It's Friday and I'm ecstatic...

...and not really because I have a lot planned this weekend. Just want to kick up me little tootsies and have some tea.

So... in a couple of hours I'm off to interview Ellen DeGeneres and Brad Garrett (Everybody Loves Raymond), both voices for Pixar's new digital masterpiece, "Finding Nemo." I'm a huge fan of Pixar's work and I actually liked this movie even more than "A Bug's Life." And last night, I was lucky enough to be the first of a handful of journalists to view the movie inside Pixar's private screening room. Steve Jobs was there to welcome us and thank us all for coming. No prob, Steve- and thanks for dinner! Really entertaining movie, INCREDIBLE spfx, adorable for kids, but some of that adult humor too. Two thumbs up!

I also gotta say that Pixar's facilities kick major ass. What an awesome place to work! And here's a nice little touch- once the lights go down in the theater, twinkling lights appear on the ceiling, very planetarium... and then if you watch closely, you see a few shooting stars. Love it.

I'm heading up north to see my parents tonight. I can't wait to get on the couch and revert back to junior high again. Do you know that my mother made me breakfast every day of my life until I went off to college? Even if I slept in and missed breakfast, it would still be sitting there. It's amazing the cats never ate it. Anyway, three cheers for mom!

My favorite breakfast foods (pre-college):

1. Top Ramen

2. Cheese quesadillas

3. Grapefruit

My favorite breakfast foods (in college):

1. Mac n Cheese (leftover)

2. Top Ramen

3. Pizza (leftover, reheated in the toaster oven, microwave made it rubbery)

My favorite breakfast foods (present day):

1. Fruit smoothie (homemade, no Jamba Juice!)

2. Toast and cottage cheese

3. V8 and a banana

Good god, I may actually be growing up.

Today's pic requires no explanation:

Have yourself a merry little weekend.

Comments

[Mean Gene]

Awesome picture. 'nuff said

[Tony]

Is that Megan?

[David]

Freaky pic.... :-/

Pixar does rule though. :)

[mama]

A weekend of junior high...how delightful! I'll stock up on Top Ramen on the way home. You drive carefully now! xxx

[Vicki]

mama rocks :) She is much nicer than I am. My kids make their own breakfast most of the time.

[Space Monkey]

No Pop Tarts??? How horrible.

[Jason]

It seems that the culinary platter of college students never changes. I'm in college and those 3 foods listed are on the top of my college "food pyramid".

[Matt C]

I always aimed for a little diversity, mixing in a pop tart or one of those nutrigrain breakfast bars - only apple cinnamon, the others wreaked havoc on my insides. Lately I've been enjoying bagel sandwiches for bfast...either roast beef and cheese, or Boars Head has this new Buffalo-style chicken breast in cold cuts...very nice...

[elise]

Sarah, your MT template is a little goofy in Safari. I've taken a screenshot of it for you so you can see what's going on. I would've tried to send e-mail, but you guys get so much e-mail. Anyway, you can peep the screenshot here:

http://www.justelise.org/journal/pictures/sarahlane.jpg

It's quite a big screenshot, but you get a good look at what's going on with the calendar... I just wanted to help you out. Have a good one. -e

[Matt C]

That's the way it displays in Mozilla, as well.

[iced glare]

Hey i got here from the MT site and the pic is pretty scary :-x

[Matt C]

I love how the picture is so close to the line "Good god, I may actually be growing up." To steal a line, "Fate, it seems, has a tremendous sense of irony."

[69]

u went to college? i thought all the ladies on tech tv were bio enginered to be hot geek girls or sumtin. cause i can never find any and i dont know why but that pic creeps the hell out of me

[Dan]

u just didnt put the pizza in the microwave long enough u got to make it so it starts to crackle then u let it sit cause the oils like 500 degrees and burns ur teeth before u get to even cut the cheese (on the pizza) with ur teeth

[Charles]

Noodle soup. The breakfast of champions!

[Matt C]

If the note in the background doesn't work, you can always sit on the couch and yell "Sanity Now!"

[anthony]

I hate disney, but love ramen. If disney could suck the last hard earned ever loving dollar out of you they would and then hide it behind your child's innocent love of some blethering idiotic cartoon character, and before you know it you've blown your salary on not just one park, but two that are right next to each other none the less. But any ways ramen sure tasts good, I usually throw out the msg death packet that comes with it and boil some broth with, but wait I'm so drunk I have no idea what the hell I'll Im talking about, I think I lost my point about a mile back

[idiot]

I have to pee.

[Mr. Gumby]

My Brain Hurts!!

[Sue]

LOL My favorite breakfast food as a teenager was leftover pizza too! Only, I ate it cold.

Now, 20 something years later, my favorite breakfast food when I'm in a hurry or tired is a Granola Bar and a Coke. I guess I'm in no hurry to grow up. ;)

[TeddGCM]

In response to your artical located here http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/opinion/story/0,24330,3427221,00.html

You promote stealing? I personally am not very good at all in coding and paid a person to create my blog template for me. I shudder to think that someone would steal my design I PAID for and claim it as thier own. Makes me wonder where your disign came from.

