Nasty White Sneakers

Went to Scotland Yard (local Pub) for dinner. Had my first Guinness, I liked it. Tried butter chicken for the first time as well. Yuuum! The sweet potatoe fries were a mistake. Including a beer for me and a shot for SSS, it cost us $51 which seems fair.

The serious.
Rachel Maddow hosted a panel which was really interesting and you can watch it online. Blueprint for Accountability: Working the Dark Side

The funny.
*Snicker* Dating in the computer age Thanks data_warrior

Another first.
Crossposting this.

* Bought a waffle iron. Yum
* Finally fixed my sister's PC. I'm not sure I like OpenSuse 11.1
* Fixed my home network. Surfing from my bed is v-cool. ;0
* Went to see Slumdog Millionaire. Wow. Not at all what I thought it would be. Freida is gorgeous but Dev definitely steals the show.
* Next week we go to Milk.
* I`m supposed to be on vacation next week but C still isn't back so I doubt it.
* I've started reading NCIS fic. Gibbs/Tony. I was thinking of buying the dvds but I decided to stay with the fic instead. Need more Gibbs/Tony fic. Need an icon too.
* It's dragged not drug and no amount of people talking *common usage rule* will convince me otherwise.
* data_warrior's jambalaya nearly killed us.
* Total rip off of State of Play coming out. Should suck a lot as John Simm owned the part of Cal and no amount of gratuitous violence will change that...IMHO.
* New Clive Owen and Julia Roberts movie looks good. Could be my CO bias colouring my opinion. ;)
* I think The Steve Martin Pink Panther movies are funny. Yes, I really am that weird.

That was quite the party. We were lucky to be able to watch parts of it at work. I'll look forward to recaps when I can pay better attention to the details.

Congrats on you new Prez.

Oh and how awesome that he gave a shout out to the *Non-Believers* Whooot!

Rick Warren?! Seriously? That's disturbing and disappointing.

Yellow Tail. Shiraz. Australian. Yum.

Was conned into going to the Festive Holiday Celebration this year. First time I went in ... 6-7 years? Should be really lame. I'll take pictures.

In response the the meme floating about LJ regarding celebrity deaths and if the effect you. I'd say no.. except for Carl Sagan. I'm still not over that one.

I am however a huge wuss and sympathy cry over any number of things relating to people, animals, giant Buddhas, cave painting etc. I sobbed all though Princess Diana's funeral and I was not a fan at all. It's an over active sense of empathy I think. Case in point I did not cry at all when my Grandma died because for me we'd lost her to stroke long before we actually lost her. However when my younger cousins started sobbing all over me I took on their sense of loss and was just as weepy as them..

I watch Rachel first now. I don't know what happened Keith?

I accidentally signed up to a porn site. No really it was an accident. I was trying to get a copy of the MSNBC Witness to Jonestown, sadly I don't get MSNBC but Rachel was talking about this so I wanted to catch it. Well I found a site that said they had it but you had to join, it was only $4.80 or something for 3 days so I thought what the heck. Joined up but alas they had to *manually* upload the files because it was a low interest download. They will email me when it's uploaded. Well of course they never did and I forgot to cancel before the three day trial was over so I ended up being charged $50. I went to the site to cancel and yikes my eyes are bleeding. Porn everywhere... and not even good porn ;) ! I can't believe I let myself be hosed like that.

Still watching Farscape. Still loving Aeryn Sun best although I really like John too. And look! I am a het fan in that fandom! Aeryn/John yipeee!. ;)

Looking for fic.

I watched Jesus Camp tonight. Yikes.

Immediately re watched Saved! (why is there no soundtrack for that?) Made an icon, started downloading Dawkins' The Enemies of Reason and bought three shirts, my favourite having this logo Flying Spaghetti Monster although I really liked this one too so I bought one for SSS as well

Now I will corrupt myself by reading slash until I stop bleeding from the ears.

