The Illusionist - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443543/ - is set in Vienna around 1900. The film is visually atmospheric, and Phillip Glass's score only adds to the ambiance. In some ways, this is The Princess Bride set in a different world in a different time. It isn't a " ( Read more... )

The sky appears to be filled with at least one layer of condensed water vapor. It's so thick that I cannot perceive the disc of the sun. This has also rendered the air temperature at ground level a mere 83 degrees at 2pm. Even more bizarre, earlier today the condensed water droplets got so large they apparently fell to earth, running off my roof ( Read more... )

There is a Den of Evil in my front yard. It's a sticker patch combined with fire ant den. Eeeeeewwww ( Read more... )

do me a favor and hit http://www.princetontec.com, find their contact info, and find the email address (if there is one and not just a damned comment field) pertaining to either customer service or website comments ( Read more... )

...has bulk PEZ.

That is all.

I have not slept with a roof directly over my head in ten years. There has always been someone else's dwelling space above mine. Recently I got to fall asleep to the sound of rain on the roof directly above me for the first time in a very, very long time ( Read more... )

http://nar.org/NARfrompres.html

The ATF woke up grumpy in the late 90's and wanted to classify model rocket engines as explosives. This after the hobby has been alive and rather safe since at least the childhood of my parent's generation. But two hobbyist orgs fought back, and won.

and today I got to see a cat extruded from a telescope.

(The one in this usrpic, actually)

and I'm trying to figure out how to respond. The letter was obviously written by a right-wing fundamentalist - it's overblown and overdramatic (and, y'know, all the God references [dry humor]). A simple, "hey, as a Christian you don't have to support this movie just because it has a lot of acclaim and you think you need to fit in or be PC," would ( Read more... )

I went looking for Firefly fanfics recently. Found some good ones here: http://mysite.verizon.net/vzenvl6n/id17.htmlRead more... )