This is a big week for me.
1. Transformers! As much hype as it's getting and as much as I've read about its lack of higher-brain-function entertainment, the 10 year-old boy in me can't wait to see this flick this afternoon. I'm not sure how I'm going to take it... I'll probably leave the theatre muttering, "MOER DAN MEETZ TEH EYE!" Years of movie reviewing and critical thinking gone in a flash, it's very sad.
2. My first scheduled consecutive days off all year. Gotta take 'em sometime... the company that bought out the facilities management company where I work has a policy that says I can't build up more than 15 days off, so I gotta take 'em if I don't want to lose 'em. So, Thursday and Friday off for...
3. CONvergence. This annual geek festival officially starts Friday, but I'm going to be there on Thursday helping to set up the Dystopia party, one of the premeir events at every installment. If you go to the con, no doubt you'll see people walking around with barcodes on their necks, bellies, foreheads, lower backs, breasts, and inner thighs. That's Dystopia, or at least our mark of the beast, and I'm often the guy who ends up putting those temporary tattoos on people (this can be a very pleasant exercise, or a highly uncomfortable one, depending on where they want the tattoo and the attractiveness of the recipient.
The dystopia we're representing this year is a communist dystopia... what would happen if the Soviets had wone the cold war and hired Steve Jobs to run their PR campaign. Thus, the room should look something like the Apple Store, and we'll be Apple Store employees/Communist party representatives. Should be a gas.
The Con is also a notorious meet market for nerds. Maybe, just maybe, instead of ending up making out with random strangers, I'll actually meet someone nice who lives in the area. More on that as it develops.
1. Transformers! As much hype as it's getting and as much as I've read about its lack of higher-brain-function entertainment, the 10 year-old boy in me can't wait to see this flick this afternoon. I'm not sure how I'm going to take it... I'll probably leave the theatre muttering, "MOER DAN MEETZ TEH EYE!" Years of movie reviewing and critical thinking gone in a flash, it's very sad.
2. My first scheduled consecutive days off all year. Gotta take 'em sometime... the company that bought out the facilities management company where I work has a policy that says I can't build up more than 15 days off, so I gotta take 'em if I don't want to lose 'em. So, Thursday and Friday off for...
3. CONvergence. This annual geek festival officially starts Friday, but I'm going to be there on Thursday helping to set up the Dystopia party, one of the premeir events at every installment. If you go to the con, no doubt you'll see people walking around with barcodes on their necks, bellies, foreheads, lower backs, breasts, and inner thighs. That's Dystopia, or at least our mark of the beast, and I'm often the guy who ends up putting those temporary tattoos on people (this can be a very pleasant exercise, or a highly uncomfortable one, depending on where they want the tattoo and the attractiveness of the recipient.
The dystopia we're representing this year is a communist dystopia... what would happen if the Soviets had wone the cold war and hired Steve Jobs to run their PR campaign. Thus, the room should look something like the Apple Store, and we'll be Apple Store employees/Communist party representatives. Should be a gas.
The Con is also a notorious meet market for nerds. Maybe, just maybe, instead of ending up making out with random strangers, I'll actually meet someone nice who lives in the area. More on that as it develops.
dracomicron:
UPDATE: Transformers is large and messy. Fun, though, if you liked them as a kid. I hate to use the term "fanservice," but they had it. No, there was no Optimus Prime nude scene (Or was there???), but they had quite a few jokes from the original series, and a few other bits for longtime fans.