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| Thursday, September 25th, 2008 | | 3:56 pm |
All-Call: Suggested Ground Vension Uses
I have gotten ahold of 5 pounds of the stuff, with a line of maybe even 10 more on the way. A co-worker's father apparently hunts via chipper-shredder. Any suggestions? Current Mood:  curious | | Saturday, September 20th, 2008 | | 7:09 am |
When Raptors Attack
<a style=" background: #000 url( http://www.bunkbeds.net/velociraptor/img/badge.jpg) no-repeat 0 0; display: block; width: 322px; height: 157px; text-align: center; padding-top: 150px; text-decoration: none; font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 30px; color: #ff9900; " href=" http://www.bunkbeds.net/velociraptor/"> <span style="display: none;">I could survive for</span> 1 minute, 22 seconds <span style="display: none;">chained to a bunk bed with a velociraptor</span> </a> Ha! I got this from several people who did not survive as long. Odds are, therefore, that I have a chance at absolute survival. I don't have to defeat the raptor, just survive it longer than you! BWHAHAHAHAHA! Current Mood:  amused | | Sunday, September 7th, 2008 | | 8:04 am |
All-Call for Help: Pickling
I have decided that I like pickles and pickled XXXXX enough that I should try my hand at it. The stuff I get is rarely as spiced like I'd want, not as spicy as I want, nor available in the variety I'd want. So, any one out there with expertise in the matter I can attempt to borrow/leech off of as I go about doing my research? | | Sunday, August 3rd, 2008 | | 9:56 am |
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The Dark Knight
See it. If you are reading this LJ, you are a friend and therefore a comic-book nerd such as myself, on some level. Or else a troll-bot... | | 8:47 am |
Who Watches Those Who Watch the Watchmen Trailer?
Yeah, okay, so I saw The Dark Knight last night. It rocked; that's a separate post. What I am mentioning in this post is something I never thought I would say after seeing a trailer for The Dark Prophet's grand masterpiece: hope. Yeah, I know the material gonna get cut left and right but it appears like the writer and director have made decisions to keep some pretty important stuff, including the Mars sequences, which features my favorite speech of the book. I've always gotten a shiver when I read the stuff about "thermodynamic miracles", so that was a big deal. Also, one thing that appears to have been emphasized was how much of a 'game-changer' Dr. Manhattan really was, how freaking and powerful he was. I was really scared about a ton of material being cut and the movie being a parody of itself. Also, the fact was that the graphic novel made sense in the Cold War mentality but worried that it wouldn't translate. I think it can and may well translate because the scary thing about the Cold War that I often forget was how powerless 'ordinary' men and women were to stop/change things. Generals in war-rooms in bunkers on our side, politburo members in bunkers on their side, each side holding total annhiliation in their hands. It could work. Or it could not. I'm hopeful now, but still cautious. The guy who did 300 (those red cloaks kept it from being a gay porno) is directing it and you can see the 'hyper-realism' he favors but also, some scenes did remind me of Blade 2. In Blade 2, there were two types of sequences. Comic-book and anime. Each one had a slightly different feel but in the comic-book ones, you could see the actors moving between beautifully-setup storyboard shots. I think I saw some of that here as well. Again, I hope. | | Sunday, July 20th, 2008 | | 10:35 am |
Computer Parts for Sale
I am moving and have a lot of old computer parts that I stored that I now want to sell. Computer consignment is one way to go, but not sure and buyers vary so much. Anyone got advice? | | 10:27 am |
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Greatest online word ever
wtfpwnt It's not the wtf or pwn or the combination of the two that made me rank it at greatest. It is the use ot the archaic past tense, the "t" to signify the past tense, that makes it great. A lesser wordsmith would have used wtfpwned or wtfpwn'd, but not my friend. Additionally, by starting pwnt with wtf, you open up for further expansion of the basic idea but adding omg or zomg to the beginning, or even, ftl. That is all Current Mood: amused | | 9:34 am |
Hancock
I saw Hancock Friday night and this is my first chance to write about it. (Note: I am currently moving a ton of stuff, having to buy stuff and my car's battery just died) More behind the cut but anyone with geek cred on the line needs to go. | | Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 | | 7:33 am |
| | Friday, July 11th, 2008 | | 1:47 pm |
Ethics of a Large Office Question
If someone who works for the same company you do becomes a watch-word for a certain behavior, do you have an ethical obligation to inform them of their status? What if you use it? And what if, or maybe especially, the watch-word isn't nice? Current Mood:  contemplative | | Saturday, July 5th, 2008 | | 9:34 am |
Wanted: the 'supposed film' not the comic
