Are they impressed by the felted wool hat with hand made period reproduction pewter pilgrim tokens?
Are they impressed by the Large wool houpelande with dags along the sleeve and hem?
Are the impressed by the pewter buckled and tipped belt and garters, or the pewter buttons along the cotehardie?
No….*everyone* is goggling over the shoes. I mean, […]
Costume report from work (probably incomplete)
Most inventive so far: A bag of jelly belly jellybeans (done with balloons, and including a nutritional label
1 girl dressed as a catholic schoolgirl (yeah, yummy…..except she smokes *sigh*)
1 guy dressed as a catholic schoolgirl
1 guy dressed as a drag queen, including heels that make him about as tall as […]
Oh wow!
They are making a movie of Hogfather, one of my favourite Terry Pratchett novels. Terry Pratchett himself has a small role in the film, along with Tony Robinson. It looks like it could be a good production….what is not clear is whether it will reach the North American market.
I have joined up. Though I am not sure why….it seems in the end I am also getting 3 free weeks. I paid for first and last installment (2 weeks worth each), but the way the schedule works, I don’t start the regular payments until December 8…..though I am not sure why. In any case, […]
Goodlife update…
So, $29.95 / 2 weeks is based on a 1 year contract ( told me to be sure, the rep failed to mention it, and made it sound otherwise), however the contract can be transferred to someone else, can be cancelled for free with a doctor’s note, or cancelled anytime for $99. That’s not […]
So did he say it?
http://media.liberal.ca/liberal.ca/video/061019_MacKay.wmv
My work occasionnally does bug blitzes, which involves the whole development team either looking for bugs, or purely fixing bugs for a day or two…no other work is done. There are usually prizes for whomever finds/fixes the most bugs, home baked cookies or some such.
I have won, every-single-time. I have got an eye for […]
She’s sadistic…..and happy about it.
I tried my sample group exercise at Goodlife today, a step aerobics class. First, the intructor. No one has that much business with that much energy, nor the ability to keep a wide grin for an hour while singing half the time. Broadly speaking….I kept up. As in, I did 95% […]
http://archives.cbc.ca/IDD-1-69-599/life_society/gay_lesbian/
This is an extended chronology of the onset of gay and lesbian rights in Canada hosted on the CBC web site. They have a lot of media clips, one going back to 1960, tv clippings showing how attitudes have changed over time. There is a lot to look through here, I don’t have time from […]
http://www.bravia-advert.com/paint/thead/
Most awesome way ever to paint a building.