Ever since the Incident With The Bat Pt II: Bat At Large, the cat has looked apprehensively at the ceiling. Just in case any dark winged creatures try to swoop down upon him and make noises that hurt his ears. It's verging on a phobia, honestly ( Read more... )

My mind has been desperately running in circles all day, trying to take in the scope of devastation in Japan. That my thoughts keep returning to the Godzilla mythology is probably a sign that I need to cut it into more bite-sized, culturally recognizable pieces to digest it all. That, and a sign that my coping mechanism of wrongful humor is working ( Read more... )

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Irish scientists discover a diamond star! Or, rather, a zirconium star. So, you know. A fake-bling star. And actually, the zirconium isn't in the star, the particles are dispersed in clouds that hover above the corona ( Read more... )

Timothy Dalton ( Read more... )

GIANT PENGUINS.

GIANT GREY PENGUINS.

"The new findings really prompt us to ask questions we never knew to ask. We didn’t know until we started looking at the fossil that living penguins are so weird; they have these aberrant structures that weren’t seen in any other birds alive today. I think that shows us something remarkable about looking to ( Read more... )

At the moment I'm a bit of a puddle of goo. This may have to do with one of the following things, separately or in combination:

• The Warehouse 13 S2 premiere yesterday. While I'm not crazy about their handling of race*, the way the show deals with gender issues is really coming along well. Time Will Tell demonstrated that in the past year, the ( Read more... )

Senior Postman Tolliver Groat lives!

No, not that one.

This one.

The one who is calling himself Chester Reed (and not Tolliver Groat), who never in his 95 years missed a day of work in the postal service, lives by the Bible, eats onion and mayonnaise sandwiches as what are very healthful and puts sulphur in his socks and goose grease on his ( Read more... )

It's worth noting that my government did something this week that made me raise my hands to the air and cheer loudly. How often do I get to say that? Precious little during my time as a member of the voting public.

Bikes, wooo!

Now to thinking about learning bicycle maintenance proper-like and how to overcome the reflexes that have been ingrained ( Read more... )

Why my Ravelry account gained the OCTO-ATTACK! tag so much sooner than my blog did, I'll never understand. Lapse of judgement. Or maybe I was waiting until the zeitgeist arrow swung around to cephalopods again. Anyway.

How about a nice old-fashioned link dump of OCTO-ATTACK! goodness?

• The Rag & Bone blog, home of sundry wonderful paper creations ( Read more... )