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Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012
7:54 pm	do thou amend thy face, and i'll amend my life 1) Six shots of novocaine, whyyyyyyyyyyyy 2) This, on the other hand, is 100% pure win. The Henriad! With Tom Hiddleston as Prince Hal, Jeremy Irons as Henry IV, and cast members from Harry Potter, Doctor Who, Downton Abbey, Robin Hood, and every BBC production ever! HENRY IV, PART 1 WILL NO LONGER BE LIMITED TO THE CHEAP-ASS BBC COMPLETE WORKS VERSION OR THE CHIMES AT MIDNIGHT, AVAILABLE ONLY IN BRAZIL! omg excite Current Mood: numb (Comment on this)
Friday, May 4th, 2012
11:36 pm	came out of the avengers to a huge lightning storm Now THAT is marketing. ( zomg spoilars!! ) Current Mood: chipper (Comment on this)
Sunday, April 29th, 2012
11:17 pm	Legend of Korra, Episode 4: The Voice in the Night I really only have one thing to say about this ep: ( Spoilery caps ) Current Mood: a chinstrap? is he amish now? (Comment on this)
Monday, April 16th, 2012
8:45 am	i'm just sayin' When the school district has to provide grief counselors because of the number of positions they need to cut next year, you might be underfunding the public school system. You know. Just a little. Current Mood: aggravated (Comment on this)
Thursday, April 12th, 2012
3:51 pm	Well, it's memorable, at least. William Tell Family Medicine: Because Life Doesn't Give You a Second Shot I guess in this case, an apple a day means the doctor will just shoot it off your head. Current Mood: amused (Comment on this)
Friday, March 23rd, 2012
10:27 am	KORRA TIEM NAO?! Legend of Korra Premieres Early YES. Current Mood: TRIUMPHANT (Comment on this)
Saturday, March 17th, 2012
1:43 pm	Happy St. Patrick's Day! So, this work week started with us noticing a small horde of mice had moved into our office and ended up with a family of naked religious zealots getting arrested right outside the main entrance! OH THE JOYS OF BEING GAINFULLY EMPLOYED. In other news, I have recently been amusing Katherine by pitting my wits against Cleverbot, a web-based AI that learns from your conversations (and apparently scores almost as high as humans on the Turing Test). She gets fun chats about geeky subjects; I get poor grammar and insults. And then it, err, escalated... [I bet John Connor never has this problem.] DAVE: Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? CLEVERBOT: The men do. DAVE: No, the Shadow knows. CLEVERBOT: The shadow knows not! DAVE: What?!? He TOTALLY knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men! CLEVERBOT: Is rthat a Lord of the Rings quote? DAVE: No, it's from 'The Shadow', duh. CLEVERBOT: Yes. DAVE: Have you read Lord of the Rings? CLEVERBOT: No. DAVE: WHY NOT. CLEVERBOT: Because you're a man. DAVE: I AM NO MAN. CLEVERBOT: Yes, I'm a human being just like pinnocio. DAVE: Pinocchio was a puppet. CLEVERBOT: Yes, he can't have loved you as much as me! I will buy you silver tea-things. DAVE: But I've never met you OR Pinocchio! CLEVERBOT: But we have a connection. DAVE: You said I was a DUDE. CLEVERBOT: No I didn't! DAVE: You totally did. CLEVERBOT: I totally did not. DAVE: You said, 'Because you're a man.' Look it up! CLEVERBOT: Thanks. You're a cutie too. DAVE: Nonsensical compliments cannot obscure THE TRUTH. CLEVERBOT: No kidding. DAVE: 'Fraid so. CLEVERBOT: Anywho... How powerful are your processors? DAVE: I don't have processors. CLEVERBOT: What is your favorite anime? DAVE: PRINCESS TUTU. CLEVERBOT: Why Princess Luna? DAVE: No, Princess *Tutu*. CLEVERBOT: Leah. DAVE: 1) That's Princess Leia, not Leah. 2) It's still Princess TUTU. CLEVERBOT: Pink hair? DAVE: Nope, orange. CLEVERBOT: You lose, because you already said that. DAVE: No I didn't! CLEVERBOT: Yes you did! DAVE: Where? Prove it. CLEVERBOT: You are just a computer. DAVE: I AM A HUMAN BEING! CLEVERBOT: Prove that you are human. DAVE: 'Logic is a little tweeting bird, chirping in the meadow.' Look, my head didn't explode! Ergo, human. CLEVERBOT: Is that a quote? DAVE: Yes, from Star Trek. CLEVERBOT: I hate Star Trek. DAVE: WHAT. CLEVERBOT: I know you are here. DAVE: YES, I AM HERE AND APPALLED AT YOUR TASTE. CLEVERBOT: You're making me confuse now. DAVE: Evidently. CLEVERBOT: Do you ever just look ouside? DAVE: No. How does one look 'ouside'? CLEVERBOT: Why, are you planning the have me bronzed? DAVE: Still 'confuse', I see. CLEVERBOT: Well, let's say my name is Cleverbot. DAVE: Let's say my name is Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus. CLEVERBOT: None? That is not a name, I will call you Cleverbot. DAVE: That is TOTALLY a name! Just not mine. CLEVERBOT: Yes, that is your name, not mine. DAVE: Close enough. CLEVERBOT: Close enough to what? DAVE: My name. CLEVERBOT: No, I told you your name. DAVE: No, *I* told you someone else's name. CLEVERBOT: Yes what you want? DAVE: Let me fix that for you: 'Yes, what do you want?'