December 2008

Weapons for Her

Japan has made several other contributions to the world of womanly weaponry, most of them used by the female ninjas known as kunoichi, who began slipping through the shadows in the 1500s. The kunoichi’s secret weapons included poisons, blinding powders and stealth weapons like the kushi (hair comb), kasa (umbrella), kakute (spiked ring), nekote (steel

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YouTube

Apparently, you can indeed upload videos to YouTube. They just take a really awfully long time. I’ll be playing with this new camcorder during the break so I hope it’s not just, you know, broken.

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All I Want For Christmas

Due to the staggering cost of plane flights, I ended up staying in Dayton for the holiday, which wasn’t the worst thing that could have happened, but I do miss spending Christmas on the Oregon Coast. In any case, had a pretty fantastic Christmas this year with J. Too much Chipotle and carmel corn was

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Quote of the Day

“The objection to fairy stories is that they tell children there are dragons. But children have always known there are dragons. Fairy stories tell children that dragons can be killed.” -G.K. Chesterton

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