The most expensive water bottle ever! And other random things.

[thistlechaser]

I try to drink a lot of water (history of kidney stones and all), and lately I've been looking for a bigger and better water bottle to use at work. I saw someone with one that looked fun (shaped like a mini-water cooler bottle), so I hit up Amazon to see if I could find one. I... I think I'll have to pass on this one.

Product page.

And in other news, I'm still enjoying my Netflix subscription. I feel a little guilty when days go by without me using it, but I think I'm still using it enough for it to be worth it. However, I can't stream videos on it while playing WoW (which is too bad, my monitors are set up perfect for doing two things like that), so I had to come up with a solution:


I propped my ipad up against the second monitor! Surprisingly, the size difference isn't bad at all. Probably because I sit so close to it? I ordered a set of speakers for it, the sound is the only thing that's lacking in this setup.

(I usually look at the area and remove anything odd looking before I take a picture, but this time I didn't. That brown thing next to the pill bottle is a nose spray.)

I finished the season of Orange is the New Black. Depressing and realistic, but it bothered me less than when I started the season. Back to The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes next. I'm enjoying it, I just hate Hawkeye's purple uniform.

Speaking of superheroes, know what bugs me? Spider-Man. That's the correct way to write it, with the hyphen. It drives me crazy. Only reason it was added was because they didn't want Spider-Man and Superman to be confused. (This would have been a more frothy rant if I had written about it weeks back. Now it just bugs me instead of making me want to write letters to Marvel.)

Comments

[al-zorra.livejournal.com]

In connection with that you might like reading this on Slate (http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2013/07/hollywood_and_blake_snyder_s_screenwriting_book_save_the_cat.html), why all these Great Big Hollywood Movies are feeling alike.

Love, C.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

What an interesting (and depressing) read! Thanks for the link!

[kamalloy.livejournal.com]

Heh, your setup reminds me of what grysar did with our gaming setup in the basement. He wanted to track his progress in Wii Fit running while he played other games on our non-Wii systems, so he bought a smaller monitor, attached the Wii to it, and now has a "picture-by-picture" setup. (He wanted to try and use the TV's native picture-in-picture capability, but you could only put cable signals in the smaller picture, not any of the other inputs. Annoying, but workable. :/)

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Ha, that's great! Both his setup and that he runs while playing other things. :D

[pure-trance.livejournal.com]

Have you watched Hemlock Grove? I just binged watched it in 3 days (it's a 13 episode season) and I thought it was really interesting. But only if you like horror, it gets kinda gory at times. Also there is another (much younger) Skarsgard in it...those boys sure like the supernatural TV shows haha.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I haven't! I'll put it on my list of things to check out. Thanks!

[pure-trance.livejournal.com]

You're welcome :)