What did you do this weekend?

[Mr. B]

Friday: saw fast and furious with a bunch of friends... boy was it bad... knew that going in though... just wanted to get out of the house

Saturday: went out drinking with a couple friends to cheer up a recently single comrade. If someone can read Japanese maybe they can tell me what kind of sake we had.

Today: slept in, watched movies and TV

 

[Daneel]

Saturday: attended an acting workshop with a prominent Toronto casting director. Got some nice feedback... I had fun.

Sunday: nothing out of the ordinary. Exercised. Did some laundry. Surfed the net. Briefly got excited when a girl on a dating site responded to an IM I sent her... then was dejected when she didn't respond to the subsequent ones and went offline. I'm not giving up, though.

 

[Nerdius Maximus]

Spent it in the bathroom with a terrible case of food poisoning.

 

[WillsBabe]

^ Sorry to hear that.

Saturday morning I was on the motorway for 5 hours driving north to try to sort out a family crisis. Spent the rest of Saturday and Sunday trying to deal with it. Sunday, back on the motorway for 5 hours driving home. Came down with a migrine on Sunday evening. Spent about £250 on a hotel, petrol and food. Shitty weekend all round, really.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

Stayed up all night seeing sick people, saving the occasional life or two, and burying the rest.

Slept all day.






I need a vacation.

 

[Deckerd]

Went to Perth Farmers' Market on Saturday and bought lots of interesting stuff. Then went shopping in Dunfermline, then blobbed because we'd been hedging all Thursday and Friday. State visit by the parents yesterday so were forced to clean the house. After they left we didn't feel like gardening (well you don't after a couple of glasses of wine) so we opened another bottle and watched Dexter Season II which had just dropped through the letterbox. Good weekend.

 

[Pingfah]

Watched some movies Friday night and ate a steak. Took a ride to the North coast of Cornwall on Saturday night and went to the pub with some friends for dinner, then hung out at their house. Rode back to the South coast late Saturday night.

Got up on Sunday morning, went for breakfast with some other friends, then spent the afternoon watching TV. Watched Dollhouse, TSSC and Innerspace. Went to band practice Sunday night then came home and had a few beers and ate some lasagne while watching Krull.

 

[Jadzia]

Got up on Sunday morning, went for breakfast with some other friends, then spent the afternoon watching TV. Watched Dollhouse, TSSC and Innerspace.

Innerspace, that's one of my favourite films

"Mr Igo. Stop him. We need that syringe."

 

[Pingfah]

Yes, I hadn't seen it for a long time, I really enjoyed it.

I was on a Joe Dante kick anyway, I watched Explorers the other day, which was really good as well.

 

[Warp Coil]

Saturday: worked all day (9a-5p). Was going to go to dinner with the family but I just wasn't hungry, so I stopped by to visit a friend and his new baby daughter. Went home, did some laundry, worked on school stuff.

Sunday: worked all day (9a-5p). Did manage to go out to dinner with the family, even though I still wasn't very hungry. Met up with a friend for a drink around 9p, eventually went home and then stayed up entirely too late.

Today: back at work, and kicking myself that I didn't get more than 5 hours of sleep

 

[Capn Flukie]

I fired up the Quattro.

 

[TheBrew]

In all seriousness, I had a busy weekend. My class was cancelled on Friday, so I got to start it early. I jammed on the drums with some friends. After playing Rock Band for so long, I got my own set last summer and I'm starting to get decent at it. I can play rock and jazz right now. Also did some drawing on the rare occasion that it strikes me to do so. Then went to a friend's birthday party where the karaoke that was promised never appeared.

On the Sat, I went to Golden Gate Park to see the de Young museum. They had an Andy Warhol exhibit, so I checked that out, having extensively seen the rest of the museum. Went to the playground and played tag after that. Got to practice my super-secret-spy escape moves through the jungle gym.

Sun, went shopping and picked up a new corduroy jacket. It was $160, was on sale for $100 and then an additional $25 off of that. The best part was that for some reason my bank card crashed their machines and I was being good natured about it and offered all the cash I had on me $60 jokingly. I guess I must have remembered to turn on my charm button, because the lady at the counter went with it.

My brother's mood swings have been pissing me off all weekend, but that's another thread.

 

[Jadzia]

Yes, I hadn't seen it for a long time, I really enjoyed it.

I was on a Joe Dante kick anyway, I watched Explorers the other day, which was really good as well.

I remember that one too. They're both great 80s films. Although I thought Explorers got a bit silly at the end with those weird aliens. It made it too much of a kids film.

The latter half of the story really should have tried to maintain the awe and mystery that it started with. If they'd used aliens like those in A.I., and if the craft was guided to their world, rather than just a meeting of ships in space, then that would have rocked.

 

[An Officer]

Great sci-fi movies are few and far between, unfortunately... better to be a romantic comedy fan or something.

 

[Jadzia]

I'm really critical when it comes to films. I don't enjoy a lot of sci-fi to be honest. And I find kids sci-fi gets it right more often. Another fine example is 'Flight of the Navigator'.

