Sunday fun tiems
*yawns* Where did the weekend go? (*looks at frequency of posting* Um, where did the last three months go?)
Am home with my cinnamon-y pumpkin spice-y coffee, surfing the net, doing some work (okay, I will be in a bit) and betaing (will be doing after the work thing.) It's not -eleventybillion degrees out anymore, but it's windy today, though an ocean-y smelling wind, so it's not too bad.
So I found this really tasty ginger ale - the company is called GuS Grown-Up Soda, because it's made with less sugar than regular sodas, and also actual, you know, sugar, not crappy high fructose corn syrup. I still try not to drink too much of it, but still - tasty! The Dry Valencia Orange is also really good. Except the carton and the bottles have a picture of the all natural main ingredient on it. The ginger ale one?
Well, that's a nice hunk of ginger right there, isn't it? I wonder what pervy people do with ginger. Gee, I think I wrote something like that in a fic once...
Of course I knew ginger ale was made with ginger, but, you know, Canada Dry and Schweppes don't put big whopping pics of it on their bottles, okay? Can't. Unsee. It. Now. *facepalm* (and now you can't either! :-P)
Also, error256 posted this the other day, and I thought this was totally cool, although it took me two days to be able to see it. (Yes, I'm slow.) 3-D optical illusion art! If you can relax your eyes, this pic is actually a running horse with a rail fence behind it.
The trick is to look at it close up - like with your nose an inch or two from the pic, so it's a bit blurry at first, but then your eyes just kind of refocus and BAM! Cool hidden 3D image!
And if you can't get enough of it, she just linked me to this site with hundreds more! (Wait, what did I say I was doing today? Um... oh wow! Look at the pretty!)
What else have I been up to... Read the Percy Jackson books, and the first book in the new series - The Lost Hero. They were fun, and took me back to my days of Greek mythology class in college. My professor, when regaling us with the tale of the Titans in particular... Well, it went a little bit like this: "And so Cronos cut off the testicles of his father Ouranos...*throws tennis balls at unsuspecting student audience*..." Let's just say he made class a lot of fun. :)
The books were cute and rather clever in weaving all of the Greek mythos into modern day America, and although the plots were fairly predictable, I enjoyed them nonetheless. I do have to wonder if the author's ever been to Long Island though, because we have no hills to speak of, except for one - Bald Hill - but hey. It's a story and it was a magical camp. I'm good with suspending lots of things, I suppose I can add geography and topography to the list.
Yikes! 2:30 already! I should get up to some of the things I said I was going to do today. goes off to pretty 3D art site <---- okay, not that! Ooh, TVXQ/JYJ pretteh... <--- right, not that either! :-P
Am home with my cinnamon-y pumpkin spice-y coffee, surfing the net, doing some work (okay, I will be in a bit) and betaing (will be doing after the work thing.) It's not -eleventybillion degrees out anymore, but it's windy today, though an ocean-y smelling wind, so it's not too bad.
So I found this really tasty ginger ale - the company is called GuS Grown-Up Soda, because it's made with less sugar than regular sodas, and also actual, you know, sugar, not crappy high fructose corn syrup. I still try not to drink too much of it, but still - tasty! The Dry Valencia Orange is also really good. Except the carton and the bottles have a picture of the all natural main ingredient on it. The ginger ale one?
Well, that's a nice hunk of ginger right there, isn't it? I wonder what pervy people do with ginger. Gee, I think I wrote something like that in a fic once...
Of course I knew ginger ale was made with ginger, but, you know, Canada Dry and Schweppes don't put big whopping pics of it on their bottles, okay? Can't. Unsee. It. Now. *facepalm* (and now you can't either! :-P)
Also, error256 posted this the other day, and I thought this was totally cool, although it took me two days to be able to see it. (Yes, I'm slow.) 3-D optical illusion art! If you can relax your eyes, this pic is actually a running horse with a rail fence behind it.
The trick is to look at it close up - like with your nose an inch or two from the pic, so it's a bit blurry at first, but then your eyes just kind of refocus and BAM! Cool hidden 3D image!
And if you can't get enough of it, she just linked me to this site with hundreds more! (Wait, what did I say I was doing today? Um... oh wow! Look at the pretty!)
What else have I been up to... Read the Percy Jackson books, and the first book in the new series - The Lost Hero. They were fun, and took me back to my days of Greek mythology class in college. My professor, when regaling us with the tale of the Titans in particular... Well, it went a little bit like this: "And so Cronos cut off the testicles of his father Ouranos...*throws tennis balls at unsuspecting student audience*..." Let's just say he made class a lot of fun. :)
The books were cute and rather clever in weaving all of the Greek mythos into modern day America, and although the plots were fairly predictable, I enjoyed them nonetheless. I do have to wonder if the author's ever been to Long Island though, because we have no hills to speak of, except for one - Bald Hill - but hey. It's a story and it was a magical camp. I'm good with suspending lots of things, I suppose I can add geography and topography to the list.
Yikes! 2:30 already! I should get up to some of the things I said I was going to do today. goes off to pretty 3D art site <---- okay, not that! Ooh, TVXQ/JYJ pretteh... <--- right, not that either! :-P