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Huh. Cool. They’re remastering The Nightmare Before Christmas in 3D. Originally I misread the article summary, thinking they were redoing the entire movie in CG, and I thought I was going to hurt someone, but no! Sure, 3D glasses hurt my brain, but it’ll be a treat to see my much-beloved film on the big screen again.
P.S. Firefox’s new “restore session” feature = Love.
Now that my Digital Figure Modeling final crit is out of the way, I’m in the mood to share some dorkyness.
Have I ever mentioned Milton Goldthwait in my blog? At the beginning of the school year, when Ko and I were testing our new answering machine, I loosely co-opted the character of Milton Goldthwait Foxtrot, but rather than making overtures to Paige, he attempted to woo my roommate. He subsequently metamorphosed into a prominent fixture in our geekier conversations, and often maintained a running commentary during Ko’s nightly phone calls to her real boyfriend. As Ko moved out yesterday, I decided I needed to preserve the dorkishness for future generations. Check out the messages he left on our machine over the course of the year!
Transcript:
First Message: Hi, my name is Milton Goldthwait, and I first glimpsed Terra Gearhart’s radiant visage in my Poli Science class, and I wondered if you would go out with me?
Second Message: Terra! My autumn flower! My ripe plum blossom! (?) of my heart! You have not returned my call. Tell me, my darling, what could prevent you from answering? It is I, [Morton] Goldthwait! Are you ill? Have you been kidnapped? Is it drug lords or pirates or–God forbid–Republicans? My heart grows heavy with each passing minute. Speak again, bright angel!
Third Message: Terra, it is I, Milton Goldthwait again. You have not returned my call! Are you playing hard-to-get or something? You rend my heart to pieces with your coy games! Phone me, Terra my sweet! Allow me to bask in the melodious sound of your voice. Do not deny the depth and passion of our true love!
I really need a boyfriend.
Why is it that I compulsively save after every sentence I write in Word, but I go hours without saving in Maya? Maya is much more likely to crash than Word.
Answer: Because I have the IQ of a grapefruit.
Hours of work lost just now: 2.
Here’s a better link for the PotC II trailer! Haha, looks like fun!
Happy Proven Guilty day! Hope you all had a lovely May Day and didnd’t get in a plane crash or your ship didn’t sink, unlike MINE, which is taking on water! Stupid Proven Guilty elevator scene. *dons tinhat and steadfastly waves Harry/Murphy shipper flag*
It’s sad when your Harmonian roommate suggests you’re being silly.
Anyway, here’s yesterday’s linkmine:
My nominee for Most Useless Person in the Universe: Marissa Leigh.
For a link with the same initials, but which is infinitely more awesome: Mario Live! Ganked from Beth.
“Thank You, Stephen Colbert” — how delightful is this outpouring of Stephen!love on my flist? Delightfully delightful.
New Mac Ads: John Hodgman is a PC.
Pirates of the Caribbean 2 Full Trailer — an unbelievably slow download. But the fifteen seconds I’ve downloaded in the last hour look pretty cool.
I’m currently in the library’s new Digital Media lab, which is too cool for words. Final Cut Pro, the Adobe Creative Suite, and more RAM than you can shake a stick at. I’m in heaven. Or at least I will be when I’m working on one of the actual lab computers, rather than my own laptop. The DMDer running the lab right now is helping me get a handle on the software I’m using for my independent study project.
I feel like I’m somehow infecting the pristine Mac environment, bringing my Dell in to the room. Like a hobo or bindlestiff, waltzing into a hospital cleanroom and coughing wetly on the patient. It’s all so shiny and white here! Also, because I’m surrounded by Macs, the screensavers are really pretty and really distracting.
AND THE BOY JUST WALKED IN AND HE’S GOING TO BE RUNNING THE LAB FOR THE NEXT FEW HOURS AND SITTING NEXT TO ME, AND I CLOSED BLOGGER SO HE WOULDN’T SEE AND JUST NOW OPENED IT AGAIN AN HOUR LATER WHILE HE WENT TO HELP ONE OF THE STUDENTS, AND WE’VE BEEN CHATTING AND ALL IS LOVELY AND YAY!
And while we were both working, I think he’s been watching me. I glanced at his laptop screen, distracted by *his* screensaver (curse all Macs!), and he immediately remarked on it. I don’t think I even turned my head, just my eyes! Oh, if only he wasn’t so cagey and mixed-signal-y when I propositioned him for coffee or food in the past, and if only I had more than 5 days left in Philly this semester! Ah well. I more or less gave up a few weeks ago, so it’s no big deal, but still. La!
Linked from Croupier, Berkeley on iTunesU. You can download podcasts of course lectures and events for free! I just found a course on digital image processing that looks cool, and I look forward to my exams being over so that I can start listening.
I hope more universities follow Berkeley’s lead. It’s such a thrill to see this new technology being used for education as well as entertainment.
Happy Walpurgisnacht to the more dangerously geeky members of the HP Fandom! Also wiccans and the various denizens of Finland, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia, Germany and Czechia. :D
Fanvid: Which Hogwarts Boy is Gay?
Grammar Nazis in Space: Does no one know how to use apostrophes?
From my parents: I’m the Decider
From my subconscious, sick of math: Mathematical Sculptures, done in LEGO.
I say Stephen Colbert is awesome because I know it in my gut. Check out his speech at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner: Parts One and Two, Parts Two and Three. Sorry, I’m having difficulty finding a pair of videos with an even break. Anyway, I have a feeling that Stephen and everyone that laughed during his speech will be summarily rounded up and killed. Hilarious, but reaaaaaally uncomfortable. :D