I Can Be Such A Dork

The other day I ran across a pen that Hotness picked up on one of her business trips.



So I see this pen in our "cup o' pens" that we have and I'm thinking it was a memo-recording pen. I thought that the holes were for a tiny speaker and microphone. You know, you think of something cool but you don't have a notepad handy so you speak into the pen and write it down later.

Except the batteries seemed to have died so it wasn't working.

No problem, I'll just take the batteries out and switch them around. Sometimes you can get a little extra juice out of them that way and I can play with it for a minute or two.

Unscrewed it, swapped the battereis around and put it all together again.

Then I pushed the button and noticed that there was a light coming out of the end of it.
"Oh, so it's not a pen with a voice recorder, it's actually got a tiny flashlight. Cool."

I turn the light-end towards me and puch the button. A white LED lights up and flashes in my eyes.

Then I push the outher button and a red one lights up.
"Hmmm, the red one isn't as bright.... OH! CRAP! It's a laser pointer!", as I'm pointing it directly into my eyes and looking at it.

80's J-Pop

Here's some 80's fluff for you straight outta Japan:




Um... words escape me.

P.S.: The band is Denki Groove and the song is called "Shonen Young"

Insomnia

Dude, it's 4:00 in the morning! What the heck?!?
I woke up at 2:50a.m. and was wide awake. Went and got a glass of water and then.... couldn't get back to sleep. Which sucks.
So I'm on here complaining about it 'cause I have nothing better to do.

I have a late evening planned for tonight, and I'm going to be falling asleep because I didn't get enough the night before. This'll be fun.

As for burgers, Guitar Hero and Long Island Iced Teas? Check, check and check my friends.
It was a perfect triple-play.
I actually went to the grocery store and picked-up burger fixins' with the intention of making them at home and thus mixing up my own drinks for the evening before passing out with a guitar controller under my face (and the cat curled up on my back).

It turned out that Hotness decided she wanted to go out for dinner, so we went to a place in town and I got my burger and drink there. (FYI: the drink was made by a heavy-handed bartender and thus was muy bueno. I could only drink one, as I fear another would've put me in the hospital!)
But before we left to go to dinner, I got in a short set of Guitar Hero.
It's all about the "Ace of Spades" and "Paranoid" baby!

Maintenance & The Weekend

Updated my link list to your right over there.

I added a bunch of bloggers who I read on a fairly frequent basis, plus I know most of them personally. (Hi kids!)

Give 'em a read if you're new here.

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And it's Friday. The start of the weekend finally.

Work has been pretty mellow, but the boss has been away on vacation all week.

Coincidence? Hmmm... most likely.

Tonight it's burgers for dinner, with a little Guitar Hero

and some Long Island Iced Teas.

Party tonight, for tomorrow we attend the ballet!

(review forthcoming)

Commercial

So I was just reading that Wil Wheaton will be a guest at this year's ECCC.
I went over to his blog to read up on what's new 'cause he's apparently a geek and loves to blog.
Hmmm... something seems familiar here.

It sounds like he's going to be a fun guest and I'm looking forward to seeing him at the show, which is just a month and a half away.

Anyway, he had a post on there in which he reminisced about some TV programs that were from my misspent 80's youth. Stuff that seemed really awesome at the time but in retrospect had a very good reason for me to forget it. (Although the "Time for Timer" one still sticks in my head and occasionaly I'll sing it in the kitchen while Hotness looks funny at me.)
It reminded me of a Colgate toothpaste commercial that used to also play at that time back when I was a young, impressionable lad.


I had SUCH a crush on the girl in the black & white dress at that time.
I don't know why. She's not in it for very much of the time.

Poetry Month

April is Poetry Month!
I thought with today being the first day of the month, it was a good time to let everybody now about it.
(You know, instead of waiting until like the middle of the month or something like I usually do)

I also wanted to throw out a little reminder to go check out vregopoetry.com.
She's updated her site with new poems again, so if you haven't been in a while now's a good time.

Not to embarrass her, but she's been having a bit of writer's block lately. Which is a good thing actually. She recently found a special someone that is sharing her life and she's been so happy she hasn't been able to sit and write.
Congratulations, V!
Go drop her a line and wish her well, would ya?
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Speaking of poetry, check out this song by (former?) rapper, Queen Latifah.
It's called "Poetry Man".

TRON

Anybody remember the computer-animation movie TRON?
That was a pretty spectacular effects movie for it's time.
One of the best scenes was the Lightcycle race.



Here a French filmaker re-created it using cardboard vehicles and construction paper.
Dang cool, if you ask me.

Tron
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