Remember, remember, the 5th of December

Take that, Pirates.

ETA: And I always get this song by MC Chris stuck in my head. Seriously. All the time. Someone put together a ninja montage for it, and it rules. And they no longer carry the Hoodie Ninja Hoodies in the shop, but you can still get the sticker. I really wanted to get that hoodie for JeT for Christmas, too. Grr. Stupid procrastination.

Ode to Beaker

Too good not to share. Meep meep meep meep meep meep meep meep.

Thanks!

Thanks to all who have wished me a happy birthday, happy holidays, and happy graduation. It’s been a happy, happy time around these parts recently, and I’d like to express my gratitude the only way I know how: with The Muppets. Enjoy!

ARRRR!

Here be pirates!

I nearly missed it last year, and if Flickr hadn’t reminded me, I’d have missed it this year, too. I think I may have also missed the celebration day of the patron saint of librarians and archivists, but having googled it, I think there are a few saints to choose from. I’ll have to actually do some research on that, just out of curiosity. My vote goes to St. Catherine of Alexandria (beheaded in BCE 305 in Alexandria, Egypt). I love celebration days, even if I’m not Catholic. (There’s a book, Making Saints, that I’ve been wanting to read for ages, but have never gotten around to. Eventually.)

ETA: jolly roger flag restoration (link via BitchPhD)

MEme

Happy Easter!

cherry cupcakes

Behold! Today’s dessert!

We bought a bunch of stuff from Pangea, and I made a batch of vanilla cupcakes, transforming lemon frosting into cherry frosting. They came out pretty good. I couldn’t pipe the frosting on, though, because of all the cherry bits.

Today was pretty fun. I didn’t get enough work done this weekend, but that’s always the case. Nothing I can’t catch up on this week.

Click through to Flickr for more Easter photos. Here’s a fun link: Cat and Girl celebrate Easter. Man, I love this comic.

“Your snack selection is more than disappointing!”

I was playing around with Netvibes.com, setting up a homepage. I’d been meaning to do this for ages now, so I’m finally getting around to configuring modules and whatnot. Something caught my eye in the video search module: “Andy Duncan” in the tags. I had to see what it was. Consider me amused.

One word.

(From everyone.)

This is not as easy as it looks.
You.
Can.
Only.
Type.
ONE.
Word.

1. Where is your cell phone? Purse.
2. Describe your boyfriend/girlfriend? Nonexistent.
3. Your hair? Braided.
4. Your mother? Newfoundlander.
5. Your father? Retired.
6. Your favorite item? Accordion.
7. Your dream last night? Stalkers.
8. Your favorite drink? Juice.
9. Your dream car? Bicycle.
10. The room you are in? Office.
11. Your ex? Whiny.
12. Your fear? Confinement.
13. What do you want to be in 10 years? Thirty-nine.
14. Who did you hang out with last night? JeT
15. What you’re not? Hungry.
19. The last thing you did? E-mail.
20. What are you wearing? Jammies.
22. Your favorite book? Many.
23. The last thing you ate? Tofurky.
24. Your life? Peachy.
25. Your mood? Anxious.
26. Your friends? Plentiful.
27. What are you thinking about right now? Food.
28. Your car? Outside.
29. What are you doing at the moment? Avoiding.
30. Your summer? Educational.
31. Your relationship status? Splendid.
32. What is on your tv? Fabric.
33. When is the last time you laughed? Now.
34. Last time you cried? Unknown.
35. School? Continuous.

Stuff ‘n’ nonsense

• While walking to school this morning, I took a slightly different route than usual. I went through the Wentworth campus, and came out near Mass Art. Anyway, in front of the Greek Orthodox church near Wentworth I saw the following spraypainted on the sidewalk: “white ppl -“. That’s it. So… white people, eh? Then as I walked further along, passing one of the Wentworth buildings, I see “white people = useless” on the sidewalk. Apparently, the person who spray painted the first had to cut his/her message short, or realized mid message that they were vandalizing the wrong sidewalk. Anyway, it made me chuckle to myself. After all, I was feeling particularly useful this morning. Take that, sidewalk message!
• Check this out: dirty car art (link from Kristen). If only I were that ambitious.
• On the subway on the way home, I saw a defaced advertisement. I can’t remember what it was for, but someone drew an eye patch on the woman in the picture, and gave her a talking bubble thing: “Arrgh! Shiver me timbers, shit bag!”
• Jesse and I bought a bunch of stuff from Laptop Lunches. We got some American-style bento boxes. Pretty neat. It’s going to seriously streamline the feed bag, that’s for sure. I’m considering making some rockin’ bento lunches (redundant?) as inspired by Cooking Cute… tempting, though I’m not sure I have that kind of time. But isn’t it inspiring? And cute?
• We’re also going to buy some seedlings from Seeds of Change. We bought some seeds from them in the past, but we weren’t very successful with our growing efforts from seed to transplant to harvest. We managed to not kill some tomatos one year, but that’s about it. This year, if we start from seedlings, we’ll have a sporting chance. We hope.
• Still planning on a fun audio project using my new gizmo, but nothing’s really come of it yet. We’ll see. It’s a fun idea, though.
• School’s going smoothly thus far. I’ve got a fun project in the works for my Oral History class, but I don’t want to divulge any details yet, since it’s not actually finalized. I have decided on a final paper topic for Preservation, though: Textiles and Realia in an archival setting. Interesting, no?
• I started making another hat to be deposited in the bag o’ hats that were supposed to be Christmas gifts this year. I’ll probably get around to giving them out this summer. Nothin’ says sunny days like a knitted hat, right?
• I’m feeling much better these last couple of weeks. I started taking a multi-vitamin regularly and that seems to be working. No more fatigue, not as much mid-day nausea, no dizziness… things are looking up.
• We watched V for Vendetta the other day. It was pretty good, I thought. I really enjoyed it. Though Natalie Portman’s accent was a bit irritating. Almost as bad as Drew Barrymore in Ever After, though not quite. I suppose if you’re cute you can get away with it. In other movie news, we watched Mr. and Mrs. Smith last night. It was enjoyable. Of course, we were a wee bit intoxicated, so that probably helped. Drunk dialing friends in Western MA is fun, especially when they drunk dial you a couple of hours later.

Dylan Hears a Who

You need to listen to this. It’s hilarious.

Link from bookshelves of doom.