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Somehow I’ve found time to browse a little even during the holidays…

I don’t like a bird, but a boy on a bird looking about to kill it with a knife is somehow appealing, more odd plates at Forgot Shop (via poppytalk).

I can’t decide if I think the custom fingerprint jewelry is creepy or cool (via Craft).

Digging the Boing Boing shared crooked house.

All in the name of science (via Boing Boing).

My affinity for skateboarding (watching not riding) and irregular sized objects drew me to this tiny skate park on a skate board (via The Daily What).

I never realized what an outdoor rug affinity I had but this is the third (first, second) that I’ve pointed out. (via Apartment Therapy)

Terrariums are alright but tiny snippets of life are entirely intriguing (via sfgirlbybay).

The House that Jealousy Built on sfgirlbybay almost always has at least one thing I can’t resist sharing, this time my favorite is this panda chair (not in the name of science).

These underwater sculptures are sort of haunting (via Boing Boing).

Sure is the prettiest woodpile (via Boing Boing).

Anything that Mr Koolaid is a part of even if it is about the Battle of Yorktown is worth a look (via Boing Boing).

I may need to plan my next trip to China for this ice event, more shots at link (Boing Boing has been good to us this month).

I don’t know anything about the case that this interesting art is creating awareness on but I am now aware.

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new and noteworthy tv: 12/27-1/2

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As the New Year approaches it’s not really time for new television, yet…

Monday

  • Disappeared (ID, 7pm) Season Premiere – Looking at folks who…
  • Bait Car/All Worked Up (Tru, 8/10pm) Season Premieres – Tracking cars that are too good not to steal and folks who deliver bad news.

Tuesday

  • Rudolph’s Shiny New Year (ABC, 8pm) – The claymation continues.
  • Kennedy Center Honors (CBS, 9pm) – Honorers and honorees.
  • Hardcore Pawn (Tru, 10/10:30pm) Season Premiere – More pawn action.

Wednesday

  • My Strange Addiction/Toddlers & Tiaras (TLC, 9/10pm) Series/Season Premieres – Folks who do weird things and folks who make their kids do weird things.
  • I Used to Be Fat (MTV, 10pm) Series Premiere – I guess people who used to be fat.

Thursday

  • Happy New Year, Charlie Brown (ABC, 8pm) – Even Charlie Brown deserves a good year.

Friday

  • New Year’s Eve with Anderson Cooper and Kathy Griffin on CNN (8pm), Daryl Hall on WGN (8pm), Fox News (8pm), New York Philharmonic on PBS (9pm), Dick Clark on ABC (10pm), Carson Daly on NBC (10pm), MTV (10:30), Andy on Brav (10:30pm), Fox (11pm).

Saturday

  • Tournament of Roses Parade (Various, 8am) – The floats, the flowers, the somewhat famous…
  • Oprah’s Guide to OWN (OWN, 12pm) Network Premiere – So Oprah’s taking on the new network with original programming that she intends to be teaching and inspiring including many of her show’s favorite personalities.
  • Cash & Cari/Selling New York/Candice Tells All/Dear Genevieve (8/8:30pm) Season Premieres – Something about houses and/or decorating.
  • V (ABC, 8pm) – In case you missed it and cared they’re replaying these starting with the pilot at 8.
  • Primeval (BBCA, 9pm) Season Premiere – Something about time and the Cretaceous period.

Sunday

  • Iron Chef America/Worst Cooks in America (Food, 8/9pm) Season Premiere – Good cooks, bad cooks.
  • My Fair Wedding/Rich Bride, Poor Bride (WE, 9/10pm) Season Premieres – Wedding and wedding and…
  • What Chilli Wants (VH1, 9pm) Season Premiere – Is Chilli’s biological clock ticking?
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new and noteworthy tv: 12/20-12/26

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‘Tis the season for tv repeats…

Monday

  • Million Dollar Money Drop (Fox, 8pm) Series Premiere – We all felt like we were missing another nonsensical game show.
  • Perfect Couples (NBC, 10pm) Series Premiere – This latest sitcom brings couples who are probably quirky in hopes of hilarity.

Tuesday

  • A Very Gilly Christmas (NBC, 9pm) – For those of you who just can’t get enough Gilly.

Wednesday

  • A Home for the Holidays (CBS, 8pm) – Performances to raise awareness of adoption.
  • Throwdown with Bobby Flay (Food, 9pm) Season Premiere – Beef empanadas.
  • Country Christmas (ABC, 9:30pm) – Holiday traditions and country tunes.

