| I can't sleep again. |
[19 Jun 2009|03:57am] |
The scariest possible thing:
You live alone, it's the middle and you're awoken by someone knocking on your bedroom door.
EDIT: I wrote this when I was barely awake. I woke up terrified that I heard someone knocking at my bedroom door, (it was my cat). Still though, imagine someone rapping at your bedroom door in the middle of the night! Horrorshow!
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| Writing this hasn't been as cathartic as I thought it might be. |
[06 Jun 2009|03:16am] |
I get the worst, most irrational fears at night. It's past three am and I can't sleep because I'm fretting about- the possibility of a catastrophic event that causes world-wide blindness, (like in Day of the Triffids).
- the idea that our cells our constantly replacing themselves so that human life is like a baton in a relay race and the Steve that I am today will be dead in ten years.
- black holes.
- nuclear war.
- waking up to find that my bedroom is on fire.
- waking up to find the police banging on my door.
- cancer.
- the possibility that worrying about cancer can lead to actual cancer.
I'm serious about all of these things!
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| TCAF |
[17 May 2009|11:59pm] |
I was at TCAF last week and I had the best time. I seriously should have done a full report because it was the nicest warmest weekend I could imagine. It was all old friends and new friends and parties and karaoke and rotis.
It's too bad that this is the only picture I took:
Look, his little guy is hangin' out. How about that!
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| Hassled by cops! |
[11 Jan 2009|04:28am] |
So, on Thursday night I got hassled by cops!
The police usually don't hassle me, (on account of my baby-face), but that night I was pacing around an alleyway and talking to myself. Like this:
I was early for a date and I usually to wander around if I'm anxious or early for an appointment.
Police officer: 'Evening sir, is there something going on in the alley that we should know about?
(There are two cops, they're pretty tall.)
Police officer 1: Sir, can I have your i.d.
Me: Hi! um ... yeah, lemme find it ...
Police officer 2: What were you doing in the alleyway, sir?
Me: Just, yunno, pacin' around? I'm kinda a nervous guy, I mean-
Police officer 2: You're nervous about something? Ha ha, is it because you've got the cops are talkin to you? What are you doing this evening?
Me: Oh! I'm just about to meet someone for a date.
Police officer 1: A date, eh? Is this an internet thing?
(Accurate!)
Me: Oh, um, yeah, I mean we-
Police officer 2: Hey, how about if we can handcuff you and impress your date.
Me: Heh heh, um, nah,
Police officer 2: She might like it! The tough guy. We'll walk you right past her.
Me: Ha ha, nahhhhhhhhhh. I'm good ...
(Meanwhile, the other police officer is calling my name into the station.)
Police officer 1: Yes, that's "Steven Wolfhard", Whiskey Oscar Lima Foxtrot Hotel ...
Police officer 2: (Jokingly) You don't have any warrants concerning any murders or anything, do you?
Me: Haha, not that I know of.
Police officer 2: (Serious) Excuse me "not that you know of", sir?
..and so on. They let me go, anxious and sweaty. On the bright side it's nice to know for sure that there aren't any warrants out for your arrest!
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| First Spit-Take. |
[09 Jan 2009|05:24pm] |
It was because of this clip. It was on the radio and I just wasn't ready for it:
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| Brain Fire. |
[30 Dec 2008|04:33am] |
- 2:00am I was goofing around on the internet in bed when I found this:
- 3:00am At three in the morning I got out of bed and, in my underwear, removed all the lights on my christmas tree and moved the tree to the center of my living room.
- 4:00am Unsatisfied, I decided to remove all of the ornaments, unscrew the tree from its base, put on some clothes, and drag the tree out to the street.
- 4:30am I'm back in bed and too riled up to sleep but at least I won't wake up a blackened skeleton.
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| Merry Christmas, again. |
[25 Dec 2008|10:08pm] |
All Through The House
This is the Christmas sequence from the 1970s Tales from the Crypt Joan Collins plays a sexy murderess. I don't know about you but I really really like sexy murderesses. I plan on being killed by my wife one day.
There MAY also a criminally insane Santa in this sequence. I could easily be killed but a criminally insane santa too.
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| Harf! |
[17 Dec 2008|10:40pm] |
At the theatre down the street.
Also, if you were interested, Australia is a movie that I liked a lot, but I don't know if it's actually any good, and I never want to see it again.
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| Little Big Planet is eating me. |
[29 Oct 2008|11:12pm] |
If anyone else has this game we should totally trade PSN names (I'm Rockenspiel). Come on, it'll be great!
If you didn't know, Little Big Planet is the probably best video game. Like a Michel Gondry Do-It-Yourself Mario 3.
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| POW! |
[09 Sep 2008|03:07am] |
It's "Big Bang Day" and the physicists at The Large Hadron Collider are all ready for the first injection of proton beams. The switch is flipped* at 8:30 AM Geneva time (11:30 PM Vancouver time), and I am super excited**.
I mean, there are some people think that the collider*** could create a stable black hole that would consume the earth, or produce some kind of other doomsday particle. There have been lawsuits and death threats and, I'll admit, sometimes I get really spooked about the whole thing.
BUT it seems like most of the people who are wigging out are also not physicists.
Wow, is this ever cool.
NEAT LINKS:
-If you haven't checked out these Boston.com Big Picture photos you really need to. They're seriously amazing and beautiful!
-This is a nice, (and soothing), blog entry from Phil Plait where he promises that we will not be spaghettified by a black hole.
-And for good measure, here's Neil DeGrasse Tyson explaining what it would be like to be spaghettified by a black hole.
*I don't know if there's actually a switch. Maybe it's just a keyboard. Or a slot machine lever.
**I drew a comic about it a while back.
***Which is seven times larger than the previously largest particle accelerator, Fermilab. The Large Hadron Collider has a circumference of 27 kilometers.
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| The good old days, when I could smell Queen Elizabeth. |
[25 Aug 2008|06:29pm] |
Queen Elizabeth visited my college during her Golden Jubilee tour in 2002, back when I was apparently 8 years old. An old friend just posted photos of the day on facebook.
It's hard to tell but this is me preparing to take a photo of Her Majesty's Bum. The bum photo turned out alright and, if I can ever find it again, it'll surely be passed down through any and all future generations of Wolfhards.
( One more picture: )
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| Nematodes all the way down. |
[06 Jul 2008|11:46pm] |
I can't sleep and I can't stop thinking about nematodes. Apparently four out of five animals on the planet earth is a nematode roundworm.
"If all the matter in the universe except the nematodes were swept away, our world would still be dimly recognizable, and if, as disembodied spirits, we could then investigate it, we should find its mountains, hills, vales, rivers, lakes and oceans represented by a thin film of nematodes. The location of towns would be decipherable, since for every massing of human beings there would be a corresponding massing of certain nematodes. Trees would still stand in ghostly rows representing our streets and highways. The location of the various plants and animals would still be decipherable, and, had we sufficient knowledge, in many cases even their species could be determined by an examination of their erstwhile nematode parasites."
— N.A.Cobb
Ugh.
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| A Salty Summer. |
[11 Jun 2008|02:49pm] |
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Man, I have not been updating a thing lately. I have been drawing and tinkering around with things but, you know. There'll be an avalanche of stuff eventually.
But I have gotten back into sailing!
I love sailing! I'm not a natural at it or anything but I can (usually) avoid going overboard and I'm pretty good with knots. Mostly I just like being on the water and how quiet it can be out there. So nice.
I've been kind of anxious and down lately but this is good stuff.
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