Where Dustbunnies Go To Die

I feel like I've spent all weekend sitting in front of the computer. I managed to get through 14 of the 21 outstanding items on my Anticipation "to do" list, and several of the items currently outstanding are dependent upon the answer to an email I sent this afternoon. (I think there may be one item that isn't.) I also got some Polaris stuff done, and tested the CUFF ballot website (there's a slight snag there, and I've asked dx4 to give my code a look as everything looks like it should work correctly), and sent out a couple of emails pertaining to Gaylaxicon. Overall, I've sent out 71 85 emails since yesterday afternoon, and processed roughly 120 that came in. I have a few Polaris things I want to attend to before going to bed. (Yes, I'm already thinking about bed. Having to get up at 6 in the morning does that to a person.)

The only thing I didn't get done this weekend was going for a haircut - I called the salon that my stylist moved to a couple of months ago, but apparently they're closed on Sundays. And Mondays. Since I'll be in Montreal next Saturday, and have the Polaris programming scheduling meeting the following Saturday, it's going to be another three weeks before I have a chance to get it done. (I thought about calling to see if ghostleegirl was working today, but decided instead to attack my overdue To Do lists. It is getting rather desperate, though.)

The last few days before the weekend were kind of tiring as well - but starting a new job is always a bit overwhelming for me (and probably for most people) until I get used to a new routine. I met so many new people on Thursday and Friday that I'm thinking it will take me months to remember any of their names (aside from cuteteenboy, whom I already knew, of course). I'm already quite busy there, though - no time to get used to things!

I've been saving up a few things to share, that I've seen in various places around the web.

First, I'm surprised that nobody has picked up the story that Gillian Anderson is being approached to be on Doctor Who. The producers apparently want her to appear as the Rani. That will be cool, if it comes to fruition.

Second, I forget who posted this link initially (though it looks like something ozreison may have linked to), but someone has knitted a Guitar Hero scarf, depicting a section of the song "Hotel California". The knitter is willing to do custom orders for US$45.

Third, in the latest instance of epic fail, some fanfic writer with delusions of grandeur named Lady Sybilla, claiming that copyright should not exist because all ideas come from the collective unconscious, is taking it upon herself to write a sequel to Twilight called Russet Noon. Peter David - described by this writer as "a comic-book author and Trekkie geek who refuses to retire and is still trying to be a hero after all these years" - has started a communal response. A group of people are writing a Twilight parody, in 500-word increments, to mock this writer's efforts. The parody's title is Potato Moon, and the first three parts have been posted on Peter David's blog, here. (Alternatively, you can get all of the posts except for part 3 together here.)

And now to check my email, deal with one outstanding Polaris item, and check my email again one last time before getting ready for bed...

My weekend has been less busy than I expected it to be, but I suppose that's not a bad thing...

( Best laid plans, part the first. )

( Best laid plans, part the second. )

( Taking care of some long-needed maintenance. )

( Caught tonight's episode of DH... )

( I suppose I should also weigh in, like many others have done, on the news about the new Doctor... )

Well, that's it for now, I suppose... back to the grind tomorrow.

Another silly Doctor Who vid, found on TrekBBS and passed along for you to enjoy:

First posted by nexstarman:

I'm surprised I haven't seen this posted elsewhere on my friendslist. (brendan_moody, you're slipping. basebrat at least has the excuse that he hasn't posted anything in over a month. And nexstarman and indefatigable42 are too busy getting ready for TT.)

( Hidden behind a cut for those whose spoiler definitions differ from mine. )

Oh, and the S2 finale, "Doomsday"? All of you members of DWIN who scoffed at me at the pub last year can apologize to me this weekend. :P

You know you need to be more creative with LJ entry titles when a little box pops up with the exact phrase you were about to type in...

It's been a busy, but productive weekend. Friday night, I went to a small gathering to celebrate twiddler's 30th birthday. I didn't get to spend much time with the birthday boy himself, and I had to leave at midnight (which is probably when the real fun started, right guys? ;) ) in order to try to get some sleep as I was meeting with gurudata and rockgoddes Saturday morning. Not that I actually managed to get to sleep until about 4:30 in the morning, alas. :(

Said meeting was at the Metro Reference Library downtown; for non-Torontonians, it's a five-story library that takes up about half of a city block in the east-west direction, and a whole block north-south. I arrived first, but not knowing this I guzzled three-quarters of my coffee in about ten minutes (they used to let people bring drinks into the library, but no more - not that that stops people from bringing sealed bottles into the library in their backpacks, but it's hard to sneak a cup of coffee in when you don't have a travel mug) and went up to the fifth floor, where we were to meet. rockgoddes showed up about five minutes later, and we went back downstairs to wait for gurudata. After we waited for a few minutes, rockgoddes called him on his cell, and it turned out he was just turning onto the side street where the entrance to the parking garage is located.

We went back upstairs and worked for a couple of hours, then decided to go find some food. We ended up in the food court of the Hudson Bay Centre, which is undergoing a bit of an image change since the buyout of HBC by an American company. (They'd better not mess too much with it - it's even more of a Canadian icon than the Canadian Tire guy!) We continued to work there after lunch, until the fire alarm went off. We then made our way over to the food court in Cumberland Terrace, the mall across the street (where I once bumped into Randy Harrison from QAF, actually) and worked for a while longer. rockgoddes had to leave shortly before we were done, so gurudata and I finished and then went to meet kaelsu2, as she had also been invited to yellow_freshia's place along with us.

