Here I am at work...

I've just been playing around with Google Talk's new update, found via Digg. It's not being pushed yet so you have to get it manually if you want it. Among other things, it will autodetect the music that you're playing and put it in your status message. It plays right into my weakness for nifty gadgets.

And speaking of nifty gadgets, I went ahead and installed the Semagic LJ client on my work computer. This is the first time I've actually used the LJ client for very much since I got iTunes and my iPod, since at the time the LJ client wouldn't autodetect the current track from iTunes. So I'm sitting here listening to the Genesis Climber Mospeada soundtrack and grooving as it is simultaneously detected by both Google Talk and the LJ client. (Though come to think of it, I went ahead and updated the music as detected to replace "Various Artists" with "Joe Hisaishi" and update the album title, so maybe it was a little pointless huh?)

Sometimes it strikes me that I am easily entertained.

The 16 movie quotes game

There's a meme going around. The idea is that you pick 16 quotes from your favorite movies, ask for people to identify them, and then strike out the quotes and put the title and LJ ID of the person who guessed right after each one. I'm kind of cheating a little; a couple of my quotes are from TV series, and a couple may be slightly obscure. And there's probably not enough people reading this anyway to get them. But what the heck, maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised.

The quotes aren't exact, I may have gotten some of them slightly wrong, but the sense is there.

1. "Thank GOD for model trains! If it weren't for model trains, how would we know how to make the big ones?" A Mighty Wind, thandrak
2. "That was my first bus ride."
3. "It's a thingie! A fiendish thingie!" Help!, thandrak
4. "There's something about us I have to do—some kind of secret I will share with you."
5. "You boys have to learn not to talk to nuns that way." The Blues Brothers, zonereyrie
6. "Who's that old sourpuss?" Robotech, genchaos
7. "To the lecherous and greedy count. I will purloin your bride. That day will come soon." Lupin III: Castle of Cagliostro, genchaos
8. "You ain't Baxter?" "I ain't Hawley." Silverado, rickj
9. "How do I look?" "Like a hood ornament." The Rocketeer, rickj
10. "Give the man a gun and he's Superman; give him two and he's God." Hard-Boiled (or, in the original Chinese, Hot-Handed God of Cops), thandrak
11. "They live deeply, these vagabonds."
12. "There's just no way to dust for vomit." This is Spinal Tap, thandrak
13. "In the enemy's country—hopelessly lost, helplessly cold and horribly hungry."
14. "You mustn't run from anything immortal; it attracts their attention." The Last Unicorn, rickj
15. "This is a house of God!" "Don't worry, Father, we'll be gone before He gets back."
16. "You were fantastic. And you know what? So was I." Doctor Who ("Parting of the Ways"), tbutler

Home again, home again...

Well, it was a decent enough day. Woke up a bit early, couldn't get back to sleep, so I listened to my friend demiurgent's newest project, a podcast. Kind of neat. Not your usual review or day-in-the-life 'cast, this was more a sort of artistic thing, combining writing, delivery, and music. It was about fatigue and its effects, which fit as I was feeling fatigued myself. It was something to think about on the bike in to work, when I had the thoughts to spare. Stopped off for a croissant and shortbread cookie (to go) from Panera, then headed into the office.

Nothing much doing; ticket queue was fairly slow, and boss was out all day on one of his local networking projects. I did a bit of noodling around on the Internet, wrote a LJ entry and a post or two for my essay journal…and accidentally wiped out my entire terrania.us www directory while trying to test something for a client. Fortunately, our ISP does weekly backups, and I hadn't actually updated any of my stuff in a coon's age except for the journal, and it's a blogger.com journal so all my stuff was automatically backed up. In the end I lost about four days of site statistics, and some Motivator images I'd just uploaded from my home computer to have a place from which to link them. (I'll probably post those at some point when I get around to it, either here or in robotech since that's what they're about.)

I picked up my paycheck from work, then I caught a bus out west to the BioKinetics clinic, where I picked up my paycheck from them too. Taken both together, I essentially got about 2 1/3 paychecks today. A nice little influx of funds; now I can pay off my $513 credit card bill (I know, I'm a big spender) and my monthly utility bills and maybe have enough left over that I won't feel too guilty about renting a car sometime soon and going to visit a friend. Biked on home after that, and by the time I got here I was soaked with sweat. Fortunately some air conditioning and electric fan action took care of that.

At the moment I'm sitting in City of Heroes not real sure what, if anything, I feel like doing. Maybe some friends will show up. Maybe I'll watch a movie. Maybe I'll take a nap. Maybe I'll post in my Livejournal. Hey, that's an idea!