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Lets get gluey

Hey Scrapers (I mean scrap-book-ers, not people who get in fights).

Today’s tip is about glue! While this may not sound very exciting, you need glue to stick all the photos, newspaper clippings and extra bits and bobs into your scrap book (or books if you are anything like me :) lol). I like to use Uhu glue sticks. I’ve found that they stick quite well onto a variety of surfaces.


It usually only takes a single coat to get pretty much anything to hold onto the page. The glue stick doesn’t hold so well to material, so I’d suggest getting some fabric glue for that. One thing I really love about glue sticks is that if you look extra hard (try craft shops) you can find coloured ones. My favourite one is purple!

The glue goes on all fun and colourful, but dries clear so no need to worry about being super neat. As an added bonus the colour parts show you where you have glued already, which stops you from over gluing. Over gluing can seep through to the other side of the paper or make it go all wavy. You don’t really want that when you are making your scrap book.

That’s it from me, go and get stuck into it (pun intended).

Hi everyone

Seeing as I haven't posted anything since forever (lols! It hasn't been that long really) I've decided to make this page about scrap-booking. Expect lots of fun hints, tips and shots (that's photos) of my own s-books (that's scrap books of course!) over the next few weeks.

Thought for the day: Stay true to yourself and you can achive anything.

xxoo

Leo!!

Tomorrow I'm going to some Leonardo exhibition, not the ninja turtle but some other guy who is apparently famous for painting a picture of someone smiling, which is not all that special a thing. I'm pretty sure that heaps of people have been pictured smiling, even me. My mum saw that picture and she said it was small. Who am I to judge tho? Someone paid like $8000000 for The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, which I am pretty sure is just an embalmed shark.





In my science room in high school there was a bunch of jars filled with embalmed snakes and the like. If I knew they were worth millions of dollars I probably would have stolen them, been rich and content and gone to hell .





Leo, as he likes to called by friends, features prominently in this game Assassin's Creed 2. Ass Creed 2, as it likes to be called by friends, unsurprisingly features lots of killing (or assassinating). You, the player, play the role of “Guy in hood and half cloak” (GIHAHC) and go around killing people because they killed your family. That's pretty much the plot of Star Wars but I'm not accusing anyone of stealing. Especially as my millions were obtained through the illicit sale of embalmed science room stuff. Oh wait that never happened, leaving me desperately poor and lonely. Curses...

Anyway, Leo spends the whole game hanging around his workshop, building implements of death for GIHAHC, who in turn massacres everyone in Italy, then kills the pope. (Ha! Spoiled the ending for you, you kill the pope at the end. Not the current pope but some ye olde one.) It kind of bothers me that Leo hangs around with someone like GIHAHC. He always seemed like such a stand up guy. Or perhaps I am confusing the real guy with Leonard of Quirm. I think the exhibition has all sorts of models built of his stuff, like the ENNOGEHT. I've written previously of my likenessness of things that look like things but are small, so hopefully it will be good.

If I knew where my camera was I would post something of consequence.

Seeing as I don't know where it is, I will not post anything good. Sorry about that

Today I drank out of a glass...

The glass was both clear and blue at the same time. The top was blue and the bottom was clear, with a merge-y bit between the two. I estimate the glass held between 250 and 300 mL.

I often bite myself while I eat.

It happens no matter what food I am eating, usually occuring in multiple times in a small period. I assume that any initial biting causes a swelling within the mouth, which increases the chance of being bitten in the same area. Sometimes it bleeds. When it happens I say somemthing along the lines of “oh expletive deleted” and glare around with contempt of whoever happens to be in the room. I don't really see how it could be anyone's fault, but it might well be.

