Morrow 2 Due

I've decided that I'm going to buy a sewing machine. And some thread and cloth. I'm going to teach myself how to sew with a sewing machine. I only have one project on the table, and that's to create a pouch for my wireless keyboard and mouse. I use them, but not often enough to prevent them from getting absolutely covered in dust. Besides, I really should finally learn how to sew.

This will be fun.

Also on the agenda for tomorrow: Un-box the new Dyson Ball and put it to the test

Dust my room
Clean my bathroom, which is absolutely atrocious
Write up a how-to document for quick reference on creating DVDs

Hopefully I'll be able to fit some more stuff into my day, but I think that's a good start for a to-do list. I'm feeling peppy and restless and want to get off my duff and start doing some things.

I blame this good feeling on how things at work are going. I'm starting to feel like I have a little breathing room. It's a small janitor's closet of breathing room still filled with the lingering smell of ammonia, but at least it's a start.

Also, ( I went shopping )

The Invader

I came across a quick two line synopsis for a (probably really bad) movie.

Good alien from a dying race must impregnate an Earth woman to avoid extinction of his race. Bad alien whose race helped wipe out good alien's race doesn't want to see this happen.

The thing is, it also sounds like the synopsis of a really horrible porn.

That just makes me wonder how easy it would be to do that with other movies. Type up a movie synopsis in just a couple of sentences and see if it sounds like the plot to a porn.

I recommend starting with Death At A Funeral (the original damn it - even though I think it's pretty awesome that Peter Dinklage will also be in the remake).

EDIT - Death at a Funeral has already been done for me, and yep, I think it qualifies, so much so that I think a Death at a Funeral porn could easily surpass Lady Chatterly 1&2 for "inherited mischief":
Chaos ensues when a man tries to expose a dark secret regarding a recently deceased patriarch of a dysfunctional British family.
Can you say inbred orgy time?

Role Reversal

I get a kick out of colors, simply because of the nature of color. Our world is defined by how we perceive it rather than how it actually exists. It's a great philosophical point of discussion based on hard science.

Polar Bears

If you don't already know, polar bears are black. Their skin is black. Their fur is colorless. And yet we perceive white because of how the hollow shaft of the fur disperses light waves much like prisms* (which are also colorless).

Now think about your world around you. All the things you see. All the colors. And yet that's just it - it's colors that you see (read: perceive) rather than the color an object actually IS. Pick an object. Lets start with basic black and white objects. We say an object is black because it absorbs all of the light waves and emits none in return. So our eyes translate that info into "lack of color", which is then translated into the color termed black. Likewise, we say an object is white because it absorbs no light waves and emits all of them in return. Our eyes translate that info into "all colors" = white. However, this says nothing of the object's actual existence (ontology). Now, this is conjecture, but I like to sometimes imagine that the reason an object APPEARS black is because it actually EXISTS as a white object, which is what allows it to absorb all of the light waves. Likewise a perceived white object actually exists as a black object.

Using a color wheel, you can find any color on one side of the wheel and then find it's polar opposite (pun totally intended) just as easily. Imagine then that all the colors you see are actually the complete opposite of the color of the existence of an object. If you see something as white, it actually exists as black. If you see something as green, it actually exists as magenta.

So, it's a fun game I try to play with my eyes. I imagine the world around me as actually existing as the opposite colors than what I'm actually perceiving. Of course, this would mean I'm actually one of the blackest people I know and I hang out with people who cherish white objects and have closets filled with white clothing. Although, it's also a good thing we don't get so horribly philosophical on the whole subject of ontology versus perceived colors of objects. Because then I'd have to admit that the polar bear really is white and is hanging out on a landscape of black snow, and that would just be messing which my head.

*I now want to do a science fair project in which thousands of teeny tiny prisms are lined up facing every which way.

I'm a speshul artist

I don't know why I bother to have so many nice painting softwares on my computer. I'm not an artist. I can't draw or paint - at least not free hand like that.

Designs. I like designs. I adore Goggle SketchUp and Visio and my architecture and landscape design programs. I would probably be good at 3D people modeling programs (like the magic Kevin does with DAZ) simply because it means not having to actually draw the people. I have a lot of friends that do web comics and I'm truly baffled. I could probably assist as a colorist, but even then I've seen some awesomely colored comics that amaze me at their level of detail.

I have one such painting program I'm looking at right now called Project Dogwaffle. It seems like a good program, but when I open it up the only thing I can think to create is colorful squiggly lines all over the place. Here is my latest creation:



Yep, that's about as good as I get. The "bubbled" effect reminds me of the foam alphabet floor mat I bought my nephews a while back.

Needless to say, I'm running out of space for games (that I actually play), so I'm going to be deleting some of the painting programs I have (that I never touch).

Videos

First up, is a massive WTF!!!!! in the realm of something flemco would post (it's technically SFW, but not recommended without earbuds): The Sausage Song
Next, just as whacked: Giga Pudding

Sorry for those, but I had to share the pain.

However - here's a couple of really good songs:

Help I'm Alive by Metric

I think this is what you get when you cross Bauhaus guitar and Joy Division sound and place it in the year 2010:
Tear You Apart by She Wants Revenge
(video, interestingly enough, directed by Joaquin Phoenix)