We went and saw The Golden Compass this afternoon, and, as my subject line here suggests, I was disappointed. Warning to folks who don’t want either the movie or the book spoiled for them: spoilers after the jump.
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Here’s a way to start your day…
I actually find this quite beautiful and disturbing at the same time. If you’re curious, it’s called “Chocolate Haas” and is the work of Sander Plug, an artist who seems to specialize in doing wacky things. I came across this via this Public Address.
Guy reaches level 60 in World of Warcraft
This is my fear about what might happen around our house one day when Annette and Will reach level whatever in their silly little Runscape game… and also why I don’t know if I want to start WoW anytime soon.
Don’t fear the robots
A work colleague of mine sent this to me, but it seems more “unofficial” territory than something for the academic blog. So here it is:
Napoleon Dynamite Thanksgiving
Kinda lame, kinda funny.
“How We Go Out” in Ames, Iowa?
This isn’t really my “cup of tea,” as the saying goes, but I stumbled across it on YouTube and I learned that it was filmed in Ames, Iowa. So what the heck.
Eddie Izzard videos
My friend Rachel sent around this video, a lego set-up of Eddie Izzard’s riff on the Death Star Canteen (fwiw, lots of the “f” word here, and I don’t mean food):
Well, it turns out this is a bit of a mini-genre on YouTube on Thorn2200’s channel. Funny stuff. Just to round out the selections here and keeping with the food theme, let me also pass along “cake or death:”
No postings = no news; but why not read about vinegar?
I just kind of realized today that I haven’t posted to my unofficial blog for quite a while. There’s been no particular reason for this lack of postings here, and I actually have been posting frequently enough on my official blog and on EMUTalk.org. I guess there just hasn’t been a lot of unofficial news. Let’s see….
- We had a much smaller version of our annual fall Indian food fest.
- Annette had her birthday last weekend, which included a much needed new computer and a lovely dinner and night out with a sitter and everything.
- And I’m going to be getting geared up for some midterm travel. I’m going to New York City on Thursday for a conference (more on that on the official blog I am sure, and then we’re all going down to South Carolina next week for a Wannamaker Thanksgiving.
So like I said, no postings is no news, which is fine with me. But if you are really looking for something else to read, why not follow this link I found via boing boing about all the cool things you can do with vinegar?
Not your usual nature show footage
I came across this via TheOrangeSlayedTheRake:
As he said, the first couple minutes are kind of boring but then things take some pretty interesting turns.
Crazy dude on a unicycle
I came across this via kottke.org. Pretty impressive stuff.