Producer, Writer, Photographer, Cartographer
The QSA folks needed the QSA and QPenn websites up by this afternoon. I knew they needed to be early this week, but they let me know about this deadline late last night. I spent last night working on my storyboards for Animation class.
They sent me the content this morning, after I spent all break asking them for it.
They sent my the FTP passwords at 3:30 this afternoon.
I had class from 9-12.
FINISHED BEFORE GOING TO CLASS AT 4:30.
Yeah, I’m awesome.
*snorts into orange juice* ‘Lost’ numbers come up losers: TV show fans buck ‘curse’ for shot at millions.
WHEEEEEE!! From Lost-TV.com:
LOST Hiatus Cut Short? It appears that instead of new episodes starting to air after 5 weeks of reruns on April 13, new episodes will air on March 30 and April 6. So instead of having four more weeks of reruns followed by the last new episodes of the first season, we’ll (probably) have two more weeks of reruns followed by two weeks of new episodes, then two weeks of reruns again, and finally the last four episodes of Season One.
*does a merry dance of joy*
Of course, this is also exceptionally annoying, because there were going to be no Lost episodes until Lady in the Dark was over, which would have been nice and non-distracting, and now Lost is returning the night before we open, but oh well. I’m certainly not complaining! Also, check out the DVD box art. Snazzy.
Oh! Did I mention that I saw Bride and Prejudice with Chungy the other night? I had seen bits of it at school on a dorm movie night (before it came out — gotta love the New Jersey Indian piracy industry, apparently). Anyway, I hadn’t realized that due to my lateness that night, I had missed more than half of it (I came in at the start of the “No Life Without Wife” song, for those that have seen the movie), and most notably, I had missed all the great Naveen Andrews moments. Mmmmm, Naveen Andrews. My enjoyment of the movie increased several hundred fold. Afterward, Chungy and I watched all the Lost episodes she hadn’t seen: “House of the Rising Sun” and the four episodes that aired since Christmas break. So much love. Hurrah!
Comments answered, because I am lame and can’t stick to a schedule:
Keith: I’ll have to leave the Terry Jones thing in time for rehearsal at 7, but I’ll do my best to get a friend or roommate to sign something for you.
Burkhead: Bite me. I don’t like Macs, but that doesn’t mean I have resentment for all Apple products.
Mon: Are you still agent_starling_1999? I’ll email you the address of the girl that hooked me up with the Chance DVD. Because everyone should witness the “Whaaa?” that is Spike/Tara.
Alright, who’s the goofball that told me Dave McKean’s last name was pronounced as three syllables (McKEE-an vs McKEEN)? Dork, I’ve been pronouncing it wrong for the last several months because of you! I was right the first time! *fishslaps shadowy, anonymous figure*
Meanwhile, I cannot WAIT until Anansi Boys comes out! The portions that Neil read at this appearance were utterly hilarious. Danke to Beth for the link!
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Dear English majors and minors and Austinians,
I write with exciting news. The Department of English, in coordination with the English Undergraduate Advisory Board and Hamilton College House, have managed to get Terry Jones [of Monty Python fame] to come to Penn on March 23rd. He’ll be doing a talk from his most recent book, entitled “Who Murdered Chaucer?” Jones, it turns out, is both funny and scholarly, and the lecture really is (in Pythonesque) manner about Chaucer.
The event will be March 23rd at 6:00 pm, in the rooftop lounge of Hamilton College House. We’re expecting a capacity crowd, so come early.
Jones will be on hand with his two new books and (hopefully others), signing books, and selling books. If you own any Monty Python books or records, you might want to get them signed (after you politely buy a new book!)
We’re working at Hamilton, between now and then, to schedule several Monty Python films. We’ll keep you posted on this.
Do come.
Michael Gamer
Transferring tnm.n to its new server at dreamhost.com! If it goes down briefly, know that it is probably through no fault of either host, but most likely do to my own incompetence. Hurrah!