Comedy always struggles to impress me. Often it looks like it's trying too hard, and when it feels like we're being prompted to laugh, it feels so forced and artificial and that it rarely entertains me. I prefer comedy that's passive and light hearted. Some good examples here include 'Brewster's Millions', that other one with Richard Prior 'See no evil hear no evil', and the aforementioned 'Innerspace' had some superb comedy moments, like the chain of humorous events after he starts hearing Tuck's voice

I do like some romance too, but I don't like it mixed up with comedy.

 

[Pingfah]

I remember that one too. They're both great 80s films. Although I thought Explorers got a bit silly at the end with those weird aliens. It made it too much of a kids film.

The latter half of the story really should have tried to maintain the awe and mystery that it started with. If they'd used aliens like those in A.I., and if the craft was guided to their world, rather than just a meeting of ships in space, then that would have rocked.

Those were almost my exact thoughts after watching it actually (it was the first time I'd seen it), the alien variety show went on much too long and kind of squandered the really well done adventure story up to that point in favour of an extended comedy sequence that was completely out of sorts with the rest of the film.

It was a shame, but I really thoroughly enjoyed the movie up to that point, and got along OK with the rest of it.

 

[K-Star]

Saturday: played video games. Periodically applied ice to my bruises.

Sunday: Group project meeting for my Database class. Afterwards, went shopping. Checked out various small shops downtown and bought an ocarina at one of them. Then I went to the mall and bought earrings since it's finally been six weeks since I got my ears pierced. Also, celebrated "First Contact Day" with my friends in the Starfleet RP group I play with on Second Life (someone set up the video stream on the sim to play Star Trek: First Contact on the media screens.)

 

[Tprach]

Friday: awoken by USS_Triumphant to get up . Huged n kissed him n daughter bye as they left for school and work. Saw my son off to school. Played the last day of Trivia for HLN (headline news). Got a call from my mom that she was off from work that day, and was coming over to take me to lunch. Got ready for mom to come over. Mom and I went to eat, then to 2 local stores. My mom and I went and got daughter and son from school then went to 2 more stores. Came home and she took all of us out to dinner. OMG I just realized I missed Ghost Whispere :/ gonna have to go watch it.... Because when we got home we eneded up watching Ghost Busters II.

Saturday: USS_Triumphant and I Got up at 8:00am and then got daughter up for Girl Scout event. Got son up so he could let a friend in while we were gone. Went to Girl Scout event got done at 10am. Came home threw stuff together for Arts Alive festival. Arrive at the festival with no idea what I am going to draw. One of my friends ask me to draw Charlie and Candy Mountain. If you would like to see it its at deviantart. So that is What I did. USS_Triumphant fetched Us all water, and food while we drew in chalk. Left the festival at around 4:30pm? Went home and we got the rest of our friends and took off for the beach to celebrate USS_Triumphant birthday. After we ate we went to bowl. Where we had to deal with IDIOTS. They would walk up and roll their ball even with somone in the next lane already trying to bowl. and then she took out a camera and started taking pictures blinding people who were trying to bowl. Triumphant turns around and tells her what she is doing is Wrong and she yells JESUS at him. and so we asked to be mobed and they treat us like crap for being asked to be moved. Needless to say they lost our business!!! Got home at Midnight and crashed hard n fast.

Sunday: Slept in and had a lazy day with the family we spent the day watching movies and dealing with sunburns.

 

[archeryguy1701]

Saturday: Woke up around 9:30. Sat and stared out the window at the blizzard for about an hour, trying to get pumped up to go for a training run. Eventually just turned the computer on and started surfing here. Fixed a friend's TV in the dorms, and got repayed in pizza. Surfed more internet. Boss in dorms took me out to dominos since my car was snowed in. Came back, watched BSG finale again and then watched Seven Pounds. Passed out.

Sunday: Woke up, surfed internet. Wanted to go to breakfast, but car was still snowed in, and I had to dig it out (it wasn't even a natural drift... maintainance had cleared the driving areas in the lot, but in the process burried every single car out there). Got to Qdoba late and settled for a lunch burrito. Went to local running shoe store and helped them with their website. Returned, started the Supreme Commander campaign, then went on RA desk duty. In between filling out incident reports (the idiots were busy last night), I worked on trying to figure out my new major. Passed out.

 

[An Officer]

'Flight of the Navigator'.

Right up there with my top ten!

Some good examples here include 'Brewster's Millions', that other one with Richard Prior 'See no evil hear no evil'...

Those guys were so damn good. That is what got me into Richard Pryor's stand-up stuff. Pryor was like a thousand times more hilarious out of character on the stage, especially his "Richard Pryor live at the Sunset Strip"... Although he tackles a lot of very different social problems, according to each person's taste, this is my favourite, which always makes me laugh, no matter what:

Richard Pryor on The Mafia

Some black-comedy in there, but not to be taken too seriously to enjoy the show.