If you don't know already, The Decemberists are coming to Los Angeles and playing at the Wiltern Theatre for the nights of November 29th and 30th (Thurs/Friday). I've got tickets for Thursday night with Andy, would anybody else like to see them with us?
September 2007 Archives
I has ordered a new pair of glasses. They will look like this. For once in my life I'll have the plastic frames because these actually come with nosepads! :D
I was going to get this look but the sides were too bold and didn't look good when I had my hair up.
There is something to be said about Scandinavian design that is particularly elegant and awesome. Pictures of el new glasses to come next week. :3
...and on a side note, I am missing MIT a whole hell of a lot right now. :(
What's so great about TA-ing a course? The department gives you free textbooks for it! I already have one of them, but getting the newest edition of the other as well as a squeaky clean copy of the one I have already is always nice and fine too. Whee. :3
Stephen Colbert is also, apparently the Greatest Living American. No joke, type it into Google and Feel Lucky. If the internet says so, it must be true.
I think Draco has cursed our team. ¬_¬ We haven't won (well, not first place anyway) since we were Team Harry And Draco Are Gay and outed them to all of BrewCo, and I think Draco was pretty upset about that. I kept trying to tell him that nobody really believed us, but I think he was pissed anyway.
Either way, I swear we're cursed. I'm going to have to speak to Harry about undoing this, because I do not want to go for the next 86 weeks without another win. D:
Also, for the record, playing "I Love Rock and Roll" for the bonus question "Who was the first woman to be inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987?" is almost cheating. D: Team Drop Your Pants, Sir William placed fifth last night.
Watching Freaks and Geeks again, because my roommate Erin hasn't seen all the episodes. That show is SO GOOD I'm still amazed every time I watch the episodes.
Also, I've realized that my daily routine has basically become: get up, go to lab, come home, go to kung-fu (or on Tuesdays, it's just lab directly to trivia), get on internet, watch Colbert Report, go to bed. I keep on telling myself I should probably keep playing Odin Sphere so I can get it back to Desmond or that I should finally actually play through the English version of KH because Riku and Sora are so OTP (not to mention Roxas and Axel), but I'm lazy. And nothing in this world trumps my laziness. XD
Arrrr, ye landlubbers. Fer those unawares, today is a very special day, known by most on th' interwebs as International Talk Like Pirate Day. Don' ferget t'talk like yer a scurvy seadog today, an' make sure yer got a bottle o'rum with ye at all times.
To celebrate this day which only comes once a year, we've gotcher a nice slide presentation discussing the age old arrrrrrrrrgument of pirates vs. ninjas.
After Team Some Serious Confusion and Disagreement's stunning bomb of the last week's final bonus round, costing them their placement, Team C is For Drinking took second place after a nail biting tiebreaker for second.
This puts our team to a total of 2 first place wins (as "Apply Directly To The Forehead" and "Harry And Draco Are Gay" and 2 second place wins ("The Knights Who Say Ni" and "C is For Drinking" over the course of about 6 or 7 weeks.
Not too bad, the only time we haven't placed was last week when there was spectacular bombage of the final bonus question. Say tuned, when next week when Team We Have A Different Name Each Week shoot for first place again.
My news sources have told that me that Robert Jordan died today.
Which means that he'll never finish The Wheel of Time which means that my lack of reading books 9-11 has actually sort of paid off. Of course, someone is probably going to end up finishing it for him, but we'll see if the WoT series ends up in limbo or not. If it did, I'd have a good, long chuckle inside.
I do admire the man's writing, I don't think I'd ever be able to do what he did.
I was putting some scrap fabric on my bed to see if I could put together a first draft of my Hogwarts skirt, when out of the fabric folds there crawled a silverfish onto my bed. D: I had to squish it with my blankets.
¬_¬ Now I'm going to be paranoid that there are silverfish in my room, and that there may be a whole colony in the pile of cosplay fabrics I haven't used yet in the corner. D: I'm afraid to clean out my fabric pile now, cause I just might find more. I have no idea how they got in there in the first place.
EW EW EW EW EW EW.
I think I'm obsessed with Initial D again. Finally got around to going to my local arcade, where they have Arcade Stage 4. After playing about 4 games (three on Lake Akina, one versus battle on the Akina downhill), here are some of the cool things about it:
- completely new physics, more intuitive
- better force feedback through the steering wheel = makes the physics feel better
- LCD widescreen display
- Voices, in Japanese! (subtitles still in English, but who cares? I'm not reading them.)
- customizable character appearance (though apparently it's kind of random)
- better car customizability
- card holds up to 3 vehicles
- cushioned chairs
- less bullshit cars
- closer seating to screen (for short people like me!)
- Stage 4's eurobeat (with my favorites like "Revolution," "Let's Go, Come On" and "Go Beat Crazy")
the conclusion: DO WANT
Skuld's car? blue Honda S2000 (AP1), apparently the car isn't bad, from what the Hong Kong ratings are telling me. :3 Excellent! I sort of picked it randomly (after running out of time and not noticing), so I think I'll stick with it for a bit. (Oh, I'll miss my little yellow FD3S so much. D:)
I think I'm going to have to block out a budget for IDAS4 now, since every game I play is now $1. (But it's sooooo worth it! ~<3)
The people I work with in my lab are totally awesome. How are they awesome you ask?
