I realize I haven't been here (LJ) in months as I've been mostly been trucking along on my PhD morning, noon and night. However, I finished a Star Wars knit and wanted to post it for the Star Wars knitters ( Read more... )

Today she is four years old.

Whilst watching RotJ last night, I inadvertently referred to Jabba as Jabba the Fett:

DT: That'd be hilarious. Can you imagine that? Jabba wearing a jetpack?
Me: And when he fires it up it lifts him so he hovers like, maybe, 3 inches of the ground and moves across the room very extremely slowly
DT: It would be the Rascal of jetpacks.

And...today we're on BB Gadgets, Foolish Gadgets and Crafty Crafty

w00t :)

...Greeblie is a little bit famous today.

I know, it's a little late. I've been busy, but there's only one day left at the Neuroscience Conference and I have a little down time while I doxie-sit.

This Halloween DT and I went as Sherlock Holmes and Irene Adler (for those haven't read the Holmes books, think Victorian Era showgirl):


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"We're not the best people..."

"...but we're not the worst."

"No, grad students are the worst."

Everyone should seriously watch 30 Rock, because it is so very very funny and Tina Fey is so very very Tina Fey. Thursdays 9:30/8:30.

I met _opus_ and bearly_here during Star Wars: Musical Edition '03 when he was Ben Kenobi and we've always shared some gleeful Star Wars geeking out. So, when I heard they were naming their new baby Ben... what follows became more or less inevitable:

BABY BEN! (with a 2L coke bottle for scale to show it's baby-sized smallness):

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In Lego Indiana Jones, it'll sometimes let you buy things that might be useful to you like the ability to dig things up quickly or disguises...DT was playing and was ( a little caught off guard by this one: )

What has two thumbs, speaks limited French,* and passed her quals??

THIS MOI!

*I am quoting the awesome Miss Tina Fey, whom I adore like the genius she is. My French is actually fluent...