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2013-05-22 19:39:13 (7 comments, 6 reshares, 19 +1s)

I know, I know.
I post videos from Tales of Mere Existence fairly often, but I love that whiny, albeit clever, bastard and his style. :)

2013-05-22 14:39:10 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 17 +1s)

I've been meaning to make one of these since...it feels like since forever.

I tried playing on at Vinden Drar, a festival for traditional, wooden boats that is held each summer somewhere around Scandinavia (this year it makes its home in the Danish city _Middelfart <giggles> read more about it here: http://www.vinden-drar.org/ ) and I absolutely loved it. I would of course love to have one made in a more traditional way, but for practicing, this should be fine.
The one I tried was made from a plastic pipe too, but was beautifully decorated with hide and fringes and stuff.

2013-05-22 12:42:52 (7 comments, 2 reshares, 34 +1s)

So this just happened - this is very close to where I live, but I am really glad this isn't my subdivision.   When I drove by it earlier today, I thought SPIDER WEBS but no... it's not.  When I went there not 15 minutes ago I discovered (to my dismay, I'll admit, I think I'd have rather it have been spiders) it was green inchworms!  

Just what in the hell is going on here?!  I've lived here many years and I've never seen it like this.  It's a veritable boom of whatever species this is.

2013-05-21 21:58:03 (8 comments, 2 reshares, 15 +1s)

I saw you drivin
round town with a girl I love
and I'm like haiku

2013-05-21 16:00:38 (21 comments, 4 reshares, 44 +1s)

2013-05-21 12:48:55 (15 comments, 0 reshares, 15 +1s)

"Well you're always welcome to whine in my general direction.
Whining is like farting, if you hold it in it will just come out later and smell WAY worse.

~ the esteemed +Jeffrey Phillips Freeman doing his thing in my chat window.

2013-05-21 10:39:22 (27 comments, 4 reshares, 33 +1s)

It's tragic, but I finally understand myself as a Swede... enjoy! ;) 

2013-05-20 16:27:55 (18 comments, 1 reshares, 21 +1s)

BWAHAHAHAHA!!!

2013-05-20 14:57:07 (9 comments, 0 reshares, 18 +1s)

"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance."

--George Bernard Shaw

2013-05-20 13:14:12 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

2013-05-20 12:39:01 (21 comments, 2 reshares, 20 +1s)

An interesting read.  Thoughts?  Interesting that the man who coined the term disavowed it on the deathbed.

2013-05-19 21:28:15 (15 comments, 3 reshares, 45 +1s)

2013-05-19 11:56:18 (9 comments, 1 reshares, 21 +1s)

#onthisday ,78 years ago, Thomas Edward Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia, died in Bovington Camp in Dorset from the injuries he received in a motorcycle crash 6 days before.

"I deem him one of the greatest beings alive in our time. I do not see his like elsewhere. I fear whatever our need we shall never see his like again." (Winston Churchill)

Scholar, archaeologist, author, poet, secret agent and “a mighty warrior” (Lowell Thomas), T.E. Lawrence became an iconic figure for leading the Arab Revolt in the Middle East against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War.

Deeply disenchanted about British and French treatment of his former Arab allies and friends under the Sykes-Picot Agreement, mostly denying them political independence outside of the Arab Peninsula, Col Lawrence withdrew and served from 1922 -1935 as a common soldier in the RAF, denying officialhon... more »

2013-05-19 10:20:26 (7 comments, 7 reshares, 63 +1s)

2013-05-18 20:43:12 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 33 +1s)

Created by: Mark Savary from http://www.autumnlake.com/

2013-05-18 16:20:50 (11 comments, 0 reshares, 16 +1s)

"Sucker Punch" Featuring Baby Ninja Bear
Why am I always on the receiving end of these exceptions.

2013-05-18 15:43:52 (9 comments, 0 reshares, 14 +1s)

Trek Wars

I love these Star Wars and Trek mashup cookies :) 

Tribble-Chewbacca is genius! 

via 
http://www.klickitatstreet.com/2013/05/boldly-go-and-may-fourth-be-with-you.html

2013-05-18 15:09:06 (8 comments, 0 reshares, 11 +1s)

"And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once."

--Friedrich Nietzsche

2013-05-18 13:22:55 (17 comments, 0 reshares, 35 +1s)

Taking one of may favourite walks; sitting down for a rest in one of my favourite spots near the harbour.
Unfortunately, I need to head on home now to avoid this becoming a bad experience, because I am not on the best terms with Sol. :P
Wish I could stay out more without all sorts of lotions and scarfs and hats and sh..
But hey. At least I have the opportunity to go right outside and enjoy nature, right? :)

Have a nice weekend, pluslings. :)

2013-05-17 22:14:21 (8 comments, 1 reshares, 25 +1s)

For the night crew

Because this is my dad and he is glorious! At 85, he still plays boogie woogie like a man whose fingers are possessed! The other guy is  my brother. 
When I read the comments to dad today that people left he was astounded! And thrilled! So I want to thrill him some more,  because this is my Dad. :-) 

#BoogieWoogie  

2013-05-17 20:31:36 (26 comments, 2 reshares, 41 +1s)

2013-05-17 18:06:53 (3 comments, 4 reshares, 17 +1s)

Justice Family pictures are ridiculously cute

2013-05-17 16:29:01 (12 comments, 2 reshares, 14 +1s)

Want to actually read something on the new G+ layout? A fix!
 Is the new layout with the endless more in posts but especially in comment-rich interactions,  driving you nuts?