A) Marcus and I have this running gag that Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy (we refer to them as 'the boys') are crashing at both of our apartments because they've run away from home (the Malfoys weren't particularly happy with Draco being gay with Harry) and adopted us as their Muggle caretakers. We frequently exchange stories such as "I came home and found that the boys had smeared chocolate all over my apartment" and "I came home and found a note the boys left me about taking a trip to San Francisco" and "I came home and found used kleenex all over the living the room. It must've been the boys." This happens on a near-daily basis. Harry and Draco are up to so many shenanigans between Marcus's apartment and mine, that we could nearly create a reality TV show, except without the 'reality' bit.
B) Stephan is a nerd. He tries to hide it, but when he's got a Cylon Raider as a desktop wallpaper, talks to me about which episodes of Babylon 5 are worth watching, and frequently laments how far away he is from his tabletop roleplaying group (he's from Sweden), you find out that his nerdiness is actually pretty apparent. Today I caught him looking up Maes Hughes on Wikipedia, because he forgot the name of the guy in Fullmetal Alchemist who is obsessed with his baby daughter. When I asked him why he was looking up Hughes in particular he said, "Because I don't want to end up like him." (Stephan and his girlfriend just recently had a baby.)
My lab is full of shenanigans. And I love it. :3
I think that was Viggo Mortensen.
And I think Viggo Mortensen just gave Stephen Colbert Anduril.
Wow. Whoa. Dude.
EDIT:
AND YOU HAVE MY BOW!
In addition to the lead singer of Bad Religion being a lecturer for a life sciece class, apparently Shakira is taking a History of Western Civilizations class here at UCLA.
You can do a search for her in the directory too, and I think you get her agency, or some sort of office building in New York.
Huh.
There's nothing like a tough morning in surgery and coming back to your computer and watching some classic Sesame Street sketches:
I Don't Want to Live on the Moon
Can you tell that Ernie's my favorite Sesame Street character? :3
...and now for something completely different.
Harry Potter's school is fucked up. All this makes me realize: private schools are awful, awful places.
An old article I stumbled upon from the blog of the one of the graduate students in my program. It filled me with lulz, so I am passing on the joy.
In addition, for those of you reading my blog who know Rob Sarto...get him to blog again. For the love of all that is internets and holy, I miss his rants.
¬_¬ Half of my face is numb and will likely be for the next couple of hours thanks to all those fillings I had to fix. Oh well. Now I have to go in during the afternoon too, to fix my bite cause they didn't get it quite right. >___< Mmmrrr....
In other news...have a meme!
1. Go here.
2. Put in Username: nycareers, Password: landmark.
3. Take their "Career Matchmaker" questions.
4. Post the top ten results.
Biomedical Engineer
Computer Engineer
Mining Engineer
Multimedia Developer
Electrical Engineer
Electrical Engineering Tech
Electronics Engineering Tech
Petroleum Engineer
Chemical Engineer
Taxidermist
I'm still trying to figure out what might be the difference between an "electrical engineering tech" and an "electronics engineering tech," but from what I infer it's probably the differences between working in an EE lab, and working as a fix-it tech. I figure being a neuroscience grad student is about as close as I can get to biomedical engineer, so maybe I'm on the right track.
Also, given the appearance of the word "engineer" in 8 of those 10, I figure I probably went to the right undergrad school to give me those engineering skillz. (Despite the fact that I am not actually an engineer.)
There is something about my teeth that makes them very susceptible to cavities. My mom never gets cavities and neither, seemingly, does Dad. I've totally cut down on my juice and soda drinking since college, so much so that I pretty much don't ingest any liquids with sugars at all, except for coffee once a morning. I brush twice a day and floss every night. My gums are perfect, but it's just annoying that I have one new cavity, and five fillings that need repairing. UGH. *grumble*
Well, at least my insurance makes it pretty cheap for me. D: I'll be a sad panda once I'm off that plan.
especially if they upgrade the memory capacity for the Christmas holidays. If they get a 32GB model?
I think the fact that my computer is freezing when idle (ie: when I leave it on overnight, it won't respond the following morning) a sign that I probably need a new computer, or at least that the heat and the multiple restarts I've done when it's frozen while being overheated has taken a toll on something.
Unfortunately, after my recent trip to Europe, funds are rather tight until the end of October (though to be honest I still definitely have enough saved to afford roughly $800-900 in new computer), which means it might still be in my best interest to keep this computer running smoothly at least until I get all my data from my old hard drives (they're not SATA, so I'm not sure I want to even install them in my new setup) transferred to the external.
Anyways, it's cooled down quite a bit now, the weather forecast tells me the heatwave ended last night. Thank god, we're going back to regular temperatures. I'll see if my computer keeps freezing me on me at regular temperatures, and if it does, does anybody know what might be going wrong?
95 degree weather with a 71 degree low? THE SUCK. Especially since I don't have any air conditioning in the apartment.
*whimper*
I think my computer is also starting to die, it sure as hell is freezing a lot more than it usually does. Stupid heat. *grumbles* Good excuse to start looking at the line of Intel Core 2 Duo's and get a new system.
If anybody has suggestions, please do send them my way.
What I've learned this weekend is that moving can still be maximally stressful event, even if you're completely uninvolved with said move, except that it takes place in the apartment you're living in. That said, we'd like to welcome Erin into our wonderful circle of "people who live/have lived in Skuld's apartment."
Yay!
