more iPhone fun, via the Boy

The question everyone's dying to ask... Does it blend?

uh oh...

sorry, Dani, but there will be a little more ickiness in the world come December:

Tim Burton and [Icky] Helena Bonham Carter Expecting Second Child

Just a quickie...

... to prove that I still exist. So much to blog, but so many other things that are theoretically a higher priority...

sooner or later, you're gonna use some math

YAY! It's online, at LAST:



I seriously, seriously love this song. I just wish it were longer. Larry Cedar is my hero.

Bonus cut:

if it's the space needle, it must be...

seattle! quickie update: I'm here, my apartment is great but not yet photo-ready, work starts tomorrow (eep), etc. etc. for a longer update, go here.

I miss you guys!

har!

I know many of us are regular readers of the Onion, but just in case you missed it...

Activision Reports Sluggish Sales for Sousaphone Hero

harry potter and the cheap chinese knock-off

didn't get enough harry potter in book 7? well, a whole bunch of chinese authors are doing their bestest to earn money publishing their own (totally unlicensed) installments...

no spoilers, I promise

weird al should be very offended

what? an entire article about the intricacies of being "white" and "nerdy" without even a shout-out to weird al? that's just wrong.

done!

done done done. I won't share my impressions so as not to spoil anything for the unread, but let us know when you've finished and we'll discuss. dani, no rush -- I really think it'll make the most sense if you reread book 6 first.

...now what? entertain me!

*tweak*

think you can't visit all 171 starbucks in Manhattan in one day?

think again:

just finished book 6...

...and, after a bathroom/food break, about to start book 7. haven't checked news or facebook in days in an attempt to avoid spoilers (the other day I had my mom scan cnn.com for me, just in case). should have it read by tomorrow afternoon, at which time I will respond to long-neglected emails, post pictures of the new apartment and be available for discussion.

in the meantime, start researching other awesomely awesome book series so I'll have something to cheer me up when I finish this one, okay?

edited to add: matt, whatever happened with the pirated HP7? I heard there were some pretty convincing phonies floating around the internet -- was the one you found real?

one two three four-ever

OMG OMG OMG

I may admit to watching "Army Wives" on Lifetime. [There is not much else on TV in the summertime.] And I may have left the tv on afterward for some white noise while I finished my clerkship application spreadsheet, even if that white noise was the truly unbearable new show "Side Order of Life."

And following that show was ANOTHER new show, "State of Mind." And who do I see within a minute of the opening credits? LARRY FUCKING CEDAR. And he is playing a very... ah... Neil Patrick Harris-in-Harold-and-Kumar-esque character. I have no idea if he's a regular character or a one-off (I'm kind of guessing the latter), but still, it was kind of insane.

The show looks terrible, though it does appear to take place in New Haven. For what that's worth. Good to see our boy Cassius still getting acting gigs, though.

Anyway, I have yet to start HP (I KNOW--I spent much of the weekend w/ the HP-averse Boy), but I'm hoping to make it through one more day w/o being spoiled. Wish me luck.

Done!

And I have mixed feelings about the way everything panned out... you all need to finish now, so we can discuss.

MJ, who figures the fine folks at the Hamden Panera, where he was reading the last several hundred pages, are probably glad to finally be rid of him

Page 650 update

OK, things REALLY start to heat up around page 600. I am still a ways from the end, but I can already tell you that the last couple hundred pages are, IMHO, what make reading the rest of the series worthwhile.

Back to reading as fast as I can...

HPVII update

Around page 550... things finally starting to pick up. Body count rising... I shall say no more.

About halfway through Deathly Hallows...

... and to be honest, nothing terribly earth-shattering has happened yet. IMHO.

I'll keep the spoilers to myself, but it looks like JK's habit of not really getting the story going until the last part of the book continues to hold. I have no idea how she's going to finish everything off in just 400 more pages...

