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Highlights

The most exciting things that happened to me this weekend involved buying pants and shorts.  Both were on sale.  Yay!

Today, I found out about the new natural gas collaboration between Gazprom and Nigeria’s state run oil company.  The joint venture’s name?  Nigaz

Quote from article:

As well as forming Nigaz, Russia is keen on developing a trans-African pipeline to transport Nigerian gas to Europe.

Add comment June 29th, 2009

Simpsons Did It

I took a spill two days ago, and hit my head and arm on the pavement. The ER x-rayed me, patched me up, told me my arm was broken, and put me in a cast. I thought I was kinda fucked for a few months.

I went to a specialist today, who told me that my arm did not appear to be broken, and that I should take it easy for two weeks. Yay! I have a working arm, and a funny story!

Unfortunately, the Simpsons already used the, “went to a better doctor” joke, back in ‘95.

[2F20] Who Shot Mr. Burns? Part Two
At three p.m. Friday, local autocrat C. Montgomery Burns was
shot following a tense confrontation at town hall.
[still shots of Burns and town hall]
Burns was rushed to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced
dead.
[scene shows Marvin Monroe Memorial Hospital]
He was then transferred to a better hospital where doctors
upgraded his condition to "alive".

1 comment June 25th, 2009

NPR

Man, I just heard a bit on NPR, where a caller:

• Decided that health care was expensive because some people don’t pay for emergency medical care they receive.
• Posited that the government should force these people to pay.
• Perhaps through indentured servitude?
• You know, we could have them pick up trash by the highway, or something?

So, in 15 seconds, he managed to reintroduce the concept of debtors prisons, and advocated for putting sick people in chain gangs to pick up litter.  Comedy gold.

I need to give NPR some money.

Add comment June 19th, 2009

Reflected Reflections

Hey look.  A 48 hour film project that I’m in.

1 comment June 12th, 2009

48 Hours Later

The Saint Louis 48 hour film festival kicked off at 6:00 pm last night.  I showed up to take part in it at 10:00 pm.  I just got done with the fourteen hour shoot about two hours ago.

Apparently some consider me to be a full-fledged local actor.  A number of the improv crew and I were recruited for 48 hour film destiny.   Our work will be appearing in association with Stick Shaker Productions, run by Cleveland and Mark.

Our genre was horror.

Now, I haven’t pulled a serious all-nighter in years, but this was a lot of fun.  I ran around like a maniac before call time to get props and setup for producing half a person worth of fake blood (2 quarts).  Now, Cleveland hadn’t asked for fake blood, and we didn’t use it at all.  I JUST WANTED TO BE PREPARED.

The night involved learning lines, riffing new ones, and making our way through a three camera shoot with only one camera, and a lot of takes.  It helps to do this with some of your best friends.  Also, at around 4 in the morning, we accidentally let one of Mark’s cats out of the house, and it escaped into the alleyway.  Half the film crew had to go into local alleys to retrieve her.  Good times.

Now that the primary filming is over, I find myself free to sleep.  I’m on call, in case a reshoot is needed, but I kinda hope that we already have enough footage to make it work.  The editing and music are in Cleveland’s capable hands now.  I look forward to seeing myself killed on a 30 foot silver screen on Thursday night.

Add comment June 6th, 2009

Bedtime

Today was not a good day for technology.

• The fire alarm misfired early this morning, after I’d gone to bed late.
• I’ve been fighting with css and png transparency issues in IE6 most of the day, on low sleep.
• For some reason, the network at work was useless for about half the day.
• My Xbox broke when I got home.  The 360’s dvd drive won’t read anything.

Going to bed early sounds nice, right about now.  Maybe it’s a nap, maybe it isn’t.  We’ll soon see.

Add comment June 3rd, 2009