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Monday, 05 November 2012

  • Mawwiage

    Wow, I guess it's been a year since I updated.  Well, I've been married for almost a month now!  That's pretty much the most exciting thing going on . . .  Maybe I'll post some pictures when I get the professional ones.

    And I got a couple promotions at work.  First to full-time, then to Microsoft Advisor.  The funny thing is that I haven't used a Windows PC since XP.  My Macbook has been good to me for 4 and a half years.  =P  But they gave me a touchscreen Windows 8 Ultrabook, so I can't complain.

    Also, all of you should watch the Firefly reunion on Sunday.  I'm having a Firefly party, and am currently watching it for the 4th time.

    Well, I have Captainy things to do!

Friday, 04 November 2011

  • My First Date

    Well, basically my entire life has changed in a very good way since the last time I posted on here, so here's a brief highlight of the exciting things!

    A few months ago I moved out with my sister from a small farm town to just outside a pretty large town. It's not the best city in the world or anything, but it's better than one where the most exciting place is the library and Dairy Queen.

    Then a couple months ago I started working at Best Buy in computer sales. I love it! Speech and debate definitely helped me be a good sales person, lol.

    Annnd the most exciting thing is that a couple weeks ago I went on my first date in my 20 years and even though I dropped my silverware on the floor and made a giant mess with the sushi he asked if I wanted to start going out with him and I said yes. Oh hey, so I just realized that I have never posted a picture of myself on here, so here's one of us at the Hard Rock Cafe:

    Bon Jovi

Thursday, 10 February 2011

Friday, 14 January 2011

  • Currently
    Back to the Future - The Complete Trilogy (Widescreen Edition)
    By Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Mary Steenburgen, Crispin Glover
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    Quotations Part 3

    "Paranoia is a skill. The secret to longevity." - Moz (White Collar)

    "I prefer death-retardant specialist." - Christopher Chance (Human Target)

    "You're lookin' for a needle in a haystack made of needles." - Morgan (Chuck)

    "I don't understand women." - Wat
    "Nor do I, but they understand us." - Chaucer (A Knight's Tale)

    "Where did you get this chair anyways? Feels like it was built by a demented dentist." - Darien (The Invisible Man)

    "It is like the blind leading the stupid here." - Dr. Frank Abernathy (Mammoth, a really dumb TV movie that I only watched because Vincent Ventresca and Summer Glau starred, and were awesome)

    "We're here to assess the situation." - Agent Whitaker
    "And just what is your jurisdiction?" - Sheriff
    "Earth." - Agent Whitaker (Mammoth)

    "You're a disgrace to the feline humanity." - Julian Smith

    "Well, if it isn't my new friends - angry boy and Uncle Lazy." - June (Avatar: The Last Airbender TV series)

    "When I was 9 years old I think I wanted to be a brontosaurus." - Peter (Vlog brothers)

    "Team 7 just reported in. Nothing." - Eberts
    "Yeah, nothing from team 1 either." - The Official
    "Well what about teams 2 through 6?" - Claire
    "There are no teams 2 through 6." - Eberts (The Invisible Man)

    "I had a pet rock once. It ran away." - Hobbes (The Invisible Man)

    "Leave it to you to out-depress a cemetery." - Hobbes to Darrien (The Invisible Man)

    "There's no "I" in "win." - Steve Holt (Arrested Development)

    "Trust me; I've been 21 since I was 15." - Linda (Better Off Ted)

Tuesday, 21 December 2010

  • Currently
    Kyle XY: The Complete Second Season
    By Matt Dallas, Marguerite MacIntyre, Bruce Thomas, April Matson, Jean-Luc Bilodeau
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    Quotations Part 2


    Just so you know, I fail at updating and will probably never post more than once a week. I come on Xanga almost every day though.

    Anyway, here is the continuation of (hopefully) humorous quotations:

    Ok, so it's actually 16 quotations, and I've posted quotations from Firefly before, but I added some when I watched it again. And they're awesome. In fact, I have a "Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal" t-shirt. (Clip here)


    "Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal!" - Wash

    "I've been sane for a while now, and change is a good thing." - Wash

    "Well, I'd say the days of me not taking you seriously have come to a middle." - Mal

    "You're like a trained ape - without the training." - Simon

    "I wanna go to a crappy town where I'm the hero." - Wash

    "A government is a body of people - usually notably ungoverned." - Shepherd

    "Great. Another exciting adventure in sitting." - Simon

    "Also, I can kill you with my brain." - River

    "Spry for a dead fella'." - Jayne

    "You're my kind of stupid." - Mal

    "Psychic though? That sounds like something out of science fiction." - Wash
    "We live in a space ship, dear." - Zoe
    "So?" - Wash

    "I don't like the idea of someone hearing' what I'm thinkin'." - Jayne
    "No one likes the idea of hearing what you're thinking." - Inara

    "You folks are all insane." - Early the Bounty Hunter
    "Well, my sister's a ship. We had a complicated childhood." - Simon

    "You know, with the exception of one deadly and unpredictable midget, this girl is the smallest cargo I've ever had to transport, yet by far the most troublesome." - Early the Bounty Hunter

    "I'd say his chance'd be about one in . . . a very large number." - Mal

    "Half of writing history is hiding the truth." - Mal

Thursday, 02 December 2010

  • Currently
    Angel - Season Two (Slim Set)
    By David Boreanaz
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    More Quotations! Part 1

    Quotations are kind of an obsession of mine. Whenever I hear humorous ones in movies, TV shows, or real life I always right them down. So you guys get to see them now!

