Repo Men: So Far

I'm a bit pissed. iJournal froze on me when I first started typing this entry, so I switched into Dreamwidth's web interface to type in there, but somehow I deleted a good chunk of my entry. Edit-Undo only seems to do so much, which is basically nothing at all. Great.

Anyway, if you've been hearing about all this "Repo Men" stuff and wondering what it's all about, here's a primer: the folks at Universal Pictures, who are putting out the "Repo Men" movie starring Jude Law and Forest Whitaker on 3/19, have teamed up with Wired Magazine and Lone Shark Games to create a viral "reality game" that features four real-life people: Ciji Thorton (f - @antiforgeye), Will La Ferriere (m), Usman Akeju (m), and Alex Gamble (f) who are in possession of artiforgs, or artificial organs, made by a company called The Union. But these four are in severe arrears on paying for their handy organs, hence the hunters: repo men who are out to reclaim the artiforgs...for a price. $7,500 each, to be exact, for a grand total of $30,000 for anyone that could possibly catch all four runners.

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Anyway, since I'm totally new to this, I have no idea what'll happen or when, but damn, it would be cool if those runners (or even one of them) made their way up to my neck of the woods and somehow left clues I could decipher. I could definitely use $7500, that's for sure! I'm all for helping others and working together though, so I hope this has proven helpful or at least interesting to somebody.

Barring a Heist from the MacHeist directorate anytime soon (though a nanoBundle sale is apparently coming up in 4 days), this seems like it's got the right amount of suspense and tech-based fun to keep me busy between classes, clean-up, and chores. The contest ends 3/25.

Bandwagon fic meme time!

Pick one of my stories and I will tell you the first line of its sequel. Even if I was never actually planning to write a sequel. Even if it already has a [posted] sequel -- I'll give you the first line of another version of its sequel!

Swiped from a_white_rain and aishuu.

Also, note: sequel ≠ next chapter for those works that are sadly still-in-progress. Just an FYI! :}

Doing it again

Another meme. I'm bored.

Comment on this post saying you want to do this. I will choose seven interests from your profile and you will explain what they mean and why you are interested in them. Post this along with your answers in your own journal so that others can play along.

Ganked from rose_of_pollux, so she selected the seven interests; feel free to ask about other ones, but then expect me to ask about yours!

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