Absurd Singularity

Something's alittle askew when projectionists are toting around night-vision goggles.

As much as the guy deserves at least a partial Darwin award, I can't help but wince.

Something tells me he's gonna be doing a LOT more drinking in the future.

Never thought you'd see a title like that eh? ;-p

I find this public toilet strangely exciting. Would you be able to use it? Of course, as someone noted on the BBC site, it won't take long for people to try other things in there besides typical bathroom business. ;-)

Next we have two amusing charts. First off, the big Geek Hierarchy. And following that, the even bigger Japan Hierarchy. Worth a run-through cause they are pretty funny.

And finally, an email made it through Mail's spam filter the other night promoting Metails (Me + details, get it?), a new site that appears to be a hybrid between those social networking sites (Friendster, Orkut, Ryze, etc., are they passé yet?) and product review/opinion sites like Epinions and part of Amazon. As far as I can tell, you write product reviews on this site and get some money if your friends on the site buy the product through whatever link the site takes you to to buy the product online. And uh, you can also share pictures on the site as well. The site itself looks kinda nifty so probably worth playing around with for awhile.

We've owned a 12-gallon Eclipse System 12 for about 2 weeks now and we are loving it. =) As usual it is overstocked with 27 fish and 3 shrimp but at least for now, it seems to be fine and after a surprisingly few initial losses, the fish seem to be doing quite well.

More pictures after the break...

I took this past Friday off to have wedding photos done down in Edison at the Marry Me Wedding Palace. We left our apartment at a little before 9:30 in the morning and didn't leave the studio till 9:30 at night. I think Erin had a tougher time of it than I did. We were extremely lucky weather-wise though as it had rained for most of the week and so the temperature was in the low 80's with minimal humidity. And mostly cloudy so the 3 hours we spent taking outdoor pics at Princeton University didn't kill us. I never realized you were supposed to yell "Congratulations" at strangers taking pictures in full wedding regalia but apparently so.

The whole shoot probably wouldn't have taken as long if Erin's hair and makeup didn't have to be redone for every different outfit she wore (four). And posing for pics is pretty much like yoga except with a lot more clothes on. You position parts of your body in ways you don't normally do and have to hold it for annoyingly long amounts of time. Try doing that for an entire day. Pics will be done in about 3 weeks. Hopefully there'll be some good ones. =p

Caught an advanced screening of Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle last night and for a movie of its genre, it's awwwesome. A couple of weird, out-of-left field type of shit every now and then but overall there's definitely much more out-right laughs than "eh heh" parts. Lots of cameos and subtle (or not) references to other movies throughout (a bunch of X-treme sports wannabees steal a parking spot from Harold (John Cho) and yell "Better luck tomorrow!" at him) and it's well worth seeing. Not just cause for once there's an Indian- and a Korean- American lead in a mainstream film, but because it's truly a funny ass movie. And it doesn't hurt that Paula Garcés is looking mighty cute in the film too. ;-)

Kal Penn (Kumar) reminds me a lot of Zach Braff who plays J.D. in the NBC sitcom, Scrubs. Similar hair style and expressive facial ability. Guess it's not surprising that I like the show and the movie so much. =)

Coworker sent me this site awhile back expounding the virtues of having a 6 day week instead of the typical 7 day weeks that we've had since forever. Interesting reading. Would mean having 28 hour days and more hours in a day going towards sleeping which is always good. But I have a feeling I'd probably waste those hours being awake like I do now anyway. =p

Just thought I'd write a bit about our current fish family. We currently have:

4 gold cloud mountain minnows
4 Espe's rasboras
5 bronze cories
6 cherry barbs
2 pristella tetra
2 gold pristella tetra
3 otocinclus
4 gold barbs
4 Japonica shrimp

Details after the break...

What are we, in the early 1900s??? I don't know what they're complaining about. It's definitely much more civil than telling him to "go fuck yourself".

Picked up our wedding rings from Niwaka last week. Took four weeks and unfortunately the picture below doesn't do the actual rings justice but suffice to say we're really pleased with how they turned out.

We also got back the developed shots of our all-day wedding shoot from two weeks ago to pick through. Scanned a bunch in and you can check them out if you're so inclined. Cheeze factor is high obviously.

Just watched the first DVD of Azumanga Daioh from Netflix. Quite possibly WAAAAY too saccharine for most. Everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, about it just oozes kawaii-ness. Well, 'cept for the freaky male lit teacher. And there's no real plot. Just following the lives of some high school girls and their English and phys ed teachers in sometimes disjointed clips. Not as absolutely and downright bizarre as FLCL (Fooly Cooly) but definitely not your average run-of-the-mill anime either. Can't wait to catch the next two discs. =)

Also took Erin to see Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle and surprisingly she enjoyed it. Thought it was pretty funny even though she missed all the cameos and in jokes. Anyway, just doing my bit (again) to support the AA actors. =)