Another of those days where I could barely drag myself in to work this morning
And last night I went home with good intentions -- to find Mom already there, sitting on the couch and soon turning the channel to a Rangers game. After I'd finished my dinner and moved to the love seat, she made noises about wanting to watch a Netflix movie instead of a sport she isn't all that interested in -- but I was already involved in my book by that point, and anyway I hadn't come home in the mood to watch a movie, I wanted to catch up on Stewart and Colbert. Though not enough to stop reading, gather up and move to my room, since if I was going to stop reading and knit in front of the TV might as well watch the movie with Mom, and then it was probably too late to put it in, definitely too late, 10pm and time to put the bunnies away. I was in bed at nearly 1am and didn't stop reading and turn the light out till past 1:30, so. Really short on sleep and still no knitting done. And there are two more books in the series, so I'm not optimistic about my chances of getting some knitting time in before Saturday night.
Links from Tumblr / Twitter / Facebook:
Hogwarts, Hogwarts, Hoggy Warty Hogwarts Cake -- the really special part about this cake being what the slices look like when you cut them. Layers in house colors, with icing stripes!
Bachmann Says Unexplained Blackouts From Which She Wakes Up Covered In Blood Won't Affect Ability To Lead
Testing students is a failure -- "A new documentary looks at the amazing education system in Finland: 'There is no domestic testing except a very quiet auditing program to test demographic samples of kids; not for accountability, not for public consumption, and not for comparison across schools. The fascinating thing is that because they have created such a high level of professionalism, they can trust their teachers. Their motto is "Trust Through Professionalism." The difference between the highest performing school in Finland and the lowest performing school in Finland is less than four percent, and that’s without any testing at all.'"
Okay, as much time as I've spent browsing through ComicCon costume photo galleries today, it behooves me to share: ScreenRant's gallery -- featuring the Slave Leia Hello Kitty, io9's gallery, which kicks off with a genderbent Justice League, and GammaSquad's ten well-chosen images. Oh, and a special single image bounced along on Twitter: This kid had lost his dad in the crowd, and freaked out until he saw the Flash and Wonder Woman. He went up to the Flash to ask for help, because he knows him.
Small pond, same big issues... -- "It looks like the US faces the same problem as us - their media appear intent on promoting scary headlines and shy away from good news stories that could allay consumer fears. In his blog, Trevor Butterworth says that ‘despite answering the key question in one of the biggest scientific controversies of the past decade’ and having ‘fundamentally important implications for public health’, a recent study on BPA has had very little coverage from the media. The study, described as ‘beautifully designed and executed’, has shown that ‘for the adult human population exposed to even very high dietary levels, blood concentrations of the bioactive form of BPA throughout the day are below our ability to detect them, and orders of magnitude lower than those causing effects in rodents exposed to BPA’. This corroborates other independent studies and adds to the evidence that BPA is rapidly absorbed, detoxified, and eliminated from humans - therefore is not a health concern."
A TARDIS Lands in Brooklyn - The Way Station Bar Interview -- "Doc, who is a long time steampunk fan got together with the owner Anders and decided to open a steampunk themed bar. However, they soon discovered a wrench was thrown in their steampunk gears, 'We got really excited at first, “oh we’ll be a steampunk bar”… and before we opened we had a couple of one day events and we discovered something. Steampunk people don’t drink.' Apparently, steampunkers like to drink water at bars, which isn’t a problem unless of course you are trying to open a steampunk bar. After this, they knew they had to file back the Victorian gadgetry a bit, and that’s when the TARDIS materialized. As they were putting everything together and building props in their workshop in the bar’s basement, Doc looked in the corner of the bar where the bathroom was going to be and said to himself, 'yeah I need to [put a TARDIS there].'" If I ever find myself in New York at some point, I need to remember to check this place out.
