Late to the meme.

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More links than you can shake a stick at.

pixel pointed me at this site of amazing LEGO-ness. I've seen the picture of Escher's balcony floating around various people's LJs and weblogs before, but I didn't know that the same guy had done Belvedere and Ascending and Descending in LEGO. I told pixel about the LEGO harpsichord, which for some reason he hadn't seen.

These things reminded me of Cory Doctorow's excellent rant about why the phrase 'that guy has too much spare time' is so pernicious, and also of the MC Escher cross-stitch patterns available from Cross Stitch Collectibles. All I have to do is finish one of my current projects - preferably the cross-stitch one - and I can order one. But which? Some of the more intricate ones, which are intrinsically cooler, don't translate well into cross-stitch. Too many details are lost. I'm thinking maybe I'll do Three Worlds, but only because they don't have my favorite Escher picture.

Completely unconnected to Escher, or LEGOs, or having too much time on one's hands: nowhere girl, an online comic about alienation and coming out, recommended by Neil Gaiman.

Now I need to find another disconnected link, or nowhere girl will stand out as an awkward appendage to a post about geeky buildy things. Oh! therealjae and I are going to be having black sushi print sundresses instead of white ones as planned. That's because the company from which I was going to order the white fabric completely messed up the order process and eventually admitted that they didn't have as much fabric as I needed anyway. (They tried to sell me another print they swore was "just about the same," but I don't think it's nearly as nice.) It's a shame that they're so flaky, because they have great fabrics.

Enough links for one day? No, wait, one more: foodies should definitely check out the Grub Report, the very excellent weblog of a student at the Cambridge School of Culinary Arts. She writes well about food, and also writes well about the process of learning to be a chef. I want to go to her house for dinner.

Updated to add: The bit about nowhere girl is still the only part of the post that's not about geeky buildy things. Oops.