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[cblj_backup]

Good morning, Internet! You are conspiring to unnerve me today.

Seriously, I have all these link to share, and many of them are just bizarre.

The least disturbing of them is still a little unsettling. This planter senses where the sunlight is and moves your plant around the room to get the best light. Check out those awesome stumpy little steampunk legs, or get a sense of it in action although I suspect the stop-motion means it's currently a non-functional prototype. My inner Jack Baker wants one of these even though I'm fully aware that I don't need or want an actual plant.

Relatedly, someone suggested I needed googly eyes to paste onto my Roomba, and a quick search for Giant Googly Eyes produced a purse made from craft googly eyes. I'm pretty sure I literally recoiled from the screen when that image came up.

(You can find more info about it here, if you are insane and wish to know anything more than PURSE MADE OF CRAFT EYES.)

And then there is the knitwork, which I feel kind of obliged to share now that the Cafe has its own Ravelry group. The brain monster hat is actually pretty awesome, but I can't imagine why anyone would knit the horse's head from The Godfather. Pure morbid cussedness, I suppose.

Finally, fiveforsilver and I got into a discussion of what "implanting the internet in your head" would actually entail, and it resulted in a very short piece of fiction that might get put on the schedule to be novelised once Jack and Ellis is completed.

SAM STARBUCK: boldly striding down the dark dead-end alleyways of the internet so you don't have to!

Comments

[gypseian.livejournal.com]

IT'S LIKE BAR TARDIS (http://sam-storyteller.livejournal.com/149408.html).

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

I didn't wanna toot my own horn or anything....:D

[love-1776.livejournal.com]

FIRST ROOMBA NEEDS A NAME! All googly eyes will fall into place after.

Funnily enough, I'm knitting my sister the monster hat for Christmas. She's all excited.

What about Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day?

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Roomba has no name, Roomba needs no name! :D

(frozen)

[shadowedkit.livejournal.com]

I am going to run with your last comment. Question to Cafe: If you could jump on to the Tardis (the Doctor being the lovely person that he is), what time and place would you like to visit?

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Of course you need and want a plant! You could have a little lemon tree and have fresh homegrown zest for curd and whatnot, or an attractive and utilitarian herb garden! And an ambulatory plant is practically a pet.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

I don't think I have room for a lemon tree. A herb garden might be fun.

My problem is not that I am bad with plants or forget to water them or anything. I'm pretty good with plants. I just haven't got the patience for them. GROW MOAR NOW DAMMIT.

[abigail-nicole.livejournal.com]

I have seen that hat many a time. HATS WITH TEETH AND GOOGLY EYES.

also I watched the first episode of Torchwood ever last night. in the middle of finals. must resist. just a week...!

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Resist! Finish out your finals. And then you have 25 whole episodes awaiting you!

[shadowedkit.livejournal.com]

it is hard, I warn you. You probably could watch the next one, but after that? Don't. You will want to continue and continue and continue. Despite uneven writing and some interesting acting, the show somehow makes you want to watch it more.

*shudders at thought of hat*

[shadowedkit.livejournal.com]

*dies laughing* I love that plant but I do not want it in my living room. I am trying to imagine your Roomba's reaction to it, or a cat's reaction to it! Now *that* would be an icebreaker with strangers in your home.

Googly eyes are creepy. But I do like the purse :-)

I am very amused at that conversation and the consequent piece of fiction. What's worse? I want to read more! lol.

Oh man Sam, where do you get all this stuff? heh, this makes the whole waking up to your previous post with the head so much better :-)

[florahart]

That planter would probably be the end of my toes. I would whack into it and trip every day. Plus, I would forget to water the plant anyway, so it would be pointless.

Well, unless it also knows when it is out of water and goes to the shower, and also unless it senses approaching people and scurries out of the way.

...whole new game: frighten the planter.

*uses bizarre object icon*

[bodlon.livejournal.com]

The sad thing is, I'm actually planning on making myself an earflap hat when I'm done with ZOMGTOOMUCHGIFTKNITTING¹. The brain monster tells me that I am on the way to victory. Oh yes.

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¹ This happens to me every year. I assume that owning needles and string will just result in the spontaneous generation of items my friends might like. And then December happens, I am not surrounded by scarves and hats and stuff, and have to actually make them.

