| Pretending House |
[Apr. 20th, 2008|01:02 am] |
I didn't pay good enough attention on the ride home today and I rode the Metro three stops too far. I was wondering why it was taking us so long, but I was sure we hadn't gone through the park yet. On the long walk back, I caught this house pretending to be taller than it actaully was. Not sure if you can tell in the picture, but, trust me, it was.
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| Windmill in Golden Gate Park over Ramp 15, San Francisco |
[Apr. 14th, 2008|05:17 pm] |
Last one from today. Another view of ramp 15 featuring the windmill in the park.
Also interesting was when a woman walked by me today and I thought: "That woman doesn't have a baby. I wonder if she knows she doesn't have a baby."
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| Nerd Test 2 and.... blantant advertising. |
[Feb. 23rd, 2008|03:52 am] |
Ummm... this counts as an update, right?
Come see "An Evening of Albee" at Stone Soup... two more weekends after this one. I think I have a few comps left if you're poor. There're two shows in it... the first one has really cool people in it... the second one is really cool. I let people in the door and push the "GO" button the light board and the "Play" button the CD player.... like 50 button pushes in two hours... exciting, huh? |
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| Temperature |
[Dec. 2nd, 2007|02:14 am] |
Even though I sort of grasp the reasons why it works, it still looks so strange to me that it's been warming up since 2pm (5pm EST) and by midnight (3am EST) it was the warmest it had been all day. Table from weather.gov included below.
In other news, I left my truck on Capital Hill, because I was too afraid to drive it home. The tire people told me I should have replaced my tires..... oh, I think it was in February. My truck starts slidding around in light rain.
Also, why am I posting this at 2am? I went to bed early... but I just woke up from a dream about work. I was trying to take down blocking, but it had gotten so complicated... everyone had to be in so many places at once and the set was built in so many layers and shelves and everyone was saying so many lines at the same time that I just couldn't come up with a sufficient system to record it and I had told everyone they had to just figure it out for themselves. I had another dream about work a couple weeks ago. This play contains some Italian lines (the actor in our lead role is originally from Italy and we thought it was a cool idea to run with). In the dream she was calling for line on one of the Italian lines and I simply couldn't speak. I had no idea how to say the word, but instead of being able to say something that sounded like it, I couldn't say anything when I tried to read it. I was just stuck. In reality, when she finally ended up having to call for line on an Italian line, I was quickly able to blurt out something that resembled what was written on the page, which was more than enough for her to remember the line, being that Italian is her first language.
Ummm... yeah, I'm going back to bed now. Come see my play. http://nebunele.com (Or at least click the link to check out the post card.)
24 Hour Summary
| Time
EST (UTC) | Temperature
F (C) | Dew Point
F (C) | Pressure
Inches (hPa) | Wind
MPH | Weather |
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| Latest | 4 AM (9) Dec 02 | 37.0 (2.8) | 34.0 (1.1) | 29.53 (1000) | SSW 14 | light rain |
| 3 AM (8) Dec 02 | 37.0 (2.8) | 34.0 (1.1) | 29.52 (999) | S 15 | light rain |
| 2 AM (7) Dec 02 | 36.0 (2.2) | 33.1 (0.6) | 29.5 (998) | S 16 | light rain |
| 1 AM (6) Dec 02 | 35.1 (1.7) | 33.1 (0.6) | 29.49 (998) | S 16 | |
| Midnight (5) Dec 02 | 35 (2) | 33 (1) | 29.48 (998) | S 16 | light rain |
| 11 PM (4) Dec 01 | 35 (2) | 33 (1) | 29.46 (997) | S 13 | light rain, snow |
| 10 PM (3) Dec 01 | 35 (2) | 33 (1) | 29.45 (997) | S 15 | light rain |
| 9 PM (2) Dec 01 | 35 (2) | 32 (0) | 29.44 (996) | SSE 15 | light rain, snow; mist |
| 8 PM (1) Dec 01 | 33 (1) | 30 (-1) | 29.46 (997) | SE 15 | light snow; mist |
| 7 PM (0) Dec 01 | 33 (1) | 30 (-1) | 29.49 (998) | SE 10 | light snow; mist |
| 6 PM (23) Dec 01 | 32 (0) | 30 (-1) | 29.51 (999) | ESE 9 | light snow; mist |
| 5 PM (22) Dec 01 | 32 (0) | 30 (-1) | 29.52 (999) | ESE 10 | heavy snow; fog |
| 4 PM (21) Dec 01 | 33 (1) | 28 (-2) | 29.53 (1000) | S 15 | snow |
| 3 PM (20) Dec 01 | 37.0 (2.8) | 25.0 (-3.9) | 29.56 (1001) | S 6 | |
| 2 PM (19) Dec 01 | 36.0 (2.2) | 21.9 (-5.6) | 29.59 (1002) | ESE 8 | |
