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Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
6:42 pm	Spam, spam, scrapple, and spam P&P&Z: The Mini-Series! HUZZAH. The Great Scrapple Flame War of 1872 Still typing up NaNo! Why yes, I am slow. Current Mood: chipper Current Music: NCIS (Comment on this)
Sunday, November 29th, 2009
1:29 pm	Happy Thanksgiving!/NaNoFAILMo Strikes Back Thanksgiving was very excellent this year. At the family party, I got to play with tiny cousins-once-removed, and then Kirstin and I maintained our three-year-running championship of Pictionary! Also spent a lot of time in the pubs in Phoenixville and got to hang out with Meg and Sproat, so hurrah. Anyways, it's that time of the year again! HOW BADLY DID DAVE FAIL AT NANO? A) 40,000 - 49,999 words (Dave hardly failed at all!) B) 30,000 - 39,999 words (A respectable showing!) C) 20,000 - 29,999 words (Hey, National Novella Writing Month still can be abbreviated NaNoWriMo) D) 10,000 - 19,999 words (National Short Story Month, not so much) E) 1 - 9,999 words (Dave wins at National What the Hell Was That, a Sneeze? Month!) HINT: So far I've written 52.5 pages in my trusty 6" x 9.5" eco-friendly one subject. If you guess correctly, I will give you an internet cookie! Last year I came in at about 12K; I'm hoping to break 15K this year but who knows. Set the bar low and you can only be pleasantly surprised, that's my motto. Current Mood: happy Current Music: junior kickstart -- the go! team (Comment on this)
Saturday, November 21st, 2009
2:26 pm	"I no longer doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion!" -- Katherine After once again availing ourselves to giant margaritas at Chili's, Mal and I saw Twilight 2: Cruise Control. This movie was: 50% studly men running around shirtless, 30% furious blinking, and 15% greatly improved special effects, except for the 5% sparkles, which still look stupid. Oh, and there was something about werewolves and vampires, too. Current Mood: amused Current Music: Bittersweet Symphony -- The Verve (Comment on this)
Thursday, November 19th, 2009
10:30 pm	Abandon All Hope ( Pictorial Summary of Tonight's Episode ) Current Mood: annoyed (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, November 16th, 2009
5:45 pm	various and sundry So, Big Grandmother strikes again! Have some cool links: - Have you ever thought, "Gosh, I want to make some pizza dough, but all I have is flour, baking powder, and beer"? Well, fear not! - This article had me at the title: 'New Moon' Exclusive: Which of Robert Pattinson's co-stars does he find the most difficult? His hair. "I sound so stupid, but in a lot of ways the hair is 75 percent of my performance." -- Explains a lot, really. - Detailed and amusing re-caps/commentary on the first 6 books of WoT. Extremely convenient if you want to read the new book, but haven't read the rest of the series, uh, 4 years, and now have no idea who anyone is, where they are, or what they're doing. - ETA: My friend Melissa (who you may recognize as "random girl in that one dance scene in The Village") is in a contest to get a Doritos commercial aired at the Superbowl! It's actually pretty funny, so you should go watch it (make sure you hit "skip intro"). And then you should view it daily, since it only tracks which computers view it one day at a time, and she needs 1500 views. - ETA ETA: Pride and Prejudice and Emoticons ( Doctor Who: The Waters of Mars ) - You know what would have been an even cooler idea? "Doctor Who: The Water Ice of Mars", wherein the Doctor battles a sinister alien threat transmitted through the astronauts' dessert. Current Music: Skullcrusher Mountain -- Jonathan Coulton (Comment on this)
Thursday, November 5th, 2009
9:49 pm	So, this show has ghosts? *Why*? ( THIS WAS THE BEST EPISODE EVAR ) Current Mood: GLEE Current Music: *laugh track* (6 Comments |Comment on this)
7:29 pm	INVISIBLE JESUS ...hates you, apparently. ( Seriously, WHAT THE EVERLOVING FUCK ) Series finale for SPooN? I think so! Current Mood: shocked Current Music: DESTROYED FOREVER! (Comment on this)
Friday, October 30th, 2009
11:18 am	Ich find thy shoon passing fayre Did you know that the Knights of the Round Table invented the pick-up line? And thus Sir Gawain spake thusly, Ladye, in sooth thou muste be soore weried, for with michel fleetness of foote thou hast flied both toward and froward throughout min swefnes all the nicht! -- "La Morte D'Arthvader" Anyways, find this instructive tidbit and more in "When You Marry", one of those amazingly helpful efforts from the 50s and 60s designed to tell you almost nothing useful about dating, love, sex, and marriage: Love, 1962 American High School Style. And go watch some MST3K while you're at it: Are You Ready for Marriage? BUT WHAT ABOUT THE RUBBER BAND?! What To Do on a Date Had this been an actual date, you would have been instructed where to go. Current Mood: amused Current Music: WMGK (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, October 26th, 2009
10:29 am	Web Filter Violation Apparently our filtering software was written by someone's outspoken granny: Current Mood: amused Current Music: WMGK (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
2:57 pm	What I Did on My Summer Vacation (Part 2) Ahahahahaha. Timeliness is for losers. Yellowstone National Park ( Artist Point ) ( Brink of the Falls ) ( Mammoth Hot Springs ) ( North Entrance ) Current Mood: accomplished Current Music: Rockin' in the Free World -- Neil Young (3 Comments |Comment on this)