Maybe I just have weird shaped teeth. I am often accused of eating too fast but I don't think its that. If I wanted to I could eat even faster, but I like food to much to eat any slower. The activity of eating requires the balancement of the force of “I might die before I eat this chicken nugget” and the opposing force of “I only have one chicken nugget left”. The first pushes me to eat faster and the second to eat slower. My exact eating speed is determined by these two forces. I guess they might not balance (?), but I wanted to use the word balancement as it sounds funny to me. For me to eat slower, and not bite myself, I'd need less food, but if I get less food I will complain. So I'm not going to eat less food or eat any slower, not that that would help anyway, seeing as my whole point is that biting myself is not due to my eating speed.

Moral: If I am eating and bite myself, don't tell me to eat slower or I will point you too this post and you will suffer in your wrongnessness.

Oh hey, I own a Dr Zoidberg bobblehead! I forgot about that. Reading this blog is cool.

Salt and Vinegar Chips

I just ate some salt and vinegar chips and now my lips have that werid “I just ate some salt and vinegar chips and now my lips feel werid” feeling. I think that it is from the salt or the vinegar. When you eat other chips like “barbecue” or “lightly salted” you don't get that feeling, hey wait you don't it from lightly salted either so it must be from the vinegar, or from some combination of vinegar, salt, chips and whatever else is in chips. I figured that shit out while I was typing meaning my detective skills are even greater than that time Data dressed up as Sherlock Holmes to solve mysteries on the holodeck. Why don't they ever run into the walls when they are in there? The floor must be a big conveyor belt or something.




Why are salt and vinegar chips always purple? Who decided that? I have never seen a salt and vinegar chip packet that was colour different from purple. The chips aren't even purple! They are kind of a yellowy colour. I think a new scheme with darking shades of grey relating to how good the chips taste would be much better then the arbitrary one used today. Chicken chips will come with added poison to erase all people who like them from the gene-pool.

Scribblenauts

So I purchased this game for DS called Scribblenauts yesters. You have to write words, then whatever you wrote comes to appears and you use whatever you make to collect a star and beat the level! To use some 90's lingo, the gam is "rad". I played for six hours yesterday and another today already (it's morning now) and will play some more latter. You can do stuff like:

• Make an economist, give them a shotgun, make a liger, then they fight.
• Create a tux, tophat and pennyfarthing and ride it around.
• Get a sloth, glue a propellor to its head and fly around on it's back.
• Make a geographer get mauled by a pack of wolves

It's fun!

Marvel!

I purchased this game called Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 (MUA2). It is, to use a 90's adjective, rad. I've been reading comics on and off pretty much since before I could read but haven't really for the last six years or so. I'll occasionaly see some comic related movie and want to start collecting them again, but then remember how desperatly poor and handsome I am and think the better of it. Anyway...

MUA2 is rad, like you can be thor and smash shit up with your hammer, then switch to spiderman and web stuff, then change to gambit and throw cards at people, laser things as iron man, etc etc. Total nerdgasm type stuff. Zap, web, punch, smash. Words cannot describe.. well I guess they can as that is what I am trying to do here, I'm sleepy and can only think in cliches, sorry. Well not really. Ummm so yea.

It was so much fun it somehow it tricked me into subscribing to marvels digital comic service. It lets you read old comics that have been scanned on line. I've spent the weeking reading the ultimates, moon knight, ms marvel, silver surfer. It's been... good? I'm out of words, sorry. Oh yea, MUA2 doesn't have silver surfer in it, or the punisher, or magneto, so it's pretty much missing heaps of good characters. Also there are new ones in it who I had never heard of. It insults me that marvel dare invent new characters rather than use the same ones they've been using for the past 50 years.

I didn't even spellcheck this post, aren't you lucky

Final blog post

I'm stopping this blog to let me work full time with MR.CHAO WEI, Bank of China (Hongkong), which I assume is the name of the bank. In china they must give banks proper names to make them seem friendly. Also, MR.CHAO WEI, Bank of China (Hongkong) is emailing me with some kind of student account from england somewhere. I guess the financial crisis is affecting MR.CHAO WEI, Bank of China (Hongkong) so bad that he had to resort to using his old student email when he was a women named Natalie.

