So I’m up in Framingham tonight and the house is FREEZING. Why? Because I didn’t realize the automatic heater thing was set to stay at 55 while Emily and Brian are away for the week. It’s now midnight and it’s finally heating up enough to where I don’t need my coat on.

Philip K. Dick: “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.” [Quotes of the Day]

Maria-sama ga Miteru (Lady Mary is Watching Over Us) has easily become one of my favorite shows of the recent season. I stumbled upon it when new episodes were coming out and stared watching knowing nothing about it. 20 minutes later I was hooked. The show takes place at the Lilian private boarding school for girls and revolves around a first year student named Yumi. One tradition on campus is that older students will take a first year as their little sister, and that is what most of the story revolves around. The show has a nice leisurely quality to it and the main character can be just so much fun to watch. The animation is also beautiful, definitely one of the more nicely animated shows I’ve seen. I give it two thumbs up. My only complaint about the series is that I just finished watching episode 12 and discovered it is only going to be 13 episodes.

For some reason in one of my dreams last night I was baking my shoes and I’m really not quite sure why. But I was happy that they got some nice scorch marks.

From Gizmodo, a revolutionary new mousepad.

AUGH!!!

Such a good show, but, just, AUGH!

Via jenett.radio, and without any extra comment: The Circus of Disemboweled Plush Toys

I adopted a cute lil’ ninja fetus
from Fetusmart! Hooray fetus!

Here’s a nifty little OS X program that was mentioned on Forwarding Address: OS X. It’s called Quicksilver. I have many friends who love a program called LaunchBar for launching things, but for some reason it never really clicked with me. But there’s something I can’t put my finger on about Quicksilver that I like. It’s got some really slick features in there. Even if you are a LaunchBar user you should check it out, it’s free (and still beta, so be warned).

I also found a handy tutorial for Quicksilver while reading through the forums.

Kasia posted about cooking (in reference to a post on Jeremy Zawodny’s blog) and included a nice recipe to try. I’ve long thought that the reason most people think cooking is such a bit deal is that they are afraid of it. To me that’s the fun part of cooking. Trying out a recipe and seeing if it works. Cooking also doesn’t that time consuming.

The thought that just popped into my early morning, pre-coffee brain is that many people look at cooking a lot like how they look at using the computer. I’m not fully sure what that means, but maybe coffee will help (mmm, Dunkin Donuts).