April 17, 2008 Archives

2008/04/17 21:44:57

behold

I submitted something to Nedroid's caption contest. Gaze upon its beauty!



Text lifted from Bal Sagoth's "The Splendour Of A Thousand Swords Gleaming Beneath The Blazon Of The Hyperborean Empire (Pt. III)".

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2008/04/17 17:22:01

uptime, how I shall miss you

I just restarted my computer for the first time in 149 days.

A moment of silence for my dear departed uptime.

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2008/04/17 01:31:04

there goes 35 bucks

So I just got the "3D Lenticular Print" version of Theodore Gray's celebrated periodic table poster, and I must say, I am disappointed. The Periodic Table Table site itself is excellent, and I have yet hear bad things about the element sample business he runs on the side, but this poster is an expensive gimmick. The sample photos don't really "appear to stand out from the surface of the paper", (at least to mine mortal eyes) and the poster itself came in a rather large box, with piles and piles of bubble wrap.

It's a poster! You can't just put it in a big envelope? I wouldn't have much to complain about if all this was cheap, but the poster itself was $25 and shipping was another $10! Not worth the money. Not recommended.

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