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

I'm actually planning on making myself an earflap hat

A Jayne-hat, or just the regular kind?

[wellowned.livejournal.com]

i'm less worried about cloning than most, i guess. i'm very practical. i figure harvesting organs from semi-sentient meat is no better and no worse than hacking them from the freshly dead.

then again, i almost agreed with Jonathan Swift's Modest Proposal. *sharpens teeth*

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

I'm not terribly worried about it, but a lot of other people sure seem to be.

A long time ago a friend of mine had, as their messageboard sig file, "Solve two of the world's major problems: Feed the homeless to the hungry."

[niqaeli]

but I can't imagine why anyone would knit the horse's head from The Godfather. Pure morbid cussedness, I suppose.

But, SAM! You could put it in a mortal enemy's bed! Would YOU want to go to bed or wake up to that?

[twirlynoodle.livejournal.com]

Or if you're a macabre and hilarious parent, you could make it for your wee bairn's sleepy-beddy-time stuffed animal.

[thewlisian-afer.livejournal.com]

Knitted Dissections (http://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/permalink/knitted_dissections/#When:15:10:00Z) for your knitters.

[beachlass.livejournal.com]

Ohgoodlord.

I think that wins for the most disturbing knitting link ever.

[aunty_marion]

Uh-oh. I looked at that Monster Hat, and I've just had a message from one of the people I knitted Eye-of-Sauron hats for ... and she was asking if I could knit hats for two friends, and she could link me to photos and so on. Now I have strong suspicions as to what she wants me to make!

*giggle* Oh well, forewarned is fore-armed, as they say.

[aunty_marion]

Yes! I was right! My Mental Powers of Anticipation are *awesome*!

Brain-Monster hats FTW.

At least it wasn't the goggle-eye purse, though I'm already considering where to get Humungous Goggle Eyes... *g*

[3goodtimes.livejournal.com]

I'll knit you an offer you can't refuse (har har har).

I totally want that hat... so cute!

[abraxas-life.livejournal.com]

That purse would be SO COOL if they eyes could move independantly.
Imagine standing behind a lady in a line somewhere, when you look down you catch sight of her purse, and it's covered in eyes which are all slowly swerving around in different directions, watching everything around it.

[brewsternorth.livejournal.com]

Sounds like something from Monsters, Inc.

[girlpearl]

I don't find the googly-eye purse creepy at all, BUT--if you showed it to me in person, I'm sure it would give me the willies big-time. Googly-eyes just look like bubbles unless they're actively googling. Yeesh.

Also, I need that planter thingum for my sad little succulent. Although I'd hate to see it try to do battle with the catfaces.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

Mojo would probably walk into it. While it was standing still.

[beautcellardoor.livejournal.com]

Please write this story. Like yesterday. Now I'm going to have to ponder the logistics of this during bio. Damn you...

[happi-feet.livejournal.com]

Somehow I picture in my mind the Ambulatory Herb Garden and the Roomba being arch enemies. The AHG would flirt with the snow boots because it knows that the Roomba is in love with them, and drop dirt everywhere just to piss it off.

[hy-perion.livejournal.com]

Okay, continuing from my last comment.

We have a faux-roomba (Is the same, but not called a Roomba) and mum stuck eyes to it. But it's cooler to get the eyes from something like these (http://pix.auctiva.com/pix/10/00/06/JOE_GOOFY.JPG) and stick them on. BECAUSE THEN THEY MOVE AROUND.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

ROFL, you must stick them on the top then? Wouldn't they get tangled up in it otherwise?

Cthulhu Ftaghn

[jcomer2001.livejournal.com]

--Relatedly, someone suggested I needed googly eyes to paste onto my Roomba, and a quick search for Giant Googly Eyes produced a purse made from craft googly eyes. I'm pretty sure I literally recoiled from the screen when that image came up.

(You can find more info about it here, if you are insane and wish to know anything more than PURSE MADE OF CRAFT EYES.)

HAIL THE SLIMY ONE!!!!

[mcgonagalls-cat.livejournal.com]

Not sure if the horse head is more disturbing or that you are looking at purses.....


Twirleynoodle said:
"Or if you're a macabre and hilarious parent, you could make it for your wee bairn's sleepy-beddy-time stuffed animal."

As one who read Animal Farm and Illusions to her her kid as a bedtime story... Ya know, that just might work!



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