Day 336: JavaScriptacular

Today I finished up my last weekly assignment for my web design class. This time, the task was JavaScript, which is a bizarre little foreign language that can do some nifty things.

Take a gander at my JavaScript Gallery of Awesomeness.

Now to get back to my Giant Research Proposal of Doom, which you may be seeing as my make for Friday.

Day 335: Three if by Air

Today I made three paper airplanes out of a discarded library atlas.

First, we have the Arizona Dart. A fully serviceable, if not inspired, design. It flew directly into a Storables bag.



Next is the Arkansas Flying Squirrel. Surprisingly smooth and long-lasting glide for such a simple and stubby design.



Finally, I give you the Alabama Ring Wing. This one is truly amazing. It glides beautifully, despite being shaped like an ugly bracelet. Aerodynamics are crazy, man.



You can look forward to more paper airplanes in the next week or so. Finals.

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Day 334: Mistress of Fowl Evil

Today I made a little sign for my very amazingly wondrous Malefiduck, custom made by the illustrious Mat Smith.


She has a place of honor on my bookshelf, next to Sock Zombie.


(FYI, Maleficent is called the Mistress of All Evil in Sleeping Beauty.)

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Day 333: Bacon in the Tree

Today I used polymer clay to make a little bacon ornament for my little Xmas tree.


While I was at it, I turned the little clay Short Attention Span Girl I made a long time ago into an ornament as well.


It's beginning to look a little like Christmas.

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Day 332: Three Little Snowflakes

Today I made three little snowflake ornaments for my tiny Xmas tree.


Little tiny stickers are hard to work with.


Especially when the little tiny snowflake tines need to be bent out.


I hope I'll be inspired to make more interesting ornaments soon.

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Day 331: My Tiny Xmas Tree

Yesterday I bought myself a little (2' tall) Xmas tree for my first Xmas in my very own apartment.


It's green and tinselly and pre-lit and I love it.

Today I bought some beads and made a garland for my tiny tree.


It's not as long as it needs to be, but I ran out of beads. Maybe I'll make another one at some point.


Expect to see lots of makes that involve decorations and ornaments for my treelet.

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Day 330: Sketchings

Today I drew some stuff that I like.


I'm not a very good drawer, so you might need some help deciphering.

Merryweather the blue fairy from Sleeping Beauty. Martini with olives. Complete works of Shakespeare.


Maleficent. A fat cat with big ear hair.


Vodka. Cheese. A globe. A Lego. A dog. A lime.


Bacon. Sushi. A Kali stick.



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Day 329: LFPT

Saturday at the Acme Bowl is $5 Long Island Iced Tea Day. Today isn't Saturday and I'm not at Acme Bowl. So I invented the Lake Forest Park Iced Tea.


Basically, you mix 5 different flavored vodkas, 7-Up, and a splash of cranberry juice.

The green straw has grape, green apple, raspberry, cherry, and lime vodkas. For the blue straw, I swapped out lime for strawberry vodka. Both are tasty. And smoooth.

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Day 328: King Mat Day

Today is Mat's birthday. In my infinite cheapness, I decorated a gift bag for him using a sharpie and some scrapbook paper.








Lucky guy, huh?

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Day 327: Within Reach

While sitting at my laptop chipping away at the iceberg of homework, I grabbed a nearby index card and drew some other things that were within reach.


Items are not drawn to scale. Items are also less deformed in real life than they look in my drawings.

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Day 326: Home is Where?

Home is where the heart is? No. My chest is where the heart is. Duh. And home isn't where you hang your hat either. Nobody wears hats anymore.

Today I played with black and white and fonts and silhouettes and Photoshop to make a little declaration of where home really is.

Day 325: Special Brownies

Today I experimented with making special brownies. No, not that kind of special. These are special in that I used Rumpleminze instead of water.


They certainly are special. Extra crispy on the outside and gooey on the inside. And tasting like a thin mint. A gooey crispy thin mint.

I can't say that I recommend this. But it's interesting.

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Day 324: ¡La Biblioteca está AQUÍ!

Hoy, acabo de escribir un monólogo para un tour de una biblioteca. En español, por supuesto. Es la tarea avanzada. ¡Disfruta!

Buenas tardes, y bienvenidos a la biblioteca pública. Me llamo Melleny y yo soy su guía. Vamos a empezar aquí en el escritorio de circulación, donde ustedes pueden tomar prestado los libros y otros materiales. La biblioteca tiene muchos recursos para su investigación, si usted tiene una tarjeta de la biblioteca. Si no, puede solicitar una aquí.

Aquí es el escritorio de consulta, donde los bibliotecarios pueden ayudar. Ellos responden a las preguntas, buscan libros en el catálogo, y mucho más. Si necesita ayuda, visita aquí. Nuestros bibliotecarios son muy inteligentes y simpáticos. Se pueden encontrar de todo.

A su izquierda está la sala para niños. Hay muchos libros de cuentos ilustrados. Esta biblioteca tiene muchas actividades para niños cada semana. Por ejemplo, tenemos hora de cuentos para niños de edad pre-escolar los martes y jueves a las diez de la mañana. Los niños les gusta mucho la hora de cuentos, porque Kathy, el cuentacuentos, es muy divertida and animada.

En esta sección tenemos la música y las películas. Hay películas en DVD de muchos géneros. Por ejemplo, hay películas cómicas, históricas, románticas, de guerra, de terror, y de ciencia ficción. Hay también los programas de televisión en DVD. Se prestan los DVDs por tres semanas y puede tener diez a la vez. Mejor que una tienda de videos, ¿no?

Allí están las revistas y periódicos, pero aquella sección no es parte de este tour. Hay revistas en español y en inglés. Desafortunadamente, no salen fuera de la biblioteca.

A su derecha está la sala de computación. Hay veinte computadoras para usar. Cada computadora tiene acceso al internet. Puede leer su correo electrónico, visitar los bases de datos, o jugar juegos en línea. Si tiene problemas con una computadora, usted puede pedir a un bibliotecario.

Ahora, estamos en la sala de lectura. Es muy tranquilo aquí porque no puede hablar en esta sala. Es para estudiar y leer. Los bibliotecarios no les gustan las personas fuertes aquí.

Estamos al final del tour. Espero que ustedes acaban de disfrutar su visita en la biblioteca. ¿Hay preguntas? 

Day 323: My Last Brain Cell

This is my last brain cell.


I don't usually name my brain cells, but as it's now down to just the one, his name is Carl.

Carl needs a drink. Maybe two.


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Day 322: Stripey Doodle

Today I made a doodle on a blue 3x5 card. It's kind of stripey and wavey.



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Day 321: Hello, Muffin Pan

Today I used a muffin pan with little paper baking cups for probably the first time ever.


My banana walnut muffins look good enough to eat.


And the little liners make them portable too.

I have 12, so that means I can have 2 tonight, 2 for breakfast, 2 for lunch, 2 for dinner, and 4 for dessert.

Or 12 tonight.

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Day 320: One Assignment Done, and I Still Have Some Hair Left

Today I finished a really frustrating project for my web design class. I had to set up a form using HTML and CSS, which was the easy part. Then I had to use PHP and a bunch of nigh-impossible-to-edit-without-ruining-everything config and confirm and output files, transferring everything via FTP every time I made a tiny change to see if I made things better or worse.

After poring over page after page of code, I figured out what to do and made my form work!


I'm just posting a screenshot of the form rather than an actual link, because I don't want everyone filling out the form. Then I'd have to collect the output data and put it into my spreadsheet.

But rest assured it's beautiful and has text boxes, radio buttons, checkboxes, and a drop down menu, and the error and confirmation pages are equally gorgeous. You'll just have to believe me.

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Day 319: Little Purple Haiku

Today I wrote a haiku expressing pretty much everything that's in my brain right now. I wrote it on a purple 3x5 index card and then decorated it with squiggles and books, representing how my brain feels right now.



That is all.

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Day 318: Saturday Night Booze-a-Rama

Today I made a drink in honor of my most awesomey kickass friend Karol with a K.


It's made of strawberry vodka, peach schnapps, and monster energy drink.

I'm not sure what to call it, except "Karol is Awesome and Kicks Major Ass and is my Hero and has the crazy energy of a Monster."

Yes. It's yummers.

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Day 317: Origami Hat or Something

Today I made a nifty little origami shape. It's kind of pyramidal.


I'm not sure what it's for.


Boris is pretty sure it's a hat.



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Day 316: Origami Something or Other

Today I did some fancy origami moves on a strip of paper.


I'm not really sure what it is or what it's for.


But it's kinda pretty. Even on the back.



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Day 315: State Nicknames

Today's map includes my interpretations of each state's nickname. I had to get a little creative on some of them. And nobody seems to know what a Hoosier is. On the plus side, I learned what a Sooner is. And if you're really nice to me, I'll tell you.

I like making these little map things. I'd welcome suggestions for other things to put in each state. Maybe one day I'll have enough for a whole book. Of course, I could never publish it, because all my images are thieved from random internet sites and I would get thrown in the big house for copyright infringement. But that won't stop me from making them for fun.

Day 314: Little Fishy

It's the Pi Day of my make year, but today's make has nothing to do with pie.

Today I made an origami fish.


I kind of want to make an army of little square plaid fish.



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Day 313: Anaphylactic Shot

What happens when you combine two popular allergies? A tasty beverage, of course.

Take a bit of honey liqueur (for the bee sting) and a bit of homemade peanut vodka, and you get what I call the Anaphylactic Shot.


It's yummy. The honey and peanut flavors blend together nicely. Yeah. They blend.

This would make a nice sipping drink over ice, or maybe a martini. Now I have to think of other drinksperiments for my big jug o'honey liqueur. And it looks like it's about time to whip up another batch of peanut vodka. And maybe buy some nice bottles so I seem less like a hillbilly with a still.

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Day 312: Cake on a Stick

Today I made something I've been planning to make for a long time. Finally, with the extra hour today, I was able to find the time.


These are cake pops. Cake pop monsters, to be exact.


Mat helped me add the candy coating and eyeballs.


The coating wasn't thin enough for real dipping, so we kind of slathered it on with spoons and toothpicks.


The eyeballs are Sixlets candies, and we painted on pupils with little droplets of black frosting.


On the insides, these little critters have double fudge chocolate cake crumbled and mixed with vanilla frosting.


And the green is those little candy wafers, vanilla flavored, in the awesomest green color ever.


Now I just have 17 cake pops to eat.

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