Mother Flippin Rhymenoscerous

A few weeks ago I wrote about the awesome viral campaign Flight of the Conchords -- my favorite band and TV show -- are running. They're asking fans to create videos of themselves lip synching to the Conchords song, Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros. Of course we had to create a MatassaLosi version. Here it is, starring Gina and Franny.

No Eggs, No Coke

Went shopping yesterday to buy eggs so we could have breakfast for dinner on Christmas Eve. But lo, they were out -- out of eggs, out of Coke -- the basic staples. Not only that, but the snow meant that a number of our gifts didn't arrive, so we gave each other coupons!

Nicolosi Kid Photos

My sister Renee got an awesome photo scanner for xmas, and scanned in these old negatives of a trip we took to Britain when we were kids, given to her a few years ago by my Great Uncle John.



To see the version with bigger pix, go here.

Here's some more Nicolosi kid pictures, from the Fabled Italy Days.



To see the version with bigger pix, go here.

Internet Overtakes Newspapers As News Source

Amazing chart from a Pew study published yesterday: For the first time since Pew started asking, the number of people who say the Internet is their main source for national and international news is larger than the number of people who say the newspaper is their main source.

I've been thinking lately how funny it seems that most newspapers have 90 percent of their staff pointed at paper tasks, and maybe 10 percent pointed mainly at the web. It really feels old school to me right now that that formula hasn't been flipped yet. I'm guessing in the next five years we're going to see more news staffs start to designate the bulk of their people "online-only" and start to have 10 percent of their people working to repurpose what's been done on the web and put it together in a tidy package for the paper.

Kind of boring Christmas Eve ruminations, I guess. The fun never ends!

In other news, waiting for Domino's pizza to deliver our xmas eve dinner. Yum.

Why I don't drive in the snow

I telecommuted to work Thursday and Friday, and here's why:



I saw this video last year, and man, has it ever stuck with me. Snow driving is crazy! Even when you think it's going to be normal, because the roads are cleared and blah blah, what have you, you never know when -- blammo -- you're going to be the one hitting that weird patch and -- slammo -- you're driving like one of these guys. I've only tried driving in the snow twice, and both times had horrible close calls. Scary yo. Not. Gonna. Do it.

It's been hard to run a rapidly moving story from home though, so I'm going to try to get into work on the bus tomorrow. More later.