Tonight's stop-motion episode of Community is going to rock!
This just might be the most over-the-top episode yet. More than the zombie Halloween or the paint-ball episodes.
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I've never done anything steampunk. I've barely made minifigs for the theme (like my steampunk Abraham Lincoln).
So I tried my hand at a, well, this:
I've already gotten some suggestions from a friend, which I agree with:
I might add a shoulder-mounted cannon. I definitely need to fix the legs--the first type I had with T-bars and Technic 1x3 beams were too loose. The left arm also needs to be fixed up and look more menacing.
This instead of an essay.
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If I turn into a flat pancake by the end of the week (or by tomorrow), someone will come and scrape me up, right?
I really wish I could just not sleep. Or that I could pull an all-nighter, but I know that is never a good idea.
I should get 8+ hours of sleep, but if I start my day right I should be able to get away with 6 or 7.
I probably wouldn't be worrying so much if I didn't have an exam from 2-4:30 tomorrow followed immediately by an exam from 5-7:30. I'm trying to figure out how
In designing my SHIP, I think I want it to be Exploriens themed. The initial idea was something generic, but I figure if I can tie it into my favorite theme then why not?
Talking about it with a friend, he said that it would have to be generally white (which mine is) with some black bits and a few parts in dark grey (and I plan on putting some Explorien logos in it to). This all sounds well and good, but I feel like putting some color in it too. While my friend (a graphic design major with
LEGO was really smart sending BZP and at least one other forum some HF 2.0 sets early. Now I'm super-excited and wanting to buy some of them at least a month before I can. As opposed to seeing them on the shelf, ignoring them since I would not know the full extent of awesomeness as to what I was getting, and then regretting it and having to wait a few more months.
I suspect I'll get at least the red and white heroes 2.0 (So sorry for using colors, I sound like a little kid) and maybe a bad
Mid-season finale was tonight for Stargate Universe. A few things:
» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «The ending was climatic, sure, but for me it wasn't explosive, actiony enough in those last moments to make me drop my jaw in anticipation for the next episode. It was kind of mediocre. Just an "oh no we're in trouble" and I know they will survive. They should have had more ships zooming faster, or an explosion somewhere (granted, if this show loses any more main character
My brother and I went to Borders the other day for some Christmas shopping (as it turned out, I had a coupon for 40% off a kid's toy, so I got my sister Minotaurus (along with A Wrinkle in Time) for Christmas) and right as we walk in we see a blue box of collectible minifigs! We immediately look for the bumps until a moment later I realize they were blue and part of Series 2. My brother it looking at them and next thing he knows I had pulled a barcode sheet out of my wallet. He was a tad surpr
As my roommate describes them, they take that one track that sounds awesome that every epic movie soundtrack has on it and made an entire CD like that.
I have the Invincible CD on my computer and am trying to find more (with much luck!).
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If I had known how useful RSS feeds were, I would have started using them years ago!
I started a few days and it has proved immensely helpful just a few hours after I started.
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Great movie. I really enjoyed it, much more than I thought I would. I am really glad I saw it.
Tangled was funny, sweet, scary, tense, rewarding...and much more. Very enjoyable.
Right before seeing it I realized this was one of those Disney movies that was also a musical, but I soon got over that worry because it was just fantastic.
What was also neat was Zachary "Chuck" Levi voiced Flynn, the main dude.
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Ever have any fears where you don't want to tell people of that fear because then they will become fearful/paranoid along with you? I just don't want to tell anyone whenever I am standing at a crosswalk corner that I fear a car could suddenly veer over the curb and hit me.
You see what I did there.
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(Seriously, that would be terrible small talk while you wait for the light to change.)
Say, if I do not know what to get my 11 year old sister, but she does like LEGO (she visited BrickFair this year and last), is it almost my "obligation" so to speak to get her some LEGO for Christmas?
It is productive and creative, enjoyable, boundless, and appropriate (though I wonder if my parents would rather I get her something else).
-CF
Wow. What a great lead up. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1 was so well done. And the acting was great. Just everything about that, book inconsistencies aside since they didn't screw up the movie, was really good.
I also liked how they told Beedle's story of the Hallows.
Can Summer come already? I'm going to have to dress up for that one...
It was especially neat being there with everyone else, because everyone was excited and ready to watch a good movie they have been
I guess if there was ever a time to build a Stargate MOC, now would be it:
Granted, I an not actually going to get the set, but that headpiece is cool.
(The $10-11 one, sure, I'll get that. This theme seems really cool, and I never got any Adventurers sets.)
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But I'm seeing Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1 today at midnight!
So stoked.
ALSO: This is my first midnight Potter thing. I had never done a book event at midnight, and aside from working the midnight show of HP6 (seeing is 6 hours before those people ) never seen the movie at midnight either. Excited does not begin to explain my mindset right now, and it is almost hard to believe I am actually doing it!
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Sold for $54 after shipping and packaging!
(For the record, it was a gift a few years back. So it's not like I spent $50 on it and only gained $4 a few years later.)
That money will go towards funding for my SHIP. (Or Hagrid's Hut, lol, or another set. I just subtract most of my LEGO spending from my sales (well, some of them. BrickFair was not included otherwise I'd be at -$200 or something.) Also, oddly enough, I have two of the 30070 Alien Space Ship saved hoping to make some profit i
As I sat writing about LEGO for an English paper, I realized that I am really glad I stuck with building throughout any ridicule I received during the ages where is was socially unacceptable. Where would I be today and what would I be doing if I did not have LEGO in my life? I dare not think about that.
Also, is it just me or are messenger bags becoming popular? Even my roommate who criticized me for having one now uses a side bag.
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...kicked my NaNo novel in the butt.
Even worse that last year, where at least I was writing over halfway through before I realized I had work to actually do. This year the work is just screaming at me not to ignore it. Ug.
Oh well. I hope I can write some fun stuff sooner or later, but NaNo is such a nice time to do it. November, however, is not.
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"Wouldn't it be a terribly interesting thing if you, the person you think you are, and the person other people think you are could be in a room together? They would be such very different people! Would they be friends or enemies?"
Oh how very interesting indeed.
I guess the closest way to doing this would be to watch a candid video of you for a day, or something. Get to see how you act from that different perspective.
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Remember the entry with the essay that was a rickroll?
I used it today to rickroll my English class.
Everyone has to give presentations of prose pieces twice a semester, alone or with a partner. My friend and I presented today, picking apart a piece from our textbook. But before that, I pulled up that image, saying something along the lines of "oh, I found this online and found it interesting..." and after a few moments a few classmates started to chuckle, one even saying "oh, rickroll."
My goodness that was an absolutely brilliant episode!
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Gotta feel happy for Eli.
Getting off of Destiny is what I always love. Stargate was always about going off-world, they need to keep that up here. Plus the aliens they have encountered so far have been interesting (although most prominently humanoid), and this ship looked pretty cool.
Rush working around his problems using his scientist lover was fantastic. Maybe better though whe
Class registration was this morning, and I was fortunate enough to snag not only all the classes I wanted, but then switch one class for another with no problem. (Registration is so frustrating sometimes because there are 1000 students from one class logging in to the system all at 8:00. I didn't get through until 8:03 or something, and kept having to refresh the page.)
*American Literature 1850-1920
While I would rather take the more modern Am. lit class, not offered this semester, I figur
...was typed from my new iPod Touch.
And by new I mean 2nd gen 32 gb that was my friend's until last night when he gave it to me. So I told him he can't get mad if I buy him a good Christmas present.
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Edited for formatting.
