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I'm a geek. This is a tumblr blog for all my mini-web-ish stuff. When I don't have time to actually blog-blog, I drops random thoughts into this pot and see what bubbles up.

I work at Sony Imageworks Interactive.

More info and longer bloggings are on my webpage - hanabatake. I'm trying to get healthy! I'm keeping track at Ardith Healthy Do

ardith with a cylon. for reals

Keeping it geeky since the late 70's!

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Triple…Town. Help. Addicted.

omgthatdress:

whatimeantwasthis:

So very sad to hear of the death of Eiko Ishioka. She was one of my favorite designers and art directors. Her work with Tarsem Singh produced images that are seared into my brain forever for their stunning beauty.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/27/arts/design/eiko-ishioka-designer-dies-at-73.html?hp

Ishioka created some of the most stunning costumes I’ve ever seen.  She will be sorely missed.

Christmas and birthday presents from my brother. Blue wii controller!

Tomato cake?

cakelove:

Potagier Cake
 

This is a type of of veggie-cake (sweets using vegetables as ingredients) from Tokyo.Instead of plain sponge cake & strawberries, it uses green sponge cake (with grained komatsuna - a veg like spinach) and tomatoes. it actually tastes very good - lighter than strawberry short cakes. (via)

You can save lives. Please registister on Be the Match. I’ve been registered since college. Asian Americans need to register. You can save a life. Janet Liang needs your help.
deviousmouse:

internetwinnage:

stfuconservatives:

bjorkubus:

stfuconservatives:

This is Janet Liang. She has been fighting acute lymphoblastic leukemia since August 2009. Her doctors told her she needs to find a bone marrow donor by April. 
Liang is Chinese-America. Currently, only 25% of the people registered in the National Bone Marrow Registry are racial minorities. Watch her heartbreaking video and please, please, please sign up for the Be The Match Registry. Sign up online and they’ll send you a kit in the mail. All you need to do is send them a cheek swab.
Here’s some information about donating. Basically, they remove some bone marrow or peripheral blood stem cells with a needle. Your body will grow back whatever they take, and most people can expect a full recovery from the outpatient procedure in 2-3 weeks.
I’ve been a member of the registry since 2005 and I’ve never been matched as a donor. So don’t worry—it’s not like you sign up and you’ll be in the hospital the next day. You can always update your membership with them and/or ask to be removed from the registry if you change your mind. But imagine being able to save someone’s life with the stuff your body grows naturally. It’s an incredible gift to give. My friend Kevin is alive today because of a stranger who donated marrow. Janet is a friend of a friend from college, and she’s hoping social media can save her life.
Please consider signing up, especially if you’re a POC. And please reblog this to help find a match for Janet and thousands of other people waiting for a miracle.
-Jess

I’ve been on the registry for over 5 years and I get to read amazing stories about people who’ve received donations and have donated their marrow. It could take 5 days for them to match you, it could take 15 years. But I do it because someone out there, like Janet, needs it.
Like Jess said, technology has advanced so far that donating marrow can be an outpatient procedure. It’s worth looking into. :) Don’t worry about anything: costs, hospital stay, nothing. All that is paid for you. They just want your marrow.
More cool story bro: Two years ago I was selected to be a donor, but it was a preliminary screening. Basically they took out more blood and a swab. I think it’s said that 1 in 8 of the preliminary will be a match, but the odds could be less likely. Sadly, I wasn’t a match. But I hope whoever needed that donation got it.
Best of luck to Janet, I hope she’s matched with a donor soon!
tl;dr: REBLOG THIS PLEASE.

Reblogging for anyone who didn’t see this earlier today. Please hop over to Be The Match and register. And please reblog this! There is such a wonderful community of people on Tumblr, and it’d be so great if we were able to find a match for Janet or any of the other 10,000 people who need a life-saving marrow transplant.
-Jess

Well, I apparently weigh too much to join the registry, but maybe one of my lovely followers will step up?

I barely squeek by in their weight restrictions. Probably wont be able to for much longer. Anyway, followers…check it out

You can save lives. Please registister on Be the Match. I’ve been registered since college. Asian Americans need to register. You can save a life. Janet Liang needs your help.

deviousmouse:

internetwinnage:

stfuconservatives:

bjorkubus:

stfuconservatives:

This is Janet Liang. She has been fighting acute lymphoblastic leukemia since August 2009. Her doctors told her she needs to find a bone marrow donor by April.

Liang is Chinese-America. Currently, only 25% of the people registered in the National Bone Marrow Registry are racial minorities. Watch her heartbreaking video and please, please, please sign up for the Be The Match Registry. Sign up online and they’ll send you a kit in the mail. All you need to do is send them a cheek swab.

Here’s some information about donating. Basically, they remove some bone marrow or peripheral blood stem cells with a needle. Your body will grow back whatever they take, and most people can expect a full recovery from the outpatient procedure in 2-3 weeks.

I’ve been a member of the registry since 2005 and I’ve never been matched as a donor. So don’t worry—it’s not like you sign up and you’ll be in the hospital the next day. You can always update your membership with them and/or ask to be removed from the registry if you change your mind. But imagine being able to save someone’s life with the stuff your body grows naturally. It’s an incredible gift to give. My friend Kevin is alive today because of a stranger who donated marrow. Janet is a friend of a friend from college, and she’s hoping social media can save her life.

Please consider signing up, especially if you’re a POC. And please reblog this to help find a match for Janet and thousands of other people waiting for a miracle.

-Jess

I’ve been on the registry for over 5 years and I get to read amazing stories about people who’ve received donations and have donated their marrow. It could take 5 days for them to match you, it could take 15 years. But I do it because someone out there, like Janet, needs it.

Like Jess said, technology has advanced so far that donating marrow can be an outpatient procedure. It’s worth looking into. :) Don’t worry about anything: costs, hospital stay, nothing. All that is paid for you. They just want your marrow.

More cool story bro: Two years ago I was selected to be a donor, but it was a preliminary screening. Basically they took out more blood and a swab. I think it’s said that 1 in 8 of the preliminary will be a match, but the odds could be less likely. Sadly, I wasn’t a match. But I hope whoever needed that donation got it.

Best of luck to Janet, I hope she’s matched with a donor soon!

tl;dr: REBLOG THIS PLEASE.

Reblogging for anyone who didn’t see this earlier today. Please hop over to Be The Match and register. And please reblog this! There is such a wonderful community of people on Tumblr, and it’d be so great if we were able to find a match for Janet or any of the other 10,000 people who need a life-saving marrow transplant.

-Jess

Well, I apparently weigh too much to join the registry, but maybe one of my lovely followers will step up?

I barely squeek by in their weight restrictions. Probably wont be able to for much longer. Anyway, followers…check it out

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doctorwho:

Rose, Martha, Donna, Amy.

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hellyeahfringe:

giovanamedeiros:

Peter Bishop, keeps saying that,it breaks my heart.

~~You are so welcome to my universe~~

Poor lamb

Sure Thing - covered by Jamal

evebelieves:

two of my idols

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Lovely Link Art.

(via liamdryden)

So lovely. 

doctorwho:

Billie, Freema, Catherine, Karen.

I got the kindle charger adaptor when I bought my kindle touch. Now that I’m returning it, the UPS drop off shipping return costs $6.98! I’m going to send this by usps instead….

I’m returning my kindle touch. Alas, it just didn’t work out. 

I was annoyed with the interface and reaction times and it negatively effected my reading pleasure. BOO!

Prius C is going to be $19,000.