Starting to take more jewelry commissions. I have pictures of my work up on F*tlife under the same username. Feel free to check out. I charge supplies times three. The cheaper the supplies, the less expensive the item. Also branching out into men's wear with tie tacks and cufflinks. 

I think I just blew my mind. Found out the Maoi heads, the head statues on Easter Island, HAVE BODIES! THEY FOUND BODIES! *zomg squee flail*. 

Copy pasted from http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/106129

Maybe this isn’t a newsflash to anyone but me, but, um, the Moai “heads” on Easter Island have bodies. Because some of the statues are set deep into the ground, and because the heads on the statues are disproportionately large, many people (myself included) tend to think of them as just big heads. But the bodies (generally not including legs, though there is at least one kneeling statue) are there — in many cases, underground. What’s even more interesting — there are petroglyphs (rock markings) that have been preserved below the soil level, where they have been protected from erosion. This research report

 has been making the rounds; it discusses recent progress by The Easter Island Statue Project to uncover, study, and catalogue two statues. It includes (among the dry details of the research) a day-by-day journal of the work, as well as remarkable photographs showing the petroglyphs and team members excavating. Above is an image from a previous excavation (source unknown) that shows you the scale of the statues, and how deep they were buried. (Note: visitors are prohibited from climbing on the Moai; the expedition pictured above appears to predate the EISP and the current practice of conservation.)

For more on the Easter Island statues, read more about the EISP

, read their extensive research reports

, and check out the Wikipedia page on Moai

 (which also discusses the fairly well-known fact that many of the statues used to have hats

 or possibly topknots, known as pukao). Also interesting is the back story

 of archaeology on Easter Island (also known as Rapa Nui); apparently the island has been the subject of archaeological research for 119 years.

Update: thanks to some footwork by reader algomeysa, we’ve determined that this photo is from Thor Heyerdahl’s book Easter Island: The Mystery Solved

.

(Via Jason Scott

.)

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So today is Yom Hashoa, the Holocaust Remembrance day. In honor of those who were murdered and those who survived, I will light one candle. Keep them and their descendants in mind today. 

Tomorrow is the GLSEN National Day of Silence, my best friend's yarzeit (the anniversary of his death), and 4/20. This should be interesting. I'm going to a shibari event that day...

Bleargh. Yes, I said bleargh. It feels like there is an elephant sitting on my frontal lobe and I spent most of today with my head down the toilet bowl. This is either a cruel trick or punishment for playing on my new xbox 360 until just after 1 in the morning. Damn sinuses go from being clogged to flooding in seconds. Who wants to make me a drink? 

My only excuse is that I was tired and I misread it.

(23:02:06) jyllaby: You should all lay down and be quiet until the dumb goes away. 
(23:02:10) Sonusai nods 
(23:02:23) jyllaby: It's a terrible affliction but you CAN fight it. 
(23:02:24) Sonusai: Neva! 
(23:02:40) Skogul: I am fighting it. It's only radiating from a couple of sources in here. 
(23:02:42) Sonusai refuses to succumb to the idiocy, 
(23:02:48) Eudemonia: Hahaha 
(23:02:54) jyllaby: Skogul, to fight the idiocy of the world, fight your own first. 
(23:03:00) jyllaby: This goes for EVERYONE. 
(23:03:06) Skogul: Who needs fists when I can use my brain? 
(23:03:08) Sonusai fights her own fist all the time 
(23:03:13) Sonusai: it's called masterbating 
(23:03:17) jyllaby: .... 
(23:03:18) Calnot: I'm just gonna go back to idle ._. 
(23:03:19) jyllaby: 'first' 
(23:03:24) Skogul: ...That's sick. 
(23:03:27) jyllaby: not 'fist'. 
(23:03:31) Sonusai: XD 
(23:03:33) jyllaby: _f i r s t_ 
(23:03:35) Skogul: Sonusai fists herself? 
(23:03:36) Skogul: D: 
(23:03:40) Sonusai: wow 
(23:03:44) Moniker: Sonusai: Do you win much...? 
(23:03:46) Sonusai: i totally read that wrong 
(23:04:10) Sonusai can't breathe she's laughing so hard 
(23:04:10) Moniker: S'because you're a perky jewish nympho. 
(23:04:11) Moniker: o.o 
(23:04:18) Eudemonia: So.... 
(23:04:27) jyllaby glares at you all. 
(23:04:36) Eudemonia: Hey, don't glare at me 
(23:04:45) jyllaby glares even HARDER at Eude. 
(23:04:50) Skogul: Fart 
(23:04:53) Sonusai is still laughing 
(23:04:53) Eudemonia punches her in the eyes 
(23:04:54) Eudemonia: o_o 
(23:04:58) Skogul: YES 
(23:04:58) Sonusai: ok, this is going on facebook

This is from a roleplay chatsite I used to frequent. God I miss those days.

