Well, the shadowy conspiracy dedicated solely to irritating me has struck again.  This time they managed to switch which day was the 25th this month.  Instead of being Monday as previously planned, it got changed to Sunday.  Bastards.

Anyway, since in my heart it is actually the 25th today, Happy anniversary to the Orkwiseses, who I am glad to ( Read more... )

 After Sarah's post about the Star Wars concert, this seems wildly appropriate.  Found it through /film.


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 It's ten minutes long and the music is annoying.

It's also ten minutes long and features BULLETS HITTING THINGS filmed at ONE MILLION FRAMES PER SECOND.

Put some actual decent music on the stereo and marvel:

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 I might be totally unraveling somebody's mind here, but upon seeing this I immediately thought of Sarah and a particular (and, admittedly extraordinarily terrible) fear she once mentioned to the Nuthouse.  It's monumentally fucked on its own, even without past childhood traumas to spice up the sauce.  I totally sympathize, so I'm putting it behind ( Read more... )

 I have a problem.

On my MP3 player, I have a playlist of all the Star Trek scores.  They are, of course, in order.  After the latest Star Trek came out, I bought the score and ripped it to my player.  I have not put it into the playlist because I can't decide WHERE to put it, and this is of monumental importance.

One could argue that it belongs ( Read more... )

      Saw this on gizmodo.  Somebody chopped together and auto-tuned a bunch of clips from Carl Sagan's Cosmos.  Enjoy.

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Christ.  So, my computer freaks out, and after much frustration, I decide to restore the OS.  This fails spectacularly multiple times, but finally it works.  Thank god I backed up (I hope) everything I want to keep.  Now, though, my computer is technically about four or five years out of date.  Some of my device drivers are broken and won't fix ( ( Read more... )

God I love technology.  I got my XBox hooked up to the internet, and am now streaming episodes of The IT Crowd through it from Netflix.  Also, the game Portal?  In contention as my favorite game ever.

Now back to chocolate cake and wine.

Read through this thread about how situations in movies would play out differently in reality.  It's hilarious.
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via Reuters:
     The city of Hill Valley, California was shocked this morning by the destruction of the Twin Pines mall shortly after one o'clock this morning.  Authorities have verified that the blast, which vaporized everything within ( Read more... )

Yeah, so I guess we're all fucking doomed now.