Another First Kiss

I feel in the mood to write one of those cheeky autobiographical posts, but without a narrower guideline than that I'd just ramble.

If anyone's reading and wants to give me a nudge in the topics-that-will-not-bore-you direction, lemme know.

In the meantime, check thishere thing out.

So, because I clearly don't have enough blogs, I went and started a Dr. Horrible fan blog called Goggleheads. I don't know how long I'll keep it up, but certainly it would help if people other than Roxy and I actually knew about it, so seriously, if you're into Dr. Horrible please bookmark it or subscribe to the feed, leave comments, and tell your friends.

I'm in a bit of a rush, but I wanted to toss this out there:



The other day at inorionsweb's place we watched this film, Southland Tales. I'd been dying to see it, and now that I have I'm pretty in love with it. If you enjoyed Richard Kelly's previous effort, Donnie Darko, and love surreal political satires (say, Dr. Strangelove or Brazil—not that Kelly could compare to Kubrick), you might love Southland Tales as well. It's equally likely that you'll hate it, but let's hold hands and face that possibility bravely.

FYI, I'm posting quite a bit over at Jordan, Walking. It's still under construction, but much more lively than my LJ.

Because I love you, I set up a LiveJournal account where I cross-post all of the stuff from Jordan, Walking (automatically, using the really top-notch LJXP). You can find it, naturally, at jordanwalking. If you want to leave comments you'll need to click through to the real site, but I hope that won't stop you from commenting. If you friend that account I'll be sure to friend you back.

You know I usually avoid posting these kinds of things, but I just couldn't resist this one for the nerdy joy it brought me:

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I'm pretty embarrassed that I missed ( OMFG SPOILARZ )

†Looks like some LJ themes kinda mangle this thing's layout. Oh well.

Here's the deal:

There's a crappy social networking site called Quechup.com. If you join, it has an "enter your Gmail account info to see which of your friends are on Quechup" "feature." If you do, it automatically spams everyone in your address book. EVERYONE.

I got suckered because a fairly savvy friend I trust "invited" me, because he got suckered as well. If you get an invite from Quechup, PLEASE avoid it like the plague.

Sorry, everyone, for the trouble. I'm going to go crawl under a rock and die now.

Oh yes, she will be mine. (On Friday.)

Tell me about that thing you do with your tongue.

So. I need you all to help me build my summer reading list. Please tell me what wonderful books I'm missing out on.

To aid your recommendations:

My interests skew toward the fantastic: sci-fi or just unusual—I don't have much interest in reading about people Just Like Me who have problems Just Like Mine (unless they're in OMGSPACESHIPS).

Right now I'm reading Iain Banks' The Wasp Factory (highly recommended, but a bit macabre), and tonight I picked up Chuck Palahniuk's Invisible Monsters, because I've been wanting to read some of his work but buying Fight Club seems so clichéd.

Oh, and here's the books section of my wishlist.

Now. Any recommendations? The more the better. I'm really running out of books that I haven't read already (The Wasp Factory is a second read), so I need help!

Seeing as I have a disproportionate number of librarian (and related species) friends on LJ, this seems apropos: lolbrarians.

Free sample:


Have I mentioned how much I love the internet?

(Via this lovely Slate slideshow.)

I think I've narrowed the iPod-naming down to two options—both Star Wars derived, for no explicable reason: Ackbar or Chewie.

Thoughts?

The average person blinks about 300 million times in their lifetime. The average blink lasts 300 to 400 milliseconds.^[1] Do the math: The average person spends about three years and four months out of their life with their eyes closed, just from blinking. That's five percent of the average human life.^[2]

Blink and you'll miss it.

Jordan: lol you should bring truth-or-dare jenga :D (yes, I just pre-lolled my own sentence)
Erinn: lol
Jordan: omg lolsplosion
Jordan: head for the hills, is the LOLageddon!
Erinn: lol
Erinn: I'm going to ( make a paint about that )

Milliner. A person who makes hats is called a milliner.

(It was driving me nuts on Friday that I couldn't remember this, but I forgot about it entirely until just now.)

I think it's funny how LiveJournal has a cutesy pink heart-covered theme this week, considering that 85% of tomorrow's LJ posts are going to be dedicated to how much this holiday (fauxliday?) sucks.

No judgments here, I'm just amused.

Here's a gadget whose invention is overdue: A banana cap. You see, often in the morning I'll slice half a banana over my cereal, and save the other half for later. But if I just leave it on the counter, the end where I sliced it will turn brownish and icky, and I'm always worried about bugs finding it. So I put it in a plastic baggie, which works well enough, but seems wasteful--using a plastic bag for just one day, or maybe even just a few hours? Mother nature is rolling in her early grave.

So here's what needs to be invented: A banana cap. Just a small disc slightly larger in diameter than a banana, with maybe a bit of a lip to it. In the center of the disc a small spike would protrude, which would be inserted into the banana, thereby securing it. Basically what I'm picturing is an oversized thumbtack that you stick on the end of your half-a-banana, thereby keeping it fresh and bug-free.

Brilliant?

Okay, every guy knows how many liters (and gallons) of water it takes to flush a standard public restroom urinal. But!

How many rings are in a package of standard shower curtain rings (i.e. the plastic or metal rings that attach your shower curtain to the curtain rod)? And how many ring holes does a standard shower curtain have?

I'm not sure why I know, but hanging up our new shower curtain I realized that I do, in fact, know.

This is the stuff that the other 90% of my brain is doing all day, apparently.

Okay, so I was just bored enough to come up with hand gestures for Monkey-Ninja-Pirate-Robot-Zombie (MNPRZ). They are:

( Ninja, Pirate, Robot, and Zombie are inside )