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SandieK
Charlotte, NC
Live in Boone NC, on the prowl for a job. Want to know more? Ask! :)
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Ive seen that comic several times, within the past day or so, and my first thought is still that it's a Dalek instead of McDucks vault. Meh.
One day, I will make it to PAX, or PAX East or...something, and I will bring you die. Probably all of them, since there's no one to game with here. :\
bring me your tired, your poor, your polyhedral dice...
It's 4pm, and I've been awake for 12 hours, on almost 5 hours of wake-up-every-thirty-minutes-so-I-don't-oversleep, uh, sleep. Truly, I live an exciting life that doesn't afford me the opportunity to get much quality reszezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz *thunk* *snore* *drool* Ah, that was nice. Okay...
Dangit, way to get my hopes up. If you would be 38 on your BDay, I would only be 28 on mine in a couple weeks (tangent: Holy shit...a couple weeks! Noooooo!). I don't want to be 29. :(
Also: Happy Birthday :D
Spock is not impressed that it's my birthday
During w00tstock last week, I mentioned that I was turning 38 this week. After the show, Anne told me that I was, in fact, turning 39. In the few seconds that it took me to do some math, I lost a year of my life. Apparently, this is the sort of thing that happens when you get to be my age, which...
...I thought you said this one would be gross. I am disappoint.
Never been one for allergies, glad I'm not (for now, anyway), but my dad has to wear this thing at night so he doesn't snore. Nuclear poo? No problem. Been there, done that. Debated checking the contents of my kitties barf because...really? Why did they eat that? Hell, where did they find it?
this is really gross. you have been warned.
There is a tree near my house, that has probably been there for years, just doing its tree thing, watching patiently as families come and go, empires rise and fall, and Isengard is flooded. I'm sure it's a beautiful tree, cheerfully trading carbon dioxide for oxygen, providing shade, and most li...
Damn. Ive lost count of the amount of similar conversations Ive had with my cat about the odd lizard or bird. I've also had to chase/escort several birds out of the house, and even got one to hop on a fish net handle (from dads fish tank) and stay there til I carried him out.
We keep telling our cats not to bring her friends in to play, but she won't listen.
Have fun in Vancouver.
Tomorrow, I go back to Eureka
“What’s the forecast for Vancouver?” Anne asked. “It’s in the 40s and raining,” I said. “Oh, that sounds awesome,” she said, in a tone of voice that indicated the opposite was actually true. “It’s okay,” I said, “I have my scarf and my jacket and my warm hat.” As I listed each of these items, ...
*sigh* I happily join the crowd of people begging you to come to the east coast, and what happens when you do? I forget. JoCo was in Ashville last week, and Id been looking forward to it since it was posted. The date snuck up on me and I wasn't able to make it down. Stupid midterms.
One day, I will actually be able to see you all live, and perhaps make some non-internet friends that I actually have stuff in common with.
in which i am grateful
Los Angeles totally turned out for our show at Largo last night. I think the house was about 80% full, which is incredible for a show on a Tuesday, anywhere, but expecially in Hollywood. We all had a great time, and the new material I did with Paul and Storm seemed to play as well as we hoped it...
"There will also be as much Captain's Wife's Lament as the audience can stand."
Good grief, you'll be there all night.
Which story? The Last Unicorn Pegasus Kitten sounds fun, and Id really love to see Memories of the Future.
Hope The Largo works out!!
w00tstock presents: Wil Wheaton vs. Paul and Storm at Largo
Later this month -- March 29, to be precise -- I will be joining Paul and Storm for a show at Largo, here in Los Angeles. This show will be a sort of concentrated w00tstock, expanding my 20 minute set of one story to about 60 minutes of probably 3 stories, and doing approximately the same for Pa...
Cat-in-bag is stupid? Really? Sleepy, maybe. Stupid? Not so much. Stupid (but no less amusing) would be fitting in a box he doesnt have a chance in hell of getting in.
http://www.twitpic.com/2zz68p
a stupid cellphone video, and other various items
Last night, I made a new stupid cellphone video. Enjoy: Related. This Sunday, I return to LEVERAGE on TNT as the evil computer hacker Cha0s, in the holiday spectacular episode The Ho Ho Ho Job. Immediately after the episode airs, I'll be joining the cast for a live web chat. I'll give lin...
