The Daily Adventures of Mercat

Have I been busy. Moving things. Cleaning rooms. Trying to get rid of ant infestations.

Learned a new word: formication, which is the feeling you have ants crawling all over you.

Trying to get everything arranged for Outer Banks and Savannah. Trying to get everything arranged for Raiders 30th. Visiting Gramps in the hospital, hoping they will get him out. I hope he can get his heart a little stronger and last more than a few months. I keep thinking about him reading The Walrus and the Carpenter to my fourth grade class, and "faire to Midland", and I want him to get out of the hospital so I can show him my senior presentation. And I keep thinking about ragtime and Hitchhiker's Guide and Ernie Kovacs... Oh, Gramps. Get better, please.

Anyway. Awesomesauce on a stick:



Carrots are orange because of politics!

Like any Cracked article, six "insane coincidences". Sadly, #6 and #5 are the best, because they really are odd coincidences. #1, a little bit, but also data manipulating; there are 365 days each year (except for leap years), and TONS OF SHIT HAPPENS EVERY DAY. Not to mention since our country's founding there have been 234 4th's of July. (Not 4ths of July... they were still 24 hours long, har har) I been I could find you ~even more! strange and unusual~ coincidences out of those 234 days. Shit, son.

Um, and also. #3 bothers me a lot. Why, you may ask? Because it is NOT COINCIDENCE. IT IS CAUSATION. This is the first time I've had to paraphrase this phrase to say "correlation =/= coincidence". The Wright brothers... who lived and worked in Dayton... invented heavier-than-air, powered flight. And they kept doing research here. So when the Air Force got created in 1947, we eventually ended up with *le gasp* an Air Force Base in Dayton. Which encouraged more flight technology and research in the city and the state! And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how you end up with a state that has produced SO MANY ASTRONAUTS. We fucking invented flight, now gtfo.

P.S. I do find that article fascinating, my engineer brain just jumped at this annoyance and also I've noticed my writer's voice, a.k.a. my blogging tone, a.k.a. my making comments on the internet voice, has gotten more and more hyperbolic as I have. I don't have a problem with that except where I still do it when talking serious business and since it's text, I'm afraid people will take me literally.

Here's the truth, I am pretty damn shy "IRL". I just enjoy being ridiculous and over the top (...sometimes).

HEY, DID YOU SEE WHERE THEY FUCKING FOUND TANIS?! A little on the technology behind that.

I made a lot of Raiders references the day that was all over. I don't think many people got it, BUT, perfect timing for the 30th, non?! I can't wait to see what happens with the digs. Although I'm sure it will be quiiiiite a while coming.

In case you are still having a terrible day (as I did), here is a MacGuyver intro a guy did of his cat, Steve McQueen. It's beyond awesome.

In the "things you never thought you'd see texted" department today, we have this gem I sent to my mom: "Is leptospirosis a type of cryptospirosis?"

Yeah. Mom the doc + Hawaii + water treatment class = really fucking bizarre.

I was debating using the title "damn, my ass hurts" but this one is more fun.

On second thought, that's debatable. by the way cliff jumping makes you SORE

I AM SO SAD THAT I DO NOT HAVE AN UNDERWATER CAMERA. I must wait for peekchures! However, I do have le teasers: (I like to call these "perspective" photos. You will see why.)

[EDIT] cut for your convenience( well shit. These photos are rather larger than I expected. )

If I wrote Dear Diary style, this is what it would kind of be like: "Dear Diary, today was awesome. The end."

Seriously, I just sat around and did nothing but I had fun doing it. And I had fun wearing all green, haha.

Demyla and I went out and saw Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day... ADORABLE! Kind of creepy to walk into a theatre full of old people, though. (But it definitely explains why I haven't seen any ads for it anywhere.) I definitely recommend it. But it probably didn't help that I sat there the whole movie going AAAAAAH I LOVE THAT DRESS and YAY FORTIES and OMG "ANYTHING GOES!" YAY MUSIC and GUH I WANT THAT APARTMENT *stare*

Seriously. Fucking. Awesome.

And then Barnes and Noble finally had the copy of Empire I was looking for! So our apartment now has an Indiana Jones poster and everything is good in life. (Except that I have to get up at 6 tomorrow... and we'll have a 6 hour difference to Ohio...yuck.)

74 days to Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull! Today's trivia: Quote from the Empire article: "Having such a Jones for Jones, has Koepp peppered the script with knowing nods and winks? 'A little, obeying the characters as they're laid out. But inside series jokes? I don't like that kind of stuff. Any self-referential stuff we tried to avoid. I don't think that people remember everything that was said 25 years ago, so referring to somethin you said 25 years ago seems kind of stupid to me. So, no, not a lot of that. But, you know, sometimes for fun.'"

SO YAY no stupid references (which I think is what ruined Pirates 2 and 3), at least, not too terribly many or anything.

I'm going shark diving on Sunday ;D

managed to make my mom nervous from 3000 miles away

No. Seriously. Today is the best day ever.





http://xkcd.com/389/

That's right, Randall Munroe just rickrolled band kids everywhere.

Also, in the spirit of being rickrolled: http://limerickdb.com/?top150 (There are some really, really good ones on there.)

Also, found this link, which claims The Fall is the movie that The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen should have been. And on my god are they ever right. Plus? Lee Pace (aka the Piemaker in Pushing Daisies). Why has this not come to my attention earlier? Damn you US, this was made in 2006! Curse your run-of-the-mill tastes.

85 days until Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull! Today's trivia: I'm sorry, I can't think of anything better than the fact that Harrison Ford is in that second video.

Seriously, because of this day, I think think I can die happy. I need to find downloadable versions of those videos, because I'm pretty sure that's the medicine for never having a bad day ever again.

This is looking to be a good week.

Firstly, I have a HUGE backload of posts I've been meaning to make (since January) with all the Hawaii updates, too. That's gonna have to wait because you know what I just spent the last five hours doing? This:

(Secondly)I think you all should read this link about Anonymous and Scientology. It's just the beginning. Fascinating. Hilarious, but unforunately memes don't translate well to real life protests (MINUS the Guy Fawkes masks).

ALSO? There are ONE HUNDRED AND ONE DAYS until INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL is released. In celebration, starting tomorrow, I will post EVERY SINGLE ONE of the hundred-day countdown with some interesting piece of trivia or information.

Also!!!! THE TRAILER COMES OUT THURSDAY (with Spiderwick) I am so excited you have no idea. Fuck Valentine's Day, I have more important things to worry about. Like studying history for my two tests Friday so I can see this movie on Thursday and then watch the trailer online Friday a million jillion frillion times.

SO. My huge epic post of catching-up-ness is still forthcoming. My sincere apologies. Anonymous and Indiana Jones have taken over my life. Happy V-day to meeee! =D