Good-bye 2012

So I managed to finish to all my errands for today so I can leave 2012 with a completed to-do list!  And a belly full of yummy sushi :)  I think if I were to have a last meal I ask for the most hard to find fish and have that as sushi.  Then while they're out looking for the fish, I can make my escape, a la Dwight Schrute:


Ok, apparently Dwight has two scenarios for his last meal but I can't find the one where he says he'll ask for the rarest truffle (or something) and while they're out looking for it he'll make his escape, but this one that I found it c-r-a-z-y:



And for something completely crazy, the 10 most elaborate death-row meals:
http://www.ranker.com/list/top-10-most-elaborate-final-meals-in-death-row-history/john-barryman?page=1

Winter 2013 TV Schedule

Bold indicates when the shows comeback from their breaks.

Monday

Revolution 10/NBC 3/25

Tuesday

8pm: Hart of Dixie CW 1/15
8:30pm: Ben & Kate FOX 1/8

9pm: New Girl FOX 1/8, Go On NBC 1/8, Happy Endings ABC 1/8

9:30pm: The New Normal NBC 1/8, Don't Trust the B in Apt 23 ABC 1/6 & 1/8

Wednesday

8pm: Arrow CW 1/16
8:30pm: The Neighbors ABC 1/9

9pm: Supernatural CW 1/16, Psych USA 2/27, Modern Family ABC 1/9
9:30pm: Suburgatory ABC 1/9

Thursday

8pm: Vampire Diaries CW 1/17

9pm: Office NBC 1/10

Friday

9pm: Nikita CW 1/18, Grimm NBC 3/8

Sunday

6pm: Walking Dead AMC 2/10

8pm: Once Upon a Time 8/ABC 1/6
?: Don't Trust the B in Apt 23 ABC 1/6 & 1/8

Home

I know where I want to live! Now all I need is $2-$4million to purchase a home in that neighborhood :-/

Old age sucks

We should have a lights out switch when we reach a certain age where we just drop dead, like a toy with no batteries. Just stop. The end. No horrible deterioration. Just done.

Tales from the driver's seat

This is the second time that I've seen the police driving in a zig-zag pattern on the freeway to slow down traffic.  Only difference between this time and the last, was that this time the police made us all come to a complete stop on the freeway for a good few min before letting us drive at the speed limit again.  I wonder why they do this.

It's that time again

Yes, ladies and gents, it's my Monty Python and the Holy Grail kick again.  You can thank one of my friends for giving to me for Christmas.  Now, I can watch it whenever I want, hehehehe!  This is always a fun clip:

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas everyone!  It's a popcorn, hot chocolate, Christmas light viewing day!

Score one for science!

Well, at least some courts still believe in science:
http://autos.yahoo.com/blogs/motoramic/physicist-claims-victory-over-traffic-ticket-physics-paper-151808710.html

Christmas time with the birds and the bees

Some people really have a hard accepting that others have different opinions than theirs.

Grad school, not for the weak!

I had a friend tell me that he/she was worried about me, about how I would "cope after graduating" because I've been in academia for so long...given everything I've had to cope with while being a doctoral student, and the shear mental strength and willpower one needs to even complete this process...I think I'll be able to cope with whatever life wants to through at me.

Grad school, it's not for the faint of heart. (See reason 84 http://100rsns.blogspot.com/2012/06/84-politics-are-vicious.html)

The end is...still not here

In the immortal words of Comicbook Guy from The Simpsons:

December 21, 2012 3:12 AM Pacific time passed with nary a whisper.  Who will take up the role of prophesying the end of the world next?

Burn Notice: Hallelujah, Schmidt didn't screw this one up!

In fact, Schmidt wasn't even in the episode!!!!!!

Burn Notice: Schmidt how will you screw up the season finale?

Given Schmidt's track record with royally screwing over our main characters I'm just wondering what wonderfully ulcer creating shenanigans the writers will conjure up for Schmidt tomorrow night.

