Waving my freak flag

Yesterday I learned I work for Mr. Hamsterbuns...

2009-12-09T19:56:31Z

Ms. Gidget Waffletush loves Mr. Crusty Liverbuns!

(Gidget Waffletush is also very sweet on Falafel Bananafanny and Loopy Gigglefanny.)

Zombie immunity!

2009-11-16T22:21:07Z

In honor of Dexter, Darwin and other pups

2009-10-21T14:50:33Z

Just keep this in mind...

Free concert tonight

2009-10-10T19:15:03Z

I'll be singing tonight with the group "Just Voices" as part of the Emory Community Choral Festival.
The concert is free and features 4 choral groups from the greater Alanta area: Atlanta Sacred Chorale, Festival Singers of Atlanta, Just Voices, The Georgia Festival Chorus. The PDF of the program is available here.
If you don't like a lot of choral music, my group is performing 2nd on the program. :-)

Saturday, October 10, 2009 at 8:00pm
Schwartz Center for Performing Arts
1700 N. Decatur Rd.
Atlanta, GA 30322

Anybody want a sweet baby kitty?

2009-10-07T22:49:03Z

My Ex and her partner found this little guy last night...

http://atlanta.craigslist.org/atl/pet/1410986229.html

I <3 XKCD

2009-09-18T14:30:46Z

I love it when XKCD makes me go learn something new. Today's hover-text mentioned the Kepler mission, so I went to the interwebz to learn about it.
After posting a status about it to FaceBook one of my friends from work pops up with the fact that his wife works with one of the astronomers who developed the Kepler mission.

From Nature, Jan. 3, 2008 - Extrasolar Planets by Dimitar D. Sasselov.
His personal site is here: http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~sasselov/

xkcd.com - #638

So...sleepy...

2009-09-15T20:27:07Z

Dexter stayed with me Saturday night. It was so hard to get out of the bed Sunday with Darwin and this little puff keeping me company.

'sploded from cute...

2009-09-09T19:53:28Z

Dreamingofkittens.com - the folks at ICanHasCheezburger have created a site dedicated to pictures of sleeping kittens. Splode. From. Cute.

Velma and the gang make a major discovery

2009-08-03T16:23:06Z

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parakeet update

2009-08-03T03:24:55Z

I don't know if the owners came back for him or someone else took him in. Either way the parakeet and his cage are no longer outside the nextdoor apartment.

Abandoned parakeet

2009-08-02T12:22:51Z

Would anyone like a pretty little blue/white parakeet?

The family in the apartment next to mine moved out yesterday and just left their parakeet in it's cage sitting outside the apartment.

When I got home last night I saw they'd left it behind - and the cage was sitting in the rain.

I tried to bring him (her?) inside last night, but Darwin went nuts. I couldn't even leave the cage outside my apartment (where it would at least be up off the ground). I gave the bird fresh water and putting back in front of the next door apartment where it was out of the rain.

Free parakeet with cage - Anyone? Please?

I feel like Little Orphan Annie

2009-07-23T22:47:11Z

Sing with me: Tomorrow, tomorrow, I love ya, tomorrow...you're only a day away!

Tomorrow is National Tequila Day!!!!
If you're interested in getting together for Mexican food and margaritas tomorrow in honor of this auspicious holiday, let me know.

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Whippersnappers this Saturday - Microbondage demo!

2009-07-16T20:45:34Z

Come join us for the Whippersnappers Play Party this Saturday at 1763!
8pm - Doors open (http://www.1763.net/)
9pm - Demo: Microbondage with Archer and Elegant
10pm to 2am - Open plan

*Microbondage*
The simple laundry room S/m pevertable can be used for simple skin bondage and erotic edge play. Hang up your preconceptions about clothespins and learn about edgeplay techniques, medical info, dangers and different types of clippy things. Observe demos and experience hands-on activities.

*Archer*
*An equal-opportunity sadist!*

Leather, just the sound of the word gives a sense of the sensual power of treated skins. As a teen Archer started working with leather, the smell and feel of it had some primal effect on him. Even then the power images of leather had a part in his sexual fantasies, but the images of abuse held him back from exploring them. Leatherwork went by the wayside when he graduated and then went to Marion Military Institute and earned a Commission in the Army Reserve. His love of working with leather returned years later. That, along with the sensual images of his youth, led him to begin in Dallas, Texas in 1996 what he expect to be a life-long exploration of BDSM.

Archer’s relationship with his slave Elegant started in September of 1998 and prompted him to get more involved with the leather community. His immediate leather houseshold now also includes his girl, Renee and Boi Lane. Archer is a member of MasT-Atlanta, MAsT Southeast Region Representative, CORE-Atlanta, NLA-International, and a business member of NCSF. He is an Environmental Scientist and ‘out’ to his employer. Since moving to Atlanta in the summer of 2002 Archer has also been working to expand his leather and toy business, Fantasies In Leather. He provides educational experiences to groups large and small on subjects ranging from Fireplay and Microbondage to Exploring Your Leather Identity and Rites Of Passage. His dedication to the community and specifically in lifestyle education always leads him to new experiences.

