![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
(no subject)
Jul. 12th, 2011 06:41 pmThings:
- So, the robot I was working all weekend is almost finished. (It still needs a second leg.) There will be pictures when it's done because it's very cute and I'm quite proud of it. However, today I find myself seized with a different completely nerdy stuffed thing I would like to make: a dimetrodon. Ever since I was a small person who told her teachers that she wanted to be a paleontologist when she grew up (that did not end up happening), I have had a great deal of fondness for the dimetrodon. It is my favorite prehistoric lizard-thing. I think I should make one.
- The thing I don't get is parents who watch their children run around the library, banging things and making enormous amounts of noise, and don't do anything about it. Up to and including the point where I have to myself go over and ask the kids that the parents are explicitly watching to be quiet. And also to stop trying to drag the bookbin away or climb on the empty carts or do all kinds of other dangerous things that you'd think their parents would want to prevent.
- The dude who wrote Starvation Heights is coming out with a YA novel set in Kitsap county. The amazon summary uses the phrase "the deceptively picture-perfect town of Port Gamble" which is pretty much everything I have ever thought about Port Gamble. There is something deeply creepy about that place. So, naturally, I'm going to have to read this novel. There are apparently telepathic twins investigating murders and things. In Port Gamble. Maybe they'll visit the Kingston library.
- So, the robot I was working all weekend is almost finished. (It still needs a second leg.) There will be pictures when it's done because it's very cute and I'm quite proud of it. However, today I find myself seized with a different completely nerdy stuffed thing I would like to make: a dimetrodon. Ever since I was a small person who told her teachers that she wanted to be a paleontologist when she grew up (that did not end up happening), I have had a great deal of fondness for the dimetrodon. It is my favorite prehistoric lizard-thing. I think I should make one.
- The thing I don't get is parents who watch their children run around the library, banging things and making enormous amounts of noise, and don't do anything about it. Up to and including the point where I have to myself go over and ask the kids that the parents are explicitly watching to be quiet. And also to stop trying to drag the bookbin away or climb on the empty carts or do all kinds of other dangerous things that you'd think their parents would want to prevent.
- The dude who wrote Starvation Heights is coming out with a YA novel set in Kitsap county. The amazon summary uses the phrase "the deceptively picture-perfect town of Port Gamble" which is pretty much everything I have ever thought about Port Gamble. There is something deeply creepy about that place. So, naturally, I'm going to have to read this novel. There are apparently telepathic twins investigating murders and things. In Port Gamble. Maybe they'll visit the Kingston library.
