Doctor Who Fans

Well, Sorry folkies, I've been delayed in my writings by the evil titan lord who wants to take over our computer. It is commonly known as "Bsafe Online"

Today I found out that there are a lot of celebrity fans of Doctor Who. I was a little surprised at some of them, so I'm sharing them here.

If you hadn't gathered from the last paragraph, I'm a big Doctor Who fan.

So Douglas Adams, who wrote The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, has been a fan since season one... Also, Queen Elisabeth is a big fan (Anyone would be, if there was a show with that many episodes about them). A bunch of British people, who are no doubt amazing (that goes without saying), are fans, along with Peter Jackson, George Lucas, Stephen Spielberg.

Matthew Bellamy of the UK band Muse. I like Muse. I'm a fan. So is Stephanie Meyer, so I hear. I guess thats why they had a Muse song in Twilight, and then had them write a song for New Moon, and then only play about two seconds of it. I wasn't very happy about that. When I heard that Muse was writing a song specially for New Moon, I got all happy, and I was like "Ooooh, and with the Percy Jackson trailer, it might even be worth it to go see the movie!" But Nooooo I wouldn't have even noticed it if Amy would not have pointed it out...

Anywho, someone who co-created South Park is a fan...Someone from The Mars Volta, the current Arch Bishop of Canterbury, Patrick Stuart, Richard Dawkins, and Bob Dylan.

You may not think that its cool how many famous people like this amazing show, but I do.

And thats why I wrote a whole post about it!

Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Good morning, Neverland! The twinsaurus has been handicapped lately by a malady known as Faulty Internet. And not only that, but it's the vicious strain of Internet Protection Programs, which attack such harmless sites as blogspot. Alas.

I said I would finish my Jayne hat by today, and I did! Pictures are on the way. I experimented with tea staining because it's my opinion that the colours are too bright (Hobby Lobby only has so many options), but my experimentation was to no avail. It only served to make the yellow a bit duller, and not change the orange or red a bit, even though I used the blackest tea I own.

And speaking of black tea, the greatest comfort on a cold day of school is a large, steaming cup of Earl Grey. I parked about a mile away from school in the furthest spot in the furthest parking lot, with only the prospect of hot tea to keep me walking through the freezing wind. And here I am today.

Last night, Michelle and I happened to be home alone, and so we took the opprotunity to head to town ("to town" here means the near settlement of Louisburg, contrary to popular opinion, in which "to town" means the nearer, smaller, even more rural settlement of Drexel) to get 1)Pringles, 2) Jolly Ranchers, 3) a movie, and 4) half a watermelon (most essential to a good party). The movie was Race to Witch Mountain which stars a couple of adorable blonde kids and Dwayne Johnson. It's an action movie for kids (car chases, explosions, aliens, but no blood), and tons of fun for people who are not kids but are also not adults (i.e. the twinsaurus). I would recommend it for anyone who wouldn't mind seeing The Rock as an Unwitting Father Figure in a cheesy kid's movie.

Jayne hat pics to come!

-Amy

Watermelons

Well, heres the news.

I'm sick!

Its real great. I get to do school, and blow my nose every fifteen minutes on toilet paper, because we are out of Kleenexes.

I think this is the first time in years we have been out of Kleenexes, and its very annoying. My nose is so red I could madden a bull.

Why is that the first thing I thought of? No idea. Really weird.

Anywho, mom told me to put chapstick on the end of my nose, so I did. Unfortunately, I didn't bother looking what the flavor was, and it turned out to be peppermint.

Pain. Pain. PAIN!

Well today I was thinking about what to blog, and I got to thinking that Amy said if I would let her write about anything, she would let me write about anything, except lots of stuff about watermelons and how they are so awesome, lets see if she was serious.

Watermelons can be both fruit and the plant of a vine-like herb originally from South Africa and one of the most common types of melon. This flowering plant produces a special type of fruit with a hard green rind and a sweet pink or red flesh.

