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  • Stuff I’ve been into, part 2

    Today, youtubers.

    AvE or Arduino versus Evil: Tool teardowns, prototyping, electronics, welding, machining, engineering, design. NSFW. The embedded video is a good example, but I think this one is the first video of his that I found while looking for charcoal reviews.

    628 Dirt Rooster: Where hobby beekeeping is a way of life. The Dirt Rooster posts videos about beekeeping in Mississippi. The videos might be cutouts, swarm removals, or just taking care of his own bees.

    Tucket Gott: Tucker posts videos of his paramotoring adventures. I’ll probably never paramotor, so I fly vicariously through his videos.

  • I Never Liked You

    I just read through the graphic novel I Never Liked You by Chester Brown. It was a pretty quick read for me, and what the New York Times described as a “troubled youth” was – for the most part – a typical nerd youth. Although the story ended on a low note and left me feeling empty and depressed, it did leave me hungry for more of his work and I’ll be checking out Louis Riel from the library as soon as I get a chance.

  • Goodbye Twig

    We hardly knew you.

    The Twig will be closing Monday, September 3rd, at 10:00pm. Although I wasn’t able to visit as often as I’d have liked, it will be missed.

    Solemn thanks goes to Karl for pointing this out to me.

  • Dating Site Banners

    True banner

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    True - Naughty or Nice?

    True - Crawling Passion

    true - gold dress

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  • Emerging Blog

    It’s been on the blogroll for some time now, but if you haven’t checked it out already, take a look at Jenny’s blog, Book Embargo. It’s generally updated several times weekly and contains news on books and the book industry.

    In the interest of transparency and full disclosure, I should let you know that Jenny is my amazing, wonderful and perfect girlfriend.

  • Upcoming Shows I Want To See

  • MC Chris
  • Architecture in Helsinki, MC Chris, Mason Jennings, Suicide Girls, burlesque, folk, rock, nerdcore, shows

  • Fallen Streetlight

    I saw this fallen light on my way out of town tonight and had to stop to take a picture before it got cleaned up.

  • Sarah Alexander

    NBC‘s Teachers has Sarah Alexander (Susan from Coupling).

  • Harrison and Ford House Gymnastics

    Harrison & Ford House Gymnastics is a cross breed of yoga, breakdancing, climbing and gymnastics in a domestic setting. House Gymnastics can be performed by anyone, at anytime, anywhere.

    I’ve spent days searching for that site, because I when I came across melovescookies flickr account[potentially NSFW], I knew I had seen some of the crazy stuff she was doing somewhere else, but couldn’t remember the site name.

  • Futurdrama?

    I’m man enough to admit it: There are two episodes of Futurama that make me cry like a baby. Warning: Spoilers Ahead

    The first is Season 3, Episode 10: Luck of the Fryrish. Fry spends almost the entire episode thinking that his older brother, Yancy, stole his 7 leaf clover, his name and all his good ideas. In the end we find out that Yancy didn’t steal anything from Fry, but missed him so much that he named his first born after Fry, and passed Fry’s lucky 7 leaf clover down to the child. It’s just so damn sweet that thinking about the scene where Yancy asks his wife if they can name their kid after Fry makes me all teary.

    The second is Season 5, Episode 2: Jurassic Bark. Fry disovers the fossilised remains of his pet dog, Seymore, in a museum exibit of Old New York. Fry spends most of the episode working to clone his Seymore until he finds out that Seymore was grew to a ripe old age (16 I believe), living long after Fry was frozen. Mistakenly thinking that Seymore had lived a long and happy life, Fry abandons the project of cloning his pooch. The tormented viewer (read: me) is left with a montage of Seymore waiting patiently outside the pizza parlor where Fry worked, as days, weeks, months and seasons go by, before Seymore falls asleep (It may run slightly differently. I’m going off distant memory here).

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    cloning, crying, cryogenics, dog, Fry, Futurama, Matt Groening, Old New York, sadness, Seymore, spoiler, TV