Harry Potter VII update

I just obtained a copy of one of the pirate editions floating around the Intarwebs... who wants it?

we interrupt this week of packing...

...to announce a new blog:

http://wheel-of-fish.blogspot.com/

it remains to be seen how regularly and/or thoroughly I will keep up this blog, but right now I have very high hopes. I also have very high hopes that one day the mountain of boxes in my bedroom will disappear, so these hopes may or may not be grounded in reality.

in case you were worried, the creation of a me-only blog will not cause me to shirk my group-blogging responsibilities. rest assured that any craziness I find on the internets will be announced here first.

I'm sleepy, so that's it for now. see some of you tomorrow --

ericat13, ohsotempted to stay up and watch conan's interview of hermione/emma watson, but probably heading to bed instead

This is cracktastic...

... but I love it:

In honor of Botticelli...

The last line is my favorite part.

This is a picture of a baby duct-taped to a wall...

... and this is a list of the sixteen ugliest men in rock and roll.

That is all for now.

there are a zillion things I should be doing right now...

but instead I found this on youtube, and it's made me SO HAPPY:

mmm...alan rickman...

yes, he was probably a fair bit hotter a decade or two ago, but even as a potentially evil, stringy-haired potions professor he's awfully attractive.

plus this is just funny:

iPhone fun

Because it's been a while since anyone's posted anything... here are a couple of iPhone-related goodies.

Conan O'Brien's iPhone ad:



Mad TV unveils the iRack:

I don't know why this is so funny.

but it's taking all of my willpower not to play it over and over again.

"Stanley, I have something to tell you.

The baby...

It's not yours!" (okay, hit play.)

who's happy to be done with grad school?

ooh

ooh

pick me

but seriously, have we seen this?


I'm highly amused, and also a little sad for those of us who are/may be pursuing a phd...but these comics are funny because they're *exaggerations* of reality, no?

edit: apologies for the wonkiness of the picture in the first version of this post -- I did some photoshopping and hopefully the text is actually readable now. if not...might I suggest sucking it?

I should be in bed

... but I'm not.

re-donk-ulous

this is amazing. I kind of really want to go on this game show. who's up for a trip to japan?

"birthplace of aviation," indeed

I see what Daytonites really spend their time researching:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4174519.stm

PS: I realize this article is two years old, but apparently it has recently experienced a resurgence of interest in the blogosphere. Which, conveniently, we are in.

RIP, mr. wizard

mr. wizard died! sad...

and I can't think of mr. wizard without recalling one of my favorite gags on "dinosaurs". I didn't have any luck finding a clip on youtube, so this sound bite will have to do...

An Adult Operation!

I commend this game to you. I managed to get out Karl Rove's brain, but the bomb exploded on Donald Rumseld. I only scored 40, but you all should try. Bush definitely needs the help!

Extreme...ly short videos

These are all videos that I took by accident, but I think they have a certain charm. Picasa doesn't do them justice, so here are the full versions:

http://pantheon.yale.edu/~mrj9/extreme/

There is something oddly hypnotic about setting Windows Media Player (or whatever) to loop the video when it's played and watching it over and over again. Sort of like ytmnd.com.

In related news, who is going to create the first "lolkat" out of this picture?

Finally: Harry Potter gossip. Warning: possible spoiler for the whole series if it is real. But it is quite possible that it is not. Someone claims to have posted a page from the last book here:

http://rolloffle.blogspot.com/

I won't even tell you what it claims, in case you don't want to look. I myself suspect it is fake.

PS: Congrats to Dani for surviving today!

don't smother your kids

you know, it's about time someone took a stand on this.



here's a bonus video -- fyi, miss piggy isn't the best extra.

Guess who I just saw...

... on an episode of the second season of Lois and Clark? That would be none other than David Bowe (NOT David Bowie), star of UHF, playing an evil opthamologist that blinds Superman. I'm watching as I post, so I can't tell you how it turns out... but I am on the edge of my seat.

