Today is NATIONAL NACHO DAY. Read more about it here.
I was going to add a recipe, but do you really need one?
Recipe:
Get some tortilla chips, add some melty cheese.
Add whatever else you like – beef, chicken, tomatoes, avocados, olives, onions, sour cream, jalapenos.
Make sure they are warm, crispy, savory, gooey and delicious.
Enjoy.
A team of six students from De Montfort University in Leicester have turned a historic map into a realistic and detailed 3D animation of Tudor London.
The video shows the area around Pudding Lane in the City of London before the Great Fire of 1666. Some of the buildings are hypothetical, but all streets are based on original maps of the area.
The animation has won the top prize in a competition to produce a 3D animation of a real historic setting, run by The British Library and video game developers GameCity and Crytek.
“The haze effect lying over the city is brilliant,” says Tom Harper, panel judge and curator at the British Library. “Great attention has been given to key features of London, complete with glittering window casements and other atmospheric cues.”
Courtesy: Pudding Lane Productions
Thanks to Judy for the reference.
This new book from Peter Reid and Tim Goddard. I saw it on Live Science. If you want to take a look at the constructions – inspired by reality and fantasy – without all of the ads, click on the Amazon Look Inside site. I think the Martian rover really is made out of Lego.
I thought this was interesting. It is one of those quizzes one finds online. This one is from the New York Times and is based on a Cambridge University study aimed at helping people raise their sensitivity IQ.
How did you do?
We had dinner with friends on Saturday and the conversation turned, unsurprisingly, to food. There were fried twinkies a la mode on the dessert menu. As you can tell, this restaurant was one of those up-scale places. We talked about the number of things that people try to fry – usually in the context of county or state fair food. I have heard of ice cream, pickles and even beer.
Coincidentally, today I saw this story on Fair Food at Good Eats.
The photo above shows a deep fried Klondike Bar. There are a number of other interesting concepts on the slide show at the link above. What would you do-oo-oo to a Klondike Bar?
And from my own collection – the most photogenic Cmdr. Samuel Vimes . . .
Finally, from the funny papers:
Recently The Guardian covered the National Beard and Moustache Championship, which took place in New Orleans in September. The fellow above won in the category of “full, natural beard.” See the other winners here.
Thank you, HMS Defiant, for the reference.
I admit to a fascination with Lego (see previous, prosthetic post.) I think you can just do anything with them, and so, apparently do a number of artists. One such artist, Nathan Sawaya, is featured this month in a show at the Mansfield Art Center in Mansfield, Ohio. Here is the story.
On another subject related to Lego, but not necessarily to art, I came across this faux Lego Breaking Bad construction set, for those who will be missing the series that ends today. If you have to have one – here’s the link.
Today is the birthday of Jim Henson, creator of the Muppets.
Henson’s creative genius brought to the television screen the Sesame Street characters and the Muppet Show and he created films such as the Muppet Movies and the Dark Crystal. Henson would have been 77 today.
Here are some Muppet tattoos:
And my favorite:
Firearms, fibers, any news or behaviors that make me say, "hmm, let me take another look at this."
I still miss my man, but my aim is getting better.
Gunsmoke and Knitting 