Stuff!

[bending_sickle]

b_phil has now solved my second "what the hell was that movie I vaguely recall from my childhood" problem. It's The Stuff, not, as I once tried, The Thing.*

Back to writing a job description in German. Do you have any idea how hard it is to find technical words for printing machine parts in German? Frellin' ruttin' hard.

I'll leave you all with an article about the future Stardust movie and *crosses fingers* the renewed possibility of a Good Omens movie**. Or maybe Neil's last movie-project, Beowolf is more your thing.

In other news, a River vid which rocks my socks.

Here are some Chinese/Pinyin-related websites I found yesterday this wee morning whilst researching for Insomnia:

http://www.pinyin.info/readings/texts/chinese_adjectives.html
http://www.chinese-lessons.com/mandarin/vocabVerbs.htm
http://www.pinyin.info/unicode/marks3.html

I also found out :

The song "Girl in a Box" by the band 76 features a disturbing mash-up of dialogue from the R. Tam sessions and music used in the Firefly episode "Bushwacked."

In Australia, the symbol Φ is tattooed in the ears of cats and dogs to indicate that they have been neutered.

According to George Orwell, workers in coal mines would develop characteristic tattoos owing to coal dust getting into wounds. This can also occur with substances like gunpowder.

Recently, a blacklight-reactive tattoo ink using PMMA microcapsules has surfaced. The technical name is BIOMETRIX System-1000, and is marketed under the name "Chameleon Tattoo Ink".


* Which was a black-and-white B-movie about plantlike alien attacking people and not a colour B-movie about deliciously edible alien-foam possessing people.

** Squee!