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I feel a spot of Flash animation coming on
For reasons that are probably connected to the fact that my boss jokingly asked if I could make our RM icon bounce around a page, prompting me to animate it in Photoshop, I really, really, REALLY want to do a little animated video starring my podcasting cohosts and myself to Owl City's "Fireflies." Granted, I haven't touched Flash since last year ( Read more... ) -
Calling All BBT Fans!
It's the 2010 FANDOM STEEL CAGE MATCH MARCH MADNESS FINAL 4, and my imaginary geek boyfriend is up against Dr. Temperance Brennan (the other competitors are Veronica Mars and Buffy the Vampire Slayer), and they're pretty much tied. I love Bones, but this slight to Sheldon cannot be borne, so PLEASE head over here and vote for Sheldon!
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Ahhhhhhhh
After checking the weather reports I'd turned the pool heater on a couple of days ago, and just for the hell of it I stuck my toe in tonight. Blissfully warm ( Read more... ) -
A Sunday in progress
Work achieved so far today ( Read more... ) -
I was going to title this "climbing out from under the rubble"
But the earthquake in Chile this morning put paid to that. ginmar put it succinctly -- it seems like the Ring of Fire is unzipping itself and readjusting. Good thoughts and donations heading out to the Chileans, and I hope to God Hawaii and the rest of Polynesia is battened down and ready for the tsunami ( Read more... ) -
White stuff from the sky? In DALLAS?
But we've already had our snow day for the winter ( Read more... ) -
And once again, my weird metabolism kicks in
I tend to have a rather...atypical reaction to certain drugs. When the earth was young and I required surgery to fix my dislocated knee, the nurses were surprised when I got a shot of Demerol and didn't immediately drift off to sleep. I've taken Vicodin and wondered why House liked it so much when it did pretty much nothing for me. On the other ( Read more... ) -
Modern pharmacology is a good thing
The back hasn't improved over the week -- in fact, I woke up this morning completely locked up and crying in pain as I tried to hobble to the bathroom -- so it was time to call in the big guns ( Read more... ) -
Well, this is annoying
I've had this hankering to do a little bit of quilting, so Saturday I decided to make a table runner for the dining room table (also because the dining room is distressingly beige and I really needed to perk up the place a bit ( Read more... ) -
The Art of Cleaning Your Garage
First off, don't even bother trying to play Tetris with the stuff -- if you have a driveway, just pull everything out there. It'll make your life much easier when you decide how you're going to reorganize stuff ( Read more... )