"And, of course, now zombies are popular, the fanbase is snowballing with people latching onto popular mainstream shows like The Walking Dead. It’s going to continue to get more popular for a while as more of these shows and products release… right up until Stephenie Meyer releases Twilight of the Dead with glittery zombies and we all get put off."
XD
I'm back from my USA conquest campaign. I conquered four states (Indiana, Georgia, Utah and Washington) and one heart. That last one was an accident >_>
The short version is that I got engaged. To a young man I met in Georgia. It's pretty much one of those soulmate things. Like it almost got to this http://xkcd.co
The long version is that Viking put me on a Greyhound headed south and 9 hours later at 2 am I fell off the bus at a truck stop in Dalton GA. Then I went to Waffle House with my friend and her friend. The next morning my friend went to work and her friend came over to keep me company. We had plans to go see an art thing and get hot dogs and stuff like that in case it got really awkward. It didn't. Instead we sat in my friend's house all day and just talked. For hours. And we did that again the next day. And I told him how awful it is that I like spending time with him better than I like spending time with my boyfriend. And on the evening of that day we got engaged. And then I changed my travel plans and stayed in Georgia for a week and told my friends in Provo that I wasn't coming to house with them after all, and only went to the mission reunion and General Conference in Utah.
Overall the entire trip went really well (really well) and everything was hurrah, except that on the flight home my suitcase didn't make the last connection, so it stayed in Amsterdam when I went to Finland. But they'll bring it to my house today some time. Which will be nice, because toothbrush >_>
Just like we learn from Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog: Everything happens.
Homes:
Hamina, Finland
Coventry, England
Sundsvall, Sweden
Calhoun, GA, USA
>.< I did not need another home. Especially one that is uninhabitable for the most part of the year due to the heat.
But I'm glad nonetheless. :3
more free wifi, this time courtecy of the Greyhound company. I have an overflow of love and some fig newtons in my bag so I feel prepared for the 8 hours of sitting-on-the
One item on my 'todo in America' is complete: I got a fortune cookie. I am going to proceed to put undue empasis on it. It said 'you are a bundle of energy, always on the go' and it's true (put 'in bed' before the comma).
Next stop, Dalton, Georgia. The South.
it is almost 3 am and i'm on the Helsinki airport stealing free wifi (yes you can still steal if it's free, if you are very tired and having a very annoyingly hard time accessing et on your stuppid phone (i can't read my et messages on this thing, the browser crashes when I try, so the person who sent the message that seems to have the word theatre or theater in the beginning of the sentence, i'm sorry, i can't read the message right now and i can't even see who it's from before the browser crashes) in the middle of the night).
I'm on this airport because i'm coming and going. I've just come from England (leaving that country always leaves my heart in shreds ;_; ) and I'm about to begin the arduous trek towards the States. With mince pies in my bag :/ what are customs going to say about that?
In addition to not being able to read my messages, i also won't bother reading the forum, because it would be such a hassle to always have to check the previous posting in order to know what it was a reply to, and i just don't have the patience.
Despite leaving England being sad, I do have large amounts of happy that i got from there. Those people just love me so much and it is utter craziness that i live in a country that just doesn't love me as much. Operation moving back to coventry is go.
1)
Can a language indicate Utopia?
Suppose you had a language that had no future tense, because people lived in the now, and no one was anxiously worrying about the future.
Suppose you had a language that did not have a word like "have" indicating ownership, because all things were shared equally among all.
Suppose you had a language that used the same word for "he" and "she", because there was no difference between men and women and equality was a given.
This Utopia may (or it may not) be found in Finland.
2)
I have painted a wall. I painted it off-white (with an ever-so-slight tint to green). I really ought to be a person-who-pai
3)
I have barely began to pack for the upcoming travel event, which begins tomorrow at high noon and will end in the evening of the 14th of October. Srsl, what do you pack when you are going away for a month? X_x This is rather difficult. The plans however are more or less in place.
There was a post on my Facebook feed that said "where were you when you heard the news of Osama Bin Laden's death?"