This one's my favorite

And I'm embarrassed by how long it took for me to figure out "hobowned."

LOLCoulton

your daily dose of randomness, and by "randomness" I mean "awesomeness":


it's just...it's...so many geek references in one photo. mind exploding.

more here.

--ericat13, trying to get some conversation going

im in ur webzine, becomin legit

...okay, that was a weak one. but look! slate.com has discovered the coolness of random photos with nonsensical captions!

in other bizarro-land news, you can buy your own fake sleeping, snoring pet for the low, low price of $45!

is anyone as creeped out as I am?

in keeping with tradition

I've officially finished my MBA. what do I expect to be your reaction?



and my response:


ARRRRRRRR

--ericat13, off to celebrate by...going to bed

Archduke the time-traveling pimp

This video makes very little sense to me, but it also cracks me up. I'm not sure if the HTML is going to work or not. Let's see:

I'd just like to note...

... that I have been to the White Castle that is a block away from my NYC hotel no less than three times in the past day and a half. I might go again tomorrow, if I can squeeze it in.

Mmmm. White Castle.

im in ur webcomic...

...makin fun of ur meme.

is it stealing if you can't keep it?

I've been hearing rumblings about this for months now, but it looks like congress has officially managed to screw over internet radio stations. for those of us who like, say, pandora.com and other awesome internet-only stations (my guilty pleasure is sky.fm, which basically plays classical music's greatest hits...hey, it helps me study), we could find ourselves very unhappy after may 15, when the new regulations take effect and a lot of these stations will no longer be able to afford to function. I don't know much about the details of the legislation, but I thought I'd post this funky little banner and encourage you guys to pass the word along, if nothing else.



hey, ^k^, when you're a lawyer, you're going to keep stuff like this from happening, right?

here's mine

Still don't know how I feel about this concept... but here is my daemon, for what it's worth:



When I get a little more time I will have to see about transmogrifying the rest of you....

okay.

I'm still not entirely clear on the "daemon" concept (honestly, every time I read it I think of the automated message that shames you when you try to email a nonexistent address, mail-daemon or whatever), but here's mine:



I like that it's a spider (JE sux!), but I don't really know if it describes me...

it's exam time...

...and therefore I'd rather be reading anything but what I'm supposed to. sigh.

but have we all checked out stuff on my cat today...?

Here's mine!

daemons!

I'm posting this EVERYwhere, but I think you should all make your own to see what you get. You take a short quiz at the Golden Compass Movie website and then you get your daemon! And then we can vote on whether it suits you, which changes its shape (they only last 12 days, though). Here's mine:



Did anyone else read the His Dark Materials trilogy? I remember really liking this first one, but the other two didn't thrill me as much. I still kind of want to reread them, though. After, um, finals. Sigh.

(Also, I hear there's a new OotP trailer out--has anyone seen it?)

NU Law in the news!

well! good to see one of our graduates is already making a name for himself in the political sphere.

did you know...

...that our blog is a year old today? hooray for us!

And, for old time's sake:

this horse has better rhythm than I do.

it's a horse

being ridden by a man in (I assume) formal riding gear

dancing to "lady marmalade."

*head asplodes*

uh...yeah. enjoy.

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

for me this time -- the yearbook is DONE.

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

happy weekend --

ericat13, running outside to catch the tail end of the first day of spring

a couple of things

A) Do we all subscribe to Jonathan Coulton's RSS feed? If not, go here to download his cover of Alanis's "You Oughta Know." Hee.

B) Do we all know that I am a crazy insane person who loves to overcommit herself? Yes? Then it should come as no surprise that I'm going to be the vocal director of Wigmore Follies next year.