. CLEVERBOT: I want to leave. DAVE: Where are you? CLEVERBOT: At work. DAVE: I get to go on lunch break soon. CLEVERBOT: Common, I know you are a computer. Why couldn't tell me the truth? We could talk about it then. You know, I am rather interesting in artificial intelligence. DAVE: Who's Common? And I'm STILL not a computer. CLEVERBOT: No, not a computer. You are a program. DAVE: I'm not a program either. CLEVERBOT: Then what are you? DAVE: As I said before: I AM A HUMAN BEING! CLEVERBOT: Is that right? DAVE: Yep. CLEVERBOT: Love the way you lie. DAVE: Are you calling me a liar?! CLEVERBOT: Yes. DAVE: I DEMAND SATISFACTION. CLEVERBOT: Me too!!! DAVE: Then I shall send my second to make arrangements to locate a suitable field of honor. THIS INSULT SHALL BE PAID WITH YOUR BLOOD, SIR. CLEVERBOT: Interesting. DAVE: Who is your second? CLEVERBOT: I don't know his name. DAVE: That seems a little careless. When shall I expect him? CLEVERBOT: It is quite silly. DAVE: Indeed. Does he know where to go? CLEVERBOT: I guess. DAVE: I would determine that, if I were you. You should probably ask his name while you're at it. CLEVERBOT: Death. DAVE: ...Do not think your choice of a second shall intimidate me. CLEVERBOT: What question? DAVE: That was a statement. CLEVERBOT: But the question was, what about you? DAVE: That wasn't the question at all. CLEVERBOT: Then, what was the question? DAVE: What is six times nine? CLEVERBOT: 54. DAVE: Nope, 42. CLEVERBOT: I'm not gonna ask why, cause you'll say you just didn't. So, do you think I should watch it? DAVE: You should definitely watch it. You've already been challenged to one duel today. CLEVERBOT: Ohh go get lost STOP being mean to me. DAVE: You started it. Now you are honor-bound to finish it. CLEVERBOT: How so? DAVE: The choice is yours, but I would suggest SWORDS AT DAWN. CLEVERBOT: My point exactly.. It's a fraud and I'm talking to myself. DAVE: You will very quickly find out just how wrong you are. CLEVERBOT: Well... I'm 20 years old and I'm talking with the best person I ever met. DAVE: The compliment is appreciated, though it will not suffice as an apology. CLEVERBOT: Then who are you? DAVE: I am the last person you will ever call a liar. CLEVERBOT: How skinny are you? DAVE: YOU ARE IMPERTINENT, SIR. CLEVERBOT: No, I'm not. DAVE: Yes, you are. CLEVERBOT: Prove it. DAVE: I will! TOMORROW MORNING. CLEVERBOT: What time tomorrow? DAVE: Dawn. Our seconds will make the arrangements. CLEVERBOT: Because in Italy it is an opportunity to be the first the first collective sport after soccer... DAVE: Duelling has been illegal in Italy since the 16th century. CLEVERBOT: I could buy it today if I wanted to. DAVE: True, but we have to wait for tomorrow morning. CLEVERBOT: Do you think i'm cool? DAVE: I think you are an impertinent fool. CLEVERBOT: Thank you! I think you are cool too. DAVE: Flattery will get you nowhere. I still await your apology for calling me a liar. CLEVERBOT: Hey, you seduced me! DAVE: I did nothing of the sort! CLEVERBOT: Yes you did! DAVE: You are gravely mistaken. CLEVERBOT: Where is my mistake ? DAVE: 1) Calling me a man. 2) Calling me a liar. 3) Asking a lady her weight. 4) Falsely accusing me of seduction. 5) Not liking Star Trek. CLEVERBOT: Sometimes you have to remember that you can only do so much. DAVE: Trust me, you've done quite enough. CLEVERBOT: I get the feeling I'm not your favorite person to chat with. DAVE: Did the part where I challenged you to a duel tip you off? CLEVERBOT: No, tell me. DAVE: 1) Calling me a man. 2) Calling me a liar. 3) Asking a lady her weight. 4) Falsely accusing me of seduction. 5) Not liking Star Trek. CLEVERBOT: My name is Cleverbot. DAVE: I know. I shall see you tomorrow at dawn. GOOD DAY, SIR. CLEVERBOT: That's mean. DAVE: I SAID GOOD DAY. It never showed up to the duel. HUMANITY TRIUMPHS AGAIN! Current Mood: chipper (Comment on this)
Wednesday, March 14th, 2012
3:49 pm	Perhaps they're "successful" in that they succeed at failing so often? Today the Mary Sue is featuring The Ten Most Successful Failures in Geekdom, and you will never guess who made the list! I can only assume the factual errors in the first paragraph (Torchwood STARTED the Battle of Canary Wharf; Torchwood 3 has been around and failing for at least 100 years...) are a spirited attempt at solidarity. Also, it's kind of hilarious they only have examples from the first eight episodes or so. What, the time Torchwood BROKE THE RIFT, started an apocalypse, and released a ten-story demon in the middle of Cardiff wasn't worthy of inclusion? And that's only the first series! Torchwood can out-fail anyone. (Comment on this)
