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Friday, May 16th, 2008
2:13 pm	This is bluekitsune's fault... Well, SSB, your post got me thinking about steampunk. And I came across these: Steampunk nerf gun. Steampunk electric violin. The OP doesn't seem to've quite grokked the concept of an electric 5-string fiddle, but the instrument itself is rather interesting. ETA: Gacked from bluekitsune: Steampunk Star Wars action figures. Engravingish images of another iteration of steampunk Star Wars (Comment on this)
Sunday, May 11th, 2008
1:16 pm	Happy Mothers' Day! Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers, and to everyone's mother besides. (Comment on this)
Friday, May 2nd, 2008
2:20 pm	If you have to ask... You may not want to know the answer. ;-) I saw this headline on my Yahoo news page just now: "How realistic are Indiana Jones' archaeological adventures?" We used to joke about what a realistic Indiana Jones-type movie would be like. The hero takes down two meter squares in ten centimeter levels. Every so often, he stops and drinks water. The highlights of the film: He talks with tourists, explaining multiple times that he's not looking for dinosaurs. He finds a potsherd that's not like the other ones that have shown up on the site. It might be from as much as fifty miles away. He breaks for lunch and gets a few minutes' chat with that cute biologist who's doing the wetlands survey. (Comment on this)
Thursday, May 1st, 2008
11:42 pm	Lá Bealtaine Shona Daoibh! Happy May Day, everyone! (Sorry I'm so late posting this--I wasn't able to go online all day.) (Comment on this)
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
3:28 pm	Steam Trek This looks quite funny--Star Trek re-envisioned as a silent film. I've not watched it through--I'm putting this here mostly so I can keep track of it, myself. ( Steam Trek ) (Comment on this)
Sunday, April 27th, 2008
2:48 pm	Happy Eastern Orthodox Easter!! Happy Eastern Orthodox Easter!! (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, April 25th, 2008
10:43 pm	Oseberg Remains Re-evaluated OSLO (Reuters) - Tests of the bones of two Viking women found in a buried longboat have dispelled 100-year-old suspicions that one was a maid sacrificed to accompany her queen into the afterlife, experts said on Friday. I just thought that was interesting. Current Mood: blah Current Music: something 80sish piped-in (Comment on this)
Saturday, April 19th, 2008
2:48 am	Happy Passover!! Happy Passover! (Comment on this)
Monday, April 7th, 2008
3:50 pm	I've got to leave for uni shortly... But I thought this link needed posted first. Maasai warriors to run the London Marathon. They're doing it to raise money to get access to clean water for their community. More power to them. (Comment on this)
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
3:21 pm	While we're on the subject of RT I thought "Vincent Black Lightning 1952" ought to be up here as well. ( Said Red Molly to James, that's a fine motorbike ) (6 Comments |Comment on this)
3:01 pm	Well, it's Richard Thompson's birthday So, in his honour, I thought I'd link a few clips on YouTube. He's probably my favourite singer-songwriter. Unless you count Andy Irvine, maybe. Any road, here's "Beeswing" and "Oops, I Did It Again" (no, that's not a misprint ;-). And Christy Moore singing "Beeswing," as well. ( click here ) (Comment on this)
Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
11:26 pm	Happy Easter! Sorry I'm so late with it--I've been out and away from the computer and the net most of the day. Went to Vigil Mass last night. Had dessert lena rents afterwards. Apparently I really can't drink full-caff tea at night anymore; had a miserable time sleeping, and slept far later than I intended in the morning as a result. Had Easter dinner in Riverton this afternoon. Ridiculous amounts of snow still on the ground in those parts, everywhere there's shade. (Comment on this)
Thursday, March 20th, 2008
6:46 pm	See you Saturday!! It's nearly midnight, GMT. So, I'll see you, as it were, on the 22nd. (Comment on this)
2:20 pm	Happy Purim! Happy Purim! (Comment on this)
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
3:34 pm	Content Strike Yes, I suppose it's a bit like jumping on the bandwagon, but I'm doing it. I'll not be on LJ on Friday the 21st of March, from midnight GMT to midnight GMT. That works out to 7 pm on Thursday til 7 pm on Friday, EDT, unless I'm screwing up the maths again. I'll probably not be posting on my local Friday at all, on account of it being Good Friday, (Comment on this)
Monday, March 17th, 2008
10:12 pm	New webcomic discovered! Sparkling Generation Valkyrie Yuuki is a webcomic about a fanboy who meets the Norse messenger god Hermod (incarnated as a weird little fluffy brown marmosettish thing) and is promptly turned into a valkyrie. Things get stranger from there. Included: Genderbending. The spirit of Aurochsness, transformed into a cuddly "lawn cow." Loki incarnated as a knife-carrying stuffed cat; although he's a bit of a perv, he almost seems to not be actually evil. Thor, in his own shape. A sinuous version of Sleipnir which keeps calling Loki "Mommy" despite all his attempts to convince him to say "Daddy." It's probably the strangest take on Norse mythology I've seen since "Oh My Goddess!" What's more, I like it. ;-) In other news, the gig went okay, once we figured out what tunes we actually knew. Made about five bucks each, plus tea, but that was more than I was expecting so it's not bad. Met a guy who used to be in Gaelic Storm and sang a song about life as an immigrant in London which I've never heard before. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
2:26 pm	I'm Chinese today... because it's not true that everyone is Irish on St. Patrick's Day. Any road, Happy St. Patrick's Day to everyone! Or at least to everyone who cares to have one. ;-) As for me, I'm playing a few tunes with a flute player in a coffee shop not far from here. Otherwise I amn't doing too much this year. Not much else to report. ETA: except Creepy gnome terrorises town in General Guemes, Salta, Argentina. It's The Sun reporting it; would they lie? ;-) (Comment on this)
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
6:26 pm	Random Thought I'm quite strangely pleased that Ireland's sending Dustin to the Eurovision Song Contest. Cos if ever there were an event full of turkeys, made for turkeys, desperately needing to have itself won by a real actual genuine turkey, it were Eurovision. (Comment on this)
Friday, February 22nd, 2008
3:48 pm	Rats Through a Straw Mike Rafferty's playing in NYC tonight. I was hoping to go in. We've got about ten inches of snow out there, and hardly anything but snow plows has passed us by all day. I gather NYC's fairly well snowt-in as well. And... Andy M. Stewart's playing a house concert in Middletown Tuesday after next. Which is the day I have class; particularly annoying is that _next_ Tuesday is the class my prof's cancelled. I've not seen Andy in ten years; he doesn't seem to be touring much in North America, lately. Well, if anyone wants to see Andy, let me know and I'll pass you along the contact information. It's at a friend's place, and I can testify that it's always a good time there. (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
2:15 pm	Happy Birthday, rikibeth! Happy Birthday! (And sorry I'm late with it.) (Comment on this)