I feel a bit awkward posting frivolous pictures of pop culture + (100% non-taxidermic) chipmunks when not one but two obituaries are the first things I've seen today. Perhaps the memories of Benoît Mandelbrot and
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Possibly old news, but then again, what else is the internet for?

So you need a typeface.*The path to FF Din is particularly great ( Read more... )

Spring equinox has rolled around already? Wow. (Purple finches! There are purple finches out in the trees!)

To celebrate, how about some twinkly electronica?

And a give-away?

The folks* running Ren Con, Renaissance & Mythic Arts Convention [warning, automatic music player], have given me a number of free day passes to give to you! If you live in ( Read more... )

Oh yes. Nearly forgot. It would appear that I have a cyber conversion unit in my basement, not unlike Torchwood. Only, you know, mine's better because I'm not using it like a blithering, sentimental idiot who can't cope in a crisis.


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Please check yes or no:

• If I were to make a Cyberman-o-lantern, would I have to spraypaint it silver?
  [ ] YES [ ] NO
• Would I have to make a cybermat gourd to accompany it?
  [ ] YES [ ] NO

This Quick - to the Dorkmobile! idea spurred on by Cylon-o-lanterns, which are so very lacking in faux tear ducts.

Again with my neurotic behaviourisms and the ongoing mental struggle to realize that it is not worth it to explain them to other people. Stop that. I need those neurotic behaviourisms otherwise my head becomes a very dull place.

. . .

Maybe I shouldn't be admitting to this.

QUICK-A DISTRACTION! MORE BLOCKQUOTE ABUSE!!

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I would totally do this.

In fact, I spend 97% of my time in the left turn lane at traffic lights actively watching for this very phenomenaWho are these people ( Read more... )

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While sponging on the last of the blue paint and then applying a layer of mottled silver on the tent roof, I nearly became the first female Cyberman - my hands were so coated with silver paint ( Read more... )

While I appreciate knowing what exactly an interrobang is now - previously I had only seen it and never known what it was - it still does not fill that typographical void of a punctuation mark which is more enthusiastic than a period and less hyper than an exclamation point ( Read more... )