This is a fan made trailer for Thundercats, the movie. Vin Diesel makes an awesome Panthro.
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Thursday, December 25, 2008
Christmas Funny
Hee hee hee, this is brilliant.
Found via Ace of Spades
Right, enough silliness. Tomorrow I'm off to Brugge.
Found via Ace of Spades
Right, enough silliness. Tomorrow I'm off to Brugge.
Happy Christmas!
Is everyone having a good Christmas?
I'm having a very merry Christmas. I have been visited by Father Christmas, and I have tasted the figgy pudding. It tasted like fruit and booze.
The Christmas pudding is made with a very rich cake, stuffed with fruit (presumably figs) and then soaked in cooking sherry. You steam it for an hour, so it cooks off, but it leaves a pretty strong flavor behind. There's also a warning about putting it in the microwave, as the pudding could catch fire. Which I thought was funny. I don't remember the exact wording, but it went something like this:
Warning: This pudding might spontaneously combust when exposed to high temperatures.
We went down to London and went to the Christmas festival in Hyde Park. I bought some beautiful German ornaments carved out of wood and reeds. I also got a crepe stuffed with cherries and nutella, which tasted amazing. I love eating something hot out of your hands when your walking around in the cold. It seems so wintery. They also had ice skating, but it was sold out.
That's okay. I've never been ice skating, but given my roller skating experiences I'd guess I'd spend most of it falling on my backside.
After the park we went to a Japanese noodle house called "Wagamamas" and I had some amazing Ramen. Before this, Ramen was the super cheap meal you ate in college. But this Ramen came with chicken, fish, tofu, spinach and a pickled something or other on the top. It was pink and white, but it didn't taste like a radish. You ate it with chop sticks and this enormous wooden spoon. Seriously, the thing was more like a ladle than a spoon. The tables were community tables, and the girl next to me would load up her spoon, and then just chew stuff off the front end. I couldn't quite manage that without spilling soup all over me, so I would sip the broth off the side of the spoon, and eat the noodles and meat with my chopsticks.
We stayed at a very nice hotel which had a full English breakfast in the morning.
Other than that I've been enjoying the English countryside. I've been helping my friends get ready for Christmas, making cookies, dropping off neighbor gifts, and playing Santa.
Last night we attended an Anglican Christmas Eve service in the little village church. The church was built sometime in the 1300s, so it was really beautiful, and really cold. There were readings and Christmas carols I had never heard before. After communion they passed out candles, turned off the lights, and we sang "Angles we have heard on high" to candlelight.
It was really fun. Although the highlights were probably when the bats woke up (It's so medieval! Stone work, large creaky doors, stained glass, bats, it was awesome.) And when my friend accidentally set her hair on fire during the service.
Father Christmas even managed to find me, and brought me the DVD of Hogfather, which I've really wanted, and some cool Warcraft goodies. He also brought me Haribo gummies, which just seem to taste better when they're eaten out of German packaging.
I'm having a very merry Christmas. I have been visited by Father Christmas, and I have tasted the figgy pudding. It tasted like fruit and booze.
The Christmas pudding is made with a very rich cake, stuffed with fruit (presumably figs) and then soaked in cooking sherry. You steam it for an hour, so it cooks off, but it leaves a pretty strong flavor behind. There's also a warning about putting it in the microwave, as the pudding could catch fire. Which I thought was funny. I don't remember the exact wording, but it went something like this:
Warning: This pudding might spontaneously combust when exposed to high temperatures.
We went down to London and went to the Christmas festival in Hyde Park. I bought some beautiful German ornaments carved out of wood and reeds. I also got a crepe stuffed with cherries and nutella, which tasted amazing. I love eating something hot out of your hands when your walking around in the cold. It seems so wintery. They also had ice skating, but it was sold out.
That's okay. I've never been ice skating, but given my roller skating experiences I'd guess I'd spend most of it falling on my backside.
After the park we went to a Japanese noodle house called "Wagamamas" and I had some amazing Ramen. Before this, Ramen was the super cheap meal you ate in college. But this Ramen came with chicken, fish, tofu, spinach and a pickled something or other on the top. It was pink and white, but it didn't taste like a radish. You ate it with chop sticks and this enormous wooden spoon. Seriously, the thing was more like a ladle than a spoon. The tables were community tables, and the girl next to me would load up her spoon, and then just chew stuff off the front end. I couldn't quite manage that without spilling soup all over me, so I would sip the broth off the side of the spoon, and eat the noodles and meat with my chopsticks.
We stayed at a very nice hotel which had a full English breakfast in the morning.
Other than that I've been enjoying the English countryside. I've been helping my friends get ready for Christmas, making cookies, dropping off neighbor gifts, and playing Santa.
Last night we attended an Anglican Christmas Eve service in the little village church. The church was built sometime in the 1300s, so it was really beautiful, and really cold. There were readings and Christmas carols I had never heard before. After communion they passed out candles, turned off the lights, and we sang "Angles we have heard on high" to candlelight.
It was really fun. Although the highlights were probably when the bats woke up (It's so medieval! Stone work, large creaky doors, stained glass, bats, it was awesome.) And when my friend accidentally set her hair on fire during the service.
Father Christmas even managed to find me, and brought me the DVD of Hogfather, which I've really wanted, and some cool Warcraft goodies. He also brought me Haribo gummies, which just seem to taste better when they're eaten out of German packaging.
Monday, December 22, 2008
Corbeau's Holiday Travel Adventure
My flight from Reagan left bright and early at 6:35, so I was at the airport at 5. Unfortunately, so we're all the people who had been trapped there on Friday from the ice storms. It was crazy. I've never seen such a crowd at the airport. A little after 6 I managed to get my bag checked and booked it to the terminals.
The last time I ran in an airport was when I was 16 and we were trying to make a connection at O'Hare. That experience led to my traveler's creed of "Never EVER connect through O'Hare, even if they reroute you through Detroit."
Anyway, I managed to make my flight, only to sit for 20 minutes on the tarmac at JFK, which was still icy and nasty. Since I only had an hour layover, this was a little stressful. Finally they took us to one of those walkways outside, because the wait for a gate would be another 40 minutes. I walked carefully across the ice, but once inside, the race was ON!
You should have seen me. I made excellent time, especially on those moving walkways. I made it to the international terminal just as my flight was boarding, so I even had time for the bathroom. That's how fast I was.
I was so proud of myself for making that connection.
Oh yes I was.
And then we sat inside the plane, on the tarmac, for the next five hours.
FIVE. FREAKING. HOURS.
Forget waterboarding, we should stick terrorists in an enclosed space with a looping Christmas mix until they attempt to break their own eardrums.
At first the baggage cart was delayed because of the ice. Then there was a light out in the cockpit. It's the light that let's the pilot know that the landing gear is down, so it was an important light. But it took two hours to change out. Something about removing a panel.
Then we had to wait for the de-icing truck, which took another few hours. And by the time we finally go de-iced, we couldn't take off because London Heathrow has a very strict curfew and no planes can land between midnight and 6. So they had to file new paperwork which would take another hour and a half.
Fortunately at this point they let us off the plane. Which was good because I starting to freak out. Between the music, the screaming baby (the plane wasn't even moving! What were they doing to that kid to make it scream for hour after hour?) and the fascinating odours coming from the guy in front of me I was starting to lose it.
After we got back into the terminal they gave us free meal vouchers so could have lunch, and then they decided that we would just wait until Heathrow opened again, another 5 hours. But at least we spent those hours in the terminal, where they have tv, and ice cream, and leg room.
We got back on the plane at 6. We were supposed to leave at 6:30, but had to wait another hour for the de-icing truck, apparently the only one for the entire wretched airport.
So my flight, which was supposed to leave at 8:55 am, took off at 7:45 pm.
My new travel motto is, "Never travel on 3 hours of sleep, no matter how many times your friends tell you that you can sleep on the plane."
Hopefully BSA fared better, although the last time I heard from her, she was stuck in Baltimore.
The last time I ran in an airport was when I was 16 and we were trying to make a connection at O'Hare. That experience led to my traveler's creed of "Never EVER connect through O'Hare, even if they reroute you through Detroit."
Anyway, I managed to make my flight, only to sit for 20 minutes on the tarmac at JFK, which was still icy and nasty. Since I only had an hour layover, this was a little stressful. Finally they took us to one of those walkways outside, because the wait for a gate would be another 40 minutes. I walked carefully across the ice, but once inside, the race was ON!
You should have seen me. I made excellent time, especially on those moving walkways. I made it to the international terminal just as my flight was boarding, so I even had time for the bathroom. That's how fast I was.
I was so proud of myself for making that connection.
Oh yes I was.
And then we sat inside the plane, on the tarmac, for the next five hours.
FIVE. FREAKING. HOURS.
Forget waterboarding, we should stick terrorists in an enclosed space with a looping Christmas mix until they attempt to break their own eardrums.
At first the baggage cart was delayed because of the ice. Then there was a light out in the cockpit. It's the light that let's the pilot know that the landing gear is down, so it was an important light. But it took two hours to change out. Something about removing a panel.
Then we had to wait for the de-icing truck, which took another few hours. And by the time we finally go de-iced, we couldn't take off because London Heathrow has a very strict curfew and no planes can land between midnight and 6. So they had to file new paperwork which would take another hour and a half.
Fortunately at this point they let us off the plane. Which was good because I starting to freak out. Between the music, the screaming baby (the plane wasn't even moving! What were they doing to that kid to make it scream for hour after hour?) and the fascinating odours coming from the guy in front of me I was starting to lose it.
After we got back into the terminal they gave us free meal vouchers so could have lunch, and then they decided that we would just wait until Heathrow opened again, another 5 hours. But at least we spent those hours in the terminal, where they have tv, and ice cream, and leg room.
We got back on the plane at 6. We were supposed to leave at 6:30, but had to wait another hour for the de-icing truck, apparently the only one for the entire wretched airport.
So my flight, which was supposed to leave at 8:55 am, took off at 7:45 pm.
My new travel motto is, "Never travel on 3 hours of sleep, no matter how many times your friends tell you that you can sleep on the plane."
Hopefully BSA fared better, although the last time I heard from her, she was stuck in Baltimore.
Friday, December 19, 2008
Ninja Holiday Report
Tomorrow I fly to England where I will spend the next two weeks trying to figure out just what a "figgy pudding" is.
This holiday trip is so awesome that it has warped the space-time continuum, causing every clock in my office to tick by in an agonizing crawl.
But at last I'm home and the holiday has begun! Since I'm leaving I've had local and family Christmas early, with roommate Christmas tonight.
I've had a bath with some of my new bath oils, and now I'm watching The Dark Knight and eating Christmas chocolates.
The blog will be slow for the next couple of weeks. Enjoy your holidays and I hope to have lots of new stories to tell when I get back.
This holiday trip is so awesome that it has warped the space-time continuum, causing every clock in my office to tick by in an agonizing crawl.
But at last I'm home and the holiday has begun! Since I'm leaving I've had local and family Christmas early, with roommate Christmas tonight.
I've had a bath with some of my new bath oils, and now I'm watching The Dark Knight and eating Christmas chocolates.
The blog will be slow for the next couple of weeks. Enjoy your holidays and I hope to have lots of new stories to tell when I get back.
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
7 on 1
Tonight in Krav, we did a mass attacker drill that featured 7 people with pads keeping 1 person in the center. Once the person in the middle fought free of the circle, they then had to fight off each of the 7 people.
And then reset and do it again.
I did pretty good the first time around, but on the second I had a hard time fighting free of the circle. Eventually the mass broke around a pole and I was able to slip out.
The odd thing was, about 30 seconds after I finished I was on my way to mass around the next victim, I had this sudden huge stitch in my side. I actually bent over and lost my mouthpiece.
It was dramatic enough that the instructor checked on me.
I really need to work on my endurance.
And then reset and do it again.
I did pretty good the first time around, but on the second I had a hard time fighting free of the circle. Eventually the mass broke around a pole and I was able to slip out.
The odd thing was, about 30 seconds after I finished I was on my way to mass around the next victim, I had this sudden huge stitch in my side. I actually bent over and lost my mouthpiece.
It was dramatic enough that the instructor checked on me.
I really need to work on my endurance.
At last!!
We have Gambit in an X-men movie.
Don't get me wrong, I'm a fan of Wolverine. But Gambit is hot in the movie AND in the comics.
Don't get me wrong, I'm a fan of Wolverine. But Gambit is hot in the movie AND in the comics.
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Morning Inspiration
This is an awesome mix of 40 inspirational moments in 2 minutes.
Now, who's pumped for their commute?!
WHOOOO!!!!!
Now, who's pumped for their commute?!
WHOOOO!!!!!
Monday, December 15, 2008
Monday AMV -blerghhhh
Did everyone have a good weekend? I've eaten so many goodies that just the thought of sugar cookies makes me feel a little ill.
Speaking of sugar cookies, I was at a friends Christmas party, and everyone was opening their gifts all at once. I was working through mine methodically, based on shape and size.
I opened a tin, and it was full of all kinds of homemade cookies. I tried one. Hmmm, delicious. The next present was a plastic Christmas pail. I popped the lid and pulled out a bag full of little sugar cookies in the shape of moons.
"Cool!" I thought. I immediately opened the bag and popped one into my mouth. The first thing I noticed was that the cookies were dusted in flour, not powdered sugar. It also had a weird texture and taste.
"Eww" I thought, putting the lid back on. "I'll just take those home and toss 'em."
Just then I heard someone call out "The stuff in the pail is homemade pasta. Not sugar cookies! So you probably don't want to eat them right now."
"Good thing you warned us" a guy called out, "I was just about to eat some."
I just nodded vigourously. "Phew, warned just in time."