And uhh, I have no idea, I can't remember. It didn't seem very momentous to me at the time: Americans have killed a person in Afghanistan or somewhere. That happens every day, doesn't it? Now if the news had been "Americans have arrested Osama Bin Laden and he is to be tried for the atrocious crimes he orchestrated in 2001" I would have sat up and listened carefully and followed the news closely. Same with Gadaffi: I can't remember where I was or what I was doing when the news of his death came. If it had been news of his arrest I would have danced on table tops or something and I would remember. I don't dance at the news of anyone's death. :/
Some days ago someone on Facebook said something like "yeah Kony, does anyone even remember him?" And I commented saying "we'll all remember him plenty when they drag his bee-hind from the jungle to the Hague" and a lot of people I don't know clicked like on that. But if instead of that we hear the distant news that Joseph Kony has been gunned down in some jungle shoot-out, we won't remember that moment. And it won't be a triumph for justice. Death isn't justice, since everyone is going to die sooner or later anyway. Dying because you have killed someone - even a lot of someone's - is not justice. If that were justice God could take care of that himself: "oh you just killed someone, well oops you just had a heart attack".
I must admit, it's possible we wouldn't remember the moment when Bin Laden was arrested either. It feels a little... offensive almost to ask the question. I was sitting here thinking of the different things that are usually the "do you remember where you were when..." questions: Kennedy's assassination, 9/11, the events at Norway... We don't remember the perpetrators, we remember the victims. I don't remember the moment when Breivik was apprehended, but I do remember the news of the attacks.
One thing that I think Amazon needs to figure out how to fix is the way it remembers everything you looked at, regardless of whether you expressed interest or preference to that thing. Not everything I view on Amazon is interesting to me, and for their system to assume that is pretty bad practice. It discourages browsing - especially browsing for gifts.
Nothing interesting happened at work today.
Instead: Nipplegate
http://www.new
I had a curious experience at work today. I had to bike between a building and a parked lorry. And as I was getting closer I saw that I will fit just fine through the gap between the two, as long as the driver doesn't suddenly open the door. And I kept looking at the driver's door, knowing that he would open it, and ready to break if/when he did. And he did and I hit the breaks and stopped. The driver was startled and he said "hui" (means something like eek) and closed the door. I didn't say anything and just went past.
It just felt really weird, like in a play that you have rehearsed many times and you just know what is going to happen, what you will do then and what happens after that.
There is a long and very unsteep hill on which is a building with four different stairwells, A B C and D. It is one of my very unfavourite parts in my work route, they are just so monotonous and dull stairwells. When I got to the first one tomorning I noticed that there was a van parked at the last one. It's lights were very bright and I was rather cross at it for just standing there idling with its lights shining really badly in my eyes. I worked my way down over to it and upon approaching realised that it was an ambulance. The door to the last stairwell was left open, lights were on in the passage. I went in careful, ready to duck to the side if some busy-looking paramedics were going to come rushing down the stairs. The lights were on only up to the middle floor, on the top floor I could hear a person-noise, like crying or screaming, but not very loud. I went out and continued on my way. Upon looking back on the other side of the building I saw lights on in one of the apartments of the middle floor, a figure of a man taking a seat. I realised he probably saw me staring, so I went on my way, but my next stop was directly opposite so I could still see the windows and hear the crying, which I now realised was a child crying. I saw more movement in the window, looked away, and the next time I looked up the curtains had been drawn.
It was a very strange experience of passive-aggres
http://www.aud
There was an email in my spambox with the subject "looking for my john cusack". This makes me sad. Someone out there has misplaced John Cusack :/ I hope they find him soon and put him in some good movie.
Feel inside :O
http://www.you
And then this
http://www.you
For Oliver.
Behold the creative process! From a simple request to finding appropriate raw material to the development of the aesthetic decisions from just trying stuff out.
And for once, all the elements are all mine (the original photo, the clouds, the space, everything that went into these pictures. Nothing was filched from the Internets :D )
Took one afternoon of on-off working.
