links! and missed an opportunity for cake!
i totally missed my lj-versary! it was sept 30 and i even posted something! i've now been here twelve years. holy carp. i had a cakepop on thursday so i think that counts as cake. :D
on saturday my parents threw a surprise cocktail party for their next-door neighbor who turned eighty, and she was VERY SURPRISED. and then my sister and i saw rush which we both enjoyed, and i freely admit one of the things i liked about it was chris hemsworth. :D who lost some of his thor bulk to do the movie. which was ok! he's hot in any shape.
i feel like i have a ton of things to say but i have sleepy hollow to watch (it seems slightly less batshit tonight) (oh, i spoke too soon) and a book to assemble (i will probably still be sewing it at wincon because i can procrastinate like i'm getting paid) so you just get some links of nifty.
a breaking bad fan placed a fannish obit in an albuquerque paper. sometimes fans are nuts, seriously. but in a good way.
relatedly, mit students heisenberged a statue which is called... the alchemist. heh.
norwegian tv to broadcast a knitting competition - in which knitters try to break the record for fastest sweater, from shearing the sheep to actually making the thing. i'm just amused that norwegians are that interested in watching knitting on tv.
exceptionally high-detail map of victorian london. how cool is this? very, that's how.
canadian beer fridges in europe - you need a canadian passport to open them, but then you get free beer. (it's an advertising stunt by molson. but still. free beer for canadians and the people who travel with them!)
ducati dealer produces photoshoot starring hot female model, follows it up with photoshoot starring guys working at the dealership - all of them posing with a new ducati, natch, but in the same poses and, er, mostly the same clothes. (i don't think there's a real equivalency between a sexy woman in red heels and booty shorts, and a ducati salesman or a mechanic in red heels and booty shorts - the woman is dressed and posed and shot to look sexy, and point of the guy is that he isn't. that said, i do like that the dealership did both.)
on saturday my parents threw a surprise cocktail party for their next-door neighbor who turned eighty, and she was VERY SURPRISED. and then my sister and i saw rush which we both enjoyed, and i freely admit one of the things i liked about it was chris hemsworth. :D who lost some of his thor bulk to do the movie. which was ok! he's hot in any shape.
i feel like i have a ton of things to say but i have sleepy hollow to watch (it seems slightly less batshit tonight) (oh, i spoke too soon) and a book to assemble (i will probably still be sewing it at wincon because i can procrastinate like i'm getting paid) so you just get some links of nifty.
a breaking bad fan placed a fannish obit in an albuquerque paper. sometimes fans are nuts, seriously. but in a good way.
relatedly, mit students heisenberged a statue which is called... the alchemist. heh.
norwegian tv to broadcast a knitting competition - in which knitters try to break the record for fastest sweater, from shearing the sheep to actually making the thing. i'm just amused that norwegians are that interested in watching knitting on tv.
exceptionally high-detail map of victorian london. how cool is this? very, that's how.
canadian beer fridges in europe - you need a canadian passport to open them, but then you get free beer. (it's an advertising stunt by molson. but still. free beer for canadians and the people who travel with them!)
ducati dealer produces photoshoot starring hot female model, follows it up with photoshoot starring guys working at the dealership - all of them posing with a new ducati, natch, but in the same poses and, er, mostly the same clothes. (i don't think there's a real equivalency between a sexy woman in red heels and booty shorts, and a ducati salesman or a mechanic in red heels and booty shorts - the woman is dressed and posed and shot to look sexy, and point of the guy is that he isn't. that said, i do like that the dealership did both.)