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[12 Jul 2009|02:15pm] |
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Halley Martin eats these chocolate candies in the movie How to Deal but she like, drinks from them. They've always looked really tasty haha
It shows them really quick at like, 5:35
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Thanks in advance :)
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| Name of this song |
[12 Jul 2009|01:16pm] |
www.youtube.com/watch
Anyone know the name of this song? The guy just used audio swap to swap out the original song and he has no idea what it is, nor does anyone else on the tubes know. Help would be much appreciated :)
- Jess
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| Painting at the Wallace Collection |
[12 Jul 2009|12:11pm] |
I am trying to remember the name or the artist of some paintings I saw at the Wallace Collection in London. They featured a romanticized landscape with a highwayman and a gypsy. One was titled something like Betrayal and in that one, or perhaps another one, the highwayman was dying and his gypsy lover was mourning him. I am 68% sure the artist's last name began with a B, and that it looked French to me. It was upstairs in one of the smaller galleries, if that helps.
A painter's name would be brilliant, a link to an online image doubly so.
Thanks.
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| kid's book, possibly a chapter book? |
[12 Jul 2009|02:42pm] |
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I keep remembering this kid's book i read in the 90s, but was likely from the 80s or older.
Anyway, the story is about a young boy who hears from other kids at school that the movie "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" is going to play on TV and that they will be allowed to stay up late to watch it.
The boy decides that he wants to stay up late to see it too, so later on at home he strikes up a deal with his mother that he'll take a nap in the afternoon in exchange for staying up late to see the movie.
He ends up missing the movie because he falls back asleep before it can start.
I'm about 99% sure Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was the mentioned movie (mostly because it's odd sounding and tends to stick out in your mind)..and I also believe it was a chapter book, which makes me wonder if the story was only from one chapter.
The young boy also has a little sister, and if I'm not mistaken she either had chapters written from her perspective or actual books about her.
edit, FOUND: "Rip-Roaring Russell" by Johanna Hurwitz.
figures i would find it AFTER posting on here, hahaa.
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| Word... |
[12 Jul 2009|06:12pm] |
This has been bugging me all day. I don't know if I can even put into words what I mean but here goes...
I'm trying to think of a word... like if someone said something I think is really obvious but it's more opinion rather than actual fact like "so and so is awesome" and I'd say "isn't that like a...."
I keep thinking of the word paradox which is totally wrong but it's got in my head and it's stopping me remembering what the actual word is.
EDIT: I'm thinking now it's more like a saying like "rhetorical question" - that kind of thing.
Help please.
SOLVED: by ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) sxyskeksis - apparently I was thinking of 'oxymoron'
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| AC-related Story |
[12 Jul 2009|10:13am] |
Here's a little tale of what happened aboard the Southwest Chief last Tuesday as we enjoyed lunch somewhere in northern New Mexico. Since they need to fill as many spaces as possible in the dining car, it is standard procedure to seat random people together to make a table of 4. This is actually one of the joys of train travel since you get to meet new people. Usually we have good luck and are seated with interesting people. The couple we were paired with turned out to be one of the best we have experienced. It began with the usual introduction:
Us: So, where are you coming from?
Them: Pittsburgh!
Us: Oh! Business or pleasure?
Them: We attended a convention.
Us: *blinks* Ummm...Let me guess...Mensa?
Them: *blinks* Yes! How did you know?
Us: *grins* Oh, we were at the OTHER convention!
Them: *smiles* Oh! You're furries!
I guess my Confurence '03 shirt also gave that away. We then had a great conversation about the fandom and their organization, our ties to the sci-fi community on both ends, overall geekyness, and how the convention system works for both groups. The husband was most intrigued with fursuits. He wanted to know the most unusual creatures out there. Manticore, cuddlefish, and purple furry-eater were at the top of the list. He also gave us an idea for a great schtick for a con; a blind dog with a seeing-eye human.
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[12 Jul 2009|03:20pm] |
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I finally got rid of the beard (although shaving after not doing it for a good three months feels a bit odd and will require re-learning). I'm quite shocked at how much younger I look without it! People in work have expressed similar surprise, so it must be true.
