Last Saturday (October 5th) was my friend Hannah's wedding, for which I was contracted to make the table centrepieces. They turned out fairly bragworthy, and so I am sharing them pretty much everywhere. They may be found on deviantART or on Facebook (the Facebook link will work whether you have Facebook or not ( Read more... )

I've figured out what's up with LiveJournal! Clearly, they are staffed by hyper-evolutionary lifeforms that mutate to mimic the local dominant species! It explains their whole business model!

Come to think of it, there might be one or two people who read this who I'm not in other forms of communication with...

My brother has a Kickstarter for his debut album! (He has been on other albums, but this is the first one that is specifically his. It's a jazz "soundtrack" to The Odyssey, and it's really good stuff. There are a few sample ( Read more... )

The Small Press Expo was this weekend, and right in my area! It was immense fun, even if my feet did feel like they were going to physically detach from my body by the end of things.

Highlights:

• I found the perfect use for my Really Useful Book (a MirrorMask tie-in journal which comes with an invisible ink pen/UV light): invisible sketches! That ( Read more... )

Today's wildlife sightings:

• A pair of red-winged blackbirds (male and female) yelled at my mom and me for being on their turf.
• A hummingbird just visible buzzing around above the treetops.
• A melanistic squirrel with a bright red tail.

Fascinating nature sight of the day: two mockingbirds (I'm pretty sure) dive-bombing a crow under their tree. Even after it vacated their turf, they pursued it clear across the highway before returning home. Mockingbirds take no guff from anyone, man.

Shortly after getting on the first bus of my two-bus, hour-long-if-I'm-lucky commute home from work, I spotted on my rolly laptop case a tiny, brown-and-greenish baby mantis, less than a centimetre in the body. I managed to get it all the way home (mostly persuading it to crawl from hand to hand when it was restless) and onto my ornamental pepper ( Read more... )

Oh, yeah! Please vote for me here (unless you're in the running yourself)! You have to log in, but you can do that through Facebook; I forget if there are other means besides signing up fresh. Then click the Vote tab, search for "VaCKo", and proceed accordingly! You can vote once per day!

I have received* what may be the most irredeemably awful cookie fortune ever written.
Q. What is H20? A. Caring. 2 parts Hug, and 1 part Open-mind.
I cannot even think of anything else to say about this.

*All six other people at lunch declined their cookies, so in fact I received a number of fortunes.

Yeah, so I probably should have mentioned this a while back, but, sadness, they won't be using my captions on the ReBoot DVDs after all. Rainmaker found them what I presume were the captions used on TV. On the one hand, I would have loved so much to be involved, but on the other, my captioning was entirely self-taught and I'm sure I got plenty ( Read more... )