Today's video is from Band of Brothers, an HBO mini-series that's equal parts awe and heartbreak. Amazing stuff.
Speaking of sugar cookies, I was at a friends Christmas party, and everyone was opening their gifts all at once. I was working through mine methodically, based on shape and size.
I opened a tin, and it was full of all kinds of homemade cookies. I tried one. Hmmm, delicious. The next present was a plastic Christmas pail. I popped the lid and pulled out a bag full of little sugar cookies in the shape of moons.
"Cool!" I thought. I immediately opened the bag and popped one into my mouth. The first thing I noticed was that the cookies were dusted in flour, not powdered sugar. It also had a weird texture and taste.
"Eww" I thought, putting the lid back on. "I'll just take those home and toss 'em."
Just then I heard someone call out "The stuff in the pail is homemade pasta. Not sugar cookies! So you probably don't want to eat them right now."
"Good thing you warned us" a guy called out, "I was just about to eat some."
I just nodded vigourously. "Phew, warned just in time."
Today's video is from Band of Brothers, an HBO mini-series that's equal parts awe and heartbreak. Amazing stuff.
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Party 1 Update
For anyone who wants to participate vicariously. :)
Let's see, the firm had little croissant sandwiches with pork and apple jelly inside, roast beef, sushi (bleah), crab dip, spinach/artichoke dip, with all sorts of fancy breads, and two towers of cream puffs, surrounded by chocolate truffles, like ancient worshipers at a pastry pyramid.
Since it's a law firm in DC, the talk was mostly about politics and the economy.
It was awesome.
Party 2 happens in a few hours. It's a breakfast party, so I kind of wish I had cute pajamas to wear to it. I guess flannel pants and a cute t-shirt will have to do.
Nuts I don't even have a Christmas t-shirt! I am totally unprepared for a Christmas breakfast party.
Let's see, the firm had little croissant sandwiches with pork and apple jelly inside, roast beef, sushi (bleah), crab dip, spinach/artichoke dip, with all sorts of fancy breads, and two towers of cream puffs, surrounded by chocolate truffles, like ancient worshipers at a pastry pyramid.
Since it's a law firm in DC, the talk was mostly about politics and the economy.
It was awesome.
Party 2 happens in a few hours. It's a breakfast party, so I kind of wish I had cute pajamas to wear to it. I guess flannel pants and a cute t-shirt will have to do.
Nuts I don't even have a Christmas t-shirt! I am totally unprepared for a Christmas breakfast party.
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Holiday Parties!
The time of feasting has begun! Yesterday we had our office holiday party, and I have three more coming up over the weekend. Tis the season for overeating.
I ate a lot yesterday too, and then I went to Krav later that night and experienced something I like to call "Revenge of the Cheesecake."
I figured I'd be okay with a 6 hour digestion window, but we did endurance exercises, and those are always hard.
At one point I had to start doing girl push-ups. That always makes me feel like a sissy girl.
I ate a lot yesterday too, and then I went to Krav later that night and experienced something I like to call "Revenge of the Cheesecake."
I figured I'd be okay with a 6 hour digestion window, but we did endurance exercises, and those are always hard.
At one point I had to start doing girl push-ups. That always makes me feel like a sissy girl.
Monday, December 08, 2008
Monday AMV and The Cirque De Soleil
We put up our Christmas tree yesterday, so my house if officially ready for Christmas.
Friday I went with BSA to the Cirque De Soleil, which was really good, even though they held it at the National Harbor, which is only accessible by the Woodrow Wilson Bridge aka, the Bridge of Despair, and even though they charged 13 bucks for a popcorn and soda, and despite the ruthless pairing of extra salty popcorn with a strict no-refill policy on your souvenir cup.
CURSE YOU FRENCH-CANADIANS!!!!!! Vous etes des salles chameaux!!
But I digress. By the time we got off the Bridge of Eternal Torment the show had already started, so I missed the first act, but the rest was pure awesome.
Contortionists - freaky but beautiful. How does one become a professional contortionist anyway? What's that job interview like? Do you think she has "ability to sit on my own head" listed as a bullet point on her resume?
Yes, these were my thoughts, beyond "ew" and "Ahh!!" as I watched the contortionists do things no human body was ever meant to do. I can't help it.
If I could be anyone at the circus, I would be the trapeze girl. Not only does it look like tons of fun, but you get to have the super sassy attitude.
Volunteered by clowns = dire fate. Do not let this happen to you.
The High Wire guys were amazing. Not only did they walk across that sucker, they jump roped, rode bikes, and jumped over each other's heads. Although one did fall on that last one. He caught himself though, so it was all good.
During intermission we discovered the no refill policy, and toured the amazing masks that artists create for the circus.
The second half was dominated by something I can only describe as Spinning Wheels of DEATH. It was amazing, and the guys who perform on those things are crazy. Especially the one running on the outside!
Those are my highlights. There were beautiful things, amazing things, disturbing things, and a guy on stilts who performed a double back flip and nailed the landing.
It is definitely a show worth checking out.
Friday I went with BSA to the Cirque De Soleil, which was really good, even though they held it at the National Harbor, which is only accessible by the Woodrow Wilson Bridge aka, the Bridge of Despair, and even though they charged 13 bucks for a popcorn and soda, and despite the ruthless pairing of extra salty popcorn with a strict no-refill policy on your souvenir cup.
CURSE YOU FRENCH-CANADIANS!!!!!! Vous etes des salles chameaux!!
But I digress. By the time we got off the Bridge of Eternal Torment the show had already started, so I missed the first act, but the rest was pure awesome.
Contortionists - freaky but beautiful. How does one become a professional contortionist anyway? What's that job interview like? Do you think she has "ability to sit on my own head" listed as a bullet point on her resume?
Yes, these were my thoughts, beyond "ew" and "Ahh!!" as I watched the contortionists do things no human body was ever meant to do. I can't help it.
If I could be anyone at the circus, I would be the trapeze girl. Not only does it look like tons of fun, but you get to have the super sassy attitude.
Volunteered by clowns = dire fate. Do not let this happen to you.
The High Wire guys were amazing. Not only did they walk across that sucker, they jump roped, rode bikes, and jumped over each other's heads. Although one did fall on that last one. He caught himself though, so it was all good.
During intermission we discovered the no refill policy, and toured the amazing masks that artists create for the circus.
The second half was dominated by something I can only describe as Spinning Wheels of DEATH. It was amazing, and the guys who perform on those things are crazy. Especially the one running on the outside!
Those are my highlights. There were beautiful things, amazing things, disturbing things, and a guy on stilts who performed a double back flip and nailed the landing.
It is definitely a show worth checking out.
Friday, December 05, 2008
Cool Ad
Watch a guy wakeboard in flooded Mark's Square.
I'm listening to The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke, which is set in Venice and has a rather important event happen in Mark's Square.
Very cool. Good book.
I'm listening to The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke, which is set in Venice and has a rather important event happen in Mark's Square.
Very cool. Good book.
Thursday, December 04, 2008
AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!
Holy Crap!!
I couple of weeks ago we bought tickets to Cirque De Soleil. Today I got the reminder email, and as I was perusing it I noticed that it was for the 4 o'clock show and not the 8 o'clock show.
NUTS!!
I couple of weeks ago we bought tickets to Cirque De Soleil. Today I got the reminder email, and as I was perusing it I noticed that it was for the 4 o'clock show and not the 8 o'clock show.
NUTS!!
Tuesday, December 02, 2008
Monday, December 01, 2008
Monday AMV
I had two Thanksgivings this year and it was awesome! And now that we're into December, we can play Christmas music.
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Monday, November 24, 2008
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Bad Week
This week, actually, on Thursday, every perk I became eligible for at work was denied. Including a raise. I was counting on it, especially since it had all been approved until it reached my boss's boss's boss.
I've only met the man once, but apparently he hates me.
Actually, the most aggravating thing about all this is that it has nothing to do with me or my work performance and everything to do with some bizarre turf war with admin. Which got bad enough that I was just waiting for an email telling me that my Christmas vacation request had been denied.
"Not your vacation" my friend helpfully pointed out, "It'll be an email telling you that you have to work Thanksgiving and Christmas!"
Which reminded me of my worst Thanksgiving EVAH:
Corbeau Story Time
When I was in the Navy and was stationed at Norfolk, I pulled duty on Thanksgiving. I didn't mind too much. I didn't know anyone in the area, didn't have any family in the area, and didn't have a car.
So basically, I had no where to go and no way to get there.
What I didn't realize was that they would cancel all food service on Thanksgiving so that the galley workers could be at home with their families. Since I was on watch, I wasn't allowed to leave the base, and since this was the Thanksgiving after 9/11 the base wasn't allowing deliveries.
This led to the first and only, Corbeau's Vending Machine Thanksgiving. An entire day of ho hos and chips.
It got better though. Around ten that night, one of the other girls who usually stood that watch brought me some Thanksgiving dinner leftovers. They tasted amazing.
I've only met the man once, but apparently he hates me.
Actually, the most aggravating thing about all this is that it has nothing to do with me or my work performance and everything to do with some bizarre turf war with admin. Which got bad enough that I was just waiting for an email telling me that my Christmas vacation request had been denied.
"Not your vacation" my friend helpfully pointed out, "It'll be an email telling you that you have to work Thanksgiving and Christmas!"
Which reminded me of my worst Thanksgiving EVAH:
Corbeau Story Time
When I was in the Navy and was stationed at Norfolk, I pulled duty on Thanksgiving. I didn't mind too much. I didn't know anyone in the area, didn't have any family in the area, and didn't have a car.
So basically, I had no where to go and no way to get there.
What I didn't realize was that they would cancel all food service on Thanksgiving so that the galley workers could be at home with their families. Since I was on watch, I wasn't allowed to leave the base, and since this was the Thanksgiving after 9/11 the base wasn't allowing deliveries.
This led to the first and only, Corbeau's Vending Machine Thanksgiving. An entire day of ho hos and chips.
It got better though. Around ten that night, one of the other girls who usually stood that watch brought me some Thanksgiving dinner leftovers. They tasted amazing.
Friday, November 21, 2008
Friday Fun: Rhino Attack!!
I think the dramatic background music is what really makes this training video special.
"Fire! Escape!" I'm looking at you.
Found on TV in Japan.
"Fire! Escape!" I'm looking at you.
Found on TV in Japan.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Awww
I took the day off for some appointments and errands. That means I have internet browsing time!
It's freezing here, so I have an arctic themed video for you.
It's freezing here, so I have an arctic themed video for you.
Monday, November 17, 2008
Amazing Race and other TV updates
Whiny man is gone!!!!!! WHINY MAN IS GONE!!!!
And all because is picky, overly-sensitive, vegetarian self couldn't wolf down Sheep Butt Fat stew.
It was exciting that both teams risked the fast forward, but Whiny-Man team should have left the minute they saw it was a food challenge.
Plus the Mom and Son team were rocking it this week! I loved that they had so much fun with their cow costume. I loved the Mongol warriors, and that Gold Eagle was beautiful.
So all and all a good week!
Now we just need to lose the Frat boys and all the annoying people will be gone.
Heroes:
Was basically a big long flashback to show us all how EEEeeeeeeeeevvvvil Pa Petrelli is.
Remember way back when was Heroes was actually good and Linderman the mob guy was the only ridiculous thing about the Petrellis?
Well Pa Petrelli placed a hit on Nate, (his son) because Nate, as a DA, was going after Linderman.
Ma Petrelli disagreed and with the help of the Haitian, poisoned Daddy-O, but was unable to kill him all the way dead.
And this little bit of family drama resulted in the convoluted mess we have today.
Seriously, that's all they explained.
Except that Pa was rewriting Ma's brain everytime she disagreed with him. Which makes her a little more sympathetic, but she's still pretty evil all on her own.
Oh wait! We did learn that Fire Mom is Blue Flamey Guy's sister, and that she worked for the company briefly, until she helped her brother escape and the resulting firefight (literally) between those two and the company agents caused the train fire where Claire first used her ability to save a firefighter.
That part was cool.
Let's see, at the very end Hiro woke up to find Future Seeing Guy dead, because apparently his powers conveniently stopped working. Pa Petrelli then proceeds to attack/kill Hiro.
Let's hope he fares a little better. Although if they had the bad guys win and ended the series, I'd have to give them props for an ending no one saw coming.
And all because is picky, overly-sensitive, vegetarian self couldn't wolf down Sheep Butt Fat stew.
It was exciting that both teams risked the fast forward, but Whiny-Man team should have left the minute they saw it was a food challenge.
Plus the Mom and Son team were rocking it this week! I loved that they had so much fun with their cow costume. I loved the Mongol warriors, and that Gold Eagle was beautiful.
So all and all a good week!
Now we just need to lose the Frat boys and all the annoying people will be gone.
Heroes:
Was basically a big long flashback to show us all how EEEeeeeeeeeevvvvil Pa Petrelli is.
Remember way back when was Heroes was actually good and Linderman the mob guy was the only ridiculous thing about the Petrellis?
Well Pa Petrelli placed a hit on Nate, (his son) because Nate, as a DA, was going after Linderman.
Ma Petrelli disagreed and with the help of the Haitian, poisoned Daddy-O, but was unable to kill him all the way dead.
And this little bit of family drama resulted in the convoluted mess we have today.
Seriously, that's all they explained.
Except that Pa was rewriting Ma's brain everytime she disagreed with him. Which makes her a little more sympathetic, but she's still pretty evil all on her own.
Oh wait! We did learn that Fire Mom is Blue Flamey Guy's sister, and that she worked for the company briefly, until she helped her brother escape and the resulting firefight (literally) between those two and the company agents caused the train fire where Claire first used her ability to save a firefighter.
That part was cool.
