It’s been a busy few days and I have a huge backlog of emails to respond to and jobs to do. I mean to talk about such things as the referendum, the NZ Diversity Forum, and Maori language week. But I’m just home from watching the NZ Basketball team deliver a trouncing to the Aussies, and that has only happened a handful of times, so I’m gonna call it a night just based on that.
Feels good.
Yknil linkY
Comic a day from Evan Dorkin’s FUN archives!
Ice T presents: Mac Repair
Total domination of geektopia by Felicia Day advances one increment:
23 movie plots that coulda been solved in minutes
Robert Johnson, animated. TROUBLING.
Worlds 50 freakiest animals.
For design nerds: packaging design for products seen briefly in Harry Potter movie
A great read here: Laura Atkins writes about white privilege and publishing, describing what happened when a book about a non-white protaganist got marketed with a white person on the cover.
And finally… Tiananmen Square, made outta hair
Thesis Catalog’d
My thesis is now on the internets.
University record and some other kinda record
On the national research hub
Direct link to pdf
Google gets it, too. Chur!
Cheers Bro
I just want to say cheers right now to my brother, who saved my bacon on Saturday. I went down early to the Marie Antoinette setup and spent a long time getting things in order, and as the clock ticked down it was time to dress up – only Muggins here had forgotten to bring his white shirt from home.
Cue anxious phone call to my bro, who cheerfully came down to grab my keys, drove to my place, rummaged in my wardrobe and retrieved the shirt, then ferried it back to me with time to spare.
Respect, brother, respect.
If you have had occasion recently to say “cheers bro”, I’d love to read about it in the comments. It’s always worth taking a moment now and again to recognize folks helping each other out.
It went well!
We had a good Marie Antoinette experience!
Photos will be appearing in due course… and probably some more detail about how it went.
But for now, I am happy and glad to have seen the other side of something that was in preparation for many months.
Antoinette Linky
Marie Antoinette tomorrow! Lots to do today. But still some linkytime:
Kittens inspired by kittens
via badjelly: a sweet song about when your ex wants to friend you on Facebook
GI Joe: this movie made by Hasbro uses the old action figures as actors – the animated faces are creepy though. Meanwhile, this movie about the private lives of the Joes and their Cobra enemies is amazing, not least for the cast. Seriously, the cast on this thing is INSANE. Check out who’s playing Duke fer chrissakes!
Ed advised us of a BBC radio show of music in made-up languages
Seen this in several places, most recently in Brother Moose’s linkies, and it is worthy of further sharing – Bobby McFerrin demonstrates the pentatonic scale:
World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale from World Science Festival on Vimeo.
let us now praise awesome dinosaurs
From Svend: their choice of photo models weirds me out something chronic
And finally… Harvey Keitel with some mermaids
Exciting packages!
Two friends have received packages of great awesomitude in the post in the last couple days:
Draw, who blogged the arrival of the international compilation Abstract Comics: The Anthology by Fantagraphics, which features his work.
And Jarratt, who on Twitter announced the arrival of the board game he created with Qarl, Endeavor, released by Z-Man Games (and hitting just in time for Gen Con)!
I can only imagine the buzz you must both be feeling right now. HUGE congratulations!
Call me Neo-Malthus
Greenpeace campaign fronted by noted Kiwi scientist Jim Salinger: “NZ needs to achieve 40% reduction in carbon emissions”
NZ govt, Monday 10 August: “Our target is between 10%-20%”
NZ govt, Tuesday 11 August: “but all you other countries better do 30%-40%”
Climate Action Network, Tuesday 11 August: “Will New Zealand name the countries it expects to do its share of the effort in its place?”
Don Nicolson, President of Federated Farmers, Tuesday 11 August: “Back in the early 19th century, Thomas Malthus published An Essay on the Principle of Population… The world was producing as much food as it ever could. The Greens would call it ‘Peak Food’… Neo-Malthusians can be seen in the anti-globalisation and green movements. Peak oil, peak food, peak carbon.”
Hot Topic, Weds 12 August: *cough*
Global climate system: “Taiwan suffers worst floods in 50 years”
Marie Antoinette on the Radio
Yesterday there was a great interview with Eric Dorfman, producer/director of The Affair of the Diamond Necklace, on National Radio Classic with Eva Radich.
You can hear all about the show here for another seven days. Listen closely and you will hear me getting mad props.
Tonight = dress rehearsal. Wigs and stockings ahoy!
Smashed plates and diamonds
Thoroughly caught up in the world of Marie Antoinette for The Affair of the Diamond Necklace, which is on Saturday evening.
Today, I smashed a plate by letting it fall from my head. That’s a new one. But the dances are going rather well I think.
There are still tickets to be had, if anyone is feeling keen. It will be a spectacular evening in every way.
But while the spectacle is being prepared, blogging will be light.