Random Thursday (ˈrandəm ˈTHərzdā): the day on which Sarah plunks down all the odd bits and pieces she’s been sent by friends or has otherwise stumbled upon this week in an effort to avoid writing a real post, the assembly of which usually ends up taking twice as much time as sitting down and creating actual content.
Yep.
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I don’t remember who sent me the link to Maggie Stievater’s collection of
Novelist Error Messages.
But thank you!
(Click on the images for the rest of them—and follow her Tumblr while you’re there, ’cause she’s Maggie Stievater )
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Fractal Pancakes!
Nathan Shields of Saipancakes can make pancakes look like anything.
You want Santa’s Reindeer?
You want Sports?
You want the cast of the Hobbit?
You want a seriously delicious Time Suck?
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The True Meaning of Christmas
As seen through the eyes of an older sibling.
Yeah . . . That’s about how I remember it, too, but I thought I’d check with Jane, since the memory would be more recent.
She just sighed, shook her head and walked away.
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I Don’t Care, as Long as it Covers My Nose.
A fabulous knitmare of a FaceHugger, by Knitrocious
I’m serious about the nose thing—though I did finally let my hair grow out enough so I don’t have to choose between taking out all five pairs of earrings or risking frostbite this year.
I don’t have a pierced nose—the beauty of small, bulbous potatoes cannot be further enhanced even by the careful placement of a single jewel, plus I wear glasses to write—but there’s a wind chill advisory going on right now, and on the five minute walk between the library and my car, most of that advised wind blew straight up my nostrils and into my brain.
Guh.
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The Beauty of Mathematics in Motion
“Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty — a beauty cold and austere, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music.” —Bertrand Russell
Speaking of “rightly viewing,” WordPress apparently won’t allow me to embed Vimeo anymore, so if you want a full screen that isn’t fuzzy—and I highly recommend it—here’s a link to the original, by the brilliant Yann Pineill & Nicolas Lefaucheux.
You can see the sugar cube hit the caffeine a lot better that way.
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*Please for to note the exactly order of the last two descriptors. Thank you.
Earful of Cider 