Randomness

[geekchick]

The weekend was heavy on the social interactions. Friday night nminusone and I went to go see "Smokin' Aces" at Tyson's. Unfortunately, so did everyone else and the show was sold out. Instead we ended up seeing "Epic Movie". I recommend rental, preferably from a redbox location for $1. Sit through the credits for a bit, there are two extra scenes of varying levels of hilarity. Saturday boadiccea and thetalkingmoose came over for pizza and zombie movies and we had a nice, low-key evening. Sunday, we saw "Pan's Labyrinth" with tommx. Wow. That movie is beautiful. And sad. And terrible. And wonderful. I definitely want to see it again, even though there were a few scenes that had me covering my eyes. I was also pleased to see that my expensive piece of paper did me some good in that I could understand a fair amount of it without the subtitles.

What does a woman with poor hand-eye coordination do when she wants to take up a new hobby? She picks up a pair of fluffy pink poi and a video, of course. Because you certainly don't need hand-eye coordination to spin poi or anything.

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I feel kind of dirty for lusting after Daniel Radcliffe (you know, Harry Potter) since he's some fraction of my age approaching half, but daaaaaaamn. (This one sfw, some others in this gallery mostly so. They're from a production of "Equus".)

For steampunk fans: the opti-transcripticon - scanner mod. I want. I think Brass Goggles is my current favorite blog, surpassing even longtime fave The Daily WTF.

Processing "is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and sound". I really want to play with this a bit.

Perhaps Wegmans should hire someone to do QA on their cakes. I want a cake with random code on it; I think perhaps I'll get one that says "<cake />" for the next party. And a platter that says "404: Cake not found".

I think my wedding's probably going to take place on a pirate ship in Vegas, and I promise the electric slide will have no place at the reception. Everyone in the wedding party has to be prepared to do this, however. Hee!

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[geminigirl]

When we were wedding planning, some people encouraged us to go to Vegas. Others said "But you'll regret not having the big party" and all that.

And you know, there's a part of me that wonders if I wouldn't regret that if we had gone to Vegas. And there's a part of me that wonders if I don't regret not going to Vegas and having Rabbi Elvis marry us.

Do what you want. I think Vegas sounds like a grand idea.

[geekchick]

I think Vegas sounds like a grand idea.

Oh, I do too. So far our discussion about the whole shindig seems to boil down to "pirate ships are damn cool". =)

[geminigirl]

Pirate ships are very cool. We have an ongoing debate about the relative cool factor of pirates, ninjas and Vikings.

If it turns out that a Vegas Pirate Ship is not financially feasible, I have the card for a pirate ship near Tampa on my fridge right now...it's something we were tossing around for zedrikcayne's birthday this year or next year.