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[09 Oct 2008|09:22am] |
So I've been on this kick lately of listening to podcasts instead of listening to the same tailored music that I have been nearly ignoring from Pandora. I admit a large number of the podcasts I've begun to test are gaming related. I know some of you don't like Fresh Air, but I find that she is causing the ignition of my liberal rage. For instance, I'm listening to a woman Episcopal Bishop talking about the discussion of "homosexuality" in the Episcopal Union. The unfortunate thing is that I am quickly realizing why I could never debate. I just cannot channel the rational parts of myself when I am enraged and I just want to scream.
On a random aside, it's really hard getting back into putting pen to paper. I think if I continue failing, I'm just going to have to turn off all the aural stimulation.
Another aside: My coffee pot's cleaning button is now highlighted by an angry red light. I should probably do something about that.
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| And now a departure from our regular text format, links abound |
[29 Apr 2008|12:47pm] |
Although I am linking to youtube, I have to say,unfortunately both of the videos I want to embed to are un-embeddable.
Here is a video of a song that I hear occasionally played on my Saturday RadioKoL (Radio Kingdom of Loathing) sittings. The title is "The Walk of Shame". Unfortunately, I don't think the humor keeps up quite as much with the people on my friendslist.
The second vignette of Youtube galavanting deals with a game over on Kongregate that I played all the way back last year. The song in the background is pretty nifty, although the artist didn't really register for me. I was looking up a capella videos and found... (hey that embeds!)
But found that I couldn't find any videos by the artist herself. Well over at her webpage was the song in Colourpod.
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| Editing |
[10 Apr 2008|04:19pm] |
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I have a friend that I edit papers for. His birthday is next week. After editing a paper of his today, I think I Would like to give him a small block of wood with the note, "This is a hyphen. I would like you to familiarize yourself with it. Befriend it. Get intimate with it. Make love to it. I feel that hyphen is highly compatible with you and you two will live a long and fruitful life together."
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| I thought it was funny... |
[10 Apr 2008|03:58am] |
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So we were talking about somebody who wasn't particularly likeable and I said with a particularly sanctimonious sneer, "I didn't realize he was the subject of the sentence. I would never have him as the subject of a sentence, only an object."
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[09 Apr 2008|10:20am] |
Nate's cousin/uncle/some odd relation is coming to town today, picking him up in about 40 minutes from a bus stop that runs a bus between here and the big town 40 minutes away (Roanoke). He actually took the Greyhound bus from DC or NYC to Roanoke. And on top of this all, he's a millionaire that lives in the Bahamas. Yeah...
It means that Grandmother-in-law will be staying at her house for a few days because he will be staying with her. He is able to drive so I'm technically off the hook some.
Lunch with Steve this afternoon, that should be fun. Also, I finally jumped to the last disc of Lost Odyssey. I'm not really all that into it but I am 3/4ths of the way through so I may as well see it through. I've been playing Sins of a Solar Empire and Team Fortress 2 mostly other than the odd World of Warcraft raid that I still attend. We've moved on to a new zone that was just released, The Sunwell Plateau, which hasn't been very kind to the guild. Two weeks and we still haven't downed the first boss. Plus, the weapon I want off the trash has also refused to drop. I just kind of wish we'd still farm the old stuff, namely Mount Hyjal, there are a few items left that I would really like to have.
Wow, that was a lot more than I expected to write.
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| Snippets from my calender |
[02 Apr 2008|05:09pm] |
I am using the Eats, Shoots & Leaves calender this year and I found two days' quotes to be amusing.
Someone wrote to say that my use of "one's" was wrong ("a common error"), and that it should be ones. This is such rubbish that I refuse to argue about it. Go and tell Virginia Woolf it should be A Room of Ones Own and see how far you get.
We may curse our bad luck that it's sounds like its: who's sounds like whose; they're sounds like their (and there); and you're sounds like your. But if we are grown-ups who have been through full-time education, we have no excuse for muddling them up.
[I realize that there is a colon there instead of a semi-colon and I don't know if that's a printer's mistake.]
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| New Shoes |
[28 Mar 2008|09:28pm] |
I've had my old shoes for over two years and they were beginning to get threadbare. I now have New Balances, which are slightly exciting. They're very comfortable, and will hopefully make walking up and down the hills in this part of town easier.
Yay, new shoes.
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| A week of helping out |
[27 Mar 2008|08:15pm] |
It's been about a week and I've been doing a fair amount of driving. Yes, driving. I should point out that the vehicles are both not mine. Since the mother-in-law, as I characterize her, is unable to put weight on the one foot, I'm spending my time going to the grocery store and the grandmother's house. She's slowly moving her day-to-day life here, hand-load by hand-load. It's not bad, but it is strange. My strange sense of honor has me doing my own dishes regularly since I hate to have an elderly lady do it for me. Which is an inconvenience of sorts since she would rather handwash than dishwasher and if I put them in the dishwasher she's bound to pull them out and do them herself. Well enough complaining.
The recovery seems to be going well, no signs of infection. First post-op visit happened and that went well. There's now a ramp to the house for inconvenient loading and unloading, but more convenient than it would have been otherwise.
Easter has come and gone. We had two hams. I have much candy.
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| Mother In-Law's Post-Op |
[20 Mar 2008|03:57pm] |
Well, she's out and now for the next six weeks I'll be helping off and on. Should be fun. I'm posting this from the laptop while some of us are sitting around reminiscing. Nate's grandma is quite old and the history she tells is pretty amazing. Makes me curious about the oral history of his and my families'.
