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amused
My phrase in English: "I am the mayor of Cranky Town."
Translated into Spanish: "Soy el alcalde de la ciudad irritable."
Translated into French: "Je suis le maire de la ville irritable."
Translated into Greek: "Είμαι ο δήμαρχος της οξύθυμης πόλης."
Translated into English: "I am the mayor of [oxythymis] city."
Hooray for Telephone 2.0!
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depressed
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- Mood:buzzed
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- Mood:
tired
"Take a picture of yourself right now.
Don't change your clothes, don't fix your hair...just take a picture.
Post that picture with NO editing (except resizing, duh).
Post these instructions with your picture."
Please note the background detail.
The Wife is often most eloquent when silent.
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- Mood:
awake
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besspeacetime, I really like this one.
What happened on your birthday? Did empires crumble? Did sports dynasties form? Did nothing particularly interesting take place? Go to Wikipedia and enter your date of birth (month and day only), then post four events, three births, two deaths and one holiday.
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- Mood:
bored
It's everywhere:
1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me" or some such.
2. I will respond by asking you 5 questions that may stray into realms you wish to remain private.
3. You will update your LJ with the answers to the questions. Please.
4. You will include this and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them 5 questions.
As with the last time, I still don't have a lot of readers, so can't say whether too many people will respond. But I will ask questions of the first 5 people who reply.
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the_ogre asked me these questions, and here are my answers to same:1) You have two kids currently. Are you and
misanthrope_momlikely to ever have more?You don't regularly read my posts, so have likely not seen my previous entry regarding my decision to get a vasectomy. I'd very much like the kids to have moved out by the time I'm 60, so yeah ... we're done. (Plus, you forgot the Daughter, who doesn't live with us.)
2) You are a second-gen (at least) fan. What is your first memory of an SF Con?
Well, that would probably be a WesterCon or WorldCon that took place in LA when I was a very young, and the memory wasn't tied so much to the con itself as to eating breakfast at Sambo's with my dad and sister. I found a cockroach in my pancakes, and we got the meal for free. Really, the clearer memories of cons were from DunDraCon, and those involve Jeff Pimper letting me help with the film projector. "Phantasm" and Mike Jittlov left a clear impression.
3) Hands down - who is your favorite SF author?
Herein lies my embarassing confession: I don't actually read a lot of sci-fi (or even fantasy). Most of my reading is in the form of blogs, biographies and graphic novels. Just based on having read multiples from a single author, though, I'd have to say Neil Gaiman.
4) Are you and your wife ever likely to move back to the Bay Area core, do you think?
As often as she's spoken about missing Santa Cruz and wishing we could move there, the Wife just told me yesterday that if we could move anywhere in the Bay Area, it would be Mountain View. Essentially halfway between her family and mine, it's also a nice community with everything one would need.
5) Do you think you'd ever leave the Bay Area permanently?
Not likely, unless overnight I was somehow able to make a living as a professional film actor without any effort. I can't imagine that would enable to me to stay out of LA unless I was superfamous. Although New Zealand does sound nice.
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restless
I just spent the past hour or so perusing washedupcelebrities.blogspot.com. I found it because I was looking for a photo of Jeffrey Jones (Principal Ed Rooney from "Ferris Bueller's Day Off") that I could use in a snarky comment on JD's most recent blog. There were several names in the index that I did not recognize, so I decided to see who these people were.
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- Mood:
bitchy
I have recently been informed by several friends that age discrimination runs rampant through today's job search community. Wrinkles, bald spots and grey hair are supposed indicators of an inability to work long hours, an unwillingness to work for lower wages and an outdated education or knowledge set. Consequently, many of these friends have dyed their hair or shaved off their beards and mustaches altogether, and I have heard through family members of acquaintances who have gone so far as to endure Botox injections to smooth wrinkled brows.
Until today, I had managed to dismiss such concerns in relation to my own job search. I reasoned -- perhaps naively, perhaps justly -- that if I could only get as far as an interview, the substantial amount of prematurely white whiskers hanging from my chin would be ignored once my professionalism and potential benefits to the organization became obvious. However, the crushing weight of more than a years' worth of fruitless attempts to find a new career finally came to a head, and I decided this morning that a little cosmetic adjustment might be in order.
To that end, I purchased your product, Just For Men Brush-In Color Gel for Mustache, Beard & Sideburns. Arriving home this evening, I followed the instructions exactly as printed, mixing equal parts of the solution, brushing them thoroughly into my beard, waiting 5 minutes and then rinsing and washing with a gentle shampoo.
