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Yet Another Blog For Geeks
Life: Don't Make It Tricky
02 July 2009 @ 09:48 am
Some people just have it.
This fake movie poster for Buffy Season 8 is beyond awesome.
21 June 2009 @ 11:43 pm
My carpenter uncle is awesome.
Apparently he started making me, my brother, and my two cousins clocks for housewarming gifts a while back. Then he got busy.
Then he got unemployed.
So he found time to finish them, and he gave them to us this afternoon.
It's awesome, and wood, and really the only respectable piece of furniture in my House of Ikea and Hand-Me-Downs. Too bad it's on a shelf surrounded by Transformers.
I might have to put up a picture.
Meanwhile, you will be pleased to know that Chapter 26 is FINALLY written. I'll run through one more read of it tomorrow, then post it tomorrow afternoon.
Also? 27 was a BREEZE, since my brain was writing it as I was struggling through 26. I started it this morning and am almost done with it already. Tuesday? Wednesday? Maybe.
Apparently he started making me, my brother, and my two cousins clocks for housewarming gifts a while back. Then he got busy.
Then he got unemployed.
So he found time to finish them, and he gave them to us this afternoon.
It's awesome, and wood, and really the only respectable piece of furniture in my House of Ikea and Hand-Me-Downs. Too bad it's on a shelf surrounded by Transformers.
I might have to put up a picture.
Meanwhile, you will be pleased to know that Chapter 26 is FINALLY written. I'll run through one more read of it tomorrow, then post it tomorrow afternoon.
Also? 27 was a BREEZE, since my brain was writing it as I was struggling through 26. I started it this morning and am almost done with it already. Tuesday? Wednesday? Maybe.
01 June 2009 @ 12:03 pm
13 May 2009 @ 11:48 am
From Dresden Codak:
Harvet Ismuth's 42 Essential 3rd Act Plot Twists as performed by the Ellis Island Community Players
I'm horribly tempted to make at least one of them into an icon, but they're just a LITTLE bit wonky...
Harvet Ismuth's 42 Essential 3rd Act Plot Twists as performed by the Ellis Island Community Players
I'm horribly tempted to make at least one of them into an icon, but they're just a LITTLE bit wonky...
25 April 2009 @ 06:57 pm
So after my last post, where I talked about my cool night at the Cabooze, I slowly got myself ready for bed, climbing in at about 2ish.
About ten minutes after lights out, I hear the following sounds outside my open window:
*screech*
*thump*
*CRASH!*
My first thought, as I live in an apartment without underground parking: Oh, shit, someone just slammed into my car in the parking lot!
I jump out of bed and go to the window.
No one crashed into my car, or any car in the parking lot.
However, there was a car on the inclined lawn across the street. There was also a flashing police car right behind it. Next thing you know I hear a guy screaming "Stop! Police!" and the driver sprinting away into the mess of townhomes.
Two minutes later there are five cop cars and a K9 unit prowling the area.
No idea what happened after that. It took me about an hour to get to sleep with all the flashing and stuff. But it was definitely something I had never seen.
About ten minutes after lights out, I hear the following sounds outside my open window:
*screech*
*thump*
*CRASH!*
My first thought, as I live in an apartment without underground parking: Oh, shit, someone just slammed into my car in the parking lot!
I jump out of bed and go to the window.
No one crashed into my car, or any car in the parking lot.
However, there was a car on the inclined lawn across the street. There was also a flashing police car right behind it. Next thing you know I hear a guy screaming "Stop! Police!" and the driver sprinting away into the mess of townhomes.
Two minutes later there are five cop cars and a K9 unit prowling the area.
No idea what happened after that. It took me about an hour to get to sleep with all the flashing and stuff. But it was definitely something I had never seen.
25 April 2009 @ 01:21 am
Now THAT was cool.
Saw Trampled by Turtles, one of my favorite bands, at the Cabooze tonight. It's not everyone's cup of tea, I know. Bluegrass, even the most frenetic groups, can be pretty blah for some people.
But, DAMN, it was good. Just the right mix of old and new (or VERY old; they have four albums, I have 2 and 3 , so I don't know their early stuff). Five piece group: Acoustic guitar, acoustic bass, banjo, fiddle, mandolin, and two huge beards.
