I love it when everything works out. Today (yesterday?) is a fine example: Through a series of random encounters, I found several captains chairs, water tanks, a sink, speakers, and assorted other goodies for the bus at an incredibly good price. Then friends got together to film and finish a zombie movie, explore an abandoned building, drive around aimlessly, and watch the sunrise. As if to balance things out, I returned to my apartment to find every sleepable spot occupied, so I’m still awake, waiting for someone to wake up so I can take their spot. Seems like a shame to sleep through such a beautiful day, but I have enough happy memories to bide me over for a while.
Category: Blog
Worth it
So the zombie movie is taking unexpected turns, but last night Ashley told me a friend of hers needed to practice makeup on people, and could turn some of us into zombies. Which is awesome. Her friend is Tyler Menard, who is both cool, and very good at what he does. Tom got zombified, and you can see the process in pictures below (or on flickr):
Spring Weekend
A few weeks ago, the management company sent some people into our apartment to do some “preventative maintenance.” While this did include some benefits (they fixed a sink that was broken for more than a month), they also hardwired our outside light, so we couldn’t turn it off. This was certainly in preparation for spring weekend, which is fast approaching. I get front row seats this year, and I’m not about to let them go to waste – I’m going to film that oft-joked about zombie movie, using the drunken masses as unwitting extras. The movie will not be good, but it should be a lot more fun than I would otherwise be having over spring weekend. Better yet, it seems that people are interested in this movie thing, so I’ll have help. For the first time, I’m looking forward to spring weekend.
Teabagging
This is ridiculous.
No Motivation
No idea what happened, but I’m in vacation mode with a month of school left. I’m utterly unable to do anything – even internet browsing is laborious. I have several papers I could be doing, all of which are due soon, but I’m totally distracted. I’m five to ten years in the future designing a passive hydraulic solar tracker for a parabolic reflector oven, which I can use to bake all day. It’s large enough to accommodate a pizza.
Mr. Ambulance Driver
I would really love to get an ambulance. It really seems like the perfect live-in vehicle, especially since many are diesel, and could be converted to veggie. Unfortunately, I’m not sure veggie will be a reliable source of fuel over the coming years, and this makes me wary of buying one. I’m certainly interested in electric vehicles, but I think an ambulance is too large for easily obtainable motors. If I’m lucky, that will change as veggie fades away.
True Life
I got an email a few weeks ago from someone working with MTV’s True Life series, saying they were interested in Applied Daydreaming. I don’t have any idea what they wanted (they never got back to me), but it is interesting that it can garner that kind of attention when there are at most a handful of people present every week. It’s little blips like this, even when they don’t pan out, that make me think I could make a living doing stupid stuff I thought was fun.
Free Domain
I bought something on buy.com recently, and there was a GoDaddy promotion going on at the same time, so I now have a free domain at my disposal. I tried to give it to a few people I thought could use it, but no luck. I have no practical use for it, but I need to redeem it by April 1st or I lose it.
Any ideas, suggestions, or silly projects that need a home?
2009/03/21
Went hiking today. I really like this picture.
Why do I even try?
I handed in a travesty of a paper for one of my classes recently. I had absolutely no interest in the topic, and it barely applied to the theme I’m supposed to be sticking to this semester. I knew it was bad, but I had to hand in something, so I gave it as little effort as I could, and handed it in. A day late. And a page short. In a larger font and typeface. I got an 81, meaning it could have been higher, if it hadn’t been docked for being late. I actually tried on the first paper for this class, too. I don’t get it. She isn’t an easy grader, and people got lower grades than I. I don’t even know why I bother trying anymore.