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News item from KGW.com:

PORTLAND, Ore. -- A car full of people dressed as zombies crashed on Interstate 84 near downtown Portland on Friday, causing initial confusion by people who witnessed the crash.

Portland Police said the car was swerving in the eastbound lanes of the freeway just east of the Lloyd District just after 9:30 p.m. when it rolled over and crashed onto its top.

Emergency crews took five victims from the crash to area hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries.

Police said that in their investigation they learned that the people inside the car were dressed as zombie costumes and they were headed to a party at the time of the crash.

Sgt. Greg Stewart said people who witnessed the crash initially thought the victims' injuries were much more serious, because of the zombie costumes.

"We're glad that everyone is alive, despite being 'undead'," Sgt. Stewart said, referring to the costumes.

I joined teamatlantis at stargateland after seeing it on mercury973's LiveJournal. It's a fun community with participation based challenges where you can vid, write, make graphics and do all sorts of other things.


I joined a bit too late to get a sig tag made for me, so I made my own. Then I went crazy and made six more for other people to max out my points for that challenge.

( The sig tags I've made so far. )

I just noticed that with one exception, they're all Team Atlantis people and the majority are John/Rodney. It's obvious where my interest lies, eh? GO TEAM ATLANTIS!

I also wrote something for the writing challenge, but I can't post it until after the challenge closes and voting is done. I really enjoyed writing it, and it felt good to be writing again.

Of course it's a Sheppard-whump ficlet. Why is it that while I love McShep and fluff, I can only seem to write gen angst? There were three prompts: pain, hope and family. I'm sure you can guess which one resonated with me, right? Now I just have to write a second 100-500 word story for the same challenge - good thing you can use the same prompt twice! :D Though I may actually manage to churn out something using hope or family, who knows?

The 4th of Joe-ly is a holiday for everyone, even non-USians. Let us celebrate with this picture:



David's Magic Microphone has transported them to an alternate universe where legs are optional but silly hats are mandatory.

I have taken a solemn vow to stop forgetting people's birthdays, so it's double birthday time today.

Happy Birthday to nakedwesley and arlessiar!



(Wow, that is an ugly card. Good thing it's vintage.)

We were talking about the "Lorne is gay because he's a painter" rumor during the con last weekend and it reminded me of the 2008 all LOLCAT post I did from Joe Mallozzi's POV. I totally called that Lorne thing. :D

Best part of that post was where I made my fake audience say, "HAY, IF ONLY GAY PERSON EVER ON SHOW WUZ GAY WHERE NOBODYZ COULD SEEZ IT, MEANS OTHER PEOPLE CAN BE GAY TOO. HAY SHEPPARD! WE DECIDE YOUZ GAY! MAYBE YOU HAD SECRET SCENE, GOT CUT FOR TIME? YAH! NOW MAKE OUT WITH MCKAY. WE DECIDE HE SWINGZ BOTH WAYZ, YAH. SURE, SCENE GOT CUT, UHUH. DON WORRY BOUT IT. NOW CHOP CHOP, NOT GETTN ANY YOUNGER HEREZ."

Just be warned that Joe took the chair in the dark spot, so most of my really good photos are of David. I have some decent Joe pictures, but they're really dark and I'll have to work on them a lot more to get usable pics. Why can't Creation just seat them next to each other already and/or have good lighting?

But the Flan has gotten a new pair of glasses, and it's cool that he was comfortable enough to let us all see him wearing them



Image quality's not great, since I was editing at 3am on a tiny, crappy netbook screen, but he's still plenty hot. Mmmmhmmm. (And yes, they're tinted yellow! :D)

About ten minutes after J left for work, Fed-Ex showed up at my door with my lens rental, a fancy-schmancy Canon 50mm f/1.2 from Borrow Lenses. I love it already, too bad it costs $1500, yikes.



I bought a bunny-shaped paper punch a long time ago and I made a hundred little paper bunnies one day. Needless to say, I don't have a lot of use for tiny paper bunnies, so they live in my coffee table drawer. But they make for excellent photography subjects, and they don't hop away or yell at you.

The amazing thing about this lens is the sharp, tiny depth of field and the great low light capture. That should prove useful at the Minn SG Con.

( There are more where that bun came from. )

If one of my life goals was to melt a plastic knife handle to the side of my best pan. For some reason, I keep forgetting to turn off the electric burner after I saute asparagus and this time the knife bore the brunt of my stupidity. I think I can salvage the knife and the pan looks okay. The worst thing is the smell - burning plastic, mmm. I had to set up a fan relay from the front of the apartment to the back so that I could cycle out the awful stench. I'm going to have to remember to stop leaving the burner on before I burn the apartment down. I think I'll leave myself a note to that effect next to the stove.

At least I have all of these pretty Hewlett photos from the Splice premiere to soothe my soul. There's a great one of Vincenzo pretending to strangle David. I like the ones of David and Jane, too, they look so happy. Apparently I'm seeing Splice for my friend's birthday, which suits me fine. I don't think I'll like the rest of the movie that much, since I already know most of the plot and I think it's kind of fucked up and/or lame, but it'll be great to see David on the big screen. Giant awesome David Hewlett, yays!

So, I got a letter from my previous job telling me that I have pension money I either have to take as a lump sum or roll over into one of the various types of retirement accounts.

I never paid into it and I think my employer only did it for the tax breaks and interest payments they could accrue in my name. So, I chose to take the lump sum. For $3,000. Yep.

And since I'll be getting this $3000, I decided to waste a bit of it on a meet and greet ticket with David Hewlett at the Minneapolis con. Yep, insane. I'll probably burst from sheer excitement.