Are you tediously working your way through scroll bars and clicks on 'more' while losing all track of the actual conversation? 

Just click on the date/time stamp of a post while holding control and you get a new tab with the whole conversation expanded

More tips to make readers happy? Let them know in the comments.

You can try it out on the post from which this animated gif stems The end of G+ text by WordSmiths as we know it: pinterest won
https://plus.google.com/112352920206354603958/posts/Lob324nF2de

2013-05-17 18:16:36 (10 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

Star Stuff Circle
"We are all connected: To each other, biologically; To the earth, chemically; To the rest of the Universe, atomically."  - Neil Degrasse Tyson

...And through G+, algorithmically. Thanks for the relevance. If you're new to G+, this is a pretty good circle if you want to liven up your stream or you're in the mood to pop a blood vessel or two. IJS. Have a happy Friday.

#sharedcircles   #publicsharedcircles   

2013-05-17 14:36:18 (15 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

En lille bunke danskere, der ofte laver deres indlæg "på originalsproget" og som jeg synes gør G+ hyggeligere og mere interessant at tumle rundt på.
Der er en masse, jeg ikke har fået med, men det får være.
Jeg er heller ikke med selv, da jeg ikke ret ofte skriver indlæg på dansk.

Jeg foretrækker selv små cirkeldelinger, de er ligesom lettere at holde styr på. :)

2013-05-17 12:38:07 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

Wafa Ghorbal sings the fantastic Oum Kothum classic Inta Omri (rough translation: You are my World) a capella in the desert.
I think she did a marvelous job of it.

2013-05-17 10:55:32 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 54 +1s)

Gårsdagens solnedgang over Limfjorden - No need to say more :-)

2013-05-17 10:22:22 (23 comments, 1 reshares, 36 +1s)

Gratulerar på dagen!
Wishing all my Norwegian followers an especially wonderful day today!

The top left flag is Danish, if some of my followers happen to not know (you're excused! We're a very small country!) but I thought it fitting right now, heh...
Picture is a crop-out from a "norsk flag" (Norwegian flag) picture search. No Swedish flags in sight, but everyone who reads Scandinavia and the World knows that Norway and Denmark has a special bond! ;)
http://satwcomic.com/size-matters

AGAIN! Happy "birthday" Norway!
Best. Neighbour. Evar!!! <3

2013-05-16 17:50:12 (6 comments, 3 reshares, 29 +1s)

Still works for me.
Love the music.
Adore the video.
Look out for eachother out there. :-*

2013-05-16 13:55:55 (35 comments, 0 reshares, 56 +1s)

Oh, dear.
There's fabric all over my living room again.
Why do I keep doing this to myself?
Someone come finish this skirt for me!
And the hoody-thingy to go with it too, plz!
Just read my mind, it should be fairly straightforward.
I need it done and tested by June 1st.

KTHXBAI.

2013-05-16 11:11:58 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 24 +1s)

Visited Louisiana museum of art today to see what they had on. Thoroughly enjoyed Tara Donovan and her sculptures. They were so fun and so very different. The shape was like taken out of space, yet organic in some way. It was fun to guess the material before looking at the sign to see if we'd guessed correctly. Amazing what she thought to use as material. Buttons, straws, pins. Go have a look. http://www.louisiana.dk/dk/Menu/Udstillinger/Tara+Donovan #t

2013-05-16 08:41:10 (41 comments, 2 reshares, 44 +1s)

Sign from a typical old elevator/lift in Denmark.
When the elevator is on the move, the red button lights up.
Nuff said?

2013-05-15 19:35:46 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 18 +1s)

"Where's Glass when I need the answer to a difficult question"

#io13  

2013-05-15 18:06:28 (35 comments, 2 reshares, 22 +1s)

G+ What's Hot Serves Based On Gender

I heard a rumour this morning that if your profile is set to male, you'll get different What's Hot (Explore) content than if you're set to female.

So I opened a tab with my profile which was set to female, and from that opened a fresh tab with WH.  Then I immediately changed my profile to male and opened another WH tab to compare as closely in time as possible the difference.

Holy. Fucking. Shit.

