R.I.P Schrödinger

Early 1996 - May 16, 2012

I really wish I knew what you were staring at on the hallway ceiling, every night pretty much exactly at 1 AM, for the past few months, which then made you run around like crazy.

Maybe I don't want/need to know.

You were the best.  Thanks for everything.

Random List: Ineffective Insults

1.- I hope you step in a puddle.

2.- You're thinner than I am.

3.- You're a son-of-a-bitch's-second-cousin.

4.- You look deceptively good.

5.- You have unnaturally large knees.

6.- If you were on Serenity, you'd be Jayne.

7.- You only ran half a marathon? You lazy bastard.

8.- I hope your blackberry seizes up when you try to access the internet.

9.- You, sir, obviously come from a long line of librarians. (Actually, that one I'm going to use...)

10.- If you were a Mahovlich, you'd be Frank.

11.- That lack of grey hair makes you look immature.

12.- Hijo de poutine.

13.- Yeah well, you can't even spell fassheeshous..., uhm, fochatous, fush... Ah, fuck, I'm drunk again.

14.- You, with your wife and 2 kids and stable of close friends, are entirely too well-adjusted for your own good.

15.- That depth of original forward-thinking should put you in line for a Senate appointment.

16.- You have the keen eyesight and judgement of an MLB umpire.

17.- You probably think that was Ian McKellen in The Avengers.


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The Avengers: Possible Uncredited Cameo

Almost unnecessary spoiler warning: This post will be about Stan Lee's cameo in The Avengers. (If you consider finding out that Stan Lee has a cameo in The Avengers to be a spoiler, then you really have not paid any attention to any of the other Marvel movies and are somewhat self-absorbed, to boot.). If you do not want to have Stan Lee's cameo spoiled, then retreat and read no more.

Towards the end of the movie, Stan Lee has his usual 2- or 3-second cameo, which is quite standard for Marvel productions.  He is being interviewed, sitting in a park, looking away from a chess board.  You can see his chess partner in the background, an older gentleman, appearing somewhat out of focus.

I swear the chess partner is Ian McKellen. (If not, then it is a very reasonable facsimile.)

This would, of course, be a nice little wink to the ending of X-Men 3, where McKellen's Magneto finds himself alone at a chess board in a park.

Over the last couple days, I have repeatedly googled all sorts of combinations of search terms to find some reference or confirmation. All I can dig up is two other individuals, one on tumbler and one on an Australian discussion board (to which I could not respond) who are also wondering if it was McKellen.

So either the producers succeeded in including a very, very subtle Easter egg reference to the X-Men, so subtle that only three people spotted it, or I am completely nuts.

And, as always, I am not discounting completely nuts.

What Did I Do Today?

9:00 AM: Watched 'Thor' on Netflix.

12:00 PM: Watched 'Captain America: The First Avenger' on Netflix.

3:30 PM: Watched 'Iron Man II' on Netflix.

6:30 PM: Saw 'Avengers' at the Rideau Centre.

9:00 PM on: Geekily cackling at so much Avengers stuff.

Hee hee hee!




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