I am not kidding

I'm sure that those of you who, like me, spend the majority of your day on the computer have, like me, confused the two realities. Saying "LOL" out loud, for example.

Well, I've got you beat.

Just now, I dropped a pile of laundry on top of the dryer. Then, wondering why I hadn't simply dropped it into the laundry basket, I decided I would do that...and for two full seconds I tried to figure out how to hit Control-Z so the clothes would be back in my arms.

Superman and Spider-Woman

I watched this whole thing. And now I must pass on the horror!

Update: Lyrics!

Spiderwoman: tu mera superman,
You are my superman
Superman: tu meri lady
You are my lady
Spiderwoman: ho gaya hai apna pyaar already
we’ve fallen in love already
[ostensibly referring to the fact that they were hot for each other before her superpowers]

Spiderwoman: mehsoos karoon mehsoos teri… bahon mein(x2)
I experience the experience of you in your arms
Superman: mein naaz karoon chale saath tu jab rahon mein(x2)
I am glorious/proud when you walk the paths with me

Spiderwoman: tu mera superman, mein teri lady
You are my superman, I am your lady
ho gaya hai apna pyaar already
we’ve fallen in love already

Chorus: super...super....super...super superman(x2)

Spiderwoman: hamdard hai to kamzoron ka...hai sahaara(x2)
You are one with/sympathise with the weak…their help
Superman: tujhe mereliye ambar se gaya hai utaara(x2)
You have been brought down from heaven for me

Superman: mein tera superman, tu meri lady
I am your superman, you are my lady
ho gaya hai apna pyaar already
we’ve fallen in love already

Spiderwoman: tera sunke naam aajaye chamak aankhon mein(x2)
I hear your name and it brings a sparkle to my eye
Superman: mere dil ne chuna hai saath tera laakhon mein(x2)
My heart has chosen your company from amongst hundreds of thousands

Spiderwoman: tu mera superman,
You are my superman
Superman: tu meri lady
You are my lady
Spiderwoman: ho gaya hai apna pyaar already
we’ve fallen in love already

Drive-thru etiquette

Tactical Grace over at Radical Bacon (why two names? I don't know) currently works in fast food, and she has posted a list of drive-thru etiquette suggestions.

Most of them were things I'd thought of before--I try to be very pleasant in the drive-thru--but the last one surprised me:

6. This is a personal preference, but if you're going to thank your order taker while at the speaker, say "thanks" rather than "thank you." Over the speaker, "thank you" sounds like "fuck you."

I would never have guessed this. I say "thank you" in a very cheery voice. I could see someone mistaking the way Sean says "thank you", because he kind of does it in a cursory way, but hopefully my way is safe.

It's also possible that this is a dialectal thing that happens where TG lives and not here. But I don't know where TG lives, and I've never been on the receiving end of a drive-thru speaker, so I can't argue that one way or the other.

(The Chick-fil-A people seem to understand me--they almost always respond with "My pleasure." It's actually become a game with me to see if they say it or not. Yes, I need to get a life.)

Another awesome Richard Moore quote

"Look, this job is chicken soup. Don't try to change it into lobster bisque."

I'm into season two of Case Closed, and I'm still a fan. The only thing that bothers me is that they didn't switch to the new OP. You hear it in the Detective Conan sub during the episode preview, but then it (jarringly) switches back to the first OP. (In the dub, they just play the first OP the whole time.)

This is very annoying, especially since it means I won't get to hear "Nazo". I was pretty interested to see how they'd sing that in English. But it's also just a great song...yes, even better than "mune ni doki doki DAKE".

Oh well.

At least the dub is fun! Any episode with Richard in it especially, but I also love Jimmy and Conan's voice acting.

It is irritating, though, that I can't own a legitimate, truly uncut release of Detective Conan without buying Region 2, untranslated DVDs :P

Re: Smallville season finale

OMGWTFBBQ on a popsicle stick...!

