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If you are on my friends list, I want to know 36 things about you. I don't care if we never talk, or if we already know everything about each other. Short and sweet is fine... you're on my list, so I want to know you better! Comment here and repost a blank one on your own journal.
01) Are you currently in a serious relationship?
02) What was your dream growing up?
03) What talent do you wish you had?
04) If I bought you a drink what would it be?
05) Favorite vegetable?
06) What was the last book you read?
07) What zodiac sign are you?
08) Any Tattoos and/or Piercings? Explain where.
09) Worst Habit?
10) If you saw me walking down the street would you offer me a ride?
11) What is your favorite sport?
12) Do you have a Pessimistic or Optimistic attitude?
13) What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with me?
14) Worst thing to ever happen to you?
15) Tell me one weird fact about you.
16) Do you have any pets?
17) What if I showed up at your house unexpectedly?
18) What was your first impression of me?
19) Do you think clowns are cute or scary?
20) If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be?
21) Would you be my crime partner or my conscience?
22) What color eyes do you have?
23) Ever been arrested?
24) Bottle or can soda?
25) If you won $10,000 today, what would you do with it?
26) Favorite band to listen to when you're mad?
27) What's your favorite place to hang out at?
28) Do you believe in ghosts?
29) Favorite thing to do in your spare time?
30) Do you swear a lot?
31) Biggest pet peeve?
32) In one word, how would you describe yourself?
33) Do you believe/appreciate romance?
34) Favourite and least favourite food?
35) Do you believe in God?
36) Will you repost this so I can fill it out and do the same for you? |
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Dec. 8th, 2008 @ 06:59 am
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I had no idea that a tongue piercing will close up overnight if you take the barbell out =(
Finally got around to getting it downsized Friday. Waay too tight. Got it swapped out Sunday. Realized that it was still too tight last night so I took it out (intending to put it back in in the morning). Woke up - damned hole had already healed closed!
Oh well, it was fun and one other person other than me got to enjoy it for a bit. Don't think that I'll get it re-pierced ($40 or 80 [depending if I can trade in/re-use the barbell] and 3/4 days of discomfiture...).
Maybe I'll go get a tattoo. |
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Getting my tongue pierced - bad idea or good idea?
I have a week off work starting the 8th for the initial healing process... |
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May. 25th, 2008 @ 01:15 pm
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Apr. 27th, 2008 @ 06:39 pm
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I've been sleeping exceedingly poorly the last week and a half or so. I'm starting to suspect sleep apnea.
Yesterday, I thought that my dangly bit in the back of my mouth was swollen when I woke up, but it retracted after a bit.
I woke up at 4 this morning, not being able to breath. That dangly bit is super big right now and obstructing my breathing,
Called family doctor and left a message asking for the earliest possible appointment today. Going to call them in 15 minutes when the office opens for the day.
I can hardly talk - it comes out blurga blurga blurga.
Mar. 8th, 2008 @ 08:39 am
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Feb. 18th, 2008 @ 08:35 pm
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| » mainstream and acclaimed?! |
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Standards are sliding in freefall around here.
Mystic River is awesome if only that Eli Wallach's only other collaboration with Clint Eastwood was The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly".
It's really strange how humans age.
Feb. 5th, 2008 @ 08:57 pm
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I can't believe that "graduate school porn" doesn't bring anything up on google other than a diploma mill.
Hmmm. Anyone want to bankrole a production company?
Jan. 12th, 2008 @ 04:33 pm
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I've mostly refrained from posting about mainstream movies...
but here goes
Mr. Brooks - Kevin Costner movies have been a dirty little secret guilty vice for me. I'll harangue his films in public but I haven't been disappointed, yet (Prince of Thieves & Waterworld, I'm looking at you with a smile on my face) Perhaps Mr. Brooks vindicates my guilt. It's a decent thriller and Costner plays the very interesting role convincingly. The twists and turns aren't contrived and was entertaining to the very, very end.
I Am Legend - a remake of the Charlton Heston's Omega Man, which was based on the novel I Am Legend.
