And this is why I shouldn't bake for gaming: my whole house smells like pineapple cupcakes right now ( Read more... )

Aaaaaaaaaaa! Aaaaaaaaa! I don't care if it's on rails. This is the Kinect game I've been waiting for. (No, I don't want Kinect pr0n, thanks.) Unless the reviews are utterly horrible--and very possibly even if they are--I suspect this will be mine this holiday season. And likely Dance Central 2, because I've really enjoyed the original.

Got home about 10 minutes ago. Sometimes I hate my office. Not so much my job, but the office and the management.

Kitchen, dining room, and both upstairs bathrooms swept & mopped. (I did the downstairs half-bath about a week ago.) House dusted. Bedsheets on both beds changed; old sets washed. Curtains washed. Windows in kitchen and dining room washed. Front door washed. (Long story short, some mail had gotten splashed by rain while I was on vacation a couple ( Read more... )

Part one--plants on the patio--completed! After a long trip to Pike's Nursery, I now have some Black Velvet upright petunias and some white spreading petunias in the hanging basket (I'll likely go back to orange & white impatiens next year, but I'm not feeling generous towards UT at the moment), some purple summer snapdragons and blue lobelia ( ( Read more... )

Because I posted about the Little Vader commercial (watch it first if you haven't yet), and because it literally made me roll with laughter.... Here is Marvel Studios's ( Little Thor )

The Dark Knight and My Little Pony: two ... um ... tastes that are sort of surreal together.

I offer you ... ( The Rainbow Knight )

Hrm. With the most recent airfare increases, it has once again become cheaper to take Amtrak from Atlanta to New York for the Pompeii exhibition in Discovery Times Square or to Philadelphia for the Leonardo's Workshop exhibition (which just left DTS) at the Franklin Institute. If I could sleep in crappy plane seats on red-eye flights to and from ( Read more... )

Wish I didn't feel like crap for most of it so far. My sleep/wake cycle has been nothing resembling a cycle this weekend, more intermittent. I may have gotten a somewhat low level of strep--it's been going around the workplace--along with something else, and my walking around on Friday night likely didn't help fight it ( Read more... )

I know it's already been on digg, but....

Apparently the kid from the Volkswagen Passat "Young Darth Vader" commercial is a 6-year-old with a congenital heart disease, an actor and patient at Children's Hospital of LA ( Read more... )