The Southern Lights

I got a Valentine from one of the guys in my office today.  Except, uh.  Well, I'll let you see for yourself.

( Warning: management is not responsible for retinal scarring )

Also, many thanks to therumjournals and halfbreedchild for the puppy and gopher v-gifts, respectively.  I do love small, furry mammals.

Everyone remember to celebrate Annual Half-Price Chocolate Day tomorrow!  It's the most wonderful time of the year!

Okay, pretty random Star Trek question that I've been meaning to ask for a while.  Is there a scene in TOS or one of the movies (or possibly even early TNG) where the inside of the Enterprise starts to melt?

The reason I ask is that I have this very vivid childhood memory of watching the Muppet Babies cartoon, which was constantly using popular movie/TV clips (the reason, by the way, that it will almost certainly never come out on DVD), and they show a non-animated clip of what I think were gray spaceship walls melting because it got too close to the sun, and for some reason I've always had it in my mind that the scene came from Star Trek.

I could be wrong -- it could be from something else entirely, or I could've just dreamed the whole damn thing.  I remember it so clearly, though, because it scared the shit out of me.  I had just read about the sun eventually turning into a red giant and scorching the earth, but somehow skipped over the part where it was going to happen millions of years in the future and I was therefore sure it was going to happen at any moment and EVERYTHING WAS GOING TO MELT, WHAT THE HELL, WHY DO I NEED TO LEARN MULTIPLICATION.

Anyhow, if anybody knows what I might be thinking of -- or the name of a good hypnotist -- please to let me know.

Okay, does anyone else ever read those ridiculously overwrought porn descriptions and want to write fic to them?

From Corbin Fisher's cinematic masterpiece, "Cain Fucks Philip"...

( Not safe for work. Or your sanity, really. )


::facepalm::  Of course I gave it a sappy ending.

Can somebody explain to me the ontd_pinto Anderson Cooper post from yesterday?  Did he actually say something about Pinto?  Because I followed the link to his Twitter and it was all Shirley Sherrod this and Arizona King of Pottery that.  God help me the day this fandom stops making sense to me.

EDIT: You guys, I think I get it.  This silverfox67 journal was created yesterday, and the person who made it was pretending to BE Anderson Cooper.  Did anyone else get that?  Still... not really all that funny.  Eh.

I HAVE SEEN THE FACE OF DEATH AND IT IS ADORABLE.

Eh, everyone else was doing it.

Now that I'm looking at it, maybe I should've given him a Fu Manchu...

ETA: Fu Manchu'd!

And the Awkward Simile Award goes to...

Sylar: "My mind was fuzzy, like an orange that's been left out too long."

I definitely glanced around at the non-existant people in my living room in a "Wait... did that just happen?  Did he just say that?" moment.  I now have a clear mental picture of the whiteboard in the Heroes writers' workspace:

Fortunately, this line was followed by lots and lots of shirtless!ZQ, so I survived.  Oy.

Since the university doesn't give us enough money to buy actual blank paper, sometimes at work I go around to the various computer labs on campus and pick up the paper out of the recycling bins to sort through it for stuff that's only been printed on one side.  Not the most glamorous job, but it a) makes a tiny dent in the horrible paper-wasting that goes on here; and b) gets me the hell out of the "office" (read: double-wide trailer) for a little while.

So let's play a little game here.  Which of the following have I NOT found in the recycled paper bins?

a) Explicit photographs of horrifying medical anomalies
b) 70 double-sided pages of nothing but blank PowerPoint slides
c) Gum -- oh, god, so much gum
d) The same 13-page paper printed 39 times (yes, I counted)
e) Sheet music for Britney Spears' "Toxic"
f) Gay porn

If you said "B" you are... wrong.  Trick question -- I have found ALL of these wondrous things (and more) at one point or another.  The gay porn, by the way, came out of the Honors College lab, evidence of the shamefully low admission standards here, at least when it comes to common sense.  That's just College 101, people: no porn on the shared printer.  Corollary 126 of Rule 29 ("Never leave a paper trail") in the How Not to Be a Douchebag Handbook.  I mean, I didn't mind it so much (though, let me tell you, it was a surprise), but the guy who was helping me sort the paper still talks about that day like it was 'Nam.

And there is a special place in hell reserved for people who spit their gum into recycled paper bins.  Remember that.

Anyone else gonna have the first 60 seconds of tonight's Heroes on mental repeat for... ever?  ::flail::