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Dec. 13th, 2005 11:12 am| In a Past Life... |
 You Were: A Gentle Mathematician. Where You Lived: Israel. How You Died: Suicide. |
Dec. 13th, 2005
Jesus, people are stupid....
Dec. 13th, 2005 03:17 pmBritain's Channel 4 has just "launched"--get it, he he heeee--a new reality show called Space Cadets that involves four complete fucking morons being "sent into space" as part of some kind of ghey mission...only they're never actually leaving earth! It's all a hoax! GET IT?!
So...wait a sec, you say: how are they going to do the whole microgravity situation? Stuff 'em in the "Vomit Comet" for six days straight? Nope.
The producers/Mission Command wenises told their illusory space-monkeys that 1) they were going to be in a low orbit so there wouldn't be such a massive gravity gradient; and 2) there are gravity generators in the floor of theirTARDIS spaceship.
STUPID! I sincerely hope one of them accidentally cracks open the airlock.
So...wait a sec, you say: how are they going to do the whole microgravity situation? Stuff 'em in the "Vomit Comet" for six days straight? Nope.
The producers/Mission Command wenises told their illusory space-monkeys that 1) they were going to be in a low orbit so there wouldn't be such a massive gravity gradient; and 2) there are gravity generators in the floor of their
STUPID! I sincerely hope one of them accidentally cracks open the airlock.
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greygirlbeast--this'll kill some time before the usual Tuesday Writer's Group meeting!
1. What did you do in 2005 that you'd never done before?
Not a goddamned thing. Like the NIN song goes, "every day is exactly the same...."
2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I don't even remember what they were. I'll make a bunch for next year that I'll never remember as well.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Thank the Other Gods, no.
4. Did anyone close to you die?
A little bit more of myself, but that's about it.
5. What countries did you visit?
None. I can't afford to travel, and really don't like doing it much in the first place.
6. What would you like to have in 2006 that you lacked in 2005?
An actual job with some kind of security and--gods forbid--medical insurance.
7. What date from 2003 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
2003? Why 2003? Only thing I remember from 2003 is the Bighead Jennifer debacle and all the hell that resulted from that, and I'd rather not remember that shite.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Teaching at Cal U, and not killing any of my students.
9. What was your biggest failure?
The whole Jessica farce--but failure in that case was not a bad thing, since I'm sooooooo much better off without her.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
I developed fibromyalgia. Yay.
11. What was the best thing you bought?
My new computer! Holy crap, it's so fucking awesome, even if its original hard-drive died. I can totally watch pr0n, write music, surf the web for new tech news, and record grades all at the same time now!
14. Where did most of your money go?
Credit card payments.
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
SEEING DEVO IN AUGUST!!!
16. What song will always remind you of 2005?
Honestly, VHS or Beta, "Night on Fire." And Kelly Clarkson, "Since You Been Gone." That entire Kelly Clarkson album was actually really memorable, too, now that I think about it...mainly because beneath the pop glamour it's a really, really bitter album, and I like bitter.
So...all in all, a pretty bland year. Nothing major. The usual cold-snap of misery, of course, but that's long gone now. I didn't really do much other than work on Malpractice and slack off otherwise. Next year I'd better get something done.
greygirlbeast--this'll kill some time before the usual Tuesday Writer's Group meeting!1. What did you do in 2005 that you'd never done before?
Not a goddamned thing. Like the NIN song goes, "every day is exactly the same...."
2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I don't even remember what they were. I'll make a bunch for next year that I'll never remember as well.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Thank the Other Gods, no.
4. Did anyone close to you die?
A little bit more of myself, but that's about it.
5. What countries did you visit?
None. I can't afford to travel, and really don't like doing it much in the first place.
6. What would you like to have in 2006 that you lacked in 2005?
An actual job with some kind of security and--gods forbid--medical insurance.
7. What date from 2003 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
2003? Why 2003? Only thing I remember from 2003 is the Bighead Jennifer debacle and all the hell that resulted from that, and I'd rather not remember that shite.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Teaching at Cal U, and not killing any of my students.
9. What was your biggest failure?
The whole Jessica farce--but failure in that case was not a bad thing, since I'm sooooooo much better off without her.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
I developed fibromyalgia. Yay.
11. What was the best thing you bought?
My new computer! Holy crap, it's so fucking awesome, even if its original hard-drive died. I can totally watch pr0n, write music, surf the web for new tech news, and record grades all at the same time now!
14. Where did most of your money go?
Credit card payments.
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
SEEING DEVO IN AUGUST!!!
16. What song will always remind you of 2005?
Honestly, VHS or Beta, "Night on Fire." And Kelly Clarkson, "Since You Been Gone." That entire Kelly Clarkson album was actually really memorable, too, now that I think about it...mainly because beneath the pop glamour it's a really, really bitter album, and I like bitter.
So...all in all, a pretty bland year. Nothing major. The usual cold-snap of misery, of course, but that's long gone now. I didn't really do much other than work on Malpractice and slack off otherwise. Next year I'd better get something done.
Phil Collins' first solo album, Face Value, is such an amazing album. It's hard to believe that the same man who did "Droned" and--dear lords!--"In the Air Tonight" also did that Disney song from The Lion King and "Something Happened on the Way to Heaven."
But, then again, Sting was once in the Police, too, and once had an amazing solo career as well...before the forces of middle-age pussydom came crashing into him as well.
Please, don't let me start writing "adult contemporary" songs when I turn 45.
Folk songs, sure. Oldskool country murder ballads, definitely. Hell, I don't even care if I start doing nothing but Vangelis covers--but please, Other Gods, don't let whatever got Sting and Phil Collins get me, too.
But, then again, Sting was once in the Police, too, and once had an amazing solo career as well...before the forces of middle-age pussydom came crashing into him as well.
Please, don't let me start writing "adult contemporary" songs when I turn 45.
Folk songs, sure. Oldskool country murder ballads, definitely. Hell, I don't even care if I start doing nothing but Vangelis covers--but please, Other Gods, don't let whatever got Sting and Phil Collins get me, too.
They better damnwell call this one Yuggoth.
Won't it be sweet if this thing turns out to be, like, a clump of alien nanofabricators waiting to swallow the Solar System and shit out a few gigatonnes of computronium?
Won't it be sweet if this thing turns out to be, like, a clump of alien nanofabricators waiting to swallow the Solar System and shit out a few gigatonnes of computronium?
