Tess LaCoyle’s blog

So I'm watching the Lost Survivor Guide from last week and it finally clicks where I'd seen Matt The Mindreader from Heroes before, even though you barely see him and his face is covered in gore. He was the pilot on the plane.

I know, he's been on loads of other shows -- most notably long runs on Alias and apparently Felicity, and one of my favorite shows ever, Flying Blind -- but none that I remembered until now.

If you run a windows computer (sometimes you have no choice) and the new IE7 screwed up your Trillian/Firefox connection:

Even though your settings still say that Firefox is your default, it's lying. Go into Internet Options and change your default browser to Internet Explorer and save it. Now open Firefox and change it back to the default. That should fix it.

My favorite person on my team left today. We're all contractors, and he got a good real-person job. He was the only person I really liked, the only person with whom I've ever intentionally had a beer. And he's smarter than the rest of us, combined. Suckage. Major suckage.

On the other hand, my resume on Monster got a bite, for his replacement position. At least I know my credentials look good.

*sigh*

I'm not sure yet, whether to be ecstatic or worried.

George Clooney is developing a miniseries for the Sci Fi Channel, based on Neal Stephenson's Diamond Age. One of my favorite books.

SciFi, good. Neal Stephenson, good. George Clooney, usually good, if a little personally liberal for my taste. And yet, I'm... concerned.

I'm embarrassingly tickled that Cameron and Chase from House got engaged (in real life) over the holidays. I loved Cameron in the first season, before she got all bitchy and holier-than-thou (and in Mr and Mrs Smith!), and I still think Chase is awesome.

And they go together much better than Kate and the hobbit from Lost. But that still tickles me too...

How awesome is this?

World's Tallest Man Uses Long Arms to Save 2 Dolphins in China

These two dolphins were dying from eating plastic, and they couldn't get the pieces out of their stomachs with surgical instruments. So the manager of the aquarium calls the world's tallest man -- whose arms are almost 42 inches long! -- to help them. And he did!

How fabulously surreal and wonderful.

1. I saw a commercial a few days ago that used the Happy Happy Joy Joy song from Ren and Stimpy. Sara Lee, I think? Why is that worse than hearing the Ramones on a commercial, somehow?

2. Are the tunes to "All I Want for Christmas" and the Munchkin song the same? (Like the ABC song and Twinkle Twinkle are the same) I can't tell. But I got the former as hold music last weekend, and ever since then, I've been singing:

We represent the Lollipop Guild, The Lollipop Guild, The Lollipop Guild
And in the name of the Lollipop gui-i-i-i-ild
We'd like to wish you Merry Chri-i-i-i-i-istmas.

*sigh*

Show us something by your favorite artist.
Submitted by Miss Parker. 

John Waterhouse is my favorite artist, and Lady of Shalott is my favorite of his works.

The Lady Of Shalott

When I went to the Tate, I sat in the pre-Raphaelite room and stared at this painting for like an hour. I have a copy of it framed in my dining room, but nothing can show the amazing, beautiful details except sitting there in front of it. And staring.

Show us something blue.

I'm pretty sure we already VoxHunted something blue, and I replied with this:

Blues

But I have lots of blue stuff, including my dishes and most of my clothes. So here's the first thing I saw after I read the challenge.

Blue

What's the most klutzy thing you've ever done?
Submitted by Jecka.

Last winter, I was trying to push my car out of a snowbank, and it got away from me. I have a long driveway, but it's all downhill. I thought for sure my car was going to end up in the living room of the people across the street.

I managed to jump in, headfirst, and hit the brake with my hand. I could *not* stop laughing, when I finally got it stopped, but I'm so glad no one saw me.