Just a concerned citizen...with wings.

Greatness

2011-05-10T17:52:01Z

"You don't become great by trying to be great. You become great by wanting to do something and then doing it so hard you become great in the process"

http://www.xkcd.com

New My Little Pony

2010-11-24T04:06:53Z

This show..I watched it and..i liked it! X-X

One of the most amazing things I have ever seen!

2010-10-14T14:46:13Z

"The dreaded question. "So, what's your Ph.D. research about?" You could bore them with an explanation. Or you could dance."

That's the idea behind "Dance Your Ph.D." Over the past 3 years, scientists from around the world have teamed up to create dance videos based on their graduate research. This year's contest, launched in June by Science, received 45 brave submissions.

Today, judges—including scientists, choreographers, and past winners—announced the finalists in four categories: physics, chemistry, biology, and social sciences. Each receives $500.

The judges will announce the winner next month at the Imagine Science Film Festival in New York City. But you can vote for your favorite now. We'll reveal the victor—and our reader pick—on 19 October.

http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010/09/dance-your-phd-finalists-announce.html

Below are my two favorite videos, but I love them all!

GOPHER GREAT JUSTICE!

2010-09-23T01:09:17Z

GOPHER GREAT JUSTICE! Help us 'Git R Done!' with cool rewards for you!
(please repost everywhere! :D)Zenkaikon Gofer Applications Now Open!

http://www.zenkaikon.com/blog/2010/09/zenkaikon-gofer-applications-now-open/

Superhero costume contest at Dragoncon? ITS ON!

2010-07-05T13:41:13Z

O M G!!!!!! I was already going to try to redo my Siryn costume to wear to Dragoncon in honor off the great Stan Lee (who will be there), but this? ITS ON!!!!

Dragoncon 2010 attempts Guinness Record for most people in superhero or StarTrek Costumes.. http://community.livejournal.com/dragoncon/2354662.html

Zenkaikon V Artist Alley Registration is Open!

2010-06-30T17:54:50Z

Please repost and spread the word!

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We are pleased to announce that table reservations for the Zenkaikon V Artist Alley are now open!

Zenkaikon has two Artist Alleys this year. The first is in the Valley Forge Convention Center, in the same hall as the Dealer’s Room, with 36 tables. The other is in a large hallway of the Scanticon Conference Center, with 10 tables. Table cost is the combination of one table ($42) plus one three-day convention membership. Artists may also register two additional “Artist Helpers” per table.

Further Artist Alley information and registration are available on the Zenkaikon artist page.

http://www.zenkaikon.com/vendors/artists.php

We look forward to seeing all of our artists at Zenkaikon V!

Cat Roulette

2010-06-04T14:17:55Z

Attention all: Zenkaikon needs Staff

2010-05-09T16:11:02Z

Hey guys, if you have ever considered being a convention staff, my event needs you. We have openings in pretty much every department, and we will feed you, provide a hotel room with 24 hours worked, staff teeshirt and other benefits. I promise I'm a pretty good boss to work for. Just do your job and give me tastycakes. We'll be fine. ;)

Benefits include:
Working in a fun and friendly environment with other anime fans
Hotel room for the convention with 24-hours worked (will room with other staff members)
Convention badge
Staff T-shirt
Meals during con hours
Access to the staff room
Being a crucial part of a Philadelphia area anime convention

Information and a web form can be accessed off this page.

http://zenkaikon.com/involvement/staff.php

HELLS YES FINALLY! Zenkaikon V!

2010-04-10T14:41:07Z

Hells yes! Zenkaikon V is March 18-20, 2011! And check out our mascots in their new Roman gear on the website!

http://www.zenkaikon.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=867

Sakura Sunday 2010

2010-04-07T13:39:50Z

Copying Darlene's status message cause I couldn't have worded it better.

