Long, long, ago, in a galaxy far, far away...

Flash Game Friday

Juicy Street

Just cross the street! In your choice of Orange, Tomato, or Apple.

The deed is done!

The papers have been signed, the money has been handed over, and DP and I are now homeowners! We started moving in today, but the internet at our house won't be on until Monday. Last night was the last lazy dinner night post I had prepared, and I don't have access to my links on my parent's computer, so I can't make more. There will still be Flash Game Friday, and a vid link post on Saturday to tide you over, and hopefully sometime next week I can resume normal transmission. I'd like to be super optimistic and tell you that will happen on Monday, but I'm too much of a realist for that.

But I've got some great things to blog about coming up, so rest assured as soon as some semblance of normality returns to the Dragon household, I'll be back with you all.

You shot who in the what now?

This was hilarious


How to really confuse your party guests

"Major Walsh, it is an event sociologique."

Last Exit to Nowhere

Tshirts advertising products and places from your favourite films.

I'm torn between the Paper Street Soap company (Fight Club) and this sweet Devil's Tower one from Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

Mmm, cuddly

Tales of the Plush Cthulhu

Because science isn't science till it's sung by aging geek bands :D

Remember last month when I linked to Singing Science Records, recomending them to They Might Be Giants fans? Well, here's why.

And the rebuttal. (same band)

Flash Game Friday

3d Logic

It starts easy, but gets tougher. Connect the like coloured squares on 3 sides of a cube.

Nom nom nom

Cakeland by Scott Hove

For the inner child in you

Kidtropolis
Interior Design blog from people who make the world's coolest kids rooms.

10 things I don't get about you...

Ten things we don't understand about humans

Heads I win, tails you lose

Random Roadtrip

One day I'd really like to do this, but I'm unsure about the intelligence of doing this with children, let alone young ones.

The white blood cells are soldiers

That fight infectious germs
They make the antibodies
Their weapons in the fight
The army is transported
Wherever they must go
Delivered by the Bloodmobile


BloodMobile - an animation by Dave Logan set to one of the songs from Here Comes Science by They Might Be Giants. It was actually written for an exhibit at The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia The Giant Heart Exhibit

Kseniya Simonova - Sand Animation

Ukraine lost 1 in 4 people during WW 2 - more than any other country. Simonova's sand story talks about the German invasion in 1941. First there is a couple sitting on a bench under the stars. Warplanes appear and people are crying. After the baby arrives the woman smiles again, but the young woman becomes an old widow. Finally there is an obelisk the Ukrainian monument to its Unknown Soldier



The translation for the writing at the end is 'You are always near me (by my side)'
This was from Ukraine's got Talent. (She won BTW)

Flash Game Friday

Filler

A simple, but surprisingly addictive little number. But then again, aren't they all?

I blow my nose at you, so-called Ah-thoor Keeng, you and all your silly English Kuhnigits!

Big Spanish Castle

And also, a tutorial to make your own optical illusion here.

They're picking up pieces of me...

Wordle Paste in any text, and it'll create cool looking word clouds, like this one I made from the lyrics of Placebo's song 'Kings of Medicine'

Kings of Medicine @ Wordle

From little things, Big things grow

Perhaps you'd already heard of this, but I hadn't.
One Red Paperclip

I love you, You love me...

Wrongcards ecards that are wrong for every occasion

What should be Menu Plan Monday

This is an automated post, to let you all know what is going on. We have had to move out of our house so the owner can move back in, and will be living in limbo for three weeks while we wait for our new place to be available. I've scheduled some lazy dinner night posts for the meantime, and just in case it takes a while to get the internet at the new house. Please stick with me during this difficult time. I'll be able to get internet access at my parents house but obviously not every day, so there may or may not be new KCT posts during this time.

So if it's menu plans you are after, check out I'm an Organizing Junkie for literally hundreds of other menu plan blog posts, and why not go back through the archives of Kids Cooking Thursday in the meantime?

Now wait a minute y'all, this dance ain't for everybody...

Sexy People Bad, bad photos.

Placebo+MirrorMask = Happy Dragon!

Flash Game Friday

Throw Paper

Also known as Office Basketball. Keep an eye on the wind speed factor!

Kids Cooking Thursday: Apple & Carrot Pikelets

Breakfast! by The Rocketeer / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Apple & Carrot Pikelets Recipe taken from recipes+, September 2009 issue
1 cup SR flour
2 tbsp sugar
1/2 small carrot, finely grated
1 golden delicious apple, peeled, cored, finely grated
1/2 cup milk
1 egg
40g melted butter for frying

Sift flour into a large bowl, stir in the sugar, carrot and apple. Make a well in the centre. Whisk the egg and milk in a jug, then add to the flour mixture. Stir until just combined.
Over moderate heat, heat a large frypan. Brush with melted butter

If you'd like to join in with Kids Cooking Thursday please leave a permalink to your own Kids Cooking Thursday post, as per the rules.

Take a picture, it lasts longer...

Souvenirs
Tacky plastic tourist gimmicks, photographed with their namesakes.

Some are quite clever.

I see your true colours shining through

Did you ever wonder what would happen if you recreated digital pictures using crayons standing upright as pixels? This guy did:
Christian Faur

I'd like to thank the guy...

who wrote the song that made my baby fall in love with me.
=
Written songs of love for my baby

Believe it?

Translation Party has this and many more. Input your own phrases for hours of Engrish fuelled fun.

Menu Plan Monday

Monday Lasagna
Tuesday Chicken Tenders with corn and chips
Wednesday Freezer Suprise
Thursday Dim Sims
Friday Irish Stout Burgers
Saturday Takeaway (moving)
Sunday Sandwiches

So, a lot of easy/lazy meals. But you were expecting that, since I am desperately packing to be out by the end of the week. But as we still have to eat, and everyone likes have a few 'lazy meal' ideas up their sleeve, I thought I'd still post this. It's not doing great in the nutritional value stakes, but 3 three weeks eating my mother's cooking should even things out.

As usual, check out I'm an Organizing Junkie for literally hundreds of other menu plan blog posts, and please come back here for Kids Cooking Thursday.

Live long and prosper

Appealing to your inner geek.


But if you preferred the original, well, I can give you that too.

My monthly reads - October

Token - Alisa Kwitney
Dark fire - Chris d'Lacy
Riding Tycho - Jan Mark
Click - Nick Hornby, Roddy Doyle, Gregory Maguire, Linda Sue Park, David Almond, Tim Wynne-Jones, Ruth Ozeki, Deborah Ellis, Margo Lanagan, and Eoin Colfer
The astonishing adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl - Barry Lyga
City of ashes - Cassandra Clare