Mood:
lazyNow Playing: OMD-again!
Topic: Web Insanity
It snowed again. A bit over ten centimeters. Now the question is: do I let the sun take care of the snow? or: do I let my son take care of the snow? Choices choices.
I now have a cut, seamed, cased and boned outer shell of a corset. It's a simple under bust to high hip style. There's nothing too complex about the belt style corsets, it's mostly fiddly detail time consuming work. Next I must make a backing for the corset out of bias cut broadcloth, for stretch, and then sew the two halves together, turn them right side out through a hole in the center back lining seam and then stitch up the center back seam. Oh yes, add a strip of hook and eye tape to the center front. Turning a corset is much like turning a cardboard cereal box inside out. There are a couple options for making the corset so it only needs to be turned from the top seam and the bottom is edge-stitched after turning, but I think the other way gives a cleaner finish. And I think on some level I enjoy the frustration of turning cardboard boxes inside out.
After yesterday's anne geddes bunny baby LOLCat mash up, I received a link to this article from england about the world biggest bunny. Amy, the bunny, is somewhere around 42 pounds, if I can convert british stones to pounds correctly. That's one big bunny!
Also from the world weird web comes this site from somewhere in europe: advertising versus reality: packaged food. This site compares pictures on the packages of processed food with photos of what actually comes out of the package. The labels all show plump, fresh veggies, ooey gooey caramels and chocolates, soft moist cakes, flaky fish fillets...while the reality is, to put it mildly, far more disgusting. They sell some very odd packaged foods in europe. The one that floors me is currywurst, near the middle. Soaking bratwurst in curry sauce does not turn a german favourite into an exotic treat from the streets of Bombay. bratwurst in curry sauce...excuse me while i hurl. to be fair, currywurst is the one food that looks most like the picture on the box! The other stand out is the one that looks like someone pooped in the rice pilaf both on the box and in the box. ICK!
It's very difficult to find much to say about WalMart that isn't negative. However even the evil empire has it's good points. Sometimes the evil ones can be the heroes, as we can read in this article from The Rolling Stone: Wal mart says CD"s are overpriced, wants wholesale cost lowered. They are correct, there is no reason that CD's are so expensive. Before anyone says anything about MP3's I offer my comment on music quality of most MP3's I'm sure you aren't losing any sound quality from the 96 bit rate you prefer. I, on the other hand, find 256 a bit lossy at times. Who's the music snob now? The plain truth is that if the music industry wants more people to buy Cd's then they need to lower the price. If they want to discourage free peer to peer, then stop charging us 20 dollars for two good songs and ten pieces of crap. Ten dollars is far more reasonable. The thing that really killed music? The death of the single. Seriously. When the single disappeared, that's when the music business ran into trouble.
There's a Fark cliché, "bacon, is there anything it can't do?" It was recently spoofed in a CSI Lab Rats episode where Catherine said "Trace, is there anything you can't do?" in one of Hodges' fantasies. If he isn't the quintessential farker... So Back to the bacon, Bacon, is there anything it can't do? It can even make a spiffy little serving cup, as we see in this little web tutorial Imagine serving caesar salads in bacon bowls! To quote Homer: MMMMMM Baconnnnn!
Tree Jewelry. I kid you not. Beaded adornments for your tree. Tree Jewelry. Don't you have better things to do with your money? The things you can find when Untitled document and jewelry art are your google search terms.
One last thing: a paper-craft make your own Ceiling Cat. If you know fark, you know what ceiling cat is watching you do every time you do it! Full sized jpeg here!
I now have things to do. like make a ceiling cat, bacon cups and finish a corset! Later!
