The Life Experience ~ Fall '11

[bloodyrosemccoy]

What I Learned Since The Autumn Equinox

• Putting together a bookshelf is surprisingly satisfying.
• The term for a second, non-gendered pronoun is obviative. (One thing I missed in linguistics class!)
• My subconscious is a pretty good cook, it turns out.
• DVD dispenser machines are way more fun than they have any right to be.
• Disneyland haunts Space Mountain for Halloween, so that you spend the ride getting chased around by a giant orange nebula ghoul. It’s awesome.
• Epic Mickey is rather scarily true to the layout of Disneyland, except for the magic projector screens that get you from one area to another.
• Disney sells tea.  And it's really good.  Damn.
• The Sorcerer’s Apprentice marks the first time Mickey Mouse was drawn with pupils.
• Newborn babies’ vocal cords are quite a bit higher up in the throat than older infants’, which accounts for their distinctive cries.
• George Takei has an excellent Facebook page.
• People had to be taught how to dial telephones back in the day.
• There is a big damn raincloud IN SPACE. Soaking a huge quasar. Holy shit.
• Conlang lexical creation is a lot of fun with polyhedral dice.
• Flat tires make it feel like you’re driving through mush.
• Synesthetes can apparently "see" their own movements in pitch black better than anyone else.
• There are some kids who have grown up without knowing about the Muppets. Imagine.
• I have learned how to correspond actual sheet music to my ocarina fingering, so I no longer need my fingering notation!
• The Zelda Oracle games can link up even if you don’t have two old Gameboy Colors, with the use of passwords.
• Garlic should be planted in the fall. D’oh!
• The cursive handwriting I studied in second grade is the Palmerian script, made by A.N Palmer at the end of the 19th Century.
• Paranormal procedural shows may have the possibility of being boring as hell, but they can also turn out to be awesome. Fringe!
• The crazy side effects of sleeping pills are not overstated.
• Jupiter’s atmosphere is awfully darn reflective!
• Brinicles.

Comments

[dark-phoenix54.livejournal.com]

Giant raincloud in space: holy crap!

Part of Fringe's awesomeness is the characters, I think. Walter rocks.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

The characters are terrific. I also like that it actually solves some of its mysteries--Sure, there's an overarching plotline, but I got bugged with the X-Files because they never actually figured anything out--they just ran around going "What the hell was that?!" and the Monster-of-the-Week episodes invariably ended with the monster either Still Out There, or at best temporarily inconvenienced.

Plus, Walter. Gotta love 'im.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_wastrel/]

Walter is seven kinds of awesome.

Also I'm duly impressed about the ocarina fingering!

[linda-lupos.livejournal.com]

Synesthetes can apparently "see" their own movements in pitch black better than anyone else.

Really? Awesome. :D

[westrider.livejournal.com]

I always look forward to these!

There are some kids who have grown up without knowing about the Muppets. Imagine.
I knew about them, but I never watched them. I've had a number of rather intense conversations about that fact over the last couple of weeks, what with the new movie out and all.

There is a big damn raincloud IN SPACE. Soaking a huge quasar. Holy shit.
I think this statement may have hit the point of maximal return on Awesomeness. There's nothing left to add (except maybe a stable wormhole) that could make this more awesome in anything like a reasonable proportion to the awesomeness of the addition.

Conlang lexical creation is a lot of fun with polyhedral dice.
I've been collecting "words" from Captchas to add randomness to one of mine. Once I get enough to get started, I'm going to run them through one of those programs that does frequency analyses and get some guidelines on letter frequency and common letter combinations to carry on with.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Hee hee! I'll bet those conversations have been intense. Those characters inspire some strong emotions if you've grown up with 'em.

The addition of a wormhole to the space raincloud would make for some excellent space weather. Now I'm picturing DS9 battening down for a space hurricane.

Captcha's an interesting idea, too! I still need to tweak my lexicon to make it right, but it's a nice way to get started.

[westrider.livejournal.com]

Captcha's an interesting idea, too! I still need to tweak my lexicon to make it right, but it's a nice way to get started.

Since I'm starting from scratch on that one, I thought it might at least be worth a try. I've got some pretty interesting words so far :)