(11:02:01) Sonusai waves to Az
(11:02:11) AzricanRepublic explodes.
(11:02:25) Savoy sweeps up the bits of AZ and puts them in the compactor
(11:02:33) Sonusai cuddles the pieces of Az
(11:02:33) Golden_Silence is showered with Az particles following the explosion
(11:02:39) Corrupt Mod humps Az
(11:02:43) AzricanRepublic: ^ Wat?
(11:02:58) Trasthree: its up to my brothers to continue the family tree
(11:03:11) Sonusai: the foot bone is connected to the head bone. The head bone is connected to the arm bone.
(11:03:17) Sonusai puts az back together
(11:03:19) Savoy beats you all away from the AZ bits with her broom and dustpan "Get back!! Get OFF him!
(11:03:27) Sonusai: XD
(11:03:36) AzricanRepublic: Sonusai, what kind of skeleton are you looking at?
(11:03:52) Sonusai: the one they display in science class
(11:04:02) Sonusai: it's missing a few parts, but we get by
(11:04:09) Golden_Silence observes the poorly assembled Az frankenstein.
(11:04:11) Golden_Silence: :D
(11:04:18) Savoy: lol
(11:04:25) AzricanRepublic groans like Dick Cheney, and shoots someone in the face.
(11:04:29) Trasthree: dammit fuck shit
(11:04:31) Trasthree: SHIT
(11:04:33) Trasthree: oh god
(11:04:35) AzricanRepublic is now Azenstein.
(11:04:40) Trasthree: its 4:04AM
(11:04:42) Sonusai: XDDD
(11:04:47) Trasthree: i dont have time to sleep
(11:05:00) Golden_Silence has evolved beyond the need for sleep
(11:05:09) Trasthree: i have to go to a psychollogist today
(11:05:10) PanDzieciak is back
(11:05:11) Sonusai can't breathe she's laughing so hard
(11:05:12) Golden_Silence also only speaks through actions, apparently
(11:05:14) AzricanRepublic has evolved beyond the need for pants.
(11:05:18) Trasthree: dammit
(11:05:24) Trasthree: a psychollogics
(11:05:28) Trasthree: wait
(11:05:29) jakelovesyuna: Hey
(11:05:33) Trasthree: see, thats how tired i am
(11:05:35) Trasthree: i just made up a word
(11:05:37) Golden_Silence: Wait. wat?
(11:05:41) AzricanRepublic: Psychollogics?
(11:05:46) Sonusai runs to post this in her blog
(11:05:57) PanDzieciak: Psychologist

If you can pronounce this poem correctly, you will be considered worth of having a conversation with.

If you can pronounce correctly every word in this poem, you will be
speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the
world. After trying the verses, a Frenchman said he'd prefer six months of
hard labour to reading six lines aloud. Try them yourself.



Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.
Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
(Mind the latter, how it's written.)
Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as plaque and ague.
But be careful how you speak:
Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;
Cloven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.
Hear me say, devoid of trickery,
Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,
Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,
Exiles, similes, and reviles;
Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
Solar, mica, war and far;
One, anemone, Balmoral,
Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;
Gertrude, German, wind and mind,
Scene, Melpomene, mankind.
Billet does not rhyme with ballet,
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mould like should and would.
Viscous, viscount, load and broad,
Toward, to forward, to reward.
And your pronunciation's OK
When you correctly say croquet,
Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,
Friend and fiend, alive and live.
Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
And enamour rhyme with hammer.
River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,
Doll and roll and some and home.
Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
Neither does devour with clangour.
Souls but foul, haunt but aunt,
Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant,
Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,
And then singer, ginger, linger,
Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge,
Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.
Query does not rhyme with very,
Nor does fury sound like bury.
Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.
Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath.
Though the differences seem little,
We say actual but victual.
Refer does not rhyme with deafer.
Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
Mint, pint, senate and sedate;
Dull, bull, and George ate late.
Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,
Science, conscience, scientific.
Liberty, library, heave and heaven,
Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.
We say hallowed, but allowed,
People, leopard, towed, but vowed.
Mark the differences, moreover,
Between mover, cover, clover;
Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
Chalice, but police and lice;
Camel, constable, unstable,
Principle, disciple, label.
Petal, panel, and canal,
Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal.
Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,
Senator, spectator, mayor.
Tour, but our and succour, four.
Gas, alas, and Arkansas.
Sea, idea, Korea, area,
Psalm, Maria, but malaria.
Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.
Doctrine, turpentine, marine.
Compare alien with Italian,
Dandelion and battalion.
Sally with ally, yea, ye,
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key.
Say aver, but ever, fever,
Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver.
Heron, granary, canary.
Crevice and device and aerie.
Face, but preface, not efface.
Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.
Large, but target, gin, give, verging,
Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging.
Ear, but earn and wear and tear
Do not rhyme with here but ere.
Seven is right, but so is even,
Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,
Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,
Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.
Pronunciation (think of Psyche!)
Is a paling stout and spikey?
Won't it make you lose your wits,
Writing groats and saying grits?
It's a dark abyss or tunnel:
Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale,
Islington and Isle of Wight,
Housewife, verdict and indict.
Finally, which rhymes with enough,
Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?
Hiccough has the sound of cup.
My advice is to give up!!!

