So -- I went down to the DMV, today...

[capri0mni]

(I think that's what Brits call the MOT... right?)

Because I needed to renew my Virginia State ID. It turns out that I did, in fact, need my birth certificate and all, even though I was renewing, instead of applying for a new one (they even held onto it, and didn't give it back to me until after my picture was taken... I wonder if they thought I was going to skip out, or something).

Anyway, I was wearing a blue sweatshirt, and the backdrop for the photo was blue. If I'd worn a shade that was just a touch lighter and truer (without any grey flecks), I would have looked like a disembodied head. ... if only I had known beforehand... mwha ha ha!

Anyway, I was actually smiling a little bit, but the picture looks like I'm on the verge of tears ... (you know: that "staring down a herd of stampeding elephants" look). I think it was because I was anticipating the flash, and hoping I wouldn't blink.

This one is good until 01/31/14 -- the month I'm 50. Though, frankly, I hope to be out of Virginia, by then...

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[spooforbrains.livejournal.com]

Nah, MOT is the test that's given to vehicles to make sure they're roadworthy. I can't remember what it stands for, and I can't be doing with googling it this late at night :) I'm not actually sure what our equivalent of the DMV is, I can only assume it's the DVLA (Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency).

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Yeah... that sounds like it...

DMV stands for the Department of Motor Vehicals, though it's also where you get your voter registration and stuff (and what tests for road worthiness, I think).

Though, by the look of things, it seems you get to make puns about the Devil -- that bit is common to both, I think (The DMV is pretty Hellish).

[indefatigable42.livejournal.com]

Years ago I went to Disneyworld, and one of the games at EPCOT involved standing in front of a bluescreen and appearing on television in front of various backdrops. You follow directions like 'Run!' and 'Okay, let's stop here!' and it appears, crudely, as if you're having a little adventure on the TV screen.

Anyways, I was wearing a purple track suit with little glow-in-the-dark puff paint hearts all over it. (Okay, okay. I was eight years old, and it was 1985.) The purple was exactly the right shade to blend into the bluescreen and vanish on TV, and I looked like a transparent swarm of dots accompanied by a floating head.

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

heheh! I don't suppose you have video of that? >;-)

(though I would have thought that the suit would have to be the exact same color as the background...hmmm).

[pedanther]

I remember, when I was in high school, the local science museum had an exhibit about special effects, including an array of different activities involving bluescreen.

I had, at the time, one tshirt that was exactly the same colour as bluescreen. The day of the class excursion to the science museum, I wore it *deliberately*.

(I mostly kept my jumper on over it, though.)

[uncacreamy.livejournal.com]

Are you moving out of Virginia?

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

No definite plans. But after ten years, I just realize this house and community is a bad mis-match for me. I thought I'd do well living on my own, but I need community and more structure, and somewhere where public transportation doesn't add insult to injury.