welcome to camp telophase

In other words myrialux and I been married ten years now which makes this either our ninth or tenth anniversary, depending on how you count that. Given that the "modern" gift suggestion for 10 is diamonds, I am not opposed to celebrating my tenth anniversary twice.

edit: yes I'm aware the math makes it work out as the 10th anniversary, this was the result of a half-asleep argument this morning and I can't be bothered to take the poll down. :D

Because I was thinking about a miscommunication with a person who requested art for me about a decade ago...



( My answer under the cut, as I don't want to influence your replies to the poll )

On Saturday, Toby and I are heading to Dallas to help with the (second) ConDFW room party at FenCon. We are going to head over a bit early and catch a movie at one of the fancy dinner theatres over there. We are undecided as to which one, however.

Option One is Look Cinemas, which is over near Toby's brother and his girlfriend, who have praised it a lot. Option Two is a known quantity, the Alamo Drafthouse, which we've been to twice already recently and which we will definitely visit many times more. The movies in question are The Equalizer and A Walk Among the Tombstones, which both have 66% on Rotten Tomatoes at this time, and Guardians of the Galaxy again, which we both enjoyed the first time. The Guardians is only at the Drafthouse, while the other two are at both places.

Hmmmmm. Which one to see?




* Toby has already stated that he will not be watching Mello's fabulous ass, more's the pity.

So far the results of the "human" vs. "yooman" pronunciation question have been interesting. Nobody admits to saying "yooman," although there seem to be some slight differences in accent between "hyooman" and "hooman."

The two people that Toby and I hear say "yooman" the most are Seth Shostak on the Big Picture Science podcast and Robert Scheer, the liberal guy on the Left, Right and Center podcast. Alas, I cannot link you to any short snippets for examples; you'll just have to download one or the other podcast and hope one or the other says the word.

What we find interesting is that there seems to be a California connection between the two, although that may be coincidence (certainly a sample of 2 is not statistically significant). Although they both went to grad school in California and live there now, according to their bios, they were both raised on the other side of the country: Shostak in Virginia and Scheer in New York. (And their surnames both begin with S, although I'm reasonably sure we can discount that as a factor.)

Anyway, hopefully someone out there who reads my LJ/DW and who says "yooman" exists and will discourse upon the subject, so I don't have to subject you all to a phone post of me attempting to pronounce the word both ways to check that the people saying what sounds like "yooman" to my ears are just under-aspirating the H and hear it themselves!

If you haven't seen it, go a couple of entries back and answer the poll before reading this.

( Answer below here! )