Lover of books, rats, and things that are nifty. Atheist, liberal, historian, scientist.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
The Starks
credits to owner
Arya + Tony = best fake sibling pairing of all time
So I finally finished the damn thing. It took me 2 1/2 weeks (it should have taken only one week, but a girl’s gotta work dammit). I won’t say much about it, because I can’t say much without giving away major spoilers (yeah, I could do a read more, but I don’t want to tempt those who have sucky willpower like I do).
What I will say:
- Jaime becomes awesome. Seriously, I almost forgave him for trying to murder Bran.
- Cersei - Ha! Hahahaha!!! You little shit.
- Dornishmen - we need more please and thank you.
- Arya’s becoming quite the little sociopath.
- Only one major death in this book, as opposed to the last book’s plot device of, “Oh, you like this character? DEAD!!! And that one’s pretty damn interesting, huh? I bet you want to see HIS ENTRAILS BECOMING HIS EXTRAILS!!!!!
- Apparently a lot of people weren’t too thrilled with this book. It’s not the best in the series, but overall I was quite happy with it.
little moose
The Compleat Ankh-Morpork
(Source: gadding-about)
Answer all these questions and you should have a fully-developed character for your audience to connect with.
A strong character can carry a weak plot; but a strong plot can’t carry weak charactersoh
my
god
yes
Ref
Brown Cow coffee yogurt
I WWANT THIS.
Ooooooh, Brown Cow is the BEST. My favorites are the maple and the chocolate (I haven’t had the coffee one).
Write. For more than three years I wrote more than 400 words every day. I mean, every calendar day. If for some reason, in those pre-portable days, I couldn’t get to a keyboard, I wrote hard the previous night and caught up the following day, and if it ever seemed that it was easy to do the average I upped the average. I also did a hell of a lot of editing afterwards but the point was there was something there to edit. I had a more than full-time job as well. I hate to say this, but most of the successful (well, okay… rich) authors I know seem to put ‘application’ around the top of the list of How-to-do-its. Tough but true.
Terry Pratchett (via mystmoon)
He likes to knock the food dish out and hang his head off one side and his man bits on the other
Oh my god that is hilarious!
boys. sheesh.
How to solve world hunger with pizza
The idea of a universal food synthesizer sounds like something straight out of the Jetsons or Star Trek, but thanks to a $125,000 grant from NASA, a 3-D food printer may become a reality.
Anjan Contractor, a senior mechanical engineer at Systems and Materials Research Corporation, is already working on bringing the idea to fruition.
NASA’s interested because storing the various ingredients as a power greatly extends their shelf life for lengthy travel through space, but Contractor wants to keep all of the recipes open source, so the general public could eventually benefit as well.
So how will the pizza be made?
Pizza will be one of the first items printed because of its natural layers of ingredients. First, a layer of dough will be printed and baked at the same time using a heated plate at the bottom of the printer. A layer of tomato base will follow — made of powder, water and oil — then a protein layer will top the pizza.
Read more over at the Daily Dish.
Photo: Cheryl A. Guerrero / Glendale News Press
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Defense Distributed, why couldn’t you have been “Dough Distributed”?
Apparently, Lucy will steal anything… Including my wallet.
lmao
Once, my first rat Max stole some cash I had lying on the bed, and when I took it away from her, she grabbed my purse and tried to hide it under my pillow.
(Source: poutdiva)
Moist shrugged. ‘Oh, all right. Of course, I accept as natural born criminal, habitual liar, fraudster and totally untrustworthy perverted genius.’
‘Capital! Welcome to government service!’ said Lord Vetinari, extending his hand. ‘I pride myself on being able to pick the right man. The wage is twenty dollars a week and, I believe, the Postmaster General has the use of a small apartment in the main building. I think there’s a hat, too. I shall require regular reports. Good day.’
He looked down at his paperwork. He looked up.
‘You appear to be still here, Postmaster General?’
‘And that’s it?’ said Moist, aghast. ‘One minute I’m being hanged, next minute you’re employing me?’
‘Let me see … yes, I think so. Oh, no. Of course. Drumknott, do give Mr Lipwig his keys.’
The clerk stepped forward and handed Moist a huge, rusted keyring full of keys, and proffered
Terry Pratchett, “Going Postal” (via twin-city-ankh-and-morpork)
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Lord Havelock Vetinari
The thing about Vetinari though, is that he has actually mastered the art of making the puppets pull their own strings.
