The Cult of Lincoln

Dude. The fanmade Star Wars: Revelations is awesome. Go see it, if you haven't already!

HOLY FLYING WADS OF DUCTTAPE.

Mac Users: Get the Serenity trailer at 1280x544 resolution. 1280x544! GOOD GRAVY ON A STICK.

Windows Users: Until Quicktime 7 becomes available for Windows, download a PC-friendly version here from Whedonesque contributor TaraLivesOn. I just watched it with nary a hitch, and it's GORGEOUS. Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous!

1280x544! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!! *licks screen* It almost makes up for the lack of trailerage in front of HHGTG, as rumored. Next week, after everything is done, I'm going to have to go screencap mad, if someone hasn't already. :D

(Hey, now that we have a real trailer, do you think Joss will release the teaser he showed at ComicCon? The fans demand a version that's actually watchable!)

I think this is a good sign for Serenity. Apple using Serenity as a marketing tool? Huzzah and woot! Other good omens: Serenity tops Yahoo! buzz log, Firefly DVDs rank #5 on Amazon's Top Rated DVDs, and today's Penny Arcade centers around the preview showings. Plus reviews on AICN: 1, 2, and 3 (spoiler safe!) and a supposedly "glowing" review from MovieHole.net, though I didn't read it because of spoilers. Also, coming soon: a Serenity RPG. Zounds.

Serenity: 9
Fox Execs: 0
The Fans: 784,542,489,356,873 3/4

Mmm, yesterday way fabulous. A huge weight was lifted off my shoulders! After driving myself to insanity week after week, I just let myself relax. It was Ko's last day in Philly (she leaves today at 3), so we decided to go out with a bang!

We watched "Once More With Feeling" and two episodes of Firefly ("Safe" and "Ariel"), then I took a nap, then we saw Hitchhiker's Guide, which was utterly fabulous. Then we finished off the evening with ice cream from Ben & Jerry's. Ko got "Appley Ever After", which is quite possibly the most delicious ice cream in world history. It's exactly like eating the best apple pie in the universe. Then I slept for 12 hours. In the morning, Ko and Nikki entertained themselves trying to wake me up, to no avail. "Cellie, I'm leaving!" Ko shouted. "Spike is naked, and I'm stealing your Firefly DVDs!"

Truly, I sleep like the dead.

I still haven't really recovered any higher brain functions from the abuse I've been putting my mind and body through the past few weeks, but I'm happy, so it's all good. I leave a week from today, huzzah!

*goggles* Did you know that the actor who played Sweet in "Once More With Feeling" played Cat in the pilot of the American version of Red Dwarf? Of course, it never got past the Pilot stage, but oh well. Still highly entertaining.

Just got back from the computer animation lab, where I had been since 8AM yesterday. Very nearly finished with my animation: out of a minute and 43 seconds, I just have to add an already-established walk cycle to an 8-second shot. Josh was very understanding (a lot of us weren't satisfied with our final work), so after the critique, he told us we could take back our DV tapes and re-submit them on Thursday. Woot! Of course, also due Thursday is the opening sequence animation I had planned for our final project in Virtual World Design. Feh.

In honor of the new Serenity trailer, I've been listening to the makeshift Firefly soundtrack while animating. It's actually going much more smoothly than I expected. Just as long as I have something to turn in!

In the past 15 hours (19 - 4 hours sleep), I have animated 45 seconds of footage. Sure, the animation itself is relatively simple, but BOOYEAH I'M GOOD. "Don't mess with me, punk!", sayeth Hattie.

In other news, my animation professor has "How to make Roast Turkey and Enchiladas" in the tutorial section of his website. I laughed.

Hah! Got Hattie's walk cycle! I'm feeling like a bit of a moron. As soon as I just drew out on paper the corresponding numbers to each animated object for each time unit, it was ridiculously easy. Maybe if I tried actually thinking through stuff before I tried to animate it, I'd have better luck in the future. Durr.

