Five Things for the First Morning of a Three-Day Weekend

[scarlettina]

1) LJ and post-writing: I'm getting lazy about my LJ posts, posting a lot of "5 Things" lists and not going in-depth. Bad me. But I've got two in-depth posts brewing that I hope to add this weekend: one on the Oscar-nominated Animated Short Films, which I saw last night with varina8 and one on all the evangelizing going on online about self-publishing and

Comments

[scarlettina]

::chuckle:: Well, there's no question that both I and my friends would like those fixtures but I'm not sure that I want to live with them.

[davidlevine]

Well, the good news about the TEC coin design challenge is that you are in a position to make sure that the selected design represents science and SF well, rather than merely submitting a good design and potentially seeing it lose to a design with eye-rolling science or SF.

(I also thought about tongue-in-cheekishly suggesting the bat lamp, which I have not only seen in Rejuvenation's catalog but have actually seen installed -- at a (very good) restaurant in Minneapolis called Hell's Kitchen.)

Few retire to a life of shame after picking the wrong lamp fixture.

[bedii]

You do have one of the few ceilings to allow this: http://www.thisiswhyimbroke.com/octopus-chandelier

[kistha]

Beware the YARN SHOPPING! BEWARE!!!!

[holyoutlaw]

Here is my suggestion:

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/05/chandelier-projects-tree-shadows-onto-the-wall/

[scarlettina]

Well, it does beautiful things but it's ugly as hell.

[holyoutlaw]

Yeah, that was definitely a suggestion I'd only make for someone else's living room.