It's been kind of a lackluster day, but the important thing is that I've moved from the input stage of policy-handling to the printout stage -- and that means instead of moving accounts from one "to deal with" stack to another, I get them off my desk and on to other hands. Also I get paid tomorrow. And oh, yeah, there's that Cowboys and Aliens movie I feel compelled to go see. (Though I may save that for Saturday afternoon, once I've gotten my oil change and car inspection dealt with. Then again, that'll make for a crowded afternoon -- might want to get it out of the way tomorrow night after all.)
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comments made.
Links from Tumblr / Twitter / Facebook:
Hogwarts, Hogwarts, Hoggy Warty Hogwarts Cake -- the really special part about this cake being what the slices look like when you cut them. Layers in house colors, with icing stripes!
Bachmann Says Unexplained Blackouts From Which She Wakes Up Covered In Blood Won't Affect Ability To Lead
Testing students is a failure -- "A new documentary looks at the amazing education system in Finland: 'There is no domestic testing except a very quiet auditing program to test demographic samples of kids; not for accountability, not for public consumption, and not for comparison across schools. The fascinating thing is that because they have created such a high level of professionalism, they can trust their teachers. Their motto is "Trust Through Professionalism." The difference between the highest performing school in Finland and the lowest performing school in Finland is less than four percent, and that’s without any testing at all.'"
Okay, as much time as I've spent browsing through ComicCon costume photo galleries today, it behooves me to share: ScreenRant's gallery -- featuring the Slave Leia Hello Kitty, io9's gallery, which kicks off with a genderbent Justice League, and GammaSquad's ten well-chosen images. Oh, and a special single image bounced along on Twitter: This kid had lost his dad in the crowd, and freaked out until he saw the Flash and Wonder Woman. He went up to the Flash to ask for help, because he knows him.
Small pond, same big issues... -- "It looks like the US faces the same problem as us - their media appear intent on promoting scary headlines and shy away from good news stories that could allay consumer fears. In his blog, Trevor Butterworth says that ‘despite answering the key question in one of the biggest scientific controversies of the past decade’ and having ‘fundamentally important implications for public health’, a recent study on BPA has had very little coverage from the media. The study, described as ‘beautifully designed and executed’, has shown that ‘for the adult human population exposed to even very high dietary levels, blood concentrations of the bioactive form of BPA throughout the day are below our ability to detect them, and orders of magnitude lower than those causing effects in rodents exposed to BPA’. This corroborates other independent studies and adds to the evidence that BPA is rapidly absorbed, detoxified, and eliminated from humans - therefore is not a health concern."
A TARDIS Lands in Brooklyn - The Way Station Bar Interview -- "Doc, who is a long time steampunk fan got together with the owner Anders and decided to open a steampunk themed bar. However, they soon discovered a wrench was thrown in their steampunk gears, 'We got really excited at first, “oh we’ll be a steampunk bar”… and before we opened we had a couple of one day events and we discovered something. Steampunk people don’t drink.' Apparently, steampunkers like to drink water at bars, which isn’t a problem unless of course you are trying to open a steampunk bar. After this, they knew they had to file back the Victorian gadgetry a bit, and that’s when the TARDIS materialized. As they were putting everything together and building props in their workshop in the bar’s basement, Doc looked in the corner of the bar where the bathroom was going to be and said to himself, 'yeah I need to [put a TARDIS there].'" If I ever find myself in New York at some point, I need to remember to check this place out.
It's been kind of a lackluster day, but the important thing is that I've moved from the input stage of policy-handling to the printout stage -- and that means instead of moving accounts from one "to deal with" stack to another, I get them off my desk and on to other hands. Also I get paid tomorrow. And oh, yeah, there's that Cowboys and Aliens movie I feel compelled to go see. (Though I may save that for Saturday afternoon, once I've gotten my oil change and car inspection dealt with. Then again, that'll make for a crowded afternoon -- might want to get it out of the way tomorrow night after all.)
Crossposted from Dreamwidth with
comments made.