Anyway, I will be too busy handling my US$18,600,000.00 business with MR.CHAO WEI, Bank of China (Hongkong) to update this blog.

Goodbye for ever.

Finally after that I shall provide you with more details.

Like a Viking, touched for the very first time

I got some mead. I have never tried it before and it was at the shops so I bought some. I think it's a cool drink cause of the Vikings used to drink mead and the Vikings are pretty cool for dudes with long hair. It was originally made buy getting girls to put honey in there mouths and spit it into a bucket (or whatever the Vikings used for buckets). Then it sat there for a while and eventually turned into mead. Or so a book I may have read told me when I was little. The website of the manufactures says “It is the essence of Mead and a stand-alone fortified drink. Mead at its absolute best!”, but it didn't tell me how to drink it so I'm thinking a glass.



I think it smells like jim bean, gross. Maybe a little spicy too. It looks pretty much like any other spirit type drink. Taste is pretty weird, not too unpleasant, rather sweet and spicy. I don't know how much I could drink as it's kinda thick. (My evocative descriptions doing anything for you?) I'll probably go the pansy route and mix it with lemonade.

That first picture is maybe a little small

One whole year!

This blog has been has been around for a whole year, I feel like a proud mother. So many good times. Remember that month when I updated more than twice, good times good times. To celebrate lets play a fun game! It's called...

Romulan or Australian Politician!!!!


It's easy, simple guess which of the following are Romulans, the bad dudes from beyond the neutral zone, and which are Australian politicians, the bad dudes from Australia.

Number 1

Number 2

Number 3

Number 4

Do, do, do, do (I don't know how to write game show music but that was my attempt)

Times up.

Did you guess number 4? If so then you are correct!!!!
If not then too bad.

Number 1: Don't let the haircut fool you she is human under there, it's Senator the Hon Penny Wong, Minister for Climate Change and Water

Number 2: This is a tricky one as she is actully half Human and half Betazoid, but not Romulan. The picture is from an episode were she had to get surgically altered to look like a Romulan.

Number 3: Perhaps the hardest one to pick, but it is form Prime Minister John Howard. I know, I know, the scowl and eyebrows, but the Romulans are not evil enough to produce anythign as vile as WorkChoices.

Number 4: Is Romulan!

Well wasn't that fun.


Satire or spitefulness, you decide

Coraline

I went to see some Coraline movie in 3D at a place far away because all the movies here are too old to be able to play 3D movies. You get to wear silly glasses and get a headache, it's great. Like being drunk without the benefit of feeling like the most witty person alive. While there I found everyone's favorite decapodian in bobble-head form.



I don't really know why I have to buy stuff this. It must be some kind of deep-seeded emotional and psychological problem that manifests itself through the purchase of plastic crap based on cartoons and star wars. Plus the packet looks pretty cool, retro-futurism type stuff. The sides of the box tell us that it is "Amazingly life-like for a chunk of plastic" and that "the brain slug who controls you says to collect them all". Which of course doesn't make sense as the brainslugs in the show never actually talked to the person they controlled.



"We favor unusually large subsidies to the brain slug planet" The others seem to be Leela, Fry and Bender. At the places I looked there was no bender and the other two did not look so good. Hence the buying of only Zoidberg.


Can you even read the back? Maybe if your eyes are better than mine. It's not very funny so I wouldn't bother. Here he is out of his shell, but still in his shell (ha!).


He looks kind of cross eyed and wonky so I'm going to keep him in his box. What I really like about him is that he reminds me of my favourite Futurama episode "The Farnsworth Parabox" which includes, amongst other things a breif foray into a parrel world populated by bobble-headed poeple.

Squirrelcat lives!

