Marriage License by Norman Rockwell
Click the picture for an unonbstructed view
Source: Art.com
Featured:
Navigation
CC's Random Thoughts
Franklin, TN, USA
Manila, Philippines
Temperature:
As of :
Temperature:
As of :
Background pictures illustrate current weather conditions
CC's Tweets
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Agh, I'm part Sheldon!
Current Mood: CC is listening to: Nothing right now Steve and I were watching The Big Bang Theory reruns on TV last night. It was the episode where Sheldon was trying to figure out how to make other friends.
As soon as I saw Sheldon's flowchart on the board, I buried my face in the pillow going, "Oh no!" and Steve started pointing at me teasingly.
Hey, at least I'm not as bad as this guy, who actually took the time to recreate Sheldon's flowchart. By the way, the counter should say n=0, not n="No"... Agh, I can't stop!
Current Mood: CC is listening to: Nothing right now When you watch a movie that takes place during the middle ages, have you ever wondered if people really lived that way? Were knights really chivalrous? How did a peasant live? What does being a damsel really mean?
I came across an old 2004 series that answers those questions: Terry Jones' Medieval Lives. In case you didn't already know it, Terry Jones is part of the Monty Python team. He is a historian as well as a comedian, and his mission is to separate the fact from the romanticized notions of this time in history.
And the good news is, you can watch the entire season on YouTube. YouTube now has a new "TV Shows" section (http://www.youtube.com/shows) and a "Movies" section (http://www.youtube.com/movies). Granted they're the older shows and movies, but if you've never seen them before, that still qualifies as "new," right :-)?
Current Mood: CC is listening to: Nothing right now Okay I didn't write about the Big Bang Theory in my blog, but I did have as my Facebook status a few days ago that I absolutely love that show. And since Steve and I just watched Star Trek, I figured now would be a good time to share this video clip :-). I must've watched this clip at least ten times, it's so funny :-). I never thought I'd see Sheldon so happy that he'd be close to tears :-).
Current Mood: CC is listening to: Nothing right now I took a personal day yesterday so Steve and I could spend some additional time together. We went and watched Star Trek. Since we watched the first showing on a Wednesday, you can be pretty sure that there weren't too many people in the theater :-). The only other people in there were a few seniors and, of course, other geeks that could afford to wait and watch it when it wasn't crowded :-).
It was actually kind of fun :-). That kind of environment made it more okay for me to laugh and cheer because I knew that the only other people within earshot were other geeks that knew what I was talking/cheering about. Take, for example, the time when Bones McCoy joined the movie. Ten minutes after watching him talk, I turned to Steve and said, "Oh my god, he talks just like DeForest Kelley!"
And the guy in front of me, someone we've never met, laughed and said, "Yeah, he does :-)!"
I must've been talking louder than I thought. Normally I'd be embarrassed by that, but I wasn't, because there was an appreciation of what I just said :-).
It was that way for the rest of the movie too. We all cheered when Simon Pegg came on. When a group was put together for a mission, Steve and I both pointed at the screen and recognized the "Expendable Crew Member." We all laughed and clapped when Bones said, "Damnit Jim, I'm a doctor, not a physicist!" And when Scotty said in that trademark Scottish accent, "I'm givin' her all she's got, Captain!" we laughed and clapped again. I hope the seniors weren't too upset :-). Then again, they must have recognized those lines too if they watched the 60s series.
And then when the movie was over, everyone simply got up, said something about how great a movie it was, and went their separate ways :-). It was fun :-). I don't think it would have been that much fun if we watched it as soon as it got out. Waiting a few days and watching it on a weekday made it less of a "geekfest" and more a "private viewing among geeks"--if that makes sense :-).
Or Via E-Mail:
