stunt_muppet: (round thing)
What is this.

And why have I just replayed it ten times.

Bork



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There is all kinds of fic rambling I want to do right now but I should probably actually write the fics I am rambling about instead. It'd help if I'd stop getting distracted by fourteen-second videos.

/drive-by post
stunt_muppet: (this is my TF icon)
I just managed to have a dream that involved Inception and TFA, how about that.

Cut because my dream logs are obviously deeply fascinating stuff that everyone should read, I'm sure. )


You know, that was one of the minor quibbles I had with Inception; the dreams were way too normal until the gravity started going wrong. I get that they were supposed to be purposefully constructed, and there was some manipulation of impossible physics and illusion, and I think overall Nolan did a fairly good job of making them a bit surreal and establishing why they weren't more so, but overall most of them just seemed to make way too much sense for a dream. I kind of wanted to see, I don't know, a line of can-can-dancing hippos in the middle of the highway chase or something.
Music:: "Jama wa Sasenai" - Slayers Soundtrack
Mood:: 'recumbent' recumbent
stunt_muppet: (this is my TF icon)
Transformers! Sneakers in Disguise!


...I...I really just don't know sometimes.

Also, I would wear these and I am not ashamed.
Mood:: 'baffled' baffled
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So remember how I told you about Paul, the German World-Cup-predicting octopus?

Well, in bad news, according to [livejournal.com profile] sterling_sky  he has been receiving threats from his German countrymen to turn him into calamari, which is just completely unfair. But there is happier news out there!

Apparently, Spanish chef Jose Andres, who runs one of my favorite restaurants ever (Jaleo), was so touched by Paul's coming down on Spain's side that he took all octopus- and squid-related items off his restaurant menus at once, just before he headed to South Africa.  Awww. :D


Finished my pre-op appointment today; meant to finish my [livejournal.com profile] springkink  fic but ended up playing Batman: Arkham Asylum for hours instead. Arkham Asylum really is as amazing as its reviews say it is - it's immersive and difficult without being too difficult and it has stealth missions that are actually fun instead of frustrating and boring. And there is little more sadistically satisfying than lurking in the shadows on the roof above a group of thugs and silently picking them off one by one, leaving their teammates to discover their unconscious bodies and grow increasingly panicked and paranoid before you pounce on them with your cape spread. Heh heh heh.

Oh, and did I mention that it has the voices of Kevin Conroy as Batman and Mark Hamill as the Joker? Yeah, as in the voices from Batman: The Animated Series, which remains my favorite incarnation of Batman ever. Harley Quinn has her original voice, too. It's like they took the Dark Knight movieverse and infused it with everything that was wonderful about the Animated Series.

(If Clayface shows up in the sequel that will maybe be the best thing ever. And by best I mean most terrifying.)

It probably just demonstrates how little of a life I have that I can identify a character voiced by Cree Summer just by hearing them? Her voice is really distinctive, okay, I'm not that big a dork.

And now I should write so I'm not even further behind. Or possibly go to bed, because I'm tired.
Mood:: 'bouncy' bouncy
stunt_muppet: (kermit says yay!)
So apparently, in an aquarium in Germany somewhere there's an octopus named Paul who has correctly predicted the outcome of every match Germany's been in so far.

Today, it predicted that Spain would win the Spain/Germany match, much to Germans' disappointment.

As a result, one fan in the German stands is holding up a sign that says "Even octopus can be wrong."

This sport is amazing.
Mood:: 'amused' amused
stunt_muppet: (this is my ncis icon)
Scientists have converted the theoretical energy signature that the Higgs boson will produce if it's created in the LHC into a set of sounds, which will allow scientists to listen to the data and pick out the Higgs boson by sound instead of having to search through the energry readings.

Even just listening to it, reproduced on the computer, is a little staggering - thinking about those bell-like noises integrated into every part of the material world. It's like we've taken the medieval idea of the "music of the spheres" and turned it on its head. Only it's real. (Maybe.)



Of course, in a shocking twist, scientists will then actually run the Atlas experiment and find that the Higgs boson sounds exactly like a vuvuzela.

