In the dream I was an older kid in a family. Brad Pitt was my older brother home from college. There were a few miscellaneous children around, including my real-life sister and a toddler … and oddly a friend, Marc. My parents were gone so the elder two of us were in charge of watching the younger kids.

Some chick comes over to the house for something tech-supporty. Fixing our cable or internet or some such thing, I can’t remember. Well, Brad Pitt gets the hots for her and she ends up staying the night. I was pissed because I had to watch the kids by myself, but least she cooked us dinner.

Well, at some point I grow to really distrust this woman, so when it comes time for her to leave I get all paranoid that she’s going to steal something. I make sure the valuables are still there and go around locking windows and doors.

I forgot to mention that we were at our vacation home on some nameless lake. Our property consisted of a large house and also a guest house.

So anyway, I go around locking everything up and finally this woman leaves. I lock the door behind her and we all stand at the (glass) door to watch her walk away.

Halfway down the walkway she turns around… and she has a gun in her hand. She shoots everyone in the head except for me (I was near the back and I got away in time).

So I’m freaking out that everyone is dead… crying, etc. I almost don’t notice it when all the kids (and Brad Pitt) stand back up and start walking towards me.

Apparently this woman put something in our dinner last night to make them into zombies. That was her whole mission… start a zombie uprising.

So I make it to the attic — it’s one of those old-school ones where the stairs unfold from the ceiling. I get up there and am trying to pull the stairs back up, but all the zombies are hanging onto the bottom of the stairs and I can’t pull it up.

Finally, somehow, I get the stairs pulled up, but now need to figure out how to reinforce the trap door so nobody can pull it back down. Plus … what am I going to do about food? Water?

I had my cell phone with me so I call my friend next door, and try to warn her about the zombies. She doesn’t believe me, of course.

Well, Brad Pitt is now making his way over to her place and since she has a crush on him (natch) she allows him to get closer… until it’s too late.

Then I wake up.

¹ If anyone has a working Nikon dSLR (any kind) they would like to give up let me know and we can work out a trade. I’m not interested in any other cameras.

There’s a wide variety; make sure you read through the whole list.

• Nikon F2 (body only) ** Only available for Trade
• Minolta Maxxum 7000 s/n 42019827
  
  - Zoom 35-70mm 1:4
  
  - 2800AF speedlight
• Praktiflex FX
• Seagull 205 s/n 8513739
• Fed-2 s/n 1218102
• Polaroid Captiva SLR
• Polaroid Impulse
• Polaroid The Button
• Polaroid Colorpack II
• Polaroid Colorpack III
• Polaroid Squareshooter 2
• Polaroid Joycam
• Voigtlander Brillant
• Kodak Duaflex II
• Kodak Duaflex III
• Anescoflex II
• Brownie Reflex Synchro
• Olympus Pen-EE s/n 547986 ** shutter sticks
• Chaika II
• Fujica 35-EE s/n 449786
• Ricoh Auto Shot
• Konica C35 EF
• Kodak Signet 35
• Solaris AUW100-Sport
• Canon Sureshot Owl
• Nikon Litetouch Zoom 110 AF (panoramia)
• Lomographic Fisheye ** has sticky tape residue on outside
• Agfa Chief
• Beacon Two-Twenty Five
• Argus C-Twenty
• Argus C3 Match-matic w/ LC3 meter s/n 1828224799
• Imperial Satellite 127

Will ship within the US (sorry, I can’t do International shipping) but would prefer Chicago-area pick up.

I have the Kindle app on my iPhone. I use it occasionally but so far I’ve only “purchased” books that are free.

There’s a book that I want to buy. It will cost me $17 to buy on Amazon, $19 to buy at Borders, but only $10 to buy for the Kindle.

Obviously saving money is a strong argument for getting the electronic version, but for some reason I can’t convince myself that this is the best way to go. Something about not having a physical item is troubling to me.

What are your thoughts?

http://loveandbacon.com/post/329147635/the-reason-i-didnt-sleep-well-last-night

This is actually really cool.

Techno Jeep – The sounds in this video are ACTUAL sounds from the Jeep. Everyone began rehearsing their parts 2 weeks before they shot the video. It took 7 hours of filming to get a solid take. ((via))

I’m sure there are more that I should add to this list, but I can’t think of anything else right now.

BTW, have you seen this yet?

Fire! #fb

We rang in the new year at the Reagle Beagle in Chicago. It was a “Revenge of the Nerds” theme night…