.- quantum uncertainty -.

trexphile did an AWESOME phone post meme that I'm stealing. Except I didn't phone it in, I just uploaded it.

http://www.goodchatting.com/brin/lj/sounds/brinmeme.mp3

Your name and/or username
Where you're from
The following words: Aunt, Roof, Route, Wash, Oil, Theater, Iron, Salmon, Caramel, Fire, Water, Sure, Data, Ruin, Crayon, Toilet, New Orleans, Pecan, Both, Again, Probably, Spitting Image, Alabama, Lawyer, Coupon, Mayonnaise, Syrup, Pajamas, Caught, Orange, Coffee, direction, naturally, aluminium and herbs
What is it called when you throw toilet paper on a house?
What is the bubbly carbonated drink called?
What do you call gym shoes?
What do you say to address a group of people?
What do you call the kind of spider that has an oval-shaped body and extremely long legs?
What do you call your grandparents?
What do you call the wheeled contraption in which you carry groceries at the supermarket?
What do you call it when rain falls while the sun is shining?
What is the thing you change the TV channel with?

day 01 | a song
day 02 | a picture
day 03 | a book
day 04 | a site
day 05 | a youtube clip
day 06 | a quote
day 07 | whatever tickles your fancy

Hello and welcome to Day 6.

Quotes. Wow. Okay, there's a zillion of these that I'd like to post.

TV Shows
- "His legs flail about as if independent from his body!" - Chandler Bing, Friends

- BARTLET: I like your show. I like how you call homosexuality an "abomination!"
JACOBS: I don’t say homosexuality is an abomination, Mr. President. The Bible does.
BARTLET: Yes it does. Leviticus!
JACOBS: 18:22.
BARTLET: Chapter and verse. I wanted to ask you a couple of questions while I had you here. I wanted to sell my youngest daughter into slavery, as sanctioned in Exodus 21:7. She's a Georgetown sophomore, speaks fluent Italian, always cleared the table when it was her turn. What would a good price for her be?
BARTLET: While thinking about that, can I ask another? My chief of staff, Leo McGarry, insists on working on the Sabbath. Exodus 35:2 clearly says he should be put to death. Am I morally obligated to kill him myself? Or is it okay to call the police?
BARTLET: Here's one that’s really important, because we’ve got a lot of sports fans in this town. Touching the skin of a dead pig makes one unclean. Leviticus 11:7. If they promise to wear gloves, can the Washington Redskins still play football? Can Notre Dame? Can West Point? Does the whole town really have to be together to stone my brother John for planting different crops side by side? Can I burn my mother in a small family gathering for wearing garments made from two different threads? Think about those questions, would you? One last thing. While you may be mistaking this for your monthly meeting of the Ignorant Tight-Ass Club, in this building, when the president stands, nobody sits.
The West Wing

- Marshall: Remember that night where you drank the twelver of Molson and got all "Super Canadian"?
[flashback]
Robin: [holding a hockey stick] Stanley Cup. Game six, eh? The Rangers are aboot to be sorry they ever played shinny with the Canucks.
Marshall: Hey Robin, I'll give you twenty bucks if you can shoot it through the front door.
Robin: Oh! You're nuttier than a Tim Horton's maple log! Timmy Ho! [tries to shoot the puck through the door]
How I Met Your Mother

- "Her name is Miranda Mona Montgomery. And she is a KANE!" - Erica Kane, All My Children

Okay, there are WAY too many good ones for TV shows, but that's a sampling.

Other Sources

'Come again?' she asked. Yes tomorrow, under the sodium street lights, under the tick of the clock. Under my obligations, my history, my fears, this now. This fizzy, giddy all consuming now. I will not let time lie to me. I will not listen to dead voices or unborn pain. 'What if?' has no power against 'What if not?' The not of you is unbearable. I must have you. Let them prate, those scorn-eyed anti-romantics. Love is not the oil and I am not the machine. Love is you and here I am. Now. - Jeanette Winterson, The Poetics of Sex

"Aimer, ce n'est pas se regarder l'un l'autre, c'est regarder ensemble dans la même direction." (Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.) -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

And once again, I get far too distracted to finish up a post and do it justice. But it's a post!

day 01 | a song
day 02 | a picture
day 03 | a book
day 04 | a site
day 05 | a youtube clip
day 06 | a quote
day 07 | whatever tickles your fancy

Hello and welcome to Day 4.

I apologize because this is not going to be as awesome a post as it should be. I just spent an hour troubleshooting my brother's video driver with him over the phone and I still have to jump in the shower because I'm heading downtown to meet up with JB for dinner/coffee/etc. Hopefully being rushed like this will remove my internal editor and allow me to just share some awesome sites with you guys.