I triumph with the power of mathematics! *strikes pose, munches Cheez-Its*

Why do I suck at walk cycles? They really shouldn't be this difficult! This must be the 8th time I've started over on Hattie because everything was so messed up! ARRRRRRRGH.

*grins* Today's M-W Word of the Day is "detritus". Shout-outs to all the Discworld fans! XD

Oh, and tonight's Lost will be the big Recap-O-Rama for the uninitiated or those that need a refresher. If I remember correctly, it will go over the stories of Jack, Charlie, Locke, and Sawyer. Not totally sure those are the correct four, but I don't want to take the time to look it up. I know Jack and Charlie are two of them.

Meanwhile, link ganked from Schlien. The toads are a 'splodin!

The world spites me at every turn! Sneak previews of Serenity NEXT WEEK in select US cities: Seattle, Austin, Sacramento, Boston, Altanta, Chicago, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Denver, and "The Portland of Oregon".

Why the lack of East Coast-love? The closest city to Philly is Boston, 6 hours away. And I have no car, plus exams and a 10 page paper due the next day. Ugh, if only this was held a week later! I would be back in Dallas, and I could have made the 3 1/2 hour drive to Austin!

Tickets reportedly available on Fandango, and selling like ~~hotcakes~~ ~~hotcakes filled with money~~ an advanced screening of Serenity!

CantStopTheSignal.com

Note to self: Disabling all IK may prevent IK from working. Durr.

"Is that their mission statement? 'For the greater niftiness of all'?" -Ko, re: my description of The Alliance

Okay, so... trailer. Still EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEing madly, but some things made me pause. Spoilers for the content of the trailer, wusses. I haven't read anything spoilerish about the actual movie, so you're safe. Oh, and more screencaps here, courtesy of the illustrious Megan!

The Sketchy:

Sound. In space. Firefly was one of a handful of sci-fi offerings that didn't have sound in space. After Firefly, I grumble at my passionately beloved Star Wars for having sound in space. I don't care if it's not what the audience is used to, or if it gets awkward. That's why we have background music! Please, Joss, don't do it! (Edit: Someone on the boards assured me that the studio execs okayed Joss' "no sound in space"

The Fabulous:

Mal shoots first. I love you, Joss Whedon. *grins and pokes George Lucas with a flan*
Yay, Wash still has his dinosaurs!
River could kill people without her brain.

The Quoi:
Why does River appear to kick Simon in the face? It's such a pretty face.
Disappointed at the lack of Kaylee and Book. I've been convinced by the flans that the trailer does not reflect the film in that respect (and that it does indeed retain more of the Firefly feel than the trailer lets on, rather than being a more traditional, mainstream sci-fi).

LJ user satansicons is awesome. Serenity trailer caps! 93 of them!

Great gravy, I love Mozdev's "Down them All" feature. Got everything in two effortless clicks! Mozilla is love. Those still using IE have a slight problem with their brain being missing.

Oh! And you can d/l the "large" trailer here or here.

Cult of Lincoln presents: The Quotable Gearhart.

I think I get the words "presumptive" and "presumptuous" mixed up in my head. Every time they called Kerry the "presumptive nominee", I kept imagining him coming into my house without knocking and saying "What's for dinner?" --Ko

Ko: You are such a dork, Cellie.
Me: Who is more dorkish? The dork or the dork who hangs out with her? ... And I just quoted Star Wars, so I think I answered my own question.

Ko: Perhaps I should take my posters down, as to avoid doing any more schoolwork.
Me: Perhaps you should.
Ko: I've done 7 pages of review in the past day. But I've written down phrases like "diffusion of responsibility", so I feel as though I've accomplished something, at least.

HAPPY HAPPY BIRFDAY TO KEEF!!!! One of my oldest online friends is 21! (We met on an Animorphs mailing list. His Animorphs mailing list. The same mailing list I met Renata. Yeah, I know.)

