Okay, so I'm posting my Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince predictions here as a public archive so I can have bragging rights if I get anything correct once I actually do get to read the book, which is entirely dependent upon my name finially reaching the top of the county library queque (as I am much to cheap to buy the books myself). Most of ( Read more... )

So, I finally got around to reading Dan Brown's international bestseller, The Da Vinci Code, and now I'm left in complete bewilderment as to why it has received such interest. I wasn't expecting much, but I was hoping it would be more.. scholarly? The only reason I can think of that engenders attention is the ludicrous claims it makes based on half ( Read more... )

Hah! VDay was cancelled because of freezing rain ( Read more... )

Wth is up with the weather? We had Christmas snow that lasted for a week, then by last Sunday had been rained upon, melted, etc. so that come Monday morning the ground was just mushy and water-logged (with a few paltry flakes dusted on top from the night before). Wednesday we had about 5cm in the morning, and then today we had an all-out snowstorm ( Read more... )

Ok, first off I just learned that the genius behind Anne Frank Conquers the Moon Nazis is actually this guy, who so happens to be a member of this fantastic art guild known as pantsketch, that I've been following on and off for almost a year now. Weird.

And for the knitters out there, I've got some great ideas for you. Knit your own 60's ski ( Read more... )

AOL Netspeak Translator + Franz Kafka's The Penal Colony = Philosophy for 12 year olds!

“IT’S A PECULIAR APARATUS” SADE DA OFIECR 2 TEH TRAEVLAR GAZNG WIT A CERTANE ADMIRATION AT DA DEVIEC WIT WHICH HE WAS OF COURSE THOROUGHLY FMILIAR11!1 WTF IT APEAERD TAHT DA TRAEVL3R HAD RESPONDED 2 TEH INVITATION OF DA COMANDANT ONLY OUT OF POLIETNES WHEN HE ( Read more... )

Call me an idiot, but until ten minutes ago I didn't know plastic bottles shrunk when you poured hot water into them. At first I used to think that my plastic waterbottles (just the nomal plastic bottles you get in the store) were getting pretty banged up, until I just saw the thing literally shrink. If I did not need it to currently hold water I ( Read more... )

Well I was going to write an entry about Christmas, but then a few million people finked my idea. So instead, I'm going to share with you a heart-warming story I read on Christmas morn.

The Adventures of Fuzzy and Puffy
By Brad Jaworsky (aka: The Venice Menace)

Fuzzy and Puffy were two kittens who were the best friends in the whole world. ( Read more... )

It's like I don't even have to make fun of Bush anymore--he does it himself!


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So I'm looking through this book called Creating Characters Kids Will Love, which gives plenty of real-world writing examples of the suggestions it makes. It seemed pretty accurate until, however, I came across this interesting passage relaying Harry Potter on page 125:

"...As the first book in the series gets underway he [Harry] finds himself ( Read more... )