Thursday

  • How the Grinch Stole Christmas (ABC, 8/8:30pm) – First the animated version and then Jim Carrey

Friday

  • Disney Prep & Landing/Phineas and Ferb (ABC, 8/8:30pm) – What Christmas Eve is complete without animated shows I’ve never heard of.

Saturday

  • TVs Funniest Holiday Moments (Fox, 8pm) – Someone came up with 30 funnies for Jane Lynch to introduce.
  • Yule Log (Kofy, 10pm) – So this is the bay area station where the flames and tunes can be found.

Sunday

  • Running Wilde (Fox, 9:30pm) – Ok so maybe this is the actual time that they start burning these off.
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new and noteworthy tv: 12/13-12/19

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Not a ton new happening until after the holidays, I suppose it’s time to start catching the end of year movie releases.

Monday

  • Phowned (Spike, 7pm) Series Premiere – Prank calls.
  • Howe & Howe Tech (Disc, 7pm) Season Premiere – The gents look into some metal stuff.
  • Mariah Carey (ABC, 9pm) – And she sings…
  • Intervention (A&E, 9pm) Season Premiere – Is it time to battle the addiction?
  • Swamp Men (NatGeo, 10pm) Series Premiere – Gator, raccoon, and snakes oh my.

Tuesday

  • I Want a Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown (ABC, 8pm) – Don’t we all want a dog for Christmas?

Wednesday

  • 24/7 (HBO), 10pm) Season Premiere – A look at the Pittsburgh Penguins and the Washington Capitals may explain what a capital is.

Thursday

  • Charlie Brown Christmas (ABC, 8pm) – First the dog, now what?

Friday

  • Yes, Virginia/Frosty the Snowman/Frosty Returns/I Get That A Lot (CBS, 9:30pm) – Holiday fun and then Heidi Klum, I think I would never recognize a celebrity in real life.

Saturday

  • WWE Tribute to the Troops (NBC, 9pm) – Do the troops really want to see wrestlers?

Sunday

  • Running Wilde (Fox, 7pm) – Never a good sign when they move new episodes of a show to Sunday at 7.
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new and noteworthy tv: 12/6-12/12

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TNT is bringing back some good stuff before we hit the new year, did I say new year?

Monday

  • American Country Awards (Fox, 8pm) – Trace Adkins hosts the country kids.
  • The Sing-Off (NBC, 8pm) Season Premiere – I actually kind of enjoyed this a capella glee-esque reality competition.
  • The Closer/Men of a Certain Age (TNT, 9/10pm) Season Premieres – Will Brenda’s business change with a new chief and how will the men fare in business and in pleasure?
  • Next Great Baker (TLC, 9pm) Series Premiere – Pastry chefs compete.
  • Tabatha’s Salon Takeover (Brav, 10pm) Season Premiere – Hairy business.
  • True Life/The Vice Guide to Everything (MTV, 10/11/11:30pm) Season/Series Premieres – A look at ladies without sex and then lots of sex.

Tuesday

  • Charlie Brown Christmas (ABC, 8pm) – Good grief.
  • Minute to Win It (NBC, 8pm) Season Premiere – More weird tasks for money.
  • Cupcake Wars (Food, 9pm) Season Premiere – Cakes, small but with wow.
  • Eureka/Warehouse 13 (Syfy, 9/10pm) – Holiday specials syfy style.
  • Ramsay’s Best Restaurant (BBCA, 9pm) Series Premiere – Because we need more Gordon Ramsay.
  • Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys (Sund, 10pm) Series Premiere – Reality with a gals and gays grouping.

Wednesday

  • Fashion Forward (CW, 9pm) – Fashion, designers, celebrities…
  • MANswers (Spike, 10:30pm) Season Premiere – Random dude stuff.

Thursday

  • Shrek the Halls/Prep & Landing/Barbara Walter’s Specials (ABC, 9/10pm) – Animation, Oprah, and… the 10 most fascinating people

Friday

  • Tom Brokaw Presents Bridging the Divide (USA, 7pm) – Civil rights, the economy, technology…

Saturday

  • Frosty the Snowman/Frosty Returns/The Flight Before Christmas (CBS, 8/8:30/9pm) – It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas.
  • Video Game Awards (Spike, 8pm) – Get your joysticks ready.

