Big Smash Bang With Boobies

I'm MIA

2008-07-04T22:21:39Z

Hey everyone. I'll be mostly offline until probably Monday. I'm at CONvergence for the weekend and we don't have free internet in the room. I've found some wireless downstairs.
Some of you may have seen my twitter on Wednesday about running out of gas. Well, just running out of gas would have been a good thing. Oh no. Nothing that ordinary for me. My fuel pump blew out. Oh joy. We really didn't want that $700... *sigh* At least we didn't have to pay for the tow wince we have AAA.
But, since we are at the convention until Sunday I am in denial about the situation! I'll think about it again on Monday! :)

Oh hail yeah!

2008-07-02T01:59:41Z

There was a lot of hail here in our neighborhood a month ago. We didn't see it because we were in Madison that weekend but it obviously hit our house because our BBQ grill cover was SHREDDED.

Well, today we had the insurance inspection and we are getting new roofs for both the house and the garage, new siding, and new gutters! w00t!
We will also be taking advantage of the fact that the house will briefly be siding-less to have the windows in the dining room knocked out along with part of the wall and having patio doors put in! yay!

Now we just need to decide what color we want the HellHouse to be... Hellbob has already vetoed hot pink.

This is for the 3 or 4 people on my flist NOT reading xkcd yet!

2008-06-30T05:30:23Z

xkcd is a webcomic that is mainly stick figures, very minimalistic, very little color used, and way super cool awesomely wicked funny!

These are the last two cartoons posted. The first one made me laugh, and the second one made me smile even though it put that damned song BACK in my head!! (and for those of you who haven't seen the commercial/heard the Discovery Channel song, HERE IT IS)

Know Your Vines

xkcd Loves the Discovery Channel

There is also a syndicated LJ feed

I got a book in the mail yesterday!!!

2008-06-30T05:09:17Z

w00t!!
I got my copy of City Birds, Country Birds in the mail from Adventure Publications yesterday! :)
I'm officially a published photographer! \0/
Besides my pictures there are tons of awesome pictures in it. It's also a really fun read. Birdchick's personality definitely comes through, and I know I'm going to get a ton of useful info from it.

Unfortunately Amazon doesn't show it as available yet and just has a publication date of September 2008. Borders also doesn't show it as being available, and has a release date of September 01, 2008.

Adventure Publications does have it available to order, but it is at the cover price of $14.95 rather than the $10.17 it will be from Amazon. Since I'm planning to pick up copies for me & hellbob's parental units, I'm going to wait until I can save a little money to get them. Heck, I may be a published photographer, but I *am* an unpaid published photographer after all!

Clicky here or on picture to get to the publisher's site!

I guess the internet doesn't know everything!

2008-06-30T02:15:12Z

I checked the blood sugar of both cats tonight (I get paranoid about such things after having had Cougar's diabetes go undiagnosed.)
Lump's came in at a respectable 68.
Gabe's was at 176, and he hasn't had food since about 12 hours ago since he gets fed twice a day.
So I Googled feline blood sugar and found three sites with blood glucose guidlines. They were all different:
65-135 mg/dL
80-120 mg/dL
50-130 mg/dL
So basically Lumpy comes in normal, but Gabe's numbers are high. He's due for his regular checkup though, and he needs his teeth clean which means they'll have to do a full blood workup anyway since he's so old. The cranky guy will be 17 years old this fall.

Small pic spam

2008-06-26T04:28:14Z

Here are some flowers from outside my house:

Encounters at the End of the World

2008-06-26T03:21:46Z

Werner Herzog's film Encounters At the End of the World is going to be playing at the Lagoon on July 11th! The site only lists one day, but I'm guessing that is the day it starts its run there.
I wanna go see it!
It'll be so cool if mcpenguin is in it. And I'll get to see some of the places that mcpenguin took Moose when he was down there. No Moose on film though. He wasn't down in McMurdo at the same time as Herzog.

If you aren't in Minneapolis and want to know when you can see this documentary, THINKFilm's got the schedule HERE.

Unfortunately, tx_cronopio, there are NO Texas showings listed. :(

When a lemming & a sheep have sex, you get a meme!

2008-06-25T02:19:19Z

From fairoriana:

Post 3 things you've done in your lifetime that you don't think anybody else on your friends list has done.

See if anybody else responds with "I've done that."

Ask your friends do this in their journals to see what unique things they've done.

Also, comment here with your three so that I can see just how frakkiing cool y'all are!

Mine:

1. I represented my state at the International Science & Engineering Fair when I was in high school.

~~2. I have thrown a live hand grenade~~

2. I was pictured in an adoption brochure for the Children's Home Society of Minnesota.

3. I owned 1/3 of a comic book store.

*edit* OK, new #2 since I forgot that there was an ex-army dude on my flist!

Another good one down

2008-06-23T05:51:27Z

George Carlin died yesterday afternoon.

