Life after work had me driving to the local Target and Party Depot to check out Darth Vader costumes with the boy and purchasing a few odds and ends (toothpaste, wine, chocolate, kettle corn popcorn, a dozen doughnuts, three boxes of Triscuits, a bottle of diet pills… putting back the Triscuits and the doughnuts…)I decided to go ahead and purchase the Vader costume at party depot this year as opposed to trying to find his costume the day before Halloween at K-Mart and then taking home a costume and convincing my son it’s WAY better than what he originally wanted to be (he wanted a black Spider-Man costume and I came home with Robin from Teen Titans which I personally feel is WAY cooler). I’ll shut about that and get back to my story destination:
$100.00 later I get us back into the car and it’s doing the same thing that has me cursing in my head a lot. Theft System starts to blink on the dashboard in the most mocking way, disables the fuel injection and prevents me from starting the car for 10 minutes. After the ten minutes are up, you get another chance to turn over the engine or turning on the Theft System for another 10 minute lock out.
A little under a week old Isla already is getting sick of Daddy’s loud video game playing. Ashley looked over and saw baby Isla gathering the blanket around her ears to muffle the noise. SO CUTE!!!
I have no idea what I was googling that took me to the site I wound up at. AH… never mind, I recall what it was. I was trying to find what the safest country from natural disasters was. I *think* it was Finland… and then I saw the Snow Castle aka Lumilinna. My jaw dropped, my eyes opened really wide and I oohed the word, “Neeeeeeeeeeat…”
The more I looked at it and thought about it realistically, the more I questioned how spoiled I was because the thought of spending a weekend in a -5 degree room where you couldn’t get nekkid, the bathroom wasn’t in the hotel room… and you had to sleep in a sleeping bag… I saw no easy in and out of the situation (say a three hour tour and then back into humane climate). Perhaps one day (if it’s still around, apparently it’s rather new) I’ll warm up to the idea. Get it? “Warm up…”
The next opening will be January 30th 2009 and it runs about around $285 - $350 a night per person.
I was reading the latest issue of Popular Science and came across their ‘Extra Credit’ article: Engineering the Ultimate Prank. If you have lived in this society, then you’ve heard about the Caltech/MIT prank wars or similar campus pranks at least a dozen times. For the most part it’s background noise if you don’t belong to any institution, but I highly suggest that you take the time to read a little about the spice of life pranks for an appreciation of knowledge and skill put to clever use.
Reading about the Rose Bowl scoreboard hack for a UCLA/Illinois game “Caltech 38 / MIT 9″ it brought tears to my eyes *sniff* That’s just awesome times ten.
(the following found on the Popular Science website, MIT site, and Wiki) MIT
Photo by Michael Bauer; Eri Izawa
While Caltech students would argue otherwise, MIT has become to nerdy pranks what USC is to football. Befitting such a science and technology oriented school, MIT calls its pranks “hacks”, and many of them focus on the school’s great dome. Throughout the years students have wrapped the great dome in a replica of the one ring from Lord of the Rings, converted the dome to look like R2-D2 and even landed a replica of the Wright brother’s flier on the top of the dome. Much like Caltech’s pranks at the Rose Bowl, MIT likes to prank the annual Harvard-Yale football game, launching pro-MIT banners attached to a weather balloon that rose from the field in 1982 and attached to a model rocket launched from the end zone in 1990.
I saw a thumb drive that had some of the NYC pieces on it (Joe Simon and Stan Lee) and then I noticed an entire folder I some how missed! Jenn’s NYC footage of parts of the trip. I’m going to *try* to upload it and share what I can It waas soooooooooo nice going down memory lane.
Here are the first two I’m sharing to test while I see how well I can upload videos on WP from my domain.
