Mike and Shannon and Kate came over last night. We were talking about Bujold, unsurprisingly ( Read more... )

For those of you who don't read my twitter, esp. hedgerose and animate_mushhttp://tattuinardoelasaga.wordpress.com/2010/03/01/tattuinardoela-saga-if-star-wars-were-an-icelandic-saga/Read more... )

Made an icon i've been planning for a while:


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2D Goggles: The Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage
by Sydney Padua
"So Historically Accurate, it's Almost a Documentary!"

Collected here for Your Convenience

Lovelace: Origins parts 1&2

Model Sheets, etc.
Brunel, Wolverine of the Early Victorians
Babbage, Mad Genius with a Difference
Ada Lovelace, the Byronic Woman

Lovelace and Babbage vs. the ( Read more... )

Oh, i've also been meaning to post about 9 for a while. I saw a trailer for it in the theater a while back, and it was fascinating. Forgot about it for a while. Remembered vaguely. Did a google search for "ragdoll apocalypse" and found exactly what I was looking for ( Read more... )

It's Halloween. The door has opened. The season of death is over, the season of life begins.

EarthCoinsthe Body/SensesPodlings

WaterCupsCompassionUrRu ("Mystics")

AirSwordsIntellectAughra

FireWandsthe WillSkeksis

The QuintessenceMajor ArcanaThe QuestGelfings

So, I've been reading Alexandra Erin recently. I got caught up on the 240 chapters of Tales of MU, and moved on to tribe.

Word is, tribe is low on readership, and it might get discontinued if that continues, and that would be sad. As it happens, it's story that probably appeals to the people on my friends list, so I'm putting out the word:

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So. The other day, pne made a post that included the word Rotwelsch, as the name of a language. After a little bit of research on the language I had a sudden analysis of Rotwelsch as "Road-Welsh", i.e. a foreigner language spoken by Travellers.

sarkat wondered if that had anything to do with rottweilers. I can find no etymology for Rottweil, but I did ( Read more... )

I was going through my bookmarks the other day and came across a site with a number of "Essays on Geology, History, and People". I read through some of the Iron essay, and came across a fascinating claim/conclusion (emphasis mine):

Ancient smiths had to learn the metallurgy of iron and its alloys, which again is non-intuitive, much more difficult ( Read more... )