A Secret History

• 13:10 A pleasant walk and coffee with Hoi Didymoi. My brains are sparkly. #
• 14:41 RT @CurioCabinet: 5,000-year-old artificial eyeball found in Iran www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article1415400.ece #
• 14:49 RT @DreamAsylum: Lots of Steampunk goodness in Shirt.Woot's t-shirt contest ow.ly/49v9 #
• 18:17 Huge Freecycle find: five vintage mechanical calculating machines, full of gears, cogs, sprockets, springs (thousands of parts each). Whee! #
• 18:24 @parallaxtz: Mad sci movies? Young Frankenstein, Re-animator, Das Cabinet des Dr Caligari, Island of Lost Souls, La Cité des Enfants Perdus #
• 18:31 ...Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Invisible Man, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Day of the Dead, Doctor X, Dr Phibes, Island of Dr. Moreau, et cetera. #
• 18:38 @karenbynight: The machines are already in advanced disrepair. @kaden_harris: Not to fret, I have plans that shan't include my glue gun. :D #
• 19:58 Vote for Theriaca Fina, @CurioCabinet and @steamteam on VoteHandMade: votehandmade.com/user/nullalux (please click on all categories) #
• 21:01 Neat digital sim of factory farm vs sanctuary, via @FarmSanctuary: tinyurl.com/FFvsSanctSim #

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• 08:14 Crepes with Rabbit before ortho and dentist appts this morning. #
• 10:26 Today, 24 April, is Etsy Day! Support the building of a new economy by buying, selling and living handmade: www.etsy.com/ #etsyday #
• 11:03 Ortho went very well; now enjoying one of the massage chairs at my dentist's office. #
• 13:57 Brevity is the soul of Twit. Creative brevity changes the world: spillspace.com/2009/brevity-is-the-soul-of-twit/ #
• 14:12 The tentacular Cephalopod Tea Party blog is having a fabulous contest upon reaching 50 followers! tinyurl.com/CTPmotivation (pls RT) #
• 15:40 Neat! I'll be covering the steampunk presence at @makerfaire '09 for the Storque, the official Etsy Blog. www.etsy.com/storque/ #etsy #
• 17:27 Cooking up some pasta primavera with whole wheat rotelle. #
• 18:11 My Twitter personality: renowned, inquisitive, cautious. Style: garrulous academic ROBOT. twanalyst.com/nullalux [Academic robot?] #
• 18:22 RT @cephalopodcast: WTFish? "Live shark dumped on Aussie newspaper's doorstep" bit.ly/f0ISI [If it was activists, why kill a shark?] #
• 18:55 @Xenarthra: Chrome? Please. You know I'm all aged brass and hardwood. I'm down with 'Sing, muse, of the melodrama of machinery' though. ♥ #
• 19:30 RT @LostZombies: "The 25 Most Essential Jobs During a Zombie Outbreak" bit.ly/f9x79 #
• 19:55 I love that the "#" is called an octothorp. Just saying. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_sign #
• 20:14 RT @Gorify: SF Bay Area, zombies wanted to join horde www.craigslist.org/about/best/sfo/20433992.html [Gotta love Craigslist.] #
• 22:26 Made gingerbread; perhaps it will accompany us to @xthread's brunch tmw. Also sipped fine Bourbon County Stout: tinyurl.com/GIBCS #
• 22:40 The easiest way to sex your cockroach (kids ask the darndest things): www.boingboing.net/2009/04/24/science-question-fro.html #

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• 10:05 RT @CurioCabinet: Take a second to help out @CurioCabinet! Vote for us on Twibs at tinyurl.com/cyffh7 (Please RT) #
• 12:25 Out for a sunny jog with Hoi Didymoi. We must have applied a gallon of sunscreen between us. #
• 15:17 Free Maker Faire admission to qualified teachers (only 500 tix avail): makerfaire.com/education #
• 16:07 One touch of nature makes the whole world kin... Top Ten Shakespeare Quotations for Earth Day: tinyurl.com/ASCEarthDay #
• 16:17 From TV bromances to political man crushes, male bisexuality has gone mainstream: tinyurl.com/Bromances (hehe: "bromances") #
• 22:06 I am an expert dishwasher-loader...I have a process. Also, I have kung-fu and @tutordennis snuggles and potstickers. #
• 02:45 Aha! To-do list done, with 15 minutes to spare. 3A is a perfectly good bedtime, just as 3 in. is a very good height indeed. </caterpillar> #

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• 13:07 @nullalux just joined the Etsy Twibe. Visit twibes.com/Etsy to join. #
• 14:07 RT @DreamAsylum: Tom Haney's automata and sculptures made from found objects: bit.ly/109oNo #
• 14:34 Be still my heart. @MutterMuseum is hosting a free showing of Triumph at Carville, a documentary about Leprosy: tinyurl.com/d57p2f #
• 16:21 Just joined @inventrix's Steampunk Twibe. Visit twibes.com/steampunk to join. #

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• 13:52 A most splendid stroll and picnic in the park with Rabbit and Hoi Didymoi. My hovercraft is filled with eels. #
• 18:25 Automata artist Keith Newstead’s record of his 1st steampunk automata: tinyurl.com/NewsteadAutomata (view preview, it's worth it) #
• 18:30 So far today, @nullalux has been recommended for #followfriday six times. Thanks, guys! #
• 18:40 Many happy returns of the day to @mactavish, @tyrsalvia, and @reichmarshall! #
• 21:00 Off to toga party at QuinnCon. I am toga-less, but I wield a mighty thyrsus. #

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• 09:36 Happy Birthday to the exquisite Steampunk Home blog! thesteampunkhome.blogspot.com/ #
• 09:49 Dark Roasted Blend's "Vintage" category has some lovely finds: tinyurl.com/2lx7uu #
• 10:06 Expired yogurt is the bane of my existence. #
• 11:54 Oh noes, my fav massage therapist has left the facility, and my alternate fella is a bit dotty. #
• 14:48 Excellent ortho appt. And the brackets come out of my mouth on 10 June! Huzzah! #
• 14:54 @shoutingboy: It's a date. ;) #
• 18:36 In Borderlands Books on Valencia, under a vigorously purring Ripley. Also, I have an ice-bat in my purse. #
• 22:00 Ethiopian foods with @tutordennis and hang outs with a friend in the Mission. #
• 23:33 Roasting marshmallows. #
• 23:40 @carnivillain (RE: Pants status: Fancy.): Chances are your pants are not as fancy as the pair of very fancy pants Mr. Fancypants will wear. #
• 23:58 How could I have forgotten that Dudley Do-Right's nemesis on "The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show" is named Snidely Whiplash? #

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Look down The Treacle Well with me...

A sneaky peek:



( More ephemera from 13 April 2009 ) [Ye olde themes: medical history and chanteuse Regina Spektor]

Look down The Treacle Well with me...

A sneaky peek:



( More ephemera from 10 April 2009 )

Look down The Treacle Well with me...

A sneaky peek:

Flying Bunkbed

( More ephemera from 8 April 2009 )

( More ephemera from 9 April 2009 )

• 10:11 My Twibes picks, steam name-dropping edition: @LibbyBulloff, @vonslatt, @Datamancer, @slurketta, @VonClaret, @nathanfhtagn, @ettadiem... #
• 10:22 ...@3liza, @krononaut, @aethernet, @Aether_Emporium, @mollyfried, @Steampunksp, @machinafatalis, @kaden_harris, @satiredun twibes.com #
• 12:41 Internet down at work. Heaven forfend. #
• 14:31 Ποῖ ὁ χρόνος; #
• 15:19 Step back into the bizarre, alternate 1900s history of the Daze of Our Lives world: www.dazeofourlives.com/ (Peruse the Archives) #
• 16:02 Via @imogenheap: Love words? Keep them alive. savethewords.org/ #
• 19:40 Just entered a sweepstakes for a chance to win a copy of 'Pride & Prejudice & Zombies' from @twit2win. Enter at twit2win.com #Zombies #
• 19:52 Possible zombie outbreak in the news (article comments = awesome): tinyurl.com/MetairieZed #
• 20:02 Rava masala dosas w/ @tutordennis. Then salon visit to get my hairs cut. Now, kung-fu. #
• 20:39 Freyliche Pesach! #
• 22:03 My friend @pomegranates has her own little owlery: twitpic.com/319st (One of her owl families hangs in my bedroom...so enchanting.) #
• 23:06 RT @Qnonymous I like imagining the recurring bit actors in Law & Order are reprising their roles and […] just have impossibly horrific lives #
• 00:14 RT @peanutgnome: Careful, those aren't Easter Eggs—a new blog post on www.peanutgnome.com/ #halloween #prop [Alien Easter bunny mod] #
• 02:18 Deep Sea News: Deep-sea Science via Deep-sea Scientists deepseanews.com/ (they recently featured @Noadi's delightful critters) #
• 02:46 Artfire is a free community designed for artisans to buy/sell unique handmade items and designs: tinyurl.com/ArtfireReferral #

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