Sunday

  • Ax Men (Hist, 9pm) Season Premiere – Alaska logging at its finest.
  • Basketball Wives (VH1, 9pm) Season Premiere – Will someone offend someone else?
  • Leverage (TNT, 9pm) Season Premiere – Let’s get our con on.
  • Midseason Preview (NBC, 9:30pm) – What, more television?
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Here are a few more delightful items that I’ve come across during my days, and nights, of procrastinating.

I would like to be a pet person, but my apartment and my lifestyle do not allow it, so now and again I dabble with goldfish and what better way than in a special bowl. More options available on Apartment Therapy.

Somehow I can’t make my eyes see what this SF shot merely taken an angle really is.

Why aren’t all buildings shaped like what they sell? More to be found at mental_floss

I am enamored with polish though my professional skills would be challenged with these styles I’m going to give it a go thanks to the beautiful example of YSL polish from 80s Purple.

I don’t know if this bench would go with my panda footstool but it would go perfect somewhere, pointed out by laughing squid.

I don’t really understand how this works but who could not be obsessed with miniature mail shared by Design Sponge.

I’m not much of a bike rider myself but this horse bike or write bike might put me in the mood.

Animals are fun but animals in irregular situations are even more fun thanks to Wildlife Prints (via sfbaygirl) and Anthropology (via Apartment Therapy) more fun prints and pics at links.

Clever but cruel via Boing Boing.

Something appealing about a rug that looks so grassy, the trees on the wall don’t hurt the effect, Apartment Therapy gives a tour of this loft.

Street signs with a little something extra from Boing Boing.

Why shouldn’t hangers be art, though they won’t hold clothes as well in this form (via Apartment Therapy).

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new and noteworthy tv: 11/29-12/5

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Thanksgiving is over and time to officially start Christmas programming…

Monday

  • CMA Country Christmas (ABC, 9:30pm) – Holiday performances and traditions, country-style.

Tuesday

  • Christmas in Rockefeller Center (NBC, 8pm) – Natalie Morales and Al Roker host the celebs and the flipping of the switch.
  • Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer/The Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show (CBS, 8/10pm) – Fun for the whole family.
  • How the Grinch Stole Christmas/Shrek the Halls (ABC, 8/8:30pm) – Good green fun. 
  • Strange Days with Bob Saget (A&E, 10/10:30pm) Series Premiere – Saget joins in subcultures to entertain with bikers and bigfoot.

Wednesday

  • The Grammy Nominations Concert Live (CBS, 10pm) – LL Cool J hosts noms and performances.
  • Celebrity Rehab with Dr Drew (VH1, 10pm) Season Premiere – I can’t resist the draw of the greatest train wreck show of all, but glad to say Dr Drew really is trying to help them.
  • Storage Wars (A&E, 10/10:30pm) Series Premiere – What happens when you stop paying for your storage unit?
  • Top Chef (Brav, 10pm) Season Premiere – The all-stars edition brings back contestants.

Thursday

  • Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town (ABC, 8pm) – He sees you when you’re sleeping…
  • Brad Meltzer’s Decoded (Hist, 10pm) Series Premiere – A ten-part series on conspiracies that may or may not be decoded.

Friday

  • Gold Rush (Disc, 10pm) Series Premiere – Who doesn’t think looking for gold in Alaska is a good idea in this latest reality?

Saturday

  • The Shield (Spike, 3am) – Reairing the pilot of this series that I never caught the first time around.

Sunday

  • Gene Simmons Family Jewels/The Hasselhoffs (A&E, 9/10pm) Season/Series Premiere – More family reality fare.
  • Bama Belles (TLC, 10pm) Series Premiere – Will it dispel clichés about Southern gals or reinforce them.
  • I Survived… (BIO, 10pm) Season Premiere – People survive yucky things.
  • Brandy & Ray J (VH1, 11pm) Season Premiere – I’m sure something happens.
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new and noteworthy tv: 11/22-11/28

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Monday

  • Antiques Roadshow (PBS, 8pm) Season Premiere – What’s valuable?
  • Skating with the Stars (ABC, 9:11pm) Season Premiere – Contestants include… some people you have maybe heard of.
  • Fabulous Cakes (TLC, 10pm) Season Premiere – Even bad cake isn’t so bad.

Tuesday

  • Start Thanksgiving planning early.

Wednesday

  • Merry Madagascar/Kung Fu Panda Holiday Special (NBC, 8/8:30pm) – Can we hold the Christmas/Winter specials for another two days?