Now go buy some cheap booze and hookers!

Just got back from a really productive seven hours in the lab. Stuff I accomplished:

Edna no longer has freaky points of skin poking out of her face, and is generally intact.
Edna is re-attired, and looks utterly hilarious. I'll probably change some colors around, but I'm still just so entertained every time I look at her.
I learned that I've been rigging IK handles backwards all along.
I learned how to fix joint/IK issues so that my elbows bend the right ways, and how to limit joint range of motion.
Edna is totally rigged!
Edna's skin weights are tolerable.
I learned about "baking", which I will implement later. The number of puns on this

And all that in 5 hours! The rest of the time I was working on remodeling and rerigging my rat for its walk cycle.

Then I get home to the Serenity trailer! My verdict: GUH. Further analysis when I can stop watching it over and over on repeat long enough to form actual sentences.

Quote of the Day:

"Some times I wish your mom would just say something really vulgar and crude, just so we know she's human. I think your mom is... Glinda the Good Witch, come to life. I keep expecting her to arrive with an army of munchkins, with a big froofy dress and a wand. Your mom seems like the type that could pull off a wand." --Ko

*facepalms, giggles madly* I'm having issues with weighting Hattie's skirt, so I decided I would put Edna in pants instead. I started getting silly, keeping her belled sleeves and adding ridiculously belled pants. I thought it would be funny to keep her in white, then give her a big gold belt buckle. Then I realized: Oh my god. She's wearing Elvis' jumpsuit.

I think I'll keep it this way, as an homage to Bubba Ho-Tep.

(Some of you might notice the banner on the bulletin board. I feel no shame. The first time I heard that name, I thought it sounded like a retirement home.)

The Frustrating: Went to office hours. Was perfectly on time. Josh arrived an hour and 15 minutes late.

The Good: The problem I spent an hour angsting over last night? When he finally arrived, he resolved it in 5 minutes.

Back to animating! *makes zooming noises*

Just went to the Universal Pictures website to see if they had the trailer for Serenity up yet. Why do they have the Wicked poster up next to the Serenity logo? Are they considering... oh, I daren't hope. That would just be too awesome for words. Come on, studios! The world wants MORE MUSICALS! Maybe after Idina finishes Rent... Okay, back to work.

(Oh, and the answer was no, it's not up anywhere yet. I imagine it'll be up here first, though.)

I just took a 6-hour nap. That was not my intention.

Who just finished her Copyright final project? Booyeah, that'd be me. I probably should have stuck with the 10-page "Final Paper" thing, as I ended up with the equivalent of 16 pages of text, but I got to be a lot more casual this way, and with a 10 page paper, I would have struggled to fit in everything I wanted to say.

And now, back to little old lady land! Or maybe a nap, given that I only let myself have two hours of sleep last night.

My Classes:
THAR 350 (Lady in the Dark project) -- ownzed!
FILM 295 (Copyright and Culture) -- pwnzed!
FNAR 267 (3D Animation) -- I am so dead! Rat walk cycle and final "Little Old Lady Land" animation due FRIDAY. Animated and "filmed" and rendered and edited and with sound... Guh.
CSE 377 (Virtual World Design) -- I don't really have to get back to this until I'm done with 3D animation. A bunch of models and a flashy opening sequence due Thursday, May 5th.
CSE 112 (Networked Life) -- Also, something I don't have to think about until I'm done with 3D animation. The exam I'll need to study quite a bit for, as I have reading to catch up on, but the 10-page paper will be a snap. I've already churned out three pages without blinking. Both exam and paper are for Friday, May 6th.

May 7th, Ima goin hoooome!

Okay, unconsciousness beckons with its sweet siren song. Goodnight, everybody!

*laughs* I remember this! Renata's "which member of frowl.org are you most similar to?" quiz! She took it again two and a half years later, and now she is Kait. Well that's good, because I am now Renata.

