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| Friday, August 1st, 2008 | | 9:58 pm |
Comic-Con brain dump
I need a break from homework, so here's the complete, almost Twitter-y brain-purge of everything that I can think of from the vacation. - Palm Springs was a great place to visit, but could never live there. 106 degrees in the summer, and we lost power on the first day. Losing power in Seattle means, at worst, you need extra blankets in the winter. Losing power in Palm Springs mean you watch the thermostat in terror as you have no AC to keep you cool. - Mark of a good vacation: we went to a casino and I walked away up $40 from playing blackjack. I promptly spent that money getting everyone booze. - Booze happened a lot, actually. Erik and Ashley (our hosts) are big fans of cocktail nights, as were we. :) - The line for Comic-Con preview night damn near scared Val away from the whole thing. But it eventually got under control. - Val's original plan: attend a few panels, then leave me to do my own thing while she goes to the hotel and watches VH1. Instead, she actually had a blast with everything. She's even interested in trying out Spore after attending the Will Wright panel. This is a woman who's had such bad gaming experiences that she couldn't figure out how to crash the car in Burnout. When we were at the airport, she was already trying to make plans to go next year. I had to actually talk her out of it. - Best panels: Will Wright (as good as his games are, his PowerPoint presentations are better). Entertainment Weekly's Visionaries panels (for TV: Chuck's Josh Schwartz, Lost's Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof, Pushing Daisies' Bryan Fuller, and Sarah Conner Chronicles Josh Friedman; For film: Kevin Smith, Judd Apatow, Zach Snyder and Frank Miller). And Doctor Horrible's Sing-A-Long Blog on a projection screen was awesome. - Worst panel: World of Warcraft managed to ensure Val will NEVER play with me, as the questioners were some of the biggest neckbeards I've ever seen. The final question was par for the course, as some dipshit chick from Goon Squad asked a panel that was largely about the assorted merchandising products plus Blizz's main lore guy a convoluted question about why Blacksmithing wasn't raid-viable. Also, any panel where the line was too long for me to actually get in. Dollhouse, I'm looking at you. - Got to meet ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) ehadams and Ches! Or El and Gary. You pick how you want to refer to them. Either way, they were good people and it was cool hanging out. Sadly, I forgot that I was wearing a camera around my neck and thus forgot to document it. And on that note, I'm going back to work! | | Friday, June 20th, 2008 | | 4:32 pm |
So I had my wisdom teeth out today...
And I have to say: not nearly as traumatic as I've been expecting. I had the surgery around 7:30 this morning (all four teeth done) and have spent most of the day resting in bed and eating yogurts. I'm a bit light-headed from the combo of hydrocodone, ibuprofen and antibiotics, but so far, so good. I'm told Sunday will probably suck, though. | | Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 | | 7:21 pm |
This link is full of win
http://impulsivemp3.blogspot.com/2006/04/theme-death-cab-for-cutie-covers.htmlDeath Cab For Cutie, covering all sorts of people in various odd recordings. It's a treasure trove for me, just because I've been trying forever to get a decent copy of the "Hungry Like A Wolf" cover from the 826 Seattle fundraiser from 2005. Death Cab For Cutie teaming with Mike Doughty of Soul Coughing, and LEMONY FUCKING SNICKET on the accordian/backing vocals. And Ben Gibbard covering Michael Jackon's "Thriller" is just too absurd for me not to love it. | | Friday, April 25th, 2008 | | 8:55 pm |
This summer's gonna kill me, music-wise
So far, this year's seen new CDs from Nada Surf, NIN, Chris Walla, Gnarls Barkley, Flight of the Conchords, Magnetic Fields, and the Presidents of the USA. Now, in the next month alone, we'll have: Nerf Herder Local H Death Cab for Cutie and reportedly ANOTHER new NIN album. And the Cure is due out for a new double album soon. My poor aching wallet. :( | | Thursday, February 28th, 2008 | | 12:25 pm |
Bye, Greg