Hey all, Just a reminder that Sakura Sunday (Cherry Blossom Festival highlight) in Philadelphia is this sunday. Come on down and visit us at our Zenkaikon/Delaware Anime Society Booth to play video games, enter a cosplay contest, or just say hi!

http://jasgp.org/cherryblossomfestival/index.php/Featured-Events/Sakura-Sunday-2010.html

This spring, from March 5 - April 17, Philadelphia's beautiful flowering trees will come into bloom for the Subaru Cherry Blossom Festival of Greater Philadelphia. A program of the Japan America Society of Greater Philadephia, the Subaru Cherry Blossom Festival of Grea...ter Philadelphia is an initiative to encourage a better understanding of the cultural, social, and educational customs of Japan and the United States. For hundreds of years, Japan has been celebrating the beauty of the elegant pink cherry blossom with picnics under the trees accompanied by traditional music and dance. Set under the blossoming canopy of Philadelphia’s cherry trees, our Festival is a chance to experience a centuries-old tradition that celebrates the fleeting splendor of spring like no other. Join tens of thousands in savoring the fruits of Japan’s rich cultural heritage before the flowers fall! The Festival benefits the JASGP Community Tree Planting Project, which seeks to beautify the Philadelphia landscape by annually planting and maintaining cherry trees in Philadelphia parks. In the spring of 2007, the JASGP finished planting 1,000 cherry trees to supplement the 1,600 flowering trees donated by Japanese government as a gesture of friendship in 1926. The 2010 Subaru Cherry Blossom Festival will span from March 5 to April 17, with the centerpiece event of the Festival - SAKURA SUNDAY - taking place on April 11th in Fairmount Park's Horticulture Center. Be part of a centuries-old tradition as we bring together the best in Japanese art, cuisine, dance, fashion, flowers, music and much more! Dozo, oide kudasai! We look forward to seeing you.

New Pixie Preview!

2010-03-10T20:02:58Z

Merry Christmas!

2009-12-25T16:20:59Z

For your entertainment, LASER KITTIES!
Made by the same people who did 'Engineer's Guide to Cats' so you know its quality

Thanks, Pete! Carl Sagan Featuring Stephen Hawking. "A Glorious Dawn"

2009-12-11T19:56:56Z

Symphonyofscience.com

I believe our future depends powerfully
On how well we understand this cosmos
In which we float like a mote of dust
In the morning sky

[Sagan]
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch
You must first invent the universe

Space is filled with a network of wormholes
You might emerge somewhere else in space
Some when-else in time

The sky calls to us
If we do not destroy ourselves
We will one day venture to the stars

A still more glorious dawn awaits
Not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise
A morning filled with 400 billion suns
The rising of the milky way

The Cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths
Of exquisite interrelationships
Of the awesome machinery of nature

I believe our future depends powerfully
On how well we understand this cosmos
In which we float like a mote of dust
In the morning sky

But the brain does much more than just recollect
It inter-compares, it synthesizes, it analyzes
it generates abstractions

The simplest thought like the concept of the number one
Has an elaborate logical underpinning
The brain has its own language
For testing the structure and consistency of the world

[Hawking]
For thousands of years
People have wondered about the universe
Did it stretch out forever
Or was there a limit

From the big bang to black holes
From dark matter to a possible big crunch
Our image of the universe today
Is full of strange sounding ideas

[Sagan}
How lucky we are to live in this time
The first moment in human history
When we are in fact visiting other worlds

The surface of the earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean
Recently we've waded a little way out
And the water seems inviting

A great calculus teacher

2009-12-09T19:52:06Z

see more Epic Fails

Christmas Card List Addendum!

2009-11-30T21:02:45Z

I'm leaving the post up
http://ramothhe.livejournal.com/715476.html

until Thursday, Dec 10 because I really want people to get their cards on time this year :D

Christmas Card/Holiday Card list!

2009-11-30T19:24:36Z

If you would like a card please comment here with your name and address, and if you would prefer a 'Christmas' card or a more generic 'Holiday' card.

This post will be left up until Thursday, December 10 to make sure people get their cards on time. (Hopefully! XD)

All comments screened. thanks!!