ETOnline

Reuters

Yahoo

NSFW video:
The 7 words you can't say on television

Link to the video

I'm afraid of 2 out of 72 common fears

2008-06-22T04:41:46Z

I am afraid of....

[ ] the dark
[ ] staying single forever
[ ] being a parent
[ ] giving birth
[ ] being myself in front of others
[ ] open spaces
[ ] closed spaces
[ ] heights
[ ] dogs
[ ] birds
[ ] fish
[ ] spiders
[ ] flowers or other plants

Total so far: 0

[ ] being touched
[ ] fire
[ ] deep water
[ ] snakes
[ ] silk
[ ] the ocean
[ ] failure
[ ] success
[ ] thunder/lightning
[ ] frogs/toads
[ ] my boyfriends/girlfriends dad
[ ] boyfriends/girlfriends mom
[ ] rats
[ ] jumping from high places
[ ] snow

Total so far: 0

[ ] rain
[ ] wind
[ ] crossing hanging bridges
[ ] death
[ ] heaven
[ ] being robbed
[ ] falling
[ x ] clowns Actually, not so much a fear as that I just find them to bee creepy as all fuck and evil!
[ ] dolls
[ ] large crowds of people
[ ] men
[ ] women
[ x ] having great responsibilities
[ ] doctors, including dentists
[ ] tornadoes

Total so far: 2

[ ] hurricanes
[ ] incurable diseases
[ ] sharks
[ ] Friday the 13th
[ ] ghosts
[ ] poverty
[ ] Halloween
[ ] school
[ ] trains
[ ] odd numbers
[ ] even numbers
[ ] being alone
[ ] becoming blind
[ ] becoming deaf
[ ] growing up

Total so far: 2

[ ] creepy noises in the night
[ ] bee stings
[ ] not accomplishing my dreams/goals
[ ] needles
[ ] blood
[ ] dinosaurs
[ ] the welcome mat
[ ] high speed
[ ] throwing up
[ ] falling in love
[ ] super secrets

Final Total: 2

... if you wish to post this in your journal, it's been requested that you title it "I'm afraid of _ out of 72 common fears"

If you get more than 30, I strongly recommend some counseling
If you get more than 20, you’re paranoid.
If you get 10-20, you are normal. sheeya, right.
If you get 10 or less, you’re fearless.
People who don’t have any are liars.

JoCo & Wil Wheaton... a Geek girl's wet dream!

2008-06-22T03:51:16Z

Have I posted this yet? We really really really want Jonathan Coulton to come to CONvergence next year.

Upcoming Events by Eventful

And now there is this one too:

Upcoming Events by Eventful

God, can you just imagine both JoCo and Wil at the same CVG? It's like a geek girl's total wet dream! Two adorable, funny, talented & smart guys in one place! :)

The lives of strangers, and tragedy

2008-06-21T02:43:18Z

One of the things I love about working at a photo-lab is the glimpses into other people's lives that I get from their photos. People are usually photographing the happy things in their lives. Sometimes, though, it's not so happy.

Today I got to see the life of this talented young man, Joe Sodd III

A customer called at about 2:30 wondering how fast the turn around time would be on about 200 digital pictures. That late on a Friday the standard answer would be that we'd have them done on Monday. But she said they were for a memorial service this weekend, and I didn't have any other work that had to be done today, so I let her know that if she could have them there by 3:00 or so that I would make sure they got printed before the end of the day so they could be picked up on Saturday.

She was there about 15 minutes later with the CD that had the files. She had collected the photos from friends and family, and taken the time to scan them into the computer making sure that they looked as good as possible. In between apologizing for needing them done so last minute and thanking me for being willing to do them, she said that they were for a memorial on Sunday. She said that it was for the 20 yr. old who had been stabbed outside the Triple Rock last week. I hadn't heard about the stabbing.

I got started immediately with loading all the files into the printer. An entire all-too-short life, condensed into 200 images.

I'd never met Joseph Sodd III. I'd never even heard of him before today.

Now I know these things about him:
He was a cute baby.
He had a great smile, and he smiled a lot.
He had hair that if he let it grow out, it would explode into a riot of curls.
He had amazing beautiful grey eyes.
He was a dancer.
He had a younger brother.
He loved his parents and they loved him.
He had cousins close in age.
He wasn't shy.
He had lots of friends.
His nickname was Bougie.
His life was too damn short.

Yeah, the peeks into other people's lives aren't always sunshine and puppies. This one looked like a good life and it's sad to know that it has ended. I just hope that the photos I printed bring some smiles to the family and friends.

It's a LOLGabriel!

2008-06-17T23:35:44Z

Because we all know the internets exist to turn your pictures of your cats into LOL cats!

moar funny pictures

Free & Cheap music!

2008-06-16T02:14:19Z

I'm signed up at this cool new site called amiestreet.com.

