Omega Point

A blog by Catherine Winters


25 Jul

Blogathon 2009: Arts and crafts? Oh no!


Wooly Lemmings!

Want. Seri­ously.

I spent so much time play­ing Lem­mings when I was younger. What an awe­some game. June of Plan­etJune has included cro­chet pat­terns and sug­ges­tions for acces­sories on her blog.

And to cro­cheters out there: what bet­ter than cro­cheted Lem­mings to go with my Weighted Com­pan­ion Cube? I mean, really.

(Via jwz.)


10 Jul

C3YVR: CupCakeCampVancouver09


CupCakeCamp

Cup­cakes may not be exactly as pictured.

There. That’s sort of a title, right? So yes, in just a few short hours, I will be attend­ing Cup­Cake­Cam­p­Van­cou­ver at Work­space in Gas­town. While there, I will be eat­ing cup­cakes, look­ing at cup­cakes, remem­ber­ing cup­cakes I’ve eaten in the past, and so on.

I hadn’t orig­i­nally been able to get a ticket, but man­aged to snag one this after­noon from a gen­er­ous par­tic­i­pant who wasn’t able to make it him­self. (Thanks again, M!) I’m look­ing for­ward to it.

So what is it? In CupCakeCamp’s own words:

What is Cup­cake­Camp Vancouver?

Cup­cake­Camp Van­cou­ver is an event built on the ‘bar­camp’ model, where peo­ple come together to share and eat cup­cakes, and par­tic­i­pate in cup­cake tast­ing com­pe­ti­tions! You don’t need to bake any cup­cakes to par­tic­i­pate, but there will be prizes awarded to the win­ners in the big cup­cake competitions!

This event is not-for profit, and we will be donat­ing all of the pro­ceeds to the Down­town East­side Women’s Cen­tre, an orga­ni­za­tion that pro­vides a safe, sup­port­ive space for women and chil­dren in Vancouver’s down­town east side.

Neat.

If you can’t make it, this is nat­u­rally going to get some cov­er­age on Twit­ter. Most of it will prob­a­bly not con­sist of tweets of “om nom nom,” so it could actu­ally be enter­tain­ing. (Don’t have Twit­ter? Sign up and fol­low @catherineomega and a mas­sive bunch of other peo­ple, or use Twit­ter Search.)

(Photo taken by Tara Hunt at Cup­cake­Camp SFO 08.)


14 Feb

To My Web 2.0 Valentine…


This is what we came up with at Social Sig­nal for Valentine’s Day this year. It’s the per­fect way to say “I love you” to that spe­cial some­one with 800 pic­tures on Flickr. See? It’s not such a bad hol­i­day after all!


13 Feb

Maki Mac Mitt!


Fear not, cit­i­zens! To bet­ter help me fight crime do my new job, I got a new Mac­Book Pro for work. It’s pretty shiny. And scratch­able, by the looks of things. To pro­tect its fin­ish and main­tain a sharp, pro­fes­sional image for meet­ings, it’s impor­tant to always travel with the Mac­Book secured inside a durable, padded sleeve. Also, the sleeve should have pic­tures of sushi on it.

sushi laptop sleeve

Say it with me: “awwwww!”

Want your own? I ordered this spiffy, custom-made sleeve from Salty­gal on Etsy.com. She makes super-cool stuff, and for very afford­able prices. I’m going to order more. At ran­dom. It’ll be good.

(I’d also like to note that while the above photo was posed, it was not actu­ally staged. I really was –and con­tinue to be– that excited.)


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