March 20, 2008 by Dave.

On the start of the first full day of the NALIP conference, my roommate (also a volunteer for the conference) came into the room having just been downstairs in the registration area. He shakes his head and says “Man, there’s a lot of hot women down there.” I chime up and say, “It’s a Latino film conference. Of course there are hot women down there.” This would come back to haunt me later.

At the end of the conference, the other volunteers and I were in the rooms helping to break down the registration offices and get things carted away. As I’m making another run into the office, I notice two of the volunteers posing for a photo for another friend. Of course these two were the hottest of the volunteers in the office—and that’s saying something since I’d put up the plainest woman there against anyone in the surrounding OC any day. I start looking around at the volunteers. I lean over to one of my friends there and say, “We need to make a calendar with all the volunteers here. NALIP’s gone wild.” Obviously I quickly remembered what I told my roommate the first day. Still I’m surprised I was so busy working the conference that I missed all this in front of me!

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March 20, 2008 by Dave.

Funny, I usually have these numbered in a couple of other blogs that I’ve cross posted to. Anyway, this is a couple of funny exchanges with Sophia.

I was showing Sophia a panoramic photo of me taken at Grinnel Glacier in East Glacier Park, Montana. I told her where it was taken, and she said:

Sophia: Wow, Hannah Montana.
Me: Not Hannah Montana, the state Montana!

Drives me crazy when facts get jumbled like that from corporate propaganda. Sheesh!

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Sophia is really into reading and symbols on signs. She seems especially fascinated by the “no” red circle on signs (e.g. “no smoking”, etc) and usually wants to know what each one means. Usually she wants to know what the traffic signs means (e.g. “no left turns”, etc). One day we’re driving along and she sees a “no U-turn” on the street.

Sophia: Daddy, what does that sign mean?

I didn’t see the U-turn at first, so she thought to herself for a moment. Then very excited she goes…..

Sophia: I know it. No bending over!

I swear I was so glad my foot was on the brake at the time or I would have run over someone in the street.

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March 20, 2008 by Dave.

It’s been a while since I’ve done this and there were a couple that came up over the holidays. These two were seen at the Fresh Pond Cinema in Cambridge.

Enchanted   Mad Money
Clover  Chimpmunks

So that’s what that monster was.

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This was an interesting one in Las Vegas. It doesn’t really exist, but it’s that interesting effects of vision span on reading. The eye’s field of view is most acute in the frontal view as opposed to the peripheral view, but you can still read text with the total vision span (despite thatmost of our total vision span is peripheral vision). However how that text comes out is interesting. As me and Will were driving souoth Maryland Parkway towards his house, I saw a set of signs that individually read:

“Water”
“$5 Check Cashing”
…and something else I can’t remember.

I saw them all out of the corner of my eye, so to me it looked like it read:

“Chinese Water Torture $5″

Not that it would be surprising for Vegas, but still…

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