Flecks of… Gray?

from imgur.com

Lately, I’ve been finding all these old Megaman crafts and games very interesting. I’ve found the post it note window picture like the one above, the cross stitch megaman from a few posts ago, a new favicon.ico, a boss beating shirt, a golden book, chain mail, a lot of quilts, an afghan, a card holder, a mosaic, a tattoo, stained glass, sprite charts, guitar versions of the music, the game itself online, or megaman playing super mario brothers.

Phew – lastly, for those that like other games too, there’s sheet music for Super Mario Brothers.

On the back of some amazing goaltending by Halak, the Canadiens have beaten the top team in the league (Capitals) after being down 3-1 in the series. I was able to watch the game 7 yesterday and it was a tense one; it felt like the Habs were resting on their early goal for far too long but the amazing goaltending held them and they were able to get the massive win.

The Habs haven’t been to the second round since ’07 when they lost to the Flyers and they haven’t made it past the second round since ’92 when they won the Cup against the Kings. They’re off to face the Penguins who they’ve only faced one other time (in ’97) and beat them in the first round 4-2.

In other great news, my other new favorite team, the Canucks, have also made it to 2nd round by beating the Kings 4-2 in the series. They’re off to re-face the Blackhawks who they lost to last year 2-4. Congrats to Henrick Sedin for winning the league scoring title (Art Ross trophy) with 112 points – first time for a Canuck.

Lastly, congrats to my local Abbotsford Heat (Calgary Flames’ farm team) on beating the Rochester Americans (Florida Panthers farm team) after being down 3-1 in that series. Good luck in the next round against the Hamilton Bulldogs (Montreal Canadiens farm team); I’m not quite sure who I’m cheering for there.

Doesn’t Taylor Lautner (aka Jacob from New Moon) look a lot like Sidney Crosby? Both Heidi and I thought that exact thing independently while watching the terrible New Moon.

Doesn’t Wendell Pierce (aka “Bunk” from The Wire) look a lot like Quinton Aaron (aka “Big Mike” from The Blind Side)?

picture from onechordwonder on flickr

I’ve been thinking of ways to merge my geeky side and slightly effeminate crafty side into a cool project and this cross stitch project is starting to look like the perfect fit. As you may remember, I did all my Excel preparation beforehand.

The person who did these MegaMan cross stitched beauties even gives a tutorial outlining the colors that you’ll need to get (black (310), white (5200), a fleshy color (945 or 744), light blue (3846) and dark blue (3843)) as well as the software to make new patterns and get the color recommends (PCStitch).

This should be a more adequately sized project as opposed to my slightly impossible goal of making a crocheted MegaMan blanket.

from zodiackiller.com

I’m not really recommending the Zodiac as a great movie to watch, it’s a bit long but it left me with an interest in the codes that the killer wrote in to the newspapers about what he was up to. Interestingly, there is still 1 of the cyphers that remains unsolved.

There’s a pretty complete list of his letters to the newspaper along with the cyphers that have been solved, but one is still unbroken to this day. What makes it pretty challenging is that he misspells some words, there are no spaces, and he uses more than one symbol per letter. I’m sure Batman could crunch this out in a few minutes using his super batcave computer, but sadly, he’s fictitious. I’d take a stab at it but much smarter people than me have already tried and failed, so… we wait.

picture via inhabitat.com

About 2 years ago I did a post of the Story of Stuff which is a good video of where stuff comes from and where it ultimately goes to and what drives the cycle.

The people that made that have now made a new video called, “The Story of Bottled Water.” It’s equally interesting and challenging as it outlines the benefits of bottled water (none), the reason it exists (make money) and what you can do to stop the waste (bring an empty).

The Story of Bottle Water

from marriedtotheusa

Ohh, this one is me.

“Look at that one! What kind of fish is that, dad?”

“I haven’t the faintest! I’ve spend my whole life entirely consumed with pop culture… Anything relevant I might have learned about the natural world has long been displaced with a list of bands, movies, and video games I have mindlessly consumed.”

“Look! He’s all puffy! I’m going to call him Blubby.”

“You know what would be cooler? Why don’t you call him… Halo 3?”

There’s a collection of good graphic designs, many of which are quite funny, over here at Only Creative for Glenn Jones