Unfortunately, I spent much of last Friday asleep, recovering after a routine filling went south and turned into an emergency root canal. I don't know what does it about the procedure, but it wipes me out completely - it might be the body reacting to having a part of it removed with what amounts to tiny drill bits, or it might be the knowledge of it. For all I know, it could be the aftereffects of multiple injections of local anesthetic that happens to contain epinephrine, which would logically bring about a fight-or-flight reaction as the syringe-loads naturally leaked into the …
There's a new perfume for women on the market called Alien, as photographed a few weeks ago at Tyson's Corner Mall. Fan of the science fiction series Babylon-5 will notice the spray bottle's resemblance to a certain ambassador aboard the station.
As for the scent, I'm not much of a fan. It's a bit too musky for my tastes.
The staff over at Steampunk Magazine have a pair of new releases for the edification and amusement of everyone out there. First off, issue number three of their 'zine has been released under the terms of the Creative Commons v2.5 license for download or purchase at the cost of $3us. Secondly, a short book entitled A Steampunk's Guide to the Apocalypse has hit both the Net and printing press (cost, $5us), and features the paintings of Mr. Colin Foran (XKCD-flavored technical drawings by Anonymous). Tongue in cheek in nature, it briefly describes how one would stay on one's …
Exoteric life being what it is, I've been waiting for the right time to post about Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day on 8 December 2007. The day is just what it sounds like - it's a Saturday where you wander around someplace pretending to be a time traveler, ideally kitted out in costume and in character but not actually telling anyone what you're doing. The original thread on the Koala Wallop forums goes on to describe a couple of possible schticks that you and your friends can try, such as "We came from a Utopian future but we don't …
For unknown reasons, someone in northern Europe is leaving odd gifts for people all over the place - carved stone heads with rhymes taped to them. Each head (face, really) is carved into a large rock, about one foot in height, and from looking at the pictures of the faces they've been finding, they're very well done. Not exactly life-like, mind you (a little stylized), but each is unique and recognizable. So far 13 of them have been left on the doorsteps of random people, and each has been at least 100 miles from the others.
MC Frontalot is at it again, this time celebrating the release of his new nerdcore hip-hop album, Secrets From the Future. In fact, he's released his first music video, a silly little ditty called It Is Pitch Dark, a tribute to classic pieces of interactive fiction lke Zork and The Lurking Horror. It's goofy. It takes place in someone's basement. MC Frontalot dances better than I do. It's all good.
If you can't reach Youtube for some reason, go to MC Frontalot's homepage, where you can download the video in a number of other formats (including the .mp3 of the …