    These ones are from several TV shows and other media I've watched recently.

    Ok, so after putting all of them on here I realized that I have dozens, and that's not even including quotations from real life or most of The Pretender. I'll put 10 a post every few days until they're all up here.



    "Go back to the village, Pal. The one missing the idiot." - Jarod (The Pretender)

    "Duct tape makes you smart." - Michael Weston (Burn Notice)

    "I'm not violent; I just like to destroy things." - Chester A. Bum (Bum Reviews)

    "Just say one word and tell me if you're killed!" - Diana Berry (Anne of Green Gables)

    "Do men have to be disgusting? I mean, isn't there like an operation you guys can get?" - Dani Reese
    "I think they're working on a pill." - Charlie Crews (Life)

    "Oh the shame of the polar bear who fears the water. No wonder we are shunned by our fellow bear. Woe is us." - Muk (Balto)

    "She can't join us, she's not pretentious enough."
    "Yeah she is!"
    "Cool." - Chester A. Bum (Bum Reviews - Twilight)

    "But maybe that's why I love the movie so much. It always leaves you wanting more. More common sense, more logical reasoning, and more vampires that shine like sparkling toothpaste. I bet their blood is minty." - Chester A. Bum (Bum Reviews - Twilight)

    "Okay, so she wasn't hiding from death, she was hiding from change." - Beckette
    "She hated Obama!" - Castle (Castle)

    "I'm just saying whoever killed her also murdered the English language." - Castle (Castle)

Thursday, 11 November 2010

  • Currently
    Crazy Love
    By Michael Buble
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    I learned a very important lesson today, but I can't remember for the life of me what it is

    The last update of mine was something like several months ago, so I guess I'll just compile several random things to say.

    This spring I'm going to get 2 ferrets and name them Wash and Zoe. Or Wash and Mal if I get 2 males.

    Getting paid to bake cookies and listen to Owl City and Michael Buble is pretty much the best thing ever.

    Whenever I see something ironic or humorously coincidental on the internet I take a screenshot. Here are a few:

    Screen shot 2009-12-19 at 5.57.27 PM

    Screen shot 2010-03-04 at 10.07.22 AM

    Screen shot 2009-12-31 at 11.33.50 AM

    Screen shot 2010-06-02 at 8.36.35 PM


    The past few days I've been watching Fringe, so you now get to enjoy some hilarious quotations from it.


    " Hey, guess what just happened? Finding out that my father is giving drugs to bugs somehow just became a typical moment in my life." - Peter

    "Walter, put the cow away, would ya?!" - Peter

    "You know what I hate worse than the cold?" - Peter
    "What?" - Olivia
    "Not much." - Peter

    "Either a green unicorn just raced across the lab, or I accidentally took some LSD." - Walter

    "Don't be ridiculous, you were abducted, of course you need crepes." - Walter


    I don't have too many crushes on fictional characters, but Peter is pretty much amazing.

Wednesday, 25 August 2010

  • Currently
    Arrested Development - The Complete Series (Seasons 1, 2, 3)
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    The Mind of a Hotel Guest*


    When I’m cleaning hotel rooms I really have to wonder at the thought processes of some of these people.  Maybe it goes something like this:

    Guest Alpha: “Hey, you know what would be fun?  Let’s see who can mess with the maid the most!”

    Guest Beta:  “Great idea!”

    Several hours later the maid is cleaning and the guests are hiding in the bushes observing.

    Guest A:  “Heh, she’ll never find the towel I soaked and hid in the shower for hide-and-seek.  Wait, she’s going in there to clean it?  Dang it.”

    Guest B:  “10 points!  She didn’t find the towel I hid in the dresser drawer!”

    Guest A:  “Maybe, but she’ll never find the washcloth I hid in the toilet tank.”

    Guest A:  “Oh, she’s making the beds now.  After I woke up I took all my luggage out of the dresser and put it on the bed, so if she moves it to make the bed I can yell at her for invasion of privacy.  That’s gotta be worth at least 25 points.”

    Guest B:  “She just finished cleaning the toilet.  Let’s go in there now and claim that we have to use the bathroom.  Do we get more or less points if she scowls and yells at us?”

    Guest C:  “Hey look, a random door.  Oh, it’s locked.  It’s defnitely not an employee entrance, so I’m going to stack this heavy chair, giant trash can, and table in front of it.  Just in case someone wants to come through the other side, you know.”


