Gesso makes messo

Turns out that you can open a stuck jar of gesso by prying under the lid with a screwdriver. Works real well. Lid comes off all at once, real quick-like. If your goal involves covering your shirt, hands, arms, and several floor tiles with gesso, I cannot recommend this technique highly enough.

But that’s not all! Since the first question 90% of my friends ask when I talk about gesso is “What is gesso?”, I figured I’d provide a web link. I typed what is gesso into Google, and it came back with a definition link.

"Sam, Ziggy says you're here to heal the sun."

Man, this is too early for me to be awake given how late I was up last night. (Well, maybe not now, but I’ve been awake for over an hour.)

A new half-formed conjecture came to me in last night’s New Sun reading (I’ve started Castle of the Autarch, the last book of the series proper.)

( SPOILERS for both Book of the New Sun and Book of the Short Sun — twice your spoilage milage! )

Movies

I don’t think camwyn intended this as a meme, but I haven’t seen a whole lot of classic movies either, so here’s the IMDB’s Top 100, with the one I’ve seen bolded:

( 42 out of 100 )

I don’t take this very seriously as a Top 100 Movies list.