Anything read in Jacques Cousteau's voice becomes instantly hilarious!

marjun — Mon, 11 May 2015 14:55:27 GMT

Once again, a drawing of my "winter soldier"-inspired Death Knight character in world of warcraft. It's about 98% done, I think, just some tweaking left to do.

http://tinyurl.com/danielfairington

marjun — Mon, 11 May 2015 13:49:18 GMT

I have had to relocate my browsing habits, so I'm learning to use lj on a tablet, boooo. So I'm not dead, just clumsy.

marjun — Tue, 03 Mar 2015 14:46:47 GMT

I made another bit of artwork involving Daniel, my Winter Soldier-based Death Knight character. I'm not happy with the background, but I'm afraid that attempts at fixing it will just damage the whole thing at this point. Colored pencils on printer paper.

marjun — Mon, 09 Feb 2015 17:10:41 GMT

I'm going to weigh in on this Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore orders Probate Judges to stop issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

I'm not even going to talk about the rights of same-sex couples to marry if they want to. Roy Moore has a habit of recommending that Alabama should simply refuse to follow judicial rulings that it doesn't like. Well, that's all well and good, except that if individual county Probate Judges don't like Roy Moore's ruling...what then? Marriage licenses are issued on the county level. Does the state court get to issue "mandates" that apply to individual counties? So far, Jefferson, Madison and Montgomery Counties have been issuing the licenses in spite of Moore's order. I wonder how he likes dem apples? My good money is on "he doesn't."

marjun — Tue, 20 Jan 2015 16:54:11 GMT

So, I am apparently one of the 12 people on Earth who saw the movie "Blackhat." Verdict: Don't bother, unless you really like:

1. Chris Hemsworth

2. Watching excellent actors struggle valiantly to wrest some goodness out of an ultimately wretched plot, script, and everything else about this movie.

3. Fight scenes filmed with that oh-so-edgy rattling camera.

I'm not even going to bother so summarize this silly thing. Just watch any other movie about "hackers," and you'll get the idea. However, here are some things I learned while watching this:

1. Pharmacies in Indonesia ROCK. You can go into one and buy everything you need to treat major gunshot wounds, including IV bags and antibiotics.

2. If you just duct-tape enough magazines around your midsection, you will have enough protection to slow down a round from a rifle that was previously throwing slugs through heavy-duty shipping containers. And police cars.

3. If you are trying to sneak into a computer room in China to steal a piece of hardware, it helps you to remain anonymous in a roomful of Asian people to be extremely large and white. Just pull down your baseball cap, you'll be fine.

4. If your sibling waves poiniantly at you from a car where he is sitting alone, wave goodbye...forever.

5. And last but certainly not least, if some muckety-muck's kid does a special project in computer class to illustrate packets of information buzzing along the "net," it will appear in loving, extended detail to illustrate how computers communicate...not once, but twice, both outbound and on the return path.

marjun — Thu, 15 Jan 2015 16:09:08 GMT

Maybe I'm sick or something, but I saw "Guardians of the Galaxy" the other day, and...I really didn't care for it. I mean, the actors were fine, and I liked the general look and feel, and the fight scenes were "like whoa."

There was something sort of "try hard" about the whole thing, right down to that stupid soundtrack. Like Ewoks, in a way...created to sell toys, and you were suspicious about the cute little bastards the whole time.

marjun — Mon, 29 Dec 2014 19:32:12 GMT

Relax, Buck, it's not a bomb. I promise.

marjun — Fri, 12 Dec 2014 21:28:09 GMT

I drew this as a Christmas present for a friend of mine. She and I play WoW, and my character is a Death Knight whose story and look is loosely based on the Winter Soldier's. This is "Daniel," who is loving his very first Christmas present. (Drawn with crappy colored pencils I found laying around)

marjun — Mon, 01 Dec 2014 16:52:18 GMT

I was on vacation, now I'm back. I bear a Thanksgiving gift specifically for cairistiona7:

marjun — Thu, 20 Nov 2014 16:39:51 GMT

I wasn't too pleased with this shot, but while experimenting with the colors, etc, I found an effect I sort of like.

marjun — Wed, 19 Nov 2014 16:07:23 GMT

I have no idea what in hell is happening here.

marjun — Mon, 17 Nov 2014 15:32:38 GMT

I'm still amused, but running out of ideas. This too shall pass?

marjun — Fri, 14 Nov 2014 19:01:48 GMT

This is still amusing me.

marjun — Thu, 13 Nov 2014 15:30:04 GMT

I won't let you fall again, Bucky. Never again.