Some thoughts:
1. Schmidt will rat on them to the CIA or set then up. I saw that look in his eyes when he and Michael were talking at the end of last week's episode.
2. Schmidt won't be able to do the simple task of following Michael's instructions not will he be able to remember his lines.
3. Schmidt will leave some evidence/clue lying around a la Maddy a couple weeks ago.
4.The guy they pissed off last week will give their passport info to the CIA so they can be tracked an found before leaving. Yes, this is Schmidt's fault.

Being the bigger person

Sometimes I hate being the bigger person because the other person doesn't know you're being the bigger person and if you tell them and point out exactly how you're being the bigger person, you cease to be the bigger person :(  I want to eat my cake and have it too, dagnabbit!  It's not fair!  Ok, feet-stomping pout over.

Gossip Girl Series Finale SPOILER!!!!!!

Gossip Girl Series Finale SPOILER!!!!!!

Gossip Girl Series Finale Countdown!!!

Aaaahhhhh!!!!!!!!  We're going to find out who Gossip Girl really is in 2.5 hours!!!!!!!!  East Coast people are finding out right now!!! :(  Bastards!  I stand by my guess of Dan.

Bob's Burger: God Rest Ye Merry Gentle-Mannequins

Bob's family does a spectacular job of screwing him over most of the time, but sometimes, Bob does a bang up job of it all by himself!  Tonight, ladies and gents, was one of those nights.  Ah Bobby Bobby Bobby, you had such a great thing going with the window dressing, but then you had to go and open your big mouth and hurt Chet's feelings, leading him to do the predictable, ruining the big Christmas Eve window dressing.  But, your kids saved your ass and the window display.

P.S. Louise knows a lot about sex toys for an 8 year old.

lol I just found this, it's great! (http://bobsburgerpedia.wikia.com/wiki/File:Bob_Fires_the_Kids.jpg) 

New Orleans Jazz Music

Amazing band!!:

Hobbit

I watched the Hobbit today.  I'd forgotten how creepy golem was!  The special effects were good but the movie wasn't very exciting, probably because it was the first of three; the other two should be more exciting.  I did like all the songs in the movie!  Ugh, but I hate the bird poo on Radagast's head.  Overall, good start to the trilogy.

Poopie head (literally), Radagast the Brown

Burn Notice: Damn Schmidt!!

WTH!!!!!!!  Seriously????!!!!!!!  He messed up 4 times during 3 missions!!  If he screws up one more time Michael better kill him or I'll stop watching the show!  I'm with Fiona, it was Schmidt's mess, he should have cleaned it up.  Why couldn't he just wait until Michael and company were in Argentina?!  Stupid Schmidt.

Notes from the Ivory Tower

The following is an actual e-mail transcript between student and professor.  The names and events have been changed to preserve the privacy of the individuals.

Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe

Poe is surprisingly uplifting at the end of his poems...or am I just really morbid??

Annabel Lee

It was many and many a year ago,

   In a kingdom by the sea,

That a maiden there lived whom you may know

   By the name of Annabel Lee;

And this maiden she lived with no other thought

   Than to love and be loved by me. 

Bob's Burger: The Unbearable Like-Likeness of Gene

I watched Sunday's episode of Bob's Burger on Hulu today, and his family wasn't awful to him this time.  Surprising!  Lin was hilarious though with her vegetable and fruit skin diet, especially at the birthday party when she started licking frosting saying it was "cake skin".  Why do the writers insist on having men voice the female characters (except for Louise)???  It's just creepy.

For Annie by Edgar Allan Poe

For Annie  http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174153

Thank Heaven! the crisis,
      The danger, is past,
And the lingering illness
      Is over at last—
And the fever called "Living"
      Is conquered at last.

The Bells by Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allen Poe: The Bells 

 Date: c1845 http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/medny/venturi-poebells.html

I

Hear the sledges with the bells -

Silver bells!

What a world of merriment their melody foretells!