Proves that I can still do stuff that isn't solely focused on my own projects :3
I had a lucid dream this morning.
Some days ago I listened to an episode of RadioLab that talked a bit about lucid dreaming, and one thing they gave as an example for how to "rehearse" for a lucid dream is by often during the day just stop to think "is this a dream?" Sometimes I remember that episode and that idea of checking if you are awake or in a dream, and if I remember to, I'll do that. The idea is that if that thought occurs to you in your dream, you will become aware that you are dreaming (Inception, basically :P) and if you come to realise "hey, this is a dream I'm having" you can take control of your dream and have fun with it :P
I think I was pretty far along in the dream before all of a sudden I just went "is this a dream?" and then for a while all I could do was keep saying "this is a dream." In my dream I was at work, sort of, I was supposed to deliver papers to a building that I deliver papers to in my waking-life job too. But it was not dark, and there were other people around. And someone else had gone before me and but big rocks in everyone's door mailslot things. She couldn't get them all the way through, so it was incredibly annoying to have to move the rocks before being able to put the newspaper through. I met her in the corridor where she was trying to figure out if she could get the rocks in by turning them at different angles (in fact, she could :P) and she explained to me that she was doing this because she was celebrating... something. Like a holiday of some sort. When I came out of there, on the yard I realised that I should go back. And I was really annoyed that I would have to do that. And I wanted to convince myself that I didn't have to go back and do the papers again. There was also some other women talking to me in the yard. And that's when it hit me: this is a dream. And I told the women that this is a dream, but they didn't say anything to that. So I realised that since this is a dream, I don't have to go back to the building.
Not particularly exciting, I know :P But my dreams are often really stressful and compulsive, like there is something I have to do, I'm supposed to do something, and usually it's something really small and pointless or uncomfortable. More often than not it's work-related. So it was so nice to be able to say "...wait, this is a dream, I don't have to do that!"
The Feltron Annual Report:
http://feltron
Learnt about through 99% Invisible, of which I learnt about through RadioLab (of course)
http://99perce
I got an email from Terry Gilliam XD
TERRY GILLIAM
South Quay Plaza
183 Marsh Wall
London
E14 9SR
I am Terry Gilliam, British citizen and Principal assurance manager for the HSBC in London. I have an urgent business proposal for your consideration and acceptance that I wish to discuss with you.. Should you be of interested in this business, please kindly contact me via my personal email to enable me furnish you with more information and modalities of this business. My Contact Email: tgilliam231@ca
If we can be of one accord, we should plan a meeting, soon.
I await your response.
Respectfully,
Terry Gilliam
No references to Monty Python or Brazil or even Dr. Parnassus? You're being too modest, Mr. Gilliam. Though I was under the assumption that you were American (or maybe he has finally got British citizenship and that's why he's so keen to emphasize it :P)
Y'know how there's all those questionnaires doing the rounds on the internet, where you put your own answers on them... Here's the ultimate, most difficult one.
A) What are your ambitions for your life?
I don't really have any as such. o.O The closest answer I can give you is "to be happy" in the situations that I end up in. Things that I would like to see change in my current situation are country of residence (this is really the only big one), and marital status. Aka I want to move away from Finland asap, and I'd like to get married some day (but if not that's fine too). I don't really have a dream job nor any huge achievements I want to do in life... Some little ones: I would like to have a Christmas tree where every decoration is different from all the other ones, I would like to eat ethically grown foie gras (it exists somewhere in Spain), I would like to have a lifelong membership in the Long Now Foundation, I would like to have a tower in my house (with a spiral staircase up it).
B) What are you doing about it?
Right now, in order to be happy, I am: working in a job that suits me for now, paying off my student loan (this will also lead to the change in country eventually), studying and reading books and writing and making art and thinking interesting thoughts, everything I do with my dog, developing an interesting relationship with an interesting person (which might lead to the change in marital status), talking to loved ones and friends, eating chocolate.
I am also gathering Christmas decorations for my tree, but the other small things have to wait in the back of my mind right now, their time is not yet.
Copy and paste with your own answers :3