In Vietnam, legend hold that watermelon was discovered in Vietnam long before it reached China, in the era of the Hung Kings. According to legend, watermelons was discovered by Prince Mai An Tiem, an adopted son of the 11th Hung King. When he was exiled unjustly to an island, he was told that if he could survive for six months, he would be allowed to return. When he prayed for guidance, a bird flew past and dropped a seed. He cultivated the see and called its fruit "dua tay" or western melon, because the birds who ate it flew from the west. When the Chinese took over Vietnam in about 110 BC they called the melons "dua hao" which means good melon, or watermelon.

Today, farmers in approximately 44 sates in to US grow watermelons, commercially, and most all these varieties have some Charleston Gray in their lineage.

Georgia, Florida, Texas, California and Arazona are the USA's largest watermelon producers.

The now-common watermelon is often large enough that groceries often sell half or quarter melons. There are also some smaller, spherical varieties of watermelon, both red and yellow-fleshed, sometimes called "icebox melons."

In Japan, farmers of the Zentsuji region found a way to grow cubic watermelons by growing the fruits in glass boxes and letting them naturally assume the shape of the receptacle. The square shape is designed to make the melons easier to stack and store, but the square melons are often more than double the price of normal ones. Pyramid shaped watermelons have also been developed and any polygonal shape may potentially also be used. (square watermelon shown above, along with an awesome watermelon car that I WANT!)

Jayne Cobb's Ugly Hat

"A man walks down the street in that hat, people know he's not afraid of anything."

"Damn straight."

This post is about knitting, so if you're bored by that sort of thing, then feel free to skip it. A couple of weeks ago, I decided to make a Jayne Cobb hat! If any of you have watched Firefly, you'll probably remember the bad-A red, orange, and yellow hat that Jayne's mother made for him.

Being a slow beginner of a knitter, it's taken me two weeks to finish the main part, which is the hat minus the pom-pom and earflaps. I used 8mm straight needles, doubled up the yarn for a thicker weave and used the stockinette stitch, which I also just learned to do (it's simply marvelous how much seemed to pass me by when I was learning to knit a few years ago). I got my pattern from this guy, though I admit that I deviated rather a lot. It was tons of fun to make and I'll be sure to knit more often in the future!

I'll put up pictures of the Finished Product by Wednesday.

-Amy

First Independent Post

I will not, in fact, use my first post to amaze you with my plans of grand world-power because my plans are so amazing that you will be blown into shreds if you aren't exposed to small parts first. I'll break it all to you slowly, I promise.

Is it strange that two teen twinsauri have a blog about nothing but their every day thoughts?

Why not vlog? they ask us.

Because vlogging is for people who were born in the eighties and remember when there were no videos, so they still think opposable thumbs and cataloging nothingness in moving pictures is a pretty cool idea.

Us nintiers, who were practically born into cyberspace, aren't too amazed by moving pictures, since our lives are practically made up of them, and always have been. It writing thats so novel to us. I mean, using your hands to write letters on paper? Or, in this case, using all ten of your fingers to write things? Amazing!

So thats why its a blog not a vlog, because I'm a nintier, and writing is only for the very best of us.

Hello, World!

This is the first and only post that will be written by Amy and Michelle together. For a twinsaurus, they are remarkably independent of each other, and after this will be writing their own posts, thank you very much.

One day, Amy and Michelle were sitting in separate rooms, contemplating how to make their separate ideas known to the world. True to the typical nature of twinsauri, they both came to the same conclusion at nearly the same moment. A blog, now there's a capital idea! Unobtrusive, yet stylish. A simple way for our poetics to burst upon an astonished world.

However, they had a very different idea about how this groundbreaking blog would turn out. I'll use it to talk about my knitting progresses, Amy thought gleefully. Everyone wants another knitting blog. You can never have too many of those. Michelle, however, had a more diabolical plan in mind. Soon I will be President of the World, she thought. And my official campaign for dictatorship starts now! She would start winning the minds and hearts of her soon-to-be loyal subjects by talking about awesome things like watermelons and tigers, and how once she is all-powerful, the power of her amazingness will cause people to love their enemies and forget about complicated, grown-up things like healthcare and democracies.

But the extraordinary thing that you may not have known about twinsauri, especially the hybrid species that Amy and Michelle belong to, is that the two halves of the twinsauri, though drastically different to each other, are able to make compromises of historic magnitude. This blog is evidence of that compromise.