And yes, it had me as an outcome. It shows how much we've changed since January of '03, huh? (Though her description of me is still perfectly apt. Mmm, Photoshop.)

Daniel just came in and asked to use my photocopy machine. I gave him permission, then we started joking about reimbursement. Several tangents later, I had these two lovely bits of blackmail fodder. Sexy negligee courtesy of Ko.

Come on, how long has this boy known us? He should know by now that he can't dare give us an inch, because we are merciless. Anyway, bravo to Daniel for being awesome. And ladies: he's available!

Biped walk cycles are so much easier than quadruped. Even if one has a walker. Priscilla is happy for the moment.

Ko just made me take a spontaneous salsa dance break. I proved to be remarkably uncoordinated and awkward, but after one spends hours virtually maneuvering an old lady's arms into position and attempting to make her arms not look like she has flat noodles emerging from her shoulders, taking two minutes to dance about to Latino music is highly cathartic.

Meanwhile, Ko finds herself unbelievably bored, having finished everything except for an exam on Wednesday. I want to hit her with a large fish.

But hey, look! Hattie is no longer cruciform! The parenting is quite sexy: When I move her, the walker moves with her, and when I move the walker, her hands move with it! Off to work on the walk cycle, because skin weights can bite me, and better to have animation with shoddy skin weights than to not finish animating!

Meanwhile, if anyone has any ideas for a title, I would be a happy Cellie. I've been leaning towards "_____ in Little Old Lady Land", but that would hinge on me coming up with something inventive to go in the first blank.

Wow. It sure would be nice if I actually knew how to use this frickin' program. I just had a revelation. I realized that oh, I could maneuver Hattie's skeleton into the necessary positions for the animation the way it was on Friday! So all that skin weights painting is fine, and I can use that version if I want, as it's a heck of a lot better than what I was working on last night. I was modeling her arms straight out in front of her so that it would be closer to her normal position, holding on to her walker. However, when Maya auto-assigns skin weights when you bind the skeleton, it automatically sets the skin to be affected by the closest joint. Therefore, when I bound Hattie's remodeled skin to the remodeled skeleton last night, her breasts were attached to her elbows. I spent hours trying to repaint her upper torso so that everything wouldn't distort horribly out of proportion, and only got it halfway to the place I wanted it to be by the time I decided to go to sleep.

With Friday's skin weights, I have the dress most of the way to where I want it, her torso responds decently well to movement in her spine, and her arm movement doesn't distort her boobs. I just have to do some painting on her shoulders and maybe add influence objects on her elbows and armpits so stuff doesn't collapse.

Ugh, I want this project to be over. Like Bilbo, I feel like butter scraped over too much bread. And I should be working on the Copyright paper, due Monday. Ten pages, and I have two. Back to work.

Mein Schlienen -- are you still thinking of coming to see HHGTG with me opening night? (Provided I finish my animation in time?) The woman I talked to at The Bridge doesn't think they'll be getting it. She had no idea if they were getting the Serenity trailer or not. I looked around on MovieTickets.com, and no theatres are reporting showtimes for anything past Thursday. Feh. I guess we'll have to wait until later in the week to try to plan this.

*laughs loudly and obnoxiously* A sneak peek at the new Superman.

Unfortunately, thanks to The Incredibles I will never be able to take capes seriously again.

Alan Colmes discovers that for Ann Coulter, "denial" isn't just a river in Egypt. Link ganked from Tori (who is going to CMU! SQUEE!).

Aww, my little boolets are all grown up and saving China and going off to prestigious universities! Mimi is going to Denison and Ashley wants to go to Olin. Madschnoogles to all!

Oh! I forgot to mention! The past few days, there have been some workmen cleaning the 38th Street Bridge. The blockades they're using to cordon off the area say "Stuart-Dean." Every time I see them, I flash back to Jon Stewart's internal monologue re: gay marriage as he "interviewed" Howard Dean. "Dr. and Mr. Jon Dean-Stewart..." I am so entertained.

