Fun and Games

Fri - March 13, 2009

Because everybody ought to be a superhero

'Ware the wrath of the Spectacular Shredding Samurai

You can make your own Superhero , too!

Yeah, it's a pretty basic, classical costume, as the ones offered there go. I'm a classical sort of girl. And they had some pretty bad-ass weapons, but the katana was just too cool to pass up.

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Thu - February 21, 2008

"Nearest Book" Meme

Unfortunately for y'all, the computer's not in a reading area

I've been tagged a couple of times with this, lately by Granny Geek . But there's only one book in here with me: The Library Shakspeare (sic), from whence I was eyeballing stuff while trying to pick a speech to do for my audition. It's a one-volume reprint of a 19th-century three-volume set, so I guess I should do this for Volume 1: The Comedies.

Instructions:

1. Grab the nearest book (that is at least 123 pages long).
2. Open to page 123.
3. Go down to the 5th sentence.
4. Type in the following 3 sentences.
5. Tag five people.

Page 123 gives us Measure for Measure, Act IV. The Provost has just told Claudio he must be executed within the next 8 hours, then asks where Barnardine is:

Claudio: As fast lock'd up in sleep as guiltless labour,
When it lies starkly in the traveller's bones:
He will not wake.

Provost: Who can do good on him?
Well, go, prepare yourself.

Hmph. That's cryptic. And boring. So, is Volume 2: The Tragedies any more enlightening? We have Hamlet, Act III. They've just watched the Players, and the King has stormed off in a huff with everyone following, leaving Hamlet and Horatio:

Hamlet: For thou dost know, O Damon dear,
This realm dismantled was
Of Jove himself; and now reigns here
A very, very -- pajock.

Horatio: You might have rhymed.

Hamlet: O good Horatio, I'll take the ghost's word for a thousand pound.

Ah, much better. Hamlet is always good for what ails ye. Volume 3: The Historicals and Poems gives us Henry IV Part II, Act V, at the very start. Swallow yells for Davey. It's a snorer, trust me. I ain't typin' it in.

I'll not be tagging anyone; 'tis against me bloggin' code (arrrr.) But feel free to take up the challenge, and leave a comment here pointin' us to yer work.

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Fri - October 26, 2007

Google Meme

What makes your blog unique?

Originated by The World's Fair, seen last at Shakesville.

Da Rulez: "[T]he premise is that you will attempt to find 5 statements, which if you were to type into google (preferably google.com, but we'll take the other country specific ones if need be), you'll find that you are returned with your blog as the number one hit."

I'm a wee blog with wee traffic, so I used the "you can put it in quotes" clause. The first four were easy, using my special place names:

1. Ever-So-Far High School (works without quotes, too!)

2. Whatta Middle School or alternatively Whadda Middle School (they both work, the second without the quotes)

3. Great Place Elementary

4. Rockin' School District

But I had to stretch a bit for #5: "Russell Crowe as big as you can get"

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Fri - October 19, 2007

Feed your brain, feed the world

Learn somethin'

Play the vocabulary game at FreeRice.Com . For question you answer correctly, the price of 10 grains of rice is donated to an international aid agency.

Things get interesting around level 40. At level 45 I was making educated guesses. At level 48 I'm snarling at the screen.

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Fri - October 12, 2007

For your entertainment

What's in the Intertubes lately?

From Gizmodo last week: An ad for Sony's Bravia -- Playdoh bunnies, the Rolling Stones, and New Yorkers actually smiling.

Via the Torchwood Institute: A clip of Ian McKellan and Sylvester McCoy as King Lear and his fool in a Royal Shakespeare Company production directed by Trevor Nunn at the Guthrie. Brilliant.

For Doctor Who fans only: a majorly cracked YouTube fanvid -- Hey Na, Hey Na. Seriously, if you don't watch the new Doctor Who, you won't get it. And for you strictly New Whovians, that's the first version of the Master (Roger Delgado) with Doctor Who #3 (Jon Pertwee), and the non-Gallifreyan Master (Antony Ainley) with Tegan (Janet Fielding) and the replacement for Doctor #1 they brought in for The Five Doctors episode (Richard Hurndall).

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Wed - September 19, 2007

When Pirate Meets Geek

I guess that make him a Peek

Our Little Wil, AKA Wil Wheaton, celeb blogger extraordinaire, geek, author, actor, and poker fanatic, has outdone himself for Talk Like a Pirate Day. Go look . Just don't be swillin' yer grog when ye click over't there.

I'll bet his kid emails home from college looking for brain bleach. Nah, he won't. He's used to it.

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Tue - September 18, 2007

Talk Like a Pirate Day

Wednesday September 19

Shiver me timbers, mateys, termorrer be "Talk Like a Pirate" Day. Ye can be sailing over t' th'original website fer more info on how this all got started (blame Dave Berry, which is not quite the same as blaming Canada) an' how t' be soundin' like a pirate yeself.

Also, there be a move afoot to be bloggin' like a pirate on this day, but it's not so official. Suit yerself on that account.

