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| Friday, June 27th, 2008 | | 1:42 am |
| | Thursday, June 19th, 2008 | | 10:25 pm |
Picking Back Up
Please let me know if I have promised to send you something or check on something for you or otherwise have left you waiting on me to do something. I am finishing a busy period of work and other distractions, and would like to catch up on my sadly neglected personal obligations.
Current Mood: Contrite | | Monday, June 16th, 2008 | | 5:18 am |
Something Old, Something New Took my son to see the new Hulk movie for Father's Day; I feel it is an improvement on the previous film, and follows more closely from the TV series thematically and visually along with some name-dropping. Miles was aghast that they killed off Stan Lee (cameo as person who drinks soda tainted with Banner's gamma-poisoned blood) but after seeing Tim Blake Nelson being set up to become The Leader, I assured him Stan probably ended up with a super-powerful stomach instead. Not Tim Roth's best work, but Edward Norton's usual top-notch job and William Hurt actually playing someone besides William Hurt for the first time in a long time. Recommended for fans of the Hulk, of any of the stars, of capoeria, and Brasilophiles in general. Unable to wind down later, I sat up and watched Soylent Green at Netflix's website for the first time. It makes a lot of the same statements as the first Rollerball, but at about half the budget and without any of the iconic imagery except for the Soylent wafers themselves. | | Sunday, June 8th, 2008 | | 3:52 am |
Tips For Effective Graverobber Deterrence
1. Do not wear skulls presumably taken from the graves you are guarding, it makes you look insincere. Plus, they attract shovels.
2. When employing a blowgun, limit sharpening and the application of poison to the forward end of each dart.
3. Avoid being descended from ancestors that bury dead graverobbers with their loot and a crystal skull they've stolen from some other graveyard or tomb, it makes you look insincere. | | Sunday, June 1st, 2008 | | 3:28 am |
"...to the end of the human race."
Just watched the S2 episode "Home, Pt2", where Sharon's pregnancy is revealed to Baltar and his mental Number Six tells him she's an angel sent to watch over him until the human race ends. In light of the other human-Cylon pregnancy (Chief-Callie), I'm thinking that the "end of the human race" refers to its end as a separate strain from the Cylons.
In short, the Cylon master plan is to "end" humanity by assimilation, not Borg style but by interbreeding.
Tigh-Caprica Six would seem like a misstep, but it does seem to confirm that the both male and female skinjobs were made with general reproductive capacities, and that they are a gene pool among themselves, not just as an adjunct to human. This is truly a "race suicide" scenario as feared by Segregationalist politicians. | | Thursday, April 3rd, 2008 | | 8:34 pm |
Jane, Stop This Crazy Thing! I'm mostly enjoying the World of Warcraft trial edition, but the lack of basic command documentation can be really frustrating; I have to put some meat down for a runaway dog to eat, but I can't find the command to actually drop something, and there doesn't seem to be an list of commands mentioned, and the indexes I've found are pitifully shallow. Can any WoWers out there give me a pointer to such a list? Or just tell me how to drop things?! Current Mood:  aggravated | | Thursday, March 13th, 2008 | | 12:49 am |
So it goes.... Like I said, my boss died. Mr Barber was not just a boss, but also a friend and a teacher; he had been the leader of our Boy Scout Computer Explorers group when I was about 13. In this way I followed the tradition of following one's mentor into their profession and coming to work with them as a peer, and even got to save the day on a couple of occasions by being able to accomplish what they could not. Some bosses might have been upset or dismissive at being shown up, but Mr Barber was complimentary of my skills and considered himself equally accomplished in having picked me to work with him; the praise was sweet indeed. Mr Barber was also a poor business man, a complainer, a chain smoker, and an abuser of medication. As a recovering alcoholic and narcotics abuser, he had been straight and sober for over 20 years, working with and actually helping hundreds of people with their own addictions. He did not have anything good to say about black people, but he would deal with them just as fairly and courteously to their face as white people, if not actually more so. I never caught him in a lie, though he was often forgetful. He would honor a verbal deal even when he had mistakenly offered to pay me five bucks an hour too much. It was my misfortune that he died on the last day of late registration for the spring semester, so now I am out of a steady job and unable to make any progress toward my degree for months. (Mrs Barber closed the service department and is selling off the inventory while she looks for a buyer for the building.) I'm currently doing decently on freelance work and unemployment (something of a see-saw there) and the federal tax refund didn't hurt any, either. I am setup to take my son and my wretched manservant on our nigh-yearly trip to Aggiecon. And that's all I have to say about that. Current Mood:  content | | Wednesday, February 13th, 2008 | | 12:44 am |
| | Monday, February 11th, 2008 | | 8:43 pm |
Must...Unthink....Image! I may have ruined the new Terminator series for myself by noticing the peculiar resemblance between Summer Glau's deadpan robot expression and Peter Lorre. | | Sunday, January 27th, 2008 | | 10:22 pm |
Missing The Boat
I fairly often miss continued discussion of another person's or forum LJ post that I replied to early on, but that goes on without me because no one replies directly to me.