Well-known sites:
- MetaFilter. Awesome site, I hit it a dozen times a day. Headlines and news, obscure and cool, flash games, anything can be found here.

- Wikipedia. I'm sure everyone and their father uses this religiously. Even my own father uses Wikipedia. Which is completely mindblowing, to be honest.

- Internet Movie Database. Such a staple in my life, I go to IMDB at least 5-6 times a week. It always drives me crazy to see people I think I recognize from somewhere but can't place them.

Foreign-language sites:
- Le grand dictionnaire terminologique. French/English translation for words that you wouldn't normally find in a dictionary. Like, what's "online chatting" in French? Why it's session de clavardage, according to this site. Huge help for those who are familiar with French but maybe not specific industry terms (how do you say "right-click, Properties" in French? "clic droit, bouton Propriétés"!) in constructing French sentences.

- Garzanti Linguistica. Hands down, the best Italian dictionary out there. Can be Italian/Italian, Italian/English, Italian/French... Fantastic.

Useful/entertaining sites:
- Gmaps Pedometer. Because it's always cool to know how much you walked when you went somewhere and got lost in the neighbouring bourough when trying to cast a vote in a federal election, not that that's ever happened to me, nope, nuh-uh, never.

- xkcd. Great webcomic. I adore it. I'm especially partial to this comic because, well, drsnicket and I bonded in grade 9 over my Nintendo and Mario Brothers and Dragon Warrior. So I inevitably end up giggling whenever I see that. Updates Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

- Ctrl-Alt-Del. Another webcomic, still geeky, but very gamer-oriented and sometimes it's not all that entertaining to me because I don't play shoot 'em ups. Still, I like the art a lot and I like the characters. Relatedly, you can watch some movies of Tim (the artist) doing the comics over at UStream.

That's all I really have time to share, but I use/visit all those sites regularly.

day 01 | a song
day 02 | a picture
day 03 | a book
day 04 | a site
day 05 | a youtube clip
day 06 | a quote
day 07 | whatever tickles your fancy

From Piazza San Marco in Venice, in June of 2006, some random girl with pigeons all around her. (As a note, you are apparently no longer allowed to feed pigeons in the piazza.)

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I have another photo of her looking much more freaked out, but I do like how she smiled at me in this one, which is why I selected it for today. :)

Randomly, I hate how "Piazza San Marco" gets translated into "St. Mark's Square". Seriously. It's Venice. It's Italy. It is not so difficult to say the Italian words! "Pee-ATS-ah"... San... Marco. For real.

Anyways, back tomorrow with a book recommendation, apparently. :)

Snagged from yahtzee68.

List your 10 favourite 'ships and ask your friendlist what trends they see.

I wonder if I even have 10...

1) Olvia Spencer/Natalia Rivera, "Guiding Light"
2) Bianca Montgomery/Maggie Stone, "All My Children"
3) Jean-Luc Picard/Beverly Crusher, "Star Trek: The Next Generation"
4) Jack Bristow/Irina Derevko, "Alias"
5) Sydney Bristow/Michael Vaughn, "Alias"
6) Ted Mosby/Robin Scherbatsky, "How I Met Your Mother"
7) Willow Rosenberg/Tara Maclay, "Buffy The Vampire Slayer"
8) Jin & Sun Kwon, "Lost"
9) Leonard/Penny, "The Big Bang Theory"
10) Bette Porter/Tina Kenard, "The L Word"

Wow, and there are a lot more I could have used. Julian/Jadzia on DS9, Janeway/Seven from Voyager, Kira/Odo from DS9, Xena/Gabrielle from Xena... But those are probably the 10 that I will ALWAYS want together, no matter what. Well, I'm even flexible on #9, but the others... yeah. Not gonna deviate from any of that.

Interestingly, there are only four same-sex couples on the list, but they're all canon. The other six are also all canon. Hm. Is my imagination starting to fritz out? ;)

Anyone notice any fun trends? Snarky remarks about how my top two are soap opera couples will be met with an incredibly long diatribe about the importance of same-sex visibility in daytime television, so not a word out of you, people. ;)

Stole a meme from trexphile. ( Click for it! )

I slept for an hour on the 11th floor of the Hall Building. After a Very Bad For Me But So Yummy early dinner, consisting of hot dogs and French fries, I now almost feel human again.