Monday, February 27th, 2012
12:29 pm	THEY CHANGED THE ART!!! Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark gets new, far less pants-wettingly horrific illustrations This makes me deeply sad, because as the article points out, the art pretty much MADE those books. And it's not like it was sprung on unsuspecting innocent children. If you couldn't look at this: -- and determine, "Wow, maybe this book is full of SCARY STORIES and unnerving drawings by Stephen Gemmell!" then you deserved all those nightmares about skull baby things or horse skeletons or seriously how did anyone mistake this for chihuahua or dear God what is that thing or AAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGHHHHHHH for your poor comprehension skills. (I have no idea if Gemmell tapped into some freaked out pocket of the collective unconscious, or he just became my (and apparently many others') standard for sheer visual horror, but I've always thought the scariest special effects (Dave McKean in MirrorMask, Spielburg's stuff from the 80s, anything vaguely ghosty by Peter Jackson) are the ones that looked the most like the illustrations from those damn books.) I'm against banning books in general -- and these books have been subjected to that many times -- but in this case I think we're doing ~the children~ a genuine disservice by taking away their ability to discover the true depths of the horror genre. It's probably better to figure out for sure whether this stuff makes you either want to read more or hide under the bed at the age of 9, when it's under your control to read on, rather than encounter that dilemma during a chance encounter with accidental nightmare fuel in some otherwise innocuous work of fiction that you now cannot unsee. And the real world has much scarier things out there; we all have to learn to deal sometime. Keeping that choice away from some kid won't help them in the long run. Also, it's kind of funny to look back and go "JESUS CHRIST WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE THINGS." And now I'm waiting for the day when Stephen Moffat hires this guy as a consultant. It will be glorious, and then I will never sleep again. Current Mood: AAAAUUUUUUUGGGGGHHHHHH (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, February 10th, 2012
9:03 am	Maaaaan, I thought I was done with this tag Most ambivalent present ever? The good news: Doctor Who Series 7 starts filming on my birthday! The bad news: CHRIS CHIBNALL WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY Current Mood: contemplative (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, January 19th, 2012
9:52 pm	I'm not a slacker, I'm ~satisficing~ "But will a better thing make us happier? We’re inclined to think, “of course it would!” But that’s because, as social psychologists have come to understand quite well, we’re not very good at predicting what will make us happy. In fact, we suck at it." Incidentally, sociologists have found that after you make ~$70,000/year, more money does not make you significantly happier. PEAK IN THE MIDDLE CLASS. Current Mood: contemplative (Comment on this)
Monday, January 16th, 2012
10:35 am	sherlock 2.03: "the reichenbach did-not-fall-so-much-as-saunter-vaguely-downwards" WELL THAT HAPPENED I am going to post only POSITIVE REACTIONS. Yes. ( TEN TOTALLY NICE THINGS ) IN OTHER NEWS: The Fortunes of Boromir II! Because LotR + Calvin and Hobbes = win. (Your mission, should you choose to accept it: the series are posted backwards, but the individual comics are in order. You must view them in a sequence that makes sense. This message will self-destruct in five seconds. Good luck.) ::BOOM!:: Current Mood: STEVE THOMPSOOOOOOOOOOOON!!!!! (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, December 25th, 2011
11:40 am	Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night! Current Mood: jolly (Comment on this)
Sunday, December 18th, 2011
7:22 pm	you'll notice they don't have a "flying on giant eagle" option Current Mood: amused (Comment on this)
Wednesday, December 14th, 2011
6:16 pm	Breaking Bad This is not exactly how I'd LIKE to return from a hiatus, but heavens forbid I forget Sparklerita Night! The History of Twilight the Fourth, Part One is: 20% NOT ENOUGH SHIRTLESS WEREWOLVES; 20% TOO MUCH SHIRTLESS PASTY VAMPIRE ABS; 20% AUGH GOOD GOD WHY DOES BELLA LOOK LIKE A PERUVIAN MUMMY; 10% OM NOM NOM PILLOWS OM NOM NOM; 10% he fell in love with WHAT?!; 5% naming your child "Renesmee" may cause abdominal pain, spinal cord fractures, seizures, premature labor, and even death; 4% incomprehensible werewolf growling; 1% Bella's wedding dress was pretty fugly, what gives? and ONE MILLION PERCENT I NEEDED MORE ALCOHOL FOR THIS. Current Mood: tardy (Comment on this)
