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[Nov. 9th, 2009|09:49 pm] |
Cat with wings in Chongqing, China by Alpha-Landov. |
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| Making high speed video |
[Nov. 8th, 2009|10:45 pm] |
This weekend has been quite the awesome weekend. 3ric brought a high speed camera (7000 frames per second at full resolution) and we made a few videos together. I've uploaded a couple of videos. Here's a high speed video of me using mentholated eye drops. And here's what happens when Eric, 3ric, Kelly and I get soy milk, a belt and a high speed camera. Go Vegan. Or something.
For the high speed video of soy milk on youtube:
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[Nov. 8th, 2009|08:54 pm] |
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Last night the Fiance and I had a Very Important Talk. It was nice to be able to talk about Important Relationship Stuff without feeling like I was going to throw up, or that he perceived it as an attack on his manhood, or that "we need to talk" equalled "Danger, Will Robinson, danger!" It's so awesome being in a relationship with a grown-up. |
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[Nov. 8th, 2009|08:41 pm] |
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As I sit in front of the computer, sorting out some heavy-thinking stuff, I hear noises in the background. Familiar noises. Wet, squishy, heaving noises, with that... thorough sound. The only real questions left are "which kitty?" and "exactly where is it?" |
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[Nov. 8th, 2009|10:26 pm] |
I took out my labret piercing, one year and a week after I had it done. It had started messing up my gumline, making one tooth sensitive, and gum apparently doesn't grow back. Damn.
Spent today on a catamaran in lovely weather, drinking rum punch, snorkeling at coral reefs, and standing in the front of the boat with my friends, while it was zooming along, singing the compulsory song. "I got a nautical-theme pashmina afghan!" Then I napped in the car on the ride home. Just like in St Thomas, where I passed out early every night: it's tiring to drink and play in the ocean in the sun all day.
Macki is coming Tuesday night and ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) thewronghands is coming Friday night, and they're both leaving Sunday. What to do Saturday? Yesterday I and two others (a clerk and extern visiting from Boston, as the First Circuit sat here last week) went to the awesome Camuy Caves and then arrived at the Arecibo observatory 10 minutes after it closed. Planning fail. We spent 1.5 hours waiting our turn for the cave tour and I spent about 4.5 hours driving. The cave tour was 45 minutes. Kind of an unimpressive day, efficiency-wise. I think we'll end up at El Yunque and maybe the beaches near there, and the bioluminescent bay in the evening. Forts Sunday.
I have more friends coming for a week in early December. Then after that I get to go home for Christmas. Even though life is generally "boom de yada"-worthy, and your US tax dollars are paying for me to go snorkeling on the weekends, I really can't wait to go home for a bit.
A week ago we had no water for 36 hours. I thought about that a lot. Even while I was busy overconsuming for fear the water would go out again.
As I have said, never a dull moment.
Work is going well, I think. I got something out the door, never to be thought of again, on Thursday and on Friday I finished the second round of revisions on a massive motion thing. Got another case now. I hope to get a three-month performance review this month - need to ask the boss about that - but finishing stuff makes me feel not wholly incompetent, so yay.
Wednesday off and Macki and I will do something fun because other people have been maimed and killed in various creative and humdrum ways in a number of wars and police actions and whatever you want to call them, and while some 19-year-old is getting his spine operated on at Walter Reed I'll be on a beach somewhere.
NaNoWriMo continues, a little behind pace, and it occurred to me that plot has to actually happen or on 12/1 I may have 50000 words but I won't have an ending. |
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| Recursive Homeboys |
[Nov. 7th, 2009|10:14 am] |
"We're recursive homeboys this year, Don."
"Nested and recursive parens. ... We can square it every year."
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