Bio

I was so bored the other day that when I had to send in a bio to a conference I am attending, I sent in this instead:

"Unlike other children raised by wolves, Cylon was not only able to learn how to speak, but also how to critically dissect yet dilute anybody's opinion. She graduated from the University of Iowa with a BA in cinema and art with a painting concentration during the Depression but keeps strong by watching countless hours of Real Housewives of whatever. Her interests lie in Africana studies, sexuality studies, media, cinema, pumped up gorilla juicehead shore rats, popular culture and oil painting. Currently she lives in North Carolina, which is a state famous for killing millions of people with its gross domestic product."

(I DID NOT send this one, but a more refined in it's stead)

I'm so tired

I'm back, but first I'd like to say




Okay, now back to business.

I got back from Toronto on Saturday after a supposed eleven hour drive turned into a thirteen hour drive after a ton of highway construction. The only good part about adding two hours to my trip was at least I had some amazing bagels and David Sedaris audio books.

For the past few days I have suffered from a great amount of fatigue and just plain woe. I did not have internet on the road or barely at home because of my parents living in the middle of the woods. Currently I am just hoping to make it to Minneapolis or somewhere in the MidWest next year so I can get out of here.

Just wanted to give an update. A more concise one will come soon, but I just did not want you guys to worry. Now for something fun.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laq2rNiWDYQ

Nonsense

This has nothing to do with writing or life. It is only here, because I thought you guys would like to see a gallery of cats in costumes.

http://io9.com/5828166/fur-great-justice-the-awesomest-superhero-cats

Vote

NPR wants you to vote for the top 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy titles of all time. Here is the survey:

http://www.npr.org/2011/08/02/138894873/vote-for-top-100-science-fiction-fantasy-titles?sc=fb&cc=fp

Ten I chose in no specific order are:

ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell (All animals are equal, but some animals are MORE equal still gives me chills)
ENDERS GAME by Orson Scott Card
FLOWERS FOR ALGERNON by Daniel Keys
FRANKENSTEIN by Mary Shelley
I, ROBOT by Isaac Asimov (He also wrote giant books on Shakespeare criticism)
THE HANDMAID'S TALE by Margaret Atwood
THE LORD OF THE RINGS TRILOGY by JRR Tolkien
NEUROMANCER by William Gibson
THE WATCHMEN by Alan Moore
SOLARIS by Stanislaw Lem

Death of Literature

This is totally real.
Literature is officially dead.

http://www.penguinbooksindia.com/section/PENGUIN_CLASSICS/Black_Classics/Little_Women_9780143105015.aspx

Mashup

Okay, so I know this is a bit few years late, but this trailer is amazing and shows how similar two films could be.

http://vimeo.com/9389738

Also, all my comments have been disappearing and I don't know why.

Savior!

Today at work we had to do a tutorial for a new technology that I unfortunately do not have. I thought it was going to be dumb and give me ample scribble-in-my-notebook-time. Then I was amazed.

It's called a livescribe pen. What it does (I will attach their website below) is that it is just like a regular pen, but it has a camera and an audio recorder. What it does is that while you are writing on their special paper it is recording the strokes of your pen. When you are doing an interview or talking to yourself it records the audio of the person's dialogue as you write. After you record the audio and write down what the person said you can do a playback of what the person said by touching the pen to the paper where you want to start the audio. It automatically starts.

You can connect the livescribe to the computer and the pen with its little camera has recorded what you have written by the pen strokes and voila your handwriting is on the computer. No scanning, you just upload the file onto the computer from your pen onto the livescribe website through your pen. If you recorded audio with the writing, you can watch as the audio highlights the words the person is saying. If this is confusing, here is the tutorial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO5GwLFlN3s&annotation_id=annotation_752605&feature=iv

Why is this important? Well it is mostly if you are a person who cannot write on a computer like me, and like a good, sturdy legal pad. What is even better is that my ideas usually come faster than my handwriting so I can have audio.

I wish I knew about this technology back when I was talking notes frantically and could not keep up. I sound like an advertisement, but it really is one of the greatest technologies I have seen in awhile.

Here's the website:
http://www.livescribe.com/en-us/

Work Music

Here is my playlist at work:

Lady Gaga "Edge of Glory"

Timothy Bloom ft V "Till the End of Time"

Nicki Minaj "Super Bass"

Jerry Garcia and David Grisam "Shady Grove"

Britney Spears "I Wanna Go"

Xenia "Price Tag"

Jeff Jenkins and Casey Dawson "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me"

Devon Barley and Rebbeca Loebe "Creep"

Xenia and Sarah Omorchie "I'll Stand By You"

Dia Frampton "Heartless"

Cyndi Lauper and Allison Iraheta "Time After Time"

Teresa Teng "The Moon Represents My Heart"

CocknBullKid "Yellow

Yeah Yeah Yeahs "Heads Will Roll"

Queen "Radio Gaga"

John Legend "Rolling in the Deep"

The The "Uncertain Smile"

Freddie Mercury "Love Kills"

Glee Cast "Marry You"

I've figured out that I like covers and indie pop.

Because I'm Very Busy

Doing Very Important Things.

Thought you might enjoy:  Creatures Capturing America's Heart
I know it's always mermaids for you Cylon, but they make an appearance.  And I still love hobbits.

Also check out on the same site The Troublemaker of the Moment
My favorite troublemaker was the Rebel Alliance (which I'm sorry to say, Ada, you won't get).  Also Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde. 

And then let's take a trip in time on the best barcrawl of your life.  The high points: The Leaky Cauldron, Paddy's, and (possibly my favorite) Merlotte's.

But really I should get back to my very important work things that I'm doing all the time here.  Very busy.