    *Most of the guests at the golf course are actually nice and corteous, but about once a week a slightly less exagerrated version of the above happens, and I can’t help but scratch my head.


Wednesday, 14 July 2010

  • Pickup Lines

    Neither myself nor any of my friends actually have girlfriends or boyfriends, but once we came up with a few pickup lines.  Maybe there's a reason none of us have SOs . . .


    "If I give you an m&m will you go out with me?"

    "I don't have a pickup line, but I have a pickup truck."

    "Do you know of any good pickup lines?"

    "My phone number is on my truck. What's your number?"

    "You're better than torture!"

Monday, 14 June 2010

  • Currently
    The Dead Zone - The Complete First Season
    By Anthony Michael Hall, Nicole de Boer, Chris Bruno, John L. Adams, Sean Patrick Flanery
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    Wanted: Motivation

    Lately, I’ve been watching a fair amount of TV shows.  Not on TV, of course, that would be crazy.  DVDs and Hulu for the win!

    Anyway, for a show to make it onto my awesome list it needs to convince me that the characters have good reasons that make them do the things they do.  I watched about half a dozen episodes of The Mentalist and had to stop; the motivations for murder just didn’t make any sense.

    There was one where a “good” girl had fallen in love with a “bad” guy, and everyone is telling her that he’s bad news, but she doesn’t listen and they get engaged.  So a random dude who doesn’t like the guy kills her.  Huh?  If he didn’t like the guy she liked why the heck did he kill her, and not her fiance?

    In another episode there’s a group of about 5 teenagers and one of them accidentally kills a security guard.  They try to make a pact not to tell anyone, but one girl says they need tell the police.  So the rest of the kids kill her.  Uhh, hello?  They accidentally killed the guy, and they’re minors.  Chances are they probably wouldn’t even go to jail.  In real life I don’t think the kids would have conspired to kill the girl, and they probably wouldn’t have had the guts to do it anyway.

    So that’s a big reason why I don’t like many crime shows – and the characters in The Mentalist weren’t very good either.  In fact, there’s only one crime show (Life) on my awesome list.  And that’s because it has amazing characters; the cases aren’t anything special.

    Ooo, I could do a whole post about characters.

    And, in case you were wondering, my list of awesome TV shows, starting with the most awesome, is as follows: The Pretender, The Invisible Man, Firefly, Kyle XY, Burn Notice, The Dead Zone, Life, Journeyman, Chuck, and Avatar: The Last Airbender.

    My sister really likes Fringe; it’s on my to-watch list and will probably go on my awesome list.

    I’m always looking for suggestions, though my to-watch list is pretty long, so it might be a while before I start any new shows.  The shows I tend to like are ones with sci-fi elements or slight paranormal, but not over-the-top.

    What are your favorites TV shows?  What's your biggest pet peeve about mainstream television?

Sunday, 06 June 2010

  • Currently
    Monk: Season Eight
    By Tony Shalhoub, Jason Gray-Stanford, Ted Levine
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    I Almost Hit A BMW

    As I put my car into drive it decides to have an eccentric moment, which happens much too often for my liking, and go backwards instead of forward.  After making sure it is indeed in drive, I put it back in park and shut down the engine.

    I get out of the car to check how close I am to the one behind me.  Yeah, it's a spiffy, costs-29,578-of-my-paychecks BMW.  Luckily, I didn't actually hit it.  Maybe my car is just randomly spazzing, I figure, and restart (reignite?  Reboot?) my car.  Yep, it had just spazzed and now I drive away perfectly fine.

    Yesterday, I saw something ironic.  Someone was driving an Ethanol-85 car while smoking.

    Also, people who think I'm misusing the word "peruse" need to peruse some dictionaries.

    Oh, and I got an espresso machine!  I still need practice, but at least the lattes don't taste horrible.

Saturday, 22 May 2010

  • Currently
    The Mentalist: The Complete First Season
    By Simon Baker, Robin Tunney, Tim Kang, Owain Yeoman, Amanda Righetti
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    Oh Look, It's the Boredom Blog

    Ok, so I felt like updating, but since I haven't written any random essays lately, I will leave you with a list of uber-cool things that you should totally check out the next time you're bored.  You know, so you don't have to complain about it being summer break and what-not.

    This is the pilot of a little-known TV show called The Invisible Man from the turn of the century.  It's a bit sci-fi-ish and I can't really say much without going into lots of details.  Just watch it, it's amazing.  (And just as a warning, there's a little language, some violence, and a tiny bit of sexuality)

    This guy
    has the best voice on Youtube.  Sadly, this is his only "real" song, but his other videos are pretty hilarious as well.  You should also watch this one.  I recently ordered a Got Malk? t-shirt.  xD

    This, this, this, and this are some of my favorite Rhett and Link songs.  Pretty much all of their videos are great.

    Maybe next I'll write a post about why I don't like The Mentalist.

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