Attempted to be geek-like and install Suse on my sisters pc. I did manage the repartitioning of vista (shudder) but then forgot I need to do a network install of Suse. I'll look at it again tomorrow.

Any way... the computer room looked sufficiently geeky. ;) I was using the laptop to get online while sister's PC used Damien's stuff so he was unable to join in any reindeer games.


Yes I have to tidy up the cords and paint that network cable so it blends... I know.

Listening to Rachel's AAR broadcast(hosted by David Bender) Where they are discussing Penn's Milk . He insists it's a must see movie.

Wasn't Rachel just on vacation? *grumble*

Also Great idea.

Rachel is back. :) New rule, Keith and Rachel are not allowed to go on vacation at the same time. Their respective guest host were great but...not them. Keith is going to be on Martha Monday...ummm weird but I would kill to see that..

Have I mentioned how awesome Retrograde, a SGA/SG1 xover is? I've read it a few time but I've been listening to the podcast version back and forth to work for the last few days and I especially love that. Brilliantly read by kyizi.

Someone stole SSS bicycle right out of the bike room. They suck.

I had a very nice quiet weekend. Did nothing. I love those kinds of weekends and I haven't had one in ages.

Haven't tortured with pictures in ages so here are some from my trip to Vancouver. Yeah I think SSS and I are the only people in the world who laugh like maniacs when we see Safeway stores. You'd have to be a fan of Biblio to get it but I took way more picture of this store then I took of Bridge Studios. Woo. Safeway. *snicker*





A wall paper size

Why would anyone want to opposed happiness in a lonely and unhappy world.

His Special Comment was golden.

New icon! ♥

Keith was on The View today. He survived it!

I am having internet woes again. Stupid Sympatico.

Don't blame minorities for Prop 8 winning it's the religious who are at fault for this one.

Totally ignoring how much I disagreed with her crack ideas. I can't understand this turning on her that her *own* party is doing. Sick IMHO. Plus if she can keep/buy back anything I hope it's that red leather jacket it looked great on her.

( Now for the funny harlequin cover sent to me at work. )

Legal Groups File Lawsuit Challenging Proposition 8, Should It Pass
Legal Papers Claim Initiative Procedure Cannot Be Used To Undermine the Constitution's Core Commitment To Equality For Everyone

SAN FRANCISCO — The American Civil Liberties Union, Lambda Legal and the National Center for Lesbian Rights filed a writ petition before the California Supreme Court today urging the court to invalidate Proposition 8 if it passes. The petition charges that Proposition 8 is invalid because the initiative process was improperly used in an attempt to undo the constitution's core commitment to equality for everyone by eliminating a fundamental right from just one group — lesbian and gay Californians.

Grabbed from sheafrotherdon

I cannot believe the lines they are showing for early voting in the US. Wow. Power to the people willing to wait five hours.

Eeeek it has been a while so let me see... my life in a nutshell.

Squee...yes I am still on about that.
Meeting RDA was awesome and I still can't believe it happened two months after the fact. He is truly as amazing as I thought. Gatecon was a blast. //end dignified squee//

Co-Op - The continuing saga.
Still trying to settle in at the new apartment.
Still not able to get the blinds up in the sun room because I just can't get a decent hole drilled in the concrete and moon rock or whatever the hell is in the ceiling in the sun room. Spent way more money on *things we just had to have* then we should have last month. Still things on my list of things to do. George and Kay gave us a leather love seat they no longer want. \o/

Meet and Greet at the Co-Op went well last week. People showed up, not a lot but enough that we met people and ended up staying and chatting for four hours. Looks like I'll be involved in getting actually content on the website and helping with the newsletter. SSS is leaning toward the Health and Safety Committee (which doesn't exist) or the Security Committee (likewise non existing).

We voted for the board, five positions available twelve people running. I voted for the only person who bothered to show up at the Meet and Greet. He won.


