Because this needs to be a longer discussion

Cerasi, in one of your recent comments you asked me which of the HIMYM men I would prefer.  And I thought we should make a thing of it.

So here we go!  ... cue the plinking piano music (when Barney does something in the playbook)....

My first choice when you asked the question:
Barney Stinson

My reasons? Obvious.  Look at the guy.  I mean, bang, bang, bangity-bang...

Ahem.  He's hot, he's suave, he's smart, he makes good money doing something at a bank?  Okay, that last bit might be sketchy.  But on a surface level, Barney's my pick.

Until you think about how much of a player he is, and how not okay you are with that.


Then, I was thinking, as your comment prompted, what about Ted?
(Have you met Ted?)
Ted Moseby

He's cute, and smart and an architect.  That's pretty sweet.  I almost went into architecture.  I'm sensing a modicum of compatibility.

He's looking for someone to spend the rest of his life with.  Hey, me too.

He's also telling his kids every detail of his sex life prior to meeting their mother.  Hrm.  Kinda eww.

And despite being a tad geeky (which is a plus!)  he's also more emotional than one of the ladies on the show and pretty needy.  Maybes not for me.


So then I come to...

Marshall Eriksen

Is that really how you spell his last name google? I had no idea.

He's adorable and hilarious and a lawyer.  Everyone wins!

But really, if these people actually existed I think I'd get along with Marshall the most.  He's a little geeky, and sweet.

He's also the only one that's proven he's capable of a committed long-term relationship.


But then I think about the women these guys have actually ended up with.  And I realize I'm probably more like Robin than Lily.  So really, I might be able to end up changing the horn dog into a respectable human being.  Because I really do like Barney when he's being all nice and cute with Robin.

I throw it to you, ladies.  Who would you pick?

Ginsberg

I took your request, Cerasi, for the last one.  However, I thought making a series from Howl would be most fun.  It was!  Enjoy!

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Footnote

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

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/

Composing a Photo

I saw this really cool photo series.  Each is a composite picture of a particular place in New York.

Here's the link: Babel Tales

It's so neat that he take tens or hundreds of pictures to get these few that he can divine a theme from.

I especially like these picture taking and posing shots.  It's funny that this place is always (or often enough) somewhere where so many people take pictures.  And looking at people posing in such varied ways without the photographer visible is creepy and hilarious.



And then everyone is flying!

So funny.

Also the world of children:

Lord of the Flies.  AHH!

Anyway, thought it was interesting enough to share.  So enjoy!