Empire State Building Elevator Ride and Wednesday Night Fights (when we just sat down)
There’s no way around it. I’m guilty. I’m guilty of doing a very bad thing. I don’t know if there’s a way I can be forgiven for the sin I have brought unto myself. I mean *how* HOW could I even consider myself to be a fan of Joss Whedon *and* be oblivious to Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog?
I could use the excuse that I don’t have iTunes, but really, is that a good enough excuse? No. No it is not. For those of you who have been like me, living in a cave- I give you ‘A brand new day, last song act 2′. It should be coming out on DVD, but in the meantime you can catch pieces of it on Youtube (thanks Cavtroop for showing me the error of my ways and pointing me in the right direction. One day, year, decade; I hope to be on good side of the Whedonverse again).
For those who have that iTunes thingy… (that I’m downloading right now, although if you read the following… I MISSED IT!!!) As Joss is my witness, shall never be in the dark again! Gee, what happened this past month that could have possibly distracted me other than the car accidents, whiplash, finding a new car, etc…
It’s no secret that I’m fan of Joss Whedon. I even have a little Whedon-erse shrine in the corner of my living room that’s dedicated to the EVIL GENIUS mind behind BTVS, Angel and Firefly. Others might know other work he’s had a hand in: Titan AE, Alien Resurrection, Toy Story, and a few episodes of Roseanne.
Things have been quiet in the Joss-Whed-verse for awhile now and for those who have been following him (more like skulking, stalking, pretending to be trees on his estate) then you’ve heard the talk of his latest project: Dollhouse!
Well… oh ye Jossey-Whedon-verse fans, I came across this on ‘Aint it Cool News’ and my Whedo-uverse passion has been lit again.
Okay, my hiatus is on hiatus so I can write this. Yesterday I took Jonathon in the new to us car (which he loves because it’s a Malibu and his crush is from Malibu). It’s a great ride and it’s nice to drive around with music again (although it has a cassette player- which doesn’t work, but yay to the dictating radio stations who once in a while play songs I like). It was off to the theater for the first showing of The Incredible Hulk and a faint inducing price of 10 dollars for a small box of Reece’s Pieces, a soft pretzel and medium Coke Zero.
The film actually had me excited about the Hulk! For those who are aware, Jonathon is a huge Hulk fan and has watched the 2003 version every week since 2003. The boring, painful to watch film that has caused me to hit my head against the wall a myriad of times and ways every instance he’s asked for me to put it in his player. “WHY???? IT’S SOOO BORING!!”
As an untainted Star Wars fan (I’ve kept my eyes away from viewing 1-3 of the sagas) I remain a true fan of the later chapters. Surfing through a site for cell phone bling, I came across this little gem… which is not cell phone related… but it keep the Japanese gadget reputation going strong.
planning on:
viewing films
listening to: Barenaked Ladies status: lonely *sigh*
asking if you knew: that it may rain diamonds on neptune, but
then again, it may not
digesting: salad
telling the weather: the rain has cometh
wearing: brown tank and running pants (black w/white side stripes) wants you to watch: Bruce Lee in action- or Jet Li, either would make me happy you to read: World War Z and compare them to a certain religion playing: God of War wearing lipstick: gloss, caramel flavored... yum wearing nail polish: none smelling like: vanilla drinking: bean water wanting to: get the damn crate across the deck
Life after work had me driving to the local Target and Party Depot to check out Darth Vader costumes with the boy and purchasing a few odds and ends (toothpaste, wine, chocolate, kettle corn popcorn, a dozen doughnuts, three boxes of Triscuits, a bottle of diet pills… putting back the Triscuits and the doughnuts…)I decided to go ahead and purchase the Vader costume at party depot this year as opposed to trying to find his costume the day before Halloween at K-Mart and then taking home a costume and convincing my son it’s WAY better than what he originally wanted to be (he wanted a black Spider-Man costume and I came home with Robin from Teen Titans which I personally feel is WAY cooler). I’ll shut about that and get back to my story destination:
It waas soooooooooo nice going down memory lane.
Amused
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