June 20, 2009

Galactic Center of Milky Way Rises over Texas Star Party from William Castleman on Vimeo.

April 25, 2009

Cat vs. Big and Little Boxes

The videos of this little cutie were found thanks to Will:





And here he is being such a sweet boy considering he's almost as big as the lady holding him and he could easily take on Godzilla. Looking at him you can here him say "C'mon lady, not the ears, not the EARS!!"



attack of the killer belly!!

Randall's 100 Top Novels List

- Which Have You Read?
I checked (✓) the one's I've read and put those I've seen as a movie in italics.

( ) A Canticle for Leibowitz – Walter M Miller Jr
(✓) A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
( ) A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
( ) A Farewell To Arms – Ernest Hemingway
( ) A Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne
( ) A Passage To India – EM Forster
( ) A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man – James Joyce
( ) A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
( ) A Time to Kill – John Grisham
(✓) A Walk In The Woods – Bill Bryson
(✓) A Wrinkle In Time – Madeleine L'engle
(✓) Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
( ) American Gods – Neil Gaiman
( ) And Then There Were None – Agatha Christie
(✓) Animal Farm – George Orwell
( ) Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
( ) Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
( ) Casino Royale – Ian Fleming
( ) Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
(✓) Charlie And The Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
( ) Clear And Present Danger – Tom Clancy
(✓) Count Of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
( ) Deliverance – James Dickey
( ) Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick
(✓) Doctor Doolittle - Hugh Lofting
( ) Don Quixote – Miguel De Cervantes
( ) Dracula – Bram Stoker
( ) Exodus – Leon Uris
( ) Farenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
(✓) For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
( ) Foundation – Isaac Asimov
( ) Frankenstein – Mary Shelley
( ) From Here to Eternity – James Jones
(✓) Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
( ) Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
(✓) Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
(✓) Hamlet – William Shakespeare
( ) Heart Of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
( ) I Robot – Isaac Asimov
( ) I, Claudius – Robert Graves
( ) Illusions – Richard Bach
( ) Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
(✓) Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
( ) Lonesome Dove – Larry Mcmurtry
(✓) Lord Of The Flies - William Golding
( ) Moby Dick - Herman Melville
( ) Mort – Terry Pratchett
( ) Neuromancer – William Gibson
( ) Of Mice And Men – John Steinbeck
( ) On The Road – Jack Kerouac
( ) One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest – Ken Kesey
( ) Rabbit, Run – John Updike
( ) Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
(✓) Romeo And Juliet – William Shakespeare
( ) Shane – Jack Schaefer
( ) Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut
( ) Something Wicked This Way Comes – Ray Bradbury
( ) Stranger In A Strange Land – Robert Heinlein
(✓) The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
( ) The Andromeda Strain – Michael Crichton
(✓) The Bible
( ) The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
( ) The Call Of The Wild – Jack London
( ) The Catcher In The Rye – J.D. Salinger
(✓) The Chronicles Of Narnia – C.S. Lewis
( ) The Color Purple - Alice Walker
(✓) The Complete Sherlock Holmes – Arthur Conan Doyle
(✓) The Dune Trilogy – Frank Herbert
( ) The Fountainhead – Ayn Rand
(✓) The Grapes Of Wrath – John Steinbeck
(✓) The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
( ) The Handmaid's Tale – Margaret Atwood
(✓) The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy – Douglas Adams
( ) The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
( ) The Hunt For Red October – Tom Clancy
(✓) The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint- Exupery
( ) The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy – J.R.R. Tolkien
( ) The Name Of The Rose – Umberto Eco
(✓) The Old Man And The Sea – Ernest Hemingway
( ) The Once and Future King - TH White
( ) The Red Badge Of Courage – Stephen Crane
( ) The Screwtape Letters – C.S. Lewis
( ) The Shining – Stephen King
( ) The Sound And The Fury – William Faulkner
( ) The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
( ) The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
( ) The Trial – Franz Kafka
(✓) The Wind In The Willows - Kenneth Grahame
( ) The World According To Garp – John Irving
( ) To Kill A Mockingbird – Harper Lee
( ) To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
(✓) Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain
( ) Under The Volcano – Malcolm Lowry
( ) War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
( ) Watchmen – Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
( ) Watership Down – Richard Adams
(✓) Winnie The Pooh - AA Milne
(✓) Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
( ) Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance – Robert Pirsig
( ) 1984 – George Orwell

April 3, 2009

Did you Know

March 22, 2009

Buggy Moral Code

March 14, 2009

Dude w/ Camera Eye

March 5, 2009

Benji & Lacey Schwimmer

February 16, 2009

Edwardian Ball 2009

These are some pics from The 2009 Edwardian Ball held in San Francisco. If you'd like copies or to see more pics of guests who put my costumes to shame (below is just of Sat night's event- it lasted all weekend; more pics are pending from Noelle) follow the title link above to the main and/or photographer's website.

Me

Nancy and Aaron

Me

February 15, 2009

Toga Info

The toga, a distinctive garment of Ancient Rome, was a cloth of perhaps twenty feet (6 meters) in length which was wrapped around the body and generally was worn over a tunic. The toga invariably was made of wool,[1] and the tunic under it often was made of linen. After the second century BC, the toga was a garment worn exclusively by men, and only Roman citizens were allowed to wear the toga. After this time, women were expected to wear the stola.

Follow title link for more details on:
1 History
2 Significance
3 Varieties
4 Modern usage
5 References
6 External links

February 5, 2009

Coraline Interview

(click on the title above to go to the interview with the movie's director)