Check out the latest film my friends are working on! I spent the past three days haunting their set and I can tell you, it'll be a fun movie when it comes out. Here's a series of clips-thus-far:

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Keep your eyes open for The FellowsHip and support my friends' work!

Wind and ink,
the BP

this public service bulletin brought to you by my freckles

If you're interested in the American Academy of Dermatology's (AAD) sunscreen fact sheet:
http://www.aad.org/media/background/factsheets/fact_sunscreen.htm
If you're curious about specific products recommended by the AAD:
http://www.aad.org/public/sun/seal/products.html
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I'm going to start recycling.

Yeah, I know. You're all thinking, "What? You mean you haven't been?"

Well, I did when I lived in Baltimore and the recycling dumpsters were 300 yards from my apartment. When I got back here last summer, I knew it wouldn't go over very well in my house if I said, "Hey, let's switch to a different [read: more expensive] ( Read more... )

http://xkcd.com/566/
I'm as surprised as you are.

I just finished a book called The Future of Ice, by Gretel Ehrlich, and in the midst of her poetic, lyrical prose describing the beauty of winter, ice, and cold weather, she drops some ecological bombs on her readers. Whether accurate environmental prognostications or irrational environmental ravings, the idea I walked away with -- that our world ( Read more... )

http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/2009/03/13/pi-day-and-american-pi/

May there always be wind in your sails and a decimal point,
the Barefoot Puzzle

3.14159...

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No thanks to my own knowhow and physical strength, my car battery has been removed and replaced ( Read more... )

I've always been determined to be an Independent Woman. I kill my own spiders, I change my own light bulbs, and I have my own toolbox. As an 11th-grader, I bought a Rosie Riveter poster at the National Archives because I liked the spirit of Can-Do. But the only thing I was always determined not to do was cars.

My dad was a car guy. My brother is a ( Read more... )