Candleblog

Those of you who have been around the Candleblog block a few times will remember that it used to be a group blog with as many as 5 different authors. Most of those folks rarely ever contributed anything (kind of like I so rarely contribute at The Contrarian) and eventually I cut things back so [...]

I’m up super late with a logy stomach and I just made this little thing that I’m thinking of making into a Zazzle t-shirt. It’s based on a tweet that Emily sent the other day. Would you wear one?

Emily is applying for a job as the “Email Fairy” at Ravelry.com. We cut this little video together to help sell her to the powers that be there. Check out Emily’s Etsy shop for more knitted awesomeness. Emily’s Ravelry Video from Bill Simmon on Vimeo.

First of all, Alan Tudyk, (Wash from Firefly/Serenity) just bought one of Emily’s dissected frogs. I know that Mr. Tudyk is a real live person and not a fictional character, and yet I still like to imagine Wash playing with the frog along with the dinosaurs on the Serenity’s dashboard. Yay! Secondly, I had intended [...]

Emily is experiencing a little spate of interest in her crafty designs just now and I thought it was worth writing up a post that collects all of these recent cool things in one place. She still lacks a full-time job, but maybe if she can ride this small wave of interest into some sort [...]

Sure, Mythbusters is cool because its skepical and sciencey and because they tackle fun myths and urban legends and idioms. Sure I enjoy the dynamic between laconic, dour Jamie and hyper dorky, exuberant Adam. But really, I love Mythbusters because they are my people. Emily and I were just saying the other day how we [...]

AlexC was at tonight’s ill-fated airing of Poli-Sci-Fi Radio and shot some photos. I say “ill-fated” because while it was a good episode with a lively discussion, a technical glitch resulted in the show not being recorded, so there will be no podcast episode this week. Fortunately, this photographic evidence exists to prove we were [...]

Things that make life kind of nice today, despite the cold and the holiday shoppers… Sleeping late. Very late. Emily’s cute pig tails. Emily making a yummy mac-n-cheese with broccoli and whole grain mustard just in time for me to wake up to the smell of it The Soup with Joel McHale on TiVo Spontaneous [...]

Emily and I had lunch at the Sadie Katz deli on Bank Street today and it was teh yum. We met up with Kasten and Michael (friends from Philly) and then went over to Sapa’s around the corner. Sapa’s is a new Vietnamese tea/coffee house on Center Street where the Army/Navy store used to be. [...]

Cory Doctorow linked to Emily’s dissected frog after Neat-o-rama linked to it and now, famed biology blogger, PZ Myers, has blogged the frog (UPDATE: well, technically, he blogged about her dissected rat, but that doesn’t rhyme)! Myers is the blogger who was kicked out of the screening of Expelled back in March (but they didn’t [...]