Linkstew

It's actually been an embarrassingly Buffy week, to the point that when I saw Lauren use line "Where do we go from here the words are coming out all weird..." my first though was "Wait, that's not how "Where Do We Go From Here?" goes." Of course, it is how The Bends goes, but it took me longer than it should have to figure that out.

What made this week any more Buffy than normal, besides the obvious? Let's see:

• Monday: Rewatched the last two episodes of Buffy, in preparation for the finale on Tuesday.
• Tuesday: Participated in a public display of Buffy geekdom: Went to the Parkway and watched the finale while drinking beer and eating pizza. And they showed Once More With Feeling afterwards, which was awesome.
• Wednesday: Buffy free. Well, except for all of the conversations about the Buffy finale.
• Thursday: Saw Ghost of the Robot (James Marsters' (aka Spike) band) at the Great American Music Hall. It was fairly fun, and the music was fine, though nothing fantastic. Unsurprisingly, it was approximately five girls to every one guy, and the collective squeal that went up when James came on stage was just as predictable. It was kind of surreal seeing him in person like that. He was actually shy on stage, in a strangely endearing way that even I thought was kind of cute. All things considered, he handled a crowd full of people who obviously had huge crushes on him relatively gracefully.
• Friday: Spent awhile at Amoeba deciding not to buy the Once More With Feeling soundtrack before going home and watching two episodes of 4th season that my TiVo picked up.

So, yeah. Buffy overdose.

Oh, damnit, I've been spelling accordion wrong for the last couple of years, and no one told me that it was spelled accordion and not accordian!? Some friends you all are. ;-)

I'm a little embarrassed to admit this, but it took me about 30 seconds longer than it should have to figure out what was "wireless" about my co-worker's "One Subject Wireless Notebook."

So I finally got a chance to watch TMBG's Conan performance on my TiVo, and ohmygod, I can't believe they played Robot Parade on national television. When Flansy sang "John, I think we're losing the crowd," he was not joking. If any viewers who weren't fans made it past "Children will work together," I'd be shocked. I found myself feeling painfully embarrassed for them. It was a real shame.

Even some fans expressed disbelief at the performance, and that's just not a good sign.

The only real redeeming quality was their follow-up performance of Shoehorn with Teeth, but even that didn't really feel appropriate.

Man, sigh.

On Friday in my (Visual) Perception lecture, I was playing with my glob of yellow Office: mac silly putty that I'd gotten at MacWorld SF. Stretching it and rolling it and making balls and breaking it and making sheets and so on.

Also on Friday in my (Visual) Perception lecture, Professor Palmer was talking about photons, and how they're emitted by light sources and bounce around and about and sometimes into our eye... And then he made eye contact with me, and said "so you can think of a photon bouncing around the room kind of like a bouncing ball of silly putty."

So I quietly put away my silly putty and managed to pay attention for about 5 minutes before getting distracted by a particularly uninteresting light fixture.

So after posting that last entry, I looked at the page only to find this error:

Warning: exec() has been disabled for security reasons. in path/entrylist_linkstew.hdr on line 18

D'oh, I wonder how long that's been broken... I'm not sure when the last time I even looked at the site was after that post on Tuesday... How embarrassing! ::grumble::

What's the most irritating about this is the page sources are actually kept on my desktop at home, and so without net I can't properly fix this, so once net at home returns I'm going to have to carefully make sure I get the fixed copies back into the repository.