shanmonster | Link Dump, and a Surprise Ending

Auswahl von Arbeiten: I'd linked to some of these fantastical knitted thingermabobs a while back, but this gallery has even more to view. Before today, I'd never seen knitted leg braces or knitted dentures in a cup.

World's Top Tennis Stars at Burj al Arab: "In preparation for the Dubai Duty Free Men’s Open, tennis legend, Andre Agassi and the world No. 1, Roger Federer, couldn’t resist the temptation to have a friendly knock about on the world’s highest tennis court, the helipad of Burj Al Arab, the world’s most luxurious hotel." I get the spins just looking at the pictures. Yikes.

Zenra Ballet II: NSFW. "Ah the ballet... A wonderful performance art filled with culture and beauty." And bukkake.

ACM-R5 Amphibious Snake-Like Robot: "Powered by a lithium-ion battery, the ACM-R5 is a radio-controlled amphibious robot designed to move like its real world counterpart. It can slither or swim underwater for 30 minutes on a full charge."

Glaucoma Hymn: This broke my mind. I just don't understand how or why this came to be (thanks,

warren_ellis).

7yr.old Revolutionary Poet Riles School: "7-year-old prodigy, Autum Ashante, unleashed a firestorm when she recited a poem she wrote comparing Christopher Columbus and Charles Darwin to "pirates" and "vampires" who robbed blacks of their identities and human rights." I don't necessarily agree with the kid, but I sure wish the people I worked with were this smart.

Bill Napoli is spelled A-S-S-H-A-T: Probably NSFW. Smart Bitches are trying to do to Bill Napoli what Dan Savage did to Rick Santorum.

Now THERE'S a couple that knows how to fight!: Guns, knives, and bombs were involved. "Espinosa told reporters he was glad his wife had suffered burns, while Contreras said she was only sorry she had not 'hacked off his manhood' during the fight."

Ancient Sex: NSFW, even though it's classical art. Sometimes, Greek urns are naughty, naughty things. "You..er...see here, there's some hanky-panky of sorts..and, uh, um...well, they really had a different religion from us."

And now for the news. It's official. I shall be moving to Kitchener next month. No more call centre for me! Woohoo!

Current Mood: relieved

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Congrats on leaving the call centre!

What will you be doing in Kitchner?

That was me.

I don't know, but I had to try to avoid answering the proverbial bajillion questions from the mom unit. I played dirty, I distracted her by letting her talk to the future son in law.

I fully expect to get inundated soon enough, but not as much as you will be. Hmm. I wonder if they'd be willing to rent us the truck so I can get some stuff there? Otherwise, I'll be bussing it.

I'll be moving in with

zero_design and

snowy_kathryn, looking for work, teaching dance, dancing, DJing, and working on getting my personal trainer certification. I hope! We shall see which order these things shall transpire in.

Sweet! That puts you within an hour! Beer's on me. :)

But but but I don't like beer! How about a Strongbow instead?

Isn't that apple cider? Hmm.. It doesn't look like beer, but maybe when it's in a glass..

Scotch instead? *grin*

Yes, it's cider. It looks quite a bit like beer--flat beer, that is.

Scotch is nice, too. Single-malt?

But of course.. Is there another type? *grin*

I'll just have to feed the beer to Foo sometime. :)

Hey, so how long till Foo comes to the armpit of canada, anyhow?

Maybe 8-9 months?

Not too bad, but tis a long time without wife.. Ahh well, when you get here, we'll have to head out so I can buy you the beer that shan turned down. :)

Kitchener is much closer to london than NB is. :)

FREE BEER?!?! -teleports-

:-)

And yes, we'll hook up for sure. Shan says you do photostuff, eh? Got gallery?

Got many gallery.. Shoot e-mail to kevinnicholls@gmail.com and I can send over a couple samples...

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I assume it has to do with Social Darwinism, something that was tossed quite a while ago.

I guess she didn't get the memo.

Maybe it's because he's a Dead White Guy.

Or maybe it's the Social Darwinism. Who knows what goes through the minds of 7-year-old Black Panther geniuses?

Congrats Shan. Best wishes for a future away from stupid customers.

Thanks!

Hey! Congratulations for escaping call center hell!

I used to live in Kitchener, and I really loved it, especially the weather. Unfortunately, I only lived there for a year.

Thanks! I hope I like it, too!

Augh! I am NEVER going to meet you! I hope you have a good time in Kitchener, though. Best of luck!

D'oh! I'm sure we'll meet somehow, and somewhere, but how and where remains to be seen.

Congrats!

And that knitting site... those wacky Germans.

Though I admit, I *did* like the unicorn impaling the teddy bear. ^_^

I love it all! I can't believe I still don't know how to knit. I'm such a failure.

I've been to Burj Al Arab! ...well, okay, I've been outside it, 'cause they won't let you in if you're not staying there. It's supposed to look like either a sailboat or a surfboard- I can't remember which- and there's a second hotel shaped like a wave right next to it.

For more Dubai-based hedonism, check out Ibn Battuta Mall (http://www.ibnbattutamall.com/). It has six or seven malls inside it, all based on different countries or regions. (They have the same crap as every other mall on earth, though- Aldo and all that.)

Dubai is a crazy place, isn't it? I think the streets are paved with platinum, there. They'd have used gold, but it's a hot country, and gold melts at too low of a temperature.

It really is. There's no value placed on interesting or original things- the concept of vintage shopping would leave the Emiratis with the most dumbfounded looks on their faces- it really is all money, money, money. It's such a new nation, too- when you drive into Dubai from the desert, all you see at first is a sea of construction cranes because they're building at such a fantastic rate. To be honest, even though there's less to do, I much prefer Abu Dhabi.

The Emirates can also be accidentally hilarious- I went to Wild Wadi, a waterpark in Dubai, and bought a coffee mug with several dancing cartoon Arabic men on it under the caption "Fundamentally fun!" It's like, I know what you mean, but...damn.

Sadly, the streets are only paved with concrete, but it's really expensive concrete.

Oh, and Al Jazeera is one TV channel above MTV. Go figure.