[dave]

Her design came from Blogstyles.com. Blogstyles clearly states that if you use their templates you should keep a link back to them on your page, but there isn't one here. I guess that's all part of the whole stealing peoples' designs thing that Sarah has going. (Hell, I'm surprised she keeps a link back to Movable Type on her page. Why don't you just claim that as your own, too, Sarah?)

You should be ashamed of yourself for writing that article. It's one thing to view source code as way way to LEARN html and css so you can DESIGN YOUR OWN page, but to blatantly STEAL someone's design, as you've promoted, well that's just low. I'm contacting techtv to voice my disgust, and I hope a lot of other people do as well.

[slane]

Nope, I don't promote stealing. I guess my tongue-and-cheek approach didn't work with you guys.I'm passing along the info that helped me understand better how blogs work. What I want to do is show people how to change their blog and live beyond the template... chill folks, chill....s

[Molly McButter]

"I shudder to think", "you should be ashamed of yourself" ???I don't know about you guys, but I generally reserve those phrases for really awful events...But I guess even with people being killed all over the world, blog designs are still one of the more major issues we should be concerned about...I wonder what life would be like if everyone lightend up a little?Awesome blog Sarah!

[Matt C]

Fortunately or unfortunately (depending on your POV) given the global nature of the world today, everyone's an activist for something, regardless of how unimportant it really is. The really sad par tis that it's always so one-sided...those who are the first to pick up a phone or write an email to complain, or any other version of complaining from a distance, whining in their own living rooms, will never lift a finger to praise or commend something they like. Kinda like older relatives, they're only happy when they're "outraged." Quit harping on the blog and take your talk-radio mindset somewhere else. Funny how you all manage to overlook the many free plugs Moveable Type gets on the air and on the TSS website.

Besides, it's the content (and the funny pictures) that make a site/blog worthwhile and "sticky," not the layout, which was probably jacked from somewhere else to begin with. Great site, Sarah!

[robyn]

If you "don't promote stealing", why not link the site that you lifted your own design from then? Scroll up. People are aware where it came from...

[Matt C]

you probably cheat at cards too, huh? I bet you also drive above the speed limit. I don't see how I can visit this site anymore.

[Christine]

I watched Spiderman last night (again) and there was the perfect quote for all of this. "With great power comes great responsibility." No, your article didn't come across as tongue in cheek funny. It came across as "steal, steal, steal" - "but don't steal my code."

Regardless of what Matt C. might think, I didn't "jack" my code from somewhere else. I created the table version by hand slowly and carefully in Notepad. I did my best to create something unique to me, my own branded "look" if you will. A few weeks ago a friend helped me turn it in to compliant XHTML. He got me started, and I spent another 6-8 hours cleaning up code. All total, I've spent a lot of time on it, so I cringed with terror when I read your article.

You need to remember that you are on Tech TV, exposing the masses to many new things. Newbies that will listen to you and need help understanding right and wrong in Netiquette. Stealing code has always been viewed as "bad" - not just in the blog world. Teaching is a good thing, and I'm all for viewing source code to help you learn. There are *so* many sites out there that freely give away knowledge - I hope you guide people to those (MT-Plugins, ScriptyGoddess and many others) and to sites that offer freeware designs for use.

I look forward to other educational articles that help people's blogs grow.

[Matt C]

gee...I went back and checked some of the things I wrote just to make sure I didn't mention you specifically by name, Christine, whomever you are. It'd be mighty nice not to have the things I say portrayed in a manner that they were not expressed in. I'm sure you would like the same courtesy. The point I was trying to make was that in nearly every medium, be it art, literature, music, movies, and yes, even stylesheets, that everybody borrows ideas/steals/whatever from everyone else. It's human nature...you see something you think looks good, you take it and adapt it in your own manner for your own use. On a basic level, that's the exact same thing people are working themselves up for regarding Sarah's Freaking Blog. Did you credit the person that inspired you or who presented something you found appealing? And is it that big of a deal since 99 times out of a hundred, that person took it from someone else to begin with?

the sad part is that at it's core, it still, to me, is a non-big-issue. Everyone needs to realize that there are people on both sides of this "issue" and no one is going to change anyone else's mind, especially by trying to lay claim to some hazy "high moral ground." Listening to some of the things these self-appointed code cops are saying, I wonder how they haven't developed carpal tunnel syndrome from typing way up on their pedestals. Is it something to talk about, to debate? Well, I guess so, enough of us are doing it (even after I said I'd had enough of it, so point fingers at me all ya want :) ) but in the grand scheme of things, I just don't feel it's THAT important. That's just my opinion. Agree or disagree, it's doesn't much matter to me.

*washing hands of it, finally*

g'night

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