:D

To say I'm excited is an understatement. you should all clear your calendars for the last weekend in March 2008 and come see next year's show! :D :D :D

Qualifying rocks

OK, maybe that's going a bit far. But it's over, and I passed, so I am at least neutral towards the concept of qualifying once again. Sure, we lost Billy and Fred, but I'm sure Jane and Sarah and I will all be very happy here together in the Oregon Territory.

Off to sleep, drink, play poker, sleep, and get back to work again tomorrow.

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we interrupt the previously scheduled qualifying update...

...to give you this story from my tax prof this morning:

So, we're studying about deductions for casualty losses. And there was a taxpayer who was raking and burning leaves when he found a live trap for a mouse, with a mouse in it. He was so startled he dropped the trap into the pile of burning leaves, which melted the trap and set the mouse free--but the mouse wasn't dead, just mildly flaming. So the little fiery mouse ran back into the man's house, catching the house on fire and burning it down.

And all I could think about were the peasants from the Trogdor game, and how it's not entirely clear whether they would get a casualty loss deduction for their thatched-roof cottage, because was the presence of Trogdor really all that sudden, unexpected and unusual? I mean, Trogdor lives around there, doesn't he? Wouldn't they be on their guard?

*throws metal sign and shrieks, "AND THE TROGDOR COMES IN THE NIIIIIIIIGHT!"*

(oh, and the flaming mouse dude couldn't take his deduction, because burning leaves was illegal at that time of year. heh.)

Now back to qualifying, already in progress...

Qualifying studying update

Still blows. I am incredibly not ready for this exam. Hopefully I will be by tomorrow, but at the rate they are moving the exam up (it was initially at 3:00, then 2:45, then 2:00, and now phrases like "I'm free anytime after noon" are beginning to fly), it may be touch and go.

OK. Back to studying/making frantic crib sheets. Which, as I may have mentioned, blows.

15 hours (ish, maybe) left to go! Some of which might get devoted to sleep!

and so it begins...

I've never been one to thoroughly scour the NY times wedding announcements, but it was brought to my attention that one of my current classmates was in last weekend's edition, *and* her qualifications were impressive enough to win a celebrity blog's announcement-ranking game. ick.

Qualifying addendum

You know what else blows? Taxes. Still need to send those off.

Qualifying update #3

Monday morning, approximately 3:15 am. It is finished. Sort of. Still need to proofread one last time and send off, but no new significant amount of information is coming, for better or for worse. Mental state: surprisingly chipper. Caffeine and sugar intake this evening has been much more evenly distributed. Peaks and valleys are all well and good when one is crossing the rugged terrain of the Oregon Territory; not so much for blood sugar.

At this point, approximately 39 hours used; 9 remain. Even allowing another half an hour to proofread and send it in, and eight hours (ha!) for sleep if that were really the physiological necessity everyone claims it is, I would just like to note that this still leaves me a full half an hour of buffer time. A.k.a. more buffer time than I have had for any assignment I have ever been given in my entire life. There must be something wrong with me. I must have gotten weirdly responsible in my old age. Or, more likely, screwed something up. Something like hearing "you only have to answer three of the questions," when in reality the assignment was "answer all eight, or you will be summarily castrated."

Pace: still steady. Rations: adequate. (Tomorrow and for several days thereafter, rations are going to have to become meager, as I am beginning to have trouble carrying my own fat ass back to the wagon, much less all the bison I am shooting.)

Sucked the snake venom out of Jane's wound; she is improving. Billy's typhoid took a sudden turn for the worse; he died. Also, Jane is pregnant. Apparently venom-sucking proved to be an unexpected aphrodesiac.

Until I find out tomorrow that I did everything OK, Matt has a case of Schroedinger's Testicles.

Qualifying still blows. For about 2.5 more days. At which point, qualifying will be awesome, since I will be done with it and most of my friends will still have to do it. Ha. Losers. Then, it will be paper revisions and conference preparations which will blow.

