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geebsOne of my pet peeves/quirks is when you're exiting the highway on a ramp that's two lanes but merges into one, and some dickwad behind you is taking the exit at 90mph in order to overtake you, even though you're already doing 70. My urge (as more than a few of you have experienced) is to accelerate and try and keep the guy behind me, even though we're about to exit onto normal roads. Its not like I'm going slow, what's with trying to overtake me? I guess I shouldn't take it so personally.
Here's another unreasonable pet peeve of mine. Even though I'll talk about stupid and inane crap all the time, it does bug the hell out of me when I'm dismissed to my face. I mean, even though I put my nice face on and deal with everyone else's stupid and inane crap, kissing their frakkin' ass and acting all interested all the frakkin' time, other people aren't required to. If you don't want to listen to crap, shouldn't you be all, I don't want to listen to your crap, instead of standing there being overly polite and listening and acting like you care about something you don't? Mebbe if I did that more, I wouldn't feel like punching people who did that to me in the face.
I was thinking today about the variation of the six degrees of Kevin Bacon game where you try to see how many degrees of separation are between you and some famous person. Obviously, the correct way to do it is to figure out who you can use to connect to famous people, and go from there, rather than starting from the particular famous person and working back to you. For me, I think these are the connections I could use:
- My big high school crush was on an ep of the Sopranos, and also in Kids, which of course had such starlets as Rosario Dawson and Chloe Sevigny before they hit it big.
- Another St. Francis Prep alum who was there the same time I was was Peter Facinelli. I'm pretty sure I met him once (even though the school has like three thousand students), because the first time I saw Can't Hardly Wait, I was all, "Wait, I know this guy!" Anyways, he has a pretty good list of credits (though is Fastlane his biggest work?) and is of course married to one of my childhood crushes, Jennie Garth.
- Bridget Moynahan was![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
clevemire's babysitter. She has a decent list of credits (she was one of the Coyote Ugly chicks, made out with Heather Graham in Grey Matters, and was the woman John Cusack was about to settle for when he thought he lost his chance with Kate Beckinsale in Serendipity), though I guess she's most famous for getting knocked up and left by Tom Brady.
-dholliday was classmates with Brittany Daniel (and her twin sister), of Club Dread and Joe Dirt fame. And Swan's Crossing, where SMG got her start before joining All My Children and then of course Buffy.
- one of7500centfish's classmates took Melissa Joan Hart to their prom.
- another cousin dated David Boreanaz's agent and knew him. Someone told me she also dated someone from Saved By the Bell. Obviously, she didn't date Zach, Slater, or Screech, so unless she dated that Ricky kid from the Hayley Mills years, I assume it was someone from the New Class? Of course, she also has some vague Hollywood job (agent? something with the Fox Reality channel?).
- I think there are a couple of connections I can get fromisabel79, but she would know better.
Thursday night TV commentary:
Tonight's ep of Smallville was one of those that reminds me of what a self-centered prick Clark Kent is. So, Lex pulls a Locke's dad and defenestrates Lionel. And somehow Clark makes it all about him, all "Lionel died protecting me, all of my father figures are dead!" WTF?! Wasn't he pissed and distrustful of Lionel not a few hours before and wanted him out of his life?! (And yeah, Clark did get Lionel killed by casting him aside so he was all mopey and vulnerable to Lex's machinations!) But he was also all, "Jor-El died sending me to Earth!" One, doesn't he hate Jor-El? And two, Jor-El died because Krypton blew up. Sending Clark away didn't have anything to do with him dying!
And Clark pulling the whole "I tried to be your friend, but you were too interested in power!" even though Lex's arguments were factually correct. Friends trust each other, and Lex got tired of Clark lying to his frickin' face the whole time.
And wait, who the hell killed that Gina chick? I was thinking it might be Lex, since she was a loose end, but I was thinking if it was, they'd show a scene later in the ep where he was listening to his voicemail, and hearing she knows who the Traveller is and him being all "CRAP!!" because he killed her before she could tell him. Then again, it should be obvious now that Clark is the Traveller. There's too much evidence pointing to Clark. Plus, he knew his father was protecting the Traveller, and its like, gee, what figure with mysterious happenings always happening around him does my father hang out with all the time?
Ha, is the whole Jim is gonna eventually proposed thing a gimmick they're doing to keep the whole Jam thing fresh? I'm sure thousands of shippers across the country squeed when Jim got down on the one knee. But it was a big fake out! I think it would get old and piss a lot of people off it he kept doing that, but the one time was amusing.
In any case, I don't think its too weird that he bought an engagement ring a week after they were dating. I mean, its not like she's a total stranger to him, they've been practically together for years now.
But ha, this ep was hilarious in terms of how prickish Michael could be. "Would she capsize a rowboat?" "Its like talking to the nice old lady on the bus?" What an a-hole!
Heh, despite the insane number of hours I've played SW2 and XL, I can still be an idiot. You know this whole time, I didn't realize there were special combos you could do on horseback?! I though there was just the square attack, and the triangle attack. I didn't realize there were ST, SST, and SSST combos! I would to be a fool. And I was playing as Gracia today, and I just realized, I could put her shield up first, then do her super beam attack, as the shield would protect her from getting hit out of doing the beam attack! I mean, its so obvious, yet I'm only now realizing it?! Its like, do I even know how to play this game?!
