Drinking + the awful 1996 Doctor Who movie + fangirling = SRS BSNS plan to make my own set of Time Lord robes. With the extra-ridiculous fancypants high collar/hat thing, not that fancy collar on Roberts!Master's robe in the movie (although I must admit it was pretty ( Read more... )

So, I'm on page 11 of The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism, and the author begins by telling us about Ernest Meissonier, the painter who was probably the most popular of them all in the nineteenth century yet completely forgotten about today. And Meissonier, like many others in the mid-1800s, was a total ( Read more... )

HOMG YOU GUYS.

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A read-along of the entire Aubreyad starting Monday the 7th. :D You know you want to. *pokes 10littlebullets* I have joined and friended, though I won't be reading along since I've just started (again) on The Yellow Admiral (#18 of 20). But--eee. Way more geekitude than even the LM read through last year. :D

( meme thing )

I found this book at Borders, and received a very good deal for it -- I in fact got it in a 3 for 2 deal, where the other two books were my mother's Christmas gift. This book is a wonderfully thick and heavy hardcover, with a beautiful cover art of a frigate on the front. I saw it and instantly had to have it. I have just now gotten to look at it, ( Read more... )

Quantum Entanglement Demonstrated in Superconducting Wires, via Scientific American online.
Good lord this is shiny.

Happy Bastille Day! :D

I wore red and black on the event of this momentous occasion. ... Damn, do I want a tricolour sash. Badly. I'd even make one myself. Hmm. There's something to search for on eBay: tricolour cloth. Also, I made an icon especially for the day ( Read more... )