| 1 PM (18) Dec 01 | 34.0 (1.1) | 28.0 (-2.2) | 29.63 (1003) | W 5 | |
| Noon (17) Dec 01 | 33.1 (0.6) | 27.0 (-2.8) | 29.65 (1004) | SE 5 | |
| 11 AM (16) Dec 01 | 32.0 (0.0) | 28.9 (-1.7) | 29.66 (1004) | ESE 17 | |
| 10 AM (15) Dec 01 | 32 (0) | 30 (-1) | 29.67 (1004) | ESE 13 | light rain; mist |
| 9 AM (14) Dec 01 | 33.1 (0.6) | 30.0 (-1.1) | 29.69 (1005) | SE 6 | light snow |
| 8 AM (13) Dec 01 | 33.1 (0.6) | 30.0 (-1.1) | 29.71 (1006) | SSE 5 | |
| 7 AM (12) Dec 01 | 34.0 (1.1) | 30.0 (-1.1) | 29.72 (1006) | SE 6 | light snow |
| 6 AM (11) Dec 01 | 34.0 (1.1) | 28.9 (-1.7) | 29.74 (1007) | ESE 5 | |
| Oldest | 5 AM (10) Dec 01 | 34.0 (1.1) | 27.0 (-2.8) | 29.77 (1008) | ESE 5 | |
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| Salad |
[Nov. 30th, 2007|12:26 am] |
So, I got home around 11:30.... grabbed my salad off the fridge.... poured on some dressing... and forgot to get a fork. I've been sitting here for almost an hour with a bowl of salad I can't eat. Talk about lazy. |
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| Stupid Scale |
[Nov. 6th, 2007|05:40 am] |
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So, a while ago--about a year and a half to be slightly more precise--I made a scale drawing of an apartment one of my friends was moving into along with all her furniture so she could play with it and figure out how she wanted to arrange things before she moved in.
Anyway, she's moving again and she'd kept all the little furniture cut out pieces and the drawing. She wanted me to do the same thing again. Obviously, it made sense to just use all the existing furniture pieces right? So, I looked at the old drawing, which I had inconveniently not written the scale on, looked at some of the walls and saw they were about 5/6 of one square on the graph paper, and decided the scale must obviously be two squares to a foot--a perfectly reasonable and easy to use scale.
So, I set to work drawing the new place... and after a while, I realized the place seemed bloody huge in comparison to the old place. So, I started putting some furniture on it to see and it most certainly was. I'd only done about 40% of the drawing, so it wasn't a huge problem to redo it, since I'd obviously guessed the scale wrong. I examined the original again, along with the furniture... but not having any of the original measurements, I was left to make another guess. I looked up mattress sizes online and looked at the sizes of doors and the counters and the bookcases and decided it was probably 8 inches to a square. I noticed that some of the walls did indeed seem thinner than others due to non-exact line placement. So, I set to work doing it again at the new scale.
Then, on a whim, I decided to place the bed cutout in the bedroom to see how much better it fit... and it took up about 80% of the room. The bedroom had certainly seemed larger than that when I'd been there earlier today to measure. But... that could only mean I'd used the utterly stupid scale of 7 inches per square. Who would do such a thing? I simply couldn't believe it. I quickly set about counting squares anywhere I could and multiplying them by 6, 7, and 8 trying to see which one seemed more sensible. Between the bed, the bureau (which we'd measured again today to discuss whether it could fit in the hallway or not), and the bathtub (which some guy on the Internet informs me always comes in at 60" for most standard tubs), I was left with no choice but to admit that the scale was 7 inches per square.
It's 5:40am and I am not redrawing the place again tonight. All I can say is I totally lose tonight. |
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| Advice Please |
[Oct. 9th, 2007|05:24 pm] |
What do you guys use for printing? Do you put up with strange demands from your printer and have to deal with misprinted pages and jams often? My current printer is getting very old and forces me to load no more than 30 sheets at a time, blow on the pages to make space between them, carefully center a piece of metal on the paper tray, manually reverse the order of the pages after they print (except from Word, which includes a nice checkbox to do it for me), deal with a jam every 80 pages on average (which happens a lot when I'm printing scripts for a workshop rehearsal that can be anywhere from 5 to 50 pages for 9 people), and wait for it to print at the very slow rate of 8 pages per minute. It also wont let me print on the back of pages. Once it's gone through the printer, it *will* jam the next time it goes through.