*squeals like the fangirl she is*

In fact, this is how I feel right now:

In the words of Joss: Trailer. Serenity. Tuesday.

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.

(mini movie by fray101 on FFF.n)

Beth put it best.

Happy "We'd All Been Seeing Serenity Right Now If It Weren't For George Lucas" Day, everyone!

*kicks stuff*

I feel like I've been kicked in the gut. I spent the entire day painting skin weights* for the lower half of Hattie's body, trying to see how my new solution (see earlier entry) would work out. I'm not totally pleased with where I am now, but it's a heck of a lot better than where I was yesterday. But then I moved to the upper body, spent a couple hours working on weights for the shoulders and upper torso, then went to move the arms into place on her walker. Only to find that no matter how I fussed with the IK**, it wouldn't move the way I needed it to move. I'm going to have to remodel her arms in place.

* skin weights: Determines what areas of the skin move with each joint, and how far they move.
** inverse kinematics: a godsend. A labor-saving system for animating stuff like arms and legs. Move the foot at the ankle, and it'll move the knee and the hip for you.

Now, the remodeling itself will be a snap. It won't take long at all. However, in order to remodel, I'm going to need to unbind the skin from the skeleton. And that will destroy all the skin weights I spent all day painting. I'm going to sleep. After eating lots of brownies and ice cream. Life hates me.

Switched comments to Reblogger, as Blogback was getting really annoying and not letting me read certain comments and just generally being contrary. Hope this works! Renata seems to like Reblogger, so huzzah. And like Blogger's commenting system, Reblogger emails you your comments! So with the combination of Reblogger and the Gmail notifier I downloaded yesterday, I will no longer have to check my blog every five minutes to see if there are any new comments! With these two powers combined, I am industrious!

*falls over* If anyone goes to this, I would offer my firstborn for nearly any of the titles listed, much less autographed!

Neil Gaiman. Terry Pratchett. Gregory Maguire. Daniel Handler. ~~Orson Scott Card~~. And more. GUH.

O Rapture! Priscilla might actually be able to start animating before the project is due!

(Man, I love the facial expressions I can achieve with my Hattie.)

While working, I've been listening to this lovely stream of the HHGTG soundtrack. With the notable exception of the Marvin's bit at the end, I find myself really enjoying the songs. I started out rather skeptical, and with the skepticism, I found the lyrics moronic. However, as soon as I forced myself to stop being so limited, I quickly learned to ~~stop worrying~~ not panic and love the ~~bomb~~ Vogon demolition squad. Someone wrote that the songs reminded them of Eric Idle's style, and I tend to agree. Excluding, of course, the Marvin song. That's just kind of painful. He may be one of the most loved characters in the trilogy, but at no point is he "cool."

So who wants in on the betting pool for how long it will take fandom to produce an LJ icon with the list of Zaphod's qualifications for Presidency, only using Bush? Man if they're not playing that up. "Freedom, and I dunno, Democracy! Stuff like that! Yeah!" Feh.

As for the score, I'm hearing a lot of Elfman influence. Probably because I've been listening to a lot of the Music For A Darkened Theatre compilation recently. Very pleased to see that "Voyage of the Sorceror" made the cut! And that's all I have to say about that.

(Wow! A whole entry and not one mention of the Pope! Except that one right there, which so doesn't count. Yes.)

I have spent four hours today and untallied hours yesterday working on a series of really complicated methods for keeping Hattie's dress from intersecting her belly, none of which worked. And now I realize in a crystal-clear moment of divine clarity, that I am AN UTTER MORON. We only see her legs for one brief shot, and for that I can easily use a different model. Someone PLEASE thwap me upside the head with something heavy and blunt. *deletes blend shape cheats, influence objects, and the painstakingly painted skin weights, and restructures the model so there's nothing underneath her dress, and her legs start at the knees*

Oh, Pizza Rustica, why don't you deliver?

