My fellow Neocitizens are doing it again. What are they doing? Cool stuff! Check out these projects:
- Drugstore Lipstick Reviews - the garden of madeline has started on a project reviewing drugstore lipsticks. Really nice set up with actual photos showing bare lips vs lips with color and details on each lipstick including brand, cost, and details (type, applicator, transferability, lasting power and overall thoughts).
- Salad Magazine #3 - kalechips has come out with the 3rd issue of Salad Magazine. The prompts for this issue were snails, ink and sparkling and there are 5 really cool submissions encompassing these themes. There is even a snail adoptable!
And here are a couple of other cool links I found while toodling around the web:
- Beluga cams - I love belugas - they seem to be such chill little dudes. You can watch live cams streaming from Churchill River and Hudson Bay. 2/3 of the world's beluga population spend their time in these waters during the summer months. There are 2 cameras - one on the boat and one underwater. When there isn't live filming they run highlight videos. I have yet to catch the belugas in real time but I'm trying!
- Rogue sign maker - How often have you seen something that should be fixed and then proceeded to undergo a stealth mission to do just that? CalTrans (California's Department of Transportation) for some reason did not adequately sign the left hand exit from the 110 freeway to I5. If you didn't know it was coming up then it was Whoomp! There it goes! One of the many drivers caught short by this just happened to be a sign maker in real life and he underwent a journey to surreptiously do what the department of transportation should have done, namely, create some signage. He went so far as to scope out other freeway signs to get measurements and paint samples and even sourced reflectors from the same place the transportation department did. There's a short YouTube video in this article that explains it all and is well worth a watch. Rogue artwork making the world a better place - I love it.
Reading
I was in heaven the last couple weeks because I had 3 books I was really looking forward to and now this week I'm very close to finishing the 3rd one and not sure what I'm reading after that. I have others on my e-reader but I'm really not feeling any of them at the moment. The book I'm about to finish, Shadowmarch, is the first in a 4 book series by Tad Williams. I loved his Memory, Sorrow and Thorn series but even though I was excited about this series at first, not sure how I'm feeling about it now. It was written 16 years after The Dragonbone Chair but I feel like the writing was better in the earlier novel. This one isn't bad but I just don't know if I want to read the follow ups just yet.
Watching
I finished up Grantchester today and boy, that was kind of a let down. This series has been going on a while and I think it's starting to show. Characters were inconsistent in behavior and I feel like they didn't really utilize the new vicar. Will I watch the next season? Of course! This is one of my cozy comforts, even if it did leave me slightly disappointed this season. The same thing happened with Father Brown - as the seasons went on it seemed to have lost something. The last season I watched - maybe it was 10? - just seemed a little more farcical rather than light-hearted. If I can get my hands on more Father Brown without having to subscribe to yet another service, will I watch it? Of course! Once again it's a comfort watch.
I finally allowed myself to start watching season 2 of Slow Horses. After having binged season 1 in one day, I made myself take a break. I have watched episode 1 and I am totally jonesing for all the rest. I don't care if I have to go to work tomorrow, I will watch them all! Well, I won't, but that's what I want to do. I'm telling myself that if I limit it to once a week, it will last longer. Not sure I can keep convincing myself that delayed gratification is really what I want in this case.
I was going to say more but I've already spent a lot of time this weekend fiddling around with the site. You know how it goes - you go to change one thing and find 43 others to change. I think I'm ready to get off the computer and go do something else.