random updatey bits
Aug. 6th, 2014 06:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rmdWe went to Las Vegas! It was fun! ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
clauclauclaudia and I had an enjoyable BARGE. My gf plays wicked good poker. My rental car did not get swept away in the flash-flood conditions that were quite impressive on Monday. Dramatic skies were very dramatic. Sunday night, we caught Penn & Teller's show, which happily contained way more new content than I'd expected. Also, afterwards I got to very briefly and politely fangirl at Teller over his "Tempest". (I posted here that I was getting tickets but I think I neglected to post that we went and it was brilliant - I've never seen a radical reinterpretation of Shakespeare that was so fundamentally grounded in the text. Prospero is explicitly a magician, so of COURSE there should be magic!)
I've started playing Ingress, on the green team. (C is on the green team, so domestic tranquility mandated that if I played, I should also be on the green team.) I'm level 5 now, playing very casually. We did have some fun in LV driving around to hack a bunch of unique portals, which is why I ended up leveling up faster than I otherwise would've.
I fucked up my upper back a while ago and am still recovering. Bits of muscle pain and nerve numbness, but slowly improving. I suspect I need more massage to untangle the muscles and stretch out the fascia or whatever.
clauclauclaudia and I had an enjoyable BARGE. My gf plays wicked good poker. My rental car did not get swept away in the flash-flood conditions that were quite impressive on Monday. Dramatic skies were very dramatic. Sunday night, we caught Penn & Teller's show, which happily contained way more new content than I'd expected. Also, afterwards I got to very briefly and politely fangirl at Teller over his "Tempest". (I posted here that I was getting tickets but I think I neglected to post that we went and it was brilliant - I've never seen a radical reinterpretation of Shakespeare that was so fundamentally grounded in the text. Prospero is explicitly a magician, so of COURSE there should be magic!)I've started playing Ingress, on the green team. (C is on the green team, so domestic tranquility mandated that if I played, I should also be on the green team.) I'm level 5 now, playing very casually. We did have some fun in LV driving around to hack a bunch of unique portals, which is why I ended up leveling up faster than I otherwise would've.
I fucked up my upper back a while ago and am still recovering. Bits of muscle pain and nerve numbness, but slowly improving. I suspect I need more massage to untangle the muscles and stretch out the fascia or whatever.
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Date: 2014-08-07 12:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-08-07 12:46 am (UTC)Some years, BARGE is the same weekend as DEFCON, but not this year.
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Date: 2014-08-07 12:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-08-07 03:53 am (UTC)Let me know if you want to ingress sometime.
YAY!
Date: 2014-08-07 09:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-08-07 03:37 pm (UTC)I thought Tempest was quite good but I read Aatish's review before writing my own and realized I couldn't do it that level of justice so never wrote it up.
I do want to get to LV and see the P&T show while there. Not sure when that would happen, though.
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Date: 2014-08-07 05:47 pm (UTC)sweet. i am here blackhat is bad bsides good. hookers hitting me up hard i think they are hungry
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Date: 2014-08-11 08:59 pm (UTC)Welcome home!