-- B. Shaw

Also found on facebook. Still makes me laugh MYASS off.

This memo is to announce the development of a new software system which will be Year 2000 compliant. This program is known as - "Millennia Year Application Software System" (MYASS). 
Next Monday, there will be a meeting in which I will show MYASS to everyone. We will hold demonstrations throughout the month so that all employees will have an opportunity to get a good look at MYASS. 
We have not addressed networking aspects yet, so, currently, only, one person at a time can use MYASS. This restriction will be removed after MYASS expands. 
Some employees have begun using the program already. This morning I walked into a subordinate's office and was not suprised to find that he had his nose buried in MYASS. 
Some of the less technical people may be somewhat afraid of MYASS. Last week, my secretary said to me: "I'm a little nervous. I never put anything in MYASS before." I helped her through the first time and afterward she admitted that it was relatively painless and she was actually looking forward to doing it again, and was even ready to kiss MYASS. 
There have been concerns over the virus that was found in MYASS upon initial installation, but the virus has been eliminated and we were able to save MYASS. In the future, however, protection will be required prior to entering MYASS. 
This database will encompass all information associated with the business. As you begin using the program, feel free to put anything you want in MYASS. As MYASS grows larger, we envision a time when it will be commonplace for a supervisor to hand work to an employee and say, "here, stick this in MYASS." It will be a great day when we need data quickly and our employees can respond, "Here it is. I just pulled in out of MYASS."

Found on facebook: 87 things I'm not allowed to do at Hogwarts anymore

1)       I will not sit on Dumbledore's lap and tell him what I want for Christmas no matter how real his beard looks.

2)       I will not bring a Magic 8 ball to Divination Class.

3)       Albus Dumbledore is not my personal Jesus.

4)       I will not ask Snape if Voldemort is his boyfriend.

5)       My name is not "The Dark Lord Happy-Pants" and I am not allowed to sign papers as such.

6)       I will not point to my dark mark and say "To the Batmobile Robin" when Death Eaters are attacking Hogwarts.

7)       I will not try and start naked Thursdays in the common room.

8)       I will not teach the first years to play The Penis Game in the Great Hall during dinner.

9)       "Draco Malfoy Takes it Up the Arse" is not an acceptable Quidditch chant.

10)     I will not tell the first years that Professor Snape is the voice of God.

11)     I will not give Hagrid Pokemon cards and convince him that they are real animals.

12)     Getting everyone in the Great Hall to do the Time Warp will not earn me any house points.

13)     Bringing fortune cookies to Divination Class does not count for extra credit.

14)     There is not now nor has there ever been a fifth house at Hogwarts. And

15)     I am not a member of that house, nor am I its founder.

16)     I will not tell Professor Trelawney that I prophesied her death.

17)     I am not allows to lock Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy in a closet to see if hot gay sex will occur.

18)     I will not claim my X-Files tapes are "Auror Training Videos".

19)     I am not allowed to refer to Susan Bones, Hannah Abbott and Justin Flinch-Flechley as Blossom, Buttercup, and Bubbles.

20)     I am not allowed to give the Gryffindors Pixie Stix.

21)     I will not offer to pose nude for Colin Creevey.

22)     I will not take out a life insurance policy on Harry Potter.

23)     Professor Flitwick's first name is not Yoda.

24)     Using the Engorgio Charm on certain parts of the human anatomy is not permitted on school grounds, not even for entertainment purposes.

25)     When Fighting Death Eaters in the annual June battle of Good vs. Evil I will not lift my wand skyward and shout "There can only be ONE!".

26)     Albus Dumbledore's proper title is "Headmaster" not "My liege".