I'm considering upgrading, but the best laserjet printer I can find in my budget is still around $200, and the ink costs 4 times as much and prints less pages--meaning that even with the savings of being able to use both sides of a page, it will still cost nearly twice as much per page (from $0.0108 to $0.0206). Granted that's probably only $150 over the next 5 years with my current usage rates. Should I do it? Is there a better solution? |
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| Dreams, Party |
[Oct. 9th, 2007|01:59 pm] |
So, I had this awesome dream the night before last. Just before I woke up. I wont go into details, but I was in a supermarket and I was incredibly happy. I continued to be happy all day long.
Also, if anyone is looking for something fun to do tomorrow night (Wendesday), Nebunele Theatre is throwing a party at the Columbia City Theatre. It's free admission. Alchoholic drinks will be available for purchase, but it's not 21+ restricted. There will be an aerials hoop act and a live band and a DJ too. Lots of fun. Starts about 8pm. |
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| Old Tapes |
[Sep. 26th, 2007|01:28 am] |
So, I decided to have a look through some of my old video camera tapes. I just found an awesome tape. In 7th grade in math class we had to make this group project with a presentation at the end. And I had a huge fight with my group and broke up with them. So, I decided to make a video tape of myself. And then I played that on the TV and taped myself next to it, and then I played that in the classroom and stood next to it. Thus, I had a group of three.
Crazy enough right, so in the video I'm fighting with myself the whole time. We keep arguing over who's idea each thing is and who should be the manager of the imaginary restaurant we're opening. The one in the middle keeps lamenting how the other two are ignoring him. I'm totally acting like my vision of what a group of thee middle school boys act like in a group project. That's probably why I broke up with my group. I'd put it on the internet for you all to see, but I know someone will see it who I don't want to and they'll make fun of it and call it stupid and pretty soon the whole internet will have seen it. I however, think it is awesome. You're all welcome to come over and see it sometime in person if you want.
I just wish I could see the part of the presentation I did live too. |
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Stolen from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) codevixen |
[Sep. 12th, 2007|03:25 am] |
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| (no subject) |
[May. 10th, 2007|05:29 am] |
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| | net@nite Podcast | ] |
What's this thing? Live...journal? I don't understand. I'm supposed to type things about my life and it posts them to the Internet? How interesting. I've been gone from here for a long time and done a lot of stuff since then. Mostly theatre stuff. I've got a show opening Friday in fact. And another one opening next Thursday. And then two opening in June and one in July and one in August and one in December, and those are just the ones I have scheduled.
If you're the kind of person who goes to theatre and you live in Seattle, you should check out this one that opens this Friday. It's an original dark comedy on spousal homicide called "Death Do Us Part." Check out the trailer on youtube. The company is young, and it shows, but the show has lots of comedy (and also nudity, sexual content, murder, cannibalism, swearing--all the good stuff). Details available on their website.
In other news, The last few weeks I've started a trend of composing a lot of emails late at night that I never send. I spend hours typing these emails, revising them, changing them, restarting them, and the finally, I click the "Discard" button and give up on them--deciding that it will be better to talk about the content in person the next time I see that person.
Also, ARRRRRGGGHH!!! I have to design a light plot and hang all the lights in the next two days while also opening a show Friday and opening another show because someone has flaked out on me. |
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| Returning and Such |
[Sep. 24th, 2006|02:32 pm] |
I returned back to the great land of rain late Wednesday evening. It was a long tour. We won two awards (one in Boulder and one in San Francisco) for having the best show in the festival. That's why we stayed in Boulder the week I should've been back here... to do an extra performance. We're also going back to San Francisco on Saturday (they're paying for our airfare) to do one more performance there, but I'll be gone little more than 24 hours. It feels so strange to be back. I fell into my life quite quickly, but it seems like I'm doing things I used to do ages ago, not months. I never felt this way on return from Oz. Perhaps because, at the time, six months did feel like ages, where a month and a half doesn't.
I'm starting auditions today for my Christmas show. Just half a dozen small children today. Adult auditions are next week. I'm also pondering what to do on the job front. I'm considering just doing some freelance web stuff. I don't need to earn too much money at the moment, just enough so I'm not being a complete leech. I figure a couple hundred a month could be plenty.
