May 13, 2012
Mother's Day 2012
Call your mom today. Hug her if you can. Tell her you love her.
Because some of us aren't able to anymore.
Call your mom today. Hug her if you can. Tell her you love her.
Because some of us aren't able to anymore.
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April 08, 2012
Easter 2012
Happy Easter! Not much else to say, really...
Happy Easter! Not much else to say, really...
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March 17, 2012
St Patrick's Day 2012
Green! Green everywhere!
Green! Green everywhere!
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February 14, 2012
Valentine's Day 2012
There's no doubt in my mind that The Pond is the only place on the intarwebz where you're going to find this:
The combination of rubber duckies and Katawa Shoujo for Valentine's Day, exclusive to this little website. And you get to see it... aren't you lucky?
Rin's opinion notwithstanding, of course.
The combination of rubber duckies and Katawa Shoujo for Valentine's Day, exclusive to this little website. And you get to see it... aren't you lucky?
Rin's opinion notwithstanding, of course.
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January 12, 2012
Ducks In Anime: Yarrrrrrr!
-Bodacious Space Pirates, Ep01
I'm... not sure about this show. On the one hand, everything seems to be perfect. The characters are believable, or at least they're as believable as a show like this ever gets, the artwork is quite appealing, the animation is acceptable, there seems to be plenty of room for both humor and drama, and there's a bodacious space pirate rubber duckie. Oh, and "Bodacious Space Pirates" would be a great name for a band. Like I said, perfect.
-Bodacious Space Pirates, Ep01
I'm... not sure about this show. On the one hand, everything seems to be perfect. The characters are believable, or at least they're as believable as a show like this ever gets, the artwork is quite appealing, the animation is acceptable, there seems to be plenty of room for both humor and drama, and there's a bodacious space pirate rubber duckie. Oh, and "Bodacious Space Pirates" would be a great name for a band. Like I said, perfect.
Bodacious Space Pirate Waitress
On the other hand, everything seems to be perfect, and that scares me. This could go so very very wrong... which would actually be pretty fun. I find that I'm quite looking forward to Ep02.
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December 25, 2011
The Twelfth Day Of Duckmas 2011
I can't really add anything to that.
Another Duckmas season has come and gone. The Flock have already opened their gifts and are busy doing what duckies do on Duckmas morning: having a breakfast of freshly baked rye bread and orange juice (duckies love orange juice). Their party gives me a chance to sneak off and wish you, my readers, happiness and security for the coming year.
And ducks. Lots and lots of ducks.
I can't really add anything to that.
Another Duckmas season has come and gone. The Flock have already opened their gifts and are busy doing what duckies do on Duckmas morning: having a breakfast of freshly baked rye bread and orange juice (duckies love orange juice). Their party gives me a chance to sneak off and wish you, my readers, happiness and security for the coming year.
And ducks. Lots and lots of ducks.
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December 24, 2011
The Eleventh Day Of Duckmas 2011
Did you know it takes 49 minutes to wrap a rubber duckie? I know that sounds unlikely, but that's how long it took to get the purple devil duckie ready for this picture. Fortunately, wrapping easy, simple shapes, like boxes, tesseracts and klein bottles takes much less time than wrapping a duckie, so I should be able to get everything ready for Christmas.
I don't know about you, my readers, but I do have a little tradition when it comes to gift-wrapping. I do it late on Christmas Eve, mug of hot chocolate (complete with immersed candycane) at the ready, whilst listening to WGN-AM out of Chicago. In the past, the overnight team has a high school choir in the studio with them, so I wrap while they sing and banter. It just occurred to me, however, that I won't be able to do that this year, as the overnight show is only on weekdays, and they have someone else on the weekend. Woe is I.
It's kind of amazing how fast the Twelve Days of Duckmas has gone this year. While much more challenging than normal due to the lack of winter weather (and I'm probably the only person in Duckford complaining about the lack of snow), I think it's turned out okay. Hopefully you've gotten a kick out of it; the Twelve Days is just about the only time of year I can really be artistically creative, so I enjoy it quite a bit. Even if it does disrupt normal blogging here at The Pond.
Big finale on Sunday... see you then!
Did you know it takes 49 minutes to wrap a rubber duckie? I know that sounds unlikely, but that's how long it took to get the purple devil duckie ready for this picture. Fortunately, wrapping easy, simple shapes, like boxes, tesseracts and klein bottles takes much less time than wrapping a duckie, so I should be able to get everything ready for Christmas.
I don't know about you, my readers, but I do have a little tradition when it comes to gift-wrapping. I do it late on Christmas Eve, mug of hot chocolate (complete with immersed candycane) at the ready, whilst listening to WGN-AM out of Chicago. In the past, the overnight team has a high school choir in the studio with them, so I wrap while they sing and banter. It just occurred to me, however, that I won't be able to do that this year, as the overnight show is only on weekdays, and they have someone else on the weekend. Woe is I.