So most folks have probably heard this already, through FO, the GoG forums, or just through other LJ posts. But Greg Gilbert, aka ggilbert on Forumopolis and who I mostly new as Gregil in WoW, passed away of a heart attack yesterday. He was 27. I don't know that I can say I knew him as well as everyone else. In terms of gaming, we didn't interact much outside of the general conversation channels. He was one of the "A-list" folks, and I've never been more than a part-timer. But I remember him as a great guy, and now I dearly wish I'd made the time to get to know him better. | | Sunday, February 3rd, 2008 | | 12:06 am |
I'm breaking two months of radio silence for this: I just saw Buttrock Suites tonight at the Triple Door. If your in the Seattle area, were born before 1990, and have not seen this show, YOU MUST GO. I, in the meanwhile, have a newly-found urge to download Ratt and Scorpions MP3s off iTunes. Current Music: Buttrock Suites: "Sister Christian" | | Saturday, December 8th, 2007 | | 9:53 pm |
A liquor entry: the Chocolate Truffle
1 oz Chocolate liquor 1 oz Kahlua 1/2 oz dark rum splash of Cuarenta y Tres (a spanish vanilla-flavored liquor) splash of Chambord 2 oz milk Shake with ice and strain into a martini glass. This is a concoction I threw together over Thanksgiving, and which I just hammered myself on tonight. IT IS THE BOMB. The Cuarenta is tricky to find, but it's goodness. | | Monday, November 26th, 2007 | | 12:36 am |
I just had the most brilliant idea
You know those giant inflatable things that you usually see on car lots? Like the giant monkeys and whatnot? I just had the idea to create a giant inflatable Nativity scene in that style, to sell to megachurches. Here's the kicker: as part of the design, the giant baby Jesus inflates separately, so you don't have to inflate him until December 25th. ...I'm so going to Hell for this idea. But you can't tell me it won't sell. EDIT: In the course of market research, I stumbled upon this glorious website! | | Wednesday, October 31st, 2007 | | 8:37 pm |
My homework for this week: come up with three campaigns for Oberto Beef Jerky. I'm currently gorging myself on research. Mmm.... | | Monday, October 29th, 2007 | | 10:55 pm |
| | Friday, October 12th, 2007 | | 8:55 pm |
Val just bought me the Orange Box for an early birthday gift. BEST GIRLFRIEND EVER EEEEEEE!!! | | Monday, October 1st, 2007 | | 10:59 pm |
Homework
First week of class, and the assignment is to come up with three full campaigns for Maglite 4D flashlights. I think I have three good ideas, but I'm sorely, sorely tempted to add Val's idea for an unsolicited fourth: "Cro-Maglite." Because, as much as I tell her, "Oh, I really don't want to use puns" and yadda yadda.... dude, Cro-Maglite is fucking RIPE with opportunity there. Hopefully not in the annoying Geico way, too. | | Sunday, September 30th, 2007 | | 12:00 am |
Back from Hawaii!
Hawaii was absofrickinlutely beautiful. I am a tanned nerd. Although not nearly as tanned as Andreas, my sister's supertan boyfriend FIANCE!!! Seriously, it took those two long enough. I think the carbon in her diamond took an entire volcano to produce. The thing's a gargantuan beast. Other cool things: - Papacito had a blast, which is good because the whole thing was about him. He was a bit put out that Andreas did not do the proposal in front of everyone, because that's how things are apparently done in Puerto Rico, and we had to remind him that he's not in Puerto Rico anymore. But I think being around all the hula girls and bikini babes lightened his mood. :) - Val and I both developed colds, which kinda sucked. - I learned that while I love swimming, I cannot scuba. The pressure in my ears absolutely killed me after 15 feet of depth. My dad, however, loved the experience and almost spent $150 to get fully certified before realizing that scuba in Puget Sound would be extremely cold. - While being unable to scuba, I was able to trade for jetskiing and I learned that I'm a rock star at it. :D Or at the very least, I'm better at driving jetskis in a circle than most 18-year-old Japanese schoolgirls. - Speaking of which, I did not realize that the population of Hawaii is at least 30% 18-year-old Japanese schoolgirl. Somehow this part was skipped on all the orientation videos. At first I thought this was cool, and thought I might be able to find some cool Japanese import stores on the island. I had no such luck, and eventually realized that people from Japan have no need to fly to Hawaii to buy imported versions of their own crap. - Sushi rolls made with Spam is damned fine cuisine. I took a lot of pics, including a few that I could probably sell for $20 a pop at local fairs. I'll try to get some of those up later, along with anecdotes. :) | | Monday, September 17th, 2007 | | 6:58 pm |
Phantom: coming soon to a convention near you!
