Just so y'all know...my team made the play-offs.
Friday, October 28, 2011
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
"I'm a mouse now. Mice are cool."
This year, for the first time in a long time, I decided to decorate for Halloween. Usually I'm too busy, between work and school, but this year I really wanted to make the extra effort and add some spooky cheer to the house. So I went to a flea market and found an armful of stuff for about $3, including this little beauty:
Is the Doctor dressing up as a mouse for Halloween?
At first I thought, "Oh how cute, a mouse with a pumpkin!" Then I saw he was wearing a fez, and I snatched him up before anyone else could come close to buying him. My friend suggested I make a bow tie for him (because bow ties are cool), so I added that detail.
Fast-forward a few weeks to my birthday. My friend had let me know to expect his present to arrive, so I wasn't terribly surprised when I found a box from ThinkGeek on my doorstep. I rushed inside to cut open the tape when I heard the Tardis.
For the first second, I thought it was my phone, until I remembered that my phone no longer has the Tardis ring-tone (boo). Then, for a good 2 seconds, I was convinced that THIS WAS IT, the Tardis was really going to materialize, and I was going to start my adventures with the Doctor.
Then I realized the sound was coming from inside the Think Geek box. I opened the box to find a Tardis cookie jar! Cookies + Doctor Who = awesome, amirite? Also, as my friend said, "It's a talking cookie jar. How could I not get it for you?" I think it goes perfectly with my Halloween Doctor-Mouse. :-)
After Halloween, I'm thinking of making a voodoo doll of myself and storing it in the Tardis cookie jar. Maybe that'll encourage the Doctor to finally show up.
Is the Doctor dressing up as a mouse for Halloween?At first I thought, "Oh how cute, a mouse with a pumpkin!" Then I saw he was wearing a fez, and I snatched him up before anyone else could come close to buying him. My friend suggested I make a bow tie for him (because bow ties are cool), so I added that detail.
Fast-forward a few weeks to my birthday. My friend had let me know to expect his present to arrive, so I wasn't terribly surprised when I found a box from ThinkGeek on my doorstep. I rushed inside to cut open the tape when I heard the Tardis.
For the first second, I thought it was my phone, until I remembered that my phone no longer has the Tardis ring-tone (boo). Then, for a good 2 seconds, I was convinced that THIS WAS IT, the Tardis was really going to materialize, and I was going to start my adventures with the Doctor.
Then I realized the sound was coming from inside the Think Geek box. I opened the box to find a Tardis cookie jar! Cookies + Doctor Who = awesome, amirite? Also, as my friend said, "It's a talking cookie jar. How could I not get it for you?" I think it goes perfectly with my Halloween Doctor-Mouse. :-)
After Halloween, I'm thinking of making a voodoo doll of myself and storing it in the Tardis cookie jar. Maybe that'll encourage the Doctor to finally show up.
Thursday, October 13, 2011
On the advantages of using LaTex
me (writing a report): Oh hey, Word has an automatic table of contents.
(inserts template)
computer: Your table of contents is empty! Just highlight whatever text you'd like added to the table of contents, change it's font to a "heading" font, and we'll add it automatically!
me: Awesome.
(changes all appropriate bullet points to "heading" fonts)
(clicks "update table of contents")
computer: Your table of contents is empty! Just highlight whatever text you'd like added to the table of contents, change it's font to a "heading" font, and we'll add it automatically!
me: Huh. Maybe at least one heading had to be set before I inserted the table?
(deletes table of contents, adds a new one)
computer: Your table of contents is empty! Just highlight whatever text you'd like added to the table of contents, change it's font to a "heading" font, and we'll add it automatically!
me: What the?
(goes back, re-highlights several bullet points, clicks "update table of contents")
computer: Your table of contents is empty! Just highlight whatever text you'd like added to the table of contents, change it's font to a "heading" font, and we'll add it automatically!
me: Dammit Microsoft, this would have been so much easier using LaTex.
As a former professor used to opine, "I don't consider myself computer-illiterate; I simply don't share the same perspective as Microsoft."
UPDATE: I found it. Apparently "headings" is different from "heading-style fonts."
(inserts template)
computer: Your table of contents is empty! Just highlight whatever text you'd like added to the table of contents, change it's font to a "heading" font, and we'll add it automatically!
me: Awesome.
(changes all appropriate bullet points to "heading" fonts)
(clicks "update table of contents")
computer: Your table of contents is empty! Just highlight whatever text you'd like added to the table of contents, change it's font to a "heading" font, and we'll add it automatically!
me: Huh. Maybe at least one heading had to be set before I inserted the table?
(deletes table of contents, adds a new one)
computer: Your table of contents is empty! Just highlight whatever text you'd like added to the table of contents, change it's font to a "heading" font, and we'll add it automatically!
me: What the?
