Okay, so I'm hideously behind on updating. Therefore, expect to get some picspam posts for several days in a row. We have owls! Raccoons! Also the USS Constitution. (... One of these things is not like the others ( Read more... )

To make this an "all geeking all the time" post: tonight is the Extended Fellowship of the Ring screening! Woo ( Read more... )

So, some of you may remember a month or so ago that I posted to express my doubt that the New England Aquarium's new Shark & Ray Touch Tank would actually -- as billboards implied -- allow me to pet a hammerhead shark. And yet, this turned out to be accurate, inasmuch as their tank truly contains several bonnethead sharks, which are the smallest ( Read more... )

First, thank-you to everybody who answered the name-change question. I decided to go with it, along with the suggestion to make a note in the LJ's sub-header line. And I suspect that I'll keep using the seasonal saw-whet owl pics that I've been using for a little while, which ought to provide a sense of visual continuity. Not to mention that you ( Read more... )

Poll IdentityI'm kind of mulling over changing the name of my LJ (and DW) to match the name I've been using fannishly elsewhere. And while I will always love my little-red-orca icon, I've similarly been mulling over changing the default to a piece of art I did myself. It annoys me a bit that if you change you default icon, all past uses of it will be replaced ( Read more... )

So, I have a LOT of pics to share, spanning the last month or so. Pretty spring flowers! News on the Harvard hawks! Baaaaaby owls!

A tease:


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Just a note for folks who may not have seen this news yet: this June, in conjunction with the release of the Extended Edition LOTR DVDs on BluRay, there's going to be a modified "Trilogy Tuesday" event. Instead of showing them all on one day, several theater chains (including AMC and Regal) will be hosting three successive Tuesdays, showing the ( Read more... )

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Let's be honest: this thing looks like it is on crack. I mean, watch that trailer and tell me it isn't ( Read more... )

Okay, if I'm doing this right, this ought to work -- the image below should be a link to a full-size version of the picture, that shows more detail.


Wolf Pendant by ~Eregyrn on deviantARTSo, as the subject line says -- I very rarely do 3D artwork, and therefore, am not very practiced at it. The last time was an arctic-fox pendant, extremely low ( Read more... )