Hooray! It’s finally honest-to-goodness winter! Hot chocolate, wearing gloves as you’re driving to work, electric blankets, dragon breath inside the house winter! No snow unfortunately, we’re far too far North, but it’s fun to play pretend!
(Just got a new 50″ plasma and feather doona to celebrate – yay! It’s DVD-Box-Set-ember!)
Rugged up against the cold, here are this week’s snuggly warm links…
2) Haven’t had any gross food for a while, have we? Here’s a whole bunch… half the time can’t work out whether to drool or vomit, oh dear…
3) Finally, as I struggle with this week’s challenge to learn all the lyrics for “Ice Ice Baby” for a 90’s party challenge, someone said this clip from Jim Carrey would help – maybe not so much…
Hi Gang! Had last week off playing Tour Guide – lovely English visitors for the week, and lovely English weather to match, unfortunately! Plus the one beach we take them to turns out to be low-tide mudflats… *groans*! At least Project Cute Koala Failsafe executed perfectly and they went away reasonably happy…
On your left, you’ll see this week’s links…. and we’re walking, and we’re walking people… no flash photography…
1) Why Lego is, and never will be, JUST a kid’s toy… (unless it’s that girly pink Belleville garbage… spoken like a true Camelot Lego girl!)
2) If you’re into social commentary sci-fi and you haven’t read Down & Out in the Magic Kingdom yet, get it free here. (And shame on you! But mostly get it free…)
3) Again, Youtube this week I’m CERTAIN everyone’s seen – worth a post anyway. Not sure I agree about the whole “doubles as a metaphor for the ongoing battle between two opposing visions of gender roles in the 21st century” thing, but I will admit it’s excellently edited, and satisfies the crossover fangirl within quite handily…
Well, a week on, and I still have all three cats, no new bite marks, and most of my sanity. Hooray! (Now if we could all just learn whose food is whose, and that the bathtub is not a litter tray, 100% domestic bliss will be achieved!)
Mr LiberryDwarf is bitter this week since Swine Flu has broken out at the highschool where he works (cue the “students are pigs” jokes in 3…2…1…) but although the kids get the week off, he does not. And while he does tend to rant like an old person when grouchy, at least he’s got lots of time to road-test and add suggestions to the Time-Wasters list that forms this blog. So there you have it – this week’s links have passed Bored Teacher Quality Control inspections! (So don’t say you weren’t warned…)
1) What do you do if you’re an artist, architect, devoted Holmes fan and have far too much time on your hands? Probably something a lot like this…
2) If you ever watched 30 Rock with a strange sense of Deja Vu, this might explain why… (Actually I think it’s scarily accurate and does go a long way to explaining why I like both shows…)
Clue =
3) YouTube this week – and yes, naughty cats are back in the good books. Couldn’t stay away long, could I?
Hello everyone! Happy birthday, Your Majesty Queen Elizabeth II! (Yes, we know, not your actual birthday, but thanks for the long weekend all the same!)
Want to know how I spent my 3 days of freedom?
Chasing cats. No metaphor here. Literally, I got given my mother’s two cats, lost them, roamed the neighbourhood handing out fliers and hunting for them, lured them back with food, lost them again, repeated previous two steps, etc… oh yeah, and earned a nasty bite for a failed attempt at claw clipping.
Cats suck. Other people’s cats suck. Even mine (who’s been sulking under the bed for the last 3 days, and will probably continue to do so for most of the next 3 weeks) sucks.
Welcome to a week without cat links…
1) Picture this: you love a particular someone in your life very much. More than can be adequately verbally expressed – what words could you possible find to say just how much you love that someone? Never fear – let social internet experimentation do the work for you. I Love You More Than Blank not only lets you tell the world how much you love someone, but also lends you someone else’s ideas for declaring your passion. So, whether you love your significant other more than fruit parfait (or slightly more creepily, more than your mum…) this is the site for you. Unless you mention Edward or Bella anywhere, in which case go back to your corner and sit there alone…
2) In the current economic and environmental crisis, it’s good to see that Britain’s still battling on tackling the questions we all really needed answers to… like this one…
3) I’m told that ABSOLUTELY everyone has already seen this, but anything from YouTube which makes me shriek with laughter for almost 10 minutes straight is totally worth blogging anyway. If you haven’t seen this clip before, be patient – and maybe don’t watch if you’ve got a heart condition and can’t take sudden shocks. Or are at risk of dying from cute.
Hi friends! Back after a long bout of “how to fire people” workshops, last minute research office slavery, and flu-of-the-not-swine-kind. Nice to see you all again!
At the moment, I’m sharing my morning with a malfunctioning office alarm system, which shrieks every thirty seconds to remind me that it’s here and in pain, and nobody seems to want to come and save me from it. So quick, this week’s links before my brain asplodes!!
1) Does it annoy the heck out of you when people quote things wrong? Especially movies? You might be doing it yourself, you know… here are the Top Ten Misquoted Movie Quotes, hang your head in shame if, like me, you’ve been guilty of dropping the odd one of these!
