| Hello LJ |
[07 Jul 2011|11:09am] |
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I think I should stop by and say hello, cuz with Google+ now... man... LJ, I think your health will start failing... so, this is me saying hello, while I can. :)
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| Tobacco Smoke - up your ass... for reals. |
[09 Mar 2011|04:06pm] |
Tobacco Smoke Enema (1750s-1810s)
The tobacco enema was used to infuse tobacco smoke into a patient's rectum for various medical purposes, primarily the resuscitation of drowning victims. A rectal tube inserted into the anus was connected to a fumigator and bellows that forced the smoke towards the rectum. The warmth of the smoke was thought to promote respiration, but doubts about the credibility of tobacco enemas led to the popular phrase "blow smoke up one's ass."
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| Gila I think they're talking about you! :D |
[09 Feb 2011|12:25pm] |
...And She Won't Even Go Out with Me!
Suit #1: So, you heard who the new VP in my division is?
Suit #2: Yeah. She's... a character, I'll say that.
Suit #1: The Brits came to meet with her, and they left looking like... totally stunned.
Suit #2: Yep, she's a force of nature, all right.
Suit #1: I just can't believe they'd give her that job... That they want her dealing with all that political sensitivity when...
Suit #2, interrupting: When she's a maniacal feral wild woman?
Suit #1: And she openly admits that she doesn't think men should be in this division! She keeps making jokes about how we have no idea what the ladies want, and I'm like, how would she know either? She's not a lady, she's a monster!
Suit #2: She's like a Hindu goddess of fire and destruction!
Toronto
Canadia
Overheard by: Felicity Thistle
via Overheard Everywhere, Jan 28, 2011
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| Silly Album Meme |
[07 Jan 2011|06:06pm] |
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Instructions:
Make your band’s album cover meme:
1.Go to Wikipedia. Hit "random"
or click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first random Wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.
2.Go to Quotations Page and select "random quotations"
or click http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four or five words of the very last quote on the page is the title of your first album.
3.Go to Flickr and click on "explore the last seven days"
or click http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days
Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.
4.Use Photoshop or similar to put it all together. Remember this is Album/CD art, so keep it square. Images need to be 500 pixels x500 pixels or larger.
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| Garfield |
[07 Dec 2010|04:28pm] |
Yeah yeah yeah, we've all giggled over the awesomeness of Garfield without Garfield.
The idea of which being that Jon is actually just insane and lives alone.
But what if the entire strip, the whole thing, is actually a figment of Garfield's imagination?
As he slowly starves to death. Alone. In an abandoned house?
And Jon and Odie and all their adventures are Garfield's denial based hallucinations?
http://www.garfield.com/comics/vault.html?yr=1989&addr=891023
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[11 Nov 2010|05:10pm] |
A long time ago, in another life, I was a theatre brat. I took drama all through high school, and then moved onto community theatre. Don’t get me wrong, I was never an actress, no matter how many times people would try to put me on stage; I can’t act. But I’m an awesome producer/stage-manager/make-up artist/costumer/assistant-director/front of house manager, take your pick. Those are all jobs that require an insane attention detail and the ability to do the same thing again and again, for hours/days/weeks. THIS, I am good at.
On the last night of a performance of “The Scottish Play” with a very very small theatre company (there were only 3 of us, the Director, the producer (the director’s GF) and me), I was counting the ticket and bar money. And it would not balance. No matter what I did, no matter how I counted the drink tickets and ticket stubs and the money, it didn’t match. I re-counted, and re-counted, and made other people count, it.would.not.balance. I was 18 years old, and I felt immense responsibility for this, so I promptly burst into tears. “Tears” is not the right word, I bawled like a baby, and worse, I wouldn’t tell anyone else what was wrong, other than “it doesn’t balance”.
The director came over, calmed me down, told me over and over, it didn’t matter, it was the last night of the show, we had been a great success, and the money didn’t matter (which I knew to be a lie, because the director and producer had put their rent money into this production). And then, with barely masked concern, he asked me the big question:
“How short are we?”
“What?”
“How short are we, how much money are we missing?”
“…we’re not missing any, we’re $185.00 over!”
So, you can imagine how I feel right now, after deciding, rather on the fly, and without a plan, to organize three craft shows in December, that my shows are listed in the NOW Magazine’s "Where to get those gifts" article. Dude. Dood. DOOD!
http://www.nowtoronto.com/lifestyle/holidaybuzz/2010/story.cfm?content=177808
Wandering Winter Craft Show – THAT’S ME!! And 65 other vendors, but still, ME!!!
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| Awesomeosity! |
[02 Nov 2010|10:03pm] |
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Just look at these tiny cookies one of my vendors made!
This is the real deal people!
I got some awesome vendors lined up for December!
You should all be coming!!!
www.shopcats.ca
Yes, even you!
