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Sean: “I get enough sass from you.”
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A Few Things About Zoe
I just realized I haven’t been posting about Zoe much lately. I’ll try to make up for that with a few photo posts, but let me kick-start the process by sharing a few things:
Zoe's First Narrative
On Saturday, Zoe had a busy day. It was my dad’s birthday, and there was a family get-together planned at a park in Corvallis. She spent the morning with me while Annie ran errands. Then her cousin Leilani came by with Ryan and Dad to pick up Sean. She was really excited to see Leilani. After Annie got back, we got in the car, and she took a nap on the way to the park, and then played with her older cousins all afternoon. When we got home, she kicked a ball around the backyard with me and Sean before bedtime.
Frequently, while she slowly drifts off to sleep, she will go over her vocabulary. She’ll repeat words she knows or has just learned over and over again, almost chanting to herself. Annie’s gotten used to a bit of random chatter at bedtime, so she didn’t think much about it when Zoe started talking during bedtime that night.
“Papa, Papa?” she said, and Annie nodded and said “Yes, Papa just said night-night to you.” Zoe smiled and went back to nursing.
A minute later she popped back up. “’Lani! ’Lani ’Lani?” Annie said “Yes, we saw Leilani today.”
“Grampa? Ryno?” Zoe continued. “Yes, Grandpa and Uncle Ryan, too.”
Satisfied, Zoe returned to nursing. As she got more sleepy, she talked about the Car (beep-beep!) and Going, and each time Annie smiled and said Yes, and got her to focus on the task at hand again.
But after that, when Zoe started talking about the Ball! and Kicking! and Sean and night-night, Annie realized that she had just recapped her entire day.
Maybe it was just a fluke. As I said, she likes to practice her vocabulary when she’s sleepy, and those are most of the words she knows — but she covered all the major events of the day in chronological order, and I’m inclined to think that she was telling her Momma all about her big day.
Job Hunting and Movies
I just got off the phone with Network Solutions and found out that the troubles we were having with transferring spaceninja.com to joker were simply due to bad contact information. So hopefully I’ll be able to get the transfer underway very soon.
I’ve been applying for jobs all over the place. I’m going to give myself a month to find a tech-related job, and then I’m going to suck it up and just get a job anywhere. Retail work is better than unemployment.
Not much else going on, really. It’s nice that Sean works at the movie theater so I can see lots of movies even though I’m almost completely broke. Last night was bad action movie night. Sean and I went to see the Mummy Returns and Tomb Raider, and I swear they used the same special effects company. In both movies, all the bad guys crumble into dust when shot, both movies feature an odd key-thing, and both movies have busty actresses. Not that I’m complaining.
Still, I’m looking forward to Annie’s visit this weekend, and going to see KT after that. I’ve got lots of projects to work on, but I’m itching for social interaction. Steve is too lazy to let me drag him out of the house every day, and even if I did, I don’t have any money to do anything. Just another reason to get a job, I guess.
Hollow Army
(republished from a comment Sean made)
I recently saw Hollow Man. I wasn’t going to at first, but now that the KOIN has been bitchslapped by Regal from an arthouse to a discount house, I’ve got more motivation to see mainstream crap, namely that I can do it free at the KOIN where I feel safe. And there’s noone else watching them.
So I saw Hollow Man. It was alright, because they were trying to be a cool action flick for the second half. If you get past the rape scene, then it’s almost interesting. But then you get to the parts where Kevin Bacon defies physics: just because you’re invisible doesn’t make you superman.
- When you get blasted by a flamethrower and rip off your burning clothes, but there’s still crap on you that’s visible, it doesn’t just flake off BECAUSE THAT’S YOUR BURNED FLESH!!! And even if it did just flake off, yeah you’re invisible again, but you’ve got exposed muscle tissue.
- Unless you’ve been seriously sharpening it, you cannot run up behind someone and ram a crowbar all the way through their ribcage, then slide it back out and kill someone else with it.
- If you’ve had the ‘hook’ of a crowbar stuck into your stomach(again, it’s not that sharp), the odds of it not hitting any vital organs(like your intestines?) is slim. The odds of the horrible gash being securely sealed up with duct tape is slimmer. And even supposing those first two were true, you cannot then go on to participate in an action sequence, because the tape would fall off and you’d bleed to death!
But enough of that. Hollow Man was okay. My main beef was that they tossed out all options for a sequel by killing Bacon at the end!
Then I came up with a brilliant idea for Hollow Man 2. First off, we’d need an awesome hong kong wire team for the stunts. Plus more special effects.
Okay: genius scientist Bacon develops invisibility serum, goes crazy, tries to kill his labmates to keep himself secret. Gets captured and locked up.
Then, after several years, once he’s gone completely insane, he escapes. Redevelops the formula, and gives it to his badass commando team. Then he and his invisible commandos try to take over the world!
To stop them, the government gives the invisibility serum to a team of good guy commandos, and the invisible battles begin!
Imagine a secret base, inside the armory or something. There’s an invisible bad guy and an invisible good guy in there. Neither can see each other. They have to throw things and shoot guns off around the room trying to locate their opponent, without giving away their own location at the same time, meaning firing off a shot, tossing the gun aside and jumping to the left, then watching for a response. Or throwing knives or something.
Imagine the invisible fistfight! Once they find each other, they start beating the tar out of each other. We see nothing but the occasional spray of blood as a punch connects!
Then I realized that was silly. One of the problems of hollow man: as he had transparent eyelids, he couldn’t close his eyes. Reality? He wouldn’t be able to see, as light wouldn’t be reflecting off of his eyes. How to fix this? Either invisible people are blind, or their eyes are visible and to be fully invisible they have to cover them.
This would turn that scene into two guys standing in a big room, with their eyes closed, blinking them open every few seconds hoping to spot their opponent w/o being seen, and then attacking them while blind…
to be worth watching, the whole movie would have to take place in some place where they’d be partially visible: sprinklers going, smoke venting, lasers all over the place(maybe they just refract light around them, so the laser’s refraction would be visible?) or something like that. But I think it could work…