Saturday was the Literary Extravaganza hosted at Beale Street Brews. This was the second sortie in a fundraising effort to help students at the dojo (White Wind Tiger) pay for their fees for an upcoming tournament. Once students get past a certain rank, tournament attendance is compulsory, but the fees can run as high as […]
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Quite Possibly the Best Photo I’ve Ever Taken
Published by June 21st, 2008 in One Thousand Words. 0 CommentsI bought this artwork.
The artist’s site is here.
This is my picture. A bargain for $40 to commemorate the Weird Tales festival.
Oh … yes, it’s insane. But so am I.
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Postergasm II: Assorted Nerdery
Published by January 22nd, 2008 in Yoshi and One Thousand Words. 5 CommentsThe sequel to Postergasm I, here I drop various images of various things for various purposes. As with the first post the high-res versions are optimized to print on an 11 x 17 sheet — not exactly movie-poster size, but large enough to be noticeable.
After the fold, miscellaneous posters along with descriptions. Enjoy!
For starters […]
Postergasm I: Mars, Venus, Moon
Published by December 19th, 2007 in Yoshi and One Thousand Words. 2 CommentsI mentioned last week that I’d assembled a few tabloid-sized posters for Yoshi’s room, in what I hope will be a successful attempt to instill wonder at the nature of … well, nature.
Below the fold is the first set of those posters, as JPEG previews with links to the PDFs (for high-res printing; these are […]
Stranger than we Can Imagine
Published by December 12th, 2007 in Reality Trumps 'God', O, Pine With Me, Yoshi and One Thousand Words. 0 CommentsSir Arthur Eddington said this of our cosmos: “Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine; it is stranger than we can imagine.” I was reminded today of that fact by an image I’d forgotten.
In an effort to reduce the bareness of the walls in Yoshi’s bedroom (as well as in an effort to […]
A meditation practice used often in the Buddhist world, tonglen (”giving and receiving”) is often construed as being a means by which the suffering of someone may be relieved. It’s not unusual to hear of tonglen requests directed toward another, and seems to be used often as an analogue to prayer.
This doesn’t strike me as […]
The SPucker: A Product I Really Wish Someone would Invent
Published by October 26th, 2007 in General Foolishness, One Thousand Words and Advertising Matters. 1 CommentBut it’s genuinely not possible. After you’ve read some of the mock ad copy and checked out the PDF of the “advertisement” flyer,1 I think you’ll agree that it’s tragic no such device will ever exist.
Spam Got you Down?
In 2006, 17 exabytes of junk emails and commercial spambot blog comments were transferred in the United […]
I have SO Got to Do This!
Published by October 25th, 2007 in General Foolishness and One Thousand Words. 0 CommentsAn excerpt from a recent Dinosaur Comics:
Go and check out the whole thing. Doesn’t this seem like a hell of a fun idea?
Once when I was getting cable installed at a rental, the technician asked if I had a ladder he could use. I was suddenly overcome with an insane urge, one I intend eventually […]
Imam Calmly Reflects on Merits of Open Discourse
Published by September 17th, 2007 in You Must be F***ing Kidding and One Thousand Words. 2 CommentsHa ha, made you look. No, of course not.
The Swedish cartoonist at the centre of a row over drawings of the Prophet Muhammad says police have taken him to a secret location for his own safety.
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The purported head of al-Qaeda in Iraq has offered $100,000 (£49,310) to anyone killing Mr Vilks.
Religion of Peace, huh? I’m […]
Well, why not?
(Original uncapped image from my [confined] space)
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Hard to imagine it’s been that long.
Tuesday, 11 September 2001, America got a hell of a wake-up call.
I’m not going to recap what’s happened since then.
I just have an image that might be worth considering.
As a PDF.
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Yet More Evidence of Retardation Among the Religious
Published by September 5th, 2007 in You Must be F***ing Kidding, Reality Trumps 'God' and One Thousand Words. 0 CommentsThere’s simply no way that we can extend the concept of tolerance to any practitioners of the following examples of egregious stupidity:
Officials at Nepal’s state-run airline have sacrificed two goats to appease Akash Bhairab, the Hindu sky god, following technical problems with one of its Boeing 757 aircraft, the carrier said Tuesday.
Yep, goat sacrifice. In […]
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