I love the Asian Art Museum in SF. I went there on Sunday and spent about 3 hours there and only got through 1/3 of the museum before it closed. The place is really very interesting and informative, especially with the audio set. I think I will go back again this weekend to pick up where I left off. I put some pictures up here.

My favorite picture being:

Their special exhibit this month, is about the woodblock painter Yoshitoshi and 20th century Mango. Drools.

This is mostly spoiler free for the benefit of Lisa.

I’m glad that I read pretty slow, because it took me about 24 hours of reading to finish the book.  Which meant I had a fantastic weekend filled entirely with reading.  I finished last night at about 1:30 and am now very sad that is all over.  After reading each of the books multiple times and falling asleep listening to the audiobooks almost every night for the last year, I think I had come to think of the characters as real people and almost as friends.  However, it is always with the knowledge of there being more to come.  And now there is nothing more to come.  And I am sad . . .

This is how I was woken up this morning.

Normally I wouldn’t call someone out on this, but I feel strangely compiled to do it this time… This is the most good awful web design I have ever seen. If you know this person, laugh now.

I’ve discovered the root of all my problems!  It turns out my grand parents shared the same Great Great Great Grandfather.  Although, If I do the math, everyone has 16 Great Great Great Grand Fathers who would have a total of approximately 1000 Great Great Great Grand Kids.  So, it is not too surprising that two of them would get together in rural Canada

Anyway, I have been working on one of my projects, www.deslippe.org, recently.  I am getting close to putting everyone with the Deslippe name on the tree at least.  It is interesting, because I think I might be able to connect everybody alive who has Deslippe as a last name (because I think the top of the tree was the very first Deslippe; i.e. he changed his name on arrival in Quebec).  Check it out if you are a Deslippe: www.deslippe.org.

I saw the movie Sicko yesterday.  It was quite well done, and I suggest everyone (living in America or just wanting to gloat at America) to see it.  It reminded me of this article I found on Digg the other day:  10 Things America Would Have if it was Actually a Democracy.

I should point out that I am aware that the US is actually a Republic and not a Democracy, which has its own benefits, like protection in situations when the majority is wrong.  And yes, this fact does, in a way, defeat the point of the article, but it is worth a read anyway and suggests there is some discrepancy between the people’s opinion and the government.