(Yes, I know my photo and GIMP skills are terrible)

marjun — Wed, 12 Nov 2014 15:46:04 GMT

Picture reshot...now it looks a little less like "HUG" and a little more like "KILL." I tried to find one of my old Star Wars figure's pistols to bequeath to Bucky, but as I started digging through boxes, the whole thing started to seem a little (ok a lot) obsessive.

marjun — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 14:26:25 GMT

Well, well, well. Look what I found happening on my desk at work this morning. Looks like Cap is going full tilt after Bucky, but Bucky's ready to go all krav maga on him.

marjun — Mon, 24 Mar 2014 14:24:06 GMT

Josh got introduced to "Firefly" this weekend. We have a new Browncoat at my house!

marjun — Tue, 04 Mar 2014 14:20:13 GMT

Friends don't let friends buy ugly bedding. Looks like it should go in some Muppet's bedroom.

http://www.brylanehome.com/decor/Romance-Bed-5-Pc-Comforter-Set-Collection.aspx?PfId=21212&DeptId=20590&ProductTypeId=2&ppos=4&Splt=0#.UxXglSLpc0E

marjun — Fri, 07 Feb 2014 15:04:48 GMT

I had bokkeumbap for breakfast this morning, and it was sooo good. I'm still full. I fried the rice last night, and put the eggs on it this morning. There are lots of things you can put in it, but this is how I made it with what I had around.

Bokkeumbap

1/2 onion
1 tablespoon or so minced garlic
olive oil
1 cup white rice
1/2 cup chopped kimchi
about 1/4 cup kimchi juice
2 tablespoons oyster sauce
2 eggs

sautee onion and garlic in olive oil. Add rice and kimchi, fry until heated through. Add kimchi juice and oyster sauce. Cook until the rice is starting to seem a little crispy in places. Move to bowl.

Fry two eggs sunny-side up (whites firm, yolks runny). Place them on top of the fried rice. When you eat it, stir the eggs into the rice.

Delicious lunch, and life is officially good again!

marjun — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 18:06:22 GMT

My favorite salad (which I had for lunch today). You would think that cranberries, apple and honey would kill my blood sugar, but it doesn't.

Lettuce or greens
cranberries
walnuts
blue cheese
1/2 a crisp, juicy apple, cut into bite-size pieces
apple-cider vinaigrette dressing

dressing (makes enough for several salads):
3/4 cup olive oil
1/4 cup apple cider vinegar (though regular vinegar works well too)
2 tbs. water
2 tbs. honey (though I usually end up putting in a little more)
1 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. pepper

Shake and serve

marjun — Fri, 10 Jan 2014 14:47:40 GMT

Big Bang Theory held a nice surprise for me last night...Josh Peck! He was cast as the owner of the rival comic book store. I had seen him on "Drake and Josh" since he was a teenager, and I knew he was one of the better young actors out there. It makes my heart glad to see him doing something I really enjoy watching.

He grew up purty too :)

marjun — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 15:05:29 GMT

I have anxiety problems. Not often enough to be debilitating, but when it's on, the author's description is right on target.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/08/living/anxiety-coping/index.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+Top+Stories%29

I see myself in these quotes when I'm having a "psychiatric hiccup:"

Empirically, I recall the verdant, sheep-dotted hills, azure lakes, storybook castles and mighty crags of Snowdonia, Wales, as seen from an open car, driven by the handsome man who had become my husband just days before. In theory, bliss. In reality, a steady series of flinches, gasps and stomach aches as we wound through hairpin turns on single-lane, left-hand-drive roadways, while I obsessed about the money we'd just spent on the wedding and if I'd paid enough attention to each guest at the reception.

And:

For me, there is neither rhyme nor reason as to when it will strike. I can board a plane to vacation solo in a strange city, hold forth on live TV at a moment's notice or speak onstage in front of a crowd of hundreds without many mussed feathers. The notion of leaving the house to get half-and-half for coffee flings me dead into the eye of a panic attack.

marjun — Fri, 06 Dec 2013 16:19:25 GMT

I watched a little bit of "The Sound of Music" with Carrie Underwood last night. I started laughing during the wedding scene, when the chorus of nuns sounded like the background singing in "The Omen."

marjun — Mon, 11 Nov 2013 16:46:40 GMT

I can't get my son to eat tofu at home.

However, when a college girl prepares it for him, apparently it becomes delicious.

marjun — Fri, 01 Nov 2013 17:06:30 GMT

Hm. This can't be right, unless 200,000 other LJ users were raptured or something.

marjun, your current position in the Top Journals is: 43,868