Punny!
Swedenborg!
…what? Too obscure? Oh alright, fine. Here, this ought to get a laugh or two:
Swedenborg!
Category: life and living
Not so much the daily grind, as the things that fall outside the scope of academics.
Swedenborg!
Toby
Toby
June 1990 – July 18, 2007
In your long life, you brought great peace, and great joy. You were a wonderful companion, through to the very end.
Om mani padme hum I bow to the jewel in the lotus
Om ami dewa hrih Diety of endless light
Om vajra sattva hum May you open the gates of samsara
A a ha sha sa ma And purify the life
controlling yourself in chaos
I suspect that Liam just passed some sort of test there; some lab monkeys are more suited to a controlled environment, but Liam wasn’t bothered by the chaotic element of the crime scene so much as he was disturbed by his own inability to respond to it.
–TWoP recapper Sobell on CSI
I like this differentiation, separating out a situation and your reaction to the situation. I think that this is quite often what I fall into; I have a nasty perfectionist streak in me, and can get very frustrated when I don’t know how to respond properly to a situation – not because the situation itself bothers me, but because damnit, I should just know everything and how to handle it all intuitively, skipping the whole learning and process part.
I know this is patently absurd, but that doesn’t stop me from being guilty of the expectation.
I can’t remember who said it to me, and I suspect that far more than one person has actually said it, but to say that I’m my own worst critic is an understatement of vast proportions.
Danger: Writer on Board
Michael’s shared an utterly fascinating link on television and media tropes, and one of the better pages is for Writer on Board:
Obvious authorial intrusion. When the characters start behaving like idiots or against their previously established characterization because the writer damn well needs them to in order to tell his story.
May also occur when a character is accused of being used just to show a particular POV, and not because he actually has it.
A play on “Baby on Board”.
Examples:
* Pretty much the entire sixth season of Buffy The Vampire Slayer had the characters (particularly Buffy and Spike) changing opinions, morality and emotions depending on who was writing the episode that week. For example, one week Buffy is shown to be trapping lovelorn Spike in an abusive relationship. Then next, he’s preying on an emotionally damaged Buffy…
Yes, yes, yes! Thank you! (Longtime readers will know I have a serious issue with Season Six of Buffy, and that I will wince and run from Marti Noxon when at all possible because of it. In fact, I think I blame Noxon for this last season of Grey’s Anatomy…)
and how fast do you type?
Reading a friends blog this morning, I came across a “test how fast you type” site. And since said friend had utterly pathetic typing scores, I opted to see what mine would be.
Too lazy to sit up: 115wpm, 1 mistake
Okay fine, I’ll sit up: 146wpm, 1 mistake
Mistakes are irritating, do I typo that much? No, I can apparently type 134wpm “clean”.
…which is really much faster than I thought I typed (I thought I was around 90wpm), so I don’t really know what to make of this.
Well, yes, I know this much: taunting rights, because I type 120wpm faster than said friend. Booyah!