( Comparison-y! )
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Operation: Argue with Debian continues apace. Next hurdle is installing Nvidia drivers so shiny things can happen!
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| Blogging in a foreign language |
[12 Jul 2009|11:45pm] |
There's a website where the members write blog entries in a foreign language they're learning. Native speakers of that language can write corrections and add comments to their blogs. So for example, I could, line-by-line, correct/comment on blogs written in English; Japanese members could help me with my blog entries written in Japanese, and so on.
I joined this site but didn't seem to a) bookmark it, b) have any emails from it, or c) remember the name. Can't find it on Google either. -_-
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| Children's Books |
[12 Jul 2009|01:45am] |
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When I was younger I had this set of two or three books. I know for sure one book had a green cover, and one had a yellow cover. The one with a yellow cover had to do with a genie, or a giant snake of some sort.
These books were filled with well known, and some not well known fairy-tales/stories/fables/etc. The art work was very cutesy but odd at the same time. Weirdly shaped doughy eyed children. One of the pictures I clearly remember was a couple of naked young girls catching coins falling from the sky. I think this picture was in the green book.
These books are so far away in my memory but I know I LOVED them as a child. I would love to buy this set again. Anyone know?
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[11 Jul 2009|11:01pm] |
I had a children's book when I was little. Think the 70s (maybe late 70s). It was about a kid who, possibly with the help of his grandfather, built a quaintly shoddy wooden airplane. Big fluffy clouds in blue skies figured prominently in the illustrations. They met with a bunch of other people who had their own various means of flying, such as balloons, planes, etc. in almost a convoy. The kid wore a flying helmet and goggles, if I recall correctly.
Can anyone remember this book?
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[11 Jul 2009|09:36pm] |
It's really neat when two problems on something you're working on cancel each other out, or at least you can solve them both with the same process.
Adventure of Sam world 1 was way too God damned big and pushing the filesize limit even as it was, so working in the overhaul I'm trying to give it on top of everything else before moving on to world 2 was going to be a trick. Also, I felt the content in a lot of places (particularly Smylia City and the Underground Village) was too spaced out, with too few things over too many boards, requiring the player to walk too much between them all.
So I compressed the content for the player's sake and then deleted the now-unused leftover boards for mine, and the file dropped from 281 KB or so down to 267. Go me.
Also, those of you keeping track of my ever-waning heterosexuality will be delighted to know I've actually reached the "there's this cute guy at the gym..." threshold.
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| Werewolf DOS game? |
[12 Jul 2009|02:52pm] |
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I played it years ago; you were a female werewolf and it was your typical platform game of that era. I can't remember much, but you could shift between human and wolf form at will (although possibly needed mana?) and you had certain areas that required a particular form. Anyone remember this one?
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[11 Jul 2009|09:50pm] |
Megaplex Countdown: 12 days! :D
Actually, I think it's 13. But no matter!
Anyways, not really a lot to say today; got up, got started, drove for 10 and a half hours, dropped my trailer for a PM, and am taking a restart tomorrow! Sure, I could drive some more, but I haven't had a day off where I didn't have to worry about truck or trailer for at least a week, and honestly, starting off the last week before vacation with full hours should ensure that I can get home Saturday! Because otherwise things are going to be really screwed up.
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| Jason Jupiter (20th anniversary) |
[11 Jul 2009|10:08pm] |
It turned into something in the end after all.  As I explained none of it last time - this is a Java port of Jason Jupiter by Neil Drage, which was one of the first games that I can remember playing. I put it together as my first real test of Multimedia Fusion 2's applet export feature - it's looking good so far, but to achieve my original plan of grabbing levels from files as I upload them is going to take some work yet (Java applets have slightly strict rules about accessing external files - this applet just has a big list of levels stored as text). The original eight levels are in the game, though, as faithfully as I could make them - the only major change being that after a large dilemma over the level called "Your Bound to Lose a Life" I decided to correct it in the interests of sanity. You notice all sorts of things when you have to examine a game more closely than you would - in this case I think I just found that the original author was getting a bit fed up near the end, because the colours stop changing after level five, and the later ones are a lot more simple in layout than the first few. So I now have a level interpreter that I can just add on to - it's very nice to not have to worry about spreading events over an entire application for a change. A version with an editor and level set stitcher-together should be the final product from this. |
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[11 Jul 2009|09:54pm] |
Guys I know I am late but holy shit Phoenix Wright is an amazing game.