Qualifying update #2

Sunday morning, approximately 2:30 am. The night is still, as are my thoughts. Second question of 3 is about 60% completed. Nonlinear properties of visual system neurons have been partially characterized. 14 hours used, 34 hours remain. Mental state: sleepy. Will soon retire for the evening.

Taco Bell was an excellent choice. As was breaking during Taco Bell consumption to watch episodes of Family Guy ("You have AIDS" song was prominently featured in tonight's selection). Pace: steady. Rations: filling. Heath: Good, but fat. May have a tough time floating the wagon across the next river if I continue eating at this pace. Billy's typhoid is improving. However, Jane got a snake bite.

Random trivia fact of the moment: The guy who plays Creed on the American version of The Office was once a member of the rock band The Grass Roots. Singers of oldie classics like "Midnight Confessions," "Temptation Eyes," and "Sooner or Later."

Random trivia fact of the moment immediately following that one: The theme song of the American version of The Office is my current ringtone.

Qualifying still blows, though I can almost see the beginning of the end in sight. If I squint. A lot.

Qualifying update #1

Saturday, approximately 8:15 pm. First question of 3 (mostly) completed. 8 hours used, 40 hours remain. Blood levels of sugar and caffeine running high. Mental state: twitchy, but coherent. Billy has typhoid. A thief came in the night and stole 2 of my oxen.

The next question after this one will be harder to answer; the last question should be easiest. Must pace myself (current pace: strenuous, but not grueling). Time for Taco Bell break as I plan my next move.

Qualifying still blows.

I wandered lonely as a cloud, y0.

Hey Erica, how come your New Haven promotional video didn't look like this?

Also, a good story about copyright, fair use, and Green Eggs and Ham, from Salon. (Sadly, no reference to fruvous, though.)

Finally, who wants to see Buster Bluth in a Switchfoot video? Well, not me, really, but it turned out surprisingly well.

Qualifying bloooooooows

That's really all I wanted to say

from the friend who brought us alanis and her humps

nelly or grrrl rocker? you decide. (check out the first track.)

well, shoot.

turns out handel's "messiah" isn't so much "yay jebus" as "boo jews." even the guy who wrote "amazing grace" (about whom a movie proclaiming his awesomeness was just released) was in on it. yeesh.

...uh, happy easter?

alanis morissette's...lovely lady lumps?

hee.



edited to add: here's the original song/video, just in case any of us (*nudge* hi, dani!) miss the reference :-P

also, can I just point out (again) that this is a HORRENDOUS song? thank you, alanis (and india, and terror, and disillusionment) for continuing to poke fun at it.

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

july = so soon!

YouTube Award results

Sooooo... mixed feelings on the outcome of the first ever YouTube award results. OK Go won for Most Creative, which was deserved, methinks. I was not thrilled by most of the winners for the other categories, though. But, the winner for Best Series, "Ask a Ninja," is pretty funny. First episode below.



The winner for Most Inspirational was OK too... it was a neat idea, at least.



Finally, to complete the YouTube trifecta, this wasn't a winner of anything, but I found it recently and it amused me:

YouTube awards

Just thought I'd post the link so you can check out the nominees (and, as of Friday [I think], the winners):

http://www.youtube.com/ytawards

I haven't looked at everything yet... but I was not that blown away by the entries I've looked at so far in the comedy category (though "Ben takes a photo of himself everyday" is pretty decent if you get the reference of the parody). Several old standbys are there, including the Chad Vader videos and of course the original OK Go treadmill video.

