Personal

The stuff about me and my life. The “diary” side of blogging.

Quickies!

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I’ve been having a lot of fun with my guests — hence the lack of posts lately. I’ve got to go off to work, so I don’t have time for a wrapup right now, but I can point you over to Kirsten’s account of the last two days.

Of primary interest, however, is the public unveiling of a drink I came up with a few years back, and had been quite popular among my friends since then. We’ve just finally given it a name:

Quickie (shot)\
Equal parts Jagermeister and Aftershock or Goldschlager.

This is, by far, the most devious shot I have ever had. Babycakes says he came up with the idea for the shot when Jagermeister and Aftershock were both popular shots on their own. He decided to try and mix them – a stab in the dark he figured would either be a horrific failure or a gleaming success. Let me tell you – it’s definitely a gleaming success. You take this shot, wait about five or ten seconds, and then wham! It’s like you’ve just been right fucked and got hit up with a delayed orgasm. It had also not been named, this was the one I suggested. I think Babycakes may have previously referred to it as a Jagershock.

Enjoy!

Visitors

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Poking my head up for a few moments to say hello!

Prairie came in to town Friday night, Kirsten and Denton showed up at my door Saturday morning, and the four of us have been having fun just tooling around town and hanging out. Some wandering around, a stop by Dragonfish for dinner last night, and a trip out to the Seattle Center to see Matrix: Reloaded in their IMAX theater.

It was HUGE. Fun, though!

That’s the excitement so far…

11 Objects

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Today’s BlogFodder asks for 11 objects in your immediate vicinity.

The sad thing is, I could quite honestly take the easy route out and give “Eleven empty Dr. Pepper cans” as my answer. Good thing that more housecleaning is on the schedule for tonight.

  1. My camera, waiting for me to empty out the last round of shots.
  2. A stack of pictures from Prairie from our last trip to visit her family in Woodland.
  3. A Rush Hour DVD that I need to watch to see if it’s scratched badly enough to be unwatchable.
  4. An ESPN keyring that I got from Chilkoot Charlie’s bar in Anchorage (this amuses me, because in true sterotypical geek fashion, I couldn’t care less about sports, and because ‘Koots was one of my least favorite hangouts).
  5. A novelty cigarette lighter shaped like a penguin that I saw at 7-11 and couldn’t pass up.
  6. A stack of CDs that, for one reason or another, I’ve discovered haven’t been ripped into my .mp3 collection yet.
  7. A stuffed penguin from Prairie that sits on top of one of my computer monitors, keep watch over all I do.
  8. A printed copy of the W3C’s CSS Level 2 specification, which I’ve actually read cover-to-cover.
  9. Beginning PHP4, which one of these days I’ll actually start digging through so I can learn a bit more about what I can do with PHP on my website.
  10. My checkbook, which these days I use only to pay rent with each month.
  11. Clear packing tape that hasn’t been put away since I was mailing DVDs out to the world.

Fascinating, isn’t it?

A visit from the Muffin

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Only two days until I get a visit from the one and only [geek*muffin] herself, along with her boy! Should be a lot of fun — Kirsten and Denton should be showing up early in the morning this Saturday, and here until Thursday or so, as they embark on Kirsten’s first ever paid vacation!

Posting may be a bit light during the week — for some silly reason, I have this bizarre tendency to give the computers short shrift when I’ve got actual real, living, breathing people visiting my little world. I know, things like that probably mean I’m in danger of getting my geek card revoked, but you’ve got to have your priorities, right?

Dismemberment sells!

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Seeing this post of Jeremy’s reminded me of the following photo I took on the way home from Bumbershoot last August.

Dismembered arms

Hardly my most artistic photo, but then, it wasn’t really meant to be — I just thought the window display was hilarious, in a somewhat disturbing sort of way. Selling handbags, okay. Selling handbags with dismembered arms, though, I’m just not entirely sure about.

Congratulations Reed and Kerry!

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I just got e-mail that my friends Reed and Kerry just had their first child!

Tienna Vie Judd Dyer was born on June 16th at 11:45pm wieghing 6.5lbs. Kerry is in good health and I will E-mail pics of Tienna as soon as I get them.

Wonderful to hear — congratulations to all three of you!

No help at all

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I got this error message from MS Word today:

Word corrupted table error

Of course, the document has multiple tables embedded in it, and Word isn’t kind enough to tell me which table has become corrupted. I guess I’m just supposed to guess?

Jupiter

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(Background: this exchange came about in 1994, when a comet was breaking up as it passed by Jupiter and falling into the planet.)

Saturday, July 30, 1994 6:36:03 PM
From: Rtist
Subject: Jupiter gone?
To: Science

So, does anyone know how Jupiter is doing? Is it still under attack? Are there any new holes in it? How’s it goin’ up there?

Monday, August 1, 1994 4:32:49 AM
From: Woodstock
Subject: Re: Jupiter gone?
To: Science

It’s gone. The force of all the chunks hitting it disrupted the rotation and magnetic fields enough that all the gases surrounding it have been sloughing away into space…some merging with the rings that used to surround Jupiter, some of the heavier material being caught in the gravitational fields of the moons, but most just drifting off through the solar system. Scientists predict that when the Earth starts moving through the fields, those of us lucky enough to live up here in Alaska should see some absolutely phenominal displays of the Northern Lights, as the foreign gases start to interact with those that normally produce the displays.

Meanwhile, there’s been some excitement about a certain picture the Hubble took…something about a large black slab at the center of where Jupiter used to be, the edges appear to have a ratio to each other of 1x3x9…(grin)

In case you’re wondering, yes, this is a load of crap. But it was fun to write. So there. Bleah. Let someone else tell you what’s really going on, I’m shooting for a job at the Weekly World News…

(big grin)

Woodstock