If you haven’t seen the movie Serenity, this Television Without Pity recap of the movie will make little sense; it will not resonate. But if you have, clear some time in your schedule and read this. It is a thing of sheer and almost religious beauty, words made real and solid, so infused with passion and reverence it is infectious, and should be contagious. Jacob is amazing, masterful; you will not be sorry.
Archive for May, 2007
apocalyptic beauty
Wednesday, May 30th, 2007 0
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the benefits of ocd addictions
Friday, May 25th, 2007I’m addicted to two sorts of television shows: forensic dramas and medical shows. I’m indulging that addiction tonight, with several hours of CSI and then medical mystery shows. One of the challenges to these shows, for me, is diagnosing the disease prior to the show does – and about 25 minutes ago, I looked up from the php pages I’ve been poking at, cocked my head towards the television, said “porphyria – probably acute and intermittent“, and went back to the website.
Guess what the patient was just diagnosed with? Sometimes, I think I missed my calling…
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Porphyric Polyhemed Bunnies
Thursday, May 24th, 2007I spent much too much time last night, thanks to an episode of CSI that I was watching to relax and unwind, not get wound up to the point of staying up til nearly dawn, reading both about porphyria and Polyheme, trying to figure out if Polyheme (or another heme or full blood substitute) would actually work as a treatment for porphyria.
I get caught up in the strangest sidetracks and deviations.
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and how fast do you type?
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007Reading a friends blog this morning, I came across a “test how fast you type” site. And since said friend had utterly pathetic typing scores, I opted to see what mine would be.
Too lazy to sit up: 115wpm, 1 mistake
Okay fine, I’ll sit up: 146wpm, 1 mistake
Mistakes are irritating, do I typo that much? No, I can apparently type 134wpm “clean”.
…which is really much faster than I thought I typed (I thought I was around 90wpm), so I don’t really know what to make of this.
Well, yes, I know this much: taunting rights, because I type 120wpm faster than said friend. Booyah!
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maybe I’ll skip forensics after all
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007Sometimes, it’s really nice to have a Monday end up like this one did, where I end the day better than I started. In fact, in the last two days, my writer’s block has started to lift, and much more importantly, I found the passion I’d misplaced.
It’s really, really nice to lay on the couch, cuddle my cats, and be genuinely, truly happy with my life and what I am doing with it.
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