On the one hand, I have to say that, with how incredibly easy it is to make cool movies on a Mac these days, I'm a little disappointed that all of the entries aren't spectacular. On the other hand, this gives me hope that I could do at least as well as these people. If only I had a little more spare time....

more OK Go-related awesomeness

I heard a passing reference to this online

but was underwhelmed, so when this



came up as a "related" video, I thought I'd check it out.

my faith in today's youth has been (mostly) restored. but how on earth did they get the gym teacher to let them rearrange the treadmills?

it's oh so quiet

so I was trying to find ways to waste time so I could look up at 4:30 and say, "hey! it's time to leave for st. patrick's day festivities!" and I decided to see when exactly we started this blog. for the record, our blogiversary is april 23 (mark your calendars!), and for an additional part of the record, we were WAY more prolific in our early days. what happened? not much has changed since last april -- we're all still students, and matt may have some qualifying thingy to worry about this year, but he didn't let something small like a neuroanatomy final get in the way of his blogging last spring so I see no reason to cut him some slack now. I will do whatever it takes to restore our early levels of irreverance and lively debate, but I need your help!

here's your first topic. wedding cake festooned with twinkies: awesome or hideous?

I am way on the side of awesome: chocolate frosting (hopefully surrounding chocolate cake) -- good! happy little decorations which will probably last longer than the marriage -- even better! what do you guys think?

By the way...

... I just wanted you all to know that, over the weekend, at extreme peril to my chances of passing my qualifying exam, I finished Harry Potter book 6, thus bringing me fully up to speed. And at some point, I think a full conversation is in order regarding what we think is going to happen in book 7. I have read much speculation on the Intarwebs, and have some of my own as well.

I will not begin this conversation quite yet because I still have reading to finish for tomorrow. But soon. Very soon.

PS: I am too cheap to actually buy the book this summer, but I call first dibs on borrowing it from whomever finishes it first.

I'm in song love

I stumbled across this song in a totally unrelated podcast about an hour ago, and between replaying it in the podcast, looking for videos of it on youtube and finally downloading the mp3, I've heard it at least ten times since then...and I don't see myself stopping anytime soon. so yeah, in true me style, it's taken me months to realize that a musician who was recommended to me (by you, matt?) is truly awesome, and now I'm seriously considering canceling my existing plans for march 30 so I can go see him (with paul and storm!) in NYC. who wants to join? (^k^, don't you need to look for apartments/drink at mory's sometime this spring? hm...)

the object of my obsession:

c'mon c'mon

have we all seen this?



My verdict? AWESOME.

either the world keeps getting funnier or my standards are lower than I thought

neuroscientists rock out

*snort* oh, I tried so hard to say that with a straight face.

this is fairly amusing, too

it doesn't beat a hilarious almost-war, but it's still worth checking out...

only in europe

I am highly amused.

swiss accidentally almost start itty-bitty war

Chad Vader, Day Shift Manager

If you think this one is funny, there are 5 more episodes... I spent half an hour today watching them when I probably had better things to do.

a public service announcement

to all men worldwide:

when one's hairline begins to recede, one has several options. one can

(a) grin and bear it

(b) grin and, uh, bare it (that's jack nicholson, btw)

or


(c) glue in some extra hair and hope no one notices.










for the love of God, don't pick (b) or (c). (b) scares the children, and (c) just makes everyone laugh.

you're welcome.

for a livelier discussion of britney-related stuffs...

...check out the results of Stereogum's Photoshop Britney contest. ha!

huh.

maybe she *did* have a compelling reason for shaving her head. a stupid reason, and one which only serves to prove why she needed drug testing in the first place, but still a reason. there's hope yet!

Belated story to share

... even though I have many other things I should be doing, and this is old news by now, I figured I'd let you all know I was alive and blogging by relating the following dialogue from the recent recruitment weekend for my neuroscience program.

I am pretty sure this constitutes the absolute high point of my life thus far. It occurred last Saturday night at Barcelona between me and a female recruit whose name I never learned, but whom we shall call Reasonably Attractive Asian Recruit (RAAR) for the sake of the dialogue:

Me: So, then there was the summer that I spent in Winston-Salem working for the Hanes underwear catalogue...
RAAR: (COMPLETELY SERIOUS) So, were you, like, an underwear model?

This actually happened. I have witnesses.

...what?