For all physics nerds: you MUST see this! A Brief Brief History of Time

Plus references to Firefly, HHGTG, Discworld, Dr. Who, Molesworth, Monty Python...

*facepalm* I am such a dork. I was just reading over a list of Useful Latin Phrases (linked from the hilarious Things Skippy Is No Longer Allowed To Do Now He is Pope), and I came upon the word "cave", which (according to the site) means "beware". It was like a lightbulb going on in my head. Suddenly, all the "Cave, Molesworth! Cave!" lines make sense. I always assumed it was saying something like "Flee! Retreat to your cave!"

This is what I miss when my mom makes me stick with French, rather than switching to Latin in 7th grade. XD *waves "Everything I Need to Know About Latin I Learned From Harry Potter" flag*

We've got Pope! And it's Ratzinger! Lord, protect me from your followers.

And now, please join me in song and dance:

Oh, how I miss ze hills und dales und vales und trails
of old Bavaria
Oh, it's such bliss to kiss the Miss I miss like this
in old Bavaria
Oh, ze meadows und ze mountains und ze sky
Not to mention hordes of brown shirts passing by...
Bring a tear to every single Nazi eye
In old - I'm talking old - Bavaria!

To make light of this frankly rather terrifying decision, how about some Papal humor! Because you don't elect a new supreme pontiff every day.

Popapalooza 2005

The Very Secret Diary of Joseph son of Ratzinger

A bit of silliness via Metaquotes: the inspiration for the Papal VSD and also Survivor: Conclave.

They have webcams for everything!

I'd laugh at this, but this is so much funnier. But then someone on Wikipedia does this... And this is just great.

And lastly, how to prepare Pope Benedict.

How about I leave you with an unbelievably scary monkey-thing? (And more!)

More evilness of Becky! Here is another set of links to more leaked scenes from HHGTG. I'm going to be good about this bunch, though. I can wait ten days, or rather 9 1/2 days if I finish my 3D animation project (due the day the movie comes out) in time to see the midnight showing.

P.S. Anyone remember that rumor that the Serenity trailer would be released in front of HHGTG? Has anyone heard any more on the matter?

Thanks a lot, Becky! You link to this series of clips from the HHGTG movie, including the musical opening number and the mental processes of an improbably short-lived sperm whale and you expect me to be able to concentrate on schoolwork without sneaking a peek? Feh.

Hah! The name of the District Judge in this case should amuse the "Paradigm of Uncertainty" fans among you. (The case itself is pretty funny, too. Describing Dr. Seuss in legalese is kind of great.)

I am such a peacock. Here I am at my keyboard, trying to hammer out a significant chunk of the 10 page Copyright paper due Thursday, and I keep catching my reflection in the huge mirror I propped up over my monitor last night when I was working on blend shapes (facial expression controls) for my final animation. The angle and the soft, slightly upwards-directed light from my laptop are a really flattering combination, and I keep trying to preen and vamp when I should be writing. Someone needs to hit me with a bat.

Okay. Mirror? Going bye-bye. Mmm, better already! Still the ~~prettiest~~ most distrac--ooh, blinking lights!

Great gravy I'm useless right now.

According to an interview with Lost writer Javier Grillo-Marxuach, Lost comics are in the works. Wha? Why are all my fandoms going all graphic novel-happy all of the sudden? Serenity, Angel and Spike, and now Lost. I love me some comics, but this is just getting silly.

(Link is to a spoiler-free snippet of the interview. Full, apparently spoileresque version here)

Is "copyrightability" a word? Can I make it a word?

(oh! score! It actually is a word! My day just got happier.)

Dwarven Opera Excerpt, Pratchett-style! Highly amusing.

