While I was in Indianapolis for AHRD, I snuck away for an afternoon and visited the Eiteljorg Museum, which contains art of American Indians and Western Art. What a great collection! I uploaded the pictures I took there on Flickr, including:

I am working late tonight (again) and just saw this commercial on the tv that is playing in the background. It always makes me laugh, so I thought I would share it with anybody else out there who can also use a pick-me-up. Click it to go to the YouTube video.

Well, I lost .6 pounds this week on Weight Watchers! I shared my 5 pounds good news two weeks ago, and then was disappointed last week having gained .4 back. I know those things happen (thank you for your encouragement in this, Michael, Robin, and Ernie). That makes a total of -5.2.

Phew. I need some chocolate!

It came as a shock to me, but I actually lost one pound while on my second week of Weight Watchers, for a grand total of 5 pounds!

Look, here is my bookmark and sticker to prove it!

As Ernie said last week, water and slight weight fluctuations are ok. I find that this blog as support is quite helpful . . .

This image was on the cover of the Business section of today’s New York Times. As a daily Times reader, I get a lot of my information in paper form since I like to write on the paper, clip out sections, and most importantly read it while commuting to and from work.

I am surprised with this chart from today, since I do not understand what it is trying to say. How should I read this chart? Click to see it full-size, and let me know if it makes sense. For All the News That’s Fit to Print, this is a bit confusing, especially for the business section.

Here is Posey now. While 5 years old now, she is still my little baby!

Today is Posey’s birthday! She is five, so it is a nice time to look back when she was a baby, at only 3 months old here. I will upload a birthday picture tonight when she and her brother have a birthday cupcake.

I saw this link on Presentation Zen today for a wonderfully postmodern film, Le Grand Content. This short film offers an interesting perspective and commentary on meaning-making and thinking along with the ubiquity of PowerPoint.

According to the authors:

Le Grand Content examines the omnipresent Powerpoint-culture in search for its philosophical potential. Intersections and diagrams are assembled to form a grand 'association-chain-massacre'. which challenges itself to answer all questions of the universe and some more. Of course, it totally fails this assignment, but in its failure it still manages to produce some magical nuance and shades between the great topics death, cable tv, emotions and hamsters.

I saw the Ashes and Snow when the Traveling Museum was in New York in 2005, and it moved me tremendously. I bought the catalog for it, which is something I often do for museum shows I attend and interact with–especially those that either inspire me, such as the New Orleans After the Flood: Photographs by Robert Polidori or those that disturb (or challenge) me like the Bruce Nauman exhibit at the MOMA some years ago. I have often thought about the Nauman exhibit, having had to see it twice to be able to handle it.

 Gregory Colbert did just the opposite, his work moved me to tears. I am not sure why, since it was not violent, but there was something surreal about it, a je ne sais quoi, that I am able to experience again as I just purchased the music from his movie.