The box advertises that your product "Targets only gray for a natural look." From the results I experienced, I can only assume that this statement actually means that the product highlights the gray by darkening only the hairs that still have their original, natural color. Instead of achieving the more youthful, vibrantly natural light brown that was my goal, I ended up with chestnut bordering white. Rather than once again darkening the browns and intesifying the whites by attempting a second application, I instead opted to cut off my beard and begin afresh.
This of course revealed the moonlike appearance that can only be achieved by one who is both bald and devoid of facial hair, and has been overweight for several years. Although I am now more babyfaced than before, this is not quite the age-defying look that was my goal. While your company can not be blamed for my hilarious double chin, I do hold you accountable for failing to make good on your product's claims. I would appreciate a full refund of the purchase price, and expect some response as to whether said refund will come from Combe Incorporated directly, or should be pursued with the fine retail establishment at which I made the purchase.
Sincerely,
[The Man]
- Location:The Man
- Mood:
annoyed
This is the dreaded famous "Five Songs" tag curse meme, where you are supposed to post 5 songs you listened to several times between the ages of 5 and 14. That's quite a range, and I don't really remember much about my life before 10, but I'll give it the old college try.
Unlike Ayita, who just couldn't help herself and tortured graced us over on MySpazz with more than the requested 5, I am limiting myself due to sleep requirements.
So now I'm supposed to tag some people, but most of my Friends are probably too old to remember that far back. I also don't have a lot of regular readers here on LJ, so we'll see if anyone picks it up.
besspeacetime (because she is not furiously working on BayCon right now)
kijeren (because despite what she may think, she doesn't spin either)
misanthrope_mom (because she was forced to listen to snippets of each of my songs)
supersniffles (because she probably will karaoke all of hers, if she hasn't already)
- Location:The Burrow
- Mood: tired
- Music:lullabyes
A MySpazz friend (who posts photos of her butt) tagged me, and although it hasn't been very long since my last tagfest, I thought I'd go ahead and play.
The object of this particular meme is to write about seven weird habits and/or things about oneself, and then tag several unsuspecting wackdoodles. Since I just tagged 10 of the aforementioned wackdoodles recently, I will instead leave it up to my reader(s?) to choose whether to follow along.
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In the course of my recent image spree I had occasion to stumble upon this website: betterbreasts.net, which promises "natural breast reduction." As an avowed feminist who is concerned about health issues regarding the other gender, I of course clicked on a link from the site that advertised "natural breast augmentation," in case any of my spiritual sisters were to inquire as to where they might find such a service (heh, boobies). Here's that other site: breast-augmentation-pills.com.
This is all my long-winded way of saying that both sites use the same photo of a woman (who looks an awful lot like Charisma Carpenter) measuring her boobs. Now my question is, do you think this is false or misleading advertising, just par for the course, or something else entirely? Using the same photo for explicitly different products is one thing, but using it for products that have similar yet opposite purposes seems to me something else, although I can't put my finger on exactly what.
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- Mood:
mellow - Music:The melodious sounds of my son waking up
My MySpazz friend Ayita (who could teach us all a thing or two about dressing for one's spouse's fetishes) tagged me, and I have to write ten things about me and food.
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- Mood:
full
Herein begins a new experiment where I post photos of San Leandro. "Who is San Leandro," you ask?
A few weeks ago I had lunch with the Sister, her coworker and another friend of ours at Sashimi Boat in Berkeley, and as we were leaving I noticed a paper cutout of a man holding a briefcase sitting on the table they use for leaflets. I picked it up to look at it and the Sister said "Take it!" So I did.
The back of the cutout included a message promoting the city of San Leandro, which is immediately to the south of Oakland. Part of the bold print proclaimed "I AM SAN LEANDRO!" So of course, I have now named this little man San Leandro. I have been carrying him around in my backpack ever since, trying to decide what to do with him, and my current trip to Palm Desert has finally given me the answer.
So much like the Travelling Gnome and other such efforts, I have taken on the wholly unoriginal task of carrying San Leandro with me, taking photos whenever I can be bothered to remember it and hopefully not destroying his fragile paper body in the process. Wish him luck.
- Location:Embassy Suites Palm Desert Resort
- Mood: bored
Here's how it works.....
