This entry was originally posted with the title "What Happens When Jotsio, Jotsio's Better Half, and BCii Get Together."
However, due to off-topic comments (no less welcome for all that, I assure you -- if anyone is to blame, it is I), this is now also the place where you can comment on the new sidebar art.
Just in case anyone's curious, here's a brief rundown of the elements of the design.
The border uses a bluish "random noise" gradient circling the center of the fractal, which I
» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «Toa Tuyet returns. With the Nui Stone OMG.
That just makes me so giddy. Also, the appearance of Kapura, Macku, and Hafu. It's such a treat to see all these old characters again. GregF must have a crystal ball that shows him what I want him to write.
The #1 reason I bought it on DVD: Emile Hirsch plays the title role. He also played the lead role of Christopher McCandless in Into the Wild, one of my all-time favourite films. These shots are from the respective movies' "epiphany" sequences, where the characters come to the end of their journeys -- a literal end in the case of the latter.
Speed: I don't know why I'm doing it anymore.
Racer X: You don't climb into a T-180 to be a driver -- you do it because you're driven.
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Royalton:
Equinox, yada yada, White House garden, etc etc -- No. March 20th was a Bifurcation Point (BP) on the Auric Time Scale developed by Jan Wicherink and Sergey Smelyakov. What does that mean? Well, the Auric Time Scale is a model based on the Mayan Calendar that divides time into increasingly shorter chunks as we go to the year 2012. A BP is the dividing point between sections, and it's been shown that major changing events like natural disasters, the rise and fall of civilizations, and the birth o
Here's what I borrowed:
Numerology: The Magic Mirror of Numbers;
What Your Dreams Reveal;
Thus Spake Zarathustra, by Nietzsche;
Your Future Now, a book on divination;
Self-Esteem;
Restricted for Children: How to Protect a Child from Media Trauma;
and a CD, Brand New Day by Sting.
I probably won't get around to reading all of them cover to cover, but I'll read enough to satisfy myself.
Numerology's been an interest of mine for a while now. Even long before I got into it, I always
As of March 20, 2009, the White House has an organic vegetable garden.
First Lady Michelle Obama broke ground on the garden at a special ceremony.
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I want to grow some of my own food as well, but being an apartment-dweller, I'm not lucky enough to have a piece of land. A rooftop garden would be the way to go, but first I'll need A. access to the roof, and B. permission to do my thing up there. After that, it's just a matter of seeds, supplies, and a little swe
Hello hello. Testing. Testing. Can you hear me?
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Good. It's working.
*Ahem* Greetings from the Fridge! -- I mean, Fringe. Heh. *Phew* OK.
<:o) Greetings from the Fringe!
So. . . New blog theme. Pretty self-explanatory. I'm hoping to do more things with this, be a little more, I dunno. . . fringey? (Surprise!) Nothing inappropriate, though -- I've learned a couple of lessons the harder way on what's not acceptable here. I want to abide by the spirit and the letter of the la
With the passing of the vernal equinox, a new season arrives to the blog formerly known as [siilivaara | Hedgehog Hill]. The venerable, memorable hedgehog theme, which has continued on these pages for precisely 33 months, is no more. It began on August 23, 2006, with the adoption of the self-deprecating title "The Hog Hole," which was soon changed to the ambitious "Hedgehog Mountain" and later morphed into the more modest "Hedgehog Hill." This entry bids farewell to a theme that has served its t
On Tuesday, I came across a 40%-off clearance sale on Mistika. I bought the only one I'd been loath to pay full price for, and the only one I was missing:
Bitil.