27)     I will not impersonate the Swedish Chef in Potions Class.

28)     I will not lock the Slytherins and Gryffindors in a room together and take bets on which house will come out alive.

29)     No matter how good a fake Australian accent I can do, I will not imitate Steve Irwin during Care of Magical Creatures Class.

30)     Growing marijuana or hallucinogenic mushrooms is not "an extra credit project for Herbology".

31)     I am not allowed to introduce Peeves to paint-balling.

32)     I will stop referring to showering as "giving Moaning Myrtle an eye full".

33)     Polishing my wand in the common room is acceptable. "Polishing my wand" in the common room is not.

34)     Remus Lupin does not want a flee collar.

35)     When called upon in class I shall not insist that the correct answer to everything is "42".

36)     I am not longer allowed to use the words "Pimp Cane" in front of Draco Malfoy.

37)     I will not sing "we're off to see the wizard" When sent to the headmasters office.

38)     I will not make jokes about Lupin and his "time of the month".

39)     I will not add my own lyrics to the school song.

40)     I will not start every Potions Class my asking Professor Snape if today's project is suitable for use as a sexual lubricant/

41)     Handing out shirts saying "Harry Potter 6 Voldemort 0" is not acceptable.

42)     First years are not to be fed to Fluffy.

43)     If a classmate falls asleep. I will not take advantage of that fact and draw a dark mark on their arm.

44)     Transfiguring Draco Malfoy's robe into a gold thong is inappropriate.

45)     I will not tell first years that they should build a tree house in the Whomping Willow.

46)     I will not use Slytherin and Griffindor first years as Christmas Decorations.

47)     I will not call the Hufflepuffs the "Special" House.

48)     I will not tell the first years that the Centaurs give free pony rides.

49)     I will not pass out condoms to first years and tell them to "have fun".

50)     I am not allowed out of my dorm when visitors from the Ministry are here.

51)     I will not poke Hufflepuffs with spoons, nor will I insist that their House colors indicate that they are “covered in bees”.

52)     “I’ve heard every possible joke about Oliver Wood’s name” is not a challenge.

53)     I am not allowed to attempt to breed a liger.

54)     I will not go to class naked.

55)     The Giant Squid is not an appropriate date to the Yule Ball.

56)     I will not use Umbridge’s quill to write “I told you I was hardcore”.

57)     House elves are not acceptable replacements for Bludgers.

58)     Starting a betting pool on the fate of this year’s Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher is tasteless and tacky, not a clever money-making concept.

59)     Adding the name “Bueller” to Professor Binns’ roster is not funny.

60)     “Springtime for Voldemort” is not an acceptable suggestion for the class play.

61)     Seamus Finnegan is not “after me Lucky Charms”.

62)     I will not refer to the Weasley twins or the Patil twins as “bookends”.

63)     The Slytherin prefect is named Draco Malfoy, not “Rocky Horror.”

64)     It is exceptionally tasteless to tell Professor Lupin that “Once you go Black, you never go back.”

65)     I will not call Lucius Malfoy “Jareth”.

66)     I am not to refer to the Potions classroom as “Kitchen Stadium”.

67)     I will not tell Ron and Hermione to “Get a room” whenever they start to fight.

68)     The Forbidden Forest is forbidden for a reason.

69)     I am not a tribble Animagus.

70)     I am allowed to have a toad, rat, cat, or owl. I am not allowed to have a reticulated python, snow leopard, Tasmanian devil, or piranha.

71)     29. I do not weigh the same as a duck.

72)     Remus Lupin does not want a flea collar.

73)     I will not lick Trevor.

74)     I will stop asking the Arithmancy teacher what the square root of -1 is.

75)     I am not being repressed.

76)     Calling Lucius Malfoy “Luscious Mouthful” is just plain gross.

77)     I will not change the password to the prefects’ bath to “Makes getting clean almost as much fun as getting dirty”.

78)     There is no such thing as an Invisibility Thong.

79)     I am not a Pinball Wizard.

80)     Asking “How do you keep a Gryffindor in suspense?” and walking away is only funny the first time.

81)     I will not offer to pose nude for Dean Thomas.

82)     Sir Cadogan is not one of the knights who say “NI”.

83)     I will not offer to prepare tandoori owl.

84)     I will stop asking when we will learn to make “Love Potion Number Nine”.

85)     I will not ask Dumbledore to show me the pointy hat trick.

86)     I will not greet Professor McGonagall with “What’s new, pussycat?”

87)     I will not take out a life insurance policy on Harry Potter.