Let's see, at the very end Hiro woke up to find Future Seeing Guy dead, because apparently his powers conveniently stopped working. Pa Petrelli then proceeds to attack/kill Hiro.
Let's hope he fares a little better. Although if they had the bad guys win and ended the series, I'd have to give them props for an ending no one saw coming.
Monday AMV
My ipod is entering it's final stages. So I went to BestBuy to get a new MP3 player, one that wasn't i-anything, and I found the perfect one. Black. Reasonably priced. Sony so it won't freeze, die, kill my laptop every other month or so.
And you know they wouldn't sell it to me? That particular model is being held for Black Friday. So instead of selling it to me now at full price, they're going to wait and sell it for less in two weeks.
Fascinating strategy BestBuy.
Hmmm, what band could possibly express my modern technology angst on this dreary, bitter cold day?
My Chemical Romance.
And it's Naruto because ninjas are cool. Even when they're angsty, tortured teenagers.
And you know they wouldn't sell it to me? That particular model is being held for Black Friday. So instead of selling it to me now at full price, they're going to wait and sell it for less in two weeks.
Fascinating strategy BestBuy.
Hmmm, what band could possibly express my modern technology angst on this dreary, bitter cold day?
My Chemical Romance.
And it's Naruto because ninjas are cool. Even when they're angsty, tortured teenagers.
Saturday, November 15, 2008
Quantum of Solace
Quantum of Solace picks up right where Casino Royale left off, so you'll want to watch that again before you go see this.
Trust me. I was lucky because one of my friends had a blackberry and looked up the plot line before the movie started. (We got there early for good seats) Otherwise I would have spent the entire movie going "Wait, who are these people again?"
It was quite good, including chases by land, sea and air. I like this new move to make Bond movies action movies instead of Bond movies. Because the standard Bond movie drives me crazy.
You'll want to sit farther back in the theater though. Some of the action scenes happen very fast, and if you're too close it's just big blurs flashing across the scene with crashes and gun shots.
I liked it, although the first one was a little better, Quantum was still an exciting movie. I have one critique with the end, but I don't want to spoil it.
I LOVE M's cool computer stuff.
Trust me. I was lucky because one of my friends had a blackberry and looked up the plot line before the movie started. (We got there early for good seats) Otherwise I would have spent the entire movie going "Wait, who are these people again?"
It was quite good, including chases by land, sea and air. I like this new move to make Bond movies action movies instead of Bond movies. Because the standard Bond movie drives me crazy.
You'll want to sit farther back in the theater though. Some of the action scenes happen very fast, and if you're too close it's just big blurs flashing across the scene with crashes and gun shots.
I liked it, although the first one was a little better, Quantum was still an exciting movie. I have one critique with the end, but I don't want to spoil it.
I LOVE M's cool computer stuff.
Friday, November 14, 2008
Friday Fun
Yeah it's the weekend!! I'm ready for the weekend. Here's a video to help us all get into a party mood.
Marines performing the cha cha slide.
Cha Cha Slide USMC Style
Marines performing the cha cha slide.
Cha Cha Slide USMC Style
Monday, November 10, 2008
Monday AMV
Know what the best part of a weekend conference on the Chesapeake Bay is?
All you can eat crab legs.
Hmmmmmm.
This weeks AMV features the anime Azumanga Daioh, which is a funny yet strange story about girls in high school.
I picked it because I really liked the song, especially after reading my friend's adventures as a Mom in suburbia.
All you can eat crab legs.
Hmmmmmm.
This weeks AMV features the anime Azumanga Daioh, which is a funny yet strange story about girls in high school.
I picked it because I really liked the song, especially after reading my friend's adventures as a Mom in suburbia.
Thursday, November 06, 2008
Ow. . . .
Tonight in Krav we learned the defense to a bear hug, which is fun because it involves the instructions "and then you just go crazy."
Going crazy is fun, but going crazy for any length of time takes some stamina. 30 seconds of crazy feels like 5 minutes.
Tonight will also be forever known as the night Corbeau decided to invest in some female groin protection.
Going crazy is fun, but going crazy for any length of time takes some stamina. 30 seconds of crazy feels like 5 minutes.
Tonight will also be forever known as the night Corbeau decided to invest in some female groin protection.
Wednesday, November 05, 2008
Sumo!!
Tonight at Krav, we learned how to sumo wrestle. It was loads of fun, and I even won a round. I managed to get my opponent off balance in the initial rush, and then I ran and pushed like a mad woman.
It's hard to win a game where you score points by pushing your opponent around, or picking them up, and everyone's bigger than you.
Although none of the guys tried to pick me up, for which I was grateful. I don't like being picked up. But I've come to accept that there are certain guys in this world who like to show off their manliness by picking up small women.
Of course with me, the jokes on them. I'm much heavier than I look. Thank you germanic ancestry! So usually I just go limp and let them experience the joy of supporting my full body weight.
It's hard to look manly when you're holding a small woman, but you're face is bright red and all your veins pop out.
It's hard to win a game where you score points by pushing your opponent around, or picking them up, and everyone's bigger than you.
Although none of the guys tried to pick me up, for which I was grateful. I don't like being picked up. But I've come to accept that there are certain guys in this world who like to show off their manliness by picking up small women.
Of course with me, the jokes on them. I'm much heavier than I look. Thank you germanic ancestry! So usually I just go limp and let them experience the joy of supporting my full body weight.
It's hard to look manly when you're holding a small woman, but you're face is bright red and all your veins pop out.
Tuesday, November 04, 2008
Election Fevah!
The polls this morning were crazy. People at worked stood in lines for as long as 2 hours. When they asked if I had voted, I said "I'm going after work" and they all gave me pitying stares, because if the lines were bad at 6am, they'll be crazy bad at 4pm.
Well I'm happy to report that I walked right in, got my ballot, and voted all under 5 minutes. The longest wait came when I couldn't find my license. Little sucker slid somewhere it wasn't supposed to be.
HA HA!!
I pulled a muscle in my leg last week at Krav, so I've been resting it. Today I got some icy hot to put on it. It feels really nice, but now my leg smells like toothpaste, which is really weird.
I might have to brush my teeth soon.
Well I'm happy to report that I walked right in, got my ballot, and voted all under 5 minutes. The longest wait came when I couldn't find my license. Little sucker slid somewhere it wasn't supposed to be.
HA HA!!
I pulled a muscle in my leg last week at Krav, so I've been resting it. Today I got some icy hot to put on it. It feels really nice, but now my leg smells like toothpaste, which is really weird.
I might have to brush my teeth soon.
Monday, November 03, 2008
Monday AMV
I bought Naruto Ninja Revolution for the Wii. It's fun, and so far I've managed to win every battle by pushing buttons and swinging madly. I've started the mission storyline though, so soon I'll have to learn how to play it properly.
Saturday, November 01, 2008
Ninja Report!
This week has been a little crazy.
Thursday night we went into DC to see the Sheng Wei dance troupe. Sheng Wei is the guy who choreographed by the same guy who did the opening ceremony for the Olympics. The floor was covered in what looked like little colored rocks, making a beautiful pattern of red, blue, white, and yellow. Like a sand painting from the Western deserts. Once the dancers came out I realized that it was actually colored confetti, and as the dancers moved through it, it would splash up in little waves of color. As the dance got bigger, the dancers would move and roll across the ground, and the confetti would cling to the dancers, and then sprinkle off as they moved. Soon, each dancer was accompanied by their own personal shower of glittery colory rain.
It was amazing beautiful.
Friday I wore my ninja costume to work. Apparently a ninja making copies or working on at a computer is inherently hilarious because anyone who walked by while I was actually working started cracking up.
Just about everyone said it was an awesome costume though. After I got home, I went to a couple of Halloween parties in the neighborhood. There were pictures taken, but not by me. (Ninja uniforms lack pockets) I'll try and get some copies, so you can see how awesome I looked.
Today has been really nice, so I went for a bike ride with BSA. My bike is a 100 dollar Wal-mart special, but it worked out all right.
Thursday night we went into DC to see the Sheng Wei dance troupe. Sheng Wei is the guy who choreographed by the same guy who did the opening ceremony for the Olympics. The floor was covered in what looked like little colored rocks, making a beautiful pattern of red, blue, white, and yellow. Like a sand painting from the Western deserts. Once the dancers came out I realized that it was actually colored confetti, and as the dancers moved through it, it would splash up in little waves of color. As the dance got bigger, the dancers would move and roll across the ground, and the confetti would cling to the dancers, and then sprinkle off as they moved. Soon, each dancer was accompanied by their own personal shower of glittery colory rain.
It was amazing beautiful.
Friday I wore my ninja costume to work. Apparently a ninja making copies or working on at a computer is inherently hilarious because anyone who walked by while I was actually working started cracking up.
Just about everyone said it was an awesome costume though. After I got home, I went to a couple of Halloween parties in the neighborhood. There were pictures taken, but not by me. (Ninja uniforms lack pockets) I'll try and get some copies, so you can see how awesome I looked.
Today has been really nice, so I went for a bike ride with BSA. My bike is a 100 dollar Wal-mart special, but it worked out all right.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Tuesday TV
My arms are sore, so this may be a little short.
In the Amazing Race the racers went to Cambodia,which they are pretty sure is in Asia. This didn't stop them from trying to communicate in Spanish. I love our little dunderheads.
They got to go to a village built entirely on water, including an enormous floating basketball court. Then they went to Angur Wat, the largest religious complex in the world. It looked amazing.
Aja and Ty got eliminated, as we knew they would be. They're plane was so far behind, they never had a chance. Although the producers tried to use sneaky editing to make it look more suspenseful.
Heroes:
Future Painter wants Hiro to go back into the Past and fix everything. Hiro says no, because last time he did that he spent forever on some boring story in feudal Japan and the ratings tanked. So Painter dude drugs him and sends him on a "vision quest" so he'll finally wise up.
Elle (lightening girl) makes her way to Claire's house and we learn that, like the Witch of the West, Elle doesn't fare so well against a bucket of water. Turns out that something short-circuited during her battle with Sylar, and now Elle can't turn her powers off.
So Elle and Claire head to Bad Guys Inc, where they heard they can get help.
Mama Petrelli wakes Sylar up and sends him after Peter. Sylar saves Peter, in the best moment of the night, and then just as it was getting good, has yet ANOTHER 180 turn around, and is back to being a villain.
Seriously, I feel like Sylar's constant change of heart is a solid basis for either a drinking game, or tv bingo. It passed the point of ridiculousness ages ago.
Sylar throws Peter out a window, and Peter lands in front of Elle and Claire. Claire helps Peter escape, and Elle joins the bad guys anyway, because anything is better than being a walking static ball.
Not-Nicki and Nate decided to talk to Mohinder, even though this never works out. Mohinder-spider grabs Miya, and heads off to Bad Guys Inc. where Papa Petrelli takes all of weepy girl's powers, and sends her back to whatever South American country she originally came from. ( I forget) Papa P also kills off Parkman's evil psychic Dad, so that's two irritating characters down in one episode.
Speedster joins up with Boring Parkman, whose amazing psychic abilities can't seem to ferret out that she's actually acting on orders as a double agent. Even when she's having said evil phone call 5 FREAKING FEET AWAY from his stupid psychic brain.
I hate you Parkman. So. .. MUCH... even Jean Grey was never this naive.
So the teams as we fade to black:
Good Guys:
Powerless Peter
Claire
Nate
Not-Nicki
HRG
Flame Lady
Mama Petrelli
Bad Guys:
Papa Petrelli
Fear Man
Blue Flamey Guy
Sylar AGAIN
Mohinder
Speedster Girl
Doing who knows what:
Elle
Parkman
Hiro/Ando
Future Painter Guy
People who've mysteriously dropped off the face of the planet:
Nate's wife
Nate's kids
People who were left in the future and then never heard from again, thus leading us to assume that they're still in the future, causing a massive snarl in the space-time continuum that will eventually result in a paradox that will destroy the universe:
Peter's Irish girlfriend from last season
In the Amazing Race the racers went to Cambodia,which they are pretty sure is in Asia. This didn't stop them from trying to communicate in Spanish. I love our little dunderheads.
They got to go to a village built entirely on water, including an enormous floating basketball court. Then they went to Angur Wat, the largest religious complex in the world. It looked amazing.
Aja and Ty got eliminated, as we knew they would be. They're plane was so far behind, they never had a chance. Although the producers tried to use sneaky editing to make it look more suspenseful.
Heroes:
Future Painter wants Hiro to go back into the Past and fix everything. Hiro says no, because last time he did that he spent forever on some boring story in feudal Japan and the ratings tanked. So Painter dude drugs him and sends him on a "vision quest" so he'll finally wise up.
Elle (lightening girl) makes her way to Claire's house and we learn that, like the Witch of the West, Elle doesn't fare so well against a bucket of water. Turns out that something short-circuited during her battle with Sylar, and now Elle can't turn her powers off.
So Elle and Claire head to Bad Guys Inc, where they heard they can get help.
Mama Petrelli wakes Sylar up and sends him after Peter. Sylar saves Peter, in the best moment of the night, and then just as it was getting good, has yet ANOTHER 180 turn around, and is back to being a villain.
Seriously, I feel like Sylar's constant change of heart is a solid basis for either a drinking game, or tv bingo. It passed the point of ridiculousness ages ago.
Sylar throws Peter out a window, and Peter lands in front of Elle and Claire. Claire helps Peter escape, and Elle joins the bad guys anyway, because anything is better than being a walking static ball.
Not-Nicki and Nate decided to talk to Mohinder, even though this never works out. Mohinder-spider grabs Miya, and heads off to Bad Guys Inc. where Papa Petrelli takes all of weepy girl's powers, and sends her back to whatever South American country she originally came from. ( I forget) Papa P also kills off Parkman's evil psychic Dad, so that's two irritating characters down in one episode.
