3 posts from November 2009

The Eyeballing Game 

eyeball right angles, center of circles, 3 lines converging, dissecting an angle, etc.  Oh the worst for me is making a parallelogram.

Planarity

like untangling christmas lights, yarn, etc.  only with more and more for each level more points the faster you get it (if you have hours on your hands)

Let's not forget about the snowflake making sites!

Snow Days and Make-a-flake which is the one where I made this a few years ago:

 

There is no way I could do anything half that cool again.

 

Maybe you'll remember back in October, me trying to get a head start on the year end music voting/contest thing they do on WXPN and posting this.  Maybe not.  Anyway, I think I'm ahead of the game doing that.  Well, sort of.  WXPN decided to add top 10 SONGS of the year too.  And the contest is a drawing to win a 50 inch plasma screen hi-def tv.

You don't have to be a member to enter or win. Vote here, if you care to.

So I compiled my list of top ten songs of the year (and added Mike Doughty's "Sad Man, Happy Man" to the album list, since I only had 9 in October)

and here they are.

1. Illinois---- Hang On
2. Mexican Institute of Sound--Sinfonia Agridulce
3. Gomez--Airstream Driver
4. Empire of the Sun--We Are The People
5. Guerrilladelphia--Unstoppable
6. Vic Chesnutt--Chain
7. East Hundred--Slow Burning Crimes
8. Jack Penate--Tonight's Today
9. Sondre Lerche--Good Luck
10. Mexican Institute of Sound--Reventon

(I had a hard time with #10 so I just repeated a band.)

 

 

Oh Vox, I really hate your fucking formatting.  It really CHAPS MY ASS.

I give up or I will be here all night.

 

 

 

Just a sampling but they are all in my Vox library should anyone give a flying crap!

When Michelle & I went to the Outer Banks of NC in September, we stopped by a really nice store called Sandy Bay Gallery.  After making our jewelry purchases and chatting with the owner, we walked back outside and stopped to admire the hippo pottery.  But oh look!  Hippo Mouth has a resident!

 

 

 

Is that the blurpiest little frog ever? The shop owner saw us looking and came out and said he lives in there, and that sometimes there is another one that hangs out close by.  But before I could get more photos inside the hippo, she coaxed him out onto the wall:

 

and that is about half of my vacation photos right there....