Since I bought a nice second-hand DSLR from my buddy Emily over at SpatialDrift I’ve been slowly but surely figuring out how to take nicer pictures. For both this blog and my baking blog, n00bcakes, I have a habit of taking pictures in the evenings when the light is at best “sub-par”; I finally took [...]
Happy Friday! Have a Neat Find! I came upon Cosplay Piano via The Mary Sue, and hot-damn am I glad I took the time to actually watch it instead of letting it get lost in the sea of tabs that constitute my browser. Cosplay Piano is one of the shows from Stan Lee’s new YouTube [...]
I first came across “The Brain Scoop” during their episode on the pangolin. I remember being fascinated with pangolins ever since I was a kid and my older brother did a project on them; the cover to the book he made featured a pangolin with actual pine cone tips glued onto it for its scales. [...]
For the first Neat Find of 2013, I wanted to share J.Rabbit with y’all. J.Rabbit is another find I’ve made via Twitter (seriously, who would’ve thought Twitter could be so useful?). CAKE made the following tweet last month: CAKE enjoys performers enjoying themselves. fb.me/uWWZHtV2 — CAKE MUSIC (@CAKEMUSIC) December 28, 2012 Intrigued, I gave the [...]
I’ve been an NPR nerd for years, but I only started listening to This American Life this year. My friend Emily started making some posts on Facebook and Twitter about how this episode was so interesting, or how this other episode made her cry; I’d heard of TAM, but her personal interest nudged me into [...]
Ever since my first convention experience – BlizzCon 2009 – I’ve had the itch to do some cosplay. Especially after seeing other friends walk around in costume and the dedication and love they felt either for a role they were playing or a costume they were proud of, I knew I wanted to take the [...]
Anita Sarkesian’s first video in from the Kickstarter’d Tropes vs. Women in Video Games series was released last week! This first video is about the Damsel in Distress trope (called “Part 1″ because “Part 2″ will address some of the more recent games revolving around this trope, as opposed to the older games addressed in [...]
If you never look at the column on the right-hand side of my blog posts, you might miss my little section called “What I’m Backing”. Typically once every few months I find a Kickstarter project I’m interested in, and I’ll update the section to show at what I’ve most recently chucked money. Right now it’s [...]
If you don’t follow Geek & Sundry, you really should. Besides being a repository for all things silly and geek, its creator, the Lady Nerd Felicia Day, has taken the success of their show TableTop (hosted by Wil Wheaton) and parleyed it into the first International TableTop Day. The goal with ITTD (the abbreviation I just made up) is [...]
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