Speedster joins up with Boring Parkman, whose amazing psychic abilities can't seem to ferret out that she's actually acting on orders as a double agent. Even when she's having said evil phone call 5 FREAKING FEET AWAY from his stupid psychic brain.
I hate you Parkman. So. .. MUCH... even Jean Grey was never this naive.
So the teams as we fade to black:
Good Guys:
Powerless Peter
Claire
Nate
Not-Nicki
HRG
Flame Lady
Mama Petrelli
Bad Guys:
Papa Petrelli
Fear Man
Blue Flamey Guy
Sylar AGAIN
Mohinder
Speedster Girl
Doing who knows what:
Elle
Parkman
Hiro/Ando
Future Painter Guy
People who've mysteriously dropped off the face of the planet:
Nate's wife
Nate's kids
People who were left in the future and then never heard from again, thus leading us to assume that they're still in the future, causing a massive snarl in the space-time continuum that will eventually result in a paradox that will destroy the universe:
Peter's Irish girlfriend from last season
Monday, October 27, 2008
Corbeau's Weekend Update
On Saturday I attended a three hour Krav seminar on carjacking defense. All the money raised went to charity, and I learned a lot. I also got punched in the ear and lost half a toenail so clearly, it was awesome.
In the interests of full disclosure, I actually cracked the nail awhile ago, but the seminar sent in on it's merry way. Half a toenail looks so weird, and I have a new appreciation for the exquisitely horrible sensitivity of naked toe flesh.
I spent most of Sunday fighting a headache (I wonder where that came from?) playing the bunny game, and sleeping.
Then today, I went back to Krav. We learned the back kick, and I'm getting better at hitting harder, for longer. For our last exercise, it was three-on-one, and the one started on the ground under a dogpile.
When it was my turn, I thought "Man I hope none of those guys belly flops on me" because even my ninja awesomeness would have a hard time power crawling under three people after having the air knocked out of me. But the guys were nice, and no one flopped.
In the interests of full disclosure, I actually cracked the nail awhile ago, but the seminar sent in on it's merry way. Half a toenail looks so weird, and I have a new appreciation for the exquisitely horrible sensitivity of naked toe flesh.
I spent most of Sunday fighting a headache (I wonder where that came from?) playing the bunny game, and sleeping.
Then today, I went back to Krav. We learned the back kick, and I'm getting better at hitting harder, for longer. For our last exercise, it was three-on-one, and the one started on the ground under a dogpile.
When it was my turn, I thought "Man I hope none of those guys belly flops on me" because even my ninja awesomeness would have a hard time power crawling under three people after having the air knocked out of me. But the guys were nice, and no one flopped.
Monday AMV
Are we all excited for Friday?
Let's watch some vampires. Real ones. Not those sissy Twilight vampires that I will probably be forced to see this December.
Every Halloween, once I got too old for trick or treating, my Dad would get Apple juice and glazed donuts, and we'd all watch the classic Dracula with Bella Lugosi. It was awesome. I now own Dracula on DVD, so I hope my roommates like 1930's horror.
Let's watch some vampires. Real ones. Not those sissy Twilight vampires that I will probably be forced to see this December.
Every Halloween, once I got too old for trick or treating, my Dad would get Apple juice and glazed donuts, and we'd all watch the classic Dracula with Bella Lugosi. It was awesome. I now own Dracula on DVD, so I hope my roommates like 1930's horror.
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Cayetano
Well what do you know? My Spanish boyfriend was on 60 minutes last week.
Man, those guys are crazy. Crazy and hot.
Man, those guys are crazy. Crazy and hot.
Wheee!!!
BSA bought a Nintendo Wii, and we've been playing it all weekend. It's pretty fun, and some of the games actually give you a pretty good workout. The boxing game actually mimics your arm movements, including bobbing and weaving, and you have three rounds that last for three mintues each. By the end of that, you've worked up a sweat. We also have Mario Olympics, and the running and swimming games will also make your arms pretty sore the next morning.
The other game we have is Raymond Rampanging Rabbids. It's these physco little bunny rabbits that you play all these games against. Like cow swinging, or doing the bunny dances, or, my personal favorite, shooting the bunnies with your plunger gun.
The other game we have is Raymond Rampanging Rabbids. It's these physco little bunny rabbits that you play all these games against. Like cow swinging, or doing the bunny dances, or, my personal favorite, shooting the bunnies with your plunger gun.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Heroes: Total Weirdness
So total weirdness this week.
Heroes was actually...okay. Parts of it were even...enjoyable. I'm not sure I know how to react to this strange new development.
Ando Lives!! Hiro actually used his powers with some intelligence to fake Ando's death.
In fact, my favorite part of the show this week had to be when Hiro was trying to outwit a guy who can see the future by manipulating time. It ended with Hiro getting some sense smashed into him with a shovel. Let's hope it sticks. Stupid Hiro is sooo annoying.
Not-Nikki actually used her powers to get away from Mohinder-spider. Amazing I know!! That's two intelligent uses of powers in one episode! You know, the Nikki-clones have always been the smart ones of the series. She busted herself and Nate out of there, and judging by the previews for next week, calls the cops on He-lob.
Claire, Mom, and Not-Mom were all captured by creepy Puppet Guy, but then Claire managed to rescue them after a tense round of Russian roulette. Claire seems to have finally learned her lesson. After finally freeing herself from the Puppet Guy's control, she resisted the urge to monologue and just hit him in the head with a chair.
You go Claire!
Boring Psychic Parkman showed up at the airport with his turtle, and told Speedster girl that he saw the future, and they were married, and had a kid, and he loves her, and he's here to rescue you!
Creepy=Very Yes. I don't care how true it is, some things you should just keep to yourself.
Let's see. Sylar wakes up Peter so they can save Mom, but Peter can do it by HIMSELF thank you very much and storms off in a world class tanty (thanks Pushing Daisies! I love that phrase)
Big Bad Pappa Petrelli absorbs people's powers by touching them. Like Rogue, but without any of the negative effects. He drains Adam to dust (literally) so he's all healed up. He then takes all of Angry Peter's powers with a hug. Silly stupid Peter.
So now we have two uber duper super powered people walking around the Heroes universe. You know Heroes writers, super powers are cool and all, but it's the weaknesses that make the characters interesting.
Of course, now only Sylar can take on Dad, thus cementing his flip from bad guy to misunderstood good guy.
I wonder if they're going to drag that out all season long. We can all see it from here Heroes. You're not fooling anybody.
Heroes was actually...okay. Parts of it were even...enjoyable. I'm not sure I know how to react to this strange new development.
Ando Lives!! Hiro actually used his powers with some intelligence to fake Ando's death.
In fact, my favorite part of the show this week had to be when Hiro was trying to outwit a guy who can see the future by manipulating time. It ended with Hiro getting some sense smashed into him with a shovel. Let's hope it sticks. Stupid Hiro is sooo annoying.
Not-Nikki actually used her powers to get away from Mohinder-spider. Amazing I know!! That's two intelligent uses of powers in one episode! You know, the Nikki-clones have always been the smart ones of the series. She busted herself and Nate out of there, and judging by the previews for next week, calls the cops on He-lob.
Claire, Mom, and Not-Mom were all captured by creepy Puppet Guy, but then Claire managed to rescue them after a tense round of Russian roulette. Claire seems to have finally learned her lesson. After finally freeing herself from the Puppet Guy's control, she resisted the urge to monologue and just hit him in the head with a chair.
You go Claire!
Boring Psychic Parkman showed up at the airport with his turtle, and told Speedster girl that he saw the future, and they were married, and had a kid, and he loves her, and he's here to rescue you!
Creepy=Very Yes. I don't care how true it is, some things you should just keep to yourself.
Let's see. Sylar wakes up Peter so they can save Mom, but Peter can do it by HIMSELF thank you very much and storms off in a world class tanty (thanks Pushing Daisies! I love that phrase)
Big Bad Pappa Petrelli absorbs people's powers by touching them. Like Rogue, but without any of the negative effects. He drains Adam to dust (literally) so he's all healed up. He then takes all of Angry Peter's powers with a hug. Silly stupid Peter.
So now we have two uber duper super powered people walking around the Heroes universe. You know Heroes writers, super powers are cool and all, but it's the weaknesses that make the characters interesting.
Of course, now only Sylar can take on Dad, thus cementing his flip from bad guy to misunderstood good guy.
I wonder if they're going to drag that out all season long. We can all see it from here Heroes. You're not fooling anybody.
Ninja Mission!!
Last night we performed our ghosting. I made Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Caramel cookie bars using the handy recipe on the back of the Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookie bag.
This would have been a great opportunity to wear my ninja costume, but it didn't fit and the exchange hasn't made it back yet. So I went out in jeans and a black hoodie, which gave me the comforting thought of "Man I hope no one calls the cops on me."
BSA was the driver, TSA assisted with delivery. The first target lived on the top floor of an apartment complex with a brightly lit stairwell that you could see all the way down, and giant glass windows that let you see the parking lot (very safe, but inconvenient for sneaky cookie delivery.)
The only way to success lay in speed. TSA stayed on the ground floor, holding open the big safety door. I laid the cookies down on the mat, pressed the doorbell, and then flew down the stairs as fast as I could. Since they were little half stairs, I'd go down two steps, jump to the landing, use the railpost to swing around, take 2 steps, jump down, etc.
According to TSA, it sounded like this: thud thud BAM! thud thud BAM! thud thud BAM!
Until I hit the ground floor yelling "Go go go!!" like a commando. We jumped into the car, where BSA was laughing hysterically, having watched my descent through the enormous windows.
Fortunately (or unfortunately depending on your perspective) she wasn't home, so the cookie delivery remains anonymous.
Our second delivery wasn't that exciting, although I did manage to make it down their steep cement staircase without breaking my neck. They were home, so I was forced to press myself flat against the side of staircase, and try to become one with the potted plants above my head.
This would have been a great opportunity to wear my ninja costume, but it didn't fit and the exchange hasn't made it back yet. So I went out in jeans and a black hoodie, which gave me the comforting thought of "Man I hope no one calls the cops on me."
BSA was the driver, TSA assisted with delivery. The first target lived on the top floor of an apartment complex with a brightly lit stairwell that you could see all the way down, and giant glass windows that let you see the parking lot (very safe, but inconvenient for sneaky cookie delivery.)
The only way to success lay in speed. TSA stayed on the ground floor, holding open the big safety door. I laid the cookies down on the mat, pressed the doorbell, and then flew down the stairs as fast as I could. Since they were little half stairs, I'd go down two steps, jump to the landing, use the railpost to swing around, take 2 steps, jump down, etc.
According to TSA, it sounded like this: thud thud BAM! thud thud BAM! thud thud BAM!
Until I hit the ground floor yelling "Go go go!!" like a commando. We jumped into the car, where BSA was laughing hysterically, having watched my descent through the enormous windows.
Fortunately (or unfortunately depending on your perspective) she wasn't home, so the cookie delivery remains anonymous.
Our second delivery wasn't that exciting, although I did manage to make it down their steep cement staircase without breaking my neck. They were home, so I was forced to press myself flat against the side of staircase, and try to become one with the potted plants above my head.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Monday AMV-A little late
I'm a little behind, but that's okay. I'm watching Fruits Basket, which is pretty dang hilarious for such a silly concept.
Tonight we may have a ninja mission. We got "ghosted" someone left treats on our porch, and now we need to tag someone else in the ward. Apparently this is a pretty common church culture thing, but this is the first I've heard of it.
Which means that it could have possibly started outside of Utah Valley! Inconceivable!
Tonight we may have a ninja mission. We got "ghosted" someone left treats on our porch, and now we need to tag someone else in the ward. Apparently this is a pretty common church culture thing, but this is the first I've heard of it.
Which means that it could have possibly started outside of Utah Valley! Inconceivable!
Monday, October 20, 2008
Whoa!!
I almost saw a guy get pancaked today on 95. Some poor brave, desperate soul booking it across four lanes of interstate traffic with a gas can.
He barely made it, but I had that awful sinking feeling when you know you're about to see something horrible but can't really do anything about it.
Bleh.
So I totally missed recapping Heroes last week! Sorry about that. A short week shouldn't be that stressful, but my work managed to stuff 8 days worth of stress into 4 long days.
Let me see if I can remember.
Claire continued down her dark, angsty path of teenage disaffectedness. This involved a weird side story where she tried to collar a villian who was just misunderstood! He created swirling black holes of doom into another dimension and accidentally sucked people through.
So Claire felt all bad for him and then like her Dad totally showed up with like Sylar! Total Grossness!! And then like Claire totally wigged out because her Dad was like totally clueless about her serious heavy baggage but then he was like "Oh I just brought Sylar here so he could be sucked into a black hole!" and she's like "Dad, that's so not cool!" and then Sylar was like "Dude. Even though I'm back here by the car, I have like total super hearing, so I can hear you plotting. my death." and then the vortex man was like, "I'm so sick of this plot that I'm going to suck myself away!"
And then he did.
Spider-Mohinder, in an attempt to hasten Sigourney Weaver's guest appearance, is webbing people into cocoons, including weepy-death girl, despite the fact that last season she killed everyone within 5 miles anytime she saw a Hallmark commercial. The fact that somehow she couldn't even take out freaking Mohinder is just annoying.
I just want to point out that Sigourney Weaver guest starred on Eli Stone this week, so my SW theory here is highly plausible, and would make Heroes awesome.
Speaking of Hiro, he and Ando continued acting like total morons, ending with Hiro stabbing Ando for reasons I couldn't bring myself to care enough to try and understand.
