Quick question

I was listening to a talk given by Steve Jobs at a commencement speech. He posed this question:

 When you wake up in the morning, do you think to yourself, "if today is the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" 

I have been thinking about this for a couple of days of now. I wrote this on a sticky note and posted it on my lamp next to my bed. I need to remember this when I wake up in the morning. So when it's time to make breakfast, I don't just give them cereal but maybe make french toast. When I get dressed, maybe I don't just put on the first thing I grab which is the same old pair of schlumpy jeans. Why do I even have these?? When I get ready to go out of the house, I put on the fancy lipstick- perfume even. It's the little kick in the arse that I needed to go from "yeah ok - I have to go to the grocery store" to "I'm going to the grocery store, and I'm wearing my go-to-hell heals."

Honey do list #56- Playground

What I wouldn't do for the energy that my boys have!! I was discussing the issue of our playground situation with the Mr. It seems that the playgrounds around our area are really catered to little kids. Our boys (8 and 9) have outgrown them. Ahem- they climb on the outside of them instead of the inside of them which causes the helicopter mommies to send me disapproving eye/facial gestures. 

What I really need is to build a playground in our backyard that can handle rough boy use. It has to look fun and colorful, have all sorts of climbable stuff, and most importantly- it has to look like if they played on it they "could" get hurt. All criteria for my two boys. So as I was perusing around I came across the group Go Play! These playground people are a collaboration of architects, builders, teachers and volunteers who are privately supported to build beautiful and educational playgrounds throughout the developing world. Check out what they did in Thailand!

So I went to my local dump(which I love) and found that they had all of this:

Free for the taking! So Mr. has taken on the challenge of creating the ULTIMATE playground. With the boy's help it should be completed by the time they graduate college. 

Symphony of Science

"A Glorious Dawn" was crafted from sampling Carl Sagan's 1980 PBS Documentary Cosmos and Stephen Hawking's 1997 PBS cosmology documentary series Stephen Hawking's Universe. Cosmos is available to watch for free on Hulu, and many parts of Stephen Hawking's Universe can be found on Youtube and various other video sites online.

The Symphony of Science is a musical project headed by John Boswell designed to deliver scientific knowledge and philosophy in musical form. Here you can watch music videos, download songs, read lyrics and find links relating to the messages conveyed by the music.

Conveyor Belt of Love

Can I just say that whoever came up with the idea of putting sushi on a conveyor belt and having it pass around at eye level is a genius. GENIUS!

And it was quite tasty to boot!

Simulated swimming pool

The first thing out of the boy's mouth was "Can we do that?"

Argentinian artist Leandro Erlich created this installation, simply called The Swimming Pool, for The 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, Japan. A 10cm layer of water over a piece of glass separates above from below. It must be a pretty serious piece of glass; some back-of-the-envelope math based on the published dimensions gives 1,100 kg (2400 lbs) of water that it has to support. Plus its own weight. [via Dude Craft]