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Since I’m reworking the photo gallery using Flickr, I thought I might as well take the time to update to version 2.6 of WordPress.  It went much more smoothly than I feared, although it did eat all of the categories for previous posts … sigh.

I’ll be (inevitably) tweaking the site over the next few days and getting everything settled.

After a lot of consideration, I’ve created a Flickr account and will be adding new photos to my photostream there.

There are a lot of advantages: lovely RSS feeds, social networking, and the need to avoid messing with the Gallery install I have here.  For all practical purposes, you won’t see too much happening here.  I’m still going to add thumbnails of images and all the items on my photostream will be public (with some rare exceptions, I’d imagine).  Anyway, I’m busily uploading and tagging.

To our considerable surprise, Dexter allowed us to take some photos last night.  He’s not normally a very photogenic hedgehog — not because he isn’t terribly handsome, which he certainly is — but because he is both skittish and extremely fast.  I’ve got a lot of very blurry and out of frame photos of him.  So, when he started hamming it up for the camera last night, we had to take advantage.

I am stupidly happy at this video of Beaker singing Ode to Joy. And Habanera … good Lord. The Muppets rule the world.

I’ve now seen WALL-E twice, and I cannot recommend it enough.  It is by far my favorite movie that Pixar has ever done.  (Yes, that is high praise and I mean it.)  It’s smart, funny, visually striking, touching, and generally brilliant — and the characters are so well fleshed out, even if they’re mostly robots.  And I love the cockroach.
I discovered that Pixar released several vignettes to promote the movie and they are wonderful, too.  “Cups” is my favorite.
Cups
Vaccuum
Bouncy Balls
Magnet
Fire Hydrant
Hula Hoop
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