. But they must right. Wouldn't the tail of a bird get in the way?! :-P I am really confused!!!
See what amazing things are in my head?!!

A take on Hollywood

This post will be simply a collection of observations and comments about Hollywood :-)

1 - Kelly Clarkson's new CD My December is really good! I really tried to resist her because of her American Idol connection, alas she is too good a singer and song writer. And she seems like a genuinely nice and fun person. Check out some of her songs: this one ("Because of You") she originally sang along and now in collaboration with Reba McEntire - it's a really nice clip. Also seems she wrote the song when she was some ridiculous age like 15 or 17. This set is of a bunch of songs with Reba McEntire. I wonder why she has started collaborating so much with RM. Not that it is bad, because they seem to genuinely have fun - just wondering. Anyway to finish off, her new CD is really good :-)

2 - Tom Cruise looks ridiculous these days!! his haircut and his clothing etc, he looks like he is trying to look very young and boyish, meanwhile he is not that young Todo!!

3 - I watched the movie The Shooter with Mark Wahlberg on the plane - a really really bad movie. Bad acting, bad plot, really bad plot actually, and lots of "that doesn't make sense" moments.

Damn.. I had all these comments about Hollywood people, alas I started writing about Kelly Clarkson and I lost track of what i was thinking. Oh well. Does anyone else have any insight? :-P

Dancing

Next Tuesday will be the final night of my first semester of Flamenco - I have really really enjoyed myself, learning and dancing. It's a huge rush everytime we go through one of the routines and I actually do it well. Of course many times I don't but hey, it's better to forget those times! :-) It is a shame I won't be performing in the recital :-(
Meanwhile on TV, the new season of So You Think You Can Dance in underway. So every wednesday for the past 2 weeks I have enjoyed 2 hours of dancing on TV - and these couples are really good. Cereally!

[Ref. South Park episode of ManBearPig with Al Gore where he kept saying I'm totally cereal! and I'm super cereal! - Everyone knows how to access the episode if you haven't seen it right? Alvaro and I have been killing ourselves with this expression!! :-P]

Anyhoo, check this site for some of the dances of the night. I recommend watching this one by a hiphop dancer (the guy) and a contemporary dancer (the girl). It is really a lovely piece and the story it tried to tell is just beautiful. I almost feel like it can be about any relationship.
The human body is just amazing to me - when I hear a beautiful voice, when I see a beautiful dance... it always amazes me the power we all have in our hand.. i mean body! :-P

Development of a baby panda

Really interesting set of pictures, chronicling the life of a panda fetus!!
It is interesting that the nose is so big at the beginning! it reminds of what i had heard before that one of the features of the face doesn't change size from when you are a kid. Was it the nose, eyes or ears?!!

Wonderful weekend

Last weekend my lovely husband visited me - It was really a wonderful weekend. There is not much to describe, we played around on my new mac, we had dinner with his cousin Jean and her husband - she is pregnant and she was due last weekend - no show though and we are still waiting to hear :-) It was a lovely night. On sunday we did a little bit of shopping.. and bought a beautiful red shirt for Alvaro.
So it was a quite weekend, not much to write about but very lovely.
Am I overusing the word lovely? :o)

My new macbook

the mac has crashed once;
thunderbird has crashed twice;
firefox has crashed once.

I have not owned this computer for longer than the number of times it and its applications have crashed.
Can it be that windows has been to blame for what it is actually the fault of intel?

update: sorry number of times should have been number of days. Styx is being a stick!! :-P
Also Valardur, my mac did a restart so that is as bad a crash as it can be. :-( It was actually kind of funny, because it took me a while to understand what the screen meant!!

Google

Biogeek has put up an interesting video of Lewis Black talking about Google - It is interesting that is was only today that I was reading the following article about Google being the most invasive of all net firms. The empire they are building is really expanding what now with news of their uni mails being rolled out.

I am starting to have a very bad feeling about Google....