This season kind of blew in general. While I don't want to say that cliffhanger made up for it, it certainly made things interesting again...

(Although this new series of events makes me wonder if Clark will ever become Superman...click here for spoileriffic picture that demonstrates why you shouldn't use ThumbsPlus to create a jpeg from two pngs. Jaggies!)

Bellydance photos

Here are the photos I took of Alchemy dance troupe this morning.

We started off at 8th Street under the arbor and along the old storefronts, then moved to the Riverwalk staircases and amphitheatre overlook, and finally went over to North Augusta to get some shots along the Greeneway.

Here are the shots I like the most:

This one is my absolute favorite :>


This one didn't come out as centered as I wanted, but that's what cropping is for.

Alchemy will be selecting one photo for use in a calendar of bellydancers. That photo will probably be color enhanced, cropped, and possibly otherwise manipulated. It should be interesting to see. I'll try to get a copy of the final version they use. If I do, I'll post it!

I've got a "gig"

Tomorrow I need to be up ridiculously early (which is why I'm up late, natch) because I'm meeting a group of bellydancers for a photo shoot.

And I'm the photographer!

This is more than a little crazy, and I'm more than a little nervous. I think my technique has improved, but I still mainly take detail and landscape photos.

Here's hoping I can use some of what I've learned to capture the beauty of the dancers. Right now that seems like a pretty monumental task!

So yeah, maybe I should go to bed already...

"I've been denied everything...even my revenge!"

My Gargoyles season 1 two-disc set arrived the other day, and I've already watched all the episodes plus the commentary on the first five. Good stuff.

Gargoyles is still one of the best shows I've ever seen. Watching it again really took me back to my life as a teenager, though. The commentaries especially reminded me how much time has passed, and what things were like for me in 1994.

Sometimes I wonder if nostalgia is wanting things to be the way they used to be, or wanting yourself to be the way you used to be. Either way, it's wistfulness over an impossible dream...but it can be such a poignant feeling.

Magazine memories

I recently subscribed to Better Homes and Gardens.

My mom used to get this magazine when I was younger, back when the boys and I all lived at home and I shared a bathroom with Mom and Dad. There was always a basket next to the toilet filled with magazines that I would sit and read longer than necessary, and BH&G was one of those.

My favorite parts were always the floor plans and photographs of home and garden makeovers. I loved seeing the unique ways people would dress up their existing spaces. I still remember a tiny yard with a high wall that was transformed into an English garden, and what a strong effect that had on me. I learned then that you can do a lot with a little...even though it was years before my dreams of living in a mansion transformed into a quiet desire for a small, functional, pretty home.

There is a gorgeous little Massachusetts cottage in the June 2007 issue that was originally a boat house. That kind of coziness and simplicity really appeal to me now.

There's also an 850 square foot California house that serves as the first home for a young couple and their baby. The story boasts a floor plan, much to my delight.

The magazine is bigger than I remember. I don't know if it actually is bigger or if I've just grown accustomed to the size of Taste of Home, which is small enough to be saddle-stitched. BH&G is held together with glue, like a book. It made it a little more difficult to yank out all the advertising inserts.

But the size is a good thing, because it means I have plenty of reading for the basket in my bathroom :)

David Spade does it again

The mashup at the beginning is fabulous. (I also love how Spade knows and employs words like "mashup"!)

Great minds?

So I watched Return of the Jedi the other day.

And apparently so did everyone else! To wit: today's Diesel Sweeties, today's Shortpacked!

:>

(Those comics probably aren't Mom-friendly.)

My mother, ladies and gentlemen

Mom (8:20:33 AM): Dad is playing music
Mom (8:20:37 AM): we both are at computers
Mom (8:20:40 AM): me at old one
Mom (8:20:45 AM): but it is working fine
Mom (8:20:49 AM): and you are at a computer
Mom (8:20:51 AM): a family
me (8:20:53 AM): lol

The new Geoshitties

MySpace doesn't like its profile pages to be legible, so it does everything it possibly can to ensure that they're not.