I found a new species of animal that I have named the Squirrelcat (squirrelus catyus). The Squirrelcat is about the size of a squirrel and has a light grey colouration sometimes accompanied by a mottled pattern. It has the head of a kitty and a bushy ail like squirrels do in cartoons. I haven’t seen a real squirrel this week so I don’t know how realistic they are. Running along both sides are skin flaps which squirrelcats use to glide and generally make themselves hard to catch. If one is managed to be caught they often omit a purring sound, not unlike a regular cat or Simba from The Lion King. If you wish to catch a glimpse of a squirrelcat then you must only attend the dream I had a few days ago.

I went back to school shopping.

I was planning to put pictures and stuff up here from my recent back to school shopping, as school goes back in 2 days, but as I only bought some blue pens and a note book I think it is below the admittedly not very high 'interest threshold' that is in place for this site. My pencil case is broke so stuff falls out of it which is not that good for a thing which should hold things but all the ones for sale at the store I went to were crap. Whenever I get an exciting one with batman or spiderman or something they always break cause they are cheap and dodgy and the only plain ones were blue (do I look like a boy?), pink (do I look like a girl?) and purple (do I look like a girly boy?). I think not.

PC Gaming

I've just started my uni holidays and thought I'd give an oldish game another spin. I put the disc in over an hour ago and it is still installing/patching. I guess when it final runs something else wont work, so I'll have to fix that too.

I am reminded why I bought an xbox.

I invented something..

 

It’s a device for allowing me to sit around and watch cartoons all then time. Sometime there could be non cartoons, but not that often. It can also detect what kind of mood I am in so as to provide the exact thing I am after without me even thinking about it. Then I could just sit around and do nothing and that would be great.

I discovered this thing http://www.abc.net.au/iview/# the other day (click that it is a link). It has shows from the government or something and there is some good ones and lots of bad ones. My idea is basically they get rid of all the bad ones and replace them with good ones.

 

I’m so freaking smart.

The words ‘best biscuits ever’ are thrown around allot these days…

 

But I feel entirely justified in saying that I made the best biscuits ever. (I made six typos already, poor efort) I also feel entirely justified in saying it was me and me alone who made these biscuits possible. Two whole trays full.

 

As the pictures illustrate, they are the best biscuits ever.

 

They were easy to make too, ever for a regular person who isn’t as great as me. Just lollies, icing sugar, water and milk arrowroot biscuits. I know what a milk is but arrowroot? Some kind of a root I guess. One known for it’s arrow-like qualities. If I were to make a history of the arrowroot it would go something like this:

 

A long time ago, when the might tyrannosaurus rex  stomped around smashing junk, a cave man named Thesel found some root in the ground and decided it would go well with the bow he had invented that morning. Thesel fired his bow and the arrowroot hit the trex. As roots are no good weapons, the blow only annoyed the trex who preceded to fire his laser beams at Thesel. The laserbeams cooked Thesel and also there was a cow there who made some milk and then a biscuit was made somehow. The trex, being not so creative in the naming department, called the new biscuit the ‘milk arrowroot’ biscuit due to is milk and arrowroot nature. And so the story of the arrowroot is told, and you know that it is true as it was written by me.

It’s like midnight and I feel I should post something

 

Pretty self explanatory, if you read the heading anyway. I have a couple of ideas for post lined up but am not doing them now as I am lazy. One involves Star Wars toys I got a while ago and the other is about how all Australian politicians look like Romulans from Star Trek. Both involve pictures and junk that I can’t be bothered to do now. By junk I mean words, not anything to fancy. Both will be awesome, you can pretty much just imagine the most awesome thing you can, like a lion riding a.. hah! I saw the funniest thing on tv the other day. It was an olde timey bike for the ladies, in the penny farthing era but it had two little wheels on one side and a big one on the other.

 

 

Who comes up with this stuff? The olden times  were pretty funny really. What kind of thought process goes through ones head when inventing weird sideways bikes? Why not make it symmetrical unless they were trying to amuse people 200 years into the future. I guess that is a possibility. Go and invent a time machine and find out for me.