I'm producing stock for the yearly December art show. This year, I'll be making photos with clocks mounted in them. If you have issues with graphic heavy pages, you might want to skip this post.

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For my fellow geeks.

You'll want to see the last five seconds.

I made dinner last night using this recipe. With some advice from Kiwi, I used beef broth instead of chicken, frozen spinach, and deleted the salt. Adjusting to taste just about tripled the pepper. It was very tasty! It's been a while since I cooked purely for fun.

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If you play Scrabble, then please give me some advice on these modified tiles I'm considering putting into the December art show using as a Yule gift.

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I'm considering putting out a few clocks in this year's art show. Do you think any of the following are sufficiently engaging?

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Yes, I have done it with a vorpal sword.

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Take a look at what keshwyn wrote:

"I quickly found that a screaming baby with a dirty diaper had a remarkable means of empowering one’s will."

Carnival of Spirits is a quick and entertaining read. Remember, mangas are right to left.

... though it doesn't feel much like living. I've had increasing URI symptoms since my flu shot last Tuesday. This morning I had fever chills, but thus far no fever. Alka-Seltzer Cold Plus is my friend.

This happens in real time. I would not absolutely trust any video from this point on. The process does seem to have trouble with reflections (see the bathroom mirror).

LONDON — The ancient pagan tradition of Druidry has been formally accepted as a religion under charity law in Britain — a decision its followers hailed Saturday as giving long-overdue recognition to the worship of spirits and the natural world.

The Druid Network, a group of about 350 Druids, will receive exemptions from taxes on donations after the semi-governmental Charity Commission granted it the status of a religion charity, just like mainstream religions such as the Church of England.

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Hey firefly67, have you seen these?

I had a completely unexpected day off today, so we went out to Laumeier for a few hours. I got a good image of Kiwi finding art in places other folks never think to look:

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I've spend most of the last two days populating a Deviant Art store, everything from mugs to stretched canvas. Go take a look!

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I have the videos from last night's Glow up on Flickr now. The quality is ... um, scrapbookish at best.

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My camera is all but dead. Of late, but particularly last night at the Glow, it needed to be rebooted for format errors about every third shot. There were many folks with cell phone cameras there that had better light gathering capabilities than I did. I'm now officially looking for a Deal™ on a Nikon DSLR with interchangeable lenses. If you know of such a deal, or places to search for one, please let me know.

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WTF doesn't even begin to describe this. All kinds of NSFW.

ETA: Kiwi is very taken with this. It's now in our Netflix queue.

Here's a collection erotic D&D Monster Manual entries. My favorite is the Gelatinous Cube.

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"The life of each human being begins at conception," according to Senate Bill 793, which adds new regulations to the state's 24-hour informed consent law for abortions. "Abortion will terminate the life of a separate, unique, living human being."

The bill makes Missouri the second state to adopt such language after a similar provision became law in South Dakota in 2005, and then survived a legal challenge in federal court in 2008.

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According to my professional training, after the egg and sperm are joined it descends to the uterus. Once there, attachment to the uterine wall is a 50/50 shot. That means, according to normal human biology, 50% of all conceived human life is spontaneously and naturally aborted. Will this law be interpreted to mean 50% of all woman who have conceived are now guilty of murder?

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Here is the quintessential WTF. NSFW and just plain strange.

There's a few more here.

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The first quantum memory that stores and releases entanglement has been built by researchers in Switzerland.

Entanglement is the strange, ghostly phenomenon in which quantum particles share the same existence (actually, the same wave function). So a measurement on one instantaneously influences the other, no matter how far apart they might be.

So-called action-at-a-distance lies at the heart of many of modern physic's most dramatic new technologies: quantum cryptography, quantum teleportation and quantum computation all rely on it.

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I think this has the possibility of completely changing life as we know it in the same way that the advent of the horseless carriage did.

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Kiwi and I spent quite some time ... um, exploring options.

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I think there's a few of you on Facebook that I've not yet found. You can find me there at "Moose Dixon" if you like.

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The work part of my work/play calendar is now up-to-date through the end of October.

How many of these guys do you remember? I think I've seen nearly half from the 50s through the 70s. There are several for which I had no clue there were cartoon versions.

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I recognized about 30 on the first viewing. How many movies do you recognize?

In the last few years, Eigler’s group has built on his work and constructed custom molecules using the STM. They have also constructed and operated an electrical switch whose only moving part is a single atom.



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This is the perfect dessert to complement turducken:



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File this one under "too much time on his hands."

I don't watch much television, so I'm a bit behind the times here. We just saw the pilot for the SyFy series Eureka (which will now heavily populate our Netflix queue). One of the main characters in the pilot said that nothing could travel faster than the speed of light. I had thought that nothing could travel at the speed of light. Am I misremembering my physics?

I also have this sneaking suspicion that the dog has not always been a dog.

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Perhaps they're pre-moistened with holy water.

Here's another Inception parody. There's bloopers with the credits.



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Yes, they claim to be caffeinated!

It's been a while since I've done a meme. browngirl found an interesting one:

Click on the comments and give me one good reason I'm going to hell. Then go to your journal and give your flist the same opportunity.

This is one of the most blatent NSFW leather handbags I've seen. I know some of you guys are wishing you had one.

Last night, under the category of better late than never, I finally saw the space station with my naked eye. It looked like a small planet on a fast independent path through the skies. It was definitely a living in the future moment to know that I could tweet the falling climbing star.

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I am finally caught up at my Flickr account. I uploaded 150+ photos today, going back to last March. Here's some of my favorites:

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The first 12 chapters of the NSFW Great Catsby are freely available. I think something has been lost in translation, though.

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