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Narrow Stairs [14 May 2008|10:38pm] [ mood | tired ] [ music | firemen worked double shifts, prayers for rain on their lips ] For anyone curious about my opinion of the new Death Cab for Cutie-- I like it. A lot. After 4-5 listens through, my top picks are: -Bixby Canyon Bridge -I Will Possess Your Heart -Grapevine Fires Second tier of awesome: -Cath... -You Can Do Better Than Me -Your New Twin Sized Bed The others aren't bad, just haven't particularly grown on me yet. There is nothing I particularly dislike on the album. Also, "You Can Do Better Than Me" has the highest jaunty to heartbreaking ratio of anything I've heard in maybe ever. post comment

verizon and/or samsung FAIL [09 Mar 2008|11:24am] [ mood | baffled ] When I went around changing clocks this morning I realized that my cell phone had not Sprung Forward. Which is odd, because it has been my impression that cell phones get the time from cell towers and therefore change themselves. But possibly verizon is just not with the program or something, or my phone is secretly out to get me, though it did not have any trouble with this transition last fall. I tried to change it manually, but then my phone said NOOOO NOT ALLOWED. So I guess my phone clock is going to be mysteriously wrong until the magic of technology kicks in and fixes it, or something. Hmph. 9 comments|post comment

way to go, media [17 Feb 2008|10:07am] On Boston.com: A Journey From Cancer to Champion for Sox' Lester "Winning the deciding game of the World Series, the part everyone else remembers and celebrates, he doesn't dwell on, maybe because Jon Lester is determined to be known as something other than Celebrity Cancer Boy." However, we here at the Globe are doing our damnedest to prevent that from happening by running articles like this all the damn time. After all, if the novelty of Cancer Boy wore off, we'd be forced to write about baseball. *facepalm* post comment

my handwriting [10 Feb 2008|11:53am] [ mood | blah ] [ music | you never thought it was a crime to be so sad and lonely ] from archiveninja: Handwrite the following and then upload. 1. Your name/username. 2. Left-handed or right-handed? 3. Favourite letters to write? 4. Least favourite letters to write? 5. Write "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog". 6. Tag 5 people. Bonus facts: I write in cursive more naturally going straight up-and-down but sometime in elementary school or junior high or something I undertook to learn to write with more of a slant, and that's still how I do it today on the rare occasions when I find it necessary to write cursive. Also, in junior high I for some reason decided that my printing wasn't girly enough because it was very harsh and angular. My round-bottomed w's and y's and my curly f's come from that time. I was bored in grade school. Also, neurotic. 1 comment|post comment

more weird library things [27 Jan 2008|09:53am] [ mood | amused ] Suppose you're a giant nerd and you're sitting around on Saturday night trying to decide whether to go to the library or go out drinking. Decisions, decisions! Finally, there is a solution for you. If you happen to be located in Pittsburgh, anyway: http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM2JFX Yes, it's a pub called "The Library". Which is library-themed, and has menus pasted inside books, and also card catalogs and those funny bankers' lamps. Win! 2 comments|post comment

librarian nerdiness [21 Jan 2008|12:00pm] Dear fellow librarians and other nerds, Have you ever wished that there existed a game in which you could practice shelving according to LC classification, whilst a crotchety man encourages and berates you? No? Well, never mind that. Such a game does exist! Go here and be forever entertained: http://www.library.cmu.edu/Libraries/etc/game1/game1.swf No need to thank me. Now we can all die happy. Or something. ~Amanda 3 comments|post comment

i blame grimms_creed [08 Dec 2007|10:29am] [ mood | amused ] for making me aware of this particular silly quiz. Your Score: Chiltepin Pepper You scored 50% intoxication, 75% hotness, 50% complexity, and 50% craziness! You are Chiltepin! You are extremely hot. You're so hot, you're the mother of all hotness. Although your heat is great, it diminishes quickly, so don't worry, you can't cause that much harm... or can you? Please just make sure people wear gloves when they handle you. Link: The Which Spice Are You Test written by jodiesattva on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test Um. Right. I am going to go back to being a snow leopard now. 2 comments|post comment

silly quiz alert [07 Dec 2007|07:23pm] I just re-took that Golden Compass daemon quiz thingy (apparently I am bored), and this time my daemon was Aeschylus the snow leopard. Which I like much better than Whoziwhatsit the spider that I got many months ago when I first took it. My soul is so... cuddly! And also his name is Aeschylus. Awesomesauce, as the kids say. (The movie looks soooo pretty. I am going to be disappointed if I can't find anyone to go see it with.) 6 comments|post comment

brought to my attention by acsumama [11 Nov 2007|08:31pm] An academic article about The Emperor's New Groove: Helaine Silverman. 2002. Groovin' to ancient Peru: a critical analysis of Disney's The Emperor's New Groove, Journal of Social Archaeology 2: 298-322 1 comment|post comment

NaBlaaaaah [03 Nov 2007|06:59pm] by the way, for those of you who don't read Age-Old Songs, I am participating in National Blog Posting Month (not much of a novelist, me), so probably I will not be posting to livejournal much, and if you are curious about what I'm up to (and whether I can successfully reach an artificially-imposed writing goal), look over there. 2 comments|post comment

