making it up as i go along
So Matt and I were just watching Real Genius (see link below). And so you come to the end scene where all the popcorn fills that guys house and we start pointing out all of the unrealistic aspects of the scene and the movie.
Being as we are both nerdy engineer types, it led to the question above. I think we finally agreed that no, it would probably just spill out your windows, because they're probably the weakest points. We'd like to do some experiments though.
Thoughts? Comments?
You know, the farmer’s market is great and all, but does it really need to start at 6:00 AM on a Saturday. You get up early all week, and on your one sleep in day, you gota wake up early again. My solution, start the Farmers market at noon. You wake up at 11:00, arrive at 12:00, eat at 1:00, days off to a good start and you’re well rested.
#1 – There is someone on Trading Spaces Boys VS. Girls whose name is Theresa Fung-Cooey … Which means that if you say her two last names backwards, she's Theresa Cung-Fooey. I laughed for like three minutes straight.
Krylon (or maybe Crylon?) is now making a spray paint for plastic!!!! That is so great. It “bonds at the molecular level” so you can paint cheap plastic crap in colors you'd actually like to have around.
It's a beautiful world we live in!
Every once in a while (bi-weekly or so) we have a mini-earthquake in our apartment. Everything rumbles and shakes for a couple of seconds and then it's done. The first time I thought it was a fluke. Maybe even the second time.
Now I'm pretty sure that the quarry or mine or whatever you call it that's not too far from our apartment is the source of the mini-quakes. Maybe they're blasting stuff.
Well anyhow, I never wanted my life to be too stable.
Yeesh! I've got such bad allergies. I haven't missed a single Allegra and yet I'm still sniffling and sneezing and rubbing my eyes.
Anyhow, *sniffle*, I'm busy working on a buncha stuff. I've been really getting into style sheets lately. I have used them on and off for years but now I think I've made great leaps in understanding them. I love learning things.
Err … What else? Queer eye was not that great last night. The guy was sorta boring, so that was kind of a disappointment. But the OC was pretty fun.
We had a very nice Labor Day Weekend. Matt's mom came to town and we did all of the Madisonian sort of things. We went to the farmer's market and the terrace and The World's Largest Brat Fest.
Have you been having a rough go of it? Have weird/bad/annoying things been happening to you and those you care for? Well don't worry. It's all Mars' fault.
That's right. Astrologers almost unanimously agree, Mars being its closest in some 60 thousand odd years spells bad news as far as the alignment of planets are concerned. Soothsayers are attributing everything from catastrophic events (terrorism, flooding, whatever) to the mundane daily annoyance (your dog deciding your new Oriental rug looks like a nice place to do his business) on Mars' position relative to the earth. So I guess if little Johnny doesn't get into law school, we will just consider ourselves lucky.
But fear not! Mars won't always be this close to the earth. It reached its closest point two days ago. And Astrologers agree (sort of)- things will probably get better in February.
One misty moisty morning,
When cloudy was the weather,
I chanced to see an old man,
Dressed all in leather.
Dressed all in leather,
with a cap under his chin.
How d'ya do? and How d'ya do?
And How d'ya do again!
That was one of the poems in the Mother Goose book that my mom used to read to my sister and I when I was little. I still know a surprising number of the rhymes in there. Rhymes are always easy to remember, I guess. And I always think of it when I get up and it's one of those cloudy grey days.
I love that kind of day. It's the sort of day you can cuddle up with a great book (something set in times past) with a cup of tea (peach, I think) and maybe a bit of music … Simon and Garfunkle have a great one called Cloudy.
But alas, I must work! I've got things to do.
Matt and I had a really nice day today. We got up early(ish) and went to the farmer's market (photos here). We hadn't been there before, but it was amazing! They had tons of cool stuff … flowers I'd never seen and tons of heirloom variets of vegetables and fruits. They also had some people selling their home-baked goods. We heard people talking about something called cheesy bread (with great zeal) and so we decided to try some. It's really great stuff. We also got pretty flowers and a bunch of veggies and fruit to eat this week.
After that, we went on a bike ride through and around the UW arboretum. It wasn't the longest ride ever, but we had a great time.
Then to cap off the day, we ran errands and got some chinese takeout from Happy Wok. Ahh! Good Day!
I’m playing Civ III, all happy, kicking this shit out the Japanese when all of a sudden the damn game just quits. Three hours of work, my entire campaign against east Asia erased. Kinda kills your desire to conquer the world. World domination just losses its fun if have to keep destroying countries over and over again. Anyone else have this problem? I’ve only noticed it running Win XP.