Just in case you were one of the people who mistook Catholics for sane people.

That's right, crackers are murder. Saying "Corpus Christi, You Make Goooood Cookies" means that you really need to die.

Note where Faux Noose puts their emphasis - they include a note at the bottom telling you how you, too, can help to make this student's life difficult because you're a clueless illiterate batshit cannibal-wannabe, too.

More links.

I have decided that Twilight is almost certainly Tucker Wells.

(Well, it would fit...)

Io9 is running a build your own lifeform contest. Prizes include an all-expense paid trip to Hong Kong for the Synthetic Biology Conference.

Found via Pharyngula.

MAZE!

Note: "F" does not stand for "Finishable in your lifetime without cheating". For the record.

Sounds like one of the old ad campaigns, My Melbourne. hehe I love it here! 

So I'm coming to the end of my Melbourne holiday, i'm going home in less than 48 hours. I'm very excited, i can't wait to see my family again, especially Stew =) But first let's hear about my trip: 

I haven't actually done very much, or seen very many people. I came down because my best friend had her first baby on the 26th June. She was due on the 7th July. I was going to come down on the 5th July, but because of mum & mickey's b'day party i have to be home by the 12th, so i decided to come down a week earlier so i could be here for 2 weeks with my friend. Well, good thing at that, too!
She decided to have her baby on the 26th, just a day before i was to come down! Inconsiderate woman! hehe. Nahh it's fine, i wouldn't have been much help to her in the hospital anyway. So me and her partner Mark picked her up on the Saturday and brought her and their new son Michael to his home in Healesville.
The first 5 days were mainly people coming and going to visit Shell and Michael, so we kept a low profile, staying home and relaxing. Poor Shell, she has been finding it hard with the post-baby aches and pains. I've been helping around the house, doing washing and some cooking, cleaning and looking after baby while she rests, showers, etc. 
It's been really nice interacting with a brand new baby. The youngest baby before this i have ever encountered is perhaps 3 or 4 months, when they have a lot more control over their bodies and things. Holding this absolutely dependant little tyke is very intense! It's so fascinating just watching him, and touching him, and comforting him. And because i've been around a lot since he came home, he seems very comfortable with me, too! Which is so cool! 
So i've learnt a lot from him and i hope i've helped him learn a few things, too! I'm much more confident with small babies, and now know how to hold them properly, change nappies, give feeds (from a bottle, obviously!) and all those other things, like bathing and manipulating those little limbs into jump suits and car seats!
I WANT ONE OF MY OWN SO BAD!!!!!! =( 

So anyway, apart from being cool "aunty carly", i've caught up with Stew's mum Ruth and her hubby Ian, my dad (twice this trip, a record!), my friends from the factory i used to work at, some mutual friends of mine and Shell's, and some other family members like Stews sister Mary and her partner Steve. There was a few more people i would have liked to have seen, but i saw the main people i wanted to see. The rest will have to wait! I should have learned from my last trip down to organise myself before i leave with the people i want to see so we can have proper catch-ups! Oh well, i'm spontaneous sometimes, and also lazy.... i can't help it =p
So i come to the last few days of my trip. I'm going to the local cafe tomorrow with Shell to try "the best hot chocolate in the whole damn world!", i got my Bodhi Tree Risotto fix, though i may have to grab another one tomorrow so whet my appetite for the long stretch between them (if you are ever in healesville, you HAVE to try the chick/mush risotto from the Bodhi Tree Cafe, it is DO DIE FOR!), and i've been re-aquainted with the melbourne winter. Oh.... my.....God....is.....it......COLD.....down......here!!!!! I don't own enough warm clothes to keep the cold at bay down here anymore!!! hehe. But i love melbourne, it will always be my forever home. I do miss it, the crisp cool in the air, the wide paddocks and rolling hills, the victorian drivers and the "spot-the-aussie" suburbs! Mostly its the fact that my whole life has been here. I don't have the same connection with Qld as i do with, say Kilsyth: where i grew up; Chirnside/Mooroolbark: where i thought my whole family had broken apart, but it turned out to just get bigger. Healesville: where i lived with my husband and where i long to be again. Sure, i have nice memories of the places i've lived in qld, but not like these, not born into me like my melbourne memories.
But queensland is my home away from home right now, and i'm starting to get homesick for it! I guess that goes to prove - home is where your heart is, or where your car is parked, or where your bed is, or something like that!
Anyway, now i'm longing to be back in my own environment, with my beautiful boys, my gorgeous animals, my awesome family and my electric heater! (Fire places as an only heat source suck... =(  )
Cheerio Melbourne, til next we meet!

I want out of this world.

I can make rissoles!  Proper rissoles! That actually stay together and everything, rather than collapsing in a mincey heap the moment I try to flip them!

I'm a success!


In other news, I had a visit from my sister and Caleb this afternoon, and he is as adorable as ever.


*happy sigh*

Gaby and I are awesome!!

Greetings all

Just a reminder, come and join us in celebrating Nicoli Tesla's B-Day.
Steampunk attire encouraged, but not required.

South Bay Steampunk Meet-up
July 10, 2008, Thursday 6:00pm

Starbucks
Stevens Creek & Lawrence - San Jose
5180 A Stevens Creek Blvd
San Jose, California 95129

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye-Fi

Interesting idea - When you're out of range of a PC it's a 2gb SD card. when you are within range, it automatically transfers everything you shoot via wifi to your pc and from there automatically to facebook, flickr etc.

http://www.eye.fi/

It also has geotagging capapbility based on Skyhook. That means that your photos know where they were taken.

That would make it perfect as a datacollection tool for something like Photosynth

http://www.labs.live.com/photosynth/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZx5F0VHU9I



via a fruitless search for Luke Miller's "The Tragic Tale of Melty the Snowman"

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