The internet is such a strange and wonderful place. Just in the course of the evening I stumbled across these.

The Society for Court Studies. Not SCA related at all, as far as I can tell.

Executed Today. A blog of historical executions.

For soucyn,

A tunnel across the country is small potatoes. Try under the Atlantic.

Its a beautiful night for a walk and I met three different kittens as I wandered around the complex. One of them wasn't feeling friendly, one of them was skittish and was chased off by an overly excited puppy dog, and the third just watched the puppy dog from a distance and came back for pettings when the noisy dog had gone away.

Found while randomly wondering around the internet: a t-shirt for a very specific type of crossover.


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I found pictures of the monocycle. Its based off of a late 1800's unicycle thing. There was also plan for a pre-WWII tank with armored sides.

I could have sworn I'd seen pictures of a steampunk version of it, but I can't find them now so I may have been imagining things.

I was reminded of this today and went and hunted it down. Appearently my google-fu is strong today because I found it without too much trouble.

I totally would have bought one, or more than one especially if I could have talked him into signing it on the back cover with the date.

Buddhism and phones don't normally crop up in the same conversation, but if they did, I would expect a Buddhist phone to be simple, no bells and whistles, and maybe a bit elegant. This is not what I would have pictured at all.

and specifically the girl in my chem class that claimed they would never need math or science after graduation.

Products like this are why you need at least the basics of science in daily life.

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A meme that I liberated from ignescent:

Sci-fi author Robert Heinlein came up with a list of things that in his opinion every human being should be able to do. The list was expanded by Popular Mechanics.

The list below is a combination of a few different 'What everyone should know how to do' lists. Bold the ones you can do, Strike through the ones you think ( Read more... )

The morning walk with Geffri was an adventure. There were sneaky, sneaky cats simply everywhere. There was a saboteur cat skulking under the ornamental bridge thing, but keen canine senses quickly spotted her. There was a paratrooper cat several feet up a tree trunk in the strip of woods between the complexes. He pretended to ignore us but we ( Read more... )