We forgot to pay the phone bill, so we didn't have internet. We forgot to refill the electricity meter, so in the wee hours of the morning - ka BAM! The electricity went out. My roomie lit a bunch of candles and trooped off to our friends' house to pull an all-nighter. I watched Arrested Development on my laptop and scribbled on a be@rbrick:



"The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout 'Save us!' ...And I'll look down, and whisper 'No.'"

It's Watchmen's Rorschach, to match the Dr. Manhattan I'd previously scribbled. :)

"No. Not even in the face of Armageddon. Never compromise."

National Geographic has posted their 7 "Best Wild Animal Photos of 2008."

They're all ridiculously amazing, but this one is my favorite:



More of photog Brian Skerry's oceanic work can be found here.

I am going to drink all day.

You can consider this my obligatory "hey look new glasses!" icon post. I think the prescription's a little off but hey, what do you think you're gonna get for $29? I don't wear glasses that often anyway.

Incredibly legit DVDs I have bought thus far:

1. Iron Man. This was CLEARLY filmed in a theater. But wait - not just any theater! A CHINESE theater! You can tell because they completely excised the makeout scene between Tony Stark and Blond Reporter From Brown. Right on! Making out on a bed is just SO filthy and SO degenerate and this movie makes SO much more sense now that we're cutting straight to the scene where this woman is... waking up? In someone's bed? Wait, what?

2. The Incredible Hulk. Only ok video quality. Still, I like a DVD sleeve that proclaims "BEST COMIC COOK ADAPTATION EVER."

3. Confession of Pain. Tony Leung. Takeshi Kaneshiro. HOTTTTT! I will TOTALLY give you 15RMB for this! I mean... but only because I heard it was a good movie. Yea.

4. You Shoot, I Shoot. I haven't watched this yet, but any movie that involves a professional hitman and an assistant director teaming up to make ends meet HAS to be awesome!

5. Battlestar Galactica: Season 4. YES. OH HELL YES. I AM WATCHING THIS RIGHT NOW.

I was sick again yesterday. I think it was from this cafe's sandwiches. Whoops!

Here is a doodle of Noodle, of the Gorillaz.

I guess I'm co-hosting a Hurrydate event tonight.

Attire: wear what you would wear on a 1st date! no jeans please :)

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Bad idea to interpret this the way I want to and not the way she probably wants me to? I have black pants that are not jeans, but I'm guessing she wants me to wear something more flirty, like a skirt. Totally not gonna wear a skirt to work. Totally gonna change in the mall and wallow in Borders (yayyyy sci-fi books that I can just stand around and read! Except Speaker for the Dead. Reading that was a mistake).

Anyway, it's only a couple of hours and it sounds like fun. And I have to admit I'm super curious. Satisfying curiosity > sitting around being emo.

I visited Andrea and her fiance and the awesome Brett this weekend! It was good. Except for Cloverfield. I thought that was an interesting, realistic movie in theory (monster movie from the POV of a helpless civilian), but INCREDIBLY ANNOYING in practice.

The Star Trek teaser was more promising. There are dark shots of the finishing touches being put on constructing the Enterprise, with Armstrong's "one small step for man" quote playing over them. The fact that there are people (complete with safety goggles and filthy faces) working on the ship, as opposed to massive robotic arms or something similarly clean and impersonal, highlights the fact that the technology at this point is much more primitive than later in the Star Trek timeline. There's still a sense of wonder in being able to construct a starship this massive at all, let alone launch it and explore outside the solar system.

At the same time, I'm not sure what that manual labor says for Earth's society. I thought the relatively money-less economy that's hinted at in the series and movies was based on replicator technology and the automation of manual labor, the former of which was already in place by the time they started building spaceships. However I'm not clear on the timeline, and in the series there are a few references to Federation credits. It's never clear how you earn those, because none of the officers on the Enterprises or on Deep Space 9 (that I remember) ever get explicitly paid for their services. Apparently the Federation is one big altruistic self-improvement party.

I can buy that in such a system you get compensated in intangible ways (respect, satisfaction that you're doing what you love, etc.), but I have no idea how that works in terms of resources that can't be replicated, i.e. land.

Maybe it's clearer in the novels.

Currently 1,670 people are using my silly little- excuse me, CLEARLY AWESOME lolcat quiz app, which I made using Quiz Creator. That's pretty ridiculous.

In fact I'm unable to think about this movie without using a CRAPTON OF EXCITED EXCLAMATION MARKS!!!!!!111shift11

$200 Need a cheap place? M looking for F roomate-Nice safe clean house


haha he forgot to add quotation marks around "interview."

Frustrated by squidhat stuff. Have a night elf doodle.

This is my icon of disapproval.

Brought to my notice by sxyblkmn:



WHAT.

Argh, why must it be SO FARRRargagajljafldsjjkadslfsas

Hummingbird Hawkmoth. So fat! So fuzzy! I would like to squeeze it if it wouldn't explode.

Lieutenant Uhura, open all hailing frequences!

SQUEE.

( cut for anyone who hasn't seen the latest ep yet )

I haven't drawn a monkey in a while, so here's a happy egg-slinging one. I'm still not sure what the bird gets in exchange for all its egg-laying. Pokemon cards? Delicious Chinese pastries? I'm hungry.



I'm also drawing silly monkeys when I should be doing work. Dum dee dum...

Quote from a character in Six Strong Guys:
"Everyone wants to know why I wanted to die. It's simple. I was playing an online game that night. Suddenly I lost all my virtual treasures. So I decided to jump out the window."