Fairly Odd Parents

This is my favorite Chip Skylark song from Fairly Odd Parents (he's a teen sensation on the show, along with Britney Britney)



He's voiced by the 'Nsync dude with the dread-type hair (well, not anymore), here's the guy:

They also have constant guest appearances by:
Jay Leno as the Crimson Chin

and Adam West as himself and Catman:

CJ7

This is the trailer for the new Stephen Chow movie (the dude that directed/starred in Shaolin Soccer and Kung Fu Hustle), cool!

"The Ssiny Guy Always Worries"

Ack!

Threatdown: BEARS!

Here's my proud moment: I made the beige bear kit while traveling out of town, I guess it went quickly because it's pretty small (I'm a notoriously slow knitter - working on that). Here's my finished bear:

Yay bear! So I put it in my living room and had a Rock Band Rock Out night at my place. Some friends came by and one of the guys absolutely loved the bear, so he jokingly asked if I could make him a Goth Bear. I took him up on it:

Note the ear stud, dead eyes, moody hair and scarf, and Anarchy sign on his chest. He came a lot quicker than I expected so now I'm playing around with new bears to make (I'm open to ideas!Post them back as comments if you think of anything, anything!)

P.S. Before Gothy left home to live on his own with his very first (and hopefully only) roommate, he got in trouble with an evil Tyrannosaurus Rex:

I'm guessing he must have been annoyed at the depressive mood and self-cutting threats around the house.

Frilly Hat Mess

Yay! Here's the pic on the messed-up crochet hat I was making. Doesn't it look like a cool hat you would wear to something serious and chic? *snork

Something went horribly wrong with it, and I still can't figure out why. I'll keep researching though; any ideas?

Crochet Scarf Kit

Pink! and Purple! how much more 8-year-old can you get with a crochet kit? It has little beads on the edges and everything! Ok, so I'm definitely not 8, but if you're going to learn something from a book I highly recommend going with easy-to-follow instructions, which I mostly found in the kits I got.

Final result:

Girly!

Cake Decorating

This is my final cake from my first cake decorating class, it's made with a nasty buttercream that's good for beginners, so I didn't really want to eat it. I'm wondering if I can get a recipe from a neighbor lady from when I was growing up, her cakes were so awesome they're my standard best cake for ever and ever.

I like the flowers, but they kinda look like carnations rather than roses (frosting issues).

Fruitful Weekend

Ok, so the posts for last weekend's activities are on their way. I made a surprising number of things so before I move on I have to put them up.

In the meantime, here's a pic:

Click here for more Wondercon 2008 costumes.

Pancito

I made bread! First time ever, it made me feel surprisingly connected to the earth. The most basic of man-made food products, and I never took the time to make it myself. And it's so pretty! I made two loaves with this french bread recipe.

They turned out a bit deformed but I figure I rolled too much in the middle (tip: make sure when you're rolling the dough that it actually looks like a rectangle, if not this is what happens).

Thanks to Austin for the idea (the roommate of Goth Bear's new owner - more on that later).

Excuse Time!

Hi everyone,

I haven't been writing a lot lately, I have a ton of updates I should have made last weekend but here we are, me with the pictures and you without seeing them (as always). Here's my excuse: I've been working on stuff at home. But you sometimes post from work, you might say. These posts require picture placement, and it's hard do pretend to be doing something important when you're playing around with pictures of crafty stuff. And I'm in a conference room with my whole team sitting around me (I tried working on another terribly personal professional document in there this week, I did it Matrix style!).

I'll get these posts up this weekend, my new task for extra points!

SF Craft Links

Here's a bunch of knitting links I want to take a look at when I have time, here they are so I don't lose them:

• http://www.stashyarn.com/
• http://noeknit.com/
• http://www.articlepract.com/
• http://www.theknittingbasket.com/
• http://www.greenwichyarn.com/
• http://www.imagiknit.com/
• http://lacis.com/
• http://www.craftgym.com/
• http://knitty.com/ (Look at the Whimsies archive)
• http://www.simplycrafted.com/
  
• http://www.knittersreview.com/ (Online Magazine)
• http://www.knitscene.com/ (Magazine)
  

Books to Read on the Human Condition

Books to look up:

• The Lucifer Effect: Understanding how Good People Turn Evil, by Philip Zimbardo
• Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, by Hannah Arendt
• The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature, by Steven Pinker

Update on Crafts

Hey everyone!
Here's my update on what I've been working on this week:

• The hat kit I was crocheting ended up like a frilly yellow and pink coaster, which along with the fact that I ran out of yarn I'm figuring I messed up at some point. I'm looking for principles on how to crochet hats to figure out what went wrong. Status: On Hold Pending Review


• I started the bear and have almost finished making the body. I have very little left to knit, once I finish I'm going to put everything together and add the details. Status: In Progress


• I just started the pom pom scarf (yeah, yeah, laugh at the pom poms). The needles for this one are huge! Fun! Status: In Progress (and barely started)

That's it for now. Since I didn't post anything visually entertaining, here's a pic:

The guy in the middle looks like my dad.