But if Ando is really dead, I'm done with this show. You hear me Heroes?!! I will recap Pushing Daisies!! An awesome show with clever writing, satisfying storylines, and quotable lines!
Let's see, what else happened. Claire's mom, in an attempt to save Claire from her own teenage drama stupidity, went after another villain "The PuppetMaster" just in case Claire went there to make her dramatic bounty hunter statement.
However, she was full of fail, and is now being held captive by a creepy, fat, balding guy in a wifebeater.
Oh yeah! Parkman's annoying Dad is the one pulling all the strings by projecting the dead evil dude into everyone's brains, but he's actually working for Peter Petrelli's Dad, who's some sort of super-powerful psychic but also a bed-bound vegetable, in a total ripoff of Professor X.
He barely made it, but I had that awful sinking feeling when you know you're about to see something horrible but can't really do anything about it.
Bleh.
So I totally missed recapping Heroes last week! Sorry about that. A short week shouldn't be that stressful, but my work managed to stuff 8 days worth of stress into 4 long days.
Let me see if I can remember.
Claire continued down her dark, angsty path of teenage disaffectedness. This involved a weird side story where she tried to collar a villian who was just misunderstood! He created swirling black holes of doom into another dimension and accidentally sucked people through.
So Claire felt all bad for him and then like her Dad totally showed up with like Sylar! Total Grossness!! And then like Claire totally wigged out because her Dad was like totally clueless about her serious heavy baggage but then he was like "Oh I just brought Sylar here so he could be sucked into a black hole!" and she's like "Dad, that's so not cool!" and then Sylar was like "Dude. Even though I'm back here by the car, I have like total super hearing, so I can hear you plotting. my death." and then the vortex man was like, "I'm so sick of this plot that I'm going to suck myself away!"
And then he did.
Spider-Mohinder, in an attempt to hasten Sigourney Weaver's guest appearance, is webbing people into cocoons, including weepy-death girl, despite the fact that last season she killed everyone within 5 miles anytime she saw a Hallmark commercial. The fact that somehow she couldn't even take out freaking Mohinder is just annoying.
I just want to point out that Sigourney Weaver guest starred on Eli Stone this week, so my SW theory here is highly plausible, and would make Heroes awesome.
Speaking of Hiro, he and Ando continued acting like total morons, ending with Hiro stabbing Ando for reasons I couldn't bring myself to care enough to try and understand.
But if Ando is really dead, I'm done with this show. You hear me Heroes?!! I will recap Pushing Daisies!! An awesome show with clever writing, satisfying storylines, and quotable lines!
Let's see, what else happened. Claire's mom, in an attempt to save Claire from her own teenage drama stupidity, went after another villain "The PuppetMaster" just in case Claire went there to make her dramatic bounty hunter statement.
However, she was full of fail, and is now being held captive by a creepy, fat, balding guy in a wifebeater.
Oh yeah! Parkman's annoying Dad is the one pulling all the strings by projecting the dead evil dude into everyone's brains, but he's actually working for Peter Petrelli's Dad, who's some sort of super-powerful psychic but also a bed-bound vegetable, in a total ripoff of Professor X.
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Have you seen this one?
I am trying to see how many differant opera's you have seen and if you can name them. Just enjoy the music!
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Overtime
Do you know the thing I hate most about working overtime? Driving home in the dark. It just feel weird to have missed the sun all day. This is probably why I don't whine as much about working late in the summer.
Tonight, as I was driving home, the full moon was out and low to the horizon. It was also a creepy brownish-yellow. I don't think I've ever seen a moon that color, outside of cartoons.
Well, with a creepy moon like that setting the tone, in the month of October no less, there's only one thing you can really do:
Dance like an 80s zombie!!
Unfortunately the original music video has deactivated embedding, but here's the link if you want to watch it on youtube
Tonight, as I was driving home, the full moon was out and low to the horizon. It was also a creepy brownish-yellow. I don't think I've ever seen a moon that color, outside of cartoons.
Well, with a creepy moon like that setting the tone, in the month of October no less, there's only one thing you can really do:
Dance like an 80s zombie!!
Unfortunately the original music video has deactivated embedding, but here's the link if you want to watch it on youtube
Monday, October 13, 2008
Amazing Race
NOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Geeks, who I was rooting for, got the boot because they failed to follow the instructions on their clue card!!
Grr, now who will I cheer for? The divorcees, who started a super deadly Southern type fued with the bro/sis team after discovering that one of their sports bras fell off a shelf?
Sigh.
Oh well. The teams were in Bolivia where one member of each team had to put on a superhero suit, learn a wrestling routine, and perform it in front of an audience. The dread adversaries in the ring? The Fighting Cholitas. Bolivian women fighters in traditional skirt/bowler costumes who own the wrestling ring.
This has made it to my vacation list.
Also, Fighting Cholitas would be an awesome name for a rock band.
The Geeks, who I was rooting for, got the boot because they failed to follow the instructions on their clue card!!
Grr, now who will I cheer for? The divorcees, who started a super deadly Southern type fued with the bro/sis team after discovering that one of their sports bras fell off a shelf?
Sigh.
Oh well. The teams were in Bolivia where one member of each team had to put on a superhero suit, learn a wrestling routine, and perform it in front of an audience. The dread adversaries in the ring? The Fighting Cholitas. Bolivian women fighters in traditional skirt/bowler costumes who own the wrestling ring.
This has made it to my vacation list.
Also, Fighting Cholitas would be an awesome name for a rock band.
Monday AMV
Guess who has today off?
It's just as well. I'm coming to the end of my typhoid inoculation period. The first half wasn't bad. Mainly just a little stomach pain, but starting yesterday I feel a little fuzzy and off.
Stupid weakened typhoid virus. Well I'll show it!! I'm going to sit here and watch tv on the couch.
HA HA HA!!!
It's just as well. I'm coming to the end of my typhoid inoculation period. The first half wasn't bad. Mainly just a little stomach pain, but starting yesterday I feel a little fuzzy and off.
Stupid weakened typhoid virus. Well I'll show it!! I'm going to sit here and watch tv on the couch.
HA HA HA!!!
Saturday, October 11, 2008
It's MIley!!
I love The Soup, they understand the mental scarring that comes from High School Musical.
Friday, October 10, 2008
Henry IV Part 1
Last night we got to go see the first of three plays put on by the Folger Shakespeare Theater. The Folger is primarily about research, but every year they put on three of the Bard's plays, and every one I've been to as been awesome.
I was a little worried about this one though. I vaguely remember studying it in High School, and I thought it was boring. I also liked Hotspur, the villian, better than Prince Henry (the hero.)
But the play was really good. The actors really brought out the comedy that's hard to catch when you're just reading it.
Plus they made Hotspur into a first class jerk, so I wasn't as upset about his imminent demise.
The plays are three hours though, and deep into the third hour I started doing the sleepy head-bob during a monologue on honor, but then they started running around, beating on each other with swords, and coming out with more and more fake blood so I stayed awake.
We got home around 11:30, I was asleep by midnight, and woke up at 4 because I was worried about sleeping through the alarm. Work wasn't too bad, I was in class most of the day, which kept me engaged anyway. The only problem is that when I'm tired, the filter between my brain and my mouth detoriates pretty quickly.
We were having a hard time logging on to a new system that we got our passwords for 2 months ago. None of us could remember our passwords exactly, and if you tried too many times it would lock up and then comes the call of shame to tech support.
I was on my fifth try, flirting with the point of no return, when I finally got it right and the little logo box popped up on my screen.
When I saw that little sign pop up I raised my arms above my head in the "touchdown" sign and let out a "WHOOOOOO!!!"
Everyone turned around and stared at me. One girl laughed. I apologized for disrupting the class and we moved on.
It was a little embarrassing though.
I was a little worried about this one though. I vaguely remember studying it in High School, and I thought it was boring. I also liked Hotspur, the villian, better than Prince Henry (the hero.)
But the play was really good. The actors really brought out the comedy that's hard to catch when you're just reading it.
Plus they made Hotspur into a first class jerk, so I wasn't as upset about his imminent demise.
The plays are three hours though, and deep into the third hour I started doing the sleepy head-bob during a monologue on honor, but then they started running around, beating on each other with swords, and coming out with more and more fake blood so I stayed awake.
We got home around 11:30, I was asleep by midnight, and woke up at 4 because I was worried about sleeping through the alarm. Work wasn't too bad, I was in class most of the day, which kept me engaged anyway. The only problem is that when I'm tired, the filter between my brain and my mouth detoriates pretty quickly.
We were having a hard time logging on to a new system that we got our passwords for 2 months ago. None of us could remember our passwords exactly, and if you tried too many times it would lock up and then comes the call of shame to tech support.
I was on my fifth try, flirting with the point of no return, when I finally got it right and the little logo box popped up on my screen.
When I saw that little sign pop up I raised my arms above my head in the "touchdown" sign and let out a "WHOOOOOO!!!"
Everyone turned around and stared at me. One girl laughed. I apologized for disrupting the class and we moved on.
It was a little embarrassing though.
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
Hot Chocolate
I love the fall, except for the fact that it's now cold and dark when I get up in the morning. Once we get to full on winter, the sun won't rise until almost my second hour of work.
So occasionally I like to reward myself for making it out of bed by getting a hot chocolate for the road.
I usually get Starbucks, with their rich blend of cocoa and steamed whole milk. Hmmm, it's good stuff.
Today, they had something new. "Salted Caramel Chocolate" Wow, I thought to myself, that sounds disgusting. I must try it.
It was surprisingly delicious. The caramel had the slightly burned, slightly bitter taste of the goo you get with flan. So it was rich without being overly sweet.
If you like caramel, it's definitely worth a try.
Also, I went to the movies with some friends from work, and saw Eagle Eye: The IMAX experience.
It was better than I thought it would be. And even when he's 20 feet tall, Shia Leboef is still the kid from Holes.
Although the beard helps. A little.
So occasionally I like to reward myself for making it out of bed by getting a hot chocolate for the road.
I usually get Starbucks, with their rich blend of cocoa and steamed whole milk. Hmmm, it's good stuff.
Today, they had something new. "Salted Caramel Chocolate" Wow, I thought to myself, that sounds disgusting. I must try it.
It was surprisingly delicious. The caramel had the slightly burned, slightly bitter taste of the goo you get with flan. So it was rich without being overly sweet.
If you like caramel, it's definitely worth a try.
Also, I went to the movies with some friends from work, and saw Eagle Eye: The IMAX experience.
It was better than I thought it would be. And even when he's 20 feet tall, Shia Leboef is still the kid from Holes.
Although the beard helps. A little.
Heroes Recap: The Dire Future
I miss when Heroes was an action series and not a bizarre soap opera.
So most of this episode took place 4 years in the future, so we can all get an idea of the horribleness that everyone is supposed to prevent.
IN THE FUTURE:
Claire is evil, and has dyed her hair brown to prove it. Really Heroes? Why not go all the way and just give her an evil goatee to go with it?
Since I just dyed my hair "truffle," you may now call me Evil Corbeau.
Evil Claire kills Future Peter by shooting him. With a normal handgun. In the chest. And he dies. Despite the fact that he got Claire's healing/immortality in Season 1, and has survived falling off buildings, being shot, electrocuted, a full on power shoot out with Sylar, having sharp pointy things jammed in his head and oh yeah, a Freaking NUCLEAR EXPLOSION, he dies from a couple of rounds.
While Future Peter lies improbably dead, Present Peter and Evil Claire spend the rest of the episode having angst filled conversations.
Before Future Peter dies, he tells Present Peter that to stop the badness, he needs to find Future Sylar and take his brain eating powers. I can hear you now. "But Corbeau," you're saying, "that just doesn't make any sense at all!"
Future Sylar is spending the future as Mr. Cleaver, complete with cute Leave it to Beaver moppet. Peter gets Sylar's power, and the Moppet gets killed by Evil Claire and her gang. Sylar goes splodey, taking a good chunk of California with him.
OH YEAH, sigh. Apparently, Sylar really is the secret Petrelli sibling that no one ever knew about. Soon, everyone in this show is going to be a member of the Petrelli clan. It's like that run in the X-men where every other high power mutant turned out to be related to Cyclops.
I don't like this, since it turns the global crisis into an inter-family squabble.
NEXT Season, On Heroes: The World is destroyed when Sylar brings blueberry pie to Thanksgiving dinner, even though he knows that Peter HATES blueberry. Can Hiro make it to the past and save the world, armed only with his wits and a recipe for pumpkin?
Sorry. Back to the recap:
Speedy chick has given up her punk/art thief ways, her condo in Paris, and adventurous lifestyle for the fat psychic cop, a cramped NY apartment, and a bad hair cut. I don't buy it. How on earth does the speedster wind up with the cop? Where did the maternal drive come from? Is love truly THAT blind?
And speaking of eye-sores, Mohinder has turned himself into a newt. He spends most of the episode scuttling behind objects, but based on the scales and slime he's creating in the present, I expect that Sigourney Weaver will soon be along with a flame thrower to finish him off.
So Present Peter has Sylar's power and 'hunger' and does the forehead cutting thing with Nate, who then improbably dies, despite the fact that Peter didn't finish scalping him. Present Peter returns to the present, and got into a name calling contest with Sylar about who was the bigger monster.
Let's see, did anything else happen?
Oh yeah, Ice girl found out the Mad Scientist who created her was funded by The Company, that there was no stopping her powers, and then she tried to kill herself by jumping off a bridge, but Nathan flew in and saved her.
So most of this episode took place 4 years in the future, so we can all get an idea of the horribleness that everyone is supposed to prevent.
IN THE FUTURE:
Claire is evil, and has dyed her hair brown to prove it. Really Heroes? Why not go all the way and just give her an evil goatee to go with it?
