Physics is fun!  Physics is cool!  Get your geek on!

Also check out Boba Fett’s Flashdance send up:

Three leaves or four leaves?  Not as momentous a decision as picking our next president, but Ababsurdo.com  has already covered that one.  So which do you like better?

I’m trying to decide on a quilting pattern for this little quilt.  It looks like the leaves will be appliqued, but actually I’m going to quilt the outline of the fern leaves.  The photos look unfocused because the leaves are on top of the Golden Threads Quilting Paper.  You can draw your design on the paper, pin it to the quilt, sew along the lines, then tear away the paper.

P.S.  Mark thought I looked pretty funny, standing on the dining room chair, looking down to take these pictures.  Good thing I had the camera!

Dr. Martin Campion, well-known wargamer and game designer, announces that a single sheet of paper he discovered in his filing cabinet between two conventional wargame magazines has just sold for $18,000 USD. Read the whole story to find out what this single paper was all about.

This typed & mimeographed item was from April 1970, entitled “Domesday Book #2″. This brief publication (not to be confused with the original census of Britain, AD 1086) was the newsletter for the IFW / LGTSA* wargame club of Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. It is of great historical import since it contained early drafts of the club’s first ‘house rules’ for medieval wargames (1:20 scale), which were compiled as “Chainmail” (published first by Guidon Games and later by Tactical Studies & Rules), which in 1973 produced a spinoff, the Dungeons & Dragons game. (And the rest, as they say, is history.)

(* International Federation of Wargamers / Lake Geneva Tactical Studies Association)

Study hard …

Dave flew back to school today.

Thanks, Nink for picking him up. 

Now we know where he lives.

In which our guest-blogging heroine discovers that sometimes less is more, and that a little surgery is just the thing. The knee socks for Bubs are too big in the feet.  Aargh!  Mouse says, “just take them apart, and reknit the feet.”   The middle segment shows the sockectomy in progress*.    The end pictures show Bubs wearing Franken-Sox and the Maquis wearing Sox-zilla.  How convenient for Mark that the too-big sock feet were the perfect size for him.  How convenient for Pooh that he likes short cuffs.  Onward and upward to the Olympics scarf which is in the colors of the Swedish flag.

*Technical notes:  (Jane, you can skip this part.)

I put the top stitches on a size 0 circular knitting needle and the bottom stitches on embroidery thread using a darning needle.  There were three rows between them. Cut one stitch, just one, between the safety lines.  Unravel the knit stitches between the safety lines all the way around.  Take the leg part and start knitting off the circular needle and back onto the size 2 dpns.  Reknit the foot.  Repeat for second Franken-Sock.  Put foot part on circulars and start knitting the new cuff.  Repeat for second Sock-zilla.

Acknowledgements: Yay to Mouse for the time saving suggestion!  Yay to Fran for letting me copy instructions for a sock pattern.  (I didn’t have mine, b/c I was already done w/ the tricky parts, don’t you know!)  Yay to Gloria’s Happy Hooker for advice, needles, and yarn for patterning the new cuffs!

I went to Jilly’s Cupcake Bar tonight.  We have from upper left to lower right the following:

Jilly On The Beach- Madagascar vanilla cake infused with vanilla syrup, stuffed with key lime custard, and topped off with a mango cream cheese frosting and a kiwi buttercream.

S’murtle- Chocolate devil’s food cake infused with chocolate syrup, stuffed with marshmallow buttercream and topped with a chocolate ganache, drizzled with dulce de leche, praline pecans, a toasted marshmallow pretzel stick and a chocolate dipped graham cracker.

Twisted Red Velvet- Red velvet cake infused with chocolate syrup and stuffed with caramel praline filling, topped with cream cheese icing, cinnamon caramel buttercream, toasted pecans and a pecan praline

Carrot Cake – Carrot cake with pineapple and walnuts infused with cinnamon syrup, stuffed with vanilla whipped cream, topped with vanilla cream cheese, toasted coconut, white chocolate shavings, candied carrot sticks.

Carmelita- Chocolate devil’s food cake infused with chocolate syrup, stuffed with carmel, topped off with dark chocolate ganache, carmel, white chocolate buttercream and a carmel kiss.

Chocolate Thunder- Chocolate devil’s food cake infused with chocolate syrup, stuffed with dark chocolate ganache and topped with chocolate and white chocolate buttercream, white and dark chocolate shavings and a marbled chocolate bark.

The cupcakes are in honor of Bob, Nink and Andrew who are arriving in town tonight.  This is Bob of all those political rants, Nink (Noreen) his wife and Andrew their son.  Andrew is starting college this week at Fontbonne University.