My expectations were low, low, low. My general impression from images of the set had been that it was mediocre, lackluster, sub-par. BZP friends on MSN had told me Bitil wasn't worth the money. The only pieces I really wanted were the yellow Rahkshi limbs, and I knew where I could get those separately. But forty percent off for th
~---~ MGMT - Electric Feel ~---~
all along the western front
people line up to receive
she got the power in her hand
to shock you like you won't believe
saw her in the amazon
with the voltage running through her skin
standing there with nothing on
she's gonna teach me how to swim
said ooh girl - shock me like an electric eel
baby girl - turn me on with your electric feel
i said ooh girl - shock me like an electric eel
baby girl - turn me on with your electric feel
all along th
OK, I don't know what you would call it. Not quite full-blown "mystical," and definitely not anything I would consider "paranormal." A kind of "enhanced normality," perhaps?
First, as evidenced by the previous entry, I stayed up past midnight posting my latest LEGO artwork. Then, I continued to deprive myself of much-needed sleep, alternating between MOCing, surfing the Net, and 'shopping a photo of said artwork until my eyes painfully refused to cooperate. When I finally went to bed around 2
Assuming I have fans, ha-ha.
I just finished my Toa Tuyet Dark Mirror version WIP and I think it's quite pretty -- but I'm loath to post it because the forearms and hands aren't yet available in the colour they're supposed to be (medium blue). Should I wait until Kiina is released, or do you want to see pictures now, with placeholder parts?
Dark Mirror Nidhiki is also basically done, so I would be posting him at the same time.
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UPDATE:
Well, here they are. K
Built her all in one go. That's rare for me -- my Lego creations often evolve for weeks, months, even years, before I'm satisfied with them. I could get used to this more intense, get-it-done-and-over-with approach, at least with simple Toamods. It'd at least boost my MOC output.
Sorry, guys, I'm not shooting any pictures yet. I have to wait until I have spare time and daylight together. Thursday at the earliest.
I made another custom mask for her, too. !!! X-acto and Pasco-fix fun fun fu
We've all seen those annoying ads online. I've never clicked on one. First off, it's a blatant marketing scheme (phishing and/or money making) that I want no part of. Second, not only do I not believe in egotistically comparing IQs, but I'm skeptical of the whole concept of IQ as a measure of intelligence. Like my friend Jotsio half-jokingly says, IQ tests were invented by people who held the belief that intelligence can be linearly measured with a multiple-choice test. It leads to tests that ar
Discussion of the MOC itself should be directed to the BBC topic.
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This MOC was started a long time ago in response to a building challenge on another site, to make a creation based on a work of art. I found my inspiration in an image by a prolific artist who goes by the alias "soundlessdawn":
I'd been itching to use Nuju's Hordika weapons as wing sections, and this struck me as the perfect application. The glow-in-the-dark exoskeleton design came later, after
I just finished a MOC that's probably my most artistic to date. It is based on an ancient motif of the Egyptian mythic tradition. I plan to photograph it on Thursday (my day off this week -- weekend is work!) and try to have everything done -- gallery, inscription, and Photoshop art -- by next Wednesday. I don't normally hype my MOCs very much before publication, but I thought I'd announce this one early because of the esoteric significance of it at this juncture in my life.
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"Wanderer Awakening" album cover by Andrew Jones
So that's what my new avatar looks like in full.
In other news, I will be hosting a housewarming party tomorrow. On the day after, my first choir performance. I will report back on how those events go.
Love and kisses,
starting a fad No, I'm not. Just trying out a little idea I had on the spur of the moment. Idle hands. . .
You know how, back in preschool, they had you trace out your hand on a piece of construction paper or whatever? The hand-tracing thing is such a basic staple of the human learning process, I bet you any kid would do it spontaneously even if they'd never been shown the concept. Or at least, short of tracing their hand, they'd naturally discover the archetypal appeal of the handprint.
I joined a church choir today.
I've always enjoyed singing, and people tell me I have a good voice. So when my cousin "Mandy" and her husband "Johnny" tipped me off about the youth choir they sing in, I perked up my little hedgehog ears and decided that that was something I definitely wanted to try.
Due to a slight conflict with my work schedule, I arrived a good 15 minutes late. The church cantor, who directs the choir, must have been expecting me, because his eyes were clear as he greete
