Dinner & movies @ Latebra

I provided cashews, Texas Barbecue Sauce-flavor Pringles--which, oddly enough, I've never seen in the U.S., though I have seen Barbecue--and a 2L box of port to Latebra--not the $11/box stuff, oh no, this was the classy $12.50/box stuff. ;D

Watched the second half of American Beauty, which I'd seen at least twice before, and Brokedown Palace, which I don't know that I'd ever heard of--quite good. Had dinner in the middle of movie two--steamed pork dumplings, cashew chicken, some other kind of chicken (lemongrass?), very tasty. Sat around and chatted with Jillian, Brooke, Luke, Mitchell, and Mark, about topics various and sundry. And then, after I got tired, I went home--unlike usual, where I stick around getting more and more tired until I leave altogether too late. :)

Dream: Escape by missile!

In last night's dream, I was escaping from an Asian prison (Brokedown Palace-style, only more successful) with a girl who resembled preciouslaura or subbes at various times. Prior to our escape, I was discussing various means of departure with macguyver, particularly aircraft--apparently the SR-71 has a propensity to break in half, one kind of stealth bomber would be infeasible, and another newer type hadn't yet been shown to the public to exist. Thus, our means of escape meant riding a missile out (Real Life-style), which we (girl and I) successfully did, bound for San Francisco. ( Then what? )

WireWork, novelties from the ride home, and an assortment of links

Work today involved turning a mess of wires around a door into a very neat set of wire runs. I do good work. :D Work also featured two kinds of free brownies, which is never a bad thing. :) (And I learned that my team leader and one of my teammates have headed to New Zealand for a day to take advantage of a loophole in travel authorizations and time limits on working in Australia. Would've been nice to know this ahead of time, but I rarely get told much of anything--not that I'm bitter or anything. :P)

On the way home from work, I saw a whole mob of kangaroos--at least 15, I'd say, maybe 20--but they all hopped off before I could get any pictures, even though my camera was in my pocket today. :) I also saw some strange megacanoes--6-16 paddlers, with a coach at the tiller on the larger one. Took pictures. Odd. A bit later on the trip home, I got SMSed by Liz (the cute redhead from a while back) who wants to go clubbing this weekend. Woo! :)

And apparently Jillian just saw a preview for Shrek 2, and has rated it "FUCKING AWESOME!!!" :D

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Turing Train Terminal. Yes, that Turing. And model trains. Geeky-nifty.

kelwyn: "I wish I could open a Vietnamese noodle joint called Pho Shizzle, but someone already did." Hee. (Of course, "Pho" isn't pronounced "Fo'", but we'll let that slide. :)

Heart-Shaped Skull looks pretty. Comics and art and whatnot. Rather Tim Burton-esque. :)

From Jillian, ISeeYouPee.com--a variety of entertaining links and such. :)

From Ian of Mac Hall, an interactive art assignment: Cute or Creepy v2. (Well, I'm assuming it'll be cool when it's finished, which should be soon. :)

CNN.commentary :)

Yellowstone snowmobile ban overturned: It would hurt business! (Always more important than environmental and noise pollution.)

Atkins' widow criticizes report of husband's obesity: "Shh! You're not supposed to have that information!"

Microsoft warns of hacker-friendly flaw: Uh-huh.

Swimmer drives for help with shark attached to leg: "There's nothing in our procedure manual for that type of thing!"

Sea lion leaves ocean for 65-mile trip inland: "Maybe he was going after fish, and there are far fewer sea lions to compete with in the delta." True that.

Pornographer to sell Whitehouse.com: Sure, it's to protect your kid from taunting, nothing to do with the new misleading-URL law.

Woman drops Jackson lawsuit: Made her point, she says. Right--that she's a freaking idiot an overly sensitive and repressed git?

China 'won't meddle' with Taiwan: Nope, no meddling, but "Chen cannot conceal his evil intention of using [the referendum] to pave the way for future referendums on Taiwan independence." Eeeevil!

Chocolate sweet for heart, science shows: Huzzah!

Coalition: Diplomas losing meaning: And we're surprised?

France backs head scarf ban: Offensive to some, sure, but 70% of polled French, including over half of the polled French Muslims, support the ban.

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