3:25 AM: *bang* whooooooooooooooo Jessica and me, in bed: What in the FUCK? We sat up in bed, waiting a couple minutes while the wailing voice of a woman continues. Then two more loud *bang* noises. They sounded like they somebody was actually hitting the wall of our bedroom. Now we're pretty freaked out. I …
Category Archive: General
Aug 21 2007
Paramount is stupid
There's been a hell of a lot of analysis of the fact that Paramount (known mostly for its Scientology films) and Dreamworks Animation (motto: we made Shrek, and a bunch of other shit...but, hey, SHREK!) have dropped Blu-ray for HD DVD exclusively. They join the one single other studio which is doing so, Universal. Let …
Jul 26 2007
"Live with it."
Medicine sucks. They can diagnose structural things, and chemical things, but anything functional and they are basically useless. To be fair, scanning organs on a cellular level to tell what's wrong with them is very Star Trek, but one would think they could do something. I had a CT (structural) following a bunch of blood …
Jul 06 2007
You know what else I think is stupid?
And I don't know why I'm thinking about this right now, but those girls who get tattoos of little wings on their shoulders? I think it looks dumb. Especially when it's very small wings on a very large girl--twee little wings flanking back cleavage are not. good. It's worse even than those asinine NOTW (not …
Jun 20 2007
Diagnostic hell
To begin with: I am not great with needles. I don't get faint, but I am very squeamish. Nurses are fond of telling me that my veins are difficult, but I have, before today, had 2 successful and uneventful IVs inserted. Today I went in for my CT scan, ordered because the doctor doesn't know …