How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,

In the icy air of night!

While the stars that oversprinkle

All the heavens, seem to twinkle

With a crystalline delight;

Keeping time, time, time,

In a sort of Runic rhyme,

To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells

From the bells, bells, bells, bells,

Bells, bells, bells -

From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.

TGIF!

It's been a long but productive week.  I can't wait to relax with my backlog of shows on Hulu.  Awww, the weekend!

Yes, that's Balki and khozin Larry 

And, just cuz I'm in a Perfect Strangers mood all of a sudden:

Burn Notice: Schmidt is a dumbass

Seriously, Schmidt is getting annoying.  He messed up three times in two missions!  That's got to be a record!  I think Mike and the gang would be better off on a raft to Cuba than with Schmidt.

Poor Maddy, getting her life turned upside down by Riley.  It's nice that Riley is an enemy whose skill is en par with Mike, Fi, Jesse, and Sam's.  For once they have a formidable foe.

Speaking of Fi, I loved her comment about Sam, "Sam, you brilliant bastard"...surprised looks from Mike and Jesse... Fi: "I'll never admit I said that."  And Barry's comment to Maddy, "Your family is like a venereal disease, the gift that keeps on giving."

Supernatural mid-season final

Not much of a cliff hanger...I was half expecting Crowley to have gotten a hold of Amelia.  So, if Sam left Amelia...who was that woman he was in bed with at the beginning of the season?  Overall, I really liked the episode, it showed us another side to Benny and the Benny-Dean-Sam triangle.  I'm also glad that Martin got his comeuppance at the end of the episode.  I like Benny as a character!  He could be a good ally...also a good person to stab Dean in the back and let him down like everyone else, including his brother, has... I'm a glass is half-empty person when it comes to the Winchesters.

My mom, the teenager

My mom is officially addicted to her iPad.  I gave her my Netflix password, since I don't have time to watch it until the end of the semester, and I taught her how to play draw something.  She's constantly on that thing now.  She's become an American teenager.

Gossip Girl...only 2 more episodes left!!!

I think Dan is Gossip Girl.  I never considered that he could be Gossip Girl until tonight, the whole "I'm going to reveal everything" and typing up the final chapter made me suspicious.  I wonder if the last episode will have crazy high ratings because they're going to finally reveal who Gossip Girl is. 

Bob's Burger: Tina-saurus Wrecks

Ok, seriously.  What the hell is wrong with Bob's family!!  That man deserves the best father award.  I don't know how he continues loving his family.  Especially that Tina.  Actually scratch that, they are all demon spawns.  But Tina is some kind of special.  How do you hit a parked car in a parking lot that only has one other car??????????  Bob should have taken control of the steering wheel.  He gave a monkey a loaded gun and it killed someone.  Can't really blame the monkey for that.

Oh, and then there was Lin's diarrhea song...unfortunately I haven't been able to find it on YouTube.

And Louise's best quote of the night:
Tina: I had a horrible week.
Louise: You had a horrible week?!  You got to crash a car and burn down a house!  What did I get to do?  Nothin'!

UPDATE:  I found Lin's diarrhea song!!

When parents get toys that are too complicated for them

I had lunch with my mom and one of her friends today.  Her friend is thinking of getting an iPad and asked me what apps I put on my mom's iPad.  I said I put her bank, credit card, Netflix, and solitaire, and I don't remember the rest.  She said "so you bookmarked the bank and credit card company as favorites"...I was like, wow, I don't even know where to begin explaining apps to you...  I said, no I downloaded the app.  Then she asked me why did I download those apps since you can just go online and access your accounts, I told it's just faster and easier that way.  She said, "so it's like a favorites in your bookmarks"...again, I didn't know how to begin explaining it to her.  I just told her, "no, it's an app, it's an icon on the screen".  What I wanted to say was, look lady, I already have parents I need to explain this shit to, get one of your children to explain it to you, I can only deal with one set of parents being technologically handicapped.