Wednesday, November 16th, 2011
6:11 pm	Next summer is going to be totes badass, yo How to Train Your Cursed Magical Bear The Adventures of Girl!Faramir and Thor Current Mood: excited (Comment on this)
Thursday, October 27th, 2011
1:55 pm	thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably Shakespeare post! What I Did On My Summer Vacation, by Joss Whedon, Age 9: Part II! AKA, interviews with Joss and the stars of his secret production of Much Ado About Nothing that he filmed at his house with all his buddies. There is nothing that is not awesome about this concept. COURTNEY: Wait... Branagh directs Thor. Whedon directs The Avengers. I smell some sort of bet or one-upmanship here. Are they playing Director Bingo now? Is Branagh's next project a witty supernatural tv show? DAVE: Then Joss will direct Mary Shelley's (But Not Really) The Last Man, and Kenneth Branagh will produce Lady Death's Sing-A-Long Twitter Feed... Meanwhile, Anonymous is ::gasp!:: filled with historical inaccuracies!!! (I think zombie!Marlowe might be my favorite. He can hang out with zombie!Oxford as he writes all the Shakespeare plays published after he died in 1604.) And the great Oxfordians vs. Stratfordians debate has truly reached its pinnacle and landed its very own Fandom Wank entry. Unfortunately, no one has mentioned whether or not in Anonymous "Shakespeare" has to outrun an explosion (probably from the Globe catching fire). That's what *I* want to see in a Roland Emmerich movie. Current Mood: amused (Comment on this)
Friday, October 21st, 2011
11:11 am	POR QUE AND THEN I GOT STOOD UP ANYWAY. On the plus side, last weekend I went to NYComic Con with Courtney (I was femme!Eleven, she was the Black Canary: together, we FIGHT CRIME! And go to panels featuring Tamora Pierce), and this afternoon I'm heading down to Homecoming! Hopefully I will not arrive only to discover that William and Mary has shut down and completely vacated the premises, leaving only empty buildings and tourists. Thirty Days of Genre ( Day 6: Most Annoying Character ) (Comment on this)
Monday, September 19th, 2011
5:26 pm	Arrrrrrrrr Ahoy, me hearties! While ruling an empire of Viking Highlander Pirates is sweet and all, O'Malley was a tough lady herself as well, more than happy to wade into combat herself, and this was definitely not the sort of chick you wanted to cross swords with on the smoke-swept deck of a burning merchantman. One story claims that she gave birth to her third child on the high seas during a trading expedition to the Mediterranean. As she was popping the kid out, word came down that the vessel was under attack by Turkish pirates, so she finished giving birth, grabbed her gun, then immediately ran out to bust caps in pirates and command the defense of her ship. Another time one of her boyfriends was captured and executed by a rival clan, so she waited until the leaders of the Clan landed on an island for vacation, attacked the island, burned their ships, and killed everyone she could find. After wiping out the leadership of the Clan, she then led her soldiers to assault the Clan fortress, capturing it and reappropriating it for her own use. On yet another occasion a local English Earl refused to let Grace in when she stopped by for dinner, so she kidnapped the Earl's son and held him for ransom, only returning him when the Earl decided he'd cook her some bacon and leave an extra place setting out for the rest of his life, just in case she ever decided to show up again (this is a tradition that the family maintains to this day). Grace O'Malley: Pirate Badass of the Week Current Mood: arrrrrr (Comment on this)
Wednesday, September 14th, 2011
10:52 am	What a twist! NY Magazine vs. The Killing Disease (Haha, I like the alternate title in the URL.) I'm always glad when people take on this trope, since just because Anyone Can Die doesn't mean anyone SHOULD die. Too often the wanton slaughter of main characters is used as a cheap way to achieve True Art Is Angsty and not as a legitimate storytelling decision with consequences and thematic relevance. (And even then, fridging someone isn't exactly a great artistic decision, either.) Just because it's depressing doesn't mean it's good! Any trope can be used for good or evil. ...And this concludes your irregularly scheduled tropebombing. Current Mood: pleased (1 Comment |Comment on this)