I went and saw Cloverfield this afternoon with some buddies. You know, it’s gotten some bad reviews, but I really enjoyed it. It’s not gonna go down in history as a piece of deathless film making, but it was a surprisingly good execution of the concept, namely “Monster movie from the point of view of […]
Monthly Archives: January 2008
Today’s Awesomely Weird Science Tidbit! (ganked from theweaselking ) Basically a teenager gets a liver transplant, and a year later it turns out that her bloodtype has changed to match the liver, and weirder yet, stem cells from the liver had penetrated her bone marrow and she now has a donor immune system. Amazing! Freaky! […]
I was taking a hot bath a few days ago, and in a fit of madness (God, I HAVE to start making sure I have better reading material in the bathroom…) I denuded more or less everything between neck and knee. (Surprisingly easy to do, I must say, I had all these terrors of wielding […]
My Villainess order arrived! I haven’t tried most of it yet, but the Smashing “Whipped” body creme makes me smell like pumpkin pie. As pumpkin pie was shown in a study some years ago to be one of the odors that notably increases arousal in men* I’ve got no problems with this. (Yes, I am […]
Well, the cats have definite achieved a sleeping truce. Last night they both snuggled down, one on each side of my right thigh, and proceeded to trap me in place and attain the density of lead. (They both do this by different means. Angus starts at the knees and then stretches out to full length […]
Walked over to the office to get a package, and was just in time to see the local kingfisher take a fish out of the pond, one quick sleek dive, practically under the nose of the great blue heron hunched along the shoreline. I was not close enough to hear the heron mutter “Show-off,” but […]
Okay…I should not have followed the links from Making Light to garbage houses and hoarding behavior over breakfast. Not because it turns my stomach, I hasten to add–I came out of “Sweeney Todd” with a vague craving for meat pie–but because I had stuff I wanted to get done today, and instead I compulsively cleaned […]
Damnit. Okay, I take it back–the worst thing about being single is NOT the lack of sex, it’s not eating my own cooking, it’s not killing my own centipedes. It’s getting a goddamn zit at that point between your shoulderblades where you can only reach it by contorting like a graduate of the St. Vitus’s School […]
Well, damn. Adam and Steve both died last night. Cause is completely unknown–they were healthy and flitting around yesterday, no odd behavior, no apparent ill health, no foreign substances got into the tank to my knowledge, and the usual things that might take out a fish, like overfeeding or old age, I wouldn’t expect to […]
Man, I’m not sure if you BPAL people are generous or dangerous! Probably a little–or a lot!–of both. My thanks to everyone who’s offered to send me imps, and there’s a revised list below, with the ones italicized that people have already offered to send me, just so I don’t wind up buried in identical […]