Since I just dyed my hair "truffle," you may now call me Evil Corbeau.
Evil Claire kills Future Peter by shooting him. With a normal handgun. In the chest. And he dies. Despite the fact that he got Claire's healing/immortality in Season 1, and has survived falling off buildings, being shot, electrocuted, a full on power shoot out with Sylar, having sharp pointy things jammed in his head and oh yeah, a Freaking NUCLEAR EXPLOSION, he dies from a couple of rounds.
While Future Peter lies improbably dead, Present Peter and Evil Claire spend the rest of the episode having angst filled conversations.
Before Future Peter dies, he tells Present Peter that to stop the badness, he needs to find Future Sylar and take his brain eating powers. I can hear you now. "But Corbeau," you're saying, "that just doesn't make any sense at all!"
Future Sylar is spending the future as Mr. Cleaver, complete with cute Leave it to Beaver moppet. Peter gets Sylar's power, and the Moppet gets killed by Evil Claire and her gang. Sylar goes splodey, taking a good chunk of California with him.
OH YEAH, sigh. Apparently, Sylar really is the secret Petrelli sibling that no one ever knew about. Soon, everyone in this show is going to be a member of the Petrelli clan. It's like that run in the X-men where every other high power mutant turned out to be related to Cyclops.
I don't like this, since it turns the global crisis into an inter-family squabble.
NEXT Season, On Heroes: The World is destroyed when Sylar brings blueberry pie to Thanksgiving dinner, even though he knows that Peter HATES blueberry. Can Hiro make it to the past and save the world, armed only with his wits and a recipe for pumpkin?
Sorry. Back to the recap:
Speedy chick has given up her punk/art thief ways, her condo in Paris, and adventurous lifestyle for the fat psychic cop, a cramped NY apartment, and a bad hair cut. I don't buy it. How on earth does the speedster wind up with the cop? Where did the maternal drive come from? Is love truly THAT blind?
And speaking of eye-sores, Mohinder has turned himself into a newt. He spends most of the episode scuttling behind objects, but based on the scales and slime he's creating in the present, I expect that Sigourney Weaver will soon be along with a flame thrower to finish him off.
So Present Peter has Sylar's power and 'hunger' and does the forehead cutting thing with Nate, who then improbably dies, despite the fact that Peter didn't finish scalping him. Present Peter returns to the present, and got into a name calling contest with Sylar about who was the bigger monster.
Let's see, did anything else happen?
Oh yeah, Ice girl found out the Mad Scientist who created her was funded by The Company, that there was no stopping her powers, and then she tried to kill herself by jumping off a bridge, but Nathan flew in and saved her.
Monday, October 06, 2008
Amazing Race
I don't know about you guys, but I'm getting the feeling that this season's contestants aren't the brightest bulbs on the tree.
This makes me think that the race will go to the smart teams, either the geeks (who I'm cheering for), the bro/sis team, or the bitter estranged couple that are trying to save their marriage.
The rampant stupidity does make for some good television.
This week, the teams were still in Brazil, and for the detour they had to choose between rolling a boat into the sea using the traditional rolling log method, or finding a specific cargo container in the city's enormous port.
This led to our first awesome duh moment of the night, where the Texas divorcees, after finally getting their boat to the water, started freaking out about "finding the container" despite the fact that other teams had already finished their boat rolling and were running for the taxis.
These two gals, on the other hand, ran around the beach looking for the non-existent container, going so far as to dig madly in the wet sand around the little Amazing Race flag.
After they finally caught on, they vowed to read the clues thoroughly, and then walked straight out to the next challenge without telling their cab to wait, even though the clue specifically told them to.
You gotta love a reality show where reading comprehension plays such a vital role.
This makes me think that the race will go to the smart teams, either the geeks (who I'm cheering for), the bro/sis team, or the bitter estranged couple that are trying to save their marriage.
The rampant stupidity does make for some good television.
This week, the teams were still in Brazil, and for the detour they had to choose between rolling a boat into the sea using the traditional rolling log method, or finding a specific cargo container in the city's enormous port.
This led to our first awesome duh moment of the night, where the Texas divorcees, after finally getting their boat to the water, started freaking out about "finding the container" despite the fact that other teams had already finished their boat rolling and were running for the taxis.
These two gals, on the other hand, ran around the beach looking for the non-existent container, going so far as to dig madly in the wet sand around the little Amazing Race flag.
After they finally caught on, they vowed to read the clues thoroughly, and then walked straight out to the next challenge without telling their cab to wait, even though the clue specifically told them to.
You gotta love a reality show where reading comprehension plays such a vital role.
Monday AMV
It's Hockey Season!!
I love hockey. Its fast. It's aggressive. And in the third period you get to sing the hockey song.
But never fear, as fun as the hockey song is, I found some more hockey awesomeness.
Also, this happened Friday night:
I love hockey. Its fast. It's aggressive. And in the third period you get to sing the hockey song.
But never fear, as fun as the hockey song is, I found some more hockey awesomeness.
Also, this happened Friday night:
Thursday, October 02, 2008
Early Morning Funny
From College Humor, which dares to ask, what would happen if all movies had cell phones?
This an issue with so many movies, Glass House, I'm looking at you. You're just sitting there thinking, "You know, all of these problems could be solved with a phone call."
Romeo and Juliet is my favorite.
This an issue with so many movies, Glass House, I'm looking at you. You're just sitting there thinking, "You know, all of these problems could be solved with a phone call."
Romeo and Juliet is my favorite.
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Heroes Recap: Now with more Details
Per request, my recap will be a little bit longer.
Ooohh when Ma Petrelli is wicked she is really really wicked. Now that she's in charge of the company, she's using her creepy subliminal suggestion powers to get Sylar to work on her side. She pairs him up with HRG (Horn Rimmed Glasses) to go after the escaped bad guys.
Escaped bad guys break into a bank as some sort of elaborate vengeance plot.
Scarecrow uses the fear of the hostages and punches out Magneto's heart. No lie. The bad guys also discover that Peter is inhabiting Evil Jesse's body.
Future Peter shows up, grabs Present Peter from Evil Jesse's body and takes him into the future.
Sylar then walks in and eats all the bad guys. Textbook bad guy retrieval right there.
Actually, HRG shoots one, Scarecrow gets away, and I think Sylar only eats one guy, but these are just minor details.
Claire's all angry and rebellious after being attacked by Sylar, so her Firestarter mother shows her some tough love to show her that being invulnerable is not the same as being invinicible. Unfortunately it doesn't work and Claire absconds with a banker box.
DUM Dum dum.......
Boring cop guy is still in Africa, where he discovers a mutant who's entire ability revolves around painting boring cop guys future. I can't stand this guy after two seasons, and the medicine man's been stuck painting boring cop's storylines his whole freaking life.
Worst. Power. Ever. No wonder he's on drugs.
Trish (the girl who's Nikki but not Nikki) goes to New Orleans to investigate why her teeth are so creepily straight. Seriously, there in a perfect line. They're like George Washington's wooden teeth or something.
Anyhoo, she arrives at Nikki's funeral, so Nikki really is dead, and awfully pretty for someone who died in a fire. Although she does have the requisite facial scar that is this show's shorthand for serious trauma. After talking with cute kid, we learn that the Evil Scientist character has finally arrived and has been growing mutant kid clones for science fair ( X-files totally did this plot) and that's why Trish looks like Nikki, but has different powers.
Ando and Hiro are still chasing the formula, and they're banter with Speedy Chick was fun. They attempt to get the formula from the Hatian, but mess it up and now Speedy Chick has the entire formula to destory the world.
DUM DUM Dum dum dum....
Next Week: The rise of Dark Claire!
Ooohh when Ma Petrelli is wicked she is really really wicked. Now that she's in charge of the company, she's using her creepy subliminal suggestion powers to get Sylar to work on her side. She pairs him up with HRG (Horn Rimmed Glasses) to go after the escaped bad guys.
Escaped bad guys break into a bank as some sort of elaborate vengeance plot.
Scarecrow uses the fear of the hostages and punches out Magneto's heart. No lie. The bad guys also discover that Peter is inhabiting Evil Jesse's body.
Future Peter shows up, grabs Present Peter from Evil Jesse's body and takes him into the future.
Sylar then walks in and eats all the bad guys. Textbook bad guy retrieval right there.
Actually, HRG shoots one, Scarecrow gets away, and I think Sylar only eats one guy, but these are just minor details.
Claire's all angry and rebellious after being attacked by Sylar, so her Firestarter mother shows her some tough love to show her that being invulnerable is not the same as being invinicible. Unfortunately it doesn't work and Claire absconds with a banker box.
DUM Dum dum.......
Boring cop guy is still in Africa, where he discovers a mutant who's entire ability revolves around painting boring cop guys future. I can't stand this guy after two seasons, and the medicine man's been stuck painting boring cop's storylines his whole freaking life.
Worst. Power. Ever. No wonder he's on drugs.
Trish (the girl who's Nikki but not Nikki) goes to New Orleans to investigate why her teeth are so creepily straight. Seriously, there in a perfect line. They're like George Washington's wooden teeth or something.
Anyhoo, she arrives at Nikki's funeral, so Nikki really is dead, and awfully pretty for someone who died in a fire. Although she does have the requisite facial scar that is this show's shorthand for serious trauma. After talking with cute kid, we learn that the Evil Scientist character has finally arrived and has been growing mutant kid clones for science fair ( X-files totally did this plot) and that's why Trish looks like Nikki, but has different powers.
Ando and Hiro are still chasing the formula, and they're banter with Speedy Chick was fun. They attempt to get the formula from the Hatian, but mess it up and now Speedy Chick has the entire formula to destory the world.
DUM DUM Dum dum dum....
Next Week: The rise of Dark Claire!
Monday, September 29, 2008
Random Dinner Post
Have you guys tried those vegetable steam packets from Jolly Green Giant?
They're pretty good. You just throw the bag in the microwave for six minutes, and then you open the bag, and they're all steamy and nice. And they don't have that weird frozen vegetable mushy thing going on.
Tonight I made a bag of entitled "Baby Vegetables" for dinner. Soon the whole house smelled like steamed cauliflower, because nothing beats cauliflower for scent permeation. Anyway, I was sitting there, smelling the cauliflower and I thought, "You know, I bet a little grated cheese would taste great with that."
The timer dinged, I unzipped the cheese bag, and tossed a handful in the bowl. It instantly melted over the steamy hot vegetables. What I forgot to consider is that these packets also come with a sauce. As I stirred the veggies around, the cheese melted and combined with the sauce, covering all the vegetables with a thick, sticky paste that looked like a head full of snot.
Tasted good though. I just didn't look at it while I ate.
They're pretty good. You just throw the bag in the microwave for six minutes, and then you open the bag, and they're all steamy and nice. And they don't have that weird frozen vegetable mushy thing going on.
Tonight I made a bag of entitled "Baby Vegetables" for dinner. Soon the whole house smelled like steamed cauliflower, because nothing beats cauliflower for scent permeation. Anyway, I was sitting there, smelling the cauliflower and I thought, "You know, I bet a little grated cheese would taste great with that."
The timer dinged, I unzipped the cheese bag, and tossed a handful in the bowl. It instantly melted over the steamy hot vegetables. What I forgot to consider is that these packets also come with a sauce. As I stirred the veggies around, the cheese melted and combined with the sauce, covering all the vegetables with a thick, sticky paste that looked like a head full of snot.
Tasted good though. I just didn't look at it while I ate.
Amazing Race
How excited are we that the Amazing Race is back!!???
I LOVE this show. I like watching them go to all those cool places to do crazy local customs that you'd never see as a random tourist.
This week, they flew to Brazil, and had to navigate these candy carts that looked like little semis through cobblestone streets. Then they slept overnight in the jungle, and the next day had to choose between climbing stone steps on there hands and knees (we totally guessed that the mystery question would be: How many steps did you just climb?) or riding to the top of an outdoor elevator, and then climbing back down on over 200 feet of cargo net.
Awesome.
It's still too early for me to have a favorite to cheer. Or even to know who anyone is. The most distinctive couple was the elderly hippie bee keepers, but they came in last and got eliminated.
Also, I'm not entirely sure which one he is, but I suspect the whiniest man ever to play the game is on this season.
Do you guys have a favorite?
I LOVE this show. I like watching them go to all those cool places to do crazy local customs that you'd never see as a random tourist.
This week, they flew to Brazil, and had to navigate these candy carts that looked like little semis through cobblestone streets. Then they slept overnight in the jungle, and the next day had to choose between climbing stone steps on there hands and knees (we totally guessed that the mystery question would be: How many steps did you just climb?) or riding to the top of an outdoor elevator, and then climbing back down on over 200 feet of cargo net.
Awesome.
It's still too early for me to have a favorite to cheer. Or even to know who anyone is. The most distinctive couple was the elderly hippie bee keepers, but they came in last and got eliminated.
Also, I'm not entirely sure which one he is, but I suspect the whiniest man ever to play the game is on this season.
Do you guys have a favorite?
Monday AMV
Last week I had an anime marathon and finished the 12 Kingdoms.
I still think it's one of the prettiest animes out there.
I still think it's one of the prettiest animes out there.
Friday, September 26, 2008
Oh Middleman
I miss you so!!!
Please please please don't get cancelled. I will cry.
Sigh. I guess I should go to work.
Please please please don't get cancelled. I will cry.
Sigh. I guess I should go to work.
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Heroes Recap
No Heroes. No NO NO!!
You do NOT get to make Mohinder, Monhinder of the salmon shirts and pretty orange scarves, you do not get to make THAT Mohinder into freaking Wolverine.
So now that that's out of the way, here's my recap:
Claire stars in her own horror movie. Why does everyone think that one stab/strike is enough to take Sylar down? Why not just keep hitting him while he's down?
