The Marci Rating System

credit: I saw it first on tumblr (which is where I was able to nab the image from, no thanks to flickr there), but it was credited there to Rob Kroenert, so a thank you to him as well!

[Note: This is cool -- R. Kroenert notes that there were about 20 other photographers also taking pictures, which means that there are a relatively large number of people dedicating their time to photographing spectacular natural phenomena, as opposed to, say, committing crimes.

Also, more than 900 people have favorited the photo over on flickr, which is awesome -- that's 900 people *celebrating* spectacular natural phenomena as opposed to, say, committing crimes.

You know what sucks, though? The way that *I* was exposed to this photo, and the way *I* am celebrating it by posting it here, albeit credited and linked and everything, could be considered a crime if certain ::ahem:: legislation passes.

Dammit.]

{NOTE2: Hey, but check this out! wikipedia has a pic that’s shareable under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike license. Woohoo!}

credit: E. Howe (aka Ambitious Wench) THANK YOU FOR SHARING!

This movie was very pretty, from a visual sense, and it had good music. Unfortunately, if I wanted to watch a pretty movie with good music, I would watch Fly Away Home, not ROBOT BOXING.

Really, that’s the premise of the movie: ROBOT BOXING. Sounds exciting! And yet I fast-forwarded over vast swathes of the first hour or so (the movie is over *two hours* long) because it was so dull. (It’s possible I have been forever spoiled by seeing the third Bourne movie in theaters — so much excitement! I had no idea what was going on, but it was happening SO FAST!)

Anyway, the biggest problem I had with the movie was not the horrible sidelining of female characters, or the lack of interesting plot, but the lack of any actual character development. So I made up my own. Get ready for this:

MAX IS A ROBOT.

It kind of works, if you don’t think about it too hard, which clearly the movie’s creators did not. It can be used to explain away some of the most egregious handwave moments, and takes the movie to a much more interesting ‘I, Robot’ kind of place instead of a ‘Wolverine: Origins: if Wolverine were really boring and robots boxed’ place.

I wasn’t too impressed by the first episode, but ep 2 (Molehattan) offered a hilarious look at what it’s like to be a Baxter building tenant:

“Is it Doctor Doom? A giant monster? The Negative Zone again?”
-Mr. Bartleby

“Is that one of your supervillain friends? He’s quite tiny, isn’t he?”
-Mrs. Monet

(Mole Man just never gets any respect, does he?)

(Since apparently no F4 post is complete without a shoutout to Party of Two, by Traincat:

“I’m pretty sure we can watch a movie and then go defeat the Mole Man,” he said. “It’s not like he moves very fast. He’s got like, arthritis or something. He’s ancient.”)

Also, I had a startling realization re: Baxter building neighbors. The Fantastic Four apparently live next door to Christine Lagarde!

Christine Lagarde (IMF Managing Director)

Classy Neighbor Lady

Stuff I’d Watch in Theaters
-The Avengers (May 4)
-The Amazing Spiderman (July 3)
-The Bourne Legacy (August 3)

Stuff I’d Put in My Netflix Queue
-This Means War
-Men In Black III
-The Dark Knight Rises

Stuff I’d Be Mildly Interested In Watching At Some Point and/or Would Read The Fanfic
-The Lorax
-The Hunger Games
-Rock of Ages
-Snow White and the Huntsman
-Rise of the Guardians

Non-Movie Viewing Events I’m Keeping An Eye On
-The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes
-Ultimate Spider-Man
(both scheduled to start up with new episdoes in April!)

It’s everything I love about the Avengers, *plus* crayons!

64 Colors, by victoria_p (musefool)

The Avengers take on coloring, for the good of the team. (PS: Darcy is the best.)

“The god of thunder is totally welcome to come and color with us if he’d like. And how weird is my life that that is a thing I actually just said?”

Monday:
-got to work at 8, worked till 6:30
-showed up at the obligatory schmooze&eat dinner after work, did not horribly embarrass myself
-drove safely home, fed cat
-felt healthy (if a little wired) all day long

Tuesday:
-on vacation for two days
-slept till 10
-feel like crap

(Dammit)

All my thanks to starandrea for my fantastic food icons!

This one’s my favorite (right now!):

::omnomnomnomnomnom::

So, 30. Hi there!

Since it seems like they might be interesting:

The 30th fic I linked on my pinboard:
Being Alive, by tiptoe39
Some moments in life make you want to stand up and applaud.

The 30th thing I wrote and posted online:
And All Our Chickens Come Home To Roost, by marcicat
Flying was faster than walking, but thy all agreed that dropping two dragons and their riders into the middle of a supposedly secret camp would probably cause more trouble than they were really looking for.

The 30th blog post from here:
SGA 4×15 “Outcast”
So, apparently John’s family *doesn’t believe* he’s in the Air Force.

The 30th tag on my dreamwidth:
global
For anyone who wondered, like me, if google was using that word correctly, apparently ‘zeitgeist’ means “the defining spirit or mood of a particular period of history as shown by the ideas and beliefs of the time.”

BASEBALL MOVIE!!! Nothing more awesome when it’s wintry and snowy outside. A few thoughts…

1. For a BASEBALL MOVIE, it’s really dark. Like, physically, the lighting is very dim in a lot of scenes.

2. I liked it, as much as I usually like any BASEBALL MOVIES, and considerably more than I like most Brad Pitt movies.

3. It’s a metaphor, right?

It’s amazing what a ghost can get up to these days, what with the internet and all!

It Feels Like Home When I’m With You, by etothepii

The one where John’s a ghost who haunts 221B, and Sherlock moves in all unknowing. Together, they fight crime! (And buy groceries online.)

Sherlock makes a dismissive motion with his hands. “Oh, this wasn’t *my* fault. My flat’s haunted. Fellow by the name of John. Can’t do anything about it really,” he says, but he looks pleased.