Mar 31 2007

Protected: [Lockdown] An overdue update

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Mar 28 2007

Baaaaaaaaaaa

  1. khephra moves to New Zealand.
  2. Scientists come up with sheep that are 15% human (liver, heart, lungs, and brain (one co-worker wondered about the legality of relations with them, another about eating them)).
  3. Black Sheep comes out in New Zealand (the violence of the lambs).

Surely these events are related.


Mar 24 2007

Thank you, Michelle

Michelle? The random woman who lives at the corner of Christopher Street and 7th Avenue, who is a senior marketing producer for a certain retail chain? You rock. Thank you ever so much, and good luck next weekend with that woman.

“Oh god. [He] is the cobra kai to my myagi.”
That just means it is time to sweep the leg!


TMNT was pretty hilarious in its lavish layers of clichés and randomness. Saw it with _yggdrasil, mystedraveneyes, and runstaverun in the city tonight. Now? It is sleep time.


EDIT: Spoilers exist in the comments. Be careful if you don’t want TMNT ruined for you. I think that might apply to one or two people, max. Hah.


Mar 22 2007

Bright Brits love the Maiden

Now that’s a study I can get behind.

Hahah, while trying to post this, already two people have AIMed me a link to the study.


Mar 22 2007

Protected: Tempting Turtles tickets?

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Mar 20 2007

If you haven’t seen Blade Runner, skip this post…


Mar 14 2007

Beware the Ides of March!

Wait, who had the bright idea to schedule Steak and Blowjob Day (we really should have just adopted White Day from Japan) for Pi Day?

csmole has arrived, and already I’m preparing him for the raping of his culture.

kingfox: Ooooh, this one will make you seethe…. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yTPj-fNdgY
csmole: Well, they only come back, trendy black glasses man, if I don’t take one and SHOVE IT UP YOUR ASS

Two nights ago, while getting back into lifting at home with petemagyar, we had geeky conversations between sets just like we used to. While watching And the Children Shall Lead, I looked up one of the kids, Brian Tochi, as his name rang a bell. Cute little Ray Tsing Tao from that episode was in TNG 23 years later, as a character I remembered. That was pretty cool… but then what blew petemagyar away and made him laugh so hard he couldn’t continue working out/eating/stretching throughout the night? The fact that the little kid from that episode became Toshiro Takashi from the Revenge of the Nerds series, one of petemagyar‘s favorite movies. All night, he kept on spontaneously cracking up at the connection. Meanwhile, I was blown away that the Gorgan was played by the lawyer who defended Jack Ruby. What the shit?

Our claim for geekiest conversation of the week might have been trumped by sonofman‘s insistence today at lunch that a good lager goes perfectly with a spicy vindaloo. He learned this, of course, from Red Dwarf.

Speaking of my roommate, one of his cousins is the sole survivor from the recent arson in Chicago. He’s the guy who jumped from a third story window, after running straight into a backdraft. All of his roommates are dead. Scary shit.


Mar 10 2007

A week with the cats


Tako on TacoCat
Originally uploaded by Corx.

I just realized that all of the people who usually drag me out of my apartment to go into the city on a Saturday night are out of the state if not the country. It’s odd, I’m expecting a random phone call or text message with a location to go to.

This past week I spent most nights at kikibird and runstaverun‘s apartment, cat sitting. In a way it was a retreat, getting away from my TiVo and my commute and Hoboken parking and Stern and all the other trappings of my daily life. Their wireless router didn’t have my laptop’s MAC address, I decided against screwing with it by giving it a hardware reset, and instead stole a neighbor’s spotty signal. Tuesday I never quite got the latest WoW patch until the morning, and ended up doing nothing more than chatting with a couple of guildies for a few minutes Wednesday night, so it was a week without WoW as well (since I did school work on Monday).

So I got to get some reading for classes done, got some personal reading done, and took advantage of the quiet environment for classwork. Adapting to life without TiVo was rough, but a good thing for my studies.


Mr. Wallace Eyes
Originally uploaded by Corx.

At first, kikibird wanted me to spend every night there. I agreed to every other night. The counter offer was that I didn’t have to stay at all, with a warning that the cats can be annoying in the morning. I laughed the warning off, not realizing that every time I had stayed there, they bore the brunt of the feline assault. If I had stayed there longer I might have adapted to their clock or they to mine, but instead I learned how to sleep through Mister Wallace and Taco Cat meowing and/or energetically trying to get to me, even if fed. We eventually came to an understanding, and by the end of the week I brought them a lovely guest who they were very well behaved for.

Now I’m home, and the week after my break from home is break for the students (including me, part-time). Good chance to get a few things done, professionally and personally.

I’m kinda sad that the giant red letters that read IT IS GREEN THINKS NATURE EVEN IN THE DARK are due to be removed from the tail end of my commute next month.


Mar 9 2007

Tintin movie


2007_02090020
Originally uploaded by Kingfox.

cessna182 sent me an article last night. It seems everyone’s favorite Belgian reporter, Tintin, is making it to the big screen with Spielberg producing. Wow. Peter Jackson’s name has also been tossed around in some rumors.

I don’t want to get my hopes up, but this could be really awesome.


Mar 8 2007

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