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Book Art!
The Morgan Library and Museum has a couple of really cool online exhibits up right now, including a cool piece about Jane Austen and a very richly illustrated medieval book of hours. Worth a look! -
Food Experiment
aspiderbug and I had a lovely vintage shopping excursion recently, and we happened to have lunch in a local vegan restaurant. It was afternoon, but the blueberry pancakes sounded great, so I gave those a try, and they were fabulous. And vegan! So now I must reproduce this recipe, but I've never done vegan cooking, so I'm not sure how this is going to go ( Read more... ) -
Burgundy and Lemon?
When the weather is grey and gloomy (winter, wtf) I really start to want some color around me. I go home and my walls are too white, everything is too bare; my apartment is naked ( Read more... ) -
Is there a word for cool and creepy at the same time?
Here's a link to a fantastic short story. It's a retelling of The Thing, from the Thing's point of view. It's not scary, but it did make me want to cry a little. Very thoughtful. -
A Very Piraty Christmas to you all!
"The Twelve Days of Pirate Christmas"
On the twelfth day of Christmas my true love gave to me ...
12 ships to plunder,
11 cannons firing,
10 crewmen leaping,
9 sharks a' swimming,
8 rum-filled bottles,
7 lusty wenches,
6 jolly rogers,
5 gold doubloons,
4 eyepatches,
3 earrings,
2 wooden legs,
and a parrot for my shoulder - Arrr!
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Book Porn!
Srsly, you guys...you just have to see this. -
Reasons to love Lily Allen!
Some of this is from the Big Fat Quiz 2007, which if you really want to wet your pants laughing, you should go watch on Youtube ;) -
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Heard a new question today: someone asked how the architects of our building made sure that the materials would be strong enough to hold up the building and what's inside. Pretty much pulled an answer out of my butt for that one. I said something about mathematical models and tensile strength of the building materials, blah, blah, blah. ( Read more... )
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