Margie’s off on a business trip. Fortunately, it’s a short one this time. #pining
Category: Love & Marriage
Cuddling
Generally a fine thing. Occasionally… awkward.
Reshared post from +Matthew Inman
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The incredible fragility of Mawwiage
I have been married now for 19 years. To a lovely, wonderful, talented, charming woman.
We have a child, a daughter 14 years of age. She is bright, beautiful, smart, and a joy.
And yet, somehow, strangely, oddly, inexplicably, despite having a stable, productive, enjoyable marriage … we know that there are gay people in the world. Worse, we know that some of them claim to be "married." More incredibly, we've actually had the "honor" of attending or even participating in such "gay" "marriages."
I don't know what's wrong with Ms Bondi, but I don't think our gay friends have, even in the least, harmed the stability of our marriage. Perhaps she ought to examine her own issues before weighing in on the marriages of others.
Reshared post from +Michael Coen
Florida's Attorney General, Pam Bondi, regurgitates the unoriginal and unfounded claim that recognizing same-sex marriages will harm traditional marriages.
A pleasant Valentine's Day evening
Kay was off seeing The LEGO Movie (which she recommends). Which left Margie and me at loose ends, meaning we could have a nomtastic pepper steak dinner, watching one of our favorites, "The Vicar of Dibley" …
… which in episode 2 stars (1994) Peter Capaldi (the Twelfth Doctor) and in episode 3 stars (as herself) Kylie Minogue (who guest starred on the Doctor Who Christmas special "Voyage of the Damned").
It's a small world (on the BBC).
Marriage 101
I'm sympathetic to the idea, truly, but even if it were the most effective and useful education in the world, I'm not thrilled about setting a legal precedent to the state adding further requirements before people can marry.
I do like the idea of providing incentives for doing so, but as a mandatory requirement? Nah.
Also, not sure why civil unions would be exempted.
Reshared post from +The Denver Post
As if getting married wasn't complicated enough, a proposed ballot initiative would require mandatory pre-wedding education before couples could say "I do." The proposed Colorado Marriage Education Act calls for 10 hours of pre-wedding marriage education for first-timers, 20 hours for those marrying a second time and 30 hours for those going for their third try. The law would not apply to civil unions.
Colorado ballot measure proposes education classes to marry
As if getting married wasn’t complicated enough, a proposed ballot initiative would require mandatory pre-wedding education before couples could say “I do.
AutoAwesome Wedding Picture
So I've upgrade my Picasa for Windows, which now offers to backup your photos to Google+, which makes them available for all sorts of keen purposes, which also means that sets of similar photos will be AutoAwesomed into semi-moving pictures.
So I have to share this set from Mary and Stan's wedding in Florence, just because it lets us sort of grin and move around a bit.
Google Glass, Get Offa My Lawn!
If I were getting married today, I would still probably not wear Google Glasses, but I would be sorely tempted. My own memories of my wedding are, honestly, fairly spotty (and were even then); the nature of the event burns some images in the brain (feeling myself grinning like an idiot as Margie appeared), but tends to lose the narrative. We have a variety of professional photos and a wedding video, shot relatively unobtrusively from the back of the church, but I'd love to see (and hear) more of the experience.
But that's my (likely) choice, not a Grand Pronouncement of Societal Rectitude that such a rant seems to imply. Attendees / witnesses of a wedding have the inalienable right to snark about a variety of things (the garb of the participants, the sermon, the music, the flowers, the choice of spouse, the reception, the Other Family, etc.), but these are generally wrapped up with the shrug of, "Well, it's their wedding." Which it is.
It is not the End of Days that someone has adopted this (fairly) unobtrusive technology to enhance their memories and their experience. Indeed, while it's still probably more visible than most people would want, and will make for during-wedding photos of the bride that are more date-able than most (though, let's face it, there are a lot of "Hey, you actually wore you hair like that back then? I remember that decade, long ago …" wedding pictures out there), I think the criticism about this being the wrong focus is 180 degrees off. It's a focus on the personal experience of one of the wedding participants, which is exactly what it should be about.
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Why I ranted about the Google Glass bride
Earlier this morning, I read something in Mashable about a bride who walked down the aisle wearing Google Glass. “My husband and I have a love for technology. We wanted to use Google Glass to captu…
Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone
True fact, since Margie just left for a week-long business trip and it's still dark outside.
Sigh.
(Also, "It's not warm when she's away" is also true, though temps will be rising above freezing here in Denver for the first time in several days later this week.)
Movie Review: “True Lies” (1994)
This is one of those movies that I just love … as long as I don't scratch too far below the surface. I was, FWIW, gratified that my 13yo daughter found Harry's treatment of Helen pretty awful.
A ★★★★ review of True Lies (1994)
On the one hand, this is just plain ol’ action fun, with Ahnold playing the super-spy Harry Trasker, popping caps and taking names. The twist being that Harry’s wife has no idea of his secret job. And the boredom her neglectful marriage is driving her to unwise acts — which Harry reacts badly to. That’s where the movie becomes ethically problematic, as Harry treats his wife’s possible infidelity not only as a threat that requires mobilization of…
Ain’t no sunshine when she’s g…
Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone. #businesstrip #herturn
Be still, my heart. http://t.c…
Be still, my heart. http://t.co/ly99WpzjmC
Google is the new "ask my wife, she keeps track of that sort of thing"
Google is the new "ask my wife, she keeps track of that sort of thing"
People have been decrying the Internet as destroying our ability to remember things (just as the advent of writing down epics was decried by people who said it would ruin our ability to memorize them). But what it's actually doing is fitting into the niche of "I don't remember that, but I know someone who does" — the spouse who remembers people's birthdays, the friend who knows all about Star Wars trivia, the family member who keeps track of what that other side of the family does. We've always "Googled" each other — now we have Google to help us do that, too.
I will note that using my blog as an extended memory in a similar fashion — "What restaurant did we go to when we went there? Check your blog" — has already proven itself worth all the effort that's gone into it. It provides, as the article quotes a research, "the thinking processes of the intimate dyad."
Fascinating.
Has Google Destroyed Your Memory? No. It’s Much Weirder Than That.
The following is excerpted from Clive Thompson’s book Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better, out now from the Penguin Press. Is the Internet ruining our ability to remember facts? If you’ve ever lunged for your smartphone during a bar argument (“one-hit father of…
She's back!
It’s a beautiful day, because …
It’s a beautiful day, because my Bunny comes home tonight. #sungasajauntytune
MT @Popehat: Called wife, aske…
MT @Popehat: Called wife, asked, since marriage meaningless now, can I nail an aerobics instructor? She says no…doesn’t get constitution.
Happy Anniversary, Mom & Dad
Have a great day! You're an inspiration to us.
She’s HEEEEEeeeere …
She’s HEEEEEeeeere …
Margie is ON HER WAY! (Here, i…
Margie is ON HER WAY! (Here, in case that’s not clear.)
It’s Not About the Nail
Heh. Yeah, I can relate (actually in both roles).(h/t +George Wiman)
Reshared post from +James Long
I’m not saying I can relate. I’m also not saying I can’t relate.
It’s Not About the Nail from Jason Headley on Vimeo.
Mawwiage!
While one of the big arguments for/against gay marriage is how it will affect the institution, one of the interesting things about it is … how it will inform us about the institution. And there's already indications about how removing gender or gender roles from marriage tells us a lot about what makes marriage successful and happy (or not).
The Gay Guide to Wedded Bliss
Research finds that same-sex unions are happier than heterosexual marriages. What can gay and lesbian couples teach straight ones about living in harmony?