They have music with no DRM that you can buy. The really cool part is the price. Everything starts FREE when it goes on there. Then they rise in price up to 98¢, based on their popularity.
Also, the artists get 70% of the sales!
So basically the songs don't quite hit the iTunes price, there's no DRM, and the artists get a heck of a lot more money per song than iTunes would give them!

It's a great way to find new artists for free. They're not all unknowns either.

And if you want to sign up give me an email and I'll send you a referral email. That way we both get free money to spend on songs. :)

And then go buy Sunspot's stuff if you don't have it yet! Their songs are all still at 15¢ & 17¢ so you can get all 4 albums for about $7 which is less than I paid for just one of them!

ugh

2008-06-13T03:58:03Z

Ever have one of those days where you're just in a deep funk and depressed as all get out? Yeah, me too. I even spent a little time out in the glorious sun and it didn't help. *sigh*

0.o

2008-06-11T04:59:29Z

I'm feeling cross-eyed after about 3 hours of proofreading the Misfits Writing Contest booklet for this year's CONvergence.
Note to self: PRINT OUT the next batch instead of reading it on the screen, DUMBASS!
It's so much easier to mark up paper and then transfer the marks to the document listing changes to be made!
Time for bed!!

For dakegra!

2008-06-10T19:21:10Z

Hey Dave! You might finally be able to get your JoCo on!
This here post lists his tentative UK tour schedule!!!

Oct 24: Dublin
Oct 25: Glasgow
Oct 29: Manchester
Oct 30: London - Shepherd’s Bush Empire
Oct 31: Nottingham - Game City
Nov 1: Oxford

He's not coming to Yorkshire like you wanted, but wouldn't Nottingham or Manchester be doable for you? If you can, you MUST go see JoCo!!!

Question of the day

2008-06-09T16:48:44Z

Inspired by my dipshit brother.

What is the stupidest thing someone in your family has ever done?

The Police vs. hookers, blow & JoCo!

2008-06-09T05:05:40Z

On August 6th this year hellbob & I will be celebrating our 14th wedding anniversary.

On August 7th he will go on vacation without me.

Then on August 14 I will go without him.

It wasn't really planned that way, it is just how things turned out.

I really wanted to go out to Vegas during the NME to meet all my online podcasting peeps and to go to the JoCo/Richard Cheese/Chance Coverville 500 concert. It just happens to be Microsoft's Patch Week, so my darling hellbob decided he shouldn't go.

Then last night as he was reading anything new on the internets about The Police he saw that their absolute final last concert together ever was going to be August 7th at Madison Square Garden in New York. And he started to hatch a plan.

So yes, hellbob will be getting two tickets for that concert tomorrow when they go on sale. He's going to go with kaldeth. They will fly out the day of the concert and fly back the next day.

Damn expensive concert, but how could I say no to him? He's put up with my James Marsters obsession, after all.

It just seems weird that after rarely flying for vacations in all our time together now we are both going to fly opposite directions without each other!

Of course, he will only get to gaze lovingly upon Sting, Andy and Stewart from afar. I, on the other hand, will most likely get to hug the adorable Mr. Jonathan Coulton. *grin*

I also have to admit to a bit of a twinge of jealousy, as I've already been to Vegas 3 other times (and Hellbob's been twice) but I've never been to New York City! Hardly seems fair seeing as how I'm the one that was born in New York state!

Note mostly for myself

2008-06-05T03:12:07Z

Minneapolis to Vegas
Thurs, Aug 14
Depart 7:00 am, arrive 8:18 am

Vegas to Minneapolis
Sun, Aug 17
Depart 12:50 am, arrive 5:47 am

So for coming home I'll basically be leaving late Saturday night. Kinda sucks but at least I only need to get a room for 2 nights!

Well, I guess it's summer now...

2008-06-04T23:15:38Z

It may not feel like summer weather yet, but I was bit by a mosquito earlier so it must be summer!

You otter go see them!

2008-06-04T23:09:12Z

The Minnesota Zoo's Russia's Grizzly Coast exhibit opens this weekend, and I'll be going to the members preview tomorrow night. This is some of the animal cuteness in store for me!

Click here to go to YouTube page

Tickets on sale now!!!

2008-06-04T05:08:33Z

The tickets for the Coverville 500 concert at the New Media Expo have gone on sale! Unfortunately the cost had to go up to $28 because Brian had to change the venue. :( But $28 is still a bargain for a concert featuring:

Richard Cheese
Jonathan Coulton
Chance
Natalie Gelman
The Radio Adventures of Dr. Floyd
and hosted by Dan Klass

All of you who are going to the NME should come to the show!

Crazy people with money

2008-06-04T03:03:00Z

Pictures from House On The Rock.
There are some under the cut, and even more at my gallery.

Picture spam!

2008-06-03T02:06:12Z

Iris bud in the rain:

purple/blue flower: