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I love buying accessories for my electronics and every time I get a new camera, shopping for a new bag is thrown in to the process. I've always thought the bags available weren't really fitting to my sense of style -- too utilitarian and definitely all screamed, "Hi! There is a camera in here!"

Well, Epiphanie bags are a stylish spin on the camera bag! They're padded inside with compartments, just like any Lowepro or Tamrac bag, but from the outside, it looks like a handbag. The three styles of bag all have removable crossbody straps if you don't want to use the double handles. I think the Ginger bag is my favorite; I love the contrast stitching.



Epiphanie is currently holding a giveaway where you can win a Canon 5D Mark II or a $2500 gift card to Southwest Airlines!

And my first non-twitter post in ages is to... promote someone else's stuff :D (Because, really, if you get me started on the BSG premiere I might go a little postal.)

What the crap... a student at UC San Diego made a multi-touch surface that actually works with glass, paper, a webcam, and a cardboard box.

That's, of course, totally trumped by thee guy who made one that looks like a projection television, but the one above cost like, $50, so.

New army cluster bombs sound vaguely Jericho-like. Stark Industries should sue. Actually, they're not explosive -- they just drop thousands of tiny darts on you. I'm not really sure that's better except for the part where later on you can't accidentally blow yourself up stumbling upon one that hasn't exploded. Good luck walking across that bomb zone, though. (I am most amused that the image they used is a still from Iron Man.)

Be a Space Ambassador! And you can fly in Virgin Galactic for free. Okay, not really -- only one of the ambassadors will get a flight.

Make a portable Wikipedia with an old Psion 5mx and Linux. Awesome. Who wouldn't want their own Hitchhiker's Guide?

Homemade Sun Jar. I think I might try this out as my first foray into electronics. Even though this isn't really more than taking something apart and shoving it into different housing.

Sweet!! Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is on sale at Best Buy for $4.99!

Instead of a report on yesterday's Browncoat Shindig... A dump of links from the Google Reader...

Quantum Mechanix has set up Firefly Ship Works so fans can watch the progress of the large scale Serenity replica. The replica will be 1/180 scale (about 18").

Joss Whedon staged a career intervention for Eliza Dushku? Joss, I love you, really. Helping along Eliza's career is totally awesome, but to ignore all of SMG's bad, bad, bad (did I mention bad?) films. She cannot redeem herself with Southland Tales! And okay, maybe Wrong Turn wasn't the greatest choice for Eliza, but Soul Survivor was actually pretty good, I thought. Meh.

Everyone's probably already seen the Dollhouse trailer, but here's a clip with Eliza and Tahmoh Penikett (heart!). Additional Dollhouse article here.

Buffy Tarot Cards are up for pre-order. I kinda want a set...

Make Magazine is sponsoring a Make a Cylon contest. Tricia Helfer and Grace Park will be judging.

I'm sure by now, most of you have heard about JJ Abrams' new show, Fringe. I kinda don't know what to think because as much as I love JJ, it sounds a bit like The X-Files meets Special Unit 2. Meh.

Erin McBlog posted some redesigned covers of classic books as part of her thesis. Very cool. I especially love the cover for The Giver and The Handmaid's Tale.

Late again to the party, but I'm playing catch up! Spaced will finally have a Region 1 DVD release on July 22! It's said to be filled with new commentaries and things, so I will of course be buying a copy of this one as well!

Meh. I have things to do and I don't wanna do 'em.

Um..... why is the EU creating REPLICATORS?!

Swarms of Transformer-style robots to be built

A £4.6 million project to create swarms of hundreds of autonomous, Transformer-style robots has been launched.

Scientists aim to create a prototype team of self-organising, shape-changing mini robots that work as a team by 2013.

The self-healing robots will be able to dock with each other, share energy and co-operate to maximise their abilities to achieve different tasks.

Uhm. Yeah. That sounds just like oh, the Replicators. The article goes on to, quoting one of the scientists:

Prof Winfield denied the swarms could go wrong and cause harm to humans, but said scientists could not take responsibility for how societies decided to use them.

"It might sound like something scary from science fiction but it's not, it's just a complex engineering system.

"It will have to go through safety and validation assessments before it would be used in real-life situations.

"As scientists we behave ethically but we can't determine how these things might be used. That is a question for wider society to determine."

RIGHT AFTER saying:

"The robots have functionality on their own, but they can also combine together or adapt and change as the situation requires.

"The individual robots won't change physically, but they will adapt and evolve their functionally."

That scares me. A lot. Any sort of computer that can learn an adapt on its own is pretty dangerous, I'd say. I can't believe he's saying that yeah, they're harmless because they'll double check, but hey, if someone gets their hands on them and uses them to destroy humanity... oh well.

CRAZY.

Right. So. I did get the Jeep back after work yesterday, but it cost me like $800 -_-; $400 of that was parts, so I can't really fault him for that and he did the tire rotation for free. But still. That is so not what I wanted to be spending money on.

In any case, I was able to go to queenmaab's without incident. After dinner, she worked on the skirt for my costume and I sewed velcro to my Atlantis patches (she totally had to show me how to do it the right way because I've been doing it wrong...) while we watch the first 4 episodes of Moonlight. The really funny thing is that we discovered some really weird backstory inconsistencies-- that or they just explain it totally wrong. Oh well. I don't really watch the show for it's fabulous writing or lack of.

Stopped by Joann's again after work today and spent an hour in the framing section staring at mattes. Finally picked two so I can get my last two pieces framed. Huzzah!

