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Sunday, November 30, 2003
Asleep
Well, while I'm here and have found the power cord to the G4 powerbook, I might as well blog a bit. The G4, while a powerful machine, is apparently only used for playing "Scramble" a Word-Whomp-esque game. This laptop is probably a lot like Marvin the paranoid Android, "brain the size of a planet and they ask me to park the car" (or something along those lines- my Adams is shaky).
Everyone is asleep. Well Kevin is watching football, but his eyes are closed, so I count him asleep for the moment. Why are we all so tired at 1:30 PM on a Sunday? Most of us stayed up until 6:30 AM playing DOTA. (Although B thought it was "only two".) DOTA = Defence of the Ancients, a mod on Warcraft Frozen Throne. It was damn fun I must say- not too complicated just some spells and killing in an old fashioned CTF format.
Jon has often pressed upon me the importance of having a computer in every room for the purpose of LAN parties. I can now see their appeal and look forward to holding many all-night video game kill fest evenings. But what do you serve for snacks at such a fete? This trip has been almost 4 straight days of nonstop gaming, including board games, such as Ra, which, I rule at apparently. At one point, I played Halo for 12 hours straight and there was practically no food, which was a travesty in an otherwise enjoyable half-day. As a result, I vow that any game marathons at my house shall include catering. So, let's plan the menu for this. LAN party food must be:
1) non-spill/drip/crumble- one cannot afford to invest time in napkins when orcs await
2) able to grab/hold/eat with one hand- a single-button offense can suffice while you refuel
3) cannot appear to be healthy- if we were interested in healthy behaviour, we wouldn't practice shooting things in the head for hours on end
4) go well with beer- duh
.: posted by Zemlet 1:04 PM
Hi Hi
Have you ever had the sneaking suspicion that you just did something forehead-slapingly stupid? I just got off the phone with J's Mum whereupon I let her know the url for my website. For a brief moment I thought this might be a mistake. I wondered instantly: what is on my web site, anyhow? I quickly popped over to have a quick review of the contents, to see if it was "Mum-friendly". My conclusion is that it is exceedingly so. In fact, this is practically a shrine to Jonathan, now that I look at it. So browse away, you Seattle-ites, browse away.
.: posted by Zemlet 12:54 PM
Monday, November 24, 2003
Spare Time
Ahhh... now that the Months of Proposal Hell are over, I actually have a few hours of free time every damn night. Oh the parties I'll go to, the movies I'll see! Before the Months of Hell began, I'd been reading around four books per month, so I also want to start that up again. (I just got Neal Stephenson's first book of the Baroque Cycle, Quicksilver, what about you?) I also just got the games Dark Fall (thanks Laura!!!) and Uru. I'm also very inspired by my mother's recent art show* to make more art. And next year, I'm going to start designing clothes. It seriously takes me 15 minutes when I get home to decide which fun thing to do.
*Fiesta del Artes went really well. In eight hours, the show sold $6,000 worth of hand-crafted items. I rang up every sale- luckily there were only 78. I bought a bracelet from my sister and this cool painted papier-mache piece from her. I've got to learn how she does them- perhaps we'll have an "art camp" next year: a weekend where artists all get together and the price of admission is teaching everyone else a project or cooking a meal. (Yet another thing to work on in my spare time.) I also bought some raku pottery my cousin Mike made, a new purse from "Alex of Santa Barbara", made out of vintage kimono fabric, and a "Schwarzenegger Prayer Candle".
Yes, it is as kitchy as it sounds.
.: posted by Zemlet 6:38 PM
Thursday, November 20, 2003
Pop Goes the Weasel
MJ Booked in Santa Barbara
me: wow, they actually listed his race as "black"
surge: What do you mean "his"?
.: posted by Zemlet 3:58 PM
Wednesday, November 19, 2003
More blog crap
I just read the article where someone got fired for posting a photo he took at work on his blog. He was fired by Microsoft and still isn't 100% clear on why, apparently. So I thought I'd post a photo of Jon's work to get him fired. Here he is doing some late night "testing" of the latest Playstation game he's working on. (Must be tough.) Note pizza box on top of monitor.
.: posted by Zemlet 1:29 PM
Web Fire Escape
I've added a Blog Escape in the upper right.
Step 1: go here to set it up
Step 2: surf people's blogs instead of working
Step 3: click the blog escape icon at the first sign of trouble to be redirected to a work-related site or screenshot right away
I think this was invented for 'muda.
