Chicago bound

Last night my sisters were nice enough to help me hunt for my Snurch & Procure gift (think Yankee Swap) for the Farscape Anonymous meeting on Friday. (They are so nice!) We found something that made me very happy and will hopefully make someone else very happy as well. *g*

We also bought a bag of Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans and yes! there are flavors like earwax, vomit, and grass mixed in. (Don't think about it.) Actually we had a fantastic time hesitatingly testing the jelly beans! *eg* My mom, a big Harry Potter fan, volunteered to be the guinea pig. Her first jelly was the earwax. Undaunted she tried another and was rewarded with toasted marshmallows. She also informed us the cherry, blueberry, apple, and banana were good, and that she didn't care much for the sardine. *g*

Well, I'm off to read emails and continue last minute packing of things.

This weekend should be fun!

To those 'Scapers who can't make it to Scaper Con you won't be far from our thoughts! and I promise to take lots of pictures!

This link is my contribution to the Pirates of the Caribbean mania. *g* ... Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, ...

GIP

Okay, well, maybe this doesn't qualify as an icon, but it's a gif which is close enough. *g*

In honor of Scaper Con 2003 here is a lovely gif I created of me and Gigi Edgley at SFX November 2002. (well, okay, the purpose of this post is really to show off the gif I did, but it does relate to Farscape, doesn't it?)

Enjoy!

Chicago

Just a few more days & I'll be in Chicago. Please send good thoughts my way on Thursday afternoon and again Monday afternoon as I'm on my way home. I promise to post a ScaperCon report when I return. :)

omg! Ping Pong in the Matrix Universe! (thanks, Micky for the link!) Very cool! You have to check this out!

and yet another link, courtesy of Jody :) Random Name Generator ... mine is Tamma Tiara (insert my real last name here) or Demeter Lyndsey Duchovny-Browder depending on your point of view. :p

Day Off

The plan was to go to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum but once we arrived at the Boston Common, my mom decided she'd rather take a ride on the Swan Boats. So we headed over to the Public Garden, bought a bag of peanuts in the shell for $1.00 and took a nice ride on the swan boats for $2.50 (good deals all around!).

Afterwards we walked past the Tadpole playground in the Common and then the State House. We took a round about route through Bowdoin Street to reach City Hall Plaza and continue past Boston City Hall to Faneuil Hall marketplace. There we were greeted with the acrobatic antics of Daredevil Chicken. They were hilarious! and very talented! :)

I saw some cool Kangol bucket hats for sale and almost bought one, but all they had was black and pink. Why couldn't they have blue or white or green? :(

We entertained some children by feeding french fries and peanuts to the seagulls. They seemed to prefer the french fries. lol

On our way back to South Station we passed by the Brigantine Formidable and picked up a schedule. Click here for online information. Not far away was docked the tall ship Jeanie Johnston, an Irish barque. You can find an online schedule at the Jeanie Johnston's official website.

Finally, to end our adventure, a nice, cold dish of Mint Patty ice cream from Ice Jack! (yum!)

Aficianado Girl post

I'm not just a fan but a Farscape afianado! (hee hee)

Tiriel's adventures as Harvey

Kerlin's Comic Con tales

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totally non-fan girl links below:

Irregular Orbit: ookworld's wobbly satellite points you to some interesting blogs and has a multitude of fun little links to follow!

summer time means ice cream!
Ben & Jerry's
Haagen-Dazs
Turkey Hill ice cream recipes
History of Ice Cream

I didn't know there was a list of the top 100 historic sites in Norwood. Live and learn!

and for good measure, since my sis is trying out the Boston-NYC Chinatown bus service ($10) today -- Chinatown Bus Lines!

Okay, now I really have to get back to work so I can be home in time for a very important phone call. *g*

Packet Trade

Much information on The Cape Verde Packet Trade can be found under Special Programs at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth's website.

References to the Mathilde or the packet trade in general are found in the links throughout this post. The term "packet" refers to "a regularly scheduled ship which carries cargo, mail, and passengers." The Portuguese men (and sometimes women) of the "packet trade" traveled back and forth on ships from different Cape Verde islands to New England, especially Cape Cod and New Bedford.

