Friday, April 29, 2011

The Best Pic of Today's Royal Wedding

I LOVE the little girl's expression!

(Yes, I know she was covering her ears because the fly-over was LOUD.  However, without that information, it looks like a combination of "loud noise + itchy/uncomfortable clothes + boredom + being 3 yrs old + oh, geez, they're kissing again".)

Congratulations & Best Wishes to the happy couple!  May they forever be this happy together!

Sunday, April 10, 2011

Rick Rolling the Oregon Legislature

I'm a BIG fan of using humor to cut the tension in difficult situations. I'm also a BIG fan of bipartisanship. So, when I saw this, I just had to share!

The Oregon legislature was evenly split with 30 Democrats and 30 Republicans. As things got more and more heated, and more and more partisan, one lawmaker was trying to come up with a way to get people to work together. His inspired idea? To enlist some of his colleagues to surreptitiously Rick Roll the state legislature.

They each were assigned specific lyrics, with the instructions that they were to nonchalantly insert them into their speeches. This had to be done seamlessly so as to not tip off the rest of the legislature. ("I'm never gonna" would be easy. Some of the others, not so much!) The proceedings of the meetings are videotaped for the public record, so after the session, they got the footage & then edited it. Here are the results:



Best of all, tensions were released, it was clearly a bipartisan effort, and the relationships that were formed will be useful going forward. (Oh, and other colleagues have asked if they are going to do any more & if so, can they be part of it.)