So here's a meme, swiped from literaryradical.

honestly, are you in love right now?
Nope.

honestly, what color is your underwear?
Grey, today.

honestly, what's on your mind right now?
How I'm not going to sleep well until Thursday night.

honestly, what are you doing right now?
Killing time before my next class that could be spent more productively by perusing teh intarwebs.

honestly, what did you do today?
Let's see... Overslept. Translated an Italian article into English. Retranslated several paragraphs. Edited the whole thing. Missed my bus. Called a cab. Made it to class on time. Learned way too much about the conditional tenses in Italian. Screwed around for an hour. Slept for an hour. Went for food. Ran into JB. Had food. Came back to campus.

honestly, do you think you are attractive?
Eh. I have my moments.

honestly, have you done something bad today?
Well, if you count eating horrifically bad for me hot dogs, then yes. Otherwise, no, I gave up sleep for schoolwork that got done and handed in on time.

honestly, are you jealous of someone right now?
I'm not sure. I think I have it pretty good, right now, to be honest. I've gained a lot of perspective lately

honestly, what makes you happy most of the time?
Being at home, doing something I want to do, with or without someone whose company I enjoy, whether that's watching TV, playing a video game, reading or writing.

honestly, do you bite your nails?
I stopped cold for like, two years, but I still occasionally do so.

honestly, what is your mood right now?
Relaxed and also nervous. Sort of like a really tired nervous, I guess.

honestly, who do you want to see at this very moment?
I wouldn't mind seeing my brother right now, see how he's doing.

honestly, do you have a deep dark secret?
I have several, and there are a few that no one in the universe knows, and I have a few that most everyone knows after spending some time with me.

honestly, do you hate someone right now?
No. I could be justifiably angry at a lot of people, but I don't think I hate anyone.

honestly, who/what do you want to hug right now?
JB. She gives awesome hugs. I got one about an hour ago, though.

honestly, do your wrists hurt?
Nope.

honestly, are you in denial?
What, about my wrists? I'm probably in denial about half a dozen things, to be honest.

honestly, wouldn't you rather be having sex right now?
No, because I'd fall asleep afterwards and then miss my class and BELIEVE me, I'd already be at home if I could afford to miss this class.

honestly, does anyone like you?
At all? Yes. In the "does she like you like you" sense? Don't think so.

honestly, is it going anywhere with them?
Yeah, uh, no.

honestly, did you answer all these questions honestly?
Yep. And that was a lot of "honestly"s just to get to the final question.

moireach asked me the following five questions. If you'd like me to come up with five questions for you, post a comment. :)

1. If you had to live somewhere besides Montreal, where would it be?

The answer that first comes to mind is Northern Virginia. Just because, you know, been there, done that. I'd know what to expect. But then I'm all... "Uh. Yeah, the US? I think not." And I could never live in Toronto, because the Leafs fans would kill me. Ottawa's too small for me... So... Well, I felt really at home in Scotland, in Edinburgh. Granted, I stood around like a deaf mute because I could hardly understand the accents, but that would change, right? Right? Alternatively, Florence, I think.

2. Who are your three favorite Office characters and why?

Okay, I thought the first question was hard... I guess my favourites are Jim, Pam and Karen. I admit it, I adore Karen. She's funny, she's smart and she's adorable. She won't just sit there, either, she'll ask the questions you don't expect her to ask. "Do you still have feelings for her?" etc. I respect that about her. Jim... is being so silly. I kind of want to smack him upside the head. But then he'll do something like the Altoids with Dwight and OH MY GOD I LOVE HIM ALL DAY LONG. And he's so expressive with his face, it cracks me up. And Pam. Pam... what to say about her? She's so unsure about things and she's so human, she makes mistakes... I just want to hug her all better.

Having said all that, I love the whole cast. As an ensemble, they work beautifully. But I can't say Michael's my favourite, because sometimes I just twitch so much that I just can't even WATCH, and Dwight... I have little fondness for Dwight himself, but his role versus other people -- against Michael, against Jim, against Angela... it's awesome.

3. What's the best movie you've seen in the past year?

I barely saw any movies this year, but I'd have to say Superman Returns was amazing. And I think it would be amazing to anyone, even if they weren't steeped in the story as much as I've been.

4. Why are you still watching Lost when they never answer any of the mysteries?

They kind of do! Sort of. ... okay, not so much, but I'm invested in the characters now. I don't care about the big reveals anymore, not so much. I care about what's happening in the now, and any big reveals are a bonus.

5. Please elaborate on your 'american poetry' userinterest.

I've always had a fondness for American poetry, from Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening to Prufrock. My American Poetry class really helped me to appreciate more American poets and poems (like Plath) and I have a deep affection for some of the poems I was introduced to in the class. :)

Swiped from literaryradical...

( A meme. )

Going to CB's to hang out for a while in a little bit.

Meme. And then bed.

( A-Z )

Bedtime. Lost stuff will have to wait until when I wake up.

.. and the REAL torrent finishes downloading. :P