Neil gives us a Mirrormask update:
The current news is — good news, MirrorMask will be getting a wider release than was originally envisioned; bad news, it’s now going to be getting to the cinemas later in 2005 than was originally planned. I think it’ll be released in early autumn. More news as I get it.
Alas, so long to wait! Oh well. At least the book is still coming out May 3rd.
US and UK covers released for HP6! If the kids’ UK cover is any indication, it looks like Harry and Dumbledore are going to be prodding buttock and taking names. Or maybe they will be burned at the stake for witchcraft and Book 7 will be called Hermione Granger and the Useless Pile of Ashes that Until Recently Were Humanity’s Only Hope for Defeating the Ultimate Evil; Thanks A Lot, You Bigoted Fundamentalist Puritan Jerks. Actually, I would really like to see that happen. Anyway, if the US edition is any indication, we definitely haven’t seen the last of the pensieve.
I don’t know how I feel about the new US cover. I miss the cover style of the first four books that were absolutely riddled with clues as to what we could expect in the book. I remember when the cover art for GoF came out. The fandom went nuts for months, arguing over the identities of those three people on the cover with Harry. And that was just the tip of the iceberg. The covers for OotP and HBP are pretty, but devoid of all the “Haha, I’ve seen the plot outline and generally know what’s going to happen and YOU HAVEN’T, so I’ll leave all these clues to torment you!” charm of MGP’s earlier covers. Sigh.
TODAY DEFINES FABULOUS.
I investigated prices from various online retailers and concluded that it would be cheapest to buy the iPod from the Apple Store nearby, so Mom and I stopped by early this afternoon and made life just that much more beautiful. I have an iPod! I shall call it “Squishy”, and it shall be mine, and it shall be my squishy. No, actually, I’m still deciding on a name. I think it defititely needs an “I” name, like Ivan or Ira or Isis or Isengard or whatever. And I have the sneaking suspicion that it’s female, unlike all my previous prized electronic posessions. It’s so preeeeeeeeeety! I might make some pun off “Isopod”, which is the scientific name for the insect commonly known as the “doodlebug” or “roly-poly”. Anyway, she’s a 30 gig iPod Photo. She has a color screen and over 3/4 as much memory as my entire laptop, yet smaller than a deck of cards. She has a white belly and a shiny silver back.
*blinks*
My god. iPods are this generation’s Pet Rocks.
Okay, anyway, next I called Dell tech support in hopes of finally getting my CD player issues resolved to I could actually rip my CDs to download my music to my iPod. Two hours later and Jimmy was running like new. Better than new, in fact, as I’m not sure my CD player ever really worked properly. Mmm, gotta love the mad rush to fix all technical problems before one’s warranty expires! One month left. :D
Life is brilliant and fabulous and yay for shiny new toys! Any suggestions for what to name her? They need not necessarily be i-names. Any thoughts on the matter are welcome.
I HAVE AN IPOD!!!!!!! EEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!
Bad evening. Then I watched Amber Benson’s “Chance” (now that I have access to a DVD player, other than the stubborn one on my laptop), and things are looking up. I am so incredibly entertained. I’m sure I wouldn’t have found it half as amusing if I had not seen Buffy, as much of my amusement came in the form of “Oh my good gravy, that’s the guy who plays Lorne! And he’s hitting on James Marsters’ character! *snorks madly*” etc, but the movie was still very cute. And this marks the first time I was not weirded out by James’ real accent! Yay me!
I was also quite amused at how in Chance and Simon’s post-coital scene, the shots are hilariously similar to those of one of the scenes in “Intervention” with Spike and the Buffybot. I wonder if I can find screencaps… ah, here! Compare: Chance vs. Intervention. The similarity is funnier when seen in video form, but yeah, you get the picture. I laughed. Loudly.
So yes. A splendid time was had by all. All meaning “me”.
I need something chocolate.
