Fresh, Hot Wastes of Time

Synchronicity for this week:
Mama Ninfa Laurenzo (Hub was talking about her inventing fajitas and so was this week’s Soup Peddler menu.
Frank Gehry (he was on The Simpsons as well as in a Metafilter post.

I ran into people talking about gutta percha three times in the last week. I’d never heard of it before.
I got invited to join the honors society at school.
I also submitted a paper about Disney’s parks and how they relate to Fisher’s Narrative Theory for presentation at SOURCE, my school’s annual conference, and it [...]

Just got back from Cloverfield. I loved it. I haven’t been that riveted by an action film since the first Jurassic Park.
Predictably, Hub hated it. He prefers more formulaic, wrapped-up Hollywood films. Some spoilers follow.

A mondegreen is a misheard or misspelled phrase. It’s interesting to me to see the different sayings that people mangle, and makes me wonder if it is because we’ve evolved from an oral history->written history->back to oral history. So I figured I’d collect some of the ones I read on various internet fora, [...]

Sign up to vote for the SXSW Web Awards People’s Choice awards, especially if you want to vote for World Without Oil!

I know of two large online communities (in the tens of thousands of users) that have disabled the ability to privately message or email other users, and have outlawed the discussion of personal contact information on the boards. This seems to me to be defeating the purpose of a community per se, by not [...]

1. Be working on a research paper due Monday.
2. Look in the dog kennel. Discover just the cap of what appears to be silicon sealant. Do not find the rest of the tube.
3. Also, while attempting to fix computers seeing each other on the home network, do something to your computer’s permissions that [...]

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US Military Runs First Alternate Reality Game
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Several weeks ago, a tsunami devastated a small island off the southern coast of the US, and now an unexplained illness is spreading among the survivors. The joint task force formed to support the relief effort, originally focused on delivering essential services, now must contend with a [...]

Good Mourning Tree Co. (or Good Mourning Tree Co.) has evolved! Woohoo!
They have gone from littering my house to littering my blog!
Well hey, at least they’re not killing trees for the paper to advertise now. Hyuck hyuck.
I find it amusing that the name in the email address they used three times is the [...]