Waiting for her to nod off, the meds are making her drowsy but I get the feeling she's trying to stay up to be personable.
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| The Turtle in Peril (My computer) |
[18 Feb 2008|12:19am] |
(My computer is named Turtle. My laptop is named Shell.)
I've had the hunk of junk for ages. And I have finally gotten it dangerously ill by feeding it the wrong bit of information. It brings up so many strange emotions. Emotions not usually reserved for inanimate things. I feel this deep attachment to my files and how I have everything set up. Of course, it was a work in progress, and I know that nothing was nearly as organized as I make it sound. In fact, this might be a small miracle in that it'll force me to put all my like files into the same folder.
I have this anxiety about what is going to happen. About not finding all of the proper programs and finding out months in the future that I didn't get something that I desperately need. I suppose that's this vague paranoia.
Hmm, exhaustion is kicking in, so it'll have to end there.
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| Guilty |
[09 Jan 2008|11:14pm] |
I am going to make an admission.
I watch reality tv. Not a lot of it, but some. Luckily, Nate watches DVDs during primetime so even if there is temptation, it is difficult to indulge. Anyway, I was watching Project Runway. I really don't care for the last fifteen minutes of the show where they do the critiques and actual elimination. The creative process, the construction, the snippets of witty or not so witty banter, that's fun. And always, cheering on your favorite is nice. I think the main reason to watch is that suspense of "is my person going to win?" even though "is my person going to lose?" feels a little too sad.
I suppose at this point I could grumble about the writer's strike. Being a liberal, I'm content to side with labor, aka the writers. I feel that it's legitimate that their intellectual capital should have some sort of value as the capitalists monetary capital does. It is unfortunate that at this point it's gotten to a war of attrition, neither side budging, both waiting out the other and waiting for the tide of popular opinion to turn against them. I'm probably out of tune of what the public thinks of the strike. I just kind of sort of want my shows back, especially after so many years of not consistently watching any series and suddenly having some across a few networks.
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| Snippet |
[09 Jan 2008|02:41pm] |
TurtleFriend: TurtleFriendsMate want to buy a wizard hat that matches his robe
TurtleFriend: ....
ThomTurtle: What? I think it sounds cute.
TurtleFriend: not really
TurtleFriend: I don;t want to feel like the female househead of the dungoun master
[Names were edited for privacy]
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[05 Jan 2008|11:05pm] |
I'm visiting my folks in Springfield, VA right now. It's kind of weird, having my sister around. But it's a good weird. Just not used to having family that I'm really close with that's around. It's been a pleasant trip, lots of eating and hanging out. The only thing that's really gone wrong is that I've had a cold the whole time. Runny nose, sore throat, you know. But it's been fun.
Actually, there is one thing. My sister and her husband have been sleeping around 10-11 hours, that seems like a lot to me. Or maybe it just seems like it, and they're hanging out in their room. Either way, heh, seems odd.
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| Weird story idea |
[01 Jan 2008|09:47am] |
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eBay your exes. I just dreamt it last night, not eBay exactly, but yes.
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| The "Newborn" |
[06 Dec 2007|01:07am] |
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Nate and I are welcoming a new console into the family, a baby XBox 360. I still haven't given it a name.
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| Motion |
[02 Dec 2007|10:47pm] |
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My sister is moving in with my dad in Northern Virginia. I don't know all the particulars, but it's exciting. She's the one I'm closest to in my family and it gives me heaps more motivation to come visit my dad, since he's home from 7 pm to 5 am at night.
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| Radio Silence |
[25 Nov 2007|03:31pm] |
It is strange, my mind runs so fast, so cluttered with emotion and words, when I am away from my computer. But once I sit down, whatever intentions I had previously, my mind becomes more sedate and I allow myself to just drift through the a few selected sites without ever bothering to explore the vast majority of the internet or use it for the almost obligatory purpose of gaining knowledge.
I wonder if this is addiction, pulling me back to the same old things. Habit? Escapism? I often wonder why and can't come up with anything.
And I just got distracted by IM. I really should learn to turn that off and create some time for introspection.
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| an old mystery solved |
[06 Aug 2007|02:51pm] |
A couple years ago I picked up DDR: Extreme 2 for PS2. I've been trying to play more DDR in the past few weeks and this is the most current version I have. Actually, I think it's the only version I have. Anyway, there's a song (in another language. on there called Polovetsian Dances and Chorus with these fantastic Square-Enix-esque graphics. Anyway, I was sitting in a restaurant, Cabo Fish Taco of all places, and I hear this kind of classic 60s ballad. And I listen more closely and I realize, I know this song, and it's in English. I figured at that point, that it was worth researching to figure out what it was all about.
http://calupict.wordpress.com/2006/08/24/polovetsianpolovtsian-dances-lyricslibretto-translation/
Ta da.
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| Moved down the street! |
[20 Jun 2007|12:26am] |
Well, it had been in planning for a while. The thing is, it had been planned for the end of July. However, things have happened so that the move was pushed ahead since the place was already ready for us. First of all, our apartment complex swapped in the in building ISP. I'm a little (okay very much so) internet dependent. Then Alex started moving out, it's easier for her what with commuting going from an hour to five minutes. And frankly, the new place is cooler which is great for the now present summer heat.
Oops, this took a little longer than I thought, distracted and stuff. Anyway, I'm in here.
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