This is even worse than Narnia!

...ok, it's a *heck* of a lot worse than Narnia. The people who made the Narnia movie did it with respect, and only screwed up in a few places.

They're making a movie of The Dark is Rising. That link is to the page with the trailer. I figured out that they'd ruined it just looking at the splash screen. I was only ( Read more... )

There are weeks when I wish I lived on Beta Colony. No one thing in particular, just a whole host of little things that would make life make so much more sense. Some social, some medical, some technical.

Ah, well.

We went to a new renfaire today, the Silver Kingdom faire out in Charlton. We'd figured that we might as well give it a try, second-tier faire or not, mostly because they were running a boffer tournament with a two-handed weapon division. Good exercise and a chance to show off our quarterstaff skills, plus an opportunity to actually wear our garb. ( Read more... )

We just got a new computer, and lacking any other place to put a workspace, we're obliged to dispose of a couch ( Read more... )

The Lab for Chocolate Science got an indirect mention in Doonesbury this week; apparently chocolate workshops are Alex Doonesbury's idea of a good IAP activity. I feel like I've made it. I mean, really-- *Doonesbury ( Read more... )

If you haven't been following the news lately, the NYTimes has published a series of utterly unsurprising but depressing articles about Eli Lilly's manipulating data and sales pitches for Zyprexa. The drug is approved for treating schizophrenia and severe mania, but has significant weight gain and hyperglycemia (read: major diabetes risk) as ( Read more... )

I noticed last night that I have finally adjusted to the early nightfall schedule-- just in time for it to start getting
later again!

I hate my internal clock. I seem to be permanently season-lagged. Ah, well... I will pretend I am looking forward to the longer days, and maybe it will kick in before summer this time?

My mom asked me last night to make truffles for Christmas stockings this year. Not just because people like them, but because "this may be Buddy's last Christmas, and she really loves chocolate ( Read more... )

Tonight at 7, I'll be running a workshop on shading: smooth transitions between paint colors. This is useful for light and shadow effects, as well as creating vivid color transitions. As part of this session, I'll show you how to use the Reaper color triads. A student at last week's office hours got a sneak preview of this workshop, and produced a ( Read more... )

Bored? Nothing to do this evening? Actually excited about painting? Come to Pandemonium! I'll be teaching an introductory mini-painting class, which so far seems likely to be severely undersubscribed. (OK, so much of that is probably because we were totally lame and uncoordinated about that whole "publicity" thing, I'll have to see about changing ( Read more... )