On the rather short ride into work: Devour, by Shinedown, followed by Bodies by Drowning Pool.

Talk about the perfect movie to get you revved up in the morning!

Me: *walks into the lab, heading for the office, which is a small room accessed through the back of the production lab ( Read more... )

( 'Female' matters dealt with bluntly behind cut. )

The earliest Discworld novels were based off of Prattchet's RPG experiences. In fact, references to the bizarre D&D magic system and dice-rolling abound in The Color Of Magic. Back in the days when Prattchet DM'd (is it really surprising to learn that he ran games?), he wrote adventures for his players that involved a self-transporting chest with ( Read more... )

It's 2008. The FUTURE by many old school sci-fi accounts. What do we not have?

• Flying cars
• Personal rocket packs
• World War III
• Alien Invasions
• The End of Mankind

Aunt Pauline: "So is someone going to watch a movie with me or not?"

Cousin David: "I will!"

Pauline: "Well, which one do you pick?"

David: "Harry Potter!"

Pauline: *exasperated sigh* "Oh, all right."

David: "What's wrong?"

Me: "She said she wanted to watch the Nativity Story or, if not that, Transformers.Pauline: "Because they're similar, ( Read more... )

As threatened, here are the first scans from my sketch book from when I was a kid. I originally got the book for Christmas of 1985, and at first tried to keep it as an art-diary of sorts, but then... I got lazy. But anyway, if the pictures in it look like what a little kid would draw, well, they were. I have the book dated 1985-1988. Most of the ( Read more... )

"The down counter continues counting up until the count reaches terminal count (the counter contains all zeros)."

The above sentence managed to put a stop to work for over ten minutes as the tech manual validation team boggled over it.

Being weary of all the comments that have reached my ears (or rather, since it was via text, eyes) that Livejournal is for nothing but "memes, bitching, complaining, and drama," I've gone through and given the public face of my journal a good scrubbing, although I'm still not happy with my tagging.

( Further explanation, plus a quick discussion on what stays public and what goes locked. )

So, I just found out that my mom, nan_sea, is in the hospital. She assures me that there's nothing to worry about, and she sounded, in fact, quite chipper.

On Thursday, while cooking a meal, she felt light headed and a bit fluttery, so she checked her blood pressure and heart rate. Both were high. "If I were being smart I'd have just calmed down for ( Read more... )