Tuesday night is Dollar Theater Night! Admittedly, today is Monday, but the principle holds ( Read more... )

When I opened up my computer what I saw was that one gif of Ian Chesterton rocking out to Ticket to Ride from the very beginning of "the Chase." You guys have no idea how much better that made my day. I need to keep that window open for ever.

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I spent a lovely afternoon with Rachel and Sarah, talking about the finer points of C.S. Lewis, Terry Pratchett, and total eclipses of the sun (THIS SUNDAY GUYS ( Read more... )

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So, my cup runneth over with awesome stuff. Some of which then explodesToday we made liquid CO2 ( Read more... )

I love my job.

I walked in to work today and was confronted by an Unexpected Mars Rover! It was a full-scale model of Curiosity (which will be arriving on Mars in August) that had been delivered yesterday. It was ten feet across. Who else can walk into work and be surprised by a giant Mars Rover? Not a lot of people, I can tell you ( Read more... )

It's two in the morning, and we just got home from seeing "Star Wars Uncut". The Star Wars Uncut project is a fan-made recreation of the original Star Wars film in all media; people submitted their own versions of a five minute stretch of "Star Wars"; of these submissions, 15-second segments were selected and spliced together to produce the entire ( Read more... )

What a lovely little video.

I'm not particularly making a statement, I just thought it was neat.

A guy on the bus yesterday was doing sleight-of-hand magic tricks for a small child sitting across the way. He had a red ball and a deck of cards with him, so I think he was learning and practicing stage magic.

It was awesome. Like a secret in the daylight. Sometimes random people are cool.