Wraithfodder's Lair

Or when you need to stay awake ;) 

Last year, I spied a deer from the upstairs window, and was somewhat mortified to see it's one hind leg was a nasty mess. I'm assuming she got hit by a car and the femur totally broken, so that the muscles contracted the leg upwards. I figured she'd be dead in days, but to my surprise, she's still alive. I'm sure a lot of that has to do with the mild winter we had with just two days of snow (and one of those was the Halloween storm). Next winter, probably not so lucky.


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It's April Fool's, you're stressing out over pranks about show renewals, or worse, show revivals without the cast members you so loved, so sit down, cross  your legs into that pretzel position that may cut off blood circulation or turn your limbs to pins and needles, leaving you at the mercy of your pet cat, and listen to Doctor Who's Daleks embark on a new career: relaxation/meditation tapes! ;)

Yes, such a droll topic, but the wry sibling banter between David and Kate Hewlett makes up for it, and wow, cool Dalek shirt. Looks nice and shiny!

Yes, David Hewlett is letting us fans in on his utterly fantastic life after the demise of Stargate Atlantis. Be jealous viewing his massive swimming pool, the incredibly unique toys he has, and that mysterious connection to the Dalek...

Ah, the Hewlett siblings are fiddling around with a YouTube web series.  To see the weirdness, just click on the picture below :)

Great interview with Joe Flanigan from recent convention in London. Wish I’d been there!  He talks a lot about Stargate Atlantis.

This is just one of those "awwwwwww" moments you can trip over on YouTube. Alas, we have no moose here. Man, the whole video just looks gorgeous (that sky, those moose young'uns) :)

Adorable....

Thank you, YouTube! and Stargate Universe's Patrick Gilmore for interviewing Paul McGillion.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKfRClgdZuA&feature=youtu.be or




and if this video gets 10,000 views, Paul will join Twitter....

From http://www.space.com/11443-video-milky-spain-mountain-sorgjerd.html - Video basically speaks for itself. Gorgeous!!  (

Have you ever wondered what it's like to sit atop a volcanic peak in the Canary Islands, gazing up at the brilliant stars of the Milky Way as a Saharan sandstorm billows all around you?

Well, wonder no more. Norwegian landscape photographer Terje Sorgjerd captured this stunning scene — and many others — in his new three-minute video, "The Mountain," which he posted to the website Vimeo on April 15.)

 

 and check out his Aurora video as well at http://www.space.com/11334-spectacular-aurora-march-2011.html

Yes, my life is so exciting I'm videotaping the bluebbery pie that's fresh out of the oven. However, the bubbling, and squeaking noises, are amusing. Okay, maybe just to me, but I'm waitin for it to cool down so I can eat it! :)



Otherwise, today I got robbed. Bought gas. $3.579 a gallon!!! for the cheap stuff! However, I drove by another gas station and it was $3.759 for the cheap stuff. It's insane. Gas is gonna be over $4 if not more by Memorial Day, which will make our annual MediaWest*Con drive rather pricey, and if you attend MW*C, the sign-up phase is now going on. More details at http://blog.mediawestcon.org/

Also, I've discovered the joys of audiobooks (okay, I'm a bit behind). I went through the cassette audiobooks I got at the summer library sales - got a Tony Hillerman novel and a Robin Cook one (that's because my car is so old it has a cassette player). It really  makes the daily commute better. However, got my hands on the doohickie connectors so I can now connect my CD players to the cassette player and listen to the books on CD, of which there are LOTS more in the library. I'm working my way through thrillers. Just finished Kyle Mills' Darkness Falls, about ecoterrorists of sorts destroying the oil fields. I listened to that as I watched gasoline go up over a dime in one week. ACK! I've determined, despite length, that unabridged is far better than abridged (listened to one abridged one done by Stephen Collins - about a killer shark - and it was like listening to a SyFy film) ;)  Right now I'm going through the library stock, as well, it's free, although if anybody  has recommendations for good thrillers/horror/scifi. There's still a few more Robin Cooks and Tony Hillermans to go through at my library.

The snow is melting. A day or so of rain, plus no snowstorms and some higher temps, helped immensely. The driveway is now basically snow free. The lawn is not. The bluejay I buried in the snow has yet to resurface. Sorta hoping something digs it up as frozen food soon. I had to clear all the ice/snow/bird seed under bird feeder as it turned into a hideous mess, and oh yea, they found the pumpkin! I had put it there by the birdfeeder, hoping squirrels would eat it, but it got buried under snow. Then, the squirrels found it and hollowed it out. Here's the pumpkin pothole picture:

And I got bored several weeks back, and made this short video of bacon cooking on the stove. It's turkey bacon, hence the sound of cat yowling in background to "feed me!" Vegetarians may avert their eyes ;)

*flails* RHI Entertainment has put up a trailer for Joe Flanigan's THE OTHER SIDE movie, the one he made in Ireland, the one Syfy will eventually air, most likely under the name THE ALIEN ABYSS according to SyFy folk on Twitter. But anyway, here's the trailer. Is Joe channeling John Sheppard or what? Also,  there are some sorta spoilerish scenes (typical these days).

I have no idea what to make of this, but hey, it's Joe! Wonder if a friend said "Hey, will you read this for me...? "

11:05pm ... Heh, when I posted this link a little over an hour ago, it had 32 hits. Now it's 174. Let's make it a thousand! :)

Meow! Roomba-riding cat!



My cat would be TERRIFIED of a Roomba.

Well, looks like this tree is gonna be toast. A rather large pileated woodpecker has made short work of it in just a week or two. I don't remember seeing all those HOLES in the tree before! But the tree has lived very long - all tree folk who have seen are surprised it hasn't broken in half yet - probably this year. but the bird is gorgeous, and I'd rather have him peck that tree apart than go after the house!

These videos were shot with a Panasonic Lumix DMC=FZ7 digital camera, with a 12x zoom lens, and obviously, no image stabilization! ;)

 

 

 

 

When I croak, I want to come back as THIS cat...

Hysterical Battlestar Galactica video, with a twist... and I'm not even a BSG fan!



Found it over at http://scifiwire.com/2009/11/times-are-tough-creditors.php