I am surprised that The Golden Compass beat both Transformers and Pirates: AWE for visual effects. Seriously?

Seriously?

(Edit: and The Bourne Ultimatum won both sound editing and sound mixing. This also surprises me! Most of the other categories haven't surprised me, either because I agree or because I haven't seen enough of the nominees to ( Read more... )

Reason I have the best microcomputer applications class in the history of ever: in this week's class, we elected Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck as president and vice. (The professor was showing us one of the problems with computer-based voting! We had two elections - each "ballot" was the same, but in the results for the second tally, he wrote a ( Read more... )

I apologize for the subject line. It was the punch line of a painful joke told by one of my psychology professors a few years back and has never quite left my brain.

(If you don't get it, maybe try saying it out loud. Minor word play.)

Watched Session 9 and am going to talk about it now, though only a little.

( Here there be spoilers. )

It's the actual title of an article in a paper Mom brought home yesterday. It has nothing to do with ReBoot. I felt a bit cheated. (That's okay, so did Mom, who also likes the show ( Read more... )

Cat seems okay so far. He was brought back home yesterday (he was stressing and the vet said it'd be better for him to be somewhere familiar) and was walking mostly normally, my brother said. One hind leg was still a little "off" - I guess he had a limp or something. Anyway! Very glad for that. The cat's owners have been calling here a lot the ( Read more... )

I went to a movie this evening with my mother and brother. Someone asked me earlier if I wanted to see it with her, and while I said sure, she wanted me to check the website first. She said she'd call when she was free. Because the last several times she has said this have ended in me either not seeing the movie or going by myself, I jumped at the ( Read more... )

So! My brother got home last night, yay! Today I proposed we go see Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, and at first he and Mom protested because they were under the impression that it was opening tonight (by which I mean, at midnight on the twenty-sixth. I have no idea how they got this idea).

Once I corrected them (look, if Yahoo and Essex ( Read more... )