.: posted by Zemlet 1:24 PM
HB2M
I had the best birthday ever. I mean I liked getting pancakes in bed that one year and all, but this really was the best. First off, I stayed up eating soufflé and raclette Melissa made and playing bridge until midnight in order to celebrate right away. Jonathan hit me with a present first thing- a Hermès scarf!!! One day we were in SF and I saw one in a window. After telling Johan the "right" way to pronounce it in the most pretentious way I could (gawd, I'm such a bitch) I announced that I would own one someday. When he presented it to me, he claimed, "That day is today". He is so sweet, I cannot get over it! It is one of their brand new ones inspired by the Mediterranean, featured on style.com, "In another nod to the pleasures of seaside life, the company's famous scarves feature stylized sunbursts and water bubbles." He got me the bubble one "for my personality".
Then that night, we went out to dinner at one of the best restaurants in the city, where they brought us this dessert:
In the background you can see the Shizuka Yokomizo illy collectors cup, featuring the "dog made of carrots". Then we went to Allegria. Our seats were so good, I thought I might get hurt at some point during the performance and at the end, everyone poured out of the tent humming the theme song together- we couldn't help it. It was so amazing, I haven't the words to describe it.
.: posted by Zemlet 1:07 PM
Friday, November 14, 2003
Hey Mr. VJ
.: posted by Zemlet 6:55 PM
Matrix 3
Fourteen of us ended up going to The Matrix Revolutions IMAX premiere and everyone wore sunglasses, except for Surge who cannot find his. (I suppose if you don't go outside during the day much, they are extraneous to your lifestyle.) |  |  | | The Von Markhams- dangerous as usual. | Jeff and Dave with various contraband. |  |  | | I'm quite convinced I'm cool. (I am really not very cool, but I still fit into these pants.) |
.: posted by Zemlet 12:02 PM
Thursday, November 13, 2003
palm springs
In palm springs for a conference, wireless service at the resort is a fleeting thing with coverage that wanes and waxes like an unseen tide. I wander at night like a chinese hungry ghost, trying to find 90% signal strength. A woman herds two tiny white jawas. I have to stare a bit to make sense of the scene. They are her children in fuzzy hooded robes, scuttling in from the pool area.
I see too many old women in shorts.
.: posted by Zemlet 2:21 PM
Monday, November 03, 2003
New photos
The pics are up from Hallowe'en and my summer vacation. Ah yes, more narcissism! Halowe’en wasn’t as spectacular this year as last year… my father and his set-making abilities were sorely missed and the rain kept many kids home or turned them into speed-treaters, trying to hork as much candy as possible before the waterworks resumed. It was really hard to top last year’s Area 51 theme, where we had everyone in lab coats, a ten-foot tall spaceship with smoke pouring out of it, and an alien autopsy. Past themes also include: Survivor (tiki torches, island wear, chest full of $1 Million and the ability to vote out whomever you wanted), Wizard of Oz (legs sticking out from under the house, and everyone dressed up as Dorothy- even the men).
The highlight of my weekend was driving to Ballard and back. I’m not being sarcastic. It was actually really nice to be trapped in a car with Jonathan for eleven hours. We hadn’t spent that much time alone together for a month or two and got to do a lot of talking and joking around the whole way. You know, it is pretty nice to know someone you like enough to spend that much time inside a small convertible with and then even nicer when you end up liking them even more at the end. I realize I am turning into one half of one of those sickeningly happy couples and will try to tone it down- honestly I will. I could even make up a lie of some kind to make it seem like things aren’t going as well as they seem (when they, in fact, are). Here are my lie ideas- which seems the most plausible to you? Any other suggestions?
1) My S/O is a really great guy, but he has this terribly annoying habit that is so foul, you’ll suddenly think your S/O isn’t that bad. (Then refuse to say what it is.)
2) Problems communicating: we cannot openly discuss anything involving the color green, loud sounds or Trent Lott.
3) Three words: leaves seat up.
4) When he does my laundry, he shrinks all my clothes then says they look better that way to make it seem planned.
5) HE asks ME “do I look fat in this”?
6) Has no earthly concept of how to properly load the dishwasher.
7) Wants me to eat meat (has offered to kill animal himself).
.: posted by Zemlet 3:00 PM
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