(goes back, re-highlights several bullet points, clicks "update table of contents")
computer: Your table of contents is empty! Just highlight whatever text you'd like added to the table of contents, change it's font to a "heading" font, and we'll add it automatically!
me: Dammit Microsoft, this would have been so much easier using LaTex.
As a former professor used to opine, "I don't consider myself computer-illiterate; I simply don't share the same perspective as Microsoft."
UPDATE: I found it. Apparently "headings" is different from "heading-style fonts."
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Halloween
Halloween's coming up! Costumes and candy! Huzzah!
So let's say you're a girl, and you'd like to dress up, and show off your femininity, but you don't want to be a "slutty" version of anything. (Seriously guys, there's a "slutty Big Bird" costume. Humanity is doomed.)
What are your options?
1) Princess
OK this one's easy. Find a pretty dress, add some costume jewelry and a tiara, maybe some long white gloves, and you're ready to go. Burst into song at random moments and the transformation is complete.
2) On the flip side, you could try a Disney villain. Not quite as easy as the princess costume, but about as many characters to choose from. Maleficent, the Wicked Queen, the Evil Stepmother, Madam Medusa or Madam Mim, even Ursula, are iconic and playfully wicked. Bonus points if you dress up as Maleficent in her dragon form.
But what if you're not a Disney person? (Get the hell out of my blog.)
OK, OK, what if you'd rather be a little more kick-ass? May I suggest:
3) Sci-fi babe
There are a ton to choose from: Zoe from Firefly, Janeway from Star Trek, Ivanova from Babylon 5, Starbuck from Battlestar Galactica, River Song from Doctor Who. Get some old military-ish clothing, a fake gun (or heck, a squirt gun, and call it "irony"), and perfect your steely gaze. (I'd recommend not going as Leia, because you know half a dozen douche-canoes are gonna ask you to go put on your metal bikini.)
Oh, you're not a sci-fi fan? You're more literary? How about:
4) Literary lady
Any character from Austen or the Bronte sisters would work. Liz Bennett, Anne Eliot, Jane Eyre...Find a nice period dress, do your hair in a bazillion curls, and practice being headstrong while following perfect etiquette.
But guys, it's Halloween! It's supposed to be scary!
5) Spooky stuff
There are always the old standards: ghost, vampire, zombie, the Grim Reaper. Death from Sandman is a fairly low-key costume to pull off, and appropriate for the season. Or wear a nightgown backwards, dribble green food coloring on your chin, and go as that girl from The Exorcist.
As a last resort, if you have no time to throw together a costume, just wear your regular clothes and say you're a hipster and that "Halloween is just another commercialized extravaganza." Then drink your Pabst Blue Ribbon and expound on the reasons mainstream culture is turning everyone else into sheep.
So let's say you're a girl, and you'd like to dress up, and show off your femininity, but you don't want to be a "slutty" version of anything. (Seriously guys, there's a "slutty Big Bird" costume. Humanity is doomed.)
What are your options?
1) Princess
OK this one's easy. Find a pretty dress, add some costume jewelry and a tiara, maybe some long white gloves, and you're ready to go. Burst into song at random moments and the transformation is complete.
2) On the flip side, you could try a Disney villain. Not quite as easy as the princess costume, but about as many characters to choose from. Maleficent, the Wicked Queen, the Evil Stepmother, Madam Medusa or Madam Mim, even Ursula, are iconic and playfully wicked. Bonus points if you dress up as Maleficent in her dragon form.
But what if you're not a Disney person? (Get the hell out of my blog.)
OK, OK, what if you'd rather be a little more kick-ass? May I suggest:
3) Sci-fi babe
There are a ton to choose from: Zoe from Firefly, Janeway from Star Trek, Ivanova from Babylon 5, Starbuck from Battlestar Galactica, River Song from Doctor Who. Get some old military-ish clothing, a fake gun (or heck, a squirt gun, and call it "irony"), and perfect your steely gaze. (I'd recommend not going as Leia, because you know half a dozen douche-canoes are gonna ask you to go put on your metal bikini.)
Oh, you're not a sci-fi fan? You're more literary? How about:
4) Literary lady
Any character from Austen or the Bronte sisters would work. Liz Bennett, Anne Eliot, Jane Eyre...Find a nice period dress, do your hair in a bazillion curls, and practice being headstrong while following perfect etiquette.
But guys, it's Halloween! It's supposed to be scary!
5) Spooky stuff
There are always the old standards: ghost, vampire, zombie, the Grim Reaper. Death from Sandman is a fairly low-key costume to pull off, and appropriate for the season. Or wear a nightgown backwards, dribble green food coloring on your chin, and go as that girl from The Exorcist.
As a last resort, if you have no time to throw together a costume, just wear your regular clothes and say you're a hipster and that "Halloween is just another commercialized extravaganza." Then drink your Pabst Blue Ribbon and expound on the reasons mainstream culture is turning everyone else into sheep.
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