Sorry, sorry. So sorry.

But this time, there is an excellent excuse for my lack of posting. My computer died! Rather, my hard drive died, and the data recovery process is still not yet complete. If you don't know me well, just understand that I keep my BRAIN on my computer, pretty much, and losing my computer meant losing my mind, for a short period of time.

This happened on a very bad day, in the middle of a very bad week, and while I've mostly recovered it was still a very rough blow. Things have gotten much better since then, but I'm still kind of shuffling out from beneath that pile of bad. Fortunately, I have a bit of a vacation coming up -- going home for the 4th of July and the rest of the days following. And some good things have been happening, to balance out the bad. Not that the scales are ever even, but at least that's something.

I will hopefully be back to regular posting soon. In the meantime, I think I need some coffee.

posted by Liz  # 3:31 PM 3 Comments

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This song...

...does nothing but reinforce stereotypes that I personally find a little annoying. But it's also really catchy. So you be the judge.



In other news, my brain feels simultaneously full to bursting and totally empty. This is an odd feeling. I am officially not a fan.

Time to stare at screens now.

posted by Liz  # 10:45 AM 3 Comments

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You know what? I don't care about Paris Hilton

I don't like her. She's inconsequential, a vacuum of a human being. Her celebrity speaks against every single one of my core values, and I never feel clean when I talk or think about her.

But I don't hate her. She's inconsequential, a vacuum of a human being, but her mere existance isn't causing me irreparable harm. She represents a subculture I don't belong to and don't want to belong to, and quite honestly the amount of vitriol flung about in her name is really creepy to me. People hate, tear-out-their-hair HATE, this woman.

I just don't care. I really really don't care. DO NOT CARE.

So it's been a long, long, long, long long week.

posted by Liz  # 5:18 PM 0 Comments

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LOLZAusten

This is pretty delightful, as well.

posted by Liz  # 4:59 PM 0 Comments

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Damn crashing iPod. Yay Clive Owen.

iPod froze, music didn't wake me up at 8 AM, I overslept, and I've basically been trying to catch up with the day ever since. Nowhere near succeeding at this point. But there's been a few good points, and one of them was definitely this trailer for the film Shoot 'Em Up:



In this film, Clive Owen plays a black-ops-trained stranger who comes to the defense of hottie Monica Bellucci and her baby. He has to fight Paul Giamatti and a whole bunch of dudes. He does so with a whole lot of bullets.

It might, in fact, be the perfect movie.

Wait until the bit with the helicopter before you argue with me about that.

posted by Liz  # 4:51 PM 1 Comments

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Monday is so goddamn dumb.

Fortunately, the internet has some ways to minimize the pain:

.:: beedogs ::.: the premier online repository for pictures of dogs in bee costumes.

Animals with a nose for trouble.

Let's be friends. Specifically, this hedgehog and squirrel.

I used to not be this person. What the hell happened?

posted by Liz  # 1:04 PM 3 Comments

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"Science never proves anything."

...That is, according to one of the mothers featured in the documentary Jesus Camp, which I started watching last night. Jesus Camp is possibly the creepiest movie I've ever seen. And not just because it starts with ten minutes of people praying in tongues (I'm sure the experience of speaking in tongues is amazing and profound, but from an outsider's perspective it's just really alarming, especially when it's a ten year old doing it). It's really later, when a little boy is being homeschooled on the "myths" of global warming and evolution, that one's skin begins to crawl.

I just really like science, is the thing. The whole concept that we are constantly learning about the universe and improving upon our knowledge, that no idea is infallible. For example! According to the BBC, Upright walking 'began in trees': "'The logical conclusion from the environmental, fossil, and experimental evidence is that upright, straight-legged walking originally evolved as an adaptation to tree-dwelling.'"

We were wrong about walking upright! We learned how to do it for totally different reasons! Science.

Labels: moving pictures, science nonfiction

posted by Liz  # 1:17 PM 4 Comments

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