It's kind of amazing how fast the Twelve Days of Duckmas has gone this year. While much more challenging than normal due to the lack of winter weather (and I'm probably the only person in Duckford complaining about the lack of snow), I think it's turned out okay. Hopefully you've gotten a kick out of it; the Twelve Days is just about the only time of year I can really be artistically creative, so I enjoy it quite a bit. Even if it does disrupt normal blogging here at The Pond.
Big finale on Sunday... see you then!
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December 23, 2011
The Tenth Day Of Duckmas 2011
Lack of snow gotcha down, Binky? Have I got a solution for you... Insta-Snow! Just add water and voila! A lovely snow-like substance... except in my case, because I bought a cheap knockoff ("Insty-Sno") and ended up with a not-as-lovely slush-like substance that eventually ended up looking like well-packed snow.
Y'know, I have to admit that I was surprised at how much it looks like snow "on camera". However, I am saddened to announce that Insty-Sno did a number on my blackbox setup, and I had to throw it in the dumpster. Not like that's a big deal or anything... it's just a cardboard box with posterboard lining the inside, I can recreate that at will. The old setup was pretty worn out anyway.
If you want to see what this picture looked like from a different angle, just click "more"!
more...
Lack of snow gotcha down, Binky? Have I got a solution for you... Insta-Snow! Just add water and voila! A lovely snow-like substance... except in my case, because I bought a cheap knockoff ("Insty-Sno") and ended up with a not-as-lovely slush-like substance that eventually ended up looking like well-packed snow.
Y'know, I have to admit that I was surprised at how much it looks like snow "on camera". However, I am saddened to announce that Insty-Sno did a number on my blackbox setup, and I had to throw it in the dumpster. Not like that's a big deal or anything... it's just a cardboard box with posterboard lining the inside, I can recreate that at will. The old setup was pretty worn out anyway.
If you want to see what this picture looked like from a different angle, just click "more"!
more...
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December 22, 2011
The Ninth Day Of Duckmas 2011
"Eight wings! Eight freakin' wings!"
The annual sojourn to the local shopping mall! I can state for the record that, at least in Duckford, the whole shopping frenzy is alive and well. On an aside, I'd like to say "hello" to Stephanie, the young lady who cut my hair Wednesday night. Good job, it looks great... or at least as "great" as my hair ever looks.
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December 21, 2011
The Eighth Day Of Duckmas 2011
A tree needs to be decorated and trimmed, even if there's no snow on the ground. Right?
A tree needs to be decorated and trimmed, even if there's no snow on the ground. Right?
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December 20, 2011
The Seventh Day Of Duckmas 2011
Happy Hanukkah to all of The Pond's Jewish readers. May you get lots of gelt and eat lots of latkes and pontshkes over the next eight days! Mmmmmmm... latkes... there's very little as good as a latke with sour cream. Excuse me while I drool.
Happy Hanukkah to all of The Pond's Jewish readers. May you get lots of gelt and eat lots of latkes and pontshkes over the next eight days! Mmmmmmm... latkes... there's very little as good as a latke with sour cream. Excuse me while I drool.
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December 19, 2011
The Sixth Day Of Duckmas 2011
"Merry Christmas! Out upon merry Christmas! What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer; a time for balancing your books and having every item in 'em through a round dozen of months presented dead against you? If I could work my will, every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart."
-Ebeneezer Scrooge, from A Duckmas Carol.
"Merry Christmas! Out upon merry Christmas! What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer; a time for balancing your books and having every item in 'em through a round dozen of months presented dead against you? If I could work my will, every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart."
-Ebeneezer Scrooge, from A Duckmas Carol.
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December 18, 2011
The Fifth Day Of Duckmas 2011
If you wanted to whistle music from The Nutcracker as you look at this picture, I wouldn't blame you.
If you wanted to whistle music from The Nutcracker as you look at this picture, I wouldn't blame you.
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December 17, 2011
The Fourth Day Of Duckmas 2011
If there's one thing that just about every college or university student can agree on, it's that the food in the cafeteria is never good enough. I actually rather like the food service at Duck U, m'self. Sure, it's no gourmet five-star restaurant, but it's good, tasty food with a wide and varied selection every day. Nevertheless, it's probably written in the handbook that a college student has the god-given right to complain about the food at their school, and the student body at Duck U does so at every opportunity. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, none of it is acceptable.
Except for the desserts. Those earn universal praise. Cookies, cakes, ice creams, donuts, scones (om nom nom!), puddings, and on and on... all of it made right there in the Duck U kitchens. The ducklings are lucky, and they know it.
There was a lot of "soooooo cute!!!"ing at the sight of the gingerbread duckies that day. It was kinda funny, actually.
We got less than a quarter-inch of snow last night. It's already melting away.
If there's one thing that just about every college or university student can agree on, it's that the food in the cafeteria is never good enough. I actually rather like the food service at Duck U, m'self. Sure, it's no gourmet five-star restaurant, but it's good, tasty food with a wide and varied selection every day. Nevertheless, it's probably written in the handbook that a college student has the god-given right to complain about the food at their school, and the student body at Duck U does so at every opportunity. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, none of it is acceptable.