Man, I can't even hear a hummingbird's wings when its a mere foot in front of me. I guess thats why Im supposed to wear these hearing aide things.
singing fun fun fun
Yesterday, I got an e-mail from John Scalzi, reminding me that my Unicorn Pegasus Kitten fanfic is due on Saturday ... I'm going to skip the part about how I began to hyperventilate at the thought of actually turning something in to John that people are going to read and OH MY GOD THEY'RE ALL GO...
"I didn't want to do this show, because I didn't think anyone would come, on account of how many things there are to do at Comic-Con"
Seriously? Come ON! w00tstock far surpasses just about anything at Comic-Con. Or anywhere, for that matter. Please, come East? Pretty please?
memories of w00tstock 2.4
I walked across two sets of train tracks, through a tangle of nerds and normals, and navigated my way up Fourth Street toward the theater. My Bag of Holding, slung diagonally across my body, rested comfortably against my side. Inside, my costume changes (read: Nerdy T-shirts) and script (read: H...
Huh. Apparently the kilt thing isn't new. Guess I should actually watch more than the occasional blurb. Oops?
"as his kilt rises..."
I think this is one of those rare things that can be equally enjoyed* by those who have context, and those who don't. *for very disturbing values of 'enjoyed'
ooh! I didn't notice it was a kilt! Bonus points (as if it needed it. Ha!)
"as his kilt rises..."
I think this is one of those rare things that can be equally enjoyed* by those who have context, and those who don't. *for very disturbing values of 'enjoyed'
Yep. :)
anyone interested in a short fiction collection?
I have a question for everyone who reads my blog: if I put some short stories I'd written together into a little collection and sold it at Lulu, would you be interested? I ask this because I collected a few short stories into a limited edition chapbook for last year's PAX Prime, and it's been si...
Ha! I hadnt seen the rest of that series. I agree, the 'Oh God, what have I done??!!??' is the best.
science ... SCIENCE!
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>> =D
From the Vault: unpublished and unfinished scene from a grocery store
I'm working on repairing and restoring WWdN (don't get too excited or update your bookmarks just yet, my blog will live here no matter what), and while I was cleaning up duplicate blog entries, I came across several unpublished drafts of posts that I decided were too personal to publish, too unf...
To this day, Ive never had a real gaming console. Meh.
I am, however, reminded of when the student group I was apart of in college had a yard sale. While sorting the donated materials, we came across an old Atari and several games. It goes without saying that it didnt make it to the yard sale. At the time, someone also kept their xbox at the center. With only one TV, was fun when people debated on which console was getting played.
the fountain of youth
I spend a lot of time remembering and writing about the video games I played while growing up, mostly because it's the closest I can come to actually playing them, until the magical day arrives when I have an entire room in my house dedicated to housing a classic arcade and console collection. I...
Now that you mention it, I can kind of tell the 'I will NOT crack up!' thing with you. Not so much on Jim. And I still have eleventy-billion questions about bowling alley sets. LOL
something something giant balls
This picture was taken after we'd been working all day on all the scenes that take place in the bowling alley. It turns out that shooting pretend bowling sequences is really complicated, and just a few minutes of final cut takes several hours to film. What you can't see is how Jim and I are tr...
and yet, I really like that word. Hmm.
Alright Brain, you don't like me, and I don't like you. But let's just do this, and I can get back to killing you with beer.
I've put myself pretty much on lockdown until I finish writing my PAX East keynote, because my brain really isn't making it easy to convert my concepts and ideas into a proper presentation that is both thoughtful and entertaining. I've given myself next Wednesday as the ultimate deadline, becaus...
I cant wait to see this ep for two reasons: Theres the obvious Evil Wil thing, and then theres the fact that I love bowling.
Im really curious about the bowling set. Is it an actual working pair (or more) of lanes, or is it just the wells and the alleys where character interactions take place and we see you throw a few balls, but the actual shot of what you would have bowled (strike, gutter, split conversion, etc) is edited in later? Have always wondered this about bowling scenes in general.
The Cooper-Hofstadter Coffee Table Proof
(Image by me. Click to embiggen. Please link to this post if you reuse it.) As I walked from the comic shop set down to the bowling alley set today, I passed the set for Leonard and Sheldon's apartment, which is in the center of the stage. I gawked at it the way you do when you're a fan of th...
The day after mom brought a new white van years ago, she exited the doctors office only to see about half a dozen white vans in the lot. As she'd had the vehicle for a day, it took some time to figure out which one was hers.
Interesting though. Maybe this explains my (mostly) total lack of motivation to do some things Ive been meaning to do. Some of it's creative. I have a load of stuff for places like ficly that I need to type up, and one of my browser windows has eleven tabs of job openings and corresponding applications. Most of which are no where near my present location, and though I really want the job, and perfectly willing to relocate, I have to force myself to fill them out some times.
