The Long Road
Archives: May 2007
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
or, The Library, as I sometimes call it. So I was really beginning to not have enough space for all my books, movies, and general "media" in the various places they were being held. My room and closet in particular were starting to get a little too jumbled with comix.
So I decided to clear out the very small and cluttered home office to make room for my stuff. The result is 2.5 walls lined with all sorts of geekery. 1 wall with all my graphic novels and comics. The other with lots of movies and books.
Aside from putting all the money I've ever spent in 1 room, I now also have a much more open bedroom. Also, I've been wanting to put my laundry basket in my closet for YEARS but have never had the space to...
Posted by Long @ 10:51 PM EST [Link] [Karma: 10 (+/-)] [No Comments]
Friday, May 18, 2007
About to order a double turkey with cucumber, onions, green peppers, tomatoes, and honey mustard. My thoughts of deliciousness were rudely interrupted by the sandwich maker asking me “is there cheese on this?”. Confusion ensured.
Clearly, there was no cheese on my sandwich. She had not put any on yet, why was she asking such a ridiculous question? Was she testing my occular faculties as a random service now provided by the friendly staff of Subway restaurants? Was it a philosophical query? Indicating that the cheese would be purely a product of my mind; I would think the cheese, and so it would be. Perhaps Subway had now developped some sort of quantum cheese with which they replaced the standard newtonian-cheese, whereby the cheese simultaneously did and did not exist on my turkey cold cut and settled upon a state only when I had observed it.
Eventually, there was cheddar cheese on my sandwich. Which was better than the guy behind me who had decided that, yes, indeed, there was american cheese on his.
Posted by Long @ 03:27 PM EST [Link] [1 Comment]
Thursday, May 17, 2007
I hate mother's day. Seriously. Not that I hate mothers; in fact, I love YOUR mother. But there's just something that rubs me the wrong way about a day where you are OBLIGATED to show someone you love them.
All of a sudden, you have to go out of your way to do something special for your mommy even though you talk to her like once a season. Or maybe you talk to her every day and get along really great, but if on this day you don't have something great planned, you've somehow let them down. Not doing something special for mother's day has NEGATED all the nice things you've done over the rest of the year.
Mother's day is the busiest restaurant day of the year. Busier than Valentine's, New Year's Eve, Halloween, or Patriot's Day. Why? Because if you don't take her out to dinner, you're a bad child. And the amount of extravagance lavished upon your mom on this day (and this day only) is directly proportional to how much you love her.
P.S. I'm not in any maternal trouble or anything.
Posted by Long @ 01:23 PM EST [Link] [Karma: 13 (+/-)] [1 Comment]
Sunday, May 6, 2007
And now I join that special circle of hell dedicated to screaming 14 year olds who make videos about their favourite characters.
Oh well, it turned out pretty good. It's scenes from Superman Returns set to Here Without You. I loved the whole Lois and Clark thing in the movie and Superman's loneliness easily suggested itself to this song.
What suprised me is how easy it is to make a music video. Technically. Its basically just cutting and pasting. You mark the "area" that you want to cut, and then move it to where you want it placed. So simple! The technology for video editing is much more intuitive and easy to use than I thought.
What's not so easy is audio editing. The two speaking parts in the song stand out immensely and hours of working with audio filters hasn't really produced anything significantly better. It doesn't help that I don't really know much about waves and frequencies and all that stuff.
A higher-def version is available if you want it... just ask!
Posted by Long @ 05:15 PM EST [Link] [Karma: 7 (+/-)] [No Comments]
Saturday, May 5, 2007
So I've come up with a really great line/turn of phrase that I wish I could use. But, sadly, it only works in the context of a Peter Pan story. Seeing as I dont particularly want to write a Peter Pan story, I'll never get to use this properly. So i'll just give it to ya.
Ready?
"Fly! Peter! ... and never, never, land..."
Posted by Long @ 03:59 PM EST [Link] [Karma: 1 (+/-)] [No Comments]
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