Did someone decapitate my Mii?

As you can tell from the image in the "About Me" box on my blog, I have a Wii.

I have an image of me in my Wii called a Mii. That's the image in my blog. I watch my Mii playing games as I move on my Wii Fit balance board, which I use pretty much daily.

My hair has grown quite a bit since I made that Mii, so I changed the Mii to have longer hair. And now that Mii looks disturbingly like it's a decapitated head.

The scores in the Wii Fit game come up with images of my Mii beside the score, but just the head shows up, not the body. Now that I have longer hair, you can see the hair under my head. No neck or body, but hair under the chin. It looks like a body-less, ghostly head floating about.

It didn't look like that before, when the hair was shorter and none of it showed under the head. But now... it's quite disturbing.

Is the surf really up?

It's been the coldest April on record here on the west coast of BC, but I was just watching my favourite webcam of Tofino - on the west coast of Vancouver Island - and there were two surfers walking on the beach with their surf boards! Even in the middle of the summer surfers need to wear wet or dry suits to surf Tofino, so that water is always cold, but it must OK for surfing now.

I've been hoping that summer would turn up sooner than later, so I guess this is good news!

Surfs up!

Is life really in full colour?

It has been such a slow Spring... I was wondering if my favourite webcam from Tofino, BC was actually still in colour, or if it had gone to black & white & a million shades of gray. This screen capture from a few moments ago shows actual colour on the right hand side! It's in colour! The world is in full colour again! Let the Celebrations begin!

Update: The screen shot I captured yesterday disappeared! And today we're back to monochrome... as you can see from the screen shot that I just put on this post (unless it disappears as well).

But there was colour, I saw it.

Of course, this shot is kinda cool because you can see little tiny people close to the waves about 1/3 of the way in from the left side of the picture. It's a big beach.

Does Libya even have flying submarines?

You may think of submarines as flying through the water... but I just don't see how enforcing the "no fly" zone over Libya means brining in the anti-submarine equipment is called for.

Canada, are we just a bit backwards? We are the ones who sent the anti-submarine aircraft into the Mediterranean according to this news article. Where does "no fly zone" apply to submarines. We may be new at this waging war thing, but really? Submarines?

I was so much happier when Canada specialized in Peace Keeping, not war waging. We were so much better at that.

Does Libya have flying cars?

There is a "no fly zone" over Libya right now being patrolled by all sorts of airplanes from all sorts of countries.

I just saw a picture of some burning vehicles in Libya that were hit by an airplane from one of the countries patrolling the "no fly zone". They looked like cars and trucks to me.

So does Libya have flying cars? Such an advanced technology... maybe no one should be firing at such an advanced technology, hmm?

Is the super moon super annoying for emergency workers?

In my neighborhood the people who operate the sirens on emergency vehicles often seem to indicate their emotional state of being.

The quick "woo woo woo woo woo" lets you know that they are really in a hurry and don't want to deal with idiots, so move to the side very quickly.

The bored "woo woo whip whonk weeep" that occasionally comes out can actually start you giggling. The trucks calling that out are not usually going that fast - an emergency, but they just know it's probably another false alarm.

The annoyed "wooooooo" often happens around rush-hour, so get out of all intersections everywhere in the city please.

This weekend we had a super full moon - 20% bigger than normal because the moon is in an elliptical orbit around the planet and it got as close to earth as it ever gets. It was reportedly the biggest full moon in 18 years. And a full moon means many humans on the planet went quite insane yesterday. How many old boyfriends were talking to ex-girlfriends in a drama of insanity? Good day for target practice in Libya, eh?

So yesterday there were lots and lots of emergency sirens going off. And today there were almost as many. All of them were very, very angry.

So has this full moon been super - once in 18 years super - annoying for emergency workers? They being humans as well... they were probably going a bit crazy themselves! I hope the work scheduling has given all of them a break!

Is the wobble not just me?

I have MS, and problems walking from it. I tend to wobble. OK, as my spouse puts it, I walk like I'm on a small boat in the middle of the ocean. He occasionally complains of sea-sickness if he watches me for too long.

So I wobble.

But so apparently, does the planet Earth. And since the Japanese earthquake, it now wobbles more.

According to this National Geographic article, we may actually be able to measure the increase in wobbliness. To measure the earth wobbles, you need a lot of data, and in Japan, there is a lot of data. Not only from the earth-quake monitoring equipment, but from a large number of GPSs that were up and running along the Japanese coast when the earthquake happened.

So we got data, and we got wobble. This may help to predict earthquakes in the future, which would be very nice.

I can predict my wobbles too... if I walk, I will wobble. I'm a simple person. But it's not just me anymore... the whole planet is wobbling more now!