During the week I obsessed about going to see Wolverine and went back and found all the god-awsome covers drawn by Joe Mad for Uncanny X-men that I read in high school. And also some stills from the movie.
And then I shamelessly squeed, jumped, cried, hollered and danced each and every time Gambit got some screen time. Just ask Bianca or Cynthia. So all in all it was worth every single cent and I’m strongly considering getting a HD tv so that I can watch it in all its glory when it comes out.
And yes, I know it’s a crappy movie. I don’t give a damn. It’s got MY GAMBIT. nuff said.
Chère cousine Marie, je considère que cet aveux équivaut à ton obsession Édwardienne. On a chacun nos choix. Moi j’avais 14 quand je suis tombée follement et éperdument amoureuse de Gambit. (Cela dit, j’espère quand même que tu aimera Entretient avec un Vampire).
Edit : Overall I have two regrets. One for the whole Wolverine movie, most of the time it didn’t seem like the characters were very well defined. Two : Gambit had a southern accent, not a creole one. And he didn’t say “Chere” a single time. Not that there were any girls around to tell it to. It could have been anyone. A bairmaid on Bourbon St if necessary. That’s just bad characterization for him not to flirt. booo
…I was in Rome, and it was love at first sight with that city. Now if I didn’t have a list of destinations the length of, well, the Atlas, I think I would go back as soon as I have some vacation. I can’t wait to go back.
A couple of months ago Christopher mentioned his long-lasting interest with a Brave New World. After I followed the Great Books I class at Concordia, I’ve always been interested in reading my way through books that have shaped society around them. Thanks to Judith I got a copy and started reading on the bus every morning.
At first I was a little bored by the “shocking” futuristic utopian society that the text describes. Tubes baby and behavioural conditioning taken to the extreme and a serious cult of youth. It felt like everything was so widely different that it couldn’t scary because I couldn’t tell how society could even get to that point. I read it like an anthropological study of a world far away. Where people are weird and believe weird things. That feeling stayed with me pretty much throughout the book until 2-3 chapters before the end, when the Savage meets with the world leader and discuss philosophy.
That conversation is, I believe, the main point that the author wanted to make. He invented a world and characters inhabiting it and staged it all so that those two people could talk for an evening. It seemed like a set-up, a sort of devil’s advocate conversation of “what ifs” and the only way he could make his point was to give us background (the rest of the book.)
I have to say, that conversation is pretty intense and brings ideas together that I’d never envisioned before and for that the book is very interesting. On the other hand, I pity teenagers who were forced to read this for school because I don’t think I would have gotten so much out of it without philosophy classes in both college and university to give me some background.
I’ll probably read it again in 5 years and find it completly different. I think this book will stick with me for a while. A slicky-oily-akward of feeling in the back of my head when I’ll read some technological articles.
A good 2-3 months ago, I went out and canceled my account at powweb because I’d joined The Geek Cartel and didn’t have any other hosting needs. I thought to myself “Hey, better not get late before the renewal date and cancel it right away so there’s nothing to pay!” and I went and searched deep into the customer interface until I thought I’d hit the Holy grail Handgrenade of Antioch aptly named “Cancel Server” and I clicked on it.
Well now, as you’re reading this you must realize something went wrong or I wouldn’t bring it up. Well I canceled my domain but not my account. So today I got my credit card invoice online and gah! what’s this big gunk of cash on that credit card I no longer use? powwebdamnit!
So there go tonight I used their LiveChat (exactly the same one as the one at my job, so ironic) and talked with some Albert Who Never Misspells (and I’m not convinced he wasn’t a robot) who told me that I had to pay some fee if I wanted them to cancel my account and refund me. Great. I tried explaining that I went on their help documentation to find how to cancel my account. That I hadn’t logged in for 2 months. Alas. I asked him how I should have done it and he gave me a link. Which I’m going to give to you because I know some of you use powweb. They’ve been good to me in the past, it’s just joining the cartel was too cool to pass. But anyway, if you ever want to cancel your account I suggest you go to http://www.powweb.com/controlpanel/BillingCentral/AccountRenewal.bml and take care of canceling it there, and then open a livechat to confirm that it will be canceled for real.
I’m going to keep this experience foremost in my mind when I will work on the customer hub 2.0 at work. Oh and also that one time I deleted all the databases because they were linked to a domain name that I was deleting on some Plesk interface. Interfaces can suck majorly, but they don’t have to. One more bad experience on the web convinces me that I can do good work to help people… so it’s at least that.
Today I set up a new blog for my “sister-in-as-good-as-law” and her passion for all things food & cooking. It will be a database of all her favourite recipies and it was a pleasure to set up thinking of all the small ways that will make it easier to browse and explore. I still have to find decadent looking photos to use in the header but in the meantime I think it’s very well organized. Unfortunatly there isn’t a specialized search function that looks what you have left in the fridge! I feel that it’s the only thing that’s missing. It’s called La Cuisinière Paresseuse and I suggest you all bookmark it because it’s yummy stuff over there!
Well tonight Lorien and I signed our lease and I’m super excited. Also, my parents know people who know the owners so I think that really helped my parents feel more comfortable about me leaving the nest.
I’ve been tagged by my cousin on a photo-blog meme. The rules is to post a photo of the 6th photo of my most recent album and invite 6 others to do so too. mmm… Ok so since I’ve been a bad lolo and I havn’t downlaoded my camera’s card in a while I’ll go do that first. Hopefully everything will go fantastic and the photo will happen to be Léonard eating maple taffy like requested
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Well it turns out a little different. Some cuddly baby wins! But because I’m a cool cousin I’ll include the Death By Sugar photos as well! Ok so I tag Yochannah because I’m hopefull I’ll get to see more Paris photos.
Out of all the april’s fools I saw or heard of today I’m totally hooked by The Leaky Cauldron’s take on Twitter! It’s so much fun to watch it update in real time and read the sillyness
Although the trick at work that led one of the guys in marketing to email google about their lack of security on any website that uses AdWords was spectacular!
When I went to my brother’s house two weeks ago and played Rayman Raving Rabbids 2 with my two nieces, I was rather shocked to see my 6 year old niece sing along to (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction by The Rolling Stones. And when I say sing along, I mean, sing every single lyric in near perfect pitch and everything! As far as it is posisble to understand actual words when the rabbits sing, obviously.
Anyway, now it’s fueled a mission : make the absolute Rock Playlist so that my nephew and nieces have a decent musical education. Some of my genes are there too, I feel responsible! Besides, I’m an aunt. I’m not there to tell them off if they don’t say please, oh wait I do that too…
So far I already have 2 hours with only the songs I already had on my computer, and when I made my list I was amazed at how little songs I own myself. Hopefully after all this I will also happen to have the complete Supernatural Roadtrip Set!