Speaking of Sylar: He's freaking invincible now. Just FREAKING great.
A lot of people who were supposed to be dead are alive.
Nate is alive and born again.
Evil Future Peter is alive and running around messing things up, including turning Present Peter into a thug.
HA HA!! Boring psychic cup is dumped in the African desert.
We have ANOTHER future painter?
Ma Petrelli can see the future!! In dreams..... She's also taken over the company, which means they might actually be effective.
Veronica Mars fries Sylar, and gets downsized. She also joins the wicked face scar club.
A whole bunch of villains have been loosed, including Magneto, Banshee, and the Scarecrow, but with different names. HRG will get them though.
Lets see, who am I forgetting? Oh yeah!
Hiro is a freaking moron. I guess it's necessary for the release of the season's macguffin but COME ON..
I like Speedy Thief though.
So is Jessica/Nicky dead or what? Who is this Tricia political chick with her terrifingly plank like teeth and super ice powers?
WHOA!! A Sylar/Ma Petrelli team up? That's just too terrifying to even imagine.
You do NOT get to make Mohinder, Monhinder of the salmon shirts and pretty orange scarves, you do not get to make THAT Mohinder into freaking Wolverine.
So now that that's out of the way, here's my recap:
Claire stars in her own horror movie. Why does everyone think that one stab/strike is enough to take Sylar down? Why not just keep hitting him while he's down?
Speaking of Sylar: He's freaking invincible now. Just FREAKING great.
A lot of people who were supposed to be dead are alive.
Nate is alive and born again.
Evil Future Peter is alive and running around messing things up, including turning Present Peter into a thug.
HA HA!! Boring psychic cup is dumped in the African desert.
We have ANOTHER future painter?
Ma Petrelli can see the future!! In dreams..... She's also taken over the company, which means they might actually be effective.
Veronica Mars fries Sylar, and gets downsized. She also joins the wicked face scar club.
A whole bunch of villains have been loosed, including Magneto, Banshee, and the Scarecrow, but with different names. HRG will get them though.
Lets see, who am I forgetting? Oh yeah!
Hiro is a freaking moron. I guess it's necessary for the release of the season's macguffin but COME ON..
I like Speedy Thief though.
So is Jessica/Nicky dead or what? Who is this Tricia political chick with her terrifingly plank like teeth and super ice powers?
WHOA!! A Sylar/Ma Petrelli team up? That's just too terrifying to even imagine.
Monday, September 22, 2008
Level 2: Day 1
I went to my first level 2 class today. It was definitely more intense, and holds to a higher level of physical fitness that level 1.
I'm back to "I'm going to PUKE" during work outs. That hasn't happened in level 1 in ages.
There's also not as many people. There were only 6 of us, so it's a lot harder to fudge when you start getting tired. When there's a lot of people you can slow down a little and no one notices. When there's only six of you the instructor is far more likely to sneak up behind you and yell "Are you tired?" and then hit you with a pad.
That might have possibly have happened to me a couple of times.
I got to learn some neat new moves though!! We did a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu arm grab that included the phrase "Then you wrap your leg around his head."
I'm sore, but it was a good class.
I'm back to "I'm going to PUKE" during work outs. That hasn't happened in level 1 in ages.
There's also not as many people. There were only 6 of us, so it's a lot harder to fudge when you start getting tired. When there's a lot of people you can slow down a little and no one notices. When there's only six of you the instructor is far more likely to sneak up behind you and yell "Are you tired?" and then hit you with a pad.
That might have possibly have happened to me a couple of times.
I got to learn some neat new moves though!! We did a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu arm grab that included the phrase "Then you wrap your leg around his head."
I'm sore, but it was a good class.
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Ostrich Egg Update
This is what 1/3 of an Ostrich egg looks like after being mixed with milk and cheese and baked in a 9X13 pan.
TSA called it a "strata?" Whatever it was, it tasted good.
She blew out the egg and had 5 cups worth of egg goo. She made the strata and now we have 3 cups of egg goo.
Anyone else know of some egg-intensive recipes?
TSA called it a "strata?" Whatever it was, it tasted good.
She blew out the egg and had 5 cups worth of egg goo. She made the strata and now we have 3 cups of egg goo.
Anyone else know of some egg-intensive recipes?
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Jump Rope Awesomeness
I just discovered this Friday, and I find it fascinating.
This is Tori Boggs of West Virginia, and she is insane.
That's the freestyle, and her is an example of what the speed competition looks like:
Look at their wrists!! That is just amazing to me!
I had no idea that jump roping could be so freaking cool. I mean the athletisicm for this stuff is amazing.
Here's Team USA All Stars. I'd skip to about 1:40
This is Tori Boggs of West Virginia, and she is insane.
That's the freestyle, and her is an example of what the speed competition looks like:
Look at their wrists!! That is just amazing to me!
I had no idea that jump roping could be so freaking cool. I mean the athletisicm for this stuff is amazing.
Here's Team USA All Stars. I'd skip to about 1:40
Friday, September 19, 2008
Slow week
I know I haven't posted much this week. I've been sleeping a lot for some strange reason.
But today I discovered the fascinating world of competition jump rope. One of my coworkers has a daughter that does it.
When I get home, I'll grab some videos. Tonight we're going to the Kennedy Center for a hip hop dance show.
But today I discovered the fascinating world of competition jump rope. One of my coworkers has a daughter that does it.
When I get home, I'll grab some videos. Tonight we're going to the Kennedy Center for a hip hop dance show.
Monday, September 15, 2008
Monday AMV
You know what we haven't had in awhile?
Naruto
My roommate the Starving Artist just brought home a 3 and a half pound ostrich egg. It's freaking huge. It's the equivalent of 20 eggs, and she's going to make something with it.
When she first showed it to me, I thought it was a decoration.
Saturday I had my Level 2 test for Krav, and it was one of the hardest things I've ever done.
I don't know if I passed yet. I hope so, because I really don't want to do it twice. I still hurt, and my bruises are .. massive.
But I think I did well. I didn't quit. I didn't give up. And even though I spent the last hour and a half trying not to puke, I managed not to puke all over myself.
Yeah ME!!
Naruto
My roommate the Starving Artist just brought home a 3 and a half pound ostrich egg. It's freaking huge. It's the equivalent of 20 eggs, and she's going to make something with it.
When she first showed it to me, I thought it was a decoration.
Saturday I had my Level 2 test for Krav, and it was one of the hardest things I've ever done.
I don't know if I passed yet. I hope so, because I really don't want to do it twice. I still hurt, and my bruises are .. massive.
But I think I did well. I didn't quit. I didn't give up. And even though I spent the last hour and a half trying not to puke, I managed not to puke all over myself.
Yeah ME!!
Saturday, September 13, 2008
GOOD NEWS!!!
I just heard from my sister in Houston. Her family is safe, and their house mostly undamaged (6 leaks but no shattered windows and none of the trees hit her house.)
She lives in a part of Houston that was told to hunker down and wait it out. And even though they were prepared as they could be (yeah food storage!) I was still worried for them.
It's still going to be rough for awhile. No power probably for the next three weeks, but everyone's safe and alive.
Yeah!!
Really, at the point there's only way to express my feelings, and that's with the Muppet Beaker singing Beethoven's Ode to Joy.
Here's Andre Rieu's version, which is gorgeous and lovely and complete.
She lives in a part of Houston that was told to hunker down and wait it out. And even though they were prepared as they could be (yeah food storage!) I was still worried for them.
It's still going to be rough for awhile. No power probably for the next three weeks, but everyone's safe and alive.
Yeah!!
Really, at the point there's only way to express my feelings, and that's with the Muppet Beaker singing Beethoven's Ode to Joy.
Here's Andre Rieu's version, which is gorgeous and lovely and complete.
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Question
Anyone know how to get mildew out of carpet?
My car is not as watertight as previously thought.
Although I'm kind of glad it's mildew. I've been tearing my car apart looking for the source of the funk, and I was down to my last two options.
1. Pull up the carpets
2. Search the engine for dead cat, squirrel, chipmunk.
My car is not as watertight as previously thought.
Although I'm kind of glad it's mildew. I've been tearing my car apart looking for the source of the funk, and I was down to my last two options.
1. Pull up the carpets
2. Search the engine for dead cat, squirrel, chipmunk.
Tuesday, September 09, 2008
Monday AMV (slightly delayed)
But oh so worth it.
And I'm so sorry about this one, but it's hilarious:
And I'm so sorry about this one, but it's hilarious:
Tropical Storm Venue
The rain started Friday night around 5, and just kept pouring for the next 24 hours. At least, I noticed it had stopped around 5. It had been raining so long, the sound of it had faded into the background.
Several parts of Alexandria flooded, but we were lucky, and the only damage we had was a slightly swampy backyard. I waited out the storm with a book, only venturing out for some emergency cupcake wrappers. (It was the Starving Artist's bday party Sat.)
When I left for Wolftrap, it was actually really nice outside, and since no one was outside, I had the most pleasant trip I've ever had on the beltway. I was still late though, because I got on the wrong loop of the beltway, and they were playing the overture as I entered the park.
I found my seat by the opening song, and really enjoyed the show. The seats were covered, so they were dry, and there was a nice breeze blowing through.
Les Miserables was awesome. The last time I saw it I was 18, and on my Senior trip in New York City. Our seats were way up in the nose bleeds and all the way over to the left. So I could see into stage right. It was pretty cool. The thing I remember most was when Fantine cut her hair, and she ran off stage, and the prop people rushed over, stuffed her hair under a short hair wig, spun her around and sent her back on stage.
My seats for this performance were much better. The performers were amazing, especially the two male leads. They had these amazing painted backdrops that were digitally projected so they could do all kinds of cool things with them. My favorite was during "One Day More" while everyone was marching, they made it look like the street was receding behind them.
Does that make sense? It looked like they were marching through the streets of Paris. That sentence is much better.
Several parts of Alexandria flooded, but we were lucky, and the only damage we had was a slightly swampy backyard. I waited out the storm with a book, only venturing out for some emergency cupcake wrappers. (It was the Starving Artist's bday party Sat.)
When I left for Wolftrap, it was actually really nice outside, and since no one was outside, I had the most pleasant trip I've ever had on the beltway. I was still late though, because I got on the wrong loop of the beltway, and they were playing the overture as I entered the park.
I found my seat by the opening song, and really enjoyed the show. The seats were covered, so they were dry, and there was a nice breeze blowing through.
Les Miserables was awesome. The last time I saw it I was 18, and on my Senior trip in New York City. Our seats were way up in the nose bleeds and all the way over to the left. So I could see into stage right. It was pretty cool. The thing I remember most was when Fantine cut her hair, and she ran off stage, and the prop people rushed over, stuffed her hair under a short hair wig, spun her around and sent her back on stage.
My seats for this performance were much better. The performers were amazing, especially the two male leads. They had these amazing painted backdrops that were digitally projected so they could do all kinds of cool things with them. My favorite was during "One Day More" while everyone was marching, they made it look like the street was receding behind them.
Does that make sense? It looked like they were marching through the streets of Paris. That sentence is much better.
Friday, September 05, 2008
Exciting
Wonder Woman wanted to know my thoughts about Sarah Palin. I don't post politics normally, but this lovely bit of awesomeness has been floating around the internet, and it's worth sharing.
I think her nomination is exciting. I love having a conservative woman on the ticket, and I love how she's handled herself against all the smears and awfulness that people have thrown at her.
Here's some highlights from her acceptance speech:
Exciting.
Know what else is exciting?
I have tickets to Les Mis at Wolftrap this weekend. Wolftrap is a national park, and a beautiful concert/show venue.
Know what else is coming this weekend?
Tropical Storm Hannah
Tropical Storm + Outdoor Venue = Excitement. . . and possible flooding.
Fortunately I'm in covered seats, so as long as the wind doesn't get too bad we should be okay. I'm pretty inland.
I hope.
I think her nomination is exciting. I love having a conservative woman on the ticket, and I love how she's handled herself against all the smears and awfulness that people have thrown at her.
Here's some highlights from her acceptance speech:
Exciting.
Know what else is exciting?
I have tickets to Les Mis at Wolftrap this weekend. Wolftrap is a national park, and a beautiful concert/show venue.
Know what else is coming this weekend?
Tropical Storm Hannah
Tropical Storm + Outdoor Venue = Excitement. . . and possible flooding.
Fortunately I'm in covered seats, so as long as the wind doesn't get too bad we should be okay. I'm pretty inland.
I hope.
Thursday, September 04, 2008
Movie Trailer
Watching that clip of Don LaFontaine made me think of Pablo Fransisco's Little Tortilla Boy trailer:
He does the voiceover well, for a comedian.
He does the voiceover well, for a comedian.
Monday, September 01, 2008
Monday AMV
Know why I'm posting so much today?
Because I'm supposed to be studying for a biology/embryology exam. But this is it, my last stab at procrastination.
The Twelve Kingdoms.
I liked the music for this, which I believe is Bond, (The group, not the secret agent) also the animation is quite beautiful. You can't always tell from the video quality of the AMV, but it is. Cause I said so.
Although the heroine's gray tracksuit with skirt ensemble is horrible. She wears it all the time, and it BUGS me.
Especially when I'm trying to study.
Because I'm supposed to be studying for a biology/embryology exam. But this is it, my last stab at procrastination.
The Twelve Kingdoms.
I liked the music for this, which I believe is Bond, (The group, not the secret agent) also the animation is quite beautiful. You can't always tell from the video quality of the AMV, but it is. Cause I said so.
Although the heroine's gray tracksuit with skirt ensemble is horrible. She wears it all the time, and it BUGS me.
Especially when I'm trying to study.