3) I just finished off (and really quite liked) “The Boleyn Inheritance”, and now (other than a strange desire to see Jonathon Rhys Meyers in a fat suit) am gleefully passionate about all things Tudor at the moment… let’s celebrate that in Cartoon form…
Filed under: YouTube, movies — liberrydwarf @ 10:21 am
It’s not even winter for another 2 weeks, and I’m grumpy because I feel like I’m channelling my inner harp seal and storing up the chubby for the cold months ahead. There’s nothing worse than feeling frumpy – I exercise, I try to eat carefully, and the second it dips below 8 degrees overnight I start getting blubbery… (Note to self: why so cruel?? Put the pole away and stop fishing for compliments!! )
Grumble Grumble… time for chocolate biscuits and weekly links, anyone?
1) I am lonely over in my corner ostracized as the only person on the planet who doesn’t hate X-Men Origins: Wolverine. I think to keep some perspective, we should remind ourselves that at least it’s wasn’t a Matthew McConaughey movie. I mean, you could have bought your ticket, sat down and been treated to one of these…
2) Joss Whedon fans – some good news? (And we get so little of it… so celebrate!)
3) Finally, YouTube – I sort of cringe at this. But this is what happens when you lose a bet against your nerd husband that you’re SO going to own him at Trivial Pursuit. Stupid girl…
Hi everyone! Happy Mothers Day (in Australia anyway) to all the mothers out there reading this (even if you mother a small animal rather than a child, as I do. But did Evil Cat get me flowers? Nooooo….) I got my mum art supplies, and let her beat me at Trivial Pursuit, so all-in-all a successful celebration of maternity all-round!
Here are this week’s links (and not bought last-minute by the side of the road at premium prices like most Mothers Day flowers are… or is that an Australian thing too?)
1) How are we in the modern library supposed to know what to DO? Given that library schools are so poor and teach you nothing about running an actual library… thankfully for all our sakes, there’s the internet. Specifically, there’s the Librarian’s Guide to Etiquette blog. For example, “A polite librarian should always insert a the before proper names of Internet name brands. Demonstrating your familiarity with the Google, the Facebook, or the Twitter, is a good way to establish some internet-cred with the kids.” Duly noted…
2) Some very cool and interesting art and short story material in this year’s Thoughtcrime Experiments anthology, if that’s your sort of thing. I particularly liked “Daisy”…
“..There is no harder work I can think of than taking myself off to somewhere pleasant, where I am forced to stay for hours and ‘have fun’. “
This was how we spent the long weekend – lovely! Thankyou Dog! Thankyou Main Beach, Gold Coast! Thankyou, vacuum cleaner for removing sand from car later!
Less covered in sand than a large beach-going labrador – but no less excited to see you – it’s this week’s links!
1) On the subject of cutesy animals having a good time: it’s LiberryCat! (No relation, I swear.) Though I guess if you’re plotting world domination, some heavy-duty research is probably a good place to start. Bet you Napoleon frequented the Reading Room too…
2) Aside from the beach, heavy-duty drinking is a crucial part of any Australian long weekend. In that light, may I present… The. Best. News. EVER!!!
3) Finally, Monday at Choir we were reminiscing (thanks in part to our accompanist who’s awesome at improv!) about our favourite old kids’ shows.
Ack, slack again! Apologies for my laziness – I do love my blog and all of you! (This time my excuse is my new box set of Impressions city-building games – have been spending far too much time in Atlantis building little red white and black pyramids…)
Here’s what I found in between …
1) What would happen if the writers of “Lost” turned their hand to Sherlock Holmes fanfic?
2) Here’s one that’s especially for Kalafudra and all my other Austen fan friends… ready ladies? (And gentlemen?) Roll up your shirt-sleeves, tighten your impossibly tight breeches – it’s BATTLE OF THE DARCYS!!!!!
Hi, Happy Easter! Hope you all had a great break, with just the right amount of chocolatey goodness!
(These links have only half the calories, but all the sweetness…)
1) Ever notice how week by week, as you edge ever closer to your warranty expiring, your electrical goods begin misbehaving (presumably in preparation for Epic Fail the second that piece of paper’s no good anymore…) My iPod is in Countdown To Massive Tantrum mode as we speak: so this from pophangover is a gift just for it (and me) – what you should REALLY be told in iPod ads!
2) I’ve been reading a lot of Science Fiction anthology stuff this week (classic old Orson Scott Card shorts at the moment!) and one thing you can always count on is great made-up stuff – from Absolute Black (thanks Douglas Adams) to Zero-G ashtrays (Heinlein. Naturally) it’s all brilliant. TechNovelgy is the ultimate geek glossary, Wikipedia for weird inventions from sci-fi settings (apologies for the terrible alliteration – too much chocolate for one Liberrydwarf!) Hmm, now, Alan Dean Foster, when’s the prototype on that Pocket-Sized Ad-Blocker coming out, hey?
3) This one is from (and in honour) my friend L.B. from dance class – mostly because we were messing around and I bet her that there was no such thing as Bellydance on Ice. Five dollars deservingly earned, my friend! (And yet more proof to the theory that nothing exists on the internet until you wonder whether or not it’s there, then it’s magically created!)
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