1. Open your music player (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, etc).
2. Put it on shuffle.
3. Press play.
4. For every question type the song that’s playing. When you go to a new question press the “next” button.
5. Take what you want.
1. Opening Credits: Journey to Fort Sedgewick from John Barry's score to "Dances with Wolves"
2. Birth: Password from Paul Oakenfold's soundtrack to "Swordfish"
3. Waking up: He Prayed from Sinéad O'Connor's "Throw Down Your Arms"
4. Falling In Love: Amon Hen from Howard Shore's score to "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring"
5. Sex: Rock'n'Roll Lifestyle from Cake's "Motorcade of Generosity"
6. Lusting: Where Do the Children Play? from "The Very Best of Cat Stevens" (okay, that's kinda creepy)
7. Cooking Dinner: I'm Not Your Baby from Sinéad O'Connor's "Collaborations"
8. Walk in the Park: Italian Leather Sofa from Cake's "Fashion Nugget"
9. Working out at the gym: Where There's Gold from Seal's "Seal IV"
10. Fight Scene: Peggy Gordon from Sinéad O'Connor's "Sean-Nós Nua"
11. Breaking Up: I Cried for You from "The Quintessential Billie Holiday, Vol. 2 (1936)"
12. Secret Love: Batterdammerung from Elliot Goldenthal's score to "Batman Forever"
13. Life's Okay: Yellow Betray Blue from Howard Shore's score to "Copland"
14. Mental Breakdown: Mirangula: Sign of the Crow from Graeme Revel's score to "The Crow: City of Angels"
15. Partying: The Return of the French Mafia from 's score to "The Triplets of Belleville"
16. Long Night Alone: Dreaming in Metaphors from Seal's "Seal (1994)"
17. Final Battle: Thank You for Hearing Me from Sinéad O'Connor's "Universal Mother"
18. Death Scene: This is a Rebel Song from Sinéad O'Connor's "Gospel Oak"
19. Funeral: I Can Hew from Oak Ash & Thorn
- Location:Embassy Suites Palm Desert Resort
- Mood: bored
- Music:See above
misanthrope_mom! (Who also happens to be the Wife).Empire Magazine has revealed its list of the "50 Greatest TV Shows Ever." Below is the list (the publishers are obviously no older than 30) and here be the rules.
1. Bold the shows you've watched every episode of, or as near as makes no difference.
2. Italic the shows you've seen at least some episodes of. (I'm going by: seen a couple all the way through)
(Those of us who have DVD players, or the TNT channel should have a leg up on this. Shows we own on DVD get fancy-shmancy colored font.)
50. Quantum Leap
49. Prison Break
48. Veronica Mars
47. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
46. Sex & The City
45. Farscape
44. Cracker
43. Star Trek
42. Only Fools and Horses
41. Band of Brothers
40. Life on Mars
39. Monty Python's Flying Circus
38. Curb Your Enthusiasm
37. Star Trek: The Next Generation
36. Father Ted
35. Alias
34. Frasier
33. CSI: Las Vegas
32. Babylon 5
31. Deadwood
30. Dexter
29. ER
28. Fawlty Towers
27. Six Feet Under
26. Red Dwarf
25. Futurama
24. Twin Peaks
23. The Office UK
22. The Shield
21. Angel
20. Blackadder
19. Scrubs
18. Arrested Development
17. South Park
16. Doctor Who [docs 9 and 10]
16a. Doctor Who [docs 1-8; yes, even the cheesy Fox TV-movie]
15. Heroes
14. Firefly
13. Battlestar Galactica [new one]
12. Family Guy
11. Seinfeld
10. Spaced
09. The X-Files
08. The Wire
07. Friends
06. 24
05. Lost
04. The West Wing
03. The Sopranos
02. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
01. The Simpsons
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- Mood:
accomplished
Decided to go looking for funny photos tonight, and stumbled upon some recent concept cars. I am including photos only, but you can easily find these on the site I discovered them on, The Torque Report.
I have a particular affinity for concept cars, the source of which is probably the Father’s subscription to OMNI magazine when I was a kid. One of the regular features was photos and accompanying articles about artists who had created futuristic versions of cars, airplanes, boats, furniture or even common household items like can openers. Because the magazine was published by Penthouse magazine’s Bob Guccione, it is perhaps unsurprising that the concept vehicles often seemed almost erotic in form (if not function).
As I looked through the photos below, I was struck by how unimaginative many of the American, European and Korean cars look, compared to their Japanese competitors. Perhaps that’s just my bias towards well made, reasonably priced vehicles.
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- Mood:
energetic
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Considerably shorter this time.
1. Reply to this post, and I will pick four of your icons.
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon squee. Whoo!