When I'm a girl, I get piles of those graphical platitudes I hate.  I have understood all along why +EcoSnark gets those more than my real profile, because she shares them to her NerdSmacked community to make fun of them (see https://plus.google.com/communities/117382348426379346016 ).  I don't plus them or share them, but they're always there.  I loathe them and it's why I have had theslide... more »

2013-05-14 23:13:40 (25 comments, 1 reshares, 28 +1s)

DIY TYRE HORSE SWING

If I had known that you could make a horsey looking swing like this when I was a kid, I would have bugged my dad relentlessly to make him make me one.
And I would have had to bug him for about fifteen seconds before succeeding.
That's how spoiled I was and am and how awesome my dad was and is. :D

Here's instructions for something like it:
http://www.mademan.com/mm/how-make-tire-horse-swing.html

2013-05-14 09:32:41 (23 comments, 0 reshares, 31 +1s)

I love vintage motorcycles.
This is a gorgeous Victoria from 1954.
Now I am usually a BSA and Trimph kinda gal, but this darling winked at me and now I'm a Victoria gal too. ^_^

My picture sucked so I did what I always do:
I edited the crap out of it.
It still sucks, but look at the pretty boike! <3
Isn't she gorgeous?

2013-05-13 23:54:50 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

#TailoringFromWithin, Day 4 - Just unpinned the ladies' jacket drape and here's how it looks flat with chalked seam lines. The hem at the bottom and the front edge are still turned in. Next up is to copy it onto muslin, to have as a pattern, and then mount it to a lining fabric for stabilization. Here we go!

2013-05-13 20:37:47 (25 comments, 0 reshares, 20 +1s)

Clear, Unambiguous Statement About the Missing Posts
+Yonatan Zunger has stepped in and made this clear and unambiguous statement about the issue with missing posts that so many of us have been experiencing in recent weeks.

(Source: plus.google.com/103697368260407276883/posts/bDj7QsPEurA)

2013-05-13 14:11:45 (18 comments, 19 reshares, 73 +1s)

THIS!

2013-05-12 22:11:35 (12 comments, 1 reshares, 41 +1s)

Here you go +Clay Mann (and who ever else might be interested) my old clay dragon. 
He totally fell apart in the oven and he also lost a couple of spikes and the tip of his tail, which I have kept but couldn't find just now, so you'll have to do without.
I built him in red and white clay, and I learned a lot.
Among other things that while I have a fairly good sense of space and form, clay is just not my thing. ;)

2013-05-12 21:17:01 (31 comments, 3 reshares, 42 +1s)

A girl I used to hang a bit with back in highschool (mid ninties) just posted this photo on my fb page and wrote: Saw this and immediately thought of you!
You know, I can totally live with being associated with beautifully crafted dragons. :)

2013-05-12 18:32:51 (19 comments, 0 reshares, 17 +1s)

Solo i Köpenhamn.
Dark Cabaret 2013

2013-05-12 17:24:23 (8 comments, 1 reshares, 44 +1s)

2013-05-12 09:56:39 (8 comments, 1 reshares, 28 +1s)

Your Cake of the Day is this fun little Minecraft cake we created recently for a little boy's birthday. It was a bit tedious cutting and placing all those 1/2" square tiles but it was fun.

We stuck a small sparkler in the top to be the fuse. I wish I'd seen it lit!

Http://www.crazycakes.com

#cakeoftheday

2013-05-11 17:43:42 (15 comments, 0 reshares, 26 +1s)

I did this drawing, feeling rather...odd. The girl is called Lise ;) It's from a webcomic I do about warhammer-players.

2013-05-11 12:36:47 (41 comments, 17 reshares, 67 +1s)

For my highly esteemed H.P. Lovecraft aficionados!
Look what they're making af Joyner Studio 
Skillfully done and oh, so badass!
http://www.joynerstudio.com/#!untitled/sitepage_5

2013-05-10 19:47:37 (10 comments, 3 reshares, 39 +1s)

Well played, homeless guy...

2013-05-10 16:28:22 (65 comments, 2 reshares, 44 +1s)

Google+.
Honey.
PLEASE allow me to choose between chronological and "relevancy" view on my stream! PLEASE!!?

Am I the only one whose G+ experience has been greatly diminished by the whole relevancy thing?
I have about 2500 people circled and even so, when I choose my All circles stream, sometimes the top posts are hours old.

I get that there are probably those who like it that way, but it is completely ruining the natural flow and randomness of my G+ stream that I used to love.
All I am asking for is a choice.
I am getting bored with G+ and I don't want to be!
I just feel that what relevancy does is hide interesting posts and people from me that used to be a natural part of my stream.
It's making it unnecessarily hard to keep in touch with my network.

And yes, I have of course put this in Feedback, but I... more »

2013-05-10 11:05:26 (11 comments, 0 reshares, 41 +1s)

Sometimes, one friend can make all the difference. <3

2013-05-09 12:47:01 (7 comments, 1 reshares, 21 +1s)

This is water, a bit slow but it gets better...