Wolvie

" Wolverine: Origins" is coming too!!! Sweet!!! Haha, cool movie overload day!

Rumored characters on IMDB:
- Sabretooth, Wolverine's all-time main antagonist played by Liev Schreiber (kinda random pick)

- William Stryker, a christian televangelist reverend guy that's out to kill all mutants, played by Michael C. Hall (Dexter! or David from Six Feet Under! Awesome!)

Ok, I can't wait for this movie. AHMEGAAHD!

Indy

Happy joy people! Indy's coming out on May 22nd! Woohoo! We like Indy.

Dale a tu cuerpo alegria Mister Harry
Que tu cuerpo es pa' darle alegria Mister Harry
Dale a tu cuerpo alegria Mister Harry
Eee Mister Harry! Eeessooo!

As my ratties would say: "AAAH ME GAAAHD!"

Screen Cleaner

My friend Bobby sent me a computer screen cleaner, it doesn't look like it works very well but I'll take it any time.

http://www.linein.org/media/screen_clean.swf

Almost Got It!

Hey!

I finished watching Dexter Season 1 yesterday, they were so close! The season is great, but the resolution did not convince me. After I did my last Dexter post (here) I couldn't wait to finish it. The setup was awesome with the ice truck killer (Miami Slasher in the book), but then... they couldn't quite pull it off as well. Now I have an opinion, if you're going to read and see Dexter, finish the book first, and savor the setup. Try not to feel too bad for the ending because it's not as great as the book. And, oh, by the way, Deb is not so whiny as she is in the series (she won't stop complaining about stuff, grow a backbone lady!).

Issues

Ok, so here's the reason the blog is called the way it is. I tend to start projects and I'm all excited and want to get them done because it would be so awesome to do them. I finish one. I get even more excited about the prospect of doing new things so I start with another one, and halfway through that one I start another one. Then I find that there's a third project that would be great to do, so I forget about the first one and start the third. By the time I get to where I am right now, I get frustrated because there's so much other cool stuff I could be doing that I don't finish anything, which makes me even more frustrated.

My reason for this blog is to keep myself in check with projects that I start. So here are my current efforts:
- I'm going to knit a bear for a friend that asked for it, I already got the yarn and have the design in mind, I haven't started it yet.
- Kit: mini-purse and belt made of knitted Granny squares (this is the one I abandoned for the sake of another project)
- Kit: Crochet a mini purse and hat (I'm about to kick this one to the curb because of the next one on the list)
- Kit: Knit a scarf with two different colors and pom poms on the edges.

I did finish a couple of kits, I'll get pictures of those on another post (so I can show myself I can actually finish stuff!).

Dexter

This is the opening for Dexter, a Showtime series I recently started watching.

Ale, Ma - If you can rent the first DVD of the season, it's worth watching it on High Def, it completely tells the inner story of the main character, and the design is gorgeous.



The first season is based on book one of the Dexter series, Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay, which follows the life of a serial killer who kills serial killers. I just started season one which follows the first book very closely, so I'll leave it up to you to choose which you'd want to get the ending from; this is one of those rare cases where the book itself is an awesome read, and the series based on it is addictive and very well told.

From what I've read, the second season and second book (Dearly Devoted Dexter) are different stories, more Dexter fun for all of us! I "read" (on audiobook) this one too, I liked the first story better but in this one Dexter evolves as a character, and his relationships are explored more. It even gets to a point where you begin to make decisions like Dexter, because of "Harry's Code."

And in the middle of researching for this post, I found out a third book on the series came out last year! wooo! I have to go and see what Dex is up to in Dexter in the Dark. Happy murderous joy (of course, not for real :D ).


P.S. If you're interested in the inner workings of a sociopath, get a copy of The Sociopath Next Door, by Martha Stout. It's a surprisingly easy read, and it gives you perspective on how your boss' bosses might qualify as sociopaths... Even a soccer mom could be a sociopath.

WTF Post for Friday, February 8th

These dudes are all about the classic edge, they're taking string quartets in an interesting direction.



helicopters!

Books I'd Like to Read

• Birth: The Surprising History of how we are Born
• The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World
• A book I saw someone reading the other day about how the educational system forces children to learn to a standard and ignore their inherent abilities (I'll research that one)

Good Music for Work

I was working on a process flow for my presentation today, this song helped me through it:



It helps me concentrate and think.

Hey Everyone!

Hello people! Let's get this thing started, I'm pretty bad at keeping up with activities that I think would be cool to do but then never get around to finishing. I'll do my best and hopefully get some extra points for trying :) .

All right, so cool stuff for now:

• I did a good presentation at work just now, and it went very well! I'm happy because I look like I know what I'm talking about (yay!)
• I have a cake decorating class tomorrow, I'm hoping I can make it (if I have to show up with my luggage in tow I will)
• Blueberries are awesome

High five!