Speaking of vuvuzelas, apparently an American Army employee in Germany grew so annoyed with his neighbors' vuvuzela-blowing that he threatened them with an axe. Who ever said soccer wasn't interesting?
Mood:: 'calm' calm
stunt_muppet: (this is my TF icon)
So it's been announced that a) a new animated Transformers series is in development (which gives me a fresh pang of sadness that there is no more Animated, but the franchise marches on), b) it'll air on Discovery Kids (which is...puzzling, given that Transformers is about as far from actual science as you can get, but then regular Discovery Channel airs Mythbusters and that is much less interested in science than it is in blowing stuff up, so fair's fair), c) it'll be called Transformers: Prime, and d) Jeffrey freaking Combs will be providing the voice of Ratchet.

That sound you hear is my Re-Animator and JLU-era Question fangirl squee. eeeeeeeee.

I'm excited as to what this means for how Ratchet will be played - given Combs' other roles (and his smooth, quieter delivery) I have a feeling this Ratchet will be more in the vein of G1!Ratchet, who was more laid-back and irreverent, rather than TFA!Ratchet (who is...basically fanon!G1!Ratchet, interestingly; fanon is odd that way). Either way, I'm looking forward to the promos and teasers so I can know more about the new series.

But what really amused me was reading the comments in the article announcing Combs, and how a good third of the comments were (of course) already declaring the new series and indeed the franchise Ruined FOREVER based on (take your pick) the fact that the series is airing on a cable channel, the series' name (no joke), or the fact that the series will in fact be aimed at children. Because apparently we have again missed the memo that the Transformers franchise exists to sell toys to children, whether adults collect them or not. (Interestingly enough, I saw few cries of Ruined FOREVER based on Combs' casting. A few raised eyebrows, but little actual disapproval.)

I was already giggling a bit at this rare opportunity to watch one of TF fandom's famous tantrums in real time, but then I realized that this all sounded eerily familiar. In fact, it sounded eerily familiar because just yesterday Doctor Who fandom was throwing much the same strop over one of the announced writers for Season 5 (or is it 6?), declaring that New Who and indeed the franchise were Ruined FOREVER because a writer they didn't like had signed on. Many of the angry comments sounded almost exactly the same.

And then I really did laugh out loud. Oh, fandom. Your absurdities never cease to amuse, except when they do and I kind of want to slap you.

Final point: I am only moderately ashamed that, once I heard there was a new TF series being produced, one of my first thoughts was "maybe this time there will be girl robots who do things oh please please please let this one have girl robots who do things please I don't think that's a lot to ask and while I'm here can I have a pony." A GIRL CAN DREAM, OKAY.
Music:: "Stein um Stein" - Rammstein
Mood:: 'blah' blah
stunt_muppet: (omfg whut)
Stupid, stupid F!S meme. How am I supposed to go back to doing homework when you give me cracked-out threads like these?

"I'm into Parmesan/Romano, myself. GRATERCESTERS UNITE!"

"THAT'S DISGUSTING. THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH YOUR SHIP AND THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH YOU. YOU JUST LIKE THEM BECAUSE THEY BOTH MELT ON YOUR PASTA, AND YOU DON'T THINK ABOUT THE CONSEQUENCES."

I want that on a T-shirt.


In other news I think I should just carry a sign around that reads "I am a bad person and should be ashamed."

And this is why. Contains discussion of Springkink and robot porn. )



Where does it end, fandom? Will you leave me no taboos at all?

...at the very least, this has been an enlightening LJ Break.

Back to work again.
Mood:: 'weird' weird
stunt_muppet: (nom nom nom)


The best part is how taken aback Letterman is.
stunt_muppet: (nom nom nom)
Best. Fandom_Wank writeup. Ever.

Also, yeah, totally saw that wank coming. Oh, rebooted fandoms. Your inevitable "get offa my lawn!" wank is beautiful in its punctuality.


(And also dammit someone watch TFA with meeeeee. I treated myself to the first season finale last night after work and I need to let my squee out somewhere or I'll explode.)
Mood:: 'amused' amused

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