Bath LitFest 2012.
I am actually interested in going. Click on the logo for the pdf events brochure.
Vagina hypnonsis? Dowsing? Intrigued public burns to know. lulandia via Ugly Renaissance Babies (from Agostino Carracci’s Satyr Mason)
I have no idea what is going on here.
The doormat by Tori LaConsay (she of the H&M copyright infringement case). Was available on Etsy direct from the artist, but looks like it sold out now.
Cute.
Nice.
I DON’T KNOW!
Oldie but goodie: a Gizmodo correspondent does not know what a universal plug looks like.
Edit: Actually, I wanted to include some egregious highlights in my tumblr post, for easy reference. Where do I start? Why not from the original title which reads “Ancient Chinese Socket, Huh?”.
And then we are treated to this delightful scene:
“I’m draining the last of my iPad’s battery busily not getting on Twitter, which is banned—which I knew, I guess, but it’s still strange to have a website actually just be turned off—and my doorbell rings. In comes a bellhop, complete with a power strip which will convert one three-prong Chinese sockets into…four more three-prong Chinese sockets.
I grab the iPad’s charger from the desk and go through the motion. “I need this,” I say with extremely precise enunciation, which makes me hope he doesn’t understand English at all, because then he might find my clean consonants and Von Trap vowels actually insulting, “To plug into this,” and I act like I’m going to plug the AC adaptor into the Chinese socket.
The bellhop looks at me. He looks at the power strip. He looks at the adaptor for my iPad.
He takes the AC adaptor from me and plugs it into the Chinese socket. Those two up-and-down slots at the bottom of the socket? For US power plugs. Work just fine.”
GRRM on Snudays: Sansa in the Red Keep by Kali Ciesemier
(via jesic)
And it is important that the individual books refer to the civil wars, but the series title reminds us constantly that the real issue lies in the North beyond the Wall. Stannis becomes one of the few characters fully to understand that, which is why in spite of everything he is a righteous man, and not just a version of Henry VII, Tiberius or Louis XI.—
George R. R. Martin
von-liechtenstein says:
(Interesting choice of monarchs to compare Stannis to, particularly since everyone is obsessed with comparing him to Richard III.)
There are as many introverts as extraverts, but you’d never know it by looking around. Introverts would rather be entertained by what’s going on in their heads than in seeking happiness.—
By Laurie Helgoe, Ph.D, Psychology Today
Let me get this straight.
Should I take from this quote that introverts are not inclined to seek happiness? Or that the only legitimate source of happiness lies outside one’s inner world?
WTF people.
Pretty up any parcel with ribbonesia
Suitcase chair, yeah yeah.
It’s not like she does anything special. But everything about her interiors feels just right to me. I could move in tomorrow.