Except for the desserts. Those earn universal praise. Cookies, cakes, ice creams, donuts, scones (om nom nom!), puddings, and on and on... all of it made right there in the Duck U kitchens. The ducklings are lucky, and they know it.
There was a lot of "soooooo cute!!!"ing at the sight of the gingerbread duckies that day. It was kinda funny, actually.
We got less than a quarter-inch of snow last night. It's already melting away.
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December 16, 2011
The Third Day Of Duckmas 2011
When the snowducks begin to grumble, you know there's something big going down.
When the snowducks begin to grumble, you know there's something big going down.
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December 15, 2011
The Second Day Of Duckmas 2011
Gotta keep the rain off the presents!
You can't tell from the photo, but it was raining to beat the band while I was taking this.
Rain. Less than two weeks from Christmas, and it's raining! Doesn't Ma Nature realize I have duck pictures to take???
You can't tell from the photo, but it was raining to beat the band while I was taking this.
Rain. Less than two weeks from Christmas, and it's raining! Doesn't Ma Nature realize I have duck pictures to take???
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December 14, 2011
The First Day Of Duckmas 2011
Push the button, Frank, it's time for the Twelve Days of Duckmas again!
Ah, the duckie in a fir tree, the usual beginning to the Twelve Days of Duckmas. This will be the fifth year of holiday duckies, and this one's going to be different from the previous four. See, in the past there's been no shortage of snow around Pond Central and Duck U when the Twelve Days came around, but not this year. According to the weather nabobs, there's a chance of flurries in a week or so... and that's it; snow-free until sometime after the 25th. I love a challenge.
Tune in every day between now and Christmas Day for a new Duckmas photo!
Ah, the duckie in a fir tree, the usual beginning to the Twelve Days of Duckmas. This will be the fifth year of holiday duckies, and this one's going to be different from the previous four. See, in the past there's been no shortage of snow around Pond Central and Duck U when the Twelve Days came around, but not this year. According to the weather nabobs, there's a chance of flurries in a week or so... and that's it; snow-free until sometime after the 25th. I love a challenge.
Tune in every day between now and Christmas Day for a new Duckmas photo!
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November 24, 2011
Thanksgiving 2011
I like pumpkin pie. A lot. So much that I'd be perfectly happy having pumpkin pie all year round. Which is why I don't let myself have pumpkin pie more than a once or twice a year. Thankfully, today is one of those times.
That's a good start, yep. For my readers here in the US, have a Happy Thanksgiving! If you're not in the US, have a grand Thursday!
That's a good start, yep. For my readers here in the US, have a Happy Thanksgiving! If you're not in the US, have a grand Thursday!
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November 11, 2011
Veterans Day 2011
At 11 o'clock in the morning of the 11th of November, 1918, silence fell across the Western Front. No shots rang out. No artillery rounds exploded. The cease-fire that would lead to the end of World War I had finally been declared. Around the world, people everywhere celebrated... and mourned.
In 1919, President Woodrow Wilson made November 11th Armistice Day, a national holiday. In his proclamation, he said:
"To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country's service and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of the nations."
After World War II, a movement began in Emporia, Kansas, to turn Armistice Day into a holiday honoring all vets. In 1954, Congress officially replaced "Armistice" with "Veterans", and the day has been known as Veterans Day ever since.
Today, we honor all those who have served our country, and remember those who gave their lives in her service.
Without you, we wouldn't be able to do the goofy things we do today. Thank you.
At 11 o'clock in the morning of the 11th of November, 1918, silence fell across the Western Front. No shots rang out. No artillery rounds exploded. The cease-fire that would lead to the end of World War I had finally been declared. Around the world, people everywhere celebrated... and mourned.
In 1919, President Woodrow Wilson made November 11th Armistice Day, a national holiday. In his proclamation, he said:
"To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country's service and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of the nations."
After World War II, a movement began in Emporia, Kansas, to turn Armistice Day into a holiday honoring all vets. In 1954, Congress officially replaced "Armistice" with "Veterans", and the day has been known as Veterans Day ever since.
Today, we honor all those who have served our country, and remember those who gave their lives in her service.
Without you, we wouldn't be able to do the goofy things we do today. Thank you.
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November 04, 2011
The Yan Yan Pirates Return!
Yarrrr, me hearties! The accursed scalliwags of the snack scene, the Yan Yan Pirates, have once agains been spotted sailing the (very) low seas! Hide your tasty delicacies, for none are safe while they're around... and to them knaves the Pocky Ninjas, hear this: they're comin' fer you, too!
(thanks to The Imperial Palace for the use of their ship, and for the yummy orange chicken, too!)
Yarrrr, me hearties! The accursed scalliwags of the snack scene, the Yan Yan Pirates, have once agains been spotted sailing the (very) low seas! Hide your tasty delicacies, for none are safe while they're around... and to them knaves the Pocky Ninjas, hear this: they're comin' fer you, too!
(thanks to The Imperial Palace for the use of their ship, and for the yummy orange chicken, too!)
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