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Thu - August 2, 2007

Coast to coast in four minutes

in a convertable

Hat tip to The House Next Door, courtesy of the Gondry brothers and Lacquer.

As usual, link not embedded, so you'll have to come back.

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Wed - July 4, 2007

Simpsons Avatar

Make yer own

Thanks to Waveflux for the pointer to the Simpsons' movie website, where you can put yourself in Springfield:

Like I wasn't born in Springfield, anyways.

They didn't have a nose I liked, and the hair's not quite curly enough. Otherwise...

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Sat - June 16, 2007

The Music Meme

"You've got trouble right here..." -- Whoops, wrong thing.

Picked up from Blue Gal, also seen as Respublica: A meme slowly making its way about, generally w/o tagging b/c lots of folks are agin' that (parenthetical by Blue Gal):

1. Go to http://www.popculturemadness.com/Music/
2. Down the left column pick the year you turned 18
3. Get yourself nostalgic/enraged over the songs of the year
4. Write something about how the songs affected you
5. Pass it on to 5 more friends (And because I suck at picking five people, regular readers/commenters - You're IT! And you know who you are.)

On the webpage, you'll see the top 75 songs of the year, followed by the #1 songs in chronological order. I used this feature to look at the music of my senior year in high school (since I didn't turn 18 until the very end of it.) As usual, these are just screen caps not YouTube embeds. Clicking will take you to YouTube and you'll have to come back. (You have to, y'hear?)

To start we have what I considered the theme song of my senior year: My Sharona by The Knack. New Wave was just starting to affect Disco's grip on the pop charts (yay!):

Oh, my friends and I had tons of fun at an amusement park belting out Pop Muzik by M at the top of our lungs while waiting in line for what was, at the time, the world's fastest wooden coaster. We were on an out-of-town drum corps appearance, and even though it was a weekend, the crowds at the park were very light. We weren't in uniform, and we didn't annoy too many people:

Alas, but the winter holiday break was afflicted with one of the most obnoxious one-hit-wonders of all time: Escape (The Piña Colada Song) by Rupert Holmes . ZOMG, wasn't that an awful piece of dreck?

Then post-Spring-Break, to coincide with "senioritis," we had Pink Floyd's Another Brick in the Wall (Part II):

Finally, to round out the school year we got Call Me by Blondie. I give you her performance from The Muppet Show. Yeah, call me and let's do something this summer before I blow this burg.

Alas, the rest of the school year was a mix of power ballads and disco. I didn't think so at the time, but now I'm glad Queen was pumping out some music to break it up.

If anybody wishes to feel tagged, help yourself. Drop a linky in the comments, por favor, or if you don't has a blog you can reminisce right here.

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Thu - May 24, 2007

Fun view from an airplane

I-255 at IL Rt. 3

As Hubs discovered on his flight home yesterday, somewhere there's a civil engineer with some aesthetic sense:

Screen-cap from Google Maps, obviously.

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Thu - May 17, 2007

8 Things Meme

Tagged

ccw tagged me:

Here are the rules:
-Each player starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
-People who are tagged need to write their own blog about their eight things and post these rules.
-At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names.
-Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged, and to read your blog.

I'm not really saying anything my family doesn't already know:

1. I cannot sleep unless my sleepwear covers my elbows and knees and does not ride up over them while I sleep, and I must have at least a sheet on me no matter how hot it is. Luckily, we have air conditioning.

2. My hair color is still natural despite my "advanced" age. The curls are not. I've had a perm so long, only my husband, my parents, and my siblings know what I look like without one, and my youngest three siblings probably do not remember for themselves, only from photographs.

3. Being lost makes me literally nauseous. Bugs, snakes, wounds: no problem.

4. I don't give a rip about shots, but mess with my blood vessels -- take blood, start an I.V. -- and I try to pass out, although I've never actually done so. (Thanks, Dad.) I have to have blood work done at least once a year, because...

5. I have no thyroid any more. The cancer they knew about when they yanked the first half wasn't malignant, but the one they found after they sliced it and shoved it under a microscope was. Luckily, it was the non-inherited form of that cancer, so we didn't have to go testing the kids and possibly slicing them open, too.

6. I have three brothers and three sisters, and I am an only child. (Five half-, one step-)

7. I have no first cousins (except in-laws) but I can tell you the difference between a second cousin and a first cousin once-removed.

8. I consider "move" (as in "move house") just as nasty a four-letter word as any word that I might leave the vowels out of to keep from being bounced by some profanity-searching software.

I refuse to absolutely tag anybody specifically, but I encourage Chicken Without A Head , Misplaced Midwesterner , and Brave Sir Robin to play. Other'n that, play 'em if you got 'em.

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Fri - April 13, 2007

Directions

You know where this is going, don't you?

Stolen from Elayne:

Go to Google.com
Click on "Maps"
Click on "Get Directions"
Start address: New York
End address: London
Read direction #23
Clean drink off monitor

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