This is going to be a busy year. In six days, we fly out for Hawaii for Papacito's 80th birthday. It's currently 58-degrees, and I'm probably the only person in Seattle who's shopping for shorts and flip-flops. Meanwhile, Val just bought tickets Sunday night for the comic convention. You know, the one in San Diego? BEST GIRLFRIEND EVER. It's all part of our big West-Coast road trip that we'll be running next year. All that, and also a suite at the Doubletree for Norwescon 2008. And PAX, too. In non-con news, Sunday night was my last WoW night until December. I'm making the choice to quit outright while I'm in school, because it's too much of a distraction otherwise. I've tried juggling it in teh past, or scaling it back, and it's still interrupted my focus. So I'm shoving it to the side, and will maybe pick it up again briefly during Christmas break. Lastly: Final Fantasy VII: Voices of the Lifestream. A free, four-disc techno remix project using the music of FFVII as a template. If you like electronic or orchestral tracks, or are a fan of FF7 like me who is now totally nostalgic for the game, then this is worth a download. | | Tuesday, August 21st, 2007 | | 6:49 pm |
This link is for Chris Trice
So Val and I have a friend, Stacey, who did a short film. It ended up on YouTube, and Stacey asked us to check it out? Chris, do you recognize this co-star? Current Music: It's a Small World After All | | Monday, August 6th, 2007 | | 6:20 pm |
| | Thursday, August 2nd, 2007 | | 11:38 pm |
Goodspaceguy Nelson for president!
I know he's only running for King County, but I think this guy's got what it takes to go all the way. " To lower the cost of medical care, let us allow more people to work and compete in medical care." I mean, duh, how obvious is that? Where's your Michael Moore NOW? " Spend the library money first on opening the libraries, instead of hiring highly paid staff at above market rates which then requires closing the libraries because there is not enough money for both highly paid staff at above market rates and open libraries." Because any idiot can be a librarian! Why the hell should we pay them a lot? And from the King County Voter's Guide... " Governments should make showers available to our people and should give employment as helpers to minimum wage applicants. We could then open our libraries more and investigate more crimes. Governments would then be supporting the minimum wage (minimum wages cause unemployment among people-with-problems.) Governments should be the employers-of-last-resort. Unemployment is a huge waste." Unemployment IS a huge waste! Unemployed people should be helpers! That's how Santa solved the problem of unemployed elves! Preach on, Goodspaceguy. Preach on. (In all seriousness: if you're a Seattle resident, vote for Lauren Briel for City Council position 1. Lauren bears the unique distinction of being my former neighbor, and Val's treasurer on her campaign. I sincerely believe that Lauren's a terrific candidate for the position, though you wouldn't know it because of the way the local media has completely blown her off, and I'd really like to see her succeed in this.) | | Sunday, July 22nd, 2007 | | 11:49 pm |
Re: Harry Potter
I've never read a book so fast out of fear that it'd be accidentally spoiled for me by some loudmouth on a bus to work. I don't think I've ever before read something that was part of a huge nationwide phenomenon. I'm not sure I'll ever get the chance to do it again my lifetime. As much as I love ASoIaF, I can't see it being the sort of book that a huge cross-section of people will be talking about in the streets, as has been the case here. I'm actually kinda sad about that. But the job is done. And best of all, the book was a satisfying conclusion. | | Saturday, July 14th, 2007 | | 9:01 am |
Val just had her gallbladder surgery yesterday, so she's laid up in bed. Meanwhile, I'm just kinda chilling out waiting for the new sofa couch to arrive from IKEA. Otherwise, same old same old. | | Wednesday, July 4th, 2007 | | 4:00 pm |
Transformers rocked. Even if the plot was directly lifted from Independance Day. |
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