EXTERMINATE!

In honor of Halloween, I thought you might be interested in this:

I tried to think of a clever pumpkin/Dalek title for this post, but I failed.

Yes! That is a pumpkin carved into a Dalek! I wish I was creative enough (or patient enough) to do that. And they even got a whisk (or, rather, a mixing blade). No plunger, though, but a meat thermometer. And the little top bit spins and everything and...here's the best part, it actually rolls around and such.
The original article is here on evilmadscientist.com. They have step-by-step instructions on how they did it (which has a few surprising elements).
Here's they're video of it moving about, which they also have a link to on the site:

And I would also like to point out that there are several clever Dalek/pumpkin exclamations on its YouTube page. Once again, no creativity here.
I'd be interested to see more interesting or clever pumpkins; any pictures anyone?

Dear Luna Lovegood,

Luna, there is so much in my head, swirling around, that I'd love for you to know. But my brain doesn't seem to want to put it into words to put on paper. Perhaps Nargles are behind it. After all, you told us yourself that thy make your brain go fuzzy. But I'll give it a shot, anyway.
Luna are my favorite character. You are strange and bizarre in all the best ways. It was in Alice in Wonderland where Alice asked her father: "Am I mad?"
And her father said, "Yes. All the best people are."
You aren't afraid of being laughed at for what you believe. You are not at all bothered by not having friends (even though, of course, you do). And you're happy and serene and a good friend and sweet and just a pleasure to be around (or, at least, I assume so from reading about you; I wish I could meet you).
I suppose, if you read anyone else's letter, you'll see that I've said this to just about everyone but I really wish we were friends. You inspire me to be more myself and not care what people think because, really, what does it matter? I love that you believe in things that most people are sure don't exist. And I love that you are so dreamy and stuck in your own head.
I just think you would be a wonderful friend, I wish I could know for sure. But I suppose I'll just have to reread your adventures and the adventures of your friends.

Always,
Alyssa

I can play Hedwig's Theme on the ocarina

I bought an ocarina after playing Zelda: Ocarina of Time because I wanted to play the songs from the game. But now I've done that and I'm kind of bored of it. So I'm trying to find some free sheet music of popular songs (non-public domain) so that I can play them. It's a lot harder than you'd think. Apparently you can't download sheet music of a copyrighted song, which is, of course, all of them. So, I'm not having a good time right now. But, for now, I shall entertain you with a video of myself playing Hedwig's Theme from Harry Potter.
*Just as a disclaimer, I do not own any of this - Harry Potter is owned by J.K. Rowing and Hedwig's Theme belongs to John Williams*

*Oh and just another disclaimer, I made this on Photobooth on my Macbook so the quality isn't great. Sorry about that.*

I will definitely post more videos as I learn more.

And did I tell you that I started a vlog. It's not good by any definition of the word but whatever. I'm excited to do it and that's all that matters yeah? Here's the link: Nifty Elishings (that's the title - there's a story behind it which I will tell here in a moment).
Yeah so please don't judge me, they're probably going to be really bad and I'll probably quit within a month, if I last that long, even.

But, anyway, here's the story behind the title. Elishings, first of all, isn't a real word. I googled up blog name generators and there was one (I'm sorry, I don't remember what it was called) that spat out words that didn't exist but sounded plausible. Elishings was one of the first words I got and I quite liked it (obviously). But it just didn't sound like a title to me, so I figured I had to describe the elishings, so I ended up with nifty (which is one of my favorite words). And that's why my vlog is called Nifty Elishings. It's quite a boring story really.

That's all I wanted to say for the moment. I will talk to you again soon once something interesting happens inside my head.

EDIT: I just watched that video back on my blog page and I realized that it cut off the last two seconds. Ugh! Sorry.

I hate (most) remakes

Confession time: I've never seen Footloose. But I knew it was a classic. So when I saw that they were remaking it I was thinking, "Why does everything need to be ruined by greedy companies desparate for money?" I've always been wary of remakes. They're very rarely necessary or well done.
But with this remake of Footloose coming out and the trailer being on every channel every ten minutes, I kind of want to see it. I won't say it looks good because I've seen neither the original or the remake. But it has sparked my interest. I want to watch the original and comment on it. Then watch the remake and do the same. I'd like to make it a (very short) series on my blog here. It'll probably be about three posts.
Once I see the original, I'll let you know where I plan to go from there. I may watch the trailer again and think it looks horrible.
But I wanted to do this because it's just like reading a book before seeing a movie, which I'm very adament about (by the way, there's a website about that, called Read It 1st).
Anyway, we'll see.
This is our time to cut loose.