The opening act, the Hackensaw Boys, were just as great. The songs weren't there quite as much, but they made up for it in energy. Trampled sat for almost the entire show, while Hackensaw were on their feet bouncing around like crazy.
But the REALLY cool part:
22 April 2009 @ 08:41 am
So apparently last year Vanity Fair did a series of celebrity photoshoots recreating Hitchcock scenes.
How did I not know about these???
21 April 2009 @ 12:06 pm
New tags. And new tags. Cuz I'm bored at work and decided I needed to do some sorting of my LJ.
So, if you will take your gaze to your right, you shall see:
awesome - vague tag that will be attached to things that I find to be awesome (or, as Michael Bay would say, AWESOME)
books - because seriously? I had a tag for movies and games but didn't have a book tag before?
dollhouse - pretty self-explanatory. Here's hoping I'll be able to use it a month from now, though.
politics - gonna be tiny, cuz I try my best to avoid it here, but it might get some play every now and then.
world of booze - cuz if I'm gonna do it, I'm gonna do it RIGHT.
So, if you will take your gaze to your right, you shall see:
awesome - vague tag that will be attached to things that I find to be awesome (or, as Michael Bay would say, AWESOME)
books - because seriously? I had a tag for movies and games but didn't have a book tag before?
dollhouse - pretty self-explanatory. Here's hoping I'll be able to use it a month from now, though.
politics - gonna be tiny, cuz I try my best to avoid it here, but it might get some play every now and then.
world of booze - cuz if I'm gonna do it, I'm gonna do it RIGHT.
15 April 2009 @ 02:32 pm
So the boss wants us to use half of our vacation days by the end of June?
How's a five-day weekend the first week of May sound?
Woo hoo!
01 April 2009 @ 10:48 am
26 March 2009 @ 02:01 pm
The Twins ballpark is coming together REALLY fast. Most of the stadia's in, they've installed a lot of the lights and about half of the outside wall.
But the new thing that got me really excited?
The foul poles are in. Painted yellow and everything.
I should really bring a camera and post some pictures. For, you know, the two people on this blog who would possibly care.
But the new thing that got me really excited?
The foul poles are in. Painted yellow and everything.
I should really bring a camera and post some pictures. For, you know, the two people on this blog who would possibly care.
26 March 2009 @ 08:39 am
25 March 2009 @ 12:19 pm
I just got my first Woot. And it's a doozy.
New 32" Sony Bravia HDTV coming my way for $484 shipped. Good deal, but still weird about authorizing any payment for anything that big outside of my mortgage.
Now I just need to clean my place up and figure out making room for it.
And I get to put my current TV up onto craigslist.
New 32" Sony Bravia HDTV coming my way for $484 shipped. Good deal, but still weird about authorizing any payment for anything that big outside of my mortgage.
Now I just need to clean my place up and figure out making room for it.
And I get to put my current TV up onto craigslist.
19 March 2009 @ 08:05 am
The first two days of March Madness.
32 basketball games over two days.
Bracket watching.
Or bracket shredding as your Final Four picks lose in the first round.
It is AWESOME.
17 March 2009 @ 07:58 am
Cuz, you know, I don't have it for my XBox yet.
An announced future download:
You got the touch!
You got the power!
YEAH!
An announced future download:
You got the touch!
You got the power!
YEAH!
12 March 2009 @ 08:17 am
So here's the lineup so far for Stallone's new movie, The Expendables:
"Stone Cold" Steve Austin, Forest Whitaker, Eric Roberts, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Randy Couture, Dolph Lungdren, Mickey Rourke.
And Charisma Carpenter.
Huh. Between Carpenter and Benz in Rambo I think Stallone has a thing for casting Buffy alum in his movies.
Either way, I can't stand most Stallone movies (except for Demolition Man), but I'm gonna have to see this one. Jesus, that kinda cast would just make the camera roll up into a ball in the corner and whimper, wouldn't it?
"Stone Cold" Steve Austin, Forest Whitaker, Eric Roberts, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Randy Couture, Dolph Lungdren, Mickey Rourke.
And Charisma Carpenter.
Huh. Between Carpenter and Benz in Rambo I think Stallone has a thing for casting Buffy alum in his movies.
Either way, I can't stand most Stallone movies (except for Demolition Man), but I'm gonna have to see this one. Jesus, that kinda cast would just make the camera roll up into a ball in the corner and whimper, wouldn't it?