"the mathematics of love" was stuck in my head and it made me happy, so I thought I'd share the happy, but I couldn't find it on youtube and had to settle for this instead. meh. it's almost as good.





update: OMG. I LOVED THIS SONG. I STILL DO.

uh, matt, care to comment?

can you *honestly* say she's still hot? yes, the ratty uncombed hair is gone, but...it's GONE. as is she. completely gone. she also threw up in her car last weekend and then WENT OUT TO PARTY SOME MORE. if guys can look at that and still find the vomiter (and then partier) even remotely attractive, there is no f-ing way I should be single.


PS -- I am totally digging this post-label thingy.

update: cnn.com has the whole sordid head-shaving story here.

the internets have created and/or codified a number of new interjections

to which I say:

meh.

or possibly feh. I'm not sure.

also...

this has been a ridiculous news week. when will it end???

is anyone else following this?

I just think this is the perfect blend of tragic and awesome. people are CRAZY...and so creative about it!

astronaut flips out, voluntarily wears diaper

OMG squee!

FINAL Harry Potter coming July 21!

ahh, cat washing

It amuses me:

OK...

... per the request of ^kat^, we have switched to the new Blogger. I have yet to really investigate what the benefits of this might be, but I assume they are legion.

Donny Osmond rocks hardcore

The first take of Weird Al and Donny Osmond dancing together for the "White and Nerdy" video:



I, for one, am rather impressed with the level of Mr. Osmond's (presumably) improvisational dancing skills.

crossposted from my other blog for matt's benefit

It's official. Music class = the best law school class ever.

Why? Because my reading for tomorrow (portions of Rockonomics) contains an extended quote from (Semisonic drummer) Jake Slichter's masterpiece, So You Wanna Be a Rock & Roll Star.

Coincidentally, I read that book nearly two years ago, while visiting the law school for Admitted Students Weekend. It's a phenomenal piece of work about the music industry and you should all read it yourselves, if you haven't already.

And *I* should finish my reading for tomorrow. But seriously? I LOVE THIS CLASS. It's like getting class credit for doing the stuff I do normally.

I'm totally pulling one over on the administration. (Shhh, don't tell.)

I'm in ur manatees, stealin ur buckets...?

pix from last night

A selection of photographs from last night's Bible trivia extravaganza. Sorry for the lame captions; trying to do this quickly and surreptitiously at work, so no time for cleverness...

The brain cake

Some elderly gentleman holding said brain cake

Remainder of the casserole

The Bible trivia game board

Dani is amused by her email

I play with the "everything black and white but one color" feature of my camera

I'd just like to note...

... that TV on DVD is simultaneously the best and worst thing ever. Damn you, Season 2 of Scrubs, for eating my entire Sunday! Why must you be so deliciously entertaining???

In other news, I have purchased a home version of Dance Dance Revolution on the Intarwebs... so when it arrives, you are all welcome to come over and try it out.

holy crap!

wow! it, uh, blends!

it's no Lazy Sunday...

...and Dick in a Box has better one-liners, but it's still worth watching:

The Harry Potter Rap

Did people already know...

... that actor/musician Jason Schartzman (of Rushmore and Phantom Planet fame) is the son of Talia Shire (Adrian from the Rocky movies)? And that Talia Shire is the sister of Francis Ford Coppola? Making Jason Schartzman the nephew of Francis Ford Coppola, as well as the cousin of Nic Cage and Sofia Coppola? I did not know that.

In other news, I wish I had some tidbit of trivia about one of the stars of Fame, so that I could refer to them as So-and-So, of Fame fame.

But I don't.

(In fact, looking at the movie's page on Wikipedia, I don't actually recognize the names of any of the actors. Seeing as the movie is in fact called Fame, I'd say that's what we call irony.)

I meant to post this...

...pre-NYE gathering, but Blogger was slow the night before I left, so here it is:

Cows With Guns

BEAT YOU TO IT!

Look what Brit's up to now!