today both qwantz and diesel sweeties really hit home. i also enjoy the scent of sharpies (and gasoline…and paint…and especially hardware/home improvement stores). and, i’m also finding myself more and more outraged by the price of clothes and food. remember when a decent plain ol’ shirt was only like five bucks? yeesh. what about stamps? and movie tickets??
Archives for category: look over here!
i think this is a religion we can all get behind. behold, flying spaghetti monsterism. i know i’ll be praying to His Mighty Meatera tonight. this is a pretty good example of how a wikipedia can be used for some questionable causes. no offense, monsterists. see full size image here
vaguely related: the museum of food anomalies. if you’re planning on eating lemons or hard-boiled eggs or eggplants ever again, i’d recommend staying away from this site. and now that i’ve said that i know that all of you will be running to see what the fuss is about.
update: 3D rendering of our noodly master
via one of my new favorite blogs, drawn!, i came across a guy by the name of steve wolfhard. he’s an animator/illustrator/cartoonist/drawer/whatever and he has some excellent sketches. he also has a weblog, and this one entry was so funny i actually snorted some of the soup i was eating up into my nose. it was tomato and it burned.
update: i just re-read this and against all possible reason…it made me hungry.
go here and you can look at google maps with the streets superimposed in transparency over the satellite images! genius!!
when i was in high school and trying to decide what i wanted to study at university i toyed with several different areas of study. one of them was archaeology. i ended up entering college with an undecided major (and would later transfer to rtvf). in the college of arts & sciences two freshman seminars were required and for my first (and only) i chose one in the field of geology. the seminar was about the effect of geology and geographical location on the development of societies and dovetailed nicely with my potential major. the main text for the seminar, Guns, Germs, and Steel: the Fates of Human Societies. At the time, that book was the most interesting thing i’d ever read. later i took courses in anthropology and archaeology and learned about the maya, evolution and zooarchaeology. i suppose you could say i was stoking the fires of my interest in the development of my species.
today eric gave me a link to an article that originally appeared in Discover magazine that is along the same lines. it is about the supposed ‘biggest mistake’ to have occurred in the history of humanity – the abandonment of a hunter-gatherer–based society for an agrarian one. if you are interested in anthropology or the history of humanity in general, i think you’ll find the article pretty thought-provoking.
look, if someone doesn’t get me this natural 20 tshirt (size S), and quick i’m just going to have to…buy it myself.
already purchased today: time tags, perfect for running!
i forgot! yesterday was eric and my 2 year anniversary. i mean, i didn’t forget about the anniversary, just to post about what eric gave me…tetris tower 3-D!! it is…AWESOME. not too challenging when playing by yourself, but there is something delightfully eeeee-vil about thwarting your opponent’s plan to complete a row when playing head-to-head.
our romantic night? eric cooked some of his awesome chili with hand-pulled chicken. this chili is the best chili ever (of the gourmet fancy-schmancy kind…the best fast food chili is from wendy’s); it has barbecue sauce and brown sugar and chocolate. mmmmmm. afterwards we watched some csi and played my new tetris game and then….went to sleep! that’s right – hot snoring action. eric had gotten up super-early in the morning to meet the movers at his apartment so he was pretty wiped out; i stayed up and read a bit then also passed out – and all before midnight. ahhh, pretty romantic, eh?
and what is my ultra-romantic present for eric, you might ask? oh, get this: NEW TIRES and maybe BRAKES. i bet every woman out there is jealous of my gift-giving skilz. i’ll have guys lining up to get some new radials or rotors out of me.
…i could’ve said ‘lube job’ or something like that, but let’s face it: nothing sexy about my gift AT ALL. however, i maintain that i am quite possibly giving a gift that could SAVE HIS LIFE. so really, it’s the gift of LIFE. not just spare car parts. seriously. this is how i rationalize things so i can sleep at night, okay?
happy anniversary eric!
so…idaho is passing a resolution to commend the hesses for making napoleon dynamite, as it has brought attention to idaho and it’s many positive aspects. seriously. i actually thought that it painted a sort of bleak picture of life in idaho – since i couldn’t for the life of me figure out in what year it was supposed to be set. at first i thought it was the early to mid-90s…when kip was talking about his internet girlfriend i was thrown off a bit but thought ‘hey, this guy seems pretty nerdy. maybe he’s just an early adopter.’ but once pedro’s cousins showed up in their low-rider i got confused and then became disturbed when i realized this must be happening closer to present-day.
no offense to idaho or idahoans or anything, just…is it really like that? i mean, i’m from a place where the high school is sandwiched between a cornfield and a beanfield and my house is in a township whose name is actually, i kid you not, ‘rural township’. there were days during the year when the farmboys would drive their tractors to high school and our school district started the school year on a certain date to make sure that we would still be on summer break when the rodeo occurred. i thought i had a pretty good gauge of isolated small-town culture. i guess there are still a lot of out-of-the-way/untouched places out there. which is sort of comforting, really when you think about it.
see full text here. they even use the phrase ‘freakin’ idiots’ in the official text!
[ via tyler, to whom i wish the sweetest and juiciest oranges]
ghee happy is the website of an animator over at pixar. he’s illustrated a book for kids about hinduism that is extra cute. the site even says so. i like his animation style – particularly the wee vishnu that greets visitors on the home page. i am, however, a bit amused (or…relieved? whatever.) at the lack of giant phalluses in any of the gods’ portraits, wherein they are depicted with the items they are associated. although – he didn’t wimp out and give kali a daisy or something; she has a skirt of severed arms and a corpse’s head in one of her hands. …but they are CUTE severed body parts.
check out what dawn brought me from japan! tiny plastic food! tiny sushi! if you look at the re-ment site it seems like all they sell is tiny plastic food and furniture and purses. also she brought me some vintage postcards and a little guy with crazy hair who i don’t recognize but he’s neat (i realize the whole ‘crazy hair’ thing doesn’t really narrow it down at all. sorry.)!
update: the pink stuff is herbal tea with cherry blossoms. thanks kyle!