Here's another unreasonable pet peeve of mine. Even though I'll talk about stupid and inane crap all the time, it does bug the hell out of me when I'm dismissed to my face. I mean, even though I put my nice face on and deal with everyone else's stupid and inane crap, kissing their frakkin' ass and acting all interested all the frakkin' time, other people aren't required to. If you don't want to listen to crap, shouldn't you be all, I don't want to listen to your crap, instead of standing there being overly polite and listening and acting like you care about something you don't? Mebbe if I did that more, I wouldn't feel like punching people who did that to me in the face.
I was thinking today about the variation of the six degrees of Kevin Bacon game where you try to see how many degrees of separation are between you and some famous person. Obviously, the correct way to do it is to figure out who you can use to connect to famous people, and go from there, rather than starting from the particular famous person and working back to you. For me, I think these are the connections I could use:
- My big high school crush was on an ep of the Sopranos, and also in Kids, which of course had such starlets as Rosario Dawson and Chloe Sevigny before they hit it big.
- Another St. Francis Prep alum who was there the same time I was was Peter Facinelli. I'm pretty sure I met him once (even though the school has like three thousand students), because the first time I saw Can't Hardly Wait, I was all, "Wait, I know this guy!" Anyways, he has a pretty good list of credits (though is Fastlane his biggest work?) and is of course married to one of my childhood crushes, Jennie Garth.
- Bridget Moynahan was
clevemire's babysitter. She has a decent list of credits (she was one of the Coyote Ugly chicks, made out with Heather Graham in Grey Matters, and was the woman John Cusack was about to settle for when he thought he lost his chance with Kate Beckinsale in Serendipity), though I guess she's most famous for getting knocked up and left by Tom Brady.-
dholliday was classmates with Brittany Daniel (and her twin sister), of Club Dread and Joe Dirt fame. And Swan's Crossing, where SMG got her start before joining All My Children and then of course Buffy.- one of
7500centfish's classmates took Melissa Joan Hart to their prom. - another cousin dated David Boreanaz's agent and knew him. Someone told me she also dated someone from Saved By the Bell. Obviously, she didn't date Zach, Slater, or Screech, so unless she dated that Ricky kid from the Hayley Mills years, I assume it was someone from the New Class? Of course, she also has some vague Hollywood job (agent? something with the Fox Reality channel?).
- I think there are a couple of connections I can get from
isabel79, but she would know better. Thursday night TV commentary:
Tonight's ep of Smallville was one of those that reminds me of what a self-centered prick Clark Kent is. So, Lex pulls a Locke's dad and defenestrates Lionel. And somehow Clark makes it all about him, all "Lionel died protecting me, all of my father figures are dead!" WTF?! Wasn't he pissed and distrustful of Lionel not a few hours before and wanted him out of his life?! (And yeah, Clark did get Lionel killed by casting him aside so he was all mopey and vulnerable to Lex's machinations!) But he was also all, "Jor-El died sending me to Earth!" One, doesn't he hate Jor-El? And two, Jor-El died because Krypton blew up. Sending Clark away didn't have anything to do with him dying!
And Clark pulling the whole "I tried to be your friend, but you were too interested in power!" even though Lex's arguments were factually correct. Friends trust each other, and Lex got tired of Clark lying to his frickin' face the whole time.
And wait, who the hell killed that Gina chick? I was thinking it might be Lex, since she was a loose end, but I was thinking if it was, they'd show a scene later in the ep where he was listening to his voicemail, and hearing she knows who the Traveller is and him being all "CRAP!!" because he killed her before she could tell him. Then again, it should be obvious now that Clark is the Traveller. There's too much evidence pointing to Clark. Plus, he knew his father was protecting the Traveller, and its like, gee, what figure with mysterious happenings always happening around him does my father hang out with all the time?
Ha, is the whole Jim is gonna eventually proposed thing a gimmick they're doing to keep the whole Jam thing fresh? I'm sure thousands of shippers across the country squeed when Jim got down on the one knee. But it was a big fake out! I think it would get old and piss a lot of people off it he kept doing that, but the one time was amusing.
In any case, I don't think its too weird that he bought an engagement ring a week after they were dating. I mean, its not like she's a total stranger to him, they've been practically together for years now.
But ha, this ep was hilarious in terms of how prickish Michael could be. "Would she capsize a rowboat?" "Its like talking to the nice old lady on the bus?" What an a-hole!
Heh, despite the insane number of hours I've played SW2 and XL, I can still be an idiot. You know this whole time, I didn't realize there were special combos you could do on horseback?! I though there was just the square attack, and the triangle attack. I didn't realize there were ST, SST, and SSST combos! I would to be a fool. And I was playing as Gracia today, and I just realized, I could put her shield up first, then do her super beam attack, as the shield would protect her from getting hit out of doing the beam attack! I mean, its so obvious, yet I'm only now realizing it?! Its like, do I even know how to play this game?!
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Date: 2008-04-18 10:18 pm (UTC)Haha... I don't even remember if we had any classes together, but he was definitely one of the drama kids, lead in everything. Questionable... If you know what I mean...