| The first day of Summer was today |
[May. 20th, 2012|08:56 pm] |
For me, anyway. See, Summer is typically official on June 21st but I don't go by those Soviet-like standards but instead use the simpler metric of 'First day I have to turn on the air conditioning', which was today. Hot, noisy day. And my car was blocked in the parking lot by one of the new residents who came home last night obviously drunk and only backed 2/3's into their spot. Along with the new family-types who moved in and constantly leave the front door pushed open. That door is the only thing keeping random tweakers from wandering into the complex so I have a problem with it be left open unsupervised.
Looks like tonight might be cure for my insomnia though, because I'm very, very tired. Probably going to be up another half hour, if that. And we all checked out the solar eclipse at 6:30 tonight. It was hard to see but the light got weird for a while. |
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| I kind of loved the Avengers |
[May. 16th, 2012|05:25 pm] |
I grew up reading all of those comic books - initially my dad would buy them for me on his frequent work trips. Early ones were mostly Batman & Superman. I didn't really like either of them however, it was Spider Man and the X-Men who spoke more to me and I had a huge pile of Captain America, Iron Man, Swamp Thing, Fantastic Four, etc. I subscribed to Thor for a few years. The film hit all the right notes though and the casting worked.
Oddly, I haven't seen any of the origin films except the original Iron Man. I'll have to fix that now.
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| "Execute Error 37" |
[May. 15th, 2012|03:24 pm] |
Diablo III, Blizzard's newest game, "launched" at midnight last night - which means that by now, people have been unable to log in for the last 12 hours. Gamers being slightly obsessive, many of them had today off so they could play and as of right now, estimated fix times keep jumping ahead by 1-2 hours and it still isn't working.
For the record, I will pick the game up, but I'm taking a day off on Thursday, when all these shenanigans will be fixored.
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| Today's double-facepalm worthy moment |
[May. 10th, 2012|03:54 pm] |
Bristol Palin Criticizes Obama's ... Parenting
"While it’s great to listen to your kids’ ideas, there’s also a time when dads simply need to be dads. In this case, it would’ve been helpful for him to explain to Malia and Sasha that while her friends parents are no doubt lovely people, that’s not a reason to change thousands of years of thinking about marriage. Or that – as great as her friends may be – we know that in general kids do better growing up in a mother/father home. Ideally, fathers help shape their kids’ worldview."
Setting aside the fact that children being raised by a male and a female parent is a debunked horseshit Christian talking point, Bristol Palin is a single mom whose own god-fearing, pro-family mother actively uses her lawyers and political clout to keep Levi Johnston away from his son just for spite. |
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[May. 8th, 2012|07:46 pm] |
"New rule — When you're tanning and you get to be the same color as a 500 year-old ice man mummy — Stop."
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| And now a random memory |
[May. 8th, 2012|04:46 pm] |
Recently someone on LJ I don't respect at all claimed that there's no such thing as talent or ability, just hard work and devotion. Hence, anybody can become anything and well, the difference between Usain Bolt and you is that you haven't worked at becoming a world-class sprinter and that's why he can run so much faster. This is patently stupid of course, and ignores reality. Because most of us couldn't become surgeons or astronauts or world-class sprinters, period.
My high school class was pretty poor athletically and I remember being unable to make the varsity basketball team my junior year. This is the same team that went 2-38 that season and followed it by a senior season in which they went 0-40, possibly setting a school record for futility. We had a section for our home games devoted to booing, which made a long season more enjoyable. For us, anyway.
Know your limits. One of mine was being a shitty basketball player. |
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