I just bought a shirt, at the local thrift store, that is close enough to what will pass in an 11th Doctor costume. What I am trying to say is that I am now committed. A bow tie will not be that much online. The most expensive items will be buying the screwdriver (but shipping will be minimized because at the same time I will buy a Blue Sun shirt, and my roommate will get a chrome Star Trek Jesus Fish) and suspenders, but I think I can get that for less than the first set I found for $20. Oh,
I do not usually make impulse buys on music, but on Friday I heard most of Newsboy's new album Born Again and searched for stuff online tonight. So far I liked what I heard (I was up to Miracles) and decided just to check out downloading it. Amazon had/has is for $5 so I immediately purchased it.
When I first heard a song off the CD I thought it was Tobymac, but my friend explained how NB replaced their lead singer with someone from DC Talk, so it all makes sense (and I can hear some of tha
-This weekend (tomorrow) is the freshmen retreat (Viaticus, meaning "on the journey"). I co-coordinated this with a friend and we picked up 3 sophomores to be on team (usually it's just four total). We give talks and reflect in small groups on what it means to be a Catholic freshman in college, as well as simply being away and on one's own for the first time.
(We have a good problem: we have 23 participants, not counting team and two extra drivers. While that is awesome (normally it is about
Prithee, some possible posting postulates and probable posthaste pursuit practices of passion:
With every excretion entering exactness here, alliteration is always acceptable and awesome.
Why? No worries. Wonderful witticisms await. Wot wot?
-CF
Whooooooo! Just finished it! It was amazing.
Oh, I can't stop being so excited for finishing something I enjoyed so much.
OK, rundown:
Partly Battle Royale, set in a future, post-apocalyptic United States, the nation of Panem who's powerful and oppressive Capitol government makes the surrounding poor 12 districts send a girl and a boy "tribute" between the ages of 12-18 each year to fight one another to the death in an arena. This to remind the districts the control they have on thei
Someone remind me next year that there should be some sort of Flickr meet-up at BrickFair. I only met a handful of Flickrites, and it might be cool if we had a panel or something.
I'm not saying I'll organize it, but I'm not saying I won't. But come next Spring I could make a notion to something of it somewhere online, get the ball rolling...
Currently addicted to "Don't Unplug Me" by ALL CAPS.
While also being addicted to Heyhihello! They have this Owl City feel, but with instruments,
Remember Crustaceous? I built him in the Spring/Summer of 2008, and is probably my best MOC to date, at least as far as Bionicle MOCs are concerned.
Well, being old, and having already seen three conventions, I decided it was time to mix things up before he made his third BrickFair appearance. So I made him a crutacean-minotaur.
*2*_*3*_*4*
I kept one arm, sort of a Davy Jones thing going for him. I knew I wanted to use the Axonn mask when searching through my collection. So now the
I so dearly wanted a Quidditch set when I was a kid (aside from the small one LEGO had once, ug), and now it is here! Thing is, now I have learned that selling minifigs can generate some good cash that I can then immediately put back into my LEGO spending. After eliminating the Quidditch players, save Hooch for her goggles, there is not much left to the set. I could, however, sell Harry and Draco, keeping the beaters for their fig pieces (house shirts, hair, face, etc).
But wait, what abou
Who would win in a fight:
or
Captain Mal Reynolds (Firefly) or Han Solo (Star Wars)
(And no, the correct answer is not "the audience.")
Leave ships out of this, since Firefly-class ships do not have weapons. (Plus, we do not really know the exact measurements of Serenity's space-flight speed, unlike the Falcon.)
-CF
I got woken up this morning at 9 AM by my roommate who wanted to check where I was because apparently there was an armed robbery in my apartment.
Luckily it was not actually in the halls and such, but in the shops below me.
Directly below me.
Like, when I got out of bed at 9:30 due to my roommates continuously talking about what was going on and thus not able to keep sleeping, there was yellow police line tape directly below my window. Three cops and a forensic guy were walking around less
Gotta love human innovation:
I do not dunk enough (or elsewhere that I would not already have a glass of milk from dinner), but I can see it as being fun to walk around a party with this.