Great googly moogly. I had never heard of the Oxyrhynchus Papyri before, and now... GUH. Link passed on from countless folks on my LJ. And as Sam quoted:

In the past four days alone, Oxford's classicists have used it [infrared technology] to make a series of astonishing discoveries, including writing by Sophocles, Euripides, Hesiod and other literary giants of the ancient world, lost for millennia. They even believe they are likely to find lost Christian gospels, the originals of which were written around the time of the earliest books of the New Testament. [...] scientists using the new photographic technique, developed from satellite imaging, are bringing the original writing back into view. Academics have hailed it as a development which could lead to a 20 per cent increase in the number of great Greek and Roman works in existence.

"Great googly moogly" is the understatement of the year. And if they do find "lost Christian gospels," I wonder how the Church will react. I wonder if it will be an issue with the election of a new Pope... tomorrow. Nevermind.

<Priscilla's wishful-thinking dream world>
...And Jesus spake, "You know, when I was taking about equality and love for all, that includes women, people of color, those that follow other faiths, and those with different sexual orientation. What part of 'love thy neighbor' do you not understand?"
</Priscilla's wishful-thinking dream world>

Looking for thoughts and opinions on the legal issues surrounding fan art, from anyone in or outside fandom! Questions in my LJ!

Yay for Brits! The UK release date for Serenity has been moved up to October 7th, a month earlier than before!

La! My packages from Canon and Amazon arrived this morning, so now I'm downloading all the photos I've taken on my digital camera in the last four months. Yar! Here be the geekery!

Remember when my monitor was majorly spazzing? Here's what it looked like: 01, 02, 03. And stroboscopic.

And it's beginning to snow!

Someone is not Wild About Harry's! Pinned up on a bulletin board int the restaurant: "Peopel that work here say bad word and they tack to long servin are food so I am never comeing here again Justin age: 10"

Priscilla + Irene = OTP

Video chat with Lawrence Lessig.

Rebecca! Par-TAY!, teh cake, teh cutting of teh cake, Yummy Yummy, and the challenge of eating pancakes without a fork!

Ko is an efficient storage device for napkins, textbooks, and salad dressing.

Pics from "Lady in the Dark" final warmups, backstage, and cast party coming soon! But I really need to get back to work now. :D

Rock on! Connecticut House Votes To Allow Gay Unions! Not a complete victory by any stretch of the imagination, as it came with an amendment that defined marriage to be the union of one man and one woman, but still. W00t!

Joss and the Serenity cast are coming to Philadelphia.

In June.

My timing stinks.

Yay! A fabulous morning!

A personal issue (don't ask, because I'm not talking) that's been the source of stress for over a year is finally getting resolved, to what looks like a very satisfying, mutually beneficial conclusion.
The replacement connector cable for my digital camera (the original of which I lost sometime near the Christmas holidays), which has been on backorder, just shipped and will arrive tomorrow afternoon! Finally, I'll be able to download my images to my laptop and clear off my memory card!
Also, half of my Amazon order looks like it will arrive today!
Then there's always delightfully tasty oatmeal.

For the Lost spoiler hounds, promo pictures for "The Greater Good" here and here. Not sure if they're the same pictures on both sites, as I remain forever spoilerphobic and refuse to go near them with a ten foot pole. But I hear there's meltworthy C/C-ness, so that's always fun. I look forward to the next episode! May 4th. :D

Great googly moogly. Oh Rebecca? Wake me when there's a sidescrolling platformer with 100% original music, multiple layer parallax scrolling in 640x480x16-bit mod starring Woodrow Wilson. Link ganked from Renata.

Lincoln fighting NAZIS. Life just doesn't get any better.

Ganked from Becky, a clip from HHGTG. Not Douglas Adams-funny, but giggleworthy nonetheless.

