Academy Awards
I didn’t actually watch the Oscars last night but I did catch Scorsese’s acceptance in Italian… which induced very entertaining dreams in Italian. I’m not even sure which award he was accepting at that point. This morning I browsed the results over at CNN. I loved The Departed so I’m delighted it took so many awards. Pan’s Labyrinth also deserved all the awards it got and more. Little Miss Sunshine, a film I never would have seen if it hadn’t been for slyppi, had a good showing too. I think Abigail Breslin should have been awarded the best supporting actress Oscar, having only heard about Jennifer Hudson’s performance in Dreamgirls (which was described to me as amazing except when she wasn’t talking or singing - apparently she showed no ability to react). Breslin was just amazing in every way.

Apple and Cisco and iPhones! Oh my!
Last week it was announced that Apple and Cisco will share the iPhone name. All lawsuits connected to the iPhone name dispute have been dismissed and both companies are quietly going about their business. Very quietly… like there aren’t any exciting details leaking out about the deal beyond, “Under the deal, they will also work together in the areas of security, consumer and business communications.” (BBC News) This agreement was just in time for them to debut the iPhone commercial during the Acadamy Awards though no actual product name is mentioned. It’s a cute commercial and says absolutely nothing about the product except that it’s coming in June. The montage of movie clips of famous actors and actresses answering phones is fun, with a final “Hello” harkening back to the original Mac commercial just in case you missed the implication of all those other hellos.

Weekend and SNOW!
It snowed here last night! Another couple of inches fell to cover over the greening areas of the lawn. Unfortunately this week is likely to be too warm for the snow to stick around long. It actually started snowing mid-afternoon sometime. I was driving back from visiting lisaf in NY. As soon as I crossed into PA the sleet started. Within 10 miles it had turned to snow. By the time I got home it was seriously snowing!

The weekend was good. We wore ourselves out romping around NYC Saturday. I didn’t spend nearly as much money as I feared I might. LUSH and Crumpler were my weaknesses, but I knew that going in. I did get a new camera bag (which was the whole pretense of going to Crumpler in the first place) but I also got an awesome green handbag too. Not that I carry handbags, but this one is GREEN! LUSH was… an adventure in impulse shopping. We ate good food, drank good wine then spent the evening being lazy (which was good since we were whole-heartedly exhausted). Sunday involved really tasty breakfast food and driving home (which was tiring before I hit exciting driving conditions).

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