My brother thankfully saved me on this account. Mark Millar made a very dark and very adult comic about "the day that evil won" (sorry Grant Morrison; Final Crisis I expect to be a great ride but no way evil wins for good...DC won't permit itself to be written out of existence). It was dark, deconstructive of the genre, imaginative, featured a 'protagonist' that was modelled after Eminem (to incredible effect, I might add). However, the Russian director (guy who did Day/Nightwatch movies) apparently looked at the pretty pretty pictures 12 months before he decided to write up the screenplay with someone who didn't speak Russian and who didn't read the source material. Sigh... Hulk and Iron Man rocked but they were more mainstream. Hancock...I'm unsure of (reviews from fanboys I trust?)...Dark Knight 2 had me very very happy. Apparently there is a Punisher 2 on the way (Punisher: War Journal)...but the truly dark, imaginative material that's out there: untouchable or rendered into crap. Watchmen won't get made, not unless the USSR springs to life and the Cold War resumes. Preacher...don't make me laugh; they can't fit that into a 2 hour movie unless they remove all plot. Sigh... Also, my brother is pure evil. He described exactly how a studio executive with no appreciation of Watchmen could solve all of Watchmen's weirdness and wonderment and grand metaphors in terms that made me want to either worship his insight or kill him before the evil could be spread. It made such sense that I thanked God right then that Alan Moore still have creative control. | | 8:48 am |
Call For Help (ish, esque, sorta, kinda)
Okay, I can haz a new apartment. I am not yet moved in, kinda. I am moving in slowly, over hte course of about a week or so. But I do have some questions, requests for advice, etc Propane Grills: Are there any good portable ones at a decent price? While I have a patio, I can't have a charcoal grill (aka a good one). Lawn Chair: How much should I worry about someone stealing a large lawn chair left unattended? I mean, I have a folding chair, but that's not good lounging... Bookcases: Anyone have recommendations? Also, I will have excess books and tentatively plan to post a list here to offer them for sale before I take them to Half-Priced Books. Is there a better place to sell (not online) and where else should I post? Plants: Seattle-based advice on good potted plants for a patio that doesn't seem to have a lot of direct light and subject to seattle weather? Hopefully something that can be used in cooking and/or smells nice. Renter's Insurance: I have stuff, i want to insure stuff, any good ideas on valuation, amounts, etc? Current Mood:  nervous | | Tuesday, July 1st, 2008 | | 7:33 pm |
I Can Haz Apartment... In a slightly related note, no one at my office knows what lolcat is...what a good starting resources for such n00bs? | | Saturday, June 28th, 2008 | | 7:29 am |
Listening to Zepphlin
I was listening to a marathon of LZ on the radio. It struck me...exactly how big a group of geeks were they that half their songs reference LotR? | | 7:26 am |
Apartment Hunting
So, looking for an apartment. First thing, if the police ask, the people on the waiting list ahead of me were dead when I found them... Second thing, and this was amusing for me to work out, was for 'expected income' requirements...I get direct deposit cuz I'm lazy about depositing checks on my one-day-off when banks are open. So I had to back-calculate what I *actually* make in a week, as opposed to what I get deposited....Fun times. Third, in order to make all the open houses and appointments I want, I would have to translocate. If I could do that, I wouldn't be looking for an apartment. I'd either go the super-hero route (ala Multiple Man) or have each body take a really lazy, low-paying job but by taking 10 of them, earn a ton of money (ala Jamie Madrox). | | Saturday, June 21st, 2008 | | 10:49 am |
Texas Chili Cook-off: Mocking non-Texans Edition
I've read this or been sent this every 6 months or so. It still remains 100% true. A poor ole' Maine boy from my dad's office decided to try "really spicy" food and couldn't handle it. My dad was eating the same thing, sweating profusely but being non-chalant about it. | | Wednesday, June 4th, 2008 | | 4:17 pm |
| | Saturday, May 31st, 2008 | | 9:09 am |
Stuff
Q: What is the plural of Starbucks? A: Seattle There are over 250 Starbucks within King County (Seattle). The greater Seattle area might triple that number, because King County is central and has downtown but by no means is all to Seattle. Got that factoid out of an obesity-oriented Grand Rounds. Good speech by two MDs centered around Type 2 (adult-onset) that's caused by obesity. I can spew facts and figures and risk from that all you might want but it starts with attitude cuz our society doesn't make it easier. Oh, the most amusing thing was when one of the doctors reacted to the large trays of donuts, patries, and creme-filled stuff by trying to move them from the lobby entrance to the front of the stage. The woman in charge of setting things up FREAKED OUT. Nothing less, nothing more polite could describe her reaction. She was literally almost screaming, "You can't do that!" and geniunely did NOT understand that a lecture about how people shouldn't overeat and how we need to get rid of fatty food with no nutritional value SHOULD NOT SERVE DONUTS. "There is no fighting in the War Room!" On a work note, workload is getting more complex and we are getting more and more assignments overall; I feel like at times, the entire office is barely keeping its head above water and there are so many ways we could improve. However, the Seattle cutlure, or maybe just our hospital or maybe just our researchers, have a very strong status quo bias. For me, tradition holds no weight unless I can't figure out how to make it work better. Changing practices here takes a bit more doing however; people love 'buy-in' and 'meetings' for discussion. Sometimes, they seem like they want to discuss things in hopes that talking about a situation will resolve it. Things might be getting better; there's a policy on changing policies, so hopefully that's a system designed to improve the process and make it quicker, rather than a knee-jerk obstructionist reaction to several top-down policy changes that were made. Meh. For me, things go. Tout s'en va, Tout passe, L'eau coule, et le coiur oublie. Flaubert Current Mood: Purposefully Being Emo |
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