The CGI sucked. Actors in zombie costumes would have been better than the cartoonish CGI 'zombies.' Except for the well-tailoured robes from Omega Man, the '60's zombies were more convincing than the CGI zombies here. There were a whole bunch of plot holes (which mostly come out at the end) but the first 80 minutes of Legend was better than Omega, which I really like.
Except for the biology. It's a little ironic that the 1971 Omega Man had more authentic immunology than the 2007 Legend. Perhaps a Director's Cut will address the glaring issues. I doubt it, though.
My goal, now, is to achieve the same physique as Will Smith in this movie.
Unrealistic, sure, but not beyond the realm of possibility.
Eastern Promises - I've heard people compare it (favourably) to the Godfather films. They're stretching it, but there's the same gritty feel. Whatever; I never really got into the Godfather films, but I enjoyed Eastern. There's a nice twist in the middle of the movie that really vindicates the motivations of some of the characters and really pulls the movie togather. I expected more from Naomi Watts, acting-wise, but at least the ladies get to see Viggo's johnson. Several times. While fighting for his life. Against two men. While bleeding. Also starring Vincent Cassel, the actors playing Russian mobsters in London do a really good job. Great atmosphere.
Ok, perhaps a little credit. Stardust - an adaptation of Neil Gaiman's novel.
I thought that it was fantastic. It had more a feel of The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, or BBC4's (?) adaptation of Terry Pratchett's Hogfather than Willow or Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings. It's a fairy tail, and it's very well done. It could have very easily ventured into smarmy territory but it avoided doing that very well. I was rather surprised; I hadn't expected it to be any good, but it really drew me in. There's a The Fifth Element-type ending but it makes hella goddamned more sense than the Fifth Element ending.
On the flipsides...
14081 - while being the first movie since I was a kid to give me a graaaaaagh! moment(s - there were several times were I was truly surprised/frightened) the movie as a whole was very meh. I was hoping for more as I'm a John Cusack fan.
P2 - forgetful. Sure, it has the same actor as Ricky from American Beauty, but it was a completely forgettable film.
Highlander: Source - I saw the Russian release a couple of months ago and it was absolute garbage (the only saving grace was that it didn't feature a poorly aging Christopher Lambert). I got my hands on a Dutch re-cut re-release and it was garbage upgraded to rubbish. It's really really bad. The Dutch re-cut made a little more "sense" but it's still rotten.
Ambiguous...
Trade - I'm a big fan of Kevin Kline, but, meh. He doesn't really convey anything in this movie. Interesting idea, but the execution was off.
Rescue Dawn - Christian Bale is good, but it just didn't feel like a Vietnam War movie. It's got it's moments. Kinda hollow, though. The only POW camp cool-stuff only comes from Bale's character and it just didn't feel realistic. There's been lots of great (and not-so-great) Vietnam movies and this just gets lost within the genre.
I've got another full day, lets see what Skinwalkers, King of California, and The Garden are like...
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Re-reading Larry Niven & Jerry Pournell's Mote in God's Eye and The Gripping Hand again - man, they're great Space Opera. Lucifer's Hammer was really great, too.
Dec. 25th, 2007 @ 08:55 pm
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Verdict: Definitely worth the 90 minutes.
A little background; this indie movie was in the news last month as the producer of the movie publicly thanked BitTorrent users for distributing the movie without express permission. Well, the movie was made on a shoestring budget (salary for the cast/small production crew, perhaps renting out the cabin, film) but this isn't a movie that needs a budget.
It was originally conceived in the '60s by Jerome Bixby and finished upon his deathbed in '98 and his son turned it into a movie this year. While not a terribly prolific writer, he penned the Star Trek episodes "Mirror, Mirror" and "Day of the Dove" as well as a short story that was adapted into a Twilight Zone episode It's a Good Life.
Back to the movie; it starts off a little slow but the pacing throughout the movie is just right. A professor, John, is leaving his post after ten years and his fellow friends from academia are meeting at his cabin in a small send-off party. So you have a bunch of college professors sitting around eating hotdogs and drinking beer just shooting the breeze until the John starts telling a story...