Item #1 on the "Why on earth would anyone want to own that?" Angel prop list. Bleughslfh. Spoilers for AtS 5x11 "Damage".

gg_83 succeeds where Renata and the entire population of the cumming_daily LJ community fail. How was I not informed about this? Reefer Madness, a farcical musical about the evils of marijuana. The timing is rather appropriate, as I was listening to the Cabaret NBCR this evening and wondering when Alan Cumming would act in something I wouldn't be put in physical pain trying to watch. The Spy Kids trilogy, the Garfield movie, Son of the Mask... It's about time. Looks rather amusing, in a Zombie Prom kind of way. This Saturday at 8pm ET on Showtime!

*frowns and pokes RSS feed with a stick*

When did Blogger switch from RSS to Atom? Why was everything working until I updated my feed server path?

I think I've fixed the LJ RSS feed! Apologies for the post spam that will inevitably ensue.

Good lord. How is it humanly possible? The real, official music video for "Dragostea din tei" (also called the "Numa numa" song) is more ridiculous than the "chubby kid with a webcam" version so popular on the net. I am so entertained.

YESSSSS! The due date for the Virtual World Design project is officially changed to May 5th! I win!

Dear Prospie,

Cellie. Not Sally. Cellie. Ce-llie.

Thank you,
Not Sally

Mon, Alicey, and I were mentioned on Leaky in their post about Movie Magic Magazine!

*PREENS*

From the description for my Networked Life final paper:

"I anticipate that the typical length of these reports, including all figures, diagrams, references, etc. will be between 10 and 15 pages.

You should view the inputs to your report as including at least the following items:

# The original data used to form your network.
# Visualizations of your network or fragments of it. If you would like different visualizations than those we have already generated for you, you should communicate with the TAs and they will help you.
# Quantitative and numerical analyses performed on your network.
# Your knowledge of the domain from which the network comes.
# Any articles or other materials you feel are relevant.

My raw data alone, not including diagrams and figures and references and all that stuff, is 23 pages. 23 pages of Arial 8-pt, with the listing of vertices at 6 columns per page and the listing of edges at 4 columns. I think this merits an insane cackle or two, wouldn't you agree?

*cackles insanely, once or twice*

"End of Season" promo for Lost. Pretty similar to the teaser aired at the end of "Do No Harm," but still. Quite awesome.

GLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!

Alicey assures me that the reproduction quality is excellent and that they look fabulous on the shiny magazine paper! I still don't have a copy, so Alicey scanned the pages for me: Page 1, Page 2, Page 3, Page 4. And all the credit stuff (who did what etc) is accurate, so yay!

Mwaha, I know what I'm doing with my newfound cash! *eyes Buffy seasons 5 and 7 DVDs*

Woah! Better work on my high belt! The Penn Players' 2005 Fall musical: Cabaret. There goes my resolve in trying to convince myself not to do theatre next fall.

*gurgle* WANT.

The Mirrormask Illustrated Film Script. Guh. Ooh, and you save 12 bucks ordering off Amazon! And to be released the same day as the Spamalot soundtrack!

*chokes* Dom and Evangeline on Conan's "If They Mated."

Yay! Blog switchover went off without a hitch! I am fabulous! Now off to check to see if archives are still working properly. I hope this doesn't affect abeybaby, but I don't imagine it will. And gotta fix permalinks while I'm at it.

Hurrah! The DNS entry change has reached my nook of the net! I'm now switching my blog over so that it publishes to the new host. There may be a touch of wonkiness over the next couple days if your computers haven't been reached by the DNS propogation thing, but other than that, you shouldn't notice any change, and you'll still find all your Priscellie-ish goodness at the same place. You can check and see if you're seeing the new or the old site by clicking here. If you get a 404, you're seeing the old site and you'll have to sit tight for a couple days until the DNS changes propogate to you. If you can see the message "GO ME!", you're seeing the new stuff! Woohoo!

I deleted just over 7 gigs of temporary files. Yet it only freed 3 gigs of space. Teh wha?

Renata, when you switched from y-s to dreamhost, how long did it take for the new DNS entries to propogate? How soon were you able to view stuff you uploaded to the Dreamhost FTP address?

I spoke too soon. My voice was rubbish toda