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Friday, November 13th, 2009
1:48 pm	Two links W First, a fan made prequel to Dr. Horrible. Not as good as the original, but rather stupendous considering reportedly no one involved in the movie has ever been involved in making a movie before. Horrible Turn (And for some more info and a bonus link: the EW article on Horrible Turn) ALSO: Ball on a string. I CAN'T STOP PLAYING. Someone on Reddit commented, "So this must be what it's like being a cat." I fly to Myrtle Beach today for three weeks to work on A Christmas Carol! -Willlo (Comment on this)
Monday, November 9th, 2009
8:16 pm	Photopost! W I thought I'd toss up some pictures that were taken recently in my sanity-restoring breaks from work and projects. If you've been on Facebook you've probably seen some of these, but I like having them on LJ too. Stacey snagged this hat from the the Broadway show where she's asst. head of wardrobe, and I snagged it from her! Shnazzy! This one is also awesome. This was our last trip out of the studio -- we just moved to TriBeCa from Chelsea. We had quite a few empty boxes leftover, and luckily I found the most efficient (or photoworthy) method of taking them to the moving truck. We might have imbibed some spirits after all the movin', and apparently it gave me superpowers on the E train. Not that I'm complaining. And finally, a shot from the off-off-Broadway show I just opened, Lesser Seductions of History! I did the set design. I was pretty happy with how it came out, and it's definitely a bit different from anything I've designed before. So at the least, huzzah for pushing beyond prior personal experience! (Photography: Tyler Griffin) Now to draft A Christmas Carol this week before flying down on Friday! -Willlo (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, November 2nd, 2009
9:55 pm	Bzzzzzap W In tech for Lesser Seductions this week... I hope a crapton of blue circles was the appropriate approach. Looks like we'll find out! After that, it's on to figuring out what I'll do for Christmas Carol in Myrtle Beach. Also, November is National Novel Writing Month. I want to do it, but (the BS excuse) I have no clue what I'd write about and (the legimate excuse) I know once I fly down to SC I won't have time really to work on it for the rest of the month. But check it out. Anyone who does it, I promise to read your novel. Any takers? -Willlo (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
9:58 pm	Octobers W Same deal as what I said in September. Unfortunately, we've updated so seldom this month that it should just be a couple posts back. I tried to keep it brief with each month, but if I start down a nostalgic tangent, I kinda get carried away... So yeah, an absolute tl;dr unless you're bored or just curious for the skim. If you do click-through, enjoy! I've sprinkled pictures in where I had any available! (I can't believe I don't have any pictures from October 2004...) ( A decade of Octobers... ) -Willlo (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, October 25th, 2009
12:17 am	Temporally problematic. W I had to prep a Polaroid camera at work, and so I was taking some test shots. I might have had a little fun with it. -Willlo (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, October 24th, 2009
12:56 am	WOOOOOOO W HAPPY BIRTHDAY LAURA!!! Happy birthday to one of the three people that still checks Livejournal! WOOOO! I hope you have a great one! -Willlo (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
9:50 pm	I'm addicted now. W And then Laura's I posted as a reply to her comment on the last one, but in case you didn't clickthrough: -Willlo (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
11:24 pm	I know I know I know W I have been extremely delinquent about posting. In apology, I offer you this: -Willlo (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
8:08 pm	Reflections W First of all, I'm alive. I kinda disappeared there for two weeks as I was working on Little Shop of Horrors in Myrtle Beach, which led directly into another week disappeared as I fought the flu. In other news, the flu sucks. Anyway, this was going to go up much earlier this month, but I still made it before the cut-off. Something that's been on my mind a lot recently was that it was TEN YEAAAARS AGO that I started college. And, being one ever so ready to wallow in nostalgia, I decided I wanted to write a little piece reflecting on the enormity of everything that's happened in the last ten years. Now, I dunno if I'll keep up with this -- Bob laughed at the mere suggestion that he'd start (but he promised he'd... what was the phrase? "Spice it up"? "Jazz it up"?) but what I've done is written a little small paragraph about each September