I am already notified if someone replies directly to my reply, is there a way to set options to be notified is someone replies elsewhere under the same original post? | | Saturday, January 26th, 2008 | | 2:12 am |
Oracular Thought for the Day
It occurs to me that about twenty or thirty years from now, there will be a low-budget indie film whose promotion gimmick is that it was shot on location with real stunts performed by human beings driving real cars, falling through real windows, etc. | | Thursday, January 24th, 2008 | | 5:51 pm |
Ugh! My boss died today. More later. Current Mood:  tired | | Monday, January 7th, 2008 | | 8:14 pm |
Don't Step in the Leadership Him: "We've got to get our productivity up, it's as low as 10%. In fact, there were two days last week when we didn't have any sales at all." Me: "Would those be the two days we were closed?" Current Mood: aggravated | | Wednesday, October 10th, 2007 | | 10:08 pm |
I'll get you a satanic mechanic! o/~ Guess who performed technical maintenance on the broadband connection at Hot Topic #666 today? :) Current Mood:  amusedCurrent Music: Rocky Horror - "Sweet Transvestite" | | Tuesday, September 25th, 2007 | | 10:01 pm |
Scratching multiple itches This looks to be interesting, if you like Kevin Smith, deal-with-the-devil stories, superheroes, romantic comedy, and DIY. | | Wednesday, November 29th, 2006 | | 10:48 pm |
| | Friday, September 29th, 2006 | | 2:18 am |
No work today! Whoop!
In honor of having caught up with no more work lined up for tomorrow, I thought I'd post on this silly thing.
Yes, having no work to do is a good thing now that I am a salaried employee. Doubtless, I will end up doing some admin stuff, returning boxes of used computer parts, etc. but it will be At My Leisure.
Other likewise important bits of news:
This week is in fact my six-month anniversary of being gainfully employed full time. I've even got three underlings now! That is, three contractors lined up to help out with calls I can't get to, either for volume or because of geographic separation. Being a boss, as slight as the duties are, is not all that, but I'll go into it another time.
My arm's mostly better! I got the pins and other gear taken off/out about four weeks ago, and now I can do just about everyhing I could before, except the left hand is weaker and sometimes it talks back, complaining of bruising and overuse. | | Friday, September 8th, 2006 | | 11:45 pm |
| | Thursday, June 22nd, 2006 | | 4:06 am |
Resistance is Futile
I made it, but now require periodic mechanical maintenance. | | Wednesday, June 21st, 2006 | | 4:10 am |
Side effects may include nausea, vomiting, and death. In case I don't come out of the general anesthetic: - I was in a horrendous-looking car wreck Monday night. The other guy was driving an 18-wheeler, not hurt, and apparently suffered only minor damage to the back of the trailer. I was also lucky, coming within a few inches of decapitation, breaking only a finger and rearranging some wristbones; my car is now one with the Force. I get to have the fugitive carpals pinned back into place tomorrow morning. I expect the general will be like it has been most of the time, like a nasty hang over, instead of the paranoid, cursing jag lasting the afternoon from the day I had my wisdom teeth out. - I would like to thank my online acquaintances in the gaming and spec fic industries for making my spare time interesting the last umpteen years, and remind them of ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) bruceab's concept of the anger junkie: counting to ten will save everyone's dignity and blood pressure. - To my more personal lj friends, I want to express as much affection for you as you find it comfortable to accept. - To my family who happen across this years hence, I love you more than my impatient, grouchy behaviors let on, because I was impatient with own progress maturing into a better person. - To my son: you were always the most important thing in my life, even when I did not know that you were. I was not always the best father to you that I could have been, but I always wanted to be, and I always wanted you. You have been endlessly in my thoughts, and we will always remain connected in some way as long as your sweet, caring nature remains part of you. When you come to judge yourself in your own moments of reflection, I hope you will find yourself worthy for being responsible for yourself, for your own children, to our family, to your neighbors, and the hope of making the world a better place for your having been there. Mushy stuff over; I feel like I might actually get to sleep now. Take care, everybody. |
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