1943 (August 23). A group of men from Brava, some born in America, risked a clandestine Atlantic crossing aboard the packet Mathilde and set sail for New England in the middle of World War II. They planned to secure emergency relief supplies and immediately return to Brava. The Mathilde was lost at sea with all hands somewhere near Bermuda. Chronological references: Cabo Verde/Cape Verdean Americans

Brava, CVI

A famous ship in the Cape Verde packet trade was the schooner Ernestina. Read more about her here.

The Move to Paradise

Rarotonga or Bust: Mark Frauenfelder and Carla Sinclair's move from LA to the Cook Islands is now a weekly feature in LA Weekly. Their first installment is here!

You can follow their adventures at The Island Chronicles.

side note: I got a raise! woo hoo!

Another fan girl post

Okay, there are sooo many wonderful reports on Comic Con out there, including mesascaper's! Farscapeweb.com has a great two-part report on Comic Con.

Okay, back to work for me!

Another Icon!

Lookie here at what I found as I was perusing the LJs! I have another beautiful SACoC icon courtesy of the icon goddess kernezelda.



(tee hee)

I found this on the Save Farscape site. It's a message from Heather Henson, a member of the Henson family to the fans of Farscape. *cheers*

Also at Save Farscape there are more links to pics from Comic Con., including a reort from our very own kerlin. *yay, Amanda!

Yes, this has been a total fan girl post, but many of my posts are like that. Farscape fandom is now a part of my life. :p

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Okay, we're a bit teary-eyed from "Love Affair" and are now going to watch "An Affair to Remember" (for comparison). We are a glutton for punishment. *sniff*

Quiz Junkie

The following is shamelessly snurched from Lorance.




Jolly good, wot! Anyone for tennis? That'll be ten ponies, guv. You're the epitome of everything that is english. Yey :) Hoist that Union Jack!

How British are you?

this quiz was made by alanna

And on the same site,

What X2 character am I?




Which X2 Character Are You?

Hey! and the outlook for Farscape is looking brighter every day! :)

Pics from ComicCon ...
Frell Me Dead's Pics of Farscape Panel
Ian Smith's web site

and a report from Mesascaper on her LJ -- read all about it here.

Just another Saturday

I received an ecard from my sister (thanks!) on July 14 for Sister's Day. I'd never heard about it, so I did a search on the net & saw it listed on August 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, depending on whose site it was. Very interesting. ... Then I went to the home page on this computer and saw this article: France bans the use of the word "e-mail." Bizarre. So, then I decided to do a search on the web and find out what other weird or unusual things were happening in the world.

Here is what I found.
News of the Weird reports weekly on the strange happenings in the US. You can search by state, too, and I found the following among news reports for Massachusetts. Maybe it was a slow news day?
1994 -- In April in Easthampton, Mass., a four-foot-long iguana got free from its cage in a car being driven by Joann Colby, causing her to lose control and allow the car to fall down a 25-foot embankment. She and the iguana received only minor injuries. In nearby Northampton, Mass., the next week, another iguana left its terrarium on a jaunt through Sheri A. Dilks' apartment and en route, accidentally triggered an alarm that brought firefighters.

Bizarre News reports on weird news from around the world and also lists unusual holidays. For instance, did you know ...
July is National Ice Cream Month?
July is also National Hitchhiking Month?
July 18 is National Ice Cream Day?
July 19 is Flitch Day? (um, what's a "flitch"?)
July 26 is All or Nothing Day?
July 27 is Take Your Pants for a Walk Day? (I suddenly have visions of Nick Park's "The Wrong Trousers")
July 29 is Cheese Sacrifice Purchase Day? (huh?)

This Is True takes stories off of Reuters and from other sources. It's a weekly publication with links to sample stories, like the 40 year old woman who's marrying herself. (is that legal?) Commentary's included.

A news article about cloning woolly mammonths from The Guardian in the UK. I don't know how reliable The Guardian is or if it's a tabloid, but why would you want to do this is the first place?

