Saturday: I should have checked to see if my bread was any good before ordering groceries.

Because, spoiler: it wasn't.  I guess I'm going to buy bread tomorrow.

Today was ayce sushi place.

I may have ended up with more than I expected.

I'm sure I didn't order three ebi.  Oh well.  This place isn't the best ever (the fish is cut super thin), but the variety is good.

Plus ice cream!

 Then I went next door to get some of the apple pop from (I think) Taiwan.

I did not get the croque asses.

• I really hope all the assholes who didn't care about the election are happy.  I wonder if they think about how many people's lives they've helped ruin.

Monday: The plan was literally "get drunk and think up a better plan."

Beebo.

Tonight was the Legends of Tomorrow finale.  It was glorious.  Last week, the Legends had the plan to release the evil time demon so they could use their magic amulets to kill him.  Except they didn't really know how to do that.  So they go with the backup plan of "hide with Jonah Hex in his time-hidden town."  And then get drunk and think up a better plan.  The evil time demon sends an army of pirates, Romans, and Norsemen to the old west town to demand the magic amulets.  This is not the most ridiculous thing in the episode.

Ray has the idea to release Damien Darhk so they can try to save his daughter before she turns into the evil time demon.  This is a Bad Plan, so he has punch Nate to get away.  Surprisingly, it works, but the evil time demon takes over Damien, abandoning Nora.  Ray saying "you shouldn't hit your daughter" after Damien does that is also not the most ridiculous thing in the episode.

Ava comes with some support, including Jackson, and convinces Sara to try it all again.  They taunt the army, and then there's a big fight scene where everyone gets to slash and shoot and whatever the army for awhile.  They win, but the evil time demon does a thing, and revives all of his side.  The team tries it again, but thanks to Nate, the amulets merge everyone into a giant Beebo doll, which then fights the evil time demon in a scene that could have been called "this is why there hasn't been much CGI this season, we needed to save up for this."  It is the most ridiculous thing in the episode, but also one of the greatest moments on any TV show ever.

I did a live-tumblr of my thoughts:

• I love Wally West.  I love Sara’s plan is “get drunk and come up with a better plan.”
• “Are we making a baby?” I love Mick Rory.
• Ray shows up 15 minutes late with Starbucks Nora Darhk.
• “Wally, you’re only allowed to speed punch 40% of the bad guys, ok?  We all want to have cool action sequences.” - Sara, probably.
• “Beebo hungry!”  This damn show.  I will love it for all time, just for this brilliant addition.
• “To be fair, John, we solve each disaster by causing a second, larger disaster.  We are pretty sure we’ll reach maximum disaster size, and we’re counting on it wrapping around to a tiny disaster we can just ignore.” - Sara

Oh yeah, Constantine is angry at the end because releasing an evil time demon also sometimes releases other demons.  Like this time.  They released other demons that they'll need to fight next season.  And this is totally their thing.  Season one ended with them needing to go fix something with the Justice Society, season two ended with them breaking time so badly that a time demon could partially escape, and season three ended with them accidentally releasing a bunch of demons into the world.  They are failing up the best way they can.

• This is all I'm talking about today.
• Because look at this.
• I can't wait.

Ok, other stuff.

• It was a good news day.
• Yes to this.  This season has made it clear that the Simpsons is written by old people who are worried about their increasing irrelevancy.  I don't remember the exact episode I noticed, because I've started muting the TV and watching youtube on Sundays.  I think there was some technology thing that they presented as silly and unnecessary but popular with kids.  Maybe take your racism and go sit in the corner and remember when your show used to be funny.

Monday: I should always do theory papers for this seminar.

Because everyone hates theory papers, so no one else reads it, and since it's basically just throwing math at something, it's usually not too hard to get through.

It's hard to see, but about 1/3 of the way from the Moon to Venus is Mars.

• This is kind of cool.  It was also kind of cool when I basically described the exact same thing back in July.
• Wait.  OMG.

They actually made an IMDB entry for it?

I watched it last night, and this is ridiculous.  Ryan had to go home before the game was even close to finished, so Jack stepped in to finish the game, and the IMDB page just lists them both as the same character.  Kat is in there because Jeremy put her on speaker phone when he called home to let her know that he was going to be late getting home, because the damn game of Uno wouldn't end.

• That's a good Jane cosplay.
• Dog.
• Yes to all this.
• I do not like cream cheese, but this story is incredible.
• I am disappointed Evan Narcisse isn't going to be doing comic book commentary anymore, but I look forward to seeing his comic.
• This is intolerable, and the picture of the main asshole's family makes me angry.

This was going to be part of the regular blog post, but I think that has too much in it already, so it's a separate thing.

I woke up this morning at like 7:30, had a half-remembered IM conversation with Julie.  I then went back to sleep.

Three hours later, I received this from Julie:

Kofflax.

This was followed by these:

Moltysaur.

Dugysaur.

 Finishing with the best of the set:

Wigglykazam.

Wiggly-fucking-kazam.  Holy crap these are still as funny as they were forever ago.  The generator is here, and here are the ones I came up with.  Mostly I set one side fixed, and randomly loaded the other side until I liked them.

Zape.

Pikasect with such a tiny face!

Krabby is a great face source.

Krabchop.

Krabnine.

 But I think Chansey is my favorite, because it has such a silly tiny face.

Changey.

Chantly.

Chanfing.

Chanizard.

Chansea.

 Fucking Chansea.

Friday: I am a big fan of joke cards.

Specifically, repurposing a card for one event for a completely unrelated event that does not require a card.  The problem was that I accidentally stole a sock while travelling, and needed to return it.  This is not a thing that needs a card, but it seemed like a good idea.  The only issue was finding an inappropriate one.

My first thought was to do a sympathy card.

But that seemed a bit too morbid.

My next thought was a bar-mitzvah card, but I couldn't find that.  The next best thing: first communion card.

Appropriately edited to match the situation.

And with cartoon drawings inside.

• Red Bee.
• Animal food friends.
• Steven Universe.
• I want to try this, but it doesn't appear that the supplier ships outside of Japan.

"Hey, I could probably automate that in perl, and make it a game."

cat kitten sword robot space pink white bumblebee bee helmet

Code under the cut.  Rules for the game:  player one chooses an image, and the other players need to come up with descriptive words for what's on it.  Then, you run the command on the best set of words (maybe you don't want to use all of them because you end up with legos.  Maybe you get points if you only use like 1 word, but if you use 9 or more, but get legos, you lose points).  If the image itself, or the character, or an obviously "these images are related somehow" match happens, then the seekers get the point.  If not, then the player who chose the original image gets a point.  So under these rules, the Bee and Puppycat image gets a point, and I lose two points because I didn't find B&PC, and I ended up with legos when I used 10 words.

Go fuck yourself, Elsevier.

Dear Dr. undefined,

It is our pleasure to inform you that your publication has been cited in a journal published by Elsevier.

Through this unique service we hope we can offer you valuable information, and make you aware of publications in your research area.

Best regards,

The CiteAlert team

Because, see, if you do it three times, it's a joke.

I totally didn't schedule all of these all at once to make a point.  Not at all.