Nice post. Thanks. :)
this post brought to you by wil's lizard brain
You know about the Blue Car Syndrome, right? It says that when you buy a blue car, you suddenly start seeing blue cars everywhere. It doesn't mean that there are actually more blue cars than before, it just means that you're more aware of them. About a month ago, I read something about The Lizar...
pah. webrings are SO out. Thats what LJs are for. And fanfiction.net, but we dont talk about that.
Used to write Trek, but my muse ran off and won't come back. Okay, its back, but it wont give me Trek stuff anymore. Actually, it hasn't given me crap in a long time.
Edit: Oh! Hey @angiek! just noticed it was you.
billy bad breaks
This post has nothing to do with its title, but after staring at this for 20 minutes trying to come up with one, I just grabbed the first song title I could find. Thanks, The Damned. Once again, you come through when I need you. We've had a drought in Southern California for so long now, even a ...
Up until last Friday, my car had no heat. This was tolerable when I still lived in Charlotte, but right now its 16 degrees out. Friday, I got a Subaru Forester named 'Bones'. Among other things, it has heat.
thirty-two hours in three hundred words
It was just above freezing when I got into the car Tuesday morning. The rising sun had just barely cleared my neighbor's roof, and did its best to melt the frost off of my roof and windshield. Anne and I sat in the passenger compartment shivering, surprisingly thick clouds of fog blooming in fron...
Apparently Nolan's never heard of cribbage either.
Awesome story. Havent laughed like that in awhile. Dogs speak just fine, thanks. And so do cats. It's just a matter of being able to translate.
in which a tale is told about the preparation of soup
Anne is helping a friend move today, so she went down to The OC last night, in order to avoid the hellish traffic that exists on the Southern California freeways between 6am and 10pm just about every day of the week. This meant that Nolan and I were alone last night, free to watch the original ...
I was having a similar issue earlier. I have a midterm to finish up, but all my brain was giving me was an episode tag for this last episode of Castle (and I dont even write fanfic...much). Every single time I tried to focus on the midterm, my brain would just go back over this tag until finally I gave out on the midterm and focused on this story. It's now happily sitting in a spiral notebook and Im now completely focused (well, mostly) on the midterm.
Sheesh.
making plans for nigel
My brain keeps giving me 404s when I try to get focused long enough to write this short scary story (well, I think it's scary. It has a monster in it) in time for Halloween. So I'm doing other things to try and trick it into rebooting the server, like cleaning up my house, playing with my dog, a...
You're getting a kick out of being able to grumble "I'm 37! Im not old!" at people, arent you?
Im 27, and in some contexts I feel old, and not in a damn-kids-today way (though my classmates all just came out of undergrad, whereas Ive been out for four years).
My first gaming system was a game boy color. As a kid, I wasnt allowed a nintendo or anything else, because 'we have a computer. you dont need a nintendo!'. I played a lot of Wolf 3D, Doom 1-2, Blake Stone, and most (if not all) of the Duke 3D releases.
Ive still yet to buy myself a gaming console. Ive wanted an XBox for years. Can't justify the costs though, or the 30-60 dollar games that go with it.
Ill just grab 'em off the antiques table in 10 or 20 years.
you may ask yourself, "how do i work this?"
I stayed up way too late last night, waiting for Nolan to get home from the Horror thing at Universal. When I was younger, staying up until 3 was no big deal, but making it past midnight is a serious challenge, especially since my stupid brain insists on waking up between 7 and 8 no matter when ...
For me and two other guys, ping pong used to be a big thing. Sort of. I say 'sort of' because we weren't completely playing ping pong, per se. Well, we WERE but...we'd start out regularly, but then one of us would go overkill on the return, and instead of calling outs (or whatever), we'd chase it and hit it back. Eventually this grew to the point where we ignored the table completely and utilized the whole room (it was a pretty big room, too). This lead to the destruction of ping pong balls, which lead to ordering a big box of them on ebay, to individually numbering said balls, and recording start time, end time, how long the ball lasted, and method of destruction (because we didnt only beat the things senseless).
I miss those guys. I miss those days.
the big bang buzz
The Los Angeles freeway system, having thoroughly vexed me yesterday, was more forgiving this morning, and I arrived at work fifteen minutes early. I am happy to report that the simple joy of driving my car across the Warner Brothers lot, between sound stages and behind golf carts and past dozen...
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