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| Friday, July 10th, 2009 | | 6:11 am |
| | Wednesday, July 8th, 2009 | | 3:41 am |
A pleasant tooth drilling
Two days ago I had a minor cavity done at the dentist. After giving me two shots of anathetic in the location in question I was getting really faint, as I normally do for shots, and they asked if I had had anything to eat that day. Which I realized, I hadn't, except for some chips (I was planning on eating somewhere about an hour after the appointment. So they got me some gatoraid to get my blood sugar up while waiting for the shot to take effect, and stayed around and chatted for awhile, mostly about prior times I'd gotten lightheaded from shots. Between the shot and the lightheadedness and general pleasantness of the situation by the time it was time to do the cavity I didn't feel a thing, unlikely normally where I still notice the vibrations, and was really relaxed for the whole thing. I haven't been able to find the flavor of gatoraid at local stores though ('Ice Punch', which was good, though I don't know how much of that was just the being thirsty/hungry/lightheaded talking). | | 1:59 am |
| | Saturday, July 4th, 2009 | | 8:36 pm |
| | Thursday, July 2nd, 2009 | | 8:06 pm |
Reassembled Food
Fancy Fast FoodA chef takes a fast food meal, takes it apart, and reassembles it into a gourmet looking dish. Looking, mind. The taste and quality is totally unchanged. | | Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 | | 8:57 pm |
| | Monday, June 29th, 2009 | | 2:44 pm |
Zack 16
Tampex Zack 16 is a short film made by Tampex (not who I'd expect to be in the short movie biz admittedly). It's about a boy who wakes up and finds he has girl parts, and is a surprisingly good take on that (though a few bits were a little gender stereotype-y, for the most part it's good). I don't see many transgender short films floating around, so I'd recommend taking a glance. | | 1:22 am |
| | Friday, June 26th, 2009 | | 9:49 pm |
Space Pirate dream/snow rescue dream
I had a dream where I woke up in a SF world. A body had been reconstructed for me after... something, after of which I was taken in by two sisters. I had amnesia so I wasn't exactly sure. Anyway, my new body was female and really tall. Tall enough that even the taller sister's cloths were really tight on me (not uncomfortably so- future fabrics and all that) and kept sliding off my stomach whenever I reached for something, which became something of a running gag throughout the dream. Anyway, after awhile I ended up on a transport going somewhere when it was attacked by pirates. Most surprising to me was the younger sister was with them. I came up with a plan and threw my lot in with them, declaring I didn't have any loyalty to the transport people and volunteering to help in order to save my own skin, which was tentatively accepted. Which was just a way to get close to the sister, allowing me to check if she was really with them or if it was an act, which it was. That done and both armed, we then proceeded to take down the remaining pirates (there were only three more) and save the day. | | 12:03 am |
Minor irony
I delete 'hotmail live team' messages so much that hotmail now lists official hotmail e-mails as possible junk. | | Thursday, June 25th, 2009 | | 3:04 am |
Purchased: One set of Tintin, one Empowered
I picked up a seven-volume collection containing (I think) all of the old comic TinTin for my dad. He's a really big fan of the series. I also picked up Empowered vol 5. Post if you want to here me review it/gush about it/etcetera. | | Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 | | 5:02 pm |
Dream: Alternate Fire
Ever read Kurt Vonneget's Cat's Craddle? One thing in it was the idea of Ice-9, a form of ice that would freeze at roughly room temperature, so if it hit the ocean, most of them would freeze as ice-9, etc., so any piece of ice-9 would be a potential doomsday weapon. In my dream, there was something like that, except it was Fire-9, and Fire-2. Fire-2 was a relatively benign form of fire. It burned things slower and with less heat, but still plenty of light, so you could be around fire-2 without worrying about being burned much easier. It was hard to extinguish but it didn't spread. Fire-9, on the other hand, was similar to it's Ice-9 counterpart. It burned at lower temperatures and produced even more heat. So while it wouldn't automatically burn anything, it spread far easier than normal fire would. Both in the dream were invented by Avatar Fire Nation R&D (who including a rather Harry Potter looking fellow), and Azula was tossing Fire-9 around. Also there was some bears and my dog around. | | Monday, June 22nd, 2009 | | 8:42 pm |
Taken newspapers
Someone has been taking newspapers from our driveway and has been putting them at various places in our back yard. We aren't exactly sure who's doing it, but the primary suspects are currently the foxes. | | Sunday, June 21st, 2009 | | 4:41 pm |
4ed Eberron
I just snagged the fourth edition D&D Eberron player's book. I've only started reading it, but I've already got one good and one bad about it: Good! It's Eberron! It still seems to have the Eberron feel, it updates the rules, and woo, more Eberron! Bad! They clumsily shoehorn in the Elemental Chaos and Astral Sea as Khyber and Siberys, and likewise link Eberron planes and 4ed planes... and then mostly seem to use the 4ed names. While the 4ed planes do take some from the Eberron ones, they don't truly fit. Khyber's an uber-underdark of beings who want dominion over the world again, it's not a swirling maelstrom of beings who want to destroy everything, for the most obvious example. Thelanis and the Feywild are almost identical, but the Shadowfell and Dolurrth don't fit either. Ones without a 4ed equivalent, like Dal Quor, seem untouched. I don't think there's any other clumsy shoehorns, but it's still notable. *Edit* I'm further in, and it's actually pretty good. One new addition that I'll note is the bit on the Devas, the new race from the PHB2. Not only do they fit them in well with the Couatl/Rakshasa plot, as allies of the Couatl from the past, but they correct a bit from the PHB2 description that bothered me (evil Deva reincarnate as Rakshasa instead of Deva- the reverse isn't true) and added speculation that their origin may even have been redeemed Rakshasa. Their 'reborn as a new adult after dying' thing even fits in perfectly with the true-immortal nature of Couatl and Rakshasa from the old war. | | 1:28 am |
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Reclaimed Detroit
I just found an interesting blog on Detroit, or more specifically, the State Fair neighborhood, which has had some parts almost totally abandoned and reclaimed by nature while others are still in use. It's fascinating to see this sort of thing happen in the middle of a still-existent city over the course of just a few years. | | Thursday, June 18th, 2009 | | 8:49 pm |
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| | Tuesday, June 16th, 2009 | | 7:14 am |
Words that should be used differently
"Uppity" Uppity is almost always used in the 'X is too uppity', 'X should know their place', fairly negative sense when I hear it. It's, in short, not generally a good word. But it should be. Upness is a good thing! It should be encouraged. The more uppity people are, the better! Uppity: A word who's useage needs some upness. | | Saturday, June 13th, 2009 | | 12:19 am |
I believe I could make a better movie than Uwe Boll
To combat my lack of experience I would go for a fairly simple approach cinematically without trying anything difficult with camera shots or editing, focusing a lot of time on making an entertaining script instead, and try and find enthusiastic stage actors who are good at improve, so that dialog and chemistry would make up for other short comings. If it were based on a video game liscence I would borrow heavily on that game's plot for the movie's. While my attempt would be clumsy and amaturish to be sure, no doubt below many amature movies, I think by using such techniques I could surpass the soul-grinding badness of his movies. That is all. |
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