Fallen

No posts = busy quarter. Shrug. How it goes.

Fallen
by mikropikol

tul . ardour . coolcapitals . prostitution

Celebratory

Christmas Eve.

I'm now eighteen.

Woo hoo.

Audi Q5: Unbox The Box
by hourigan

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No Longer

No longer will I have to rewind the past
Those I've come to glimpse of it;
No longer will I carry this weighted mass
Now I face the day with no shame!
- "No Longer", Decyfer Down

This song perfectly describes today for me.



And, oh my God, there are only ten days until my birthday.
I'm thinking a navel piercing is in order.

mp3toss . cowbirds . tv-links . film noir . relativism . danyboy

The Collective

Completely ingenious way of putting it.
"The Oak Beams of New College, Oxford"
http://video.stumbleupon.com/#p=o05e8xnxmv

I love how I didn't see the absolute skill coming... it completely surprised me, and was awesome. Also, German really is a beautiful language when spoken by natives.
Amazing Hammer Skills


Reminds me of a certain scene from The Court Jester... but this is just excellent.


I would really like to sing this. It's a great accapella tune.


Wow. That's just... wow. I feel so cushioned.


I will no longer let anyone profess the keyboard an inferior instrument. Also? Why is anyone this weird so FREAKING TALENTED?


This is SO MUCH BETTER than video games!! I really want to do it!


Fireballs. Need I say more?


Okay. Honestly? NO ONE should be able to do this and have it come out awesome.
"Spray paint art"
http://video.stumbleupon.com/#p=nf6c81n6bb

To My Passengers

Okay. So this last week has been a bit... busy.

Firstly, in my classes I am doing quite well. Art History is interesting, though certainly not riveting; Creative Writing Poetry I'm actually enjoying, and may post the fruits of my latest labors here before long, though as an actual "class" it is woefully lacking in instruction; Spanish is good to sink my teeth into, and it's cool to learn languages as well as find that I love doing so; Ceramics is not only fun, it's challenging, and I'm completely enjoying myself in creating these clay pots, sculptures, and whatnot. The problems come when I get too involved in the detail of a single pot when the class has been assigned to complete a certain number of objects by class' end. That aspect is rather frustrating to an artist like myself.

Secondly, spending five full hours with a person of the opposite gender who you have no will or desire to cultivate a personal relationship with, or, really, any relationship at all, is really rather stupid. On the one hand, yes, I learned a bit from him, and sketched a very nice full portrait of his character, but on the other hand five hours really wasn't necessary, thank you.

Thirdly, spending enough time talking with the person of the opposite gender, who you did have a very good interest in cultivating a personal relationship with, enough to find out that you really can't see spending your life with them, seems to be rather... disappointing, to say the least. Mentally, I'm already beginning to speak my goodbyes, and can even discern the beginning of relief; emotionally and physically, however, I can feel the palpable desire to take this relationship a lot further. It doesn't help that I really like and respect the guy.

Fourthly, I'm sick, and being sick sucks. I want to go to classes, and I HATE knowing that I'm not there and I'm going to MISS OUT ON SOMETHING! but alas, there is not really anything I can do besides sleep... and there's not much chance of that if I go to classes today.

So. In summary, there's been a little bit of frustration. I really wish... well. Several things. But the most important is definitely that I weren't feeling sick.

Also, read the book Darkly Dreaming Dexter (by Jeff Lindsay) the other day, which was the basis for the series Dexter on Showtime. Completely fascinating and amusing novel, sadly very short and not enough to truly get myself involved with... but I'm onto the second novel now, which will hopefully be a bit better in that respect.

Novel Advice

Also:
hamburger . ubuntu . labyrinth . rejection . de-noted . grimm . virus

It's Like A Disease

Oh. My. God.

I don't think there's anything cuter on the face of the planet. Makes me want to be a park ranger, quite honestly.

Chip Pics

Sample:

Cravings

Fascinating site. I think I may continue to use this as a reference.

Reduce Your Food Cravings

XKCD

This stuff always manages to make me laugh. I'm a nerd like that.

http://xkcd.com/

Research and Development

Basically I really want one of these amazing action figures. And normally I'm not one for toys, but this one takes the cake for best action figure. It's really a work of art. It's just freaking amazing.


See?

In other news, you can apparently make a fairly adequate solar power generator for less than $300. Something to think about.

Another One Bites the Dust

Click to read:


I utterly agree. Shotgun entrances even manage to completely beat out grenade entrances, if you can believe that.

In other news, I have now discovered the Firefox Facebook toolbar add-on, which is completely convenient, as well as Firefox's NASA Night Launch theme, which finally works for Firefox 3.0. This makes me very happy.

In addition to these, Mozilla is apparently working in tandem with Adaptive Path (the designers of MySpace's revamp/relaunch) in order to develop Aurora, a very interesting web browsing application. You should go see the concept videos, episodes one and two (more are on their way).

Blinking Sweaters

Holy crap, this is seriously cool.

The funny thing is, if you found a way to mass-produce these, you could probably make a boatload of money. Think about it.

A-Grade Occupations

Okay. So. Updates.

I am currently working my way through Assassin's Creed on the 360, which is taking me far longer than usual due to my penchant for investigating every corner of each map. It's taking me a while, but I really love the game itself - the collecting flags, conquering Templar, sniping archers with throwing knives, pickpocketing and sneaking around? It suits me perfectly. One big puzzle to achieve. Completely awesome.

Also, watching the TV series The Avatar: The Last Airbender. There's currently a marathon showing on Nickelodeon. I keep forgetting how much I love this show.

The Original Goofy Laugh

Also, see this amazing commercial.

But seriously, THIS GUY is the best dancer, like, ever.

I love Alex Trebek.

Whereas THIS is the best music video I've ever seen in my life.

And I'll never look the same way at cell phones ever, ever again.

This is just incredibly impressive.

Jewelry

Scanning through the products of a company called Vagabond Jewelry, and these are my favorite pieces:

Oddity - Look Up - Knave - Kite - Innocent Bystander - I know stuff - and most of all, Geek.

Seeing their prices would have me far more excited, but I really do like silver better than copper... pretty much for the same reason she describes it on her main page. I've always liked air and water better than earth and stone.

Radiohead's Remix

First:


Then:

Big Ideas (don't get any) from James Houston on Vimeo.

Found on The Ridiculant, here.

The Language of Colors

It's really interesting to read about how the human race distinguishes colors, and fascinating to find out how we learn them.

New knowledge is FUN!

ALSO. I've desired (like so many) to fly for quite a few years now. Thanks to this guy here, I finally can.

More Headroom.

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Liquify My Laundry

[ variation ][ zoo humor ][ gay ][ art trade ][ skin tone ][ coupons ]

until the light comes
I am caught within the web
of my subconscious.

ProjectSidewalk

I wish I could manipulate matter.

Wish granted. You now have hands.

- From the Corrupted Wish game, on the website ProjectSidewalk. I have just joined and explored the site. I really like the ideas on here, and some people are really creative. I suggest you go see.

[ books ] [ word ] [ stations ] [ einstein ] [ drawing ] [ lingo ]

Also, I really like this picture. I wish the subjects could have seen the quote that went with it.