from the last ten years. Next month, I'll do the same for October, and so on. More than anything, it was an exercise to make myself reach back and reflect a little, and also to put it here where I can come read it again later and be nostalgic about being nostalgic. I tried to keep it brief, so apologies if I've left something off you thought I'd include -- but feel free to add it in a comment. I love memorieeeeth!! Though I will say, despite trying to keep each one brief -- and I've also included a picture if I could find one for that year -- this may not be entirely interesting to everyone else. So read only if bored, I'd say. ( Onto a decade of Septembers... ) Back to coughing up a lung... -Willlo (8 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, September 17th, 2009
12:10 pm	Word Puzzle! B In an effort to post more, I'm finally going to finish the albums post (here, soon). On top of that completion, I am also going to post weekly/bi-weekly/depending-on-my-poop-schedule-weekly word puzzles! I've missed doing this. FTW goes to the first submitter to get it correctly. Rearrange-a-gram Pyramid: The number of letters is indicated by the number on the right. Figure out the word and either take away or add one letter to each one and rearrange the letters to solve the clue. For the first number 7 and the last number 8, there is a bit of a stretch, and "plan" refers to the same word in both. 8. Intervened _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 7. Drum plan? _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 6. Constructed (2 words) _ _ _ _ _ _ 5. "Nickel and _____" _ _ _ _ _ 4. Half (prefix) _ _ _ _ 3. Sea bordering Ital. and Cyp. _ _ _ 2. 1st person objective _ _ 1. Caesar's 1000 _ 1. Caesar's 500 _ 2. _ _-TV (1999 Ron Howard comedy) _ _ 3. Beethoven's "the" _ _ _ 4. Popular January 1st promise _ _ _ _ 5. Attempted _ _ _ _ _ 6. Temper-tantrum _ _ _ _ _ _ 7. Kerr Drug competitor _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 8. Level plan? (2 words) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ --Burb out (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009
1:51 pm	Okay, kinda proud to be a Paladin. B This is just kinda badass. Go Furman. --Burb out (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Saturday, August 29th, 2009
3:23 pm	Triple word score W Talk about a video game for English majors: Silent Conversation It took me about 15-20 minutes to get through the Nameless City level, but I would never have expected how absorbing those words are when treated as your environment as well. This thing taps into your brain in some sort of synesthetic way that's quite original, as far as I've seen. -Willlo (1 Comment |Comment on this)
2:20 pm	Another! W Okay, I should get back to work. Or I would if flying WEREN'T SO AWESOME. -Willlo (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, August 27th, 2009
10:23 pm	Mathmanmathmanmathman W So, one of my friends posted this on Facebook today: ______ is pondering this fact: each 5 mph you drive OVER 60 mph is like paying $.10 extra per gallon.....discuss Firstly, let's stipulate that this fact is true, though I'll address this later... That made me first think, "Holy crap... maybe I really shouldn't go 75 or so then." But then I decided to do the math, and came up with this to response: I suppose it depends on what you think your time is worth. If (broad estimate here) average mpg is 19.8 for cars and light trucks, let's say (for ease of math) you're going 65 miles. If you go 60mph, no additional cost, but an extra 5 minutes. If you go 65mph, you gain $.10 per gallon. With average 19.8 mpg for 65 miles, that's using 3.28 gallons, equaling 32.8 cents you've cost yourself. If that's for 5 minutes, that means you cost yourself $3.94 to gain an hour for going only 5mph over 60. So as long as you consider your time worth more than ~$4/hour, you should eat the cost of the extra 5mph. Using the same system (but say you're going 70 miles for 70pmh), you're now costing yourself $4.24 per hour. $4.54/hr for 75mph, $4.84/hr for 80mph... effectively an additional 30 cents per hour for every additional 5mph over. So basically, if I'm going, oh, 300 miles, it'll take me 4 hours going 75mph and 5 hours going 60mph. But to gain that hour, I'll spend $4.54. So is gaining an hour worth $4.54? It seems to me in most cases it would be. However, in looking up to verify the fact, two things occurred to me. Firstly, the number varies greatly in what I'm finding. My friend said 10 cents. I'm seeing 24 cents a lot of places. Some sites list it as high as 51 or 54 cents. 