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Fuck yes Thranduil! I like Thranduil, I don't care if he's a bastard. The Mirkwood scenes were always my favorite part of the book.

So I  spent the last 20 minutes of the workday today on IM with my National-General Manager talking about Rush. Found out she's a fan the other day when she made a 2112 reference in a meeting. (I...do not remember what that section of the meeting was about. Financial somethings, I was drifting - you can do that easily on a conference call and no ( Read more... )

This is the first film adaptation (and a very loose adaptation it is) of Frankenstein. It's only twelve minutes long and the quality is decent considering it's over 100 years old.

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The book is available on Project Gutenberg - which is a pretty neat place to explore if you've never been. (42,000 books free. I fucking love the Internet sometimes.)

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...but it's a Jem & The Holograms/Doctor Who crossover and it's actually good: Rich's ComixBlog :: Outrage - 1

So I'll be in that archive for the remainder of the night.

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(If you're not familiar with it, The Silmarillion is the book preceding Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, describing the creation and history of Middle-earth. It's also long and fairly abstruse, filled with dense prose. You have to be in the right mood to read through it ( Read more... )

Rush is coming back to Halifax for the first time in 20 years! Why yes, I do have tickets. ^_^ So happy, especially because Clockwork Angels (newest album and reason for said tour) is my favorite Rush album to date. (It's a steampunk Rush concept album. Really, you might as well just hook it up to my veinsSo. Nobody try to book me for anything the ( Read more... )

In the sense of "I saw two objects that were flying and which I could not identify." Not in the sense of "OMG aliens are going to abduct us!"

We got home from a restaurant and saw two red lights in the sky, moving up and down. They weren't airplanes because they had no wings or port or starboard lights. Not stars or anything in orbit because the ( Read more... )

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Scientists discover possible building blocks of ancient genetic systems in Earth's most primitive organisms

ScienceDaily (Nov. 9, 2012) - Scientists believe that prior to the advent of DNA as Earth's primary genetic material, early forms of life used RNA to encode genetic instructions. What sort of genetic molecules did life rely on before RNA?
( The answer may be AEG... )