My dad's blood pressure was pretty high, so I made him watch this video.

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Here's the "Hitler Reacts To..." fake-subtitles meme, this time on the subject of the Warehouse 13 season 3 finale.

( Embedded plus a comment from me. In case it's not already obvious, the text of the video contains SPOILERS )

Howdy! We're in final exams week, I just finished evaluating today's oral interviews at 11 p.m., the gifts I am trying to make for my co-workers are verging on disaster, and I have one more thinky thing to do before I can go to bed. None of this is a crisis, I just mention it because I'm feeling pretty avoidy about sitting at my messy desk in front ( Read more... )

A few quiet moments this afternoon! And since the real-life stuff feels like too much to attempt to cover, here's some random Stuff I've been collecting.

* If you thought fandom was the only place where people spent astonishing amounts of time losing all sense of perspective in rabid battles about things that don't really matter when you look at ( Read more... )

I've been Netflixing The Trial of a Time Lord, a season-long arc that's... well, it's the Sixth Doctor and Peri part of the time, Mel for the rest, and none of those are my favorites among Classic Who characters. But in the historical context of the show, it's interesting for a lot of reasons, and I've been unexpectedly riveted by the behind-the- ( Read more... )

Oh, Sandi Toksvig, just when I need you most, you're back!

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I made it down to the pond this morning again, for just a few minutes. The ice was thicker, and it was making these deep, hollow sounds like sci-fi sound effects, or like a gigantic rubber band being plucked while it's stretched taut. I think it might have been the ice expanding. Just ( Read more... )

This video made me laugh harder than I have in a long time.

Series of Concentric Circles Emanating from Glowing Red DotIt's so. literal. That's what I love most about it. But it *is* about a disaster. If they're making things like this, I can't be the only one who thinks it's funny, right? I'm always afraid I offend people with the dark side of my ( Read more... )

Remember the Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre who took on the Daleks and Torchwool? They've done Primeval.
Primeval
It's quite a thriller!
Primeval
It stars Ben Miller!
It stars Dougie Henshall who's ginger and a Scot
And a lassie out of S Club takes her clothes off quite a lot

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(You'll love Stephen.)

Happy Rose Moon!

And speaking of heavenly phenomena, Flora Lichtman of Science Friday has a nice video of and about Manhattanhenge.



(I also like the Candy Corn in Space video.)

I know a couple of people on my flist will be as thrilled by this as I am, but I think most people would find it cute and interesting:

( Rock music + birds + science = glee )