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| Salad for lunch? |
[02 Nov 2010|01:37pm] |
I've discovered the chinese food court place across from my work does a chicken salad.
This is the regular chicken they serve all soya-saucey and tasty plopped on top of a giant bowl of lettuce, with cranberries, crispy noodles and shredded beets and carrots, and some sort of soya-salad dressing. It's awesome. And huge, like it's a big huge bowl, full of food. It's actually so big i can barely eat all of it.
However...
That does not stop every single person who sees me eating it comment on 1) it's "healthiness" 2) my weight or my "healthiness" 3) that they hate me, or my fave 4) "You're so disciplined".
I don't get this, I never have, I never will. It's a giant fucking salad with FRIED chicken on it, and it TASTES good. I doubt that it's all that "healthy", and I'm eating it because it's tasty, not because it's healthy or I'm on a diet, or really any of that... It's yummy!
Bizarre.
But then as I recently pointed out, at my skinniest I had a 28" waist.
And I surely don't have one now. People seem to think I'm much slimmer than I am.
I'm just a good dresser is all.
The salad has nothing to do with it!
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| Does Denzel read the scripts they give him? |
[18 Oct 2010|08:58pm] |
Ok, seriously, another train movie? Cuz Pelham 123 was so good?
But this time it's Unstoppable and he's working with a new kid, Captain Kir... uh, Chris Pine, and Rosario Dawson is the inexplicably hot train dispatcher concerned about an "unmanned train" loaded with "toxic chemicals" that's going to collide with a train full of "100's of school kids" with no "air brakes"...
Seriously did a bunch of high 14 year old boys write this one?
And obviously, they were high 14 year old boys that didn't have access to the internet, because a quick look in Wikipedia's entry on "Dead man switches" gives us this:
A dead man's switch...is a switch that is automatically operated in case the human operator becomes incapacitated, such as through death or loss of consciousness.
The switch usually stops a machine, and is a form of fail-safe. They are commonly used in locomotives, aircraft refuelling, freight elevators, lawn mowers, tractors, personal watercrafts, outboard motors, chainsaws, snowblowers, tread machines, snowmobiles, and many *medical imaging devices.
Locomotives are the FIRST ONES THEY NAME as having dead man switches.
Now, sure, I worked for a Locomotive Electronic's manufacturers for years, so perhaps I know a few things about trains the average stoned 14 year old doesn't. Like that there are SEVERAL dead man switches in modern trains. Some are foot activated, some are hip activated (for reals) and some are just buttons, some require a code, on and on. And if one doesn't get reset, the train stops. This is what happens when a train engineer suffers a medical emergency. The train stops. And even if the engineer manages to wedge one of the switches, the others will go off, and the train stops. Not to mention that the engineers have to check in via phone and the train itself is in CONSTANT CONTACT with a satellite! Which also can shut down the engines if need be. Oh yeah, that satellite can also SLOW THE ENGINES down too! Drivers hated us for selling that feature, they couldn't "make time" anymore. They also hated our dead man switches because our founders had been railway engineers so they knew all the "tricks" for getting around dead man switches. And we sold switches that could be set to go off from every 90 seconds to every 90 minutes. Seriously, they fucking hated us.
BUT!
We made fucking sure that there was no way in HELL a train would become "UNSTOPPABLE".
Morons!
Also, I am not going to touch the "air brakes" bit because I'm going to bet you they get it backwards in the movie... do you know how many air manifolds and switches there are on a train? How many annoying 35, 45 & 120 psi switches (like the kind I spent a YEAR spec'ing in and tested every damn week for nigh on 4 years because they are SUCH an important part that we couldn't ever relax the 100% inspection level and they had to pass with less than 0.3PSI variance?!) Ok, this is me NOT talking about the air systems on a fucking train....
*Isn't it good to know that if your xray tech becomes incapacitated you won't be bombarded with xrays until you die? Dead men switches, saving your lives every damn day!
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| It's Friday, have some pizza! |
[10 Sep 2010|03:27pm] |
Apart from the fact that this gorgeous woman is making pizza with own hands, and for some reason is a red head, the thing that catches my eye the most...
Is that an iPod Shuffle on the table behind her?
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| Oh god I love this woman so much! |
[08 Jul 2010|02:31pm] |
She is so fucking funny, I have been reading her (too much) for the past two days, what am I going to do when I get to the begining and there is no more and I have to wait for her write more! Horror!!
On that note, you must read her letter to her uterus
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| 30 Days of Landfill - recap and update |
[03 Jul 2010|01:10pm] |
So, it's been a fun month! Full of ups and downs, successes and failures.
I didn't post 30 items in 30 days. But I did learn a lot, got some needed exposure, and learned about my own work habits.
Cross posting goodness, you can read more here: Landfill Designs.
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