The story is very engrossing (although my interest is a little biased towards the theme) but to say more would give the story away. Regardless, it was a thoroughly enjoyable movie.
There were a few impossibilities (hell, the story is based on one) and a few "yeah, but why didn't you just..." obvious avenues that would certainly have been pursued by anyone with a bit of biology knowledge. Despite that - highly recommended.
Dec. 24th, 2007 @ 11:00 am
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I'm a pathetic twit.
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Nov. 24th, 2007 @ 10:46 am
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| » Social Capital From Being A Scientimagicisomething. |
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In conversation:
So this BCG (I can't remember, it's a hormone for inducing ovulation in frogs, so you can force breed them), is it recombinant or an extract from something?
It's from urine.
Frog urine? That must be the worst job ever, squeezing urine from frogs.
Human urine
What?!
Back in the day, they had women who thought that they might be pregnant to pee on a female frog. If the frog ovulated, that means the woman was pregnant.
Oh.
Wow.
Nov. 19th, 2007 @ 09:32 pm
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I picked up a copy of Natural City as it was billed as "Korean Blade Runner".
It's no Blade Runner but it is a very well done live-action near-future paramilitary anime/manga. So maybe I'll call it Korean live-action Ghost in the Shell.
Many of the themes and science-fiction givens much more closely resemble the tropes presented in Ghost in the Shell than Blade Runner or even Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep - how humans relate to robots with varying degrees of artificial intelligence from sex dolls to hyperkinetic assassin androids, and how those artificial intelligences relate to fleshbag humans.
The action is done well, it achieves a much better feel than the sterile and flaccid Equilibrium* but the rainy-neon-steamy city-at-night feel was a little tired and didn't have nearly enough detritus and dirt. I liked the near-future paramilitary uniform and urban fashion designs but (South) Koreans seem to be pretty good at those in general.
Interesting action movie and the acting wasn't conspicuous either way. It's a shame that the copy I got my hands on didn't have an English dubbed track but the subtitles weren't egregiously bad. Worth a rental/dl if you can come across it.
*I did like that movie, but it fell short on so many different levels.
Nov. 4th, 2007 @ 11:55 am
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Thumbs way up!
Starts a little slow in the beginning but picks up once the viewer gets the setting, but is cheesy-clever. Not "smart," just clever - which I prefer.
The lead actress is a hotty with a really cute nose and fantastic delts, and the lead actor is none other than Dennis fucking Hopper (say that with me in Pinky's voice. It's too bad that you can tell he was in a sober phase while filming this movie). This also co-stars Charles Dance (Hint - the morphine-addicted doctor in Alien3) who's absolutely hilarious and obviously enjoying himself as he channels Peter Sellers as Dr. Strangelove. The co-protagonist is, finally, some guy cast - cast in a film shot within the last 20 years - as a non-wimp who I'm way bigger than.
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Sep. 23rd, 2007 @ 01:38 pm
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Zombie movies seem to be back in the mainstream again; 28 days/weeks, an updated Dawn of the Dead, Shaun of the Dead...
Fido taps into the retro-50's genre like the Stepford Wives or Bewitched (or the 70's show, &c). Successfully.
It's like "Leave it to Beaver." With Zombies.
There are a bunch of laugh-out-loud moments, most of which stem from spoofs of genre cliches, and off-genre cliches, too. I'm sure you can guess some of them from the titular name of the lead zombie and the name of the lead child, Timmy.
If Shaun of the Dead is a PG13, this is something closer to a PG
Shaun of the Dead was actually really tame; there's a decent amount of "adults would understand" stuff (where kids would guess at, and probably come up with the wrong guess) in Fido, but on the surface could possibly pass a ChristianTestTM and come up roses (except for the tainted-resurrection thing with the undead and stuff and immoral behaviour of the parents and gunplay &c&c).
Cute little movie, I really liked it - now I want to reinstall Stubbs the Zombie Rebel without a Pulse.
Maybe after I finish BioShock.
Sep. 6th, 2007 @ 08:27 pm
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