Tv wise...
Watched all of Doctor Who S4 That season finale was excellent. I like The Doctor again. :)
Watched all of Ashes to Ashes. I don't care for Alex but the story is interesting. I still love Gene and miss Sam (luckily ...FIC!!!).
Sanctuary first two eps. Seems different then the webisodes. I still Like AT in it though. Dumb that they took out Hewlett.
Now I need to start Season five of SGA.

Politically...
I watched our debate and the ones south of the border.
I voted in the early polls.
data_warrior heard the other day that it's rude to ask people who they are voting for and that *we* don't do that. I am unsure who that *we* is but I talk about it. I'll talk about anything, even things that don't effect me personally or that I know very little about. How else do you hear thoughts and ideas not your own? Isn't that the basis to how we grow and learn as individuals?
I voted liberal in case anyone thought otherwise. Although I did a quiz a while back...."
Despise Harper.

Sick...
I am on vacation today and tomorrow (little Sister is staying with me for a few days) so we all know what that means...I am in fact sick as a dog with a nasty chest cold.

Keith Olbermann is still my Imaginary Celebrity Boyfriend however, he has given me his cold. If that's all I'm getting out of this relationship I think I am being hosed.

Pictures...
( Thanksgiving and Sunflowers )

The Bad. I have lost a Life on Mars vid. However, while I was searching, with no luck I might add, I found some new vidding gems.

I'll assume spoilers on everything, I haven't seen any of the seasons I'm warning against which is why I'm just guessing on the spoiler warnings. DW S4, SGA S5, and Ashes to Ashes which is paired with the LoM/A2A vid I I tacked on the end. I miss seeing John Simm.

The good...Doctor Who

Two amazing views of Ten.

Handlebars vid by: Seah and Margie (Flummery) over on Flummery)

And

Moons of Jupiterby fan_eunice


The Hot....Add to your viewing pleasure by watching this one of Martha who, we are all aware, I fangirl way too much. Laura Shapiro's Shut Up and Drive

Still with the Hot
Have to add a SGA vid too, I love the speed of this vid. The editing skills and effects as well as how it moves with the music. Sad though. John Sheppard Evening on the Ground by hollywoodgrrl over on LJ

The Weird....Ashes to Ashes/Life on Mars

A2A/LoM Vid: Ashes to Ashesby hollywoodgrrl over on LJ

The more bad.

Still procrastinating. Yeah I need to post about *things* and I do intend to do that once I can articulate how amazing meeting RDA was... surely I'll be able to do that without the fangirl screaming at some point. I have faith.

I wonder what effect the duel question had on the results?

You are a Social Liberal (80% permissive) and an... Economic Liberal (10% permissive) You are best described as a: Socialist Link: The Politics Test on Ok Cupid Also : The OkCupid Dating Persona Test

I meant to post this earlier but the move is really slowing me down.

It's a well known fact amoung my family that I love Keith Olbermann. It was my freak out last night over the phoneline, and therefore the internet, not working in my new apartment. Oh no how will I sleep without my fix of Keith!

Anyway this was the number one Bushed segment on Tuesady's show. Old news for many but I liked seeing it out there.

The Point...
The only possible conclusion is never mind whatever phobias or latent tendencies they may be fighting internally, never mind the prejudices in which they wallow in their personal lives, this is inarguably true: the U.S. military, the presidential administration and our nation as a whole are officially more afraid of American gays than of Middle East terrorists. That is insane!


( Full context )

You are among the 200 attendees selected to participate in the Richard Dean Anderson In-person Autograph Session during Gatecon - Vancouver 2008!


In other news...
15 minutes walk at a strolling pace. Excellent.
Phone is not working and Bell wants $80 to start to come see what's what. Booo.
First night in the apartment. Fire alarm. Luckily it was 9:30. Kids stink.


But but....
RDA in person !!!x1billion! Beyond cool.

So apart from spending money I am addicted to goldfish crackers.

Tonight we are going to Caynes. We hope to leave with a toaster oven, mircowave, slowcooker, pasta pot with insert and who knows what else. Betting on whether we will spend more then $500 is now open.

Also ... Is Billy O'Reilly on drugs?