Right now I'm trying to use the new editor to add a nifty Live Free or Die Hard theme to my profile, but the theme isn't set up right. It puts black text on top of a black background! And when I try to use the editor to fix it, it destroys other parts of the code.

I keep going around and around with it and it's driving me crazy! I'm way too much of a perfectionist for MySpace ;P

A normal yet nonstandard Tuesday

Today was kinda weird and very fun.

Traffic was just bizarre. This morning there was about triple the normal number of cars on the road when I headed off to work. I have no idea why. It made the commute a little more difficult, especially since one of the Bobby Jones onramps was blocked by cones into being a yield instead of having an acceleration lane. That always gets me, because those people are supposed to stop and wait for traffic, but it's a hell of a way to get onto the interstate, so I usually try to get out of their way. This time I was unable to, and I ended up slowing down way too much until they finally got the picture and pulled out in front of me.

Work was good. The nature of my job is shifting somewhat, from content manager-esque with occasional design to content creation and revenue generation. Just since last week I've been able to start three projects I've been wanting to work on for awhile.

For lunch, as my Twitter followers know, I picked up some Chick-fil-A and headed over to Riverview Park to eat at the picnic tables near the baseball fields. On my way there, I finally found the route that I charted out on Google Maps months ago, the one that avoids Buena Vista and the Georgetown apartments. It's pretty simple, but I don't know if it actually saves any time.

It was a beautiful day, hot in the sun but cool in the shade, and I suppose since it's still relatively early summer there weren't any wasps. I did notice a bird's nest crammed into one of the inside corners of the chimney above the large grill in front of the bathrooms. Guess the thing doesn't get used much.

After work I headed over to Mellow Mushroom, where a bunch of people from the station were gathering to celebrate the birthday of one of the photogs. This is a guy who likes to hang out in my office on his lunch break and chat, and he also uses my office as a cut-through quite a bit. He's cool.

(I've been thinking for awhile about rearranging my office--again--so that my back is to the wall. It's really not feng shui to have people walking around behind me all the time.)

Anyway, we had a blast. Several photogs were in attendance, as was one of the sports guys for the beginning of the evening and one guy from production. It is always fun to hang out with photogs and production assistants because they are some of the most "real" people you can find in television.

Most of what was said tonight can't be repeated ;) Suffice it to say it was hilarious. I even made a pretty good joke about some rapper the guys were talking about who calls himself Pimpzilla. (I think this is him.)

I had a portobello sandwich with chips and tea. Several people had pizza, and most people, except of course the photog who was on call, had beer. One guy had quite a bit of beer, and if you know our photogs at all you can probably guess who ;> At one point he was trying to say "theoretically" and it came out "theologically".

Good times.

Traffic felt strange on my way home, too, but it wasn't particularly dangerous, just faster than I expected. Normally when cars get to the construction zone they slow down a little, but today they were blowing through at 60 or 70. It might have something to do with the fact that it was almost 10 o'clock rather than my usual 7 or 8.

Something just felt unique about today, even though I didn't do anything spectacular. I guess a day doesn't have to be groundbreaking to be a good one :)

Too many kids

I had another weird dream the other night. In this one, AJ and Faye had six or seven children. They were living in this tenement-style apartment building, and the kids were distributed throughout various floors. We used the fire escape to go between them.

I was trying to play with all of the kids and get to know them, and it struck me as odd that some of them had the last name "Mills". "Why aren't they Aubreys?" I asked AJ.

"You're the one who came up with Shelly Mills," AJ retorted. Shelly Mills is the fictional deceased girlfriend of a character of mine from the AMRN who was loosely based on AJ.

"Oh," I said, because this was somehow logical.

"I think we have too many kids," AJ said later. "Do you want one?"

He's said this to me before in real life, as a joke, but in the dream he was absolutely serious. And I seriously considered it for awhile in the dream.