My Youtube Film Debut

2009-11-16T04:50:31Z

But let's not forget kawaii_nai, sangosama,annieacid,princessakiwi, deeblite and abunch more people. We filmed a parody film/short for the con to be played at opening ceremonies.

I SEE DEADLY BLACK TARANTULAS!

2009-10-26T03:18:32Z

A feat that I admire: Congratulations Geekdom

2009-09-11T21:07:25Z

A feat that I admire. 1000 people (903 people) gather at Dragoncon to perform the Thriller Dance and break some kind of record. Anime nerds, scifi-nerds, fantasy nerds, and all sorts of other nerds join together with The Burger King and a giant sequined glove for... one dance number of awesome. Congratulations geekdom. I salute you.

Thank you Deltaaaa!

2009-09-10T07:13:02Z

He made me a new FB userpic! WOOT!

I have now enjoyed the past 15.5 hours

2009-09-09T05:10:09Z

I have now enjoyed the past 15.5 hours as a PhD candidate. And it still hasn't sunk in that I passed my Proposal defense today with flying colors. Although, apparently, I have new priveledges I was never even aware of!

Me: I'm eating candy corns and candy pumpkins
B: well, you're a phd candidate, you are allowed to do that kind of stuff
Me: *laughs!*
Me: What, now I'm /allowed/ to ingest large quantities of dyes and fructose corn syrup but before I was doing it illegally? ;) hehe
B: it was just frowned upon

Disney buys Marvel, Robot Chicken does Dark Crystal

2009-08-31T18:40:36Z

To offset the sad news of Disney apparently buying out Marvel, here is something I thought was a hallucination when I saw it in the wee hours of this morning. It was not. Robot Chicken Presents: Dark Cryst-al, the Rap version. "What's up ev...erybody. This is Lil Jen, AKA MC GELFLINNNG!!!!"

Origin of Species Drinking Gama

2009-08-23T23:41:41Z

From a mailing list I'm on:

"A former student alerted me to the following (source is the Feb. 12, 2009
[Darwin Day] post on http://capacioushandbag.blogspot.com/):

I just invented the Origin of Species drinking game. Each player has to read
out a whole sentence from the book without stopping for breath. If they
can't do it, they take a swig and try the next sentence instead. If they
can, the book passes to the next player. It'll go like this:

Player 1: "Finally, then, I conclude that the greater variability of
specific characters, or those which distinguish species from species, than
of generic characters, or those which are possessed by all the species; that
the frequent extreme variability of any part which is developed in a species
in an extraordinary manner in comparison with the same part in its
congeners; and the slight degree of variability in a part, however
extraordinarily it may be developed, if it be common to a whole group of
species; that the great variability of secondary sexual characters and their
great difference in closely allied species; that secondary sexual and
ordinary specific differences are generally displayed in the same parts of
the organisation, are all..."
(Drink)
"All being mainly due to the species of the same group being the descendants
of a common progenitor, from whom they have inherited much in common, to
parts which have recently and largely varied being more likely still to go
on varying than parts which have long been inherited and have not varied, to
natural selection having more or less completely, according to the lapse of
time, overmastered the tendency to reversion and to further variability, to
sexual selection being less rigid than ordinary selection, and to variations
in the same parts having been accumulated by natural and sexual selection,
and thus having been adapted for secondary sexual, and.."
(Drink)

Let me know if you try it and survive."

I miss Daria

2009-08-20T02:13:11Z

Recently I bought the last Daria movie 'Is it college yet' and it had 2 unreleased episodes on it or something.

Principal: "Attention Lawndale students.."
Jane: "Is that the voice in my head that tells me to kill and kill again?"
Daria: "No, Satan's voice is lower and he has an English accent."

Jeffy or Jamie: "What does woe mean?"
Daria: "its like the feeling you get if the Superbowl was pre empted by Antiques Roadshow."

Jeffy or Jamie: "WHOA!"

Daria: "Exactly"

My new addiction

2009-07-28T16:43:46Z

Is watching this video. A coreographed entrance at a wedding to Chris Brown's "Forever"
Its like a live action musical in real life!!