I'm not a huge reader of RP slash, but I can't wait to see someone take up Nathan Fillion and Captain Hammer's crazy gloves.

And you just know someone will. How could you not?!

I got on a kick of dancing to 80s music over a month ago, and now it's like I can't hear anything else.

This morning I was crossing the street coming back from the beach (I'm on vacation in Nags Head with my parents and their 4 dogs), and a dude on a motorcycle drove by playing "Heartbreaker" at full blast. It was a little like walking into Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.

[ETA: Either he or someone else on a scooter just drove past playing "Hit Me with Your Best Shot". Fer. Reals.]

My FTP server is being wicked slow tonight, so I figured I'll make this upload go even slower by doing even more shit with my internets. From chubbyninja.

How many songs total: 3407
How many hours or days of music: 9 days
Most recently played: Aicha - Khaled
Most played: Whatever It Is - Ben Lee
Most recently added: Aide Razbole Se - Pirin Bulgaria

Sort by song title:
First Song: A - Barenaked Ladies
Last Song: 1981 - Adam Arcuragi

Sort by time:
Shortest Song: The Mustard - Buffy Musical (20 sec)
Longest Song: Flying Blind (Speranza fanfic at ~1 hr)

Sort by album:
First album: ABBA
Last album: 1200 Curfews (Indigo Girls)

First song that comes up on Shuffle: Pink Bullets - The Shins
Search the following and state how many songs come up:

Death - 67
Life - 25
Love - 155
Hate – 7
You - 368
Sex – 7

That's all. I just like saying Io, Saturnalia.

from fancymcsnazsnaz, among others.
( Seven Deadly Sins meme )

Something amarama posted about her age made me think of this. You know the meme where you google your name and some verb? I tried it with my age.

Some things 32 is...
Magic Johnson's retired jersey #. Magic. Johnson! Get it?
The freezing point of water at sea level in degrees Fahrenheit (not that you needed to google that).
The number of places in the US with "eagle" in their name.
A full set of adult teeth.
The country code to phone Belgium.
A "happy number".

And then I thought about all the 32s I already know - encryption, chess boards, flavors at the ice cream shop.

From the party this weekend...
( my living room, including frame-by-frame reactions from me )

Today's weather makes me feel like the Postal Service. I've been digging my heels in about fall, not wanting it to come, and the forecast calls for happy times for me. It can be fall at night, and in the morning.

No concerns about the world getting warmer
People thought that they were just being rewarded
For treating others as they'd like to be treated
For obeying stop signs and curing diseases
For mailing letters with the address of the sender
Now we can swim any day in November

Thank you for all the happy birthdays. It was a good one.

It's National Punctuation Day!

It must be true, because the internets told me. This quiz was greatly entertaining. Enjoy.

Brazil, Brazil, Brazil. Your advertisers are funny like Northern Virginia, no? I am particularly fond of the guy who looks like he's pregnant with an angry, sweaty thin man.

You may, by the way, remember Brazil as the country whose advertisers brought you such craziness as using gorgeous fat women to sell low-fat yogurt. I have a new slogan for them: Brazil... giving Prince William County, VA a run for its money.

I am a nerd.

I just laughed aloud at an ALAN GREENSPAN LOL.

I really do hate the April Fool's thing, but what would be really funny and yet ironically appropriate is if feminist banned all the actual feminists (and only them).

Maybe the Today Show was prankstering this morning when they had a bunch of asshat celebrity parents on talking about how they started out wanting to be friendly with their kids, but it gets all conflicty when they empower their kids with words but aren't willing to negotiate in action. Their solution? Stop asking their kids' opinions. Of course! Cause that's so much better than questioning why it is that you won't negotiate on any point!

Also, Sesame Street is now hocking healthy foods and stuff (okay) in order to combat the Hideous Specter of Childhood Obesity. My advice? STOP PUTTING FUCKING FIVE YEAR OLD KIDS ON DIETS. There you go, childhood obesity problem solved. Free of charge!

And parents? Oh, nevermind. Parents are just evil. I don't think I could realistically expect most folks to stop berating themselves over their weight in front of their kids when they can't even recognize the irony of thinking they have to have absolute control but do it in a "nice" way.

The apparent popular opinions on parenting regularly make me want to gouge people's eyes out with sporks.

( I have only one thing to say today, but it's of vital importance )

Happy first day of my month.

Also. I really hate the "April Fool's" concept. I think it's mean.

For those of you reading my LJ just to keep on top of the latest exciting words and phrases to add to your vocab, I bring you... 'clue-by-four' (coined by someone else in the comments to someone else's friends-locked post), as in "Someone please hit that asshat with a clue-by-four before s/he makes my brain bleed".

You're welcome. ;)

I want a hula hoop. It's been ages since I used one, and I recall really liking it. Can I just buy a hula hoop at a toy store these days?