For breakfast this afternoon, I'm eating gummy candies, flat Sprite, and some corn chip remnants.
I guess I've run out of things to say. I could bore people with long talks of the stupid things that happened while touring the show (The light plot in New York? All the lights were blue. "Oh, it's a standard rep plot."), but I doubt many of you are interested in such dribble... if you were, why would you be ready such intellectually stimulating things as Livejournal? Right... maybe I'm wrong, but I don't much feel like writing about them at the moment. I think I'm going to go to Subway for some real breakfast instead. |
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| Off to NY |
[Aug. 7th, 2006|11:25 pm] |
Alright... I'm off to NY in the morning for two weeks, then Boulder for a week and a half. I may post while I'm gone, but I wont be reading everyone else's journals. So, don't do anything dramatic while I'm gone LJ peoples. I'll have my phone if anyone needs to get in touch with me. And I'm sure I'll have email every day or two at the least. |
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[Aug. 2nd, 2006|01:02 pm] |
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I've been reading I Used To Believe and I just found this one:
"When my sister was little she didn't know what a migraine headache was called. I told her they were called 'lobotomies.' For a while she used to tell people, 'Whenever I get a lobotomy, my head hurts.'" |
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| Schedules should never be changed. |
[Aug. 2nd, 2006|09:31 am] |
Have I mentioned yet how many times the schedule for this play has changed? Cancellations, additions, changes. It seems like not a week has gone by on this production when I haven't had to sort out at least one schedule change. Maybe a week did go by, but definitely not two in a row. Luckily not much more can change that I'll have to deal with as we aren't in control or in charge of the Fringe schedules. They've just scheduled another rehearsal for tonight (well, the did it late Monday I believe), though they did take care of scheduling this one so I didn't have to. But I already had other plans for this evening. I know it's a workshop thing and they want to keep working it until it's the best play it can be, but we've been performing for three weeks now. You'd think once it'd been up for that long they wouldn't be changing it anymore. *sigh* I guess it's all for the better. I'm just tired of making schedule changes. I probably shouldn't ever get a job as a secretary, that's probably a large chunk of their jobs.
Monkeys. I'm hungry. It's weird being up this early. I keep spending the whole day waiting for time to pass so I can do the things I need to do, instead of what I usually do: keep hoping time wont pass because I've got things to get done. I guess this way is better, it's just not what I'm used to.
In other news, I've been clearing a lot of stuff off my computer lately. It's mostly been movies that I had "backed up", so, I've seen a ton of good stuff lately... along with some horrible stuff. Don't watch Match Point or A.I. ever people. |
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| So Soon |
[Aug. 1st, 2006|01:16 pm] |
Wow, I'm just looking at my calendar and realizing I leave for New York in exactly one week. It's so soon. And we've got so much stuff to finish preparing before we go. Wow.
Also, looking at my calendar, I notice that I'm pretty much booked solid with things to do every day before I leave. Really, I feel like I should be more stressed out than I am.
I've been making to-do lists and being productive though, so maybe that's why I'm relatively stress-free.
I'm in the middle of a sleep-loop. Been staying up so late that I didn't go to bed until 11am yesterday. Working for 4pm today because I have to be up until at least 10pm tomorrow. Then hoping to halt it because the NY flight next Tuesday is at 8am (which means leaving here around 6).
That's all for now I guess. |
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| Political Stuff, feel free to ignore |
[Jul. 13th, 2006|03:08 pm] |
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With a lot of the recent stuff I've seen about Bush, I was starting to believe he wasn't as stupid as people make him out to be, then he goes and does stuff like this.
"Near the end of the 30-minute briefing, Bush fielded a question about the Middle East with his fourth pig rejoinder.
"'I thought you were going to ask about the pig,' he told a reporter, who then said he was indeed curious about that too.
"'The pig?' Bush said. 'I'll tell you tomorrow after I eat it.'" |
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| Work Fun |
[Jul. 12th, 2006|12:05 am] |
I've decided that not being able to stop myself from shouting things in the car like "Yes!" and "That rocked!" and "That was awesome!" is a sign that I've chosen a fairly decent path to travel down life-wise. The show is looking great. With the lights and sound it's one amazing show. I'm so enjoying all the tech and such. I'm sure I'll enjoy the run too and trying to pull everything together for the shows while on tour is going to be major fun too. In short: Things are great. |
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