{"id":87614898,"date":"2011-11-16T00:22:36","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T08:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/16\/nablopomo-day-15\/"},"modified":"2011-11-16T12:18:26","modified_gmt":"2011-11-16T20:18:26","slug":"nablopomo-day-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/?p=87614898","title":{"rendered":"NaBloPoMo: Day 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pretty random tonight, so hope I don&#8217;t leave you all wondering what I&#8217;ve been drinking (Tim Hortons Double-Double).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Being president is a real non-stop headstuff twirl-fest.&#8221;<br \/>\n<em>The Daily Show &#8211; Nov 15, 2011<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Watched Our Idiot Brother tonight, and enjoyed it quite a bit.  We were both reminded of Peter Sellers&#8217; Being There.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Price Tag ( cover ) - Najwa Latif\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LG-Z96uaSZ0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Been reading Stephen King&#8217;s new book, and so far it&#8217;s as solid as his previous stuff.  Been reading it on my iPhone using the ebook reader application, and the one thing that I find odd is that there&#8217;s no page numbering. Actually, there IS page numbering, but it&#8217;s on a per-screen basis, so I&#8217;m currently on &#8220;page&#8221; 113 of 1,578.  Maybe I&#8217;ll try reading Neal Stephenson&#8217;s Quicksilver\/Baroque cycle again, &#8217;cause when I&#8217;m on page 113 of 6,000 (first book of three), maybe it won&#8217;t seem so bad.<\/p>\n<p>Heard that Community is being &#8220;benched&#8221; for a while mid-season, and I found it interesting that most of the buzz on twitter seemed to be calling for Whitney to be pulled instead of Community.  Seems sorta random.  As long as they don&#8217;t pull Two Broke Girls (which is funny, but largely because my wife makes fun of me for getting stars in my eyes whenever Kat Dennings is on screen.)<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the webcam and some smart software, I got to be really paranoid for about ten minutes this afternoon.  I was in Chinatown having some lunch.  I don&#8217;t know what the food was called, nor do I know the name of the restaurant, because there&#8217;s no English whatsoever on anything in the place.  Like, not even an anglicized &#8220;House of Foodness&#8221; sign to help us EOL (English as an Only Language) folks figure out there&#8217;s food in there.  Love their&#8230; whatever the stuff at the top left of the poster with the pictures on it is.  Tate and I should go down there for lunch some time and order off the pictures instead of either of us trying to read anything.<\/p>\n<p>Oh right, yeah, so the webcam is pointed out the window and sends me a single frame of the video clip whenever it spots a person.  Not cats or cars or trees, just people.  Kinda neat, actually.  But I&#8217;m sitting at lunch eating my uh&#8230; lunch, and get a single frame of a guy in a black shirt and black pants in the back yard.<\/p>\n<p>Then another one.  This guy had a badge on his shoulder.  Oh crap.<\/p>\n<p>Got back to the office and remoted home to grab the clips and see what was going on.  Turns out it was all the same person, and it was all a cop.  Not sure what he was looking for, but he was certainly looking around for it pretty desperately.  We checked some local crime maps when I got home, and the week before last had at least three break-ins in our area.  So, all good right now, but there&#8217;s SOMETHING going on in the area.<\/p>\n<p>I blame the raccoons.<\/p>\n<p>Getting colder during the ride home, so I&#8217;m going to need some better, thicker gloves and start wearing more than a teeshirt under my cycling jacket.<\/p>\n<p>Still haven&#8217;t seen my xray from last week, so stay tuned about whether or not I&#8217;m doomly doom doomed.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pretty random tonight, so hope I don&#8217;t leave you all wondering what I&#8217;ve been drinking (Tim Hortons Double-Double). &#8220;Being president is a real non-stop headstuff twirl-fest.&#8221; The Daily Show &#8211; Nov 15, 2011 Watched Our Idiot Brother tonight, and enjoyed it quite a bit. 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