suppose i accidentally got my shit together

So, I had a plan for yesterday. That plan involved sloth, videogames (including finally starting bioshock 2), and generally having a bonus weekend day to spend in idleness. (except for getting my teeth cleaned v early - when I made the appt, I forgot that 10/10 was a holiday.)

So, I got up early and went to my dentist for an overdue cleaning, then went to the Starbucks a few doors down to start the process of undoing the cleaning. (kind of sysiphean, really). and then I figured I'd stop atthe market on the way home, and I did and stocked up on some supplies. Then I wet home and did manage a tiny bit of sloth. Then I talked to C about what we wanted in a new chair for the computer room (the 30+ year old chair that had been following me coast to coast finally died). And then I drove clauclauclaudia off to a tutoring appointment and productivity attacked.

I went to target and picked up new curtains for the bedroom, as well as a few other parts of the house. Went home, swapped the bedroom curtains in. Stopped at trader joe's for snacks. Went to tend cats I'm cat-sitting. Picked C up and then we drove sown to ikea. We checked out all the chairs we'd looked at on their website and then ended up getting something totally different that we both liked. And we picked up a new office chair for me. And a dish drainer (my old one died a year or two back and I'd been doing without). And new pillows that have never had cat puke on them. Yet.

So, my truck is full of chairs, as we were both too beat to drag the old ones downstairs last nite. And I have bright curtains in the bedroom to make it less cave-like. And curtain to mount in the computer room and on the front 2nd floor porch door. And so tonite we'll swap out new chairs for old.

So, I got a bunch of stuff done, including assorted cleaning and other errands. Which made it kind of a failure for "sloth", but I'm good with that.

all set!

Apparently some of the voice actors for zim got together and read a couple of unproduced episodes. link here at the Mary Sue

2011 is the sum of 11 CONSECUTIVE prime numbers: 2011=157+163+167+173+179+181+191+193+197+199+211.

This means it is a prime number that is the sum of a prime number of prime numbers!

That's pretty fuckin prime right there

So, there's been a spate of "faux-vintage" movies over the past few years. "alien attack" was a remake/spoof 50's sf movie. The hp lovecraft historical folks did a silent "call of Cthulhu" movie. There's a new one, now. It's called "metropolis", and the framing conceit is laid out in title cards before the start of the movie (like the beginning of "Blair witch project") explaining how the parts of the movie were scattered across the globe like part of some videogame quest (I assume the inevitable tie in game will utilize this mechanism somehow).

Anyways, they supposedly gathered all the parts to create voltron and are claiming to be showing the full movie for the first time since 1920 or something. It done like a 20's style silent movie, and it was pretty good, albiet kinda derivative.

How derivative? Here's a list:

• there's the whole "we found this movie" thing like Blair witch
• the art design for the titular city is a TOTAL ripoff of Rapture from Bioshock. And rapture had whales and awesome water fx and everything.
• these guys owe Quentin Tarantino a check or something: not only did they do the fake distressing thing like in grindhouse, they even used the thing where they cut out part of the movie and have a "we're missing this footage" title card
• the people fleeing the rising water level end up finding a locked door at the top of the escape stairs, just like Kate and Leo in "titanic"

They did a lot of stuff right, though. They absolutely nailed the look for the fx. I think actual fx in the supposed production time frame weren't that advanced, but it's a small jump to what they showed. The cgi was so well blended I couldn't be sure what was cgi and what was vintage fx methods. (the call of Cthulhu folks did this really well, too.)

The acting had real period versimilitude right down to the makeup. The plot was pretty good, working the archetypes well.

So, it could totally pass for a 20's movie. Really good. I didn't recognize any of the actors, so they found really good unknown talent. Or maybe they are all germans who haven't done anything English speaking until now.

Anyways, check it out if you like that deco styling. Very nice.

I'm in a hotel, and channel surfing as I gear up to take on the world. And look! David tennant, in hamlet! With Patrick Stewart. Alas, I cannot watch the players attempt to catch the conscience of the king. Must build data center...

Sigh. I think I have pink eye. At least, I was around a bunch of kids over the weekend and now my eye is irritates and generating spooge. So, signs point to pink eye.

I'm hanging out at the mt auburn walk in clinic and I think I've chafed my eyelid with the sandpaper like tissue they have here.