11:16 am	Happy Trafalgar Day! All hail the mighty zombie arm of Horatio Nelson! Current Music: Wonderful Tonight -- Eric Clapton (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, October 16th, 2009
5:39 pm	sometimes a bid order is just a bid order Here's a fun game: what do YOU think I got to type specs for? - Fiber Reinforced Composite handle eliminates vibration and hand sting - Newest hybrid technology to deliver maximum performance - Cushioned synthetic leather grip offers exceptional feel and durability - Ensures unyielding durability and performance - Extra-long barrel construction provides the ultimate power source for serious ball players - Stacked barrel maximizes sweet spot with the strongest and thinnest walls of the tightest composite weave - Exterior re-enforced frame increases perimeter strength and stiffness - Slapper preferred-maximum control and barrel length - Specifically formulated to maximize sweet spot contact area - Patented Extended Flex design lengthens sweet spot creating the largest hitting area in the game In conclusion: 'Stiff handle delivers more barrel flex, resulting in better trampoline effect which produces greater performance. This stiff handle alloy also gives more consistent feedback, allowing you to "feel the hit".' ( Professor Freud says... ) Yeah, so I actually had to submit those for purchasing. Kinky. Current Mood: amused Current Music: Badlands -- BRUUUUUUUUUUUCE (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, October 1st, 2009
3:29 pm	403(b) Tax Sheltered Account (TSA) Education -- Haiku Retirement plan Something which I will not need For many years now *** The story of Ed Retired at sixty-two Less money than Joy *** My leg falls asleep I try to hide my boredom My chair is squeaking Current Mood: zen Current Music: Rocky Mountain Way -- The James Gang (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, September 27th, 2009
7:17 pm	artoo! you're on FIRE! Current Mood: CRYING WITH LAUGHTER Current Music: "Well, I don't think smoking is grown-up at all!" (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, September 24th, 2009
11:42 am	FAIL So, I don't have a lot to say about Mackenzie Phillips (apart from "Poor Mackenzie Phillips, that's horrible") but I am kind of enraged at the way CNN's article is written. Comparison: CNN The Times Blame the victim much, CNN? So not cool. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, September 17th, 2009
10:02 pm	gonna go to the place that's the best Oh, Supernatural. You are the only show who can simultaneously be awesome while confusing the Bible with The Lord of the Rings. ( Spoilars!! Keep out! (This means YOU, Kirstin and Marge) ) In other news, today I learned the Etruscan alphabet! I bet you wish you were as cool as me. And that your name, when written in mirror image, looked like IENNI8EP. Current Music: Houses of the Holy -- Zep (14 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, September 13th, 2009
10:03 pm	a nose by any other name would still smell Username meme! My username: shadydave, because my name is Dave, and I am shady. Though if you want to be technical about it, Dave is one of my chiefest hypercoristics (I have many names!) and 'shady' was the adjective of choice in high school, also appropriate because I spend most of my time on teh intarwebs lurking. My journal name: "My God! It's full of stars!" -- quote from 2001: A Space Odyssey (the book, not the movie), and uttered by my namesake when he discovers the creepy monolith is actually a stargate. My journal title: "I don't go looking for trouble..." My subtitle: "...it comes looking for me." A (probably inaccurate) quote from one of the HP books. My friends page: "A Parcel of Rogues", which is from a Robert Burns poem, but which I actually found from reading annotations for The Wee Free Men. Crivens! My default userpic: Dave from 2001! I like it because it looks like he's jammin' with his spaceship. Current Music: I'll Tell Me Ma -- The Young Dubliners (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, September 10th, 2009
11:29 am	On the other hand, at least they wouldn't skip all the songs "[John] Lennon, however, had been championing a Lord of the Rings project (he planned on playing Gollum with Paul McCartney as Frodo, George Harrison as Gandalf, and Ringo Starr as Frodo’s confidant Sam)." -- The Beatles Movies That Never Happened ... WHAT. Current Music: WMGK (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, September 7th, 2009
9:49 pm	A Gentleman Does NOT Conga Discovered by naturalblue208: the best Pride and Produce Prejudice sketch EVAR! Current Music: Generic WWII Documentary (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
8:01 pm	Watching "Man of La Mancha" I'm slightly unclear as to why, when you have someone whose life is exciting as Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (three words: CAPTURED BY PIRATES), you remix him as Shakespeare and having him run rather nonsensically afoul of the Church (instead of the revenue service). Well, unless... CERVANTES: I wasn't expecting a kind of Spanish Inquisition! RANDOM DUDE: NO ONE EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION! Current Music: Man of La Mancha (2 Comments |Comment on this)