Thursday

  • Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade (CBS, 9am) – Where there’s turkey there’s a parade.
  • Punkin Chunkin (Disc, 8pm) – Launch those punkins.
  • Taylor Swift/People of the Year (NBC, 8/9pm) – Blah, blah, blah.
  • Charlie Brown Thanksgiving/Beyonce (ABC, 8/9:30pm) – Wa wa wah wa wa.
  • Cold Diggers (Sci, 10pm) Series Premiere – Digging in the cold.

Friday

  • TV’s Funniest Holiday Moments (Fox, 8pm) – Hilarity.

Saturday

  • Merry Madagascar/Kung Fu Panda Holiday Special (NBC, 8/8:30pm) – Was that so hard… after Thanksgiving.

Sunday

  • Kate Plus 8 (TLC, 10pm) Season Premiere – And the reality continues.
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new and noteworthy tv: 11/15-11/21

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Monday

  • 1 vs. 100 (GSN, 7pm) Season Premiere – One person competes against one hundred in trivia.

Tuesday

  • Glory Daze (TBS, 10pm) Series Premiere – Four guys try to join fraternity life when heading off to college, though I enjoy a youngster frolic and an 80s show this doesn’t look good. 

Wednesday

  • Human Target (Fox, 8pm) Season Premiere – I almost liked this spy guy for hire show last season, and will give it another shot to see how they tweaked.
  • 25 Years of Sexy (ABC, 10pm) – Kim Kardashian hosts this look at People Magazine’s sexiest man alive past and present.

Thursday

  • Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (ABC, 8pm) – What’s Snoopy cooking up?
  • Pawn Queens (TLC, 10/10:30pm) Series Premiere – The ladies cater to the ladies in matters of pawn.

Friday

  • Homemade Millionaire (TLC, 10pm) Series Premiere – Kelly Ripa hosts some ladies trying to get their inventions selling on HSN.

Saturday

  • College Football?

Sunday

  • 2010 American Music Awards (ABC, 8pm) – Current artists and The Backstreet Boys and New Kids on the Block.
  • Brew Masters (Disc, 10pm) Series Premiere – What goes into a craft brew?
  • Jilted? (WE, 10pm) Series Premiere – What happens when the ladies give an ultimatum?
  • Top Gear (Hist, 10pm) Series Premiere – Vehicle reviews.
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I may have mentioned that whilst procrastinating I do things other than watch television, or at least sometimes things whilst watching television. What better way to procrastinate than good old web surfing. I often come across random things that delight me in one way or another and following is the first in what may become somewhat irregular posts of things that I thought others might delight in as well.

Oh Joy! brings a host of vases of heads (more at link).

If you don’t want a head shaped vase, craft points out what might be an interesting exhibit but at least shows a weird moss person.

I have an acknowledged fondness for childlike things and think this Land Carpet shared by Craft might be super in my not children’s room.

For those fans of art cars here’s a baskety one, more photos on process and car at Poppytalk link.

As a longtime fan of Pee Wee I can’t resist sharing, nor could The Daily What.

I know the green roof at the De Young is eco friendly, but Boing Boing had this whole other thing.

When you think of crochet you think of giant sculptures at least The Daily What might.

I have a fondness for tigers (among other critters), so I delighted in sfgirlbybay‘s photographers of tigers real and plastic, oh and other animals too.

I just met misery bear, and he’s adorable, though not called misery bear for nothing.

Boing Boing shared this slightly bizarre plushie mutant artwork (more art at link).

The Daily What points out some fashion that might have Dave Rittinger taking going green too far (check link for other leaf variations).

sfgirlbybay’s weekly post brings much delight, not sure which I like best, the book walker, the chair benches, or the book installations (check link for full gallery of images).

I’ve always been a fan of the hunting lodge head on wall (in a tribute to a beautiful animal sort of way and not a creepy hunt and put a dead head on the wall kind of way) and Apartment Therapy gives some wonderful moose and deer options (more of each at links).

I keep trying to become a person who can just randomly throw down origami, but am not disciplined enough to learn how to do anything except fan fold a napkin. This guy puts me (and really anyone) to shame, check out his story and slide show sadly noting his passing at NY Times (pointed out by Craft).

I really could be doing more interesting things with my spare time like making this flip flop monkey art installation piece (from Daily What).

I tend to not pass along the just plain cute, but apparently there is a new baby animal book from zooborns, I could look through their site for hours (from Boing Boing).

And please let thoughts be known about the host of random items or ideas for a more descriptive title in the comments.

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