Reader Participation Saturday!

...or Nathan demonstrates his utter laziness and lack of inspiration!

Uh...I have no idea what to blog about today. I've wandered about Stumble, looking for inspiration. I've searched Fark trying to find something to laugh or get all ranty about. I tried to think of some amusing anecdote from a movie I've worked on.

Guys. I've not nothing.

So...an Open Thread! (As if there's any other type here.)

Tell me what you want me to talk about.

Tell me what you thought of how Dr. Horrible turned out.

Tell me what you've done to make sure Shawn has an awesome birthday.

Think of something else to babble about.

Stuff. And Stuff.

First of all my street is being returned to me today. Yay pavement. (The rollers are making the whole house shake, but they'll be gone soon enough.) Then, I'm gonna run around the corner and get the car so I can be the first one to park on it. (Would that qualify as something that's really stupid to be competitive about?) Who cares!


Second, I saw this thing the other day. NYPD calls it Skywatch. The city has two or three of these things and they put them in locations where "there's been a spike in crime." This one is across the street from where folks go to ride the Circle Line, so I guess all those damned tourists have really been getting out of hand.

According to what I was able to find online, these things have all sorts of vision enhancing capabilities for the officer who is up there, and it records video all the time in case he misses something. And the windows are smoked, so you can't even tell if somone's in there at all.

I guess that's kind of impressive and stuff, but I'll wait till they come up with the version that goes tromping down 42nd Street on it's massive spider legs, and shoots lasers out of its ass.

Everything is Blog Fodder

Yesterday, the following exchange took place in the comments threads:

Sub-Tropicaligal said...

.....leaving for France in the a.m.
Peace Out you furniture wearing nutball!

July 16, 2008 10:45 PM

Nathan said...

Yes,

Di finally admits that her not-hubby just got a job on a WWII movie and they'll spend the next three months in France.

Di, will you be blogging with an obnoxious accent 'til October?

July 16, 2008 10:59 PM

Sub-Tropicaligal said...

We'll send you some freedom fries...and BTW help me keep blogging while I'm on a job...how DO you do it? I'm scared.

July 16, 2008 11:33 PM

Nathan said...

You don't post enough to begin with anyway. You are neglecting your blog and we want more.

July 16, 2008 11:46 PM

Sub-Tropicaligal said...

Perfect, you've given me fodder for my first entry from the front line...Normandy that is you suckers!

Earlier today, I posted about my intention to post a post and the following ensued:

Sub-Tropicaligal said...

Well if that counts as a post, then I feel better about starting this job.

July 17, 2008 11:43 AM

Nathan said...

Posting that you intend to post a post totally counts as a post.

Which all leads me to have the following observations and suggestions for SubTropicalGal, (hereinafter STG).

First, you got a job that's gonna take you to France for three freakin' months to work on a period picture, and you need me to suggest that you might want to blog about it? Holy Crap! I can understand not wanting to jinx the thing by talking about it too early, but even a cryptic sentence saying, "Some potentially awesome news might be in the wind" is a post worthy of posting.

Once you've found out you're really going you should brag to no end...in posts long and short. Tell us as much about the picture as you're comfortable talking about. Tell us what you're frantically having to go through to get ready to leave on such short notice. But keep rubbing our noses in it.

In the alternative, you could have written a post, pasted it into BabelFish to get a French translation (which is likely to be completely mangled), and then posted that! How's that for cryptic...completely incoherent to French and English speakers alike.

If you don't want to post about that, the following all count as viable posts:

I Stubbed My Toe! Youch!

White Castle: Is it food or not food?
(That was an actual thread elswhere that generated hundreds of comments.)

Does anyone know where my green sneakers are?

Everything is blog fodder.

The point is this STG. If I'm going to truly earn not-hubby's enmity for helping turn you into a blog-hopping, comment-whoring, "you go get the groceries, I'm blogging" type of being, you're going to need to amp up the dedication (or obsessiveness if you prefer).

I'm sure there'll be any number of War Stories that happen while you're shooting your War Story...some you can even tell us about.

C'mon STG! We know you can do it. Preferably with pictures.

I'm Going to Have A New Post Later Today!

I need to be in the car in about 10 minutes, so I don't have time to write what I just thought of writing about, so you'll just have to wait. Feel free to guess what I thought of while rinsing the shampoo out of my hair.

No prizes. No wagering.

And how could you guys let me leave this up with a missing "A" all day without telling me?

Look What That Crazy Michelle Did.

Not here! Up there!

New Banners Popping Up All Over.

A few days ago, Shawn put up a new banner that Kate designed for him.

Well, I guess Michelle got all inspired and stuff and designed one for me. I think it's hysterical and you'll get a chance to see it soon. (Maybe tonight when I have time to put it up.)

UCFerness From Across The Pond and Kitty Screensaver Love.

I got home this evening to find snail mail from Ilya! I have to say I find this whole thing very cool and I'm somewhat shamed that I haven't sent anything to anyone yet.

I'll have to think about the whole theme 'cause I like to make a splash. Thanks Ilya. You brought a smile on an otherwise uninspired day.

And, I've mentioned that I have a new screensaver that shows dolphins leaping as if half my screen is filled with water. The cats are fascinated but can't understand that when the step up onto the keyboard, they wake up the computer and the dolphins disappear.


Teufel was especially pissed off about the whole thing.