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Got this from Henry Jenkins' blog - test your modern nerd credibility!

How Big a Geek Are You?

The following are geek culture references from Junot Diaz's (Pulitzer Prize-winning book) The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.

( How many of them can you identify? )

None of this will make any sense unless you're a fan of Arrested Development..

( Awesome Arrested Development stuff I found today.. )

Jero concert over and done with, room filled up completely with 530+ people, all volunteers taken care of, no accidents or disasters, tv crews satisfied, everyone happy. *falls over*

To anyone out there who's read The Wee Free Men, A Hat Full of Sky, or Wintersmith - over at Making Light, they're filking about slashers, and someone on the LJ Discworld community added this verse:

Daft Wullie said "I'm off tae bed
"Wi'Horace, if ye please.
"I'll never have a kelda
"But crivens! I love cheese!"

<3 Daft Wullie might be my favorite after all.

Lynn and I went to go see Encounters at the End of the World (link goes to trailer) tonight, Warner Herzog's newest film. Although Mr. Herzog is a deeply odd man, he makes gorgeous movies, and if it's playing near you, I recommend it as a strange, beautiful trip into the obscure. The movie is about Antartica, McMurdo Station, and the people (scientists, workers, etc.) living there - how they ended up there, what they do, what their lives are like, etc - including many extensive sequences of video shot while scuba diving under the ice.

(Note: if you're a fan of Stargate: Atlantis, this film might awake in you a billion fic ideas just based on the interviews with scientists and their daily life conditions at McMurdo and other camps, and it even has a bit with an Air Force pilot who shuttles people from New Zealand to McMurdo.)

Goddammit, this is annoying. I can't download a 3.5GB file of the opening ceremonies of the Olympics, and I finally found someone on YouTube who was uploading CCTV's coverage of the parade of nations (the only part I had yet to see, and I even understood some of the Chinese!), and I made it as far as he had uploaded this morning, with not too many more countries to go, and right as he uploads the part I'm waiting for, I'm guessing NBC (or CCTV, I suppose) freaked out and had all his videos pulled, and they're suspending accounts left and right. HI NBC, IF YOUR VIDEOS WOULD WORK ON A POOR POWER PC MAC INSTEAD OF REQUIRING AN INTEL MAC, I WOULD WATCH THEM ON YOUR WEBSITE.

Bleh. At least we made it out today for a dim sum lunch with a big group of friends, and tomorrow we leave for the beach! Sunday-Wednesday we'll be in Delaware and Maryland, hopefully going to some national seashores (Assateague, woo!) and taking a tour of the Dogfishhead brewery for Tim, and going clamming and biking and all that good stuff. I'm going to try to find a few friends who want to rent a beach house together in Chincoteague or Delaware next summer for a week, since Tim has school year-round and we'll have limited vacation time when we can take a week off, and we have Kally to watch after now!

._. I have to leave the kitty for the first time with this vacation, I almost want to smuggle her in my luggage. --;;;; Seperation anxiety..

Oh man.. I woke up this morning and saw that fruit flies were attempting to invade my sacks of imperfect tomatoes and peaches that I got at the farmers' market on Friday, so I peeled all the tomatoes to make sauce, and then all of the peaches until I had juice running down my arms, and then made Peach Biscuits for breakfast, with blueberries and whipped cream and all of the leftover peaches stewed with brown sugar and coconut on top..

Then I realized there was only me and Tim to eat, so I sighed in defeat and ate a giant bowl of them, as they won't be good after they sit for awhile anyway. XD; Now I have a giant bowl of peeled tomatoes and I will be forced to make pizza for lunch and sauce for dinner. <3

(Charlotte - Eric warned me about your aversion to peaches, otherwise I'd have brought over delicious food to eat while we play Arkham Asylum this afternoon. Hopefully I'll get a zucchini chocolate chip cake baked in time as a replacement!)

Sting, despite having a hobo beard and being older than my parents, is still one of the most attractive men I've ever seen. Also, he can still sing. <3<3<3

I hope the new Here is Greenwood drama features the episodes with Shinobu's family and Mitsuru's kidnapping (it's probably too much to hope they do the Cherrywood episode). ;_; I can tell from the opening credits that they do the RPG filming chapters, but I didn't notice any hints of Nagisa.. My favorite manga finally made it to the drama stage, and they haven't butchered anything in the first 3 episodes!

I made my first attempt at trimming Kally's claws today. I managed to do one before she went into attack mode, but luckily she forgets her grudge 2 minutes after the fact. At least compared to Mittens, my parents' cat, Kally is an angel who just barely grazes me with her claws and only really gives love bites. Mittens used to make me look like I'd fallen into a thorn bush repeatedly - I haven't touched the Neosporin or bandaids once yet with Kally. XD;

Also a point of love: I woke up this morning and made fried green tomatoes for brunch. <3 Fried green tomatoes may be the most pleasant and delicious thing one can eat on a Saturday morning.