Monthly Archives: October 2005

Science Cabaret II

Posted on 2005.10.11

Today I went to the second science cabaret: Electric Air, which consisted of a lecture about the history of the theremin and electronic music and a short concert of ambient electronic noise by a local theremin-wielding band.

I quite enjoyed the lecture- very informative (also, very entertaining when we saw a video [which Marty is acquiring] of Moog playing a theremin). The music… not so much. Parts of the ‘song’ were enjoyable… mostly, the less ambient parts that had some sort of actual rhythm, but most of it just wasn’t my cup of tea.

Punk as #@%$!

Posted on 2005.10.10

purple spikes! I’ve taken to spiking my hair. I mean, really spiking it- as in, there over a half dozen separate spikes of 2 or more inches coming straight off my head, prompting people to stare, blink, and yell “Whoa, that’s punk as f***!” when they see me. It’s purple, too, but I think you knew that already.

I think I scare old ladies. I know I scare (or at least piss off with my very presence) honky bus drivers. I definitely get more strange looks at the Salvation Army (we went there today, only to discover they had another “Family Day” where nearly everything in the store is 50% off).

I really dig the hair, but not so much the looks. I guess it comes with the terrirory, though ;)

I doubt I’ll do this every day, ‘cuz it will make it impossible to wear a hat, or even a hoodie with the hood up. Beth knitted me a sauceum pirate hat the other day, and now that it’s looking like we’ll actually have an autumn I’m looking forward to wearing it one day :)

’till then, it’s keepin’ my firefox/red panda cub warm :D

Weekend anti-antics

Posted on 2005.10.10

I’ve spent most of this weekend (save for Saturday afternoon when I watched happicow work on the house) bumming around the house playing video games.

I finally got Katamari Damacy (and its sequel, We <3 Katamari) on Thursday. Today, I beat it (including getting all the presents), and started playing the sequel. Katamari Damacy really is an amazingly fun game – even Beth likes it (ironically happicow [the Halo 2 fanatic] thinks it’s a complete waste of time). I especially love the last level, where you create the moon (I got my katamari up to 740 odd meters, which allowed me to pick up islands and weather patterns, but was still slightly shy of my goal of 800 meters [which would have unlocked an eternal board]). We <3 Katamari isn’t as good so far, though it does seem to be harder (or maybe just more critical?).

Whenever happicow has managed to wrest the TV from me I’ve ended up playing Battle of Wesnoth which is an open source turn-based strategy RPG which just reached v1.0. It’s also quite a bit of fun, though not as addictive as Katamari Damacy (but then again, from what I hear not many nonchemical things are).

I still have a large pile of books (speaking of which, I never did make it to the book sale- maybe I’ll go next weekend or something, when everything is cheaper) that need reading, and severl sci-fi/horror movies that need watching, but that stuff will wait :)

I need a longer weekend :/

Remind me never to mess with a Russian. Wait, I AM Russian! Rawk!

Posted on 2005.10.06

~~Good riddance to bad rubbish~~ (via Warren Ellis)

Edit: Aww, I take it all back.

Apparently these are stray dogs that were left behind in New Orleans. Starving , they attacked a cow. The cow didn’t kill them (though by the mid-air shots it looks like it put up a good fight!), the dogs were shot by humans.

I guess I do feel bad for them, given that is the case. I just thought a cow kicking the ass of two mean-looking pitbull-like dogs was awesome.

Serenity again

Posted on 2005.10.05

I just got back from watching Serenity again. I still like it, though I noticed some new things this time around:

Unlike in the series, there is now sound in space. This is bad, but not a deal-breaker (hey, Star Wars did it). I was really impressed with the series getting it right, but I suppose they had to please the somnambulant boom-loving masses and all.
Everyone, especially Kaylee, has really deck (teehee) costumes. I want to get some shirts like the ones Kaylee has!
It seems that more than a few characters wear studded leather armbands (AFAICT, exactly like mine, only sans binary watch [which is optional anyway]) on their right wrists. To be like the cool kids, I transferred my armband/watch from my left wrist to the right one. It’ll take some getting used to, and now the ghastly (shock!) tanlines on my left wrist are showing. Oh well. (I’m such a dork :) )

It also seems like I’ve passed that terrible age where I’m now older than many of the people in the movies I see. Crud.

Cannibal: The Musical

Posted on 2005.10.05

I just watched Cannibal: The Musical, which was a pretty entertaining movie. I quite liked the soundtrack; it was really shpedoinkle and made my heart full like a baked potato. I think I may purchase it.

Earlier tonight Rob and I went to The Haunt on a quest for Zombie Wings (I would pay, Rob would eat, I would get the shirt). Unfortunately they ran out of zombie sauce (and salt potatoes). Bah. We’re gonna try again next week (lucky Rob gets two meals out of the deal).

Societies worse off ‘when they have God on their side’

Posted on 2005.10.04

I saw this somewhere a few days ago, and then again on Warren Ellis’ blog yesterday, and figured that it’s part of my idiom to comment somehow.

Personally, I don’t find this news surprising in the least (me being the atheistic heathen that I am). In fact, it syncs nicely with my views of religious people and morals (i.e., the more religious a person is, the less moral they likely are [one is not really a very good person if the only reason they do good {or refrain from doing bad} is fear of eternal damnation]). It stands to reason the more über-religous people you have in a group, the more that facade of morality will start to disappear from anyone looking in from the outside.

I hope that the US moves towards becoming a more secular nation one day, but somehow I doubt it- things will get worse before they get better. Eventually the religious fanatics will probably wipe each other out in one of the current crusades or some other holy war; and most likely they’ll end up taking the rest of the world with them. And then the whole mess will start over again when the survivors crawl from the rubble and start wondering where they (and fire, water, lightning, etc.) came from, and noticing that certain actions (e.g., eating pork) have negative health effects (e.g., worms) which are clearly punishment from up on high (e.g., Olympus) for breaking some invisible mandate, which obviously needs some backstory, lest the children forget about it in the future.

Blogger sucks.

Posted on 2005.10.03

I just tried to post a comment to somone’s blogger blog, and found that I was completely unable to on account of their stupid captcha, which though I’m sure I entered correctly at least once (gorramn ‘q’s and ‘g’s…) still refused to acknowledge my lack of botitude.

H8 H8 H8

I guess it wasn’t that important a comment, but still…

I am so not signing up for a blogger account. That’s what they want me to do! That’ll mean they won! We can’t have that!
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