Halloween costume [28 Oct 2007|03:16pm] Well, I hate to disappoint all who I impressed with my intentions of doing a Shadowcat costume. But sometime in mid-October I went from ambitious to lazy, and as a result, all you are getting this year is a picture of my lazy cow costume. Moo. My laziness was partially enabled by firynze, who sent me this cow skirt that she had made me earlier this year. Thanks! =) 6 comments|post comment

pretend like this is a meme. i know you all like memes. [21 Oct 2007|06:22pm] [ music | shed some light, shed some light on me please ] I finally got Netflix. I'm not a huge television or movie watcher, at all, but I am beginning to develop a tv habit and it's very nice to have something to watch while I'm cutting fabric or knitting or whatever other random things I do which require my hands but not so much my brain. So between my attempts to catch up on House and my eagerness to try things that people have recommended to me (Farscape, Firefly, Buffy -- yes, I'm a giant nerd)... here I am with Netflix. Now, I really do not watch many movies, and I know there's lots and lots of things out there that I probably ought to have seen but haven't. Plus, I have this horrible tendency to write off movies as things I wouldn't like without ever seeing them or knowing what they are about, so a lot of the things I end up seeing and liking are movies that my friends have dragged me to or rented without consulting me* (Little Miss Sunshine, I <3 Huckabees, Fight Club, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang... the list goes on). So what I would love you all to do is suggest things I might like, and I will put it in my Netflix queue and see if I like it. Here are some things that I like: scifi, dark or ironic comedy, children's movies if they are cleverly written, drama and action/adventure if the plot is good, pretty movies, weird things. Also, for some reason I end up liking a lot of foreign films even though I do not see how foreign is really a genre. Here are some things that I don't like: horror, thrillers, romance (unless it is extremely well-done), stupid comedy (I suppose stupid is subjective, but I am not thinking of good examples right now). Don't worry about suggesting things I might have already seen. Probably I haven't. Also, this is me on Netflix should anyone care to friend me (I am still just figuring out the friends functionality and such): http://www.netflix.com/BeMyFriend/P8oxxKGc3Zn5u39iPxXD *One of my favorite examples of this is when I was living with floodlikewater and AMC was showing Field of Dreams and I admitted I had never seen it. She said "Then you NEED to see it," and took custody of the remote and sure enough, I liked it quite a lot, and now I own it (it was cheap). I am kind of a sucker for baseball movies (not enough to like Mr. 3000 though.) 22 comments|post comment

few of you will care about this [02 Oct 2007|08:33pm] [ music | i feel it all, i feel it all ] ( thoughts on the new season of House ) 2 comments|post comment

Veterans and Homer [25 Sep 2007|07:09am] this looks fascinating, though I haven't read the whole thing yet (gotta go to work): Psychiatrist Treated Veterans Using Homer 4 comments|post comment

Halloween approaches [18 Sep 2007|09:55pm] And continuing my superhero theme of the past few years, I think I'll go as Shadowcat. Mind you, she has had some pretty terrible outfits over the years, but I will be going with the classic navy-and-gold, which is better than most. Also, it gives me an opportunity to re-use yellow gloves and fabric from last year. Isadore will be going as Lockheed. Yup. 9 comments|post comment

career quiz, via everyone [17 Sep 2007|08:28pm] [ mood | amused ] 1. Go to http://www.careercruising.com/. 2. Put in Username: nycareers, Password: landmark. 3. Take their "Career Matchmaker" questions. 4. Post the top howevermany results. 1. Industrial Designer 2. Sign Maker 3. Carpenter 4. Tilesetter 5. Website Designer 6. Welder 7. Boilermaker 8. Fashion Designer 9. Interior Designer 10. Glazier 11. Pet Groomer 12. Desktop Publisher 13. Cabinetmaker 14. Autobody Repairer 15. Cartoonist / Comic Illustrator 16. Animator 17. Electronics Assembler 18. Arborist 19. Makeup Artist 20. Costume Designer 21. Set Designer 22. Multimedia Developer 23. Office Machine Repairer 24. Insulator 25. Graphic Designer 26. Artist 27. Computer Animator 28. Upholsterer 29. Medical Illustrator 30. Sheet Metal Worker 31. Automotive Painter 32. Musical Instrument Builder and Repairer I cannot even explain how amused I am that sign maker was #2. No, I did not enjoy making signs that much. Despite all the filbar stories appearing in my blog. The results here are obviously heavily leaning towards the manual and creative side of my interests, because I'm feeling oh-so-confident about my people skills these days. I suspect that is why librarian doesn't appear. There are lots of things on this list that I wouldn't be inclined to do because I wouldn't like the environment. I think I am about done with the factory-style setting, thanks. I pasted up to 32 because musical instrument repair was one of the things I was considering doing during college when I was deciding what was next for me. 6 comments|post comment

"Here come the bullpens..." [07 Sep 2007|11:01pm] [ mood | silly ] In today's Red Sox game at Baltimore, there was a near-brawl where the bullpens actually emptied to run out and join in. (Long run for nothing, as it turns out.) It was one of the funniest things I've ever seen. (It's toward the middle of the clip linked at the top of this page.) It involved climbing over fences. 6 comments|post comment

[07 Sep 2007|05:09pm] Madeleine L'Engle died yesterday. 2 comments|post comment

this would have been way higher years ago [04 Sep 2007|06:33pm] via kazulrw: 60%How Addicted to Blogging Are You? Mingle2 - Dating Site post comment

headlines that make you go whaaa? [15 Aug 2007|11:21pm] "The tiff between Mitt Romney and an Internet snowman is heating up" is, officially, one of the phrases I least expected to see on a news website, ever. But clearly I have underestimated the power of the Internet to be completely surreal. It always amuses me when mainstream media tries to explain things like Aquateens and stuff appearing on YouTube. It sounds strangely stilted. I think now I am going to make a concentrated effort to use Internet as an adjective more often. Mind you, I'm not sure how I'll do it. But I think it will be fun. Or alternately I am just sleepy and not making sense. 2 comments|post comment

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