Think about this:
As of today, young Americans, Eurail Passes in hand, hopping from youth hostel to youth hostel, no longer need to stitch Canadian flags to their backpacks.

Gozer the Traveller will come in one of the pre-chosen forms.  During the rectification of the Vuldronaii the Traveller came as a very large and moving Torb.  Then of course in the third reconciliation of the last of the Meketrex supplicants they chose a new form for him, that of a Sloar.  Many Shubs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the ( Read more... )

Fruit bat video from yesterday's Singapore Zoo trip posted over on Vox...enjoy!

I just made a mistake and forgot one of the Ws in www.livejournal.com.
Apparently, http://ww.livejournal.com/ takes you to the Russian version of the site, and it recognizes your LJ cookies!
At least it did for me.
Neat! Or rather neat once I realized what was happening :)

So, we're watching Clifford the Big Red Dog on PBS. A few things to note about the cartoon version of the classic Scholastic books:

• Clifford's size forced his owners to move to a Nantucket-style island. We love Ely, but we're not moving to accomodate his gigantic size!
• Voice of Clifford: John Ritter! He's dead! Actually he did a pretty great job.
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There is only one way to start this post:
What is wrong with kids today? They're not even trying! In my day, we earned our Halowe'en candy, by God!

Observed on Savannah Halowe'en 2006:
The Bad:

• Kids without costumes. WTF? Would you ever have considered having the balls to go tricker treating in shorts and a t-shirt? So far about a quarter of the kids ( Read more... )

So, unlike occlupanid, I have a couple more weeks of teaching my Concept Development for Visual Effects class.

This week I got to give my students one of my favorite assignments. It feels especially subversive this time around because I'm in Georgia and part of my lecture is about evolution! Moo ha ha ( Read more... )

My new, bare, spare office at SCAD. Those plastic ribbed jobs are my "windows." The building's interior space is very poorly designed. Lots of open space inside, but no actual windows. My challenge is to get all my stuff on the walls...which are plastic.

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OK, we're a few episodes into Season 2 of the new Galactica ( Read more... )

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