This is mostly for thebigfatman, but here's the Torchwood season 2 clip where Jack Harkness meets John Hart. Mmmmmhm.

Jerry O'Connell parodies the Tom Cruise Scientology interview. Makes me laff.

I wish I had other things of interest to write about, but I don't really. So we'll leave it at that. I'm off to go finish sewing my patches, have dinner, then frame the last two pieces for the show.

Kevin Smith at this year's ComicCon talking about.. a lot of crap. Like, the Indy pane, his book, Reaper, and smiting a heckler. Funny. Also? Chasing Amy bonus disc!! As in, if you already own the movie, just buy the bonus disk and if you don't have it, get the two disc set. Awesome.

David Hewlett and Amanda Tapping talking about Stargate: Atlantis season 4.
David: It is sort of a Fish Called Wanda-style comedy about a guy who hates his sister's fiance so much that he decides that he's got to kill him. And one of the reasons that he hates him so much is because he's a... cheesy, sci-fi actor. You know you can't trust them. Right, Amanda?
Amanda: Ever. Don't ever trust a cheesy sci-fi actor. *points at David*

Ben Browder performs with Brian Henson and members of "Puppet Up!". Oh, Ben. <3 [Uncensored Puppet Up videos at TBS.com]

I should be working on a website right now, but it's uh... too late to start. I think. Meh. Tomorrow perhaps.

Last night I ordered a new DVD player. Wooooo! Hopefully it gets here soon. If everything with it checks out, then I can give the old one to queenmaab.

Whoa. Playing catch up. I've been trying to write this post all week. Geez.

Monday. After work, I headed over to pgnblade & thebigfatman's for dinner (barbecue!) and we watched like five episodes of Doctor Who.

Tuesday. I'm not sure what happened Tuesday. OH. I had a massive migraine so I went home early and passed out. Got up later in the afternoon so I could drop my car off at the mechanic to have my air conditioning checked out. Then I came home and slept some more.

Wednesday. Mom's friend were over using the pool and they decided to barbecue dinner. Of course, this was also the day we had the crazy monsoon. After work, I went and got my car -- they just added more freon with a dye so they could trace a leak. (So far it's all been working fine, so it was probably that Jiffy Lube is shite and did it wrong.) I stopped at Rite-Aid because I wanted to try out Tom's of Maine toothpaste & mouthwash. Just as I got back in the car to head home, lightning and thunder was going off like crazy. Halfway home, the rain was dumping down and it was sort of hard to see :P I used the opportunity to make a phone post.

Thursday. After work, I headed downtown to meet up with Annalisa for Alive at Five. Jefferson Starship was playing. There weren't too many people there yet when we got there, so we found a rock to sit on and people watched. Eric & a friend from work showed up later. After the mounted city cops came to kick people out, we headed to the Pump Station for dinner. Our waiter was fairly entertaining and the meals were delivered quickly. I had a bacon cheeseburger. Yum. Dead cow.

CRAP. I FORGOT ABOUT BURN NOTICE. *gets*

Friday. Hm. what happened Friday? Nothing much I don't think... Just sort of bummed around and ended up watching all 13 episode of Pretear. Pretty typical magical girl anime, but at least the story was interesting and the bishounen were pretty XD

Saturday. Annalisa came over. We hung out by the pool for a load of hours. Worked on some crafts and watched "10 Things I Hate About You." Headed over to katkel and sweetwildandmad's for dinner with Annalisa & Eric. Good times. Great food. Watched the fireworks going off by the canal for the Steamboat Meet. Wish I'd brought a camera...

Links I've been trying to post all week:

SURFACE COMPUTING!! Popular Mechanics previews Microsoft's surface computing table. Hell yeah, sign me up for one of those. (link via buhfly)

First look at the "Where the Wild Things Are" movie being produced right now. Yep. I'm totally going to go see that.

David Tennant prank calls Freema Agyeman. That man is sooo evil.

Yet another reason reason for my to love ozw: he sends me kick-ass trailers, like this one for Fido, a pet zombie family comedy. How can anyone not like that?

I missed the Robot Chicken Star Wars episode. Thankfully, Best Week Ever comes to the rescue by having the complete episode online. So much love for Seth Green and crew.

I'm kind of glad I haven't picked up season 2 of Twin Peaks yet. TVShowsOnDVD reports that a Definitive Gold Box Edition of the complete series will be available in October. Sweet.

I am so very behind on everything. Have not watched any Doctor Who this season, even though the squeeing on my LJ is making me very keen to watch it. I think I will probably just wait until the season is over and try to marathon the whole thing like I did with last season.

So this morning I had a very clear adverse reaction to gluten. I needed something quick for breakfast so I just threw a large portion of strawberry trifle in a container and left for work. Yeah. Well. About 10 minutes after I ate I started to feel really sick. Pretty much I wanted to die. I was getting dizzy and my vision was all weird and I was so, so tired and vomity. During my morning break, I went down and sat in my car with all the windows open. After I had my lunch I was a bit better, but was still sort of sickish. I finally left work half an hour early, though I could have sucked it up and stayed 'til 4:30pm, but I just couldn't deal anymore.

So far tonight I've managed to put away some clothes that have been laying about and also clear off my bed, mostly. Next I want to try and put away all this extra yarn that is kicking about. Just don't know how I want to sort it yet. Hm. Guess I'll put on some music and just get right to it.