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03:30 pm
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LJ Braintrust
I really wish I weren't serious...
...but does anyone know where I can get a hold of a 1-1.5 tons of quicklime?
(no...I'm not trying to dispose of a bunch of bodies)
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02:30 pm
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New Truths
Cap'n Port's Movie/Entertainment Lemma:
Anything is funnier if you add a monkey.
Anything is cooler/scarier if you add zombies.
Anything is more exciting when it's on fire.
And robots are just cool, so you should just throw em in wherever you can.
This has led to the corollary that zombie-monkey-robots on fire is pretty much the pinnacle of entertainment.
I would add to this the proposition that the addition of martial arts has a similar effect to fire. In that it immediately makes things more exciting.
I have also discovered that while the holy grail of the ZMRoF is the single greatest thing one could ever have, it is sometimes possible to have fewer of these key features and still hit a pretty high mark. IFF the features in question are of exceptional quality. This leads to my case in point and recent revelation:
Jet Li dressed as a monkey = ENTERTAINMENT GOLD!
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11:55 am
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Poultrygeist
Chickens and ducks seem to deal with the world in different ways. We currently have a group of ducklings and a group of chicks, all roughly the same age. They also share a penchant for escaping from their nursery cages when they're hungry, thirsty, bored or none of the above. When a duckling makes a break for it, it pops out of the cage and plummets off of the table down to the floor with a kinda wet thud. It then proceeds to run around in circles just underneath the cage, until someone finds it, puts it back and corrects whatever problem which caused it to flee the safety of its cage. Apparently, "Peeppeeppeeppeeppeeppeeppeeppeeppeeppeeppeeppeeppeeppeeppeeppeeppeeppeeppeeppeeppeeppeeppeeppeeppeeppeep!!" is duckling for "Ohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygodohmygod!!"
The chicks, on the other hand, have a decidedly different approach. One will escape, and likewise plummet to the floor with a kinda wet thud. It will then figure out where in the house the actual people are. You'll see one poke its head around the couch, and having found you walk up. It will then let out a couple of very calm, yet firm peeps. "Peep! Peep peep-peep? Peep." Which as far as I can tell means, "As the duly appointed representative of the caged chickie alliance, I have been sent to inform you that we are currently lacking in food and/or water. And if it wouldn't be too much of a bother, we would also like a bed-time story."
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01:05 pm
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Hey cool....
I share a birthday with René Descartes (also Joseph Haydn, Robert Bunsen and Étienne Bézout (good day to be a French mathematician)
(Also, a buncha other people were born, and a buncha people died, and a buncha stuff happened)
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11:19 am
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And just for the record...
I cannot top the badness of the bad morning that ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) golemkennels had this morning, nor will I ever be able to top it. No matter how bad I have it, I won't be able to compare to a shoefull of amniotic fluid.
...what's worse...Shoefull of Amniotic Fluid isn't even a very good band name.
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11:19 am
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Out Shouting
For those of you in the RTP area. (Or those of you elsewhere who really like driving, or are really bored or...I dunno, sumpthin.) My buddy, rdansky, is going to be doing a reading from his new book Firefly Rain (which I, like a total slacker have not yet read or even purchased a copy of yet) (did I mention the total slacker thing?) At the Regulator Bookshop in Durham (Map), at 7:00pm this Thursday, February 7th. I think his fiction would appeal to a good chunk of the people on my friends list, especially since a good half of you already know him.
Oh yeah...The Regulator is right next door to Francesca's Dessert Cafe so you stop by for painfully yummy gelato afterwards.
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08:55 am
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I must be like butter, cause I'm on a roll
A little bit later, in this very same supermarket, I hear this over the intercom:
Man's Voice: "Price check on (something...maybe it was all-wool socks).."
Woman's Voice: "Two ninety-nine."
Man's Voice: "What was that?"
Woman's Voice: "Two ninety-nine."
Man's Voice: "Say it again!"
Woman's Voice: "Two ninety-nine."
Man's Voice: "Ohhhh yeah! That's what I wanna hear!"
Since when is Cary this interesting on a Sunday night??
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08:55 am
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Every now and then people impress me
One of my favorite things about having blue hair is the way kids react to it...actually, no, scratch that, it's the way their parents react to them reacting to it. Unfortunately, my amusement is often at the expense of the kid cause the parent is usually scolding them not to be rude.
Yesterday, I went into the restroom at a supermarket and there was a guy in there helping his 7-8 year old son wash up. As I squeezed past them, the kid says, "Hey! That guy has blue hair." But instead of the usual squashing of youthful enthusiasm, dad says, "Well son, that's what you call 'being an individual'. And there's nothing wrong with that." They exit the room, and dad is still going on. "...you know someday when you're older, maybe you can have blue hair too."
I need to go shopping more on Sunday evenings.
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01:13 pm
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Operative phrase from Wednesday night
X-Posted to: ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) good_bandnames
Smurf Bukake
no...I'm not going to explain it. It's more fun this way.
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02:58 pm
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Of course I'm not gonna post about my own life...
...that would require having one, or having worth posting about.
OTOH, a few of you have noticed that golemkennels doesn't post so much anymore. She still doesn't, but she's begun journaling the process of training her new enormous, cow-shaped dog. You can find said exploits are my_first_ox (by Fisher Price).
Oh yeah..and she wins because the first person to friend her is a Russian walrus trainer!
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10:48 am
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Special Needs Puppies
(ok, aside from that being a reasonable band name, I actually had something in mind)
Many of you have met our Blind Cave Dog also known as Frost.
