it's not over yet

Hey, hey, realproof, remember when I told you about Wienerschnitzel and the Wienermobile? I mistakenly connected the latter to the former.
A visit to the Wienermobile!
turns out it's a promo thing for Oscar Mayer hot dogs. Bad memory, bad.

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In less important matters, I finally have a more-or-less complete schedule of classes for the upcoming school semester.

Monday,
Discussion - Architecture 110AC - Social and Cultural Factors in Design - 9:30 AM - 11 AM
When filming the Farmers' Market project for Ethnographic Film, we looked up a professor who could compare the spatial elements of farmers' markets and supermarkets in practical, not eco-biased, terms. She was a great interview, really helped balance our film. This professor also told us about this class she was teaching in the fall. We get to do an ethnography and everything. She's a really cool person, with a great selection of ergonomic chairs in her office. I've always been interested in architecture (though more in appreciating it than actually building it), and this class has an Anthro bent to it. So I'm looking forward to this one.

Music 20A - Basic Musicianship - 2-3 PM
I like music. Used to play piano. Really need to work on general formal training.

Tuesday
Anthro 189 - Special Topics in Social/Cultural Anthropology: Cities of the Global South - 9:30-11 AM
A topic that gets me all fired up about injustice and misleading perceptions and whatnot. And I already own one of the textbooks, City of Slums, yay!

Arch 110AC - lecture - 2-3:30 PM

Integrated Biology 187 - Human Biogeography of the Pacific - 3:30-5 PM
A bit of a fastwalk from Wurster to Barker for this class. But I need an Upper Division Bio Anthro class for the Anthropology degree, and this was the least hard-looking class that fulfilled that requirement. 3 credits, (the usual class is 4 credits). But I'm number 6 on the waiting list, in a 50 student class. They kept two seats open, and others may be class-shopping and drop out, I hope.

Wednesday - just Music 20A

Thursday - repeat of Tuesday

Friday - just Music 20 A.

The extra spaces should give me time for CalTV and an Undergraduate Research Program thing I've already inquired about. Actually, I got an email recommending me (as well as another person in my Ethnographic Film class) for this position: editing footage taken of this project
This study aims to document the geography of contemporary llama caravan transport in southern Peru by traveling with a llama caravan and using a combination of geospatial technology and interviews to record subjective accounts by native caravan drivers. We began with a controlled physiological study of llama cargo-bearing capacity modeled on recent physiological studies of human porters in Nepal. Subsequently we participated in the acquisition of salt from a quarry in Arequipa, Peru and the transport of this salt for trade to neighboring valleys in Apurimac during a fifteen day round-trip journey.

The person supervising my possible position works under my former Andean Archaeology professor. So I have a faint grasp of what they're doing.
Editing, as well as some Spanish skills are required. I already emailed the guy in charge, told him my qualifications. He said they looked good. Now I just have to wait for the URAP application thing to open...I hope I don't mess up this opportunity.

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okay, back to the fun stuff:

ninja-swiped from yaiyah: Pushing Daisies Season 2 preview! yay!

Cool article from SF Gate on Spaced

we're going for a ride

Hey kids! Create your own superhero!

not as awesome as the one I posted a billion years ago, but still good, with much shorter loading time. To erase something, click on the upside-down pencil icon next to the marker icon.


my hero:




Be quiet, I did this way too early in the morning, when I thought I had to go somewhere to film something and realized that it was in two weeks, not today...


ack that reminds me. Jury duty (or at least selection, I think) in two weeks and a day. I'm going to try and be outspoken and annoying so they won't choose me. (hey, that's what my speech and debate coach said to do...) I'm actually okay with doing jury duty, but I have school coming up sheesh and I don't like skipping classes.
Last year, I got called for it, but was able to postpone it until the Christmas weekend, when nothing happens.
I'm only 20 and I get called for jury duty twice. Guess I have an appealing sense of justice or something.



lol Space Sheriff
I'm crying with laughter now

(no subject)

via cleolinda:
Morgan Freeman seriously hurt in car accident

nooo

“They had to use the jaws of life to extract him from the vehicle,” McFerrin said. “He was lucid, conscious. He was talking, joking with some of the rescue workers at one point.”

"There will be SO many penguins at his funeral."
ack why am I laughing he will not die!

and, of course, so begins the Batman curse speculation. I don't believe in it, but it's interesting, in a macabre way.


Here, have a sneezing panda (via pressao).
And another
and an angry cat


and some fun Batman snark.
THAT VOICE.
not to be all "Leave Bruce Wayne alone!" but here's the thing: He's Bruce Wayne and he's famous! He's a millionaire playboy, he's a man about town, and probably quite a number of people are in a position to recognize him. He has to disguise his voice! What are his other options? Affect a British accent, like Madonna? Hold up signs? That would make it pretty hard to toss off witty remarks while holding people in headlocks, wouldn't it?
-thinks of Batman holding up little signs like Wile E. Coyote-
another fun article from Vulture