An Atypical Life

I think I have been waiting for this since 1982. Originally posted on Filmstalker.

Tr2n on RUTube:

I am just back from RSDC 2008. Conferences like this, related to my line of work, normally get me pumped up and excited for the coming year’s efforts. This conference, like so many other things in my life that used to be important to me it seems these days, just drained me. I am left wondering if I don’t have some sort of chronic fatigue syndrome or sleep disorder that is preventing me from having the levels of energy I need during the day to make things happen.

Rather than dive into a solipsistic morose ramble (screw all you self-obsessive types), I think I’m going to focus on the sun, and hope that a weekend of not thinking about work, school, or anything else that’s obligatory “cures” me. If not I will find out what’s behind all of this when I go on vacation the middle of next week.

The past two weeks, I have been sick - fever, congestion, barotrauma due to plane flight with aforementioned fever and congestion, coughing, laryngitis…it’s been lingering longer than it’s needed to. I am mostly recovered but still sniffly/coughy/post nasal drippy, and my head still feels like it’s full of cotton. No, I haven’t seen a doctor; what is he going to do other than tell me to get more rest?

I am stressed and overcommitted with work, school, programming projects, home construction, home garden, my feline companion, and preparation for conference presentations. I think this is the real cause of my illness.

I’m also committed to travel for the next 3-4 weeks.

I need to ease up on myself; I don’t see that happening anytime soon. :(

Catch me on IRC or twitter if you want to connect.

A gentle reminder that, for the month of February, I am participating in Thing-A-Day 2008.

Today’s contribution: That’s Obamawang!

We just had thundersnow. 2 many lightning strikes, and lots of loud thunder. Scary.

I am thankful I am inside, warm, with a kitty.

for elspeth, from Ars Technica: Of mice and mines: trained rats search for explosives, tuberculosis

I know yours are gone now, but I thought it might be of interest anyway…

International Journal of Impotence Research.

FROM: Relative prevalence of different fetishes, C Scorolli, S Ghirlanda, M Enquist, S Zattoni and E A Jannini

Table 2. Sexual preferences for body parts or features. 

And I thought I’d seen everything.

i am participating in this year’s thing-a-day exercise - to stimulate my creative juices.

Others I know or have just met who I will be following for thing-a-day:

• nyar
• dyslexia
• mithril
• …maybe you? Sign up today - last day to sign up!

Can anyone out there help me identify a film? It:

• exclusively has art on the dvd jacket
  • of fairly non-descript people
  • in pastels
  • more stick figure than real life
  • I believe they are looking depressed, or at least stunned/dazed
• has a one-word title
• It would have been on DVD by 2006
• It was not made prior to 1995, and probably not before 2000
• Tends to be available more in independent video stores than in your average Blockbuster
• I believe it was animated, but it might just be the cover art confusing my memory
• I believe MTV was involved in its promotion at one point

What I remember is given in reverse-order of me being sure about them.

edit: DVD identified as Happiness (1998). Thank you mengwong. I am reliably informed it is a “terrible but great” film, and that I will want to watch it precisely once.