If you haven't, you should drop by and check him out sometime, he has the sweetest disposition in the world. He moves around with such confidence, it's very easy to forget that he is deaf and blind. He's a smooth collie (like Lassie with a buzz-cut) with a double copy of the merle gene, that's the factor that makes some of our dogs have the nifty looking blue coat. The gene is dominant. A single copy of the gene results in dogs that looks like Pow or Brick, solid color with patches of blue. With a double copy most of the pigment goes away leaving a white, or mostly white coat. Unfortunately, that same pigment is involved in the development of eyes and ears. As a result most double-merles have problems with hearing, vision or both.
The reason I'm going through all this is I've been told that Collie Rescue of the Carolinas has two double-merles coming up for adoption this week. One of them is deaf, the other is blind. I'm told these dogs have equally sweet dispositions compared to our guy. Admittedly, this is not the kinda dog that everyone can handle. Big and blind means a lot of bumping into things. Not the sort of dog you want if you have lots of cases full of Hummel figurines*. But if this is the sorta thing that does appeal to you or you know someone, you should give Collie Rescue a call. I can't speak for golemkennels directly, but I'm pretty sure she'd be happy to assist in training, having worked with a few dogs with sensory problems.
* Ok, if I had a bunch of Hummels, this is EXACTLY the kind of dog I'd want.
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03:43 pm
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Since she doesn't read LJ so much anymore
If you know golemkennels drop her a note and wish her a happy birthday today. If you don't have her contact info, you can always reply to an old LJ entry.
Heck...if you don't know her, wish her a happy birthday!
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12:14 pm
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File under stuff I didn't expect
Ok...so living on a farm involves a lot of lifting and sweating and grunting and other definitively manly activities. One source of macho-trips that I was not entirely prepared for: moving hay bales. As an unrepentant city boy I thought, "It's hay. There's no way it could be all that heavy, even those big ol rolls of it." Turns out, those big ol' rolls (or round bales as some might call em) weigh in excess of half a ton. There's something kinda exhilarating in realizing that you're moving half a ton with pure brute force. Admittedly, rolling is not the same as lifting or even dragging, but you're still providing the energy to start a half ton moving, and even more impressive...stop it.
Of course, it's also a lot of really exhausting work to push half a ton around. Last night, after moving one of these behemoths into the pasture and setting it upright, I was understandably a little on the tuckered side. This caused me to declare, "You know, the next time some chick offers me a roll in the hay, I'm gonna have to pass."
Not to be outdone, golemkennels quickly pointed out that, no, first I'd ask what the forage quality* was. It bothers me that she's right.
* as an example, the forage quality of the stuff we were moving last night isn't all that great. This means that it's got lots of other crap besides grass, and most of that crap has thorn or burrs or something unpleasant. The end result is that not only are you pushing around a lopsided, half ton ball, but it is also a lopsided, half ton ball of bees and mosquitoes.
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03:44 pm
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Jonathan Coulton Ate My Baby
Mandelbrot Set
You’re a Rorschach Test on fire
You’re a day-glo pterodactyl
You’re a heart-shaped box of springs and wire
You’re one badass fucking fractal.
....sorry...I've had that stuck in my head for about a week, so I had to share the pain.
oh and mary_mayhem, I dunno if I pointed you at this when I sent you all that Coulton stuff, but I'd be remiss if I didn't show you: Flickr one of the few songs of his that requires the visual.
EDIT: Apparently some entries get skipped in the RSS feeds unless they have a title. So I'm adding a few to my most recent postings.
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11:49 am
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Hot MLP on MLP action
Usually when confronted with any reference to My Little Pony, I'm forced to point out that there was only one male MLP, and his name was "Lucky"! ...no...really...
However, after however many years that they've been around, it was only this morning that I realized the each and every pony has a tramp-stamp!
(that combined with the fact that an MLP that I was just gifted with appears to be wearing Playboy Bunny ears...I really don't wanna speculate what Hasbro had in mind.)
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01:19 pm
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File under: Things I did not sign up for...
Greco-Ovine Wrestling.
And that's all I'm sayin'
Despite the fact it would be a great band name.
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09:31 am
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Possibly the best phrase EVAR
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Snot Otter
Which is apparently an alternate name for the Hellbender. Kinda appropriate.
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09:51 am
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My Drinking Buddy Has Been Vindicated
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/02/0117257
I don't really know him all that well, but we seem to drink together at every DragonCon. I can say that he's a very nice guy, and a champion drinker, and that 13 years is way too long to wait on a fairly bogus charge.
Tags: eff
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07:50 pm
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Not only do I live in the CITY OF THE FUTURE
...but I apparently live in some sorta game development mecca. This morning, local NPR was doing a story on new game development lab at Wake Tech. The general gist was that the Associates Degree program was too small before it started, given that the Triangle area has some thirty industry related companies. Thirty? I can maybe name 15 off the top of my head and I'd have to dip down into defense contractors and the like. Apparently we have the highest density of said companies in the Southeast.
...And we all know how dense game developers can be!
< rimshot > < /rimshot >
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10:47 am
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Nevermore Post Mortem
For some reason I decided to post a report on Nevermore. Partly it's because I usually have to do a trip report when I go to GDC and partly it's because mary_mayhem unintentionally guilted me into it by saying she was going to do the same. I almost thought I wouldn't make it this year, so I didn't even mention it here. Friday, I had house guests so I didn't go at all.
( Holy crap that's long, I better cut it )
I think that's it. Everything I saw was pretty worthwhile. I'm curious to hear what people thought about the films I missed.
Tags: nevermore
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