-CF
You know how a college kid's laundry cycle is determined by how much underwear one has left?
I'm out of socks. (Well, white ones anyway. I'm wearing thin boot-sock-liner, but I could have chosen dress socks.)
-CF
(Note: I have not done laundry since arriving here two weeks ago, so tonight that will change.)
Is it bad that I want to waste my first LEGO stop-motion attempt making a Get Down (Geddan) minifig video?
(I just discovered the meme last night, and the song is quite catchy.)
-CF
^Album
-LEGO table
-15 normal posters, 1 oversized, numerous smaller pictures
-My own 12' x 12' room! And bathroom! (Which, BTW, has a Despicable Me minions sticker from work on the mirror.)
-My desk has more than one Arpy item on it.
I wish I had more room for posters, though. When/if I get a Scott Pilgrim one from the theater, that will go under Inception. But it looks like ordering an 11th Doctor vortex poster is out of the question. (Ironically, a landscape Amy Pond poster could g
Y'all better read this.
BrickFair Sci-Fi and Castle coverage
Not just because themes other than Bionicle are equally awesome, but because it took sooo long to post, and I put so much effort into it. (Writing it was no problem (and yes I reread over and over), but setting it up afterward with the codes and stuff was a pain. I can haz BBC?) (See, brain fry=lolspeak) I better get back to that homework I've neglected for the past 2 hours...
Plus, Arpy had a paragraph in it, and Nuju Metru's
Well this all might change once I start my job next week, since working in the morning would be best for me and I practically get to choose the 8-10 hours I work, but for now...
With class not until noon Monday, Wednesday and Friday and not until 4 Tuesday and Thursday, I find myself constantly staying up late and waking up after 10.
While not necessarily bad, it just is not necessary. I could just go to sleep at one and wake up at nine, no?
I think right now I shall read a little, get
I just recently watched it for the third time.
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First time I saw it I thought it was weird, because Hugh Jackman is essentially killing himself over and over.
The second time I grudgingly watched it because my roommates were, it was a weekend night, and a few people had not seen it yet. All was well in my mind, and I appreciated it more.
(I still like The Illusionist more because of my first thoughts given of this film. But a friend recentl
Blog entries, term papers, even news stories sometimes. I just do not go back and reread what I wrote and check for errors.
Is that bad?
I trust spell checker too much and I trust my writing well enough the first time around.
Now, I know that Stephen King's editor said that the first draft, he is writing for himself, and the second draft he should be writing for his audience, so you then take out all the little things you felt like inserting. However, I remember once my editor said he
Packing peanuts come from the Devil: they are messy and get everywhere and are thus irritating. Bubble wrap comes from God: it is organized and nice and, quite especially, makes us happy.
Things that need to be included in your BrickFair/Fest/Con shipping box:
-MONEY
-Bubble wrap
-Return address
-Username
-MOC pictures (ALL of them)
-Wrap Mosaic pieces up in cling-wrap.
-Seal MOCs in zip-lock bags.
-Bubble wrap
And if you do not include money, a return address, username, and pho
Movie posters are not the only benefit of working at a theater, it seems:
One day as I was walking through the booth (where the movies are reeled and the projectors are) I saw some movie film in a small trash can. Being the obsessive movie enthusiast that I am, I start to look through it, for a friend recently bought a few frames from one of the Pirates of the Caribbean films, so there is a market for this, apparently.
What did I find? The second Tron Legacy trailer:
A manager said
...who, after BrickFair (it happened last year too, and with this current one) thinks that whenever he sees someone out of the corner of his eye there is that tiny spark of "oh hey it's [cool member he hung out with over BrickFair]"? (If, out of that corner-eyesight, a few features seem familiar.)
Or are the rest of you more sane than I am in that regard?
Just another reason why we need a BrickFair City...
-CF