54 cents?! That's over $21/hr! So I'm dubious of this number. And rightfully so... Secondly, it occurred to me the cost can't be stated blankly like such! The cost of gas established by the stations is a completely independent variable as to the amount of gas burned by increased rate of speed. But it seems reasonable that there would exist a speed at which one's engine runs at optimum efficiency (like 60, per chance), and that to go faster than that would decrease the efficiency of the gas consumption. So to be more accurate, one would need to establish the increased percentage of gas consumed per mile spent going at a particular rate over the optimum speed, and extrapolate the equivalent cost based on the current gas prices of the day. But then you probably end up spending as much time calculating the amount saved as the time you would have saved ignoring the amount saved. At any rate, the math intrigued me. Thoughts? Also, please let me know if you see any errors in logic or math I might have made. I'd deserve it for watching TV while posting and doing math. TL;DR: Just speed. -Willlo (5 Comments |Comment on this)
2:18 pm	Want want want want want W I noticed this on EW today and couldn't resist sharing. For the final season, they're doing a set of 16 limited edition Lost posters. Only Hurley and Locke have been released, and while the Hurley one is cool, the Locke one is just plain gorgeous. Actually it's ketchup. (Hurley) That and basket weaving.com (Locke) Keep an eye out here for more... -Willlo (Comment on this)
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
9:25 pm	Another one W It's far from perfect, but I'm not going to do further work on it, so I figured I'd post it. -Willlo (Comment on this)
Monday, August 24th, 2009
5:42 pm	Things to do on the internet W My new game is taking entries from Texts from Last Night and running them through Translation Party (which I always read, oddly, as 'Translation Parity.') I take no responsibility of who alcohol hooks up with using my body! INTO I hope people can hook up your body to feel any responsibility? you were so drunk you slurred your pauses INTO So, they can not speak of the bottle everything was going good until you started showing off the pictures of poop you took with your phone [Which I feel was sent to Bob] INTO To maintain a good image is to destroy the cell phone all the time [Which is frighteningly good advice] Most are just fun and odd rewordings, but this one in particular is perplexing: Excuse me? I'm weird? You're the one sticking your penis into a pringles can. INTO What? I feel uncomfortable? Wanwanwanwanwanwanwanwanwanwan Wanwanwanwanwanwanwanwanwanwanwanwan Puringuruzuru 1,1 one of the penis one may attach one by one. What happened?!?! While I'm at it, check out the best Twitter account ever. -Willlo (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Sunday, August 23rd, 2009
10:49 pm	Wait, the DECADE? W Saw this on EW. Pitchfork, an online music mag (and maybe physical mag too, I dunno) made a list of the top 500 songs of the decade. That's right, the decade. They brought it to my attention we're only FOUR FREAKING MONTHS away from the end of the Aughts. Crazy. Anyway, this list once again drove home I know nothing about music. Not only were there an incredible small number of songs on there I had even HEARD of, but their descriptions of the top 200, especially the top 20, were analyses of a level I never even contemplated existing. Now, again, I don't know much about music, but I do think there's a super lot of indie stuff and hiphop, I mean, c'mon, did no one do just a good rock song in the entire decade? Anyway, their descriptions were quite edifying, and I made it a point to listen to all top 20 songs (they provide music applets), and I even downloaded the ones I liked. That was about 7 of them. The others I thought were utter crap. Oh well, I suppose art's subjective. Anyway, the top 20 are listed below the cut, along with some others. If you'd rather check out the list, starting with 500-200, just click here. ( But for the abridged version... ) Thoughts? Opinions? If you checked the cut, you saw what I would pick as the best song of the decade. What's yours? -Willlo (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
12:14 pm	YES. B Oh god yes. So... how's everyone doing? --Burb out (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, August 14th, 2009
7:48 pm	I'M GOIN' FAST AND W I know. I know. I have four full weekends to post about. Soon, my buddyboos. For now, pure awesomeness. I'm going to assume by now you've seen the incredible I'm on a Boat video by Lonely Island (Andy Samberg and two other SNL writers, I think. At least one of them.) If you haven't, go ahead and watch it now. I won't tell anyone. Anyway, I found this next link courtesy Reddit, and, as the youth would say, it is "made of win." I'm on a Boat (a capella) -Willlo (Comment on this)