An anonymous person just gave me and my girl karkarlee a 20-day charter! Whoever it was, here's to you!

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So yeah. Gotta make that trip by m'self August 9th. I'm moving to Tempe, AZ - and I'm sure as shit gonna be miserable as soon as that heat hits me.
Not really looking forward to making the trip, but I can't wait to get there for a few different reasons.

I'm kinda nervous about moving to an area that's completely new to me - I've never even been to Arizona before. And it's a huge city (metro area = 4.5 million) Whereas the biggest city I've lived in is about 60,000 people.
At least I have family in Maryland and Misouri to stop at so I won't have to get a hotel. I'm kinda screwed from there though. I've considered taking a cot and sleeping on the side of the road somewhere near/in Amarillo, TX so I don't have to fork out a ton of cash for a hotel. But it will probably be hot as hell.

I guess I'll see what happens then.

If the USA had preempted Pearl Harbor, might the reconstruction of Japan have turned out as badly as present day Iraq?

The sheer propaganda value one gains by being on defense vastly outweighs any small military advantage that might be obtained through preemption.

Stolen shamelly from Penny Arcade

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I didn't post a link to it because I see links to it everywhere, and you've already seen it anyway, because you're a cool person who is perpetually in the know. Even so, I couldn't take the chance, because the one thing most links to Dr. Horrible don't include is a dire warning about its ephemeral nature.

That's correct: it will be dragged off the Internet very soon, to be placed on a DVD and made available for purchase. Parts one and two are already avaiable at the site, and part three comes out on Saturday. After that, it all gets pulled down on Sunday. It's a supervillain musical written by Joss Whedon, starring a bunch of awesome motherfuckers.

Why are you still here.

(CW)TB

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He's right. I would be failing you if i did not do the same.

Mutant Enemy Productions (Joss Whedon)
Starring:
Neil Patrick Harris
Nathan Fillion
Felicia Day (*- We like her in The Guild)

Available on iTunes for a couple of dollars each, 3 parts. or free on the site right NOW.

Go there. Uses some kind of Hulu powered thing that works for me in the UK

One of the downsides of Twitter is that the site is often down. Some of us, in our frustration, have turned to another site called Plurk. It has similar features, but it set up for threads.

Here is the FAQ. There is a blog that chronicles features that are added.

Plurkers seek higher states of karma. The higher you go, the more perks you earn - including more lively emoticons.

Plurk highlights Interesting Plurkers.

Here's my profile on Plurk.

Some new features were just added on Friday. I'm still learning about how the site works, too.

 

Here's a very interesting article on cross genre covers - (actually one of my fav. kinds of music) and the last link in the article is to a VideoSift post. Goulet baby!

Thanks to syncron for putting this playlist together. This is in reference to my post "History of the Jeep, Part 2 of 5": http://www.videosift.com/video/History-of-the-Jeep-Part-2-of-5-1002

Go see The Dark Knight (like you needed me to tell you that!). Heath Ledger lives up to the hype. He's amazing as the Joker. I saw it last night at 3:30am at the Arclight in Hollywood. What an incredible movie! The score was amazing, too!

Anyone else see it? Let's hear your thoughts! Possible SPOILERS inside.

Following on Lucky's post - I'm giving Twitter another try. I used to think that micro-posts like "I'm riding the train home from work" were kind of pointless- but I've since been following a few Twitter feeds, and it is kind of fascinating to get some insight into people's every day happenings. I've posted the applet in my blog sidebar ---->

Link to me here.

Invisible Carpet Idea Close to Actual Invisibility
Eric Bland, Discovery News

July 17, 2008 -- Invisibility cloaks are cool, but an invisibility carpet is more practical.

That's according to scientists from Imperial College London, who recently published a paper detailing the creation of a material that would be the first to hide objects in visible light, something no cloaking device has ever achieved.

"We've given a prescription for how to cloak something in visible light," said John Pendry, who, along with Jensen Li, wrote the paper that appeared recently on ArXiv.org. "It will be difficult to make but it is also practical."

Cloaking an object requires structures, often referred to as metamaterials, that channel light in a specific way.

The only way to channel light in that fashion is by using structures smaller than the wavelength of light being used to detect an object. In 2006, Duke University scientists cloaked an object from light centimeters long by creating a metamaterial with structures millimeters in size.

To cloak an object in visible light, which has a much smaller wavelength, around half a micron, scientists would have to create structures nanometers in size, which, according to Pendry, "requires some clever nanotechnology."

That nanotechnology would come from combining special layers of common silica and silicon, each of which reflects light differently.

"It's a lot like a mirage," said Pendry. "The sun heats the air above the desert and creates a temperature gradient, so when light from the sky comes down the graded refraction bends the light and it enters your eye and you see a mirage the looks like water."

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Read the rest of the story at Discovery News.

Here be bad tinkering with Zbrush/etc!  Maybe this blog will be a WIP sketchbook. Maybe.  Mostly to arrange progress for myself, but if you'd like to take a look at bad, lumpy sculpts, by all means!

 

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Here are three clips from the costume contest.  The first one is our entry.  Unfortunately, he got caught on the gate coming in and almost lost his costume.   The second is the return at the end for ribbons...you can see he almost ripped a whole side off there.  He stepped on it outside waiting after bolting from a loud vehicle riding by.

The last video though is the one to watch though.  It's announcements of the winners and Sterling the Llama is hungry after his long day and decides to snack on Bethany's hat in front of the audience.  Comedy ensues!

 The Viva Pinata music Lucky helped get for us.. Thanks Lucky!   We dedicate our 3rd place ribbon to you

 

 

Summertime is 4-H fair time here in the U.S.   4-H is youth development club.  You can show a pig, make a quilt, wood work, create a lego work of art, bake....just about anything is fair game for a kid project.

The past two weeks the kids have been feverishly making  posters, making notebooks, soldering circuit kits, posing for pictures, being in parades, washing llamas, showing hamsters, and creating of all things... a llama costume!

 Yes there is an actual llama and alpaca club.  The costume show was this weekend.  My girl had to show him in an arena to a song track of her choosing dressed up.  

 She chose Viva Pinata...  anyone know that game/show?    We call him a "Llamon Drop"

It was a chore getting this thing on him... It tore several times requiring taping continuously.Sterling HATED this thing.  The other llamas in the stalls next to him were reaching their heads in to eat his costume too. 

The costume tail caught on the gate when she entered the arena showing too.  By the time judges were handing out the ribbons, he had ripped it.   

If I can figure out how to put video in this blog, I have a hilarious video of the llama attempting to snack on her hat during judging line up.  It's really cute and funny.   My girl gets so angry cause Sterling won't leave her hat alone while they're supposed to stand still in front of everyone.

 The music worked fine too.. thanks to Lucky for that      OH, she won 3rd place in her division

 

 

 

Hey boys and girls,

just stumbled across the mixwit.com site and made a mixtape for you all to enjoy.

I collected a whole bunch of songs of one artist vs. the other which should make for an interesting listening experience. Enjoy! 

So hay, I'm just figuring the blog portion of this out, and I can't see any etiquette guidelines beyond whats listed at the bottom of this input screen.  Is  there anything that says I shouldn't be using this as my main blogging hovel?

 

Anyways, HELLO. 

 

testing snipping.

 

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