Twilight Polo
After the Newseum we met up with DFL and drove out to Horse Country. This is a section of Virginia that's far enough away from the cities to support horses and the wealthy who ride them.
I mean, they still have fox hunting out there. Who knew?
We went to the greens in Middleburg, which also hosts races and such, including the Gold Cup which requires you wear a big floppy hat and a sun dress. Saturday night however, was all about Twilight Polo.
What is Twilight Polo you ask?
It's polo. But at night.
They play inside this dirt arena, although they were moving to grass next week.
That's all I can really tell you, because I know nothing about polo. But I've learned a little bit.
The match is divided into four periods, called chukkers, which is the best word ever and I took every oppurtunity possible to use it.
"Did they use the same horse as last chukker?"
"My, what an exciting chukker!"
"We're almost to the end of the chukker!"
"Down in front, chukker!!"
They also had a bbq caterer, which meant you could cheer during the chukker while savoring pulled pork. It was a good night.
During the first match we cheered for the team in black, because they had the only girl, and she was wearing a pink helmet and had pink leg warmers (shin guards?) on her horses.
If you double click on the picture, you can see it better.
The second match there was a girl on each team, so we split into two groups (by this time DFL had picked up some random fellow to come hang out with us, since he was all alone) and cheered for opposing teams.
It was a lot of fun. Polo's pretty exciting, and fun to watch even when you don't know what's going on.
Unfortunately my little camera doesn't do so well at night, or with things that are far away, so I don't have any really good pictures of the horses.
DFL got some good pictures though, so everyone give her your best puppy eyes and maybe she'll post some for us.
I mean, they still have fox hunting out there. Who knew?
We went to the greens in Middleburg, which also hosts races and such, including the Gold Cup which requires you wear a big floppy hat and a sun dress. Saturday night however, was all about Twilight Polo.
What is Twilight Polo you ask?
It's polo. But at night.
They play inside this dirt arena, although they were moving to grass next week.
That's all I can really tell you, because I know nothing about polo. But I've learned a little bit.
The match is divided into four periods, called chukkers, which is the best word ever and I took every oppurtunity possible to use it.
"Did they use the same horse as last chukker?"
"My, what an exciting chukker!"
"We're almost to the end of the chukker!"
"Down in front, chukker!!"
They also had a bbq caterer, which meant you could cheer during the chukker while savoring pulled pork. It was a good night.
During the first match we cheered for the team in black, because they had the only girl, and she was wearing a pink helmet and had pink leg warmers (shin guards?) on her horses.
If you double click on the picture, you can see it better.
The second match there was a girl on each team, so we split into two groups (by this time DFL had picked up some random fellow to come hang out with us, since he was all alone) and cheered for opposing teams.
It was a lot of fun. Polo's pretty exciting, and fun to watch even when you don't know what's going on.
Unfortunately my little camera doesn't do so well at night, or with things that are far away, so I don't have any really good pictures of the horses.
DFL got some good pictures though, so everyone give her your best puppy eyes and maybe she'll post some for us.
The Newseum
On Saturday I went into DC with a friend and saw the Newseum, a fairly newish museum (HA!) on Penn Ave. It was very cool, and very large. We ended up spending the whole day in there.
On the top floor they have a balcony with some amazing views of DC. Like the Capitol.
Or the mall:
And it's right across from the National Art Gallery, which has the best cafeteria of all the Smithsonians, for those brave and intrepid souls who manage to find it.
Once you've finished looking around and taking pictures, you work your way down through 14 exhibits and 15 theaters (Holy Crap!)
It was very interesting, and a little intense. Not very kid friendly. On the third floor they have stations where you can play games, or get in front of the camera and do a weather report, there were a lot of kids there, and they also liked the 4D movie (which was free!) but in other exhibits I'd hear things like "Is that man on fire?" "What happened to the baby?" "Is that lady falling? Did she die?"
It's hard for adults too. In the Pulitizer Prize Photo gallery a lady next to me threw up her arms and said "I can't do this anymore" and walked out.
So it's a bit like the Holocaust museum. Good. Humbling. Horrifiying.
They have this massive room filled with a papers from every year, starting back from the first days of the printing press, and on the street they have a paper from each state showing the day's Headlines.
On Saturday, it was all about McCain's VP pick, Governer Palin, who I'm excited about, so it was fun walking past all those papers.
If you're coming to DC, and you're a news/politics junkie, it's definetly worth checking out.
On the top floor they have a balcony with some amazing views of DC. Like the Capitol.
Or the mall:
And it's right across from the National Art Gallery, which has the best cafeteria of all the Smithsonians, for those brave and intrepid souls who manage to find it.
Once you've finished looking around and taking pictures, you work your way down through 14 exhibits and 15 theaters (Holy Crap!)
It was very interesting, and a little intense. Not very kid friendly. On the third floor they have stations where you can play games, or get in front of the camera and do a weather report, there were a lot of kids there, and they also liked the 4D movie (which was free!) but in other exhibits I'd hear things like "Is that man on fire?" "What happened to the baby?" "Is that lady falling? Did she die?"
It's hard for adults too. In the Pulitizer Prize Photo gallery a lady next to me threw up her arms and said "I can't do this anymore" and walked out.
So it's a bit like the Holocaust museum. Good. Humbling. Horrifiying.
They have this massive room filled with a papers from every year, starting back from the first days of the printing press, and on the street they have a paper from each state showing the day's Headlines.
On Saturday, it was all about McCain's VP pick, Governer Palin, who I'm excited about, so it was fun walking past all those papers.
If you're coming to DC, and you're a news/politics junkie, it's definetly worth checking out.
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Friday, August 29, 2008
Friday Funnies
Why ninjas drink milk:
This is what happens when you try to be Sarah Brightman:
I hate being lost. And so do these guys:
Heh. I once got lost in DC for three hours. Three FREAKING hours. And then I got my GPS.
This is what happens when you try to be Sarah Brightman:
I hate being lost. And so do these guys:
Heh. I once got lost in DC for three hours. Three FREAKING hours. And then I got my GPS.
Morning Excitement
Since I'm out of the whole education/vacation cycle, I know that summer is over when it stays dark as I drive to work.
It's hard to wake up when you're brain is convinced that it's still the middle of the night. Since it was so dark, I couldn't tell that it was overcast, and I wasn't awake enough to pay much attention to the weatherman's "light drizzle off and on all day" so I was caught completely unprepared when the heavens opened and dumped a wall of water on my car.
When there's that much water it pools on the road pretty quick, and then it sprays up as the cars pass through it, so you're getting splashed from above and below and you can't see a thing. You just have to line up behind the lights in front of you, and try not to veer.
"This is my lane. There are many like it, but this one is mine."
It was about this time that I realized that my umbrella was still at home. Sitting in my room.
Safe and dry.
Probably snuggled under the covers, reading a book and sipping hot chocolate.
Cure You Umbrella!! CURSE YOU!!!!!!!!!
It's hard to wake up when you're brain is convinced that it's still the middle of the night. Since it was so dark, I couldn't tell that it was overcast, and I wasn't awake enough to pay much attention to the weatherman's "light drizzle off and on all day" so I was caught completely unprepared when the heavens opened and dumped a wall of water on my car.
When there's that much water it pools on the road pretty quick, and then it sprays up as the cars pass through it, so you're getting splashed from above and below and you can't see a thing. You just have to line up behind the lights in front of you, and try not to veer.
"This is my lane. There are many like it, but this one is mine."
It was about this time that I realized that my umbrella was still at home. Sitting in my room.
Safe and dry.
Probably snuggled under the covers, reading a book and sipping hot chocolate.
Cure You Umbrella!! CURSE YOU!!!!!!!!!
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Achmed the Dead Terrorist
I heard about this guy at work, and he's hilarious. The ventriloquist is Jeff Dunham, the dummy is Achmed. Enjoy!
SILENCE!! I kill you!
SILENCE!! I kill you!
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Monday AMV- A tad early
I'm going to West Virginia for work (I know you're all jealous.) So I'm posting this a little early.
After all, the Monday AMV is the only running theme I've actually managed to stick to.
My friend at work is doing a research project on Palmistry. I had her look at my hand, and found out that due to my rectangular palms and short fingers, I have hands of FIRE!!!
Do you know what that means? I'm a Firebender! Hmmm, but which firebender...
Except without all the psychotic megalomania.
Sigh, I miss Avatar.
After all, the Monday AMV is the only running theme I've actually managed to stick to.
My friend at work is doing a research project on Palmistry. I had her look at my hand, and found out that due to my rectangular palms and short fingers, I have hands of FIRE!!!
Do you know what that means? I'm a Firebender! Hmmm, but which firebender...
Except without all the psychotic megalomania.
Sigh, I miss Avatar.
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Bar J Wranglers Christmas concert-Grandma
I saw these guys in Jackson. The video isnt that great, but listent to the words carefully.
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Dog Pile!
This week in Krav, we're focusing on ground fighting.
So my teacher says "Get in groups of 4!"
I find myself in a group with three guys.
The teacher says "3 of you get a kick shield"
My three partners, all being gentlemen, run to the back of the room to grab the big shields.
"Now" says the teacher "I'm going to impress upon you how much being on the ground sucks" and then we learned how to wiggle out of a dog pile.
"The person without the shield lays on the ground, then the three with kick shields lay the shields on you, then lay on top of it. One over your shoulders, one on your middle, one on your legs."
I looked nervous.
My three guys looked apologetic.
As I lay on the ground, the instructor continued to instruct, my guys got heavier, and I became concerned about breathing, until he finally gave us the go signal.
I'm sure it will come as a surprise to no one that I shot out of there like a greased weasel, bounced a few steps, then asked if someone would hand me my shoe back. I was also the first one out of all the groups to succeed in getting out.
That's what happens when you combine the simple mechanics of elevating and rolling the hips with the sheer mind numbing terror of claustrophobia.
Greased. Weasel. Power.
So my teacher says "Get in groups of 4!"
I find myself in a group with three guys.
The teacher says "3 of you get a kick shield"
My three partners, all being gentlemen, run to the back of the room to grab the big shields.
"Now" says the teacher "I'm going to impress upon you how much being on the ground sucks" and then we learned how to wiggle out of a dog pile.
"The person without the shield lays on the ground, then the three with kick shields lay the shields on you, then lay on top of it. One over your shoulders, one on your middle, one on your legs."
I looked nervous.
My three guys looked apologetic.
As I lay on the ground, the instructor continued to instruct, my guys got heavier, and I became concerned about breathing, until he finally gave us the go signal.
I'm sure it will come as a surprise to no one that I shot out of there like a greased weasel, bounced a few steps, then asked if someone would hand me my shoe back. I was also the first one out of all the groups to succeed in getting out.
That's what happens when you combine the simple mechanics of elevating and rolling the hips with the sheer mind numbing terror of claustrophobia.
Greased. Weasel. Power.
Monday, August 18, 2008
Friday, August 15, 2008
Restaurant Week: The Continuation
Sorry this is tardy, all these late nights are starting to get to me.
Wednesday we went to B. Smith's, which offers Southern food. It's located inside of Union Station, and this was the first time I had been inside. It was beautiful, the architecture reminded me a lot of the Library of Congress. Very ornate.
I got fried green tomatoes, the fried catfish which was really good. It had a honey-mustard sauce instead of tartar sauce, and it came with collard greens and mac and cheese.
For dessert there was a bread pudding that was okay. Not my favorite southern place, but it was pretty good. The fish was my favorite.
Thursday was my day off from restaurant week. I went to Krav to try and burn off some of the calories. We worked on elbows, and my partner was a large guy who refused to move back unless I pushed him really hard.
So the instructor was all "Use your body weight!" and I was slamming my elbows into his pad really hard over and over and over again until today, I have purple elbows.
Bruised elbows hurt alot more than you think they would. It's just a really odd place to be bruised.
Today we went to Bobby Van's, a very swank steakhouse. The kind of place where nice girls don't flash their purple elbows, so I had to find a nice, long sleeved shirt to wear.
I had gazpacho, which they made with avacado, filet mignon with smoky mashed potatoes and haricot vert (green beans) and topped it off with chocolate raspberry cake.
Our waitress served the dessert, and when she came back, the cake was gone and the plates were cleared, and my friends were eating the last of their cheesecake.
She was like, wow. I could bring you something else if you guys didn't really care for those.
Our waitress was funny.
Wednesday we went to B. Smith's, which offers Southern food. It's located inside of Union Station, and this was the first time I had been inside. It was beautiful, the architecture reminded me a lot of the Library of Congress. Very ornate.
I got fried green tomatoes, the fried catfish which was really good. It had a honey-mustard sauce instead of tartar sauce, and it came with collard greens and mac and cheese.
For dessert there was a bread pudding that was okay. Not my favorite southern place, but it was pretty good. The fish was my favorite.
Thursday was my day off from restaurant week. I went to Krav to try and burn off some of the calories. We worked on elbows, and my partner was a large guy who refused to move back unless I pushed him really hard.
So the instructor was all "Use your body weight!" and I was slamming my elbows into his pad really hard over and over and over again until today, I have purple elbows.
Bruised elbows hurt alot more than you think they would. It's just a really odd place to be bruised.
Today we went to Bobby Van's, a very swank steakhouse. The kind of place where nice girls don't flash their purple elbows, so I had to find a nice, long sleeved shirt to wear.
I had gazpacho, which they made with avacado, filet mignon with smoky mashed potatoes and haricot vert (green beans) and topped it off with chocolate raspberry cake.
Our waitress served the dessert, and when she came back, the cake was gone and the plates were cleared, and my friends were eating the last of their cheesecake.
She was like, wow. I could bring you something else if you guys didn't really care for those.
Our waitress was funny.
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