*Elegant*

*A masochistic slave who also likes to make people squeal and squirm.*

Elegant began her leather journey in Dallas, Texas in 1997 and has been an active part of the Atlanta community since moving in 2001. She does not like being identified with a single label, as her identity is a blending of her life. She is slave to Master Archer, mother to two teens, PTA volunteer, leather crafter, bootblack, and co-owner of Fantasies In Leather and TLC Leather Care. Elegant is a member of NLA-I, MAST-Atlanta, Publicity Team Lead for Southwest Leather Conference, past Publicity & Marketing Chair for SouthEast LeatherFest (2004-2007), staff for International Community Bootblack, producer of Boot Camp Atlanta and was the creator of the Atlanta Fetish Flea Market. Her experiences have led her to judging opportunities at International Community Bootblack competition, Southwest Bootblack competition, SouthEast Master/slave contest and other leather contests. Elegant had the honor of being selected as Southeast Bootblack 2005 at Together In Leather and 1st Runner-Up at International Community Bootblack 2005.

Bootblacking and leather care are Elegant’s passions. She considers them services of love and an art form in which to express herself. She has a kinky love for extreme clothespin play, hooks and needles, deep impact opportunities and all things flaming and has led education classes on techniques and workshops of the mind with Master Archer. Her dedication to the community and specifically in spreading a positive awareness of D/s~S/m is a never-ending path to understanding her own life.

I hope BofA gave this guy a new card...

2009-07-16T14:43:09Z

The headline is NH man charged 23 quadrillion dollars for smokes.
"Josh Muszynski (Moo-SIN'-ski) checked his account online a few hours later and saw the 17-digit number — a stunning $23,148,855,308,184,500 (twenty-three quadrillion, one hundred forty-eight trillion, eight hundred fifty-five billion, three hundred eight million, one hundred eighty-four thousand, five hundred dollars)."

The article goes on to explain it was on a Visa card from Bank of America. Anyone else see the problem here? I'd be willing to bet it breaks down like this:

$23,148,855,308,184,500 (amount charged)
$2.31 (purchase amount) + 4885 5308 1845 00## (card number anyone?)

The last digit of the card number is a check sum of the preceding digits, so they likely just published this guy's debit/credit card number minus only ONE DIGIT. That's right - 10 guesses and you'll have this guy's card number!

Paleontologist meet Creationist, film at 11...

2009-07-02T19:05:22Z

Attendees at the North American Paleontological Convention took a trip to the Creation Museum.
The New York Times article about their visit is Paleontology and Creationism Meet but Don’t Mesh.

recommendation

2009-06-29T19:56:27Z

Does anyone have a recommendation for a neurologist?
I'm on day 9 of this on-and-off headache/migraine, and I'm listen to those who love me. It's more than time I saw a specialist.

Bragging on my brother

2009-06-29T16:05:59Z

I know I've mentioned him on here before, and I'm ridiculously proud of my brother.
In the past he's mentioned being part of work across several universities and disciplines working towards making bionic limbs possible one day. Today he sent me this link about their research that is being published later this week. Their work is fascinating, and the implications for further work and research are incredible - to be able to read brain impulses without placing receptors inside the brain itself. The University of Utah press release on their work is available here:
Reading the Brain without Poking It

This photo and caption appear with the article:

University of Utah neurosurgeon Paul A. House, shown here in an operating room, led a study showing that brain signals controlling arm movements can be detected accurately using new microelectrodes that sit on the brain but don't penetrate it. The tiny electrodes should last longer than those that poke into brain tissue, and may extend the useful lives of experimental devices to help amputees and paralyzed people operate robotic limbs or use thoughts to control a computer.

fuck, fuck, fuckitty, fuck

2009-06-08T21:45:10Z

Headache is coming back, and I'm heading home.

Please. Go. Away. NOW.

What does it really mean to be "open-minded"?

2009-06-02T21:56:56Z

An interesting and well done video on why being "open-minded" does NOT mean "uncritical acceptance" of others' beliefs.

Open-mindedness
Uploaded by totocacapouet. - Technology reviews and science news videos.

It sure isn't Aquaman!

2009-05-27T13:33:42Z

I LOLed, srsly.

may I have some air ATL?

2009-04-24T20:41:43Z

The ATL airport it packed with people, we're late boarding and it's freaking hot.
Sweet! Boarding time!

Art squee

2009-04-20T19:32:31Z

I purchased a lovely piece of marble art this weekend at the Dogwood Festival, and I just found the artist's website: TileTempo

Her work is amazing. The living warmth (or chill) of the stone was just amazing to me. I purchased a 12" x 6" female nude in a golden-brown marble. The exact design I have isn't shown on her site, but lots of other gorgeous designs are there. Be sure to check out the page of "large works"

I'd love to hear back reactions from metameric, playright and my other artistic friends!

I love science!

2009-04-16T15:19:18Z

Trust me...it's science!

They forgot Priscilla!

2009-04-07T16:29:16Z

Or the FAB-U-LOUS Queen.

Things that make me smile

2009-04-07T13:28:32Z

I just have to say that I can't wait to hear the results of Eric's fanboy roadtrip last night to meet Jim Butcher for the midnight release party of that latest Dresden Files book, Turn Coat.

I love my geeky book whore. :-)