The Life Experience ~ Summer '09
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bloodyrosemccoyWhat I've Learned Since The Summer Solstice:
- Jesus makes good tea.
- “Good job” doesn’t always mean what it sounds like it means.
- Some of my favorite Paul Simon songs are about Carrie Fisher.
- The Liberry’s database of awesome references is available at home to anyone who has a library card number. And there was much rejoicing.
- There is such a thing as not finishing video games. I’ve had a number of friends recently express a certain guilt that they are “behind” on video games, and I keep in turn expressing amazement. I don’t think it’s ever occurred to me to not finish a game.
- It’s best for me to write a very first draft longhand. This gives me a chance to have better ideas when I’m typing it up.
- Ordinary people, like for example folks in Iran, can be inspiringly heroic.
- My aunt is officially off her rocker.
- In a strong enough wind, it’s totally possible to get one of those bouncy castles airborne.
- My sister is afraid of space. I’m not actually sure what that means, but she reacts to space porn the way some people react to ugly bug pictures.
- Speaking of horrible bugs, there is a horrible isopod whose life cycle includes eating and then REPLACING the tongue of a fish. Which is gross and AWESOME.
- The four elemental “bending” types in Avatar are all associated with a different fighting styles: Waterbending is Tai Chi, Earthbending is Hung Gar, Firebending is Northern Shaolin Kung Fu, and Airbending is Ba Gua.
- All of these styles, as well as Tae Kwon Do, are hampered by giant boobs.
- A good front stance is one where you can just see your toes on your front foot.
- I do, in fact, have an upper limit for how much ridiculousness I can stand in a splodey movie.
- When you don’t agree with someone, there is a delicate balance to strike between pointing and laughing at someone and taking them far too seriously. Sometimes it’s difficult to respect people’s personhood without necessarily having to respect their batshit ideas.
- As I suspected, I’m very bad at language tone. This hasn’t stopped me from trying to learn it, but.
- There are some disadvantages to having a room next to the air conditioning unit.
- I’m not the only person on Earth who was traumatized at a young age by The Brave Little Toaster.
- One new Theory Of Big Space Things suggests that we live in a multiverse—and that universes sometimes collide. Like, literally smash into each other, and get conflicting laws of physics all over everything. While I haven’t followed up on the validity of the theory, it would make for some interesting science fiction. (“You think YOUR natural disaster was bad?”)
- There is a complicated jargon associated with African-American hair. While I knew it was somewhat different to work with than whitepeople hair, I hadn’t learned the lingo until I had to look it up to make a scene in a story believable.
- Not everyone knows how libraries work, and locating books is not an instinctive activity.
- Something I didn’t know about libraries: some make a distinction between trade paperbacks and mass market paperbacks. It’s basically choosing whether a book will live or die.
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Date: 2009-09-23 01:07 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-09-23 01:30 am (UTC)You were one of the top friends on my mind after I rediscovered it finally, in terms of "I wonder if she ever saw it in school, and if she did, I wonder if she liked it too, or if I really WAS an anomaly of huge proportions..."
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Date: 2009-09-23 01:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-23 02:48 am (UTC)*shudders*
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Date: 2009-09-23 05:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-23 04:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-23 02:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-23 05:24 am (UTC)Not to mention the Uncanny Valley factor. That was just WEIRD.
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Date: 2009-09-23 02:01 am (UTC)Reading recommendations?
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Date: 2009-09-23 02:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-23 02:52 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-23 02:27 am (UTC)This happens in my house. Frequently.
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Date: 2009-09-23 02:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-23 02:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-23 05:29 am (UTC)*My brother was half-seriously contemplating a tattoo with a SMW mushroom and the words "FUCK TUBULAR" for a while.
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Date: 2009-09-23 04:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-23 07:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-23 02:38 am (UTC)Also: There are people who weren't traumatized by The Brave Little Toaster?
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Date: 2009-09-23 04:13 am (UTC)*tries to think of any other games she has that are either not open-ended-with-no-finish-ever or that she has, in fact, finished*
Huh. That's it.
Never finished any Monkey Island. Nor any Warcraft or Starcraft campaigns (despite many many hours of Warcraft on skirmish).
Never finished either Diablo, if you call beating final boss finishing, to my knowledge, even before expansions hit. Wait, maybe I did beat Diablo 2 once.
But I earn my Avid Gamer by playing too many MMO's for sanity and Simming a lot, right?
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Date: 2009-09-23 04:03 am (UTC)Here, have some Ikea love, which I'm sure was inspired by that damn movie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeyEXt7-0jU
I almost never finish games. Although I suppose this as alien to me as people who don't finish books, but really, I could count on one hand the games I've actually finished.
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Date: 2009-09-23 05:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-23 04:18 am (UTC)*is a font of knowledge for this*
There is such a thing as not finishing video games. I’ve had a number of friends recently express a certain guilt that they are “behind” on video games, and I keep in turn experssing amazement. I don’t think it’s ever occurred to me to not finish a game.
There is, especially when you juggle them. I can't play one game for longer than about 3-4 weeks without a break up. I am the minigamer lover.
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Date: 2009-09-23 05:38 am (UTC)Minigames get in the way for me. Also, I have been conditioned to plow through games in the space of five or so days, given that we used to rent them a lot. I'm astronomically fast and singleminded when I start a game ... usually you don't see me for a week, after which I emerge and go, "Yeah, got Bowser! Gimme another."
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Date: 2009-09-25 03:21 pm (UTC)Is there any sort of handy-dandy online resource where one could start looking for these things? Not even necessarily the complex stuff, but the basics. I am entirely clueless on that type of hair, and would like to not make horrible gaffs when writing stuff that involves it.
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Date: 2009-09-23 09:13 am (UTC)Then again, I have a ton of other games I never finished on account of being a small child with ADD when I'd originally played them on a regular basis. Some of them I managed to get back to and beat, though, if that makes any difference.
Still kind of working on Pokemon LeafGreen, though. B|
...Brave Little Toaster was interesting, but scarred me as well. Oddly, it was mainly the part with the flower that freaked me out. I always found myself wondering, "Wait, what just happened?" I never understood that scene, or the context. Never.
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Date: 2009-09-23 04:31 pm (UTC)I ask, sheepishly... is there a website that covers the basics of this kind of stuff? "Black Hair for Clueless White People" or something? Because I could use some info on this for some stuff I'm writing, but I don't know where to start.
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Date: 2009-09-25 04:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-24 12:36 am (UTC)The Branal Collision Theory is my personal explanation for the events of the Sci-Fi miniseries "The Lost Room". Sadly, the writers did not choose to consult me.
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Date: 2009-09-24 03:40 am (UTC)*forms mental image*
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Date: 2009-09-25 04:51 am (UTC)Not sure where I first heard it, but it is such an apt description, innit?
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