Hunka hunka with a side of Roo -
Apr. 21st, 2008 01:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kyburgFirst episode of Torchwood I've watched in just about forever?
Yeah. *thwap* THAT one.
Remember, I had that kind of luck with Fullmetal Alchemist in Japan. First episode I ever got to see. Guess.
I did what every Sim-playing geek does at a time like this.
Booted up, loaded up and bred two more babies to name them after. Don't resemble them in the least. Don't care, neither.
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aiglet - A candy blog that does with candy what drave117 does with drinks. Seriously. I just cut and pasted a wonderful recipe for using up hot chocolate mix, using cornstarch that will just rock my world. And that's just the start.
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Did my walkthrough at the UCLA campus for next weekend's Festival of Books (I'm volunteering Saturday) - and I forget, every year, how really gorgeous that campus is. I graduated from Cal Poly Pomona, which is no slouch in the pretty neat department...but UCLA has some of the most incredible brick in Southern California you ever saw. We're not big on sharp, neat corners on our buildings - that implies stone or poured concrete, and you just don't do that in an earthquake zone. Much. Buildings around here are full of not-so-sharp, mostly wood and drywall, bullnosed, stuccoed into softness edges. Not knife-sharp.
Then I go to UCLA and get hit in the face with it again. Kinda like music. I remember it's a pretty place. I have to go back and look again to get the full effect. I took some pictures yesterday - and I got some little tidbits that have my curiousity piqued.
One, Ghiradelli Chocolate is going to back this year, handing out 'samples' near the culinary stage. Last year, they gave you three squares of different flavors and a $1.00 off coupon. That's just one bit of swag. This is a fantastic event - you just have to get there.
Two, as we passed Korn Hall, our guide mentioned it was the site of the 2004 "Korn Hall Riots" - I gotta go search the LA Times archives for that one. Missed that year - and I guess, it being the election year it was - there was something of a political press for address that go out of hand. Korn Hall this year? Not so much. Looks like most of the hot button stuff has moved to the Ackerman Ballroom.
Near Korn Hall is a very narrow overbridge - "Be careful crossing that. In 2005, a volunteer fell off it and broke her hip."
HOOKAY/ (I looked. She only broke her pelvis? Yeesh.)
"Free-speech" area is in the shade, under trees, on grass. Near enough the Ackerman Ballroom to be useful.
They're beginning to set things up now. I may open the essay on Facebook now, if I got good enough shots - and then add to it after the weekend, just to give an idea of scope. It's going to be a loooong day, but I am really looking forward to it.
(I will be released after 6:00 PM Saturday, so if anyone wants me? You can have me. After 6:00 PM.)
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Riddle me this, Batman. How is it possible for someone who can find coffee and alcohol in anything that contains it, to be completely unable to tell spoiled food from fresh? I don't get this. Unless it's yet another leftover from a less than savory childhood I hear little about, food-wise, except for stories of the river of liver and general "eating everything in sight."
There's plenty of evidence that's coming back to haunt him in other ways, too.
You can't tell this stuff to go away, mind. Would if I could.
And so went my weekend. I'd like another one, please.
Yeah. *thwap* THAT one.
Remember, I had that kind of luck with Fullmetal Alchemist in Japan. First episode I ever got to see. Guess.
I did what every Sim-playing geek does at a time like this.
Booted up, loaded up and bred two more babies to name them after. Don't resemble them in the least. Don't care, neither.
...
Via
aiglet - A candy blog that does with candy what drave117 does with drinks. Seriously. I just cut and pasted a wonderful recipe for using up hot chocolate mix, using cornstarch that will just rock my world. And that's just the start.....
Did my walkthrough at the UCLA campus for next weekend's Festival of Books (I'm volunteering Saturday) - and I forget, every year, how really gorgeous that campus is. I graduated from Cal Poly Pomona, which is no slouch in the pretty neat department...but UCLA has some of the most incredible brick in Southern California you ever saw. We're not big on sharp, neat corners on our buildings - that implies stone or poured concrete, and you just don't do that in an earthquake zone. Much. Buildings around here are full of not-so-sharp, mostly wood and drywall, bullnosed, stuccoed into softness edges. Not knife-sharp.
Then I go to UCLA and get hit in the face with it again. Kinda like music. I remember it's a pretty place. I have to go back and look again to get the full effect. I took some pictures yesterday - and I got some little tidbits that have my curiousity piqued.
One, Ghiradelli Chocolate is going to back this year, handing out 'samples' near the culinary stage. Last year, they gave you three squares of different flavors and a $1.00 off coupon. That's just one bit of swag. This is a fantastic event - you just have to get there.
Two, as we passed Korn Hall, our guide mentioned it was the site of the 2004 "Korn Hall Riots" - I gotta go search the LA Times archives for that one. Missed that year - and I guess, it being the election year it was - there was something of a political press for address that go out of hand. Korn Hall this year? Not so much. Looks like most of the hot button stuff has moved to the Ackerman Ballroom.
Near Korn Hall is a very narrow overbridge - "Be careful crossing that. In 2005, a volunteer fell off it and broke her hip."
HOOKAY/ (I looked. She only broke her pelvis? Yeesh.)
"Free-speech" area is in the shade, under trees, on grass. Near enough the Ackerman Ballroom to be useful.
They're beginning to set things up now. I may open the essay on Facebook now, if I got good enough shots - and then add to it after the weekend, just to give an idea of scope. It's going to be a loooong day, but I am really looking forward to it.
(I will be released after 6:00 PM Saturday, so if anyone wants me? You can have me. After 6:00 PM.)
....
Riddle me this, Batman. How is it possible for someone who can find coffee and alcohol in anything that contains it, to be completely unable to tell spoiled food from fresh? I don't get this. Unless it's yet another leftover from a less than savory childhood I hear little about, food-wise, except for stories of the river of liver and general "eating everything in sight."
There's plenty of evidence that's coming back to haunt him in other ways, too.
You can't tell this stuff to go away, mind. Would if I could.
And so went my weekend. I'd like another one, please.
