http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

Mission Audio (and extra info) feed from the upcoming launch (currently at 80% chance of "Go", 23(ish) Minutes until T-9 resumes).

With moving pictures!

Found via a story clackadackia linked to...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YGc4zOqozo

The thermometer in our conservatory has run out of numbers... It's over 50C in there at the moment.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0027ISIZC/

The 90s animated Spider-Man has finally been released... Have been waiting for this for years!


*buys*

http://www.nhscampaign.org/briefings-and-documents/who-cares-by-amanda-steane.html

No, really. Read it. It's not fun, it's not pleasant. But you should read it.

Now that the_ladylark and I have been living in our house for a while, we've decided to start getting it how we want it. We discussed what would be our preferred things to do, and it came down to three main things. The drive, the kitchen, and the garden. Good and Bad points were discussed about each, and we finally came to a decision. The result?

We have a new kitchen!

( More under cut, including a few pictures. )

the_ladylark is watching Wimbledon this week, and just said this gem...

I do prefer to watch the Men's game, especially when the Williams Sisters are playing.


Well I found it funny. :)

Warning: possibly NSFW if people read over your shoulder.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMi776jah1w

Absolutely class...

Update: and this one had me laughing like a nutter. :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4n--IXg6HY

Sorry to all you people who lose hours of time because I've linked to TV Tropes, but I've just found this page in the wiki regarding Cricket Rules. So funny. :)

For those of you who have facebook, you may wish to investigate the settings > languages options.

Go on, pick "English (Pirate)" as a language... :)

That's gotta be painful.

In other news: The Anfield maintenance man will be working overtime inspecting and repairing both crossbars...

The album "The Sleeper" by The Leisure Society is extremely good, and you should go buy it. Also, Brooke Waggoner's album "Heal For The Honey" is very worthwhile. Lastly, The Mummers. Absolutely brilliant album called "Tale to Tell". Buy all of them if you can.

If you want comparisons for genre-related pigeonholing, or to work out if you'd like them, I keep The Leisure Society in the playlist that includes bands like Semisonic, Starsailor, and Turin Brakes. (the_ladylark is particularly reminded of the Turin Brakes song "Stone Thrown" from Ether Song.)
Brooke Waggoner is under the same genre playlist as Regina Spektor (Best match I can think of at the moment are the songs "On The Radio", and "Fidelity".)
And the Mummers are just awesome, vocally sounding a lot like Bjork in her smoother phases, and musically like an orchestrated big band. (Can't really describe it better than that. Just listen to http://www.last.fm/music/the+mummers/_/March+of+the+Dawn and you'll see what I mean.)

My dentistry visits are now complete... My broken "root canal" tooth has finally been repaired. After 5 visits I now have a crown on the tooth and a normal feel to my toothline.
(I say normal, it actually feels wierd not to have a half-tooth in my mouth.)

"Thou shalt not fuck around with the ball when thoust be in or around thine own penalty area"

If only a couple of people paid attention to it this evening, I would be a lot happier.

Since we moved into our place there's been a tree stump in the front lawn. Not too noticeable, but it does make mowing the lawn a tad awkward. Removing it from said lawn has been in the circular tuit file since we moved in.

Today was the first "garden day" of spring, where the garden was scarified and raked, the dandelions were decapitated, and the grass was given a haircut.

As it was nice out I though I'd finally go look at the options available for removing the tree stump. The internal vote was to go get StumpDoom - the Big Stonking +5 Axe of Thwack - and his smaller brother Hatchett Jack. After a few minutes of Mad Axmanship Skillz I had a stump with quite a lot of it missing. Jack then joined in the massacre and I got it to a point where I should be able to remove the main body of the stump using StumpDoom. A couple of swings were used to loosen it, before one final meaty swing embedded itself very firmly into the stump. I was then able to use the axe to pretty much lever it up and get a handhold under the base.

Following a bearlike roar, a ripple of muscle, and a ripping sound^[1] I had a hole in the front lawn.

I've mostly filled it with peat and am now deciding what to do with it. HRS has a small box of wild flower seeds that will probably do well there. Or I could reseed it with grass, although I'd probably turn over the whole front garden if I were to do that just to keep the thing uniform. (And to get rid of the weeds properly.)

Decisions decisions. But at least Ol' Stumpy is no more.

^[1] Well, a sotto voce "Come on you bastard, get out", the tensing of every muscle in my back/arms/neck, and a slightly disconcerting sound like I'd just pulled a welly out of a peak district mudpuddle...

My Russian is not so hot since I left school... (and wasn't that hot back then either.)

Would these be examples of those spam journals I hear about? (or is my journal so interest morbidly fascinating that it is able to attact russian readers?)

http://soulaol.livejournal.com/

http://a65urd.livejournal.com/