The feral bunny at leisure
Notice the insouciance of the backward-and-to-the-bunny’s-leftward cast of the rear feet.
Jim W, a Window Cleaner
I worked as a window cleaner for a short stint and, let me tell you, this is sick. Oddly enough, there is no dearth of window cleaning videos on youtube.
Roll Away the Stone
A gloss on sha-la-la-la push-push.
Image Fulgurator
Julius von Bismarck has created a machine — the Image Fulgurator — that is activated by another camera’s flash. At that point, the fulgurator takes over and imposes a projected image over the area the other person is trying to photograph, invisible to the eye, visible only to the other camera’s sensor.
Depending on whom you ask, it’s either a clever hack or an obnoxious intrusion.
Sounds like our kind of guy.
At its simplest, the Fulgurator is a very easy hack. A hole has been cut in the back of the camera and a piece of clear, roughened acrylic put in its place. A rear tube allows the flashgun to slide in. Everything else remains intact. The slides themselves are just rolls of processed film (the pictures are snapped from Julius’ computer monitor) returned to their canisters and then loaded up as if a normal film. Any image on the reel can be selected by turning the rewind crank. When you hold the Fulgurator up, you can see the subject on the acrylic screen and line it with the image on the slide. You can also focus, to ensure the final projection ends up sharp.
Waves of Qualification
Saturday morning coffee, newspaper, PBS on in the background–British Antiques Roadshow:
“Ah…Yes. A very much slightly over-romanticised view of mother and child.”
Dear clusterflock
What helps?
Amazing horsemanship
What Cindy just Said
Suck my Loch Ness.
Your Favorite Laptop Models
I was checking my AOL email a couple of minutes ago, and that was one of their scrolling news headlines. I had to think about it for a minute before I realized they were talking about computers.
Blow torch. Just because.
The search for Cindy’s Loch Ness poop
No poop, but I found this:
With the weekend upon us, someone will find this information useful.
Jesus Appears on Granite Slab in Dallas
Texas has had its share of Jesus sightings on tortillas, and occasionally he and/or his mom turn up on panes of glass, but now he’s shown up on a slab of granite. Cool.
By the way, be sure to read the comments. Unfair Park is a great Dallas blog, and yours truly often leaves comments there. Smart, funny people.
Dear clusterflock
I’m changing the subject.
Poop (that always works)
Of Books and Garbage Dumpsters
In the hard-on hope of injecting a shot of levity into the exchange concerning the tossing of books, I offer two incidents from the life of Ryan.
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Men’s room mural
Today’s Quotation
“Where there’s a hard-on, there’s hope. Where there’s hope, there’s a hard-on.” (Jonathan Martin, June 27, 2008.)
Stool Doody
So I work a little part-time job a couple days a week (at a library), and today I was told I was on “stool duty,” which my (equivalent of an eleven year old’s) brain basically hears as “poop poopy*,” so in celebration of that, I give you the latest in the world of poop:
- Democratic Convention May Debut Use of Poop Gun
It’s basically like the sick-sticks in Minority Report, except it works in the, uhh, other direction. - Bird Poop Facials
No, not that kind of facials. The other kind of facials. You pervert. - Teacher Receives Grant for Alternative Fuel Source Project
The source? Worm poop and sugar beets. My mom used to make a nice worm poop and sugar beets casserole for Sunday dinner. Ahh, those were the days… - Spraying It Pink—The Latest Scheme To Tackle Dog Fouling
Because dying the poop pink will apparently embarrass dog owners into cleaning up after their pets? Really? The secondary purpose, it seems, is to help people avoid stepping in the doo. Of course, whoever’s painting the turds could probably use that time cleaning them up, no?
*I’d try to explain what it really meant, but it’s just not worth the effort of contextualization for our purposes.
iPhone Snap: Amy in Dressing Room
Richard Prince and Copyright
Some thoughts on Richard Prince from Rob Haggart get to the core of our copyright discussion.
Call me a crank
but I still get quite a lot of pleasure out of hearing “The Modern Age” by The Strokes.
And then there was the time
I caught a glimpse of a partially hidden graffito in the men’s room in the building at UT Arlington where the History Dept was housed and, instead of realizing the obvious GO MAVS, the first thing that came to my mind was GO SLAVS.
Neurocinematics
A study of scans of movie-watchers’ brains showed Hitchcock to be a master of manipulating language, sight, and sound for complete cinematic effect.
The data obtained were then subjected to a newly-developed statistical method called inter-subject correlation (ISC) analysis, which is designed to measure the similarities in the responses of all the participants. Thus, the first 30 minutes of Sergio Leone’s classic spaghetti western The Good, The Bad and The Ugly produced an ISC score of 45%, while Larry David’s Curb Your Enthusiasm scored 18%. The study also provides some evidence that Alfred Hitchcock really is the master of suspense – his 1961 film Bang! You’re Dead gave a score of 65%.
Two Million Dollar House “Staves Off Death”
I’m pretty sure this isn’t a spoof.
Autobahn Pirates
Pick-pocketing a truck at 60mph in the dark-
In the nighttime darkness, with their lights off, the men drove up behind a transport truck.
Once in place, one man climbed onto the hood of his own car, then used a bolt cutter to break a lock on the trailer door before heaving it open and climbing inside. He then handed boxes of electronics back to a second man on the car hood, who loaded them into the thieves’ vehicle, Radecke said.
A second car blocked the left lane during the operation to prevent other cars from pulling too close, he said.
Because both cars had their headlights off, Radecke said, the truck driver never noticed he was being robbed.
Toss It!
Tyler Cowen makes a case for throwing away read books.
