links and stuff.

[rmd]

more sleep! yay! feeling much better today.

assorted links i've meant to post here:

i came across this a while ago, but i just happened to read it again -- the RAND Pardee center lists 50 Books for Thinking About the Future Human Condition. I haven't read most of them, but I may have to check some of them out.

other links: metafilter post on Early Zionist propaganda posters. (I've got a soft spot for early 20th century propaganda posters -- getting a strong message across with a single image.)

if you liked the movie "Brick"[1], you can get the script online, now.

for winter fun[2], a nifty product i didn't know about -- "removable caulk", so you can seal the heck out of gaps in windows and such and then peel it off when it's spring and you want to be able to open the windows back up again. i just recently used up a bunch of it sealing up some windows in my house.

i may never be as awesomely fashion-enabled and styling as the aquabats. but they're fun to listen to.

interesting idea -- DIY chalkboard paint

[1] Brick was a totally excellent movie.
[2] where by "fun" i mean "trying to save money and conserve heat in a badly insulated 80+ year old house in new england..."

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[johnromkey.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you're feeling better! :-)

[rmd.livejournal.com]

thanks!

in completely unrelated news, i finally saw an episode of "the venture brothers" that the tivo had snagged. that's some funny stuff, right there.

[lionsburg.livejournal.com]

The Aquabats are still together?!? Wow.

I saw them in 1998 -- very high energy and LARGE (10+ members) band then. I didn't think they would last beyond 2 years.. good for them!

[rmd.livejournal.com]

yep.

WERS's children's music show ("the playground") plays their songs "pizza day" and "pool party" a fair bit, which is how i first heard them.

[dianec42.livejournal.com]

We saw them a couple of years ago in LA. They were awesome! But I should have laid some groundwork, as my husband isn't familiar with them and most of their songs have extremely clever words which were hard to hear.

When I try to describe them to my friends, I usually start out, "Imagine Devo, if there were like 8 of them, and they took themselves WAY less seriously..."

[istemi.livejournal.com]

for winter fun[2], a nifty product i didn't know about -- "removable caulk"

WOOOO! I know what I'm doing this weekend!

[2] where by "fun" i mean "trying to save money and conserve heat in a badly insulated 80+ year old house in new england..."

Isn't that what everyone means? PARTY AT MY HOUSE THIS WEEKEND! WOOOOO!

[jim-p.livejournal.com]

I too have to check out that removable caulk...

As for the chalkboard paint... Rust-Oleum makes this stuff and you can get it at the Orange Box. They also make a magnetic paint... it's got lots of iron powder in it and you can stick (very light) magnets to it after it's dried (think of fridge poetry). Several coats of the magnetic paint, then a coat of latex, and you can have a "poetry wall" in your living room!

[lyonesse.livejournal.com]

there's a lengthy and detailed article on making chalkboard paint in any shade or quantity in a recent (january?) issue of "martha stuart living".

(yes, that is why i bought it, why do you ask.....? :)

awesome!

[lara68.livejournal.com]

i gotta get me some of that removable caulk (and annoy my tenants with it next week)!

[flabosib.livejournal.com]

Glad you are feeling better. Some sort of plague has been working its way through our house. Meg got sick at church on Sunday (so she and I didn't go the Super Bowl party, bummer) and was home from school on Monday. After spending most of Sunday and Monday trying to make Meg comfortable, I was sick yesterday and now am trying dig my desk out from under the stuff that's been dumped on it for two days.
Sigh.

[flabosib.livejournal.com]

DIY Chalkboard paint--hmmm, maybe before the kid's birthday? Might make the party a little more fun.

Thanks for the link.
M

[evwhore.livejournal.com]

"removable caulk",

can we make caulk jokes again?

[istemi.livejournal.com]

Where did you get the Seal & Peel? Lowe's didn't have any. I was the second person to ask today - do you have some other reader in my town you're not telling me about?

[rmd.livejournal.com]

i got it at tags, in porter square.

if you're really desperate to be a shameless caulkhound, i have an unopened tube of the stuff i can slip to IH tomorrow.

[istemi.livejournal.com]

I won't say no... it's damned chilly in here tonight. Thanks!

[kjc.livejournal.com]

Careful about putting it on loose paint or uneven/broken surfaces.

When you pull it up in the spring, the paint or splinters or chunks o'wood WILL come up with it.

-Silicon caulk user since 1996.

[istemi.livejournal.com]

Like waxing, but for trim! Cool!