We stopped off first at gurudata's and kanecool's house to pick kanecool up, then went to Appleby's to grab a bite. As we were waiting for a table, who should walk by, but rosemary_ca and hi_co, on their way to yellow_freshia's...

Following dinner (I have gotten so unaccustomed to eating two meals in a day, I couldn't finish my chicken pasta alfredo), we made our way out to yellow_freshia's. A good time was had by all; lots of silliness, as should be expected. Apparently my explanation of why I wear sweat pants to bowl was deemed to be TMI. (Well, maybe it wasn't the explanation so much as the demonstration.) We also watched some of the Muppet Show on DVD; Candace Bergen's episode (my god, she looked young back then) and the unaired pilot - which, for the record, actually wasn't all that good. There was almost no Kermit, no Miss Piggy, and the main character appeared to be Sam the American Eagle. There were two or three amusing bits - they had a recurring bit where various muppets were ballroom dancing. In one bit, Bert from Sesame Street comes dancing into the shot. He says to his partner, "You look awfully familiar." The partner turns toward the camera - and it's Ernie in drag. ROFL!

We left around 3ish, I think it was. gurudata first dropped kaelsu2 off, then dropped me off, and then he and kanecool headed home. I shudder to think of what time they finally got to bed, since it had been a looooong day; even I went to bed within about 20 minutes of coming in the door! *shock* The sun wasn't even up yet! *bigger shock*

And naturally, I woke up around 9:45 this morning... then again at 11... then again at 12... and finally got up around 1:30. I went up the street to grab a coffee, then decided to try Future Shop (again!). I know they had said the other day that they would call when they found their copies of Doctor Who, but they had also said that I should be able to pick it up by Sunday. Since today was Sunday, I thought I'd go see if they had found it despite not having gotten a call. And lo and behold, there it was on the shelf. After a slight hiccup - they had it in the computer as $5 more than the sticker price, and when I pointed this out to the cashier I was told, "They must have put the wrong sticker on" (so how does that explain the price on the website matching the sticker price, huh?) - I now, FINALLY, only a month after it was released, have a copy of the Doctor Who box set. (That being said, last night someone at yellow_freshia's place said that Wal-Mart was selling it for less. If I can find an advertised lower price within the next month, Future Shop has to give me a further 10% off their competitor's price, but Wal-Mart doesn't even have it on their website, and there are no Wal-Marts anywhere near me anyway. :( )

I had a cybermeeting this evening with gurudata and rockgoddes to wrap up some stuff from yesterday, and now am all caught up and ready for tomorrow night's meeting.

Oh, and my thought on the demise of the Canadian Tire guy and his wife from the national ad campaign: last year, John Doyle (the Globe and Mail's TV critic) ran a poll to determine the Most Annoying Canadian. The Canadian Tire guy beat out the host of Canadian Idol handily. But now that the Canadian Tire guy is no more, we need to choose a new Most Annoying Canadian. My nomination goes to the cranky old woman from the cheese commercials... the one who bangs on people's door while they're trying to eat dinner with their adult children who still live at home and shrills, "Can't get your kids to leave home? STOP COOKING WITH CHEESE!"


"You Give Love a Bad Name" - Bon Jovi

An angel's smile is what you sell
You promise me heaven, then put me through hell
Chains of love got a hold on me
When passion's a prison, you can't break free
You're a loaded gun
There's nowhere to run
No one can save me
The damage is done


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I've been tagged for a couple of memes, but I'm going to have to put them off for a bit as they're the kind that require a lot of thought. Maybe later tonight, or maybe later in the week, I'll get around to them.

New icon snagged from brokenelevator. There are a few other new ones I've snagged in the past week or so... you'll see them eventually. :)

It's been a while since I posted here last, so I just thought I'd let people know that I'm still alive. (I'm still posting on the TT lists, and TrekBBS, so there are likely very few of you who were worried about that. :) ) Blame it on the Firefly DVDs I've finally gotten around to starting to watch. I just watched "War Stories" tonight. I was supposed to be seeing Serenity tonight with Scott - or so I thought, from what he said Friday night - but he never called after his German class.

(With regard to "War Stories," I was trying to place the actor who played Niska, and it turned out he'd been on The Practice, The X-Files and DS9, as well as other shows I used to watch like L.A. Law, on which he played a recurring role as a judge. Thank the gods for IMDb.)

The Gaylaxicon meeting on Saturday went better than the past couple - more folks showed up, though there were still a couple of people who didn't make it who haven't been attending regularly whom I need to talk to (don't worry, thespian, I'm not looking at you - I'm well aware of your more than legitimate reason for not being there). A few decisions were made, some things which need to be clarified were identified, and overall progress appears to be being made, albeit slowly.

I just got off the phone with cuteteenboy - if anyone was trying to reach him by email and wasn't getting through, the problem has been fixed and you should be able to get through now.

This has been all over my friendslist already, but for the two or three of you who care and didn't already know: Doctor Who S1 is being released on DVD in Canada in February 2006!.

Bowling tomorrow night, and my elbow is still sore. I wonder if I'm getting a repetitive stress injury from being on the computer eight to ten hours a day.

This should be interesting:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/news/cult/news/drwho/2005/07/25/20752.shtml

Not only are they bringing back Sarah Jane (one of the Companions to the Third and Fourth Doctors), Anthony Stewart Head is slated to guest star and Stephen Fry is writing for the show...

This should be good.

I spent some time browsing in the IT section of my local Indigo. Why do computer books have to be so #@!?*&% expensive? I was thinking about picking up books on Javascript and Dreamweaver, but for $75 each? No.