Oh, and this one from the BBC regarding claims that lasagna is British in origin.

And lastly, NewsBop! has a host of odd news headlines from around the world with links to the full story. One of the stories listed has to do with Europe's favorite pastime, another with the subway performer arrested, with his cat, by NYC police. Also, of note is the Armed robbers steal bags of rubbish story.

I learn something new every day. ;-)

Bloggers Anonymous

Blogging is addictive. It really is. I didn't understand how much until I gave it a try. Amanda had warned me, but I hadn't taken her seriously. In fact, I was told about this months ago by Micky, but like many people, I said, "Blog? What's a blog? Oh, that's nice," and never fully realized how nice it is.

Someone I know checked out a site of mine awhile back (just a personal site, not a blog or anything fancy) and told me it was cute. She "likes fan sites." That statement made me pause. Fan site? Well, I suppose I'm a fan of myself ... Another friend checked out my blog recently & replied with "I don't get it. Isn't it just a website?" This led me to explain that a blog is an online web log, etc. Later another friend admitted she hadn't checked my blog out yet because she thought it might be too personal, as if she were reading my diary, and wasn't sure how I'd feel about that.

... well, anyway, ... almost everyone has a blog these days, and it's a great way to stay connected or share your point of view (etc.)

As an example, check out The Homeless Guy. I found the link over at Pro Blog (which is a blog about, well, blogs). There's also blog maps for certain areas, like New York City or London or Washington, D.C. Hey! There's even Bananas Foster which posts recipes to their blog. Oh! and a list of Boston Blogs and more is out there on the net as well.

Enjoy!

Drabble Goodness

Well, my SACoC drabble is now complete, for better or worse. Comments are welcome.

Ooh, last night we watched some of The Duel, from the same people who did Storm Riders. You can read a review of The Duel here.

And finally,

Some links to share:

Erica & Jessica's 1999 Cruise to Bermuda: no, I don't know them, but their site brings back memories from my first cruise *g*
In Memory of a Scaper: Alex Stansky
IGN FilmForce article: is it Rumor or is there some truth to the article?
Troy and Nora Fan Fiction: noralaura's latest installment in the Troy/Nora fan fiction series
My Pet Skeleton: I still love to visit this site after all this time!
Wacked USA: a puzzle site
Moccu.com: from the creator of Yenz.com
Johnny Clegg Dot Com: official website for singer Johnny Clegg
Ashley MacIsaac: official website for the Cape Breton singer

Random poetry?

LJ Random poetry is goin' around ... unfortunately, I can't create any because I don't have a paid account (free LJ for me!), but it's a cool concept. It creates a poem out of random content in your live journal. If you have a paid live journal account and want to check it out, you can type in your username at Patrick's LJ!

Or just use the form below! (found on his lj) Enter your livejournal username and click "Go"!

Username:

I had an invitation for going out to dinner with my family, but I'm still at work, so no dinner for me! *sniff*

There's more I wanted to post, but I'm trying to get out of work soon, so I can go work on my drabble.

*sending happy thoughts to Amanda (lucky girl) at Comic Con while she interviews the guests! you'll be awesome!*

Não quero trabalhar

I'm still curious as to what "le moing" is in French. "L'habit ne fait pas le moing." Could it be slang for perfect? Practice doesn't make perfect? oh, I dunno, doesn't matter.

I wanted to post something up beat about how much fun I had Saturday at the Farscape Viewing Party, but my mind is in a fog, so I'll do that later.

So instead, a link to the SACoC Meeting hosted at fbf's journal where you can read all sorts of fine drabble and enjoy. Be forewarned, the fics are *not* G-rated and involve JC in various states of leather. *g* (also, I was often reminded of the DMB while reading many of the drabbles *beg*)

'Scapers, enjoy.

and to my non-Scaper friends, what are you waiting for?

Ramblings

Still no Drabble in Progress though I read many a fic online at Leviathan for inspiration.

