Geek Christmas

Hello Blog Readers,

I have had a busy few weeks, so I am sorry that my life has been either not news worth or too new worthy to have time to write about it.

Things are chugging along here in Anne Land. I have been alternating between being super busy at work.. and having some sort of illness that makes me sound like Kathleen Turner or a drag queen. I have also, been busy trying to organize a pre-Halloween party at the local geek hangout which happened last night. IT WAS OFF THE WALL.. and pictures will be posted soon. I ended up not being "Desaturated" as my costume.. but instead being a House Gremlin. You know.. the thing that misplaces your keys, your bus pass, puts your shoes in your freezer and in general steals all of your dame socks. It was lots of fun. A member of the group who hangs out there.. brought his 8ft. tall Stay Puft Marshmallow Man.. and let me tell you something.. by the end of the night.. that thing got more action than Gene Simmons! EVERYONE LOVED THAT THING!:)

Today, I am going to be a Zombie Wrangler for Thrill The World.  Tomorrow.. I rest.. because you know.. fighting off the drag queen cold and all.. and then MONDAY IS HALLOWEEN! For work.. I will be doing a variant of the costume I did for last night.. but instead of being a House Gremlin.. I am going to be an office one.. this will consist of me wearing a suit, with messed up technical memos and reports stapled to it.. with binder clips in my hair and jewelry made of paperclips. I will probably also have pens and file folders that look like there have teeth marks bit out of it. It should be fun... then I shall come home and make Peter watch Rocky Horror Picture (for the very first time.. he is a "virgin") and It's The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown!... because.. I am still 6.

So, universe.. what are YOU doing for Halloween?!

I want to be a nurse log when I die.

Much along the lines of the Aqumation, Jae Rhim Lee, has developed a suit of mushrooms that eat you when you die.

The Infinity Burial Project embraces the concept that you can be a nurse log for mushrooms that will break down and cleanse your body of pathogens that are stored in your body.

In Canada... There is a Thanksgiving Monday... I love this

This is Anne.. This is Anne gloating that she isn't at work and all of her American family and friends are.
I am really damn tired. I stayed up late last night at a orphan's thanksgiving party that we were invited to. I made a vegan green bean casserole.. complete with wheat free fried shallots.. and a pumpkin mousse pie with coconut whipped topping. It was fancy. I didn't get to bed until 1 am.. then I woke up at my normal Monday wake up time.. messed around on the internet for an hour... and then went back to bed. It is a pajama day today.

Here are the interesting things that I found while I was awake for that hour.

Call of Cthulu.. as drawn by Dr. Seuss!

Buy me this shot glass... it is awesomes!

Happy Crocoween!

This is a tutorial on how to make 360 reverse pictures with your digital SLR.. go forth photographer friends.. make bubble pictures!

A beautifully illustrated timeline of the history of Science Fiction.

I really love mini-put. I really love that I can play mini-put.. in my pajamas.. on the internet.

Thanksgiving.. in Canada! It happens in October..

Today is Canadian Thanksgiving. It happens in October. It is designed to give us a three day weekend in October. I am going to an orphan Thanksgiving dinner party tonight. I should be fun, I am making food I can eat. I haven't had much inspiration to look for cool things.. but this morning, I managed to search the interwebs for  things I think you should look at.

This link will take you to a website that has a gallery of intergalactic awesome that is exactly to scale.

ASCII Starwars. 

Geek Dresses. 

This person turned a Nintendo 64 into a handheld 64. * is jelly*

I love it when people Troll things.. Instructions on how to Troll hunters. 

This is something I am going to do to my kids.. but I am not going to tell them it is fake.. I am just going to pay my movie actor friends to help me scare the shit out of the children. More like doing a fire drill, but instead of that.. it will be the zombie survival drill.

Watch this video of a school of fish totally evading larger fish.. but a really smart bird picking off some of the outside fishies.

Did you know?.. is a website that gives you random facts. It is like hanging out in my brain.

I watched this video, it made me want to get piano lessons with Peter so that we could do cute piano things when have been married for 62 years.. he is not going along with this idea. :(

Checking in.

Happy Birthday Gorillaz!



Freddie For A Day is getting really amazing press. It makes me amped for next year and giving me courage to do it.

I had some "losses" in the family this week. My cat Justice passed away and then my "sisters'" cat Clarence also went to the land of eternal catnip/nap.

This was my Justice. We got her from PAWS when she was just a kitten. We needed to get our other cat Tjorwuhlyn ( said Tora-Lyn... don't ask) a kitten because our other cat Kelson passed away because he was old and had everything that a cat could have that would make them sick :(

I miss her.. she was a jerk. She would steal whole steaks and ignore you until you ignored her and then she would be all up in your grill. She was in love with Pinny. They became besties for the year I lived with my mom.

All in all.. my life at this point has been busy/boring. I PROMISE that I will update more soon this week. It is Canadian Thanksgiving and all.