One hour and twenty minutes until Curiosity (hopefully) lands! You can watch NASA's livestream here, and find a bunch of other info (including Curiosity's twitter stream, which I somehow have a hunch is ghostwritten) here. It's a cheeky little thing.

ETA: 25 minutes to go! I ate some ice cream, and now I'm sitting here practicing eyelets while ( Read more... )

In the process if figuring out a drawstring chemise, I have just discovered the joy of zig-zag edges. My god, why had no one told me about this wonder before?

Dear Media,

The issue with Chik-Fil-A is not about the first amendment. Of course the CEO of a company can say whatever they want. The problem is that Chik-Fil-A donated millions of dollars to hate groups. There is difference.

Also, the first amendment protects your right to say things. It does not protect you from criticism for saying those ( Read more... )

( Yet more gymnastics! )

Thoroughly disgusted by NBC last night, tonight I was determined to find another venue to watch the Women's Team Gymnastics Final (though my dad did graciously send me a log in for the NBC online coverage, which I hear is nowhere near as bad as their "live" stuff). Managed to dig up BBC's actual live coverage (though no longer live), and watched ( Read more... )

Knowing that once I start I won't be able to stop, I've decided that I'm going to try and finish my whole ren dress before I start playing FF13. With any luck, this will not only get me to finish my ren dress in time for the faire, but quite conceivably even before the last evening. As a demonstration of my new-found willpower, tonight I turned on ( Read more... )

So a little while ago, my mother sends me an email telling me that my birthday present will be arriving rather early this year. "Okay..." I responded, rather bemused. Well, this weekend a box arrived, marked "fragile" and with a markered picture of a cracked glass on it. Perhaps they bought me glassware ( Read more... )

God, I love the Olympics. I'm not sure exactly how anyone could keep track of individual movement during that whole Industrial Revolution bit, but it's such an amazing spectacle of theater and global friendship.

I have been sockblocked again! It seems we have a serial offender in our midst. If this happens again, I'm escalating things - that's right, I'm gonna leave a passive-agressive note.

In other news, how does one costume require so much ironing?

Well, here it is. Episode 3. The one everyone has been making a big deal about. Why? I've no idea. Best guesses, based on my (somewhat remembered) knowledge of the original stories and understanding of fandom and in order of likelihood: Watson gets married, Watson almost dies and Sherlock goes crazy/crazy awesome to save his beloved, Moriarty is ( Read more... )