Category Archives: Distractions

And Counting…

Distractions 6 Replies

Email from my husband this morning:

This is it now for really real… this time next week, we’ll be in a car driving to Kennedy Space Center for the day. We’ll be wearing shorts. We’ll be wearing something Star Wars or Disney. We’ll see the cruise port as we drive by. You’ll see the art deco looking terminal for Disney Cruise Line. You’ll sh*t your girly panties and scream with glee like a 5 yr old under a sugar attack while watching a strobe light surrounded by 10 boxes of lego blocks and 12 hot wheels little cars.

The last bit I don’t get but it made me laugh.

Lazy Vacation Butt

Distractions, Gaming, Personal Bits, Travel 1 Reply

I’ve not been doing much lately, other than watching the clock run down until our Disney Cruise/Parks amazing vacation. I have been playing the new Little Big Planet 2, and while the game play is a notch higher than the first game, the music has been dissapoint. Here’s a game play video that makes you love the game you’re playing and at the same time think “God you people, don’t you have a life?”

The limo has been ordered. It’s a stretch SUV that SharkBoy and I will bounce around in like Backgammon dice as we ride to the airport. I chose this company because they had the least amount of grammatical and coding errors on their site.

We’re trying to decide what to do on the Saturday before the cruise and I think we’ve narrowed it down to either Gatorworld or an Airboat ride (I’ll be screaming like the soundtrack from CSI: Miami… yeeeaAAAAAAaaaahhh!!). Or both. NASA has a launch scheduled for that day so here’s hoping there’s no delays. That would be cool… vooooosh!

We need to sign up for “special” roaming rates from Rogers, so we can use our iPhones in Disney. As I type that I feel a degree of sadness, having to be forced to hand over another $75 to Rogers just so I can get text and web service …on top of the $30/mo I already pay. Times like this I relish the final few minutes of the movie Fight Club and wish it would come true. Not that I’m a terrorist or anything, but if history repeats itself, then it’s safe to say the inevitable rebellion won’t be political, it will be economical.

On other news, The Bay Optical is close to being on my shit list. SharkBoy’s glasses came in yesterday but mine haven’t even been started. After catching the receptionist out on a lie (“Oh they’re right here, Mr DeadRobot!”) I got a call from the manager saying they had not been ordered yet. I had to press for an apology. You have 10 days, Bay Optical, before I release the internet hounds.

29 days to go.

Telling Tubbies

Celebs and Media, Distractions 5 Replies

I just this moment finished cleaning my tub. My pruney fingers slip over my chicklette keyboard keys.

I would like to apologize to any and all roommates I’ve ever had.

I realize I’m a hairy man. One past boyfriend said my body hair was my sexiest attribute (note how I said “past”). I can grow body in abundance but maybe not like freakish jokey web picture you see where LOLCatz eyes boogle out with some pithy caption in IMPACT font (scroll down.. over half way down. No further. Yeah that’s it.).

Anyway I want to apologize to all the people who had to step into a bathtub or shower post-me. Special mea culpas for my college roommates who had to step on my shower babies.

The Photo Game

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Today, SharkBoy and I challenged each other to a photography duel.

We were up shopping around Eglinton and Yonge and we decided to walk back to College Street.  The rules were simple: One photo per block, so a total of 41 city blocks, 41 pictures. If, in the course of the block we found a better shot, we allowed ourselves to take it, but we had to delete the previous picture first.

Of course minor cheats were taken. Small enhancements in Photoshop or iPhoto were allowed, but no major filters (I did my one monochromatic shot via my T2i’s Picture Style menu).

Go look at my Flickr Set.

then…

Go See SharkBoy’s Flickr Set.

Feel free to comment here, there or anywhere.

Perspectivy!

Distractions

On our drive home from Vermont, I forced SharkBoy to listen to the Nerdist podcast with Billy West. One of my favorite moments (and there are many, I’d kill to have an hour long coffee/chin wag with Mr West) is when Mr West reveals that he’s is not a person on an even keel in the most delightful way. He talks about perspective and perception:

I would screw with my perception – I would take a hand mirror and put it underneath my eye and walk, and look at things on the ceiling.

If creativity is your foundation of your career, I suggest you listen to it. Even though they talk a lot about stand up comedy* Billy West does offer up insight into where creativity comes from and how to channel it.

Speaking of perspective, Gizmodo had this video up on their site a while back. I frigging love it. Weeee!!!

* Why isn’t the podcast called “Stand up Comedy Podcast”? Barely any kind of Nerd-ism there

Shop Til You Plop

Distractions

Yesterday SharkBoy and I hit the streets at 7:30am to get to the sales. It’s illegal to be open on Boxing Day in Ontario… wait… is this still true? Or is it Canada? Or is it just Toronto?

See I just don’t know anymore.

Regardless of the law, we were downtown and elbow deep with other shoppers way before breakfast was served. At the mega DVD store HMV, SharkBoy was convinced that there were deals to be had. Last time we were in town for BX Day two years back, we snagged a few great PS3 games for $13. This year, not so much. HMV had a “Buy 3, get one Free” deal that was staggeringly un-Boxing Day of them. I remember when Sams and the other record shops would be jammed to the tits with Boxing Day sales. Now audio/video media seems to be regulated to the privacy of your own home.

All that reminiscing didn’t stop me from shucking out $60 on god awful movies. I decided that I wanted super cheesey movies for the flight down to Disney so I scooped up some Roger Corman two disk DVDs and managed to buy the exact same DVD set twice. I guess I was engulfed with the fevered sale madness. SharkBoy picked up the BluRay box set of Alien for $100 (cheap, no chestburster plastic case) and 4 hours later we saw it at Costco for 50% less. I’m warning you HMV… you are now on my shit list.

We then went to Marks Work Warehouse for Stormtrooper gloves ($16) and stuck our heads into BestBuy. Stuck our heads into a bees nest of stupid busy. We promptly left screaming, but not before noticing that they had a couple DVDs cheaper than HMV. Grrrr.

I grabbed a pair of jeans at Old Navy for $20 without trying them on. This morning I went to put them on for work and discovered that they’re lined with a thin flannel. Now, normally I would have screamed like I just saw a spider… lined jeans!!! but with wind chill at -21C right now, I think I got a bargoon. But note to self – check the damn things before handing over the cash.

The GAP was just… I can’t even… We walked in to what looked like some post-terrorists suicide bombing attack – shards of clothing everywhere. People screaming. Lost puppies crying. And this was 9am.

We wandered a bit more then went to the 1045am showing of True Grit. Likable. Not the Cohen’s best work, but certainly a very good remake of a solid story. Which had me wondering why they tried to update the original, but since I couldn’t remember much of the original, I just shook my head. It was a good cowboy movie with a great cast, just wish it was an original story, I guess.

As I mentioned before, we then went to Costco. Even though it was busy, it wasn’t crazy-as-fuck busy. Since we didn’t know when we’d have a car again we filled up on toilet paper, paper towels and meat. I love Costco meat. I’m a sad fucker.

Later, I tried my foot massager while playing Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II while eating bon bons from a swanky Vermont chocolate factory. Yeah. The holidays were good.