I'm I assume halfway through the 2nd case, as I managed to survive 1 day in court there. It is so awesome.
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| Short story about two friends meeting again |
[11 Jul 2009|09:14pm] |
This is a short story I read in a textbook in middle school or high school. A man is waiting for friend that is supposed to meet him. When they were younger, they had agreed to meet up after about ten or twenty years. At the end, it turns out that the friend is a criminal now.
Found - It's "After Twenty Years" by O Henry. Thanks lutine!
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[10 Jul 2009|06:07pm] |
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Who was the um... "novelty act" in the early 2000's that went to an award show as Kelly Osbourne's date.. "ironically?" He was fat and bald (kind of looked like Kyle Gass but with longer, stringier hair), he sucked at playing guitar, he stripped during shows and his voice was horrific. But I remember thinking it was hilarious in high school. I kind of think that maybe his name started with an M and/or maybe it rhymed? I saw him open for someone at the Globe in Milwaukee, which is sadly closed. :( Anyone?
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[11 Jul 2009|06:27pm] |
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I was going to make a bolognese today. But apparently I didn't have any beef mince for it, so Improvisational Cooking time!
Four or five rashers of bacon (diced, while still frozen)
Four pickled silverskin onions (which are nearly as good as 'real' onions for flavour, but keep better and are tastier raw) (similarly diced)
A small apple, diced. (seeing a pattern yet?)
A single orange bell pepper, sliced in half, one half diced and the other sliced thinly to be used as a garnish
About half a can of pre-skinned, pre-sliced tomato (because I'm lazy)
Half a can of butter beans, individual beans sliced lengthways (mm)
Bacon fried from frozen in a pan, and when it's just starting to show signs of being cooked having the onion, half of the apple and half of the diced pepper added. Wooshed about for a bit, with a little pepper and a touch of Old Bay seasoning added (thanks, archadia!). Then, tomatos (and associated juice) added and allowed to simmer for ten minutes or so. Finally, beans and the rest of the diced pepper and apple added for a further fifteen minutes of gentle heat to allow them to soften a bit!
Served over fusilli, with lettuce, the leftover sliced pepper and a Terry Gilliam film. Happy dragon. Although I think I'll skin the apple first next time.
(Mm, Sean Connery.)
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[11 Jul 2009|10:28am] |
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Oh man, I had another one of those dreams where the moon took up, like, 1/8th of the whole sky... (like, 2/3 of the visible sky if you look towards the horizon..) It was great; gazing at that craggy ball, mr_obert and I (on some form of rollercoaster-based public transportation) were contemplating how long it would be until it was colonized, and then subsequently how hilarious it would be to see youtube videos of first-time moon visitors tripping down the stairs out of the shuttle because of the low gravity...
So I wound up renting Ghostbusters for Wii last night, and tried out the two-player with Tommy... I've got some complaints (the split-screen view is drawn back enough that it's almost hard to tell what's going on.. there seems to be a bug where it will warn you to catch up with your partner and then that warning won't go away even once you're right next to each other.. trapping ghosts is way harder than in single player because it winds up inadvertently turning into a physics-engine tug-of-war) but I really can't imagine this game being as much fun single-player. One guy going around with the PKE meter, the other guy following him around with the Proton Pack out... it's really a teamwork kinda game, and they try and fake that by having the (non-generic) Ghostbusters wandering around with you, but this really does seem like the kind of game that's best on a couch.. I would settle for online voicechat co-op (might even bring the experience to life more, since you can't just glance at your friend's PKE-goggle view), but apparently the 360/PS3 version only has dedicated multiplayer maps, no co-op through the story mode... so consider that a hearty vote for the Wii version coming from me! (Admittedly I haven't played the 360 version yet..)
Anyway! 'Tis the weekend. Gonna see if I can't get some of my con art framed, though I'm never sure what kind of frame to go for with these things... should also look for condos (i.e. so I can put up the rest of the art I got :P)
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