Friday night, watched Cutthroat Island with Geena Davis and Matthew Modine. Such great names the characters have ... Mordecai Adams, Morgan Adams, Mr. Shaw, King Charles (the monkey). "Bad Dog." It's a really fun pirate movie full of humor, adventure, swordplay, a kick eema heroine & her damsel (Mr. Shaw) in distress. (hee hee)

Previous to Cutthroat we watched the 1960s version of H.G. Wells' The Time Machine. It is a *far* better movie, imo, than the recent remake, despite the fact that the Eloi are all, um, well, so "blonde" (literally). Why is it that the special effects of this version seem to outshine the CGI effects of the remake? I had more fun watching our hero travel through time in his machine this time around.

While on the topic of movies, I'd like to recommend the Chinese film Hero, a sophisticated tale, wuxia pian style, of love & intrigue (though not necessarily in that order). I especially enjoyed the way it was filmed, the choices made in the filming, such as the use of color to tell the story. Maybe I can rewatch it next weekend now that we have it on DVD.

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On the genealogy forefront, a Bermuda journalist contacted me because of a post regarding the shipwreck of the packet Mathilde. Turns out he has access to some papers from 1943 and has offered help in researching the shipwreck if I can get him a more specific date! Progress comes to those who are patient. *bg*

On the home front, Daddio's having a grand old time with his new DVD recorder/burner. I've been asked to request some movies from him. What to choose? Ah, decisions ... *g* Grandma's still in rehab ... frelling incompetence by those frelniks at the hospital .. for over two months this has been going on, paying for the doctors' mistakes *grumble*. Little Olivia West is settling in by all accounts. Sherbert's applying herself to her studies. Tracy's okay, and Matt's eye is okay, and I have to remember to visit little Angel soon. *g* Let's see ... Gno's business seems to be booming. Glen's on the road. Josephine's getting ready to move. Silvie's in the midst of wedding plans (no folclorico for me, per Silvie). Linh's got AC in her coolio apartment. Haven't heard from D in awhile, so I don't know what she's been up to. Sheila is ... where is Sheila? Wonder how Jeefa and Missy are doing, especially in this heat.

*sigh* hardly get to see anyone anymore -- never enough time in the day

ah, but tonight is the Farcape Viewing Party, so that should be fun (though no ice cream for me this time).

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conversations from my looking glass world

Naturally, I overslept this morning and woke up a half hour before the first patient was scheduled .. and took the shortest shower in history .. and ran to work .. to find out that Laura had opened the office for me & was already there. lol


"I'm alive, and you're alive, and we're alive together."
-- Mr. Shaw to Morgan, Cutthroat Island

8th Grade Math

Found this at msn.com

Could you pass 8th grade math?

I was relieved to find out that, despite the fact that it's been many years since I was in 8th grade I could still pass the math ... barely. *g* I got 12 out of 16 questions correct. Woo hoo!

I had starting packing for Scaper Con, but now I must clean and disinfect my suitcase over the weekend, then start all over again. Wonder why? Read all about it here.

... and tomorrow is a Farscape Viewing Party! yay!

... and my hair shall be snipped appropriately for the summer weather!

... and somehow I must still tackle my drabble for Sunday. You'd think 100 words would be simple, wouldn't you? *sigh* I must now admire my icons in the post below for inspiration.

Ooh, icons!





Just a little test to see if I can show off my lovely new icons, courtesy of icon genius kernezelda. I am the SACoC Supranavel Engineer, btw, in charge of John's Black Tee. Just ask feldman! I've also recently discovered what a drabble is and must now set to work on my DIP (drabble in progress). So, for anyone who's keeping track, I'm a SACC, FA (Farscape Anonymous), honorary PPR (I think), and now SACoC member! *phew!*

And last, but not least, if anyone wants to visit my video (and some of you already have) on Dallascaper's site (Farscape Fantasty.com), he or she is more than welcome to. The direct link is here. While you're at it, be sure to check out the other vids and the fan fiction and art as well. There are some amazingly creative Scapers out there! :)

Games

Links to some online games:

Pigeon Poo: This one is much harder than it looks. Try as I might I could not score one point for Walter Pigeon.

Orisinal: Morning Sunshine: A collection of really cute games!