clusterflock » Christopher Walken http://www.clusterflock.org a site about everything Mon, 13 Feb 2012 01:00:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Speaking of Kottke … http://www.clusterflock.org/2012/01/speaking-of-kottke.html http://www.clusterflock.org/2012/01/speaking-of-kottke.html#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:21:16 +0000 Christopher Walken http://www.clusterflock.org/?p=81422 He has a great post up about John Tyler’s grandsons still being alive, which is insane to think about seeing as how Tyler was the 10th President of the US and was born in 1790.

He suggests coining a term for someone or something that bridges a huge span of time, in this case almost two hundred years of history.

There’s also this 1956 game show appearance of a Lincoln assassination eyewitness and Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935) shaking hands during his lifetime with both John Quincy Adams (b 1767) and John F Kennedy (d 1963), one man spanning 200 years of American history.

Jason suggests “history bridges”. I suggested “minding the history gap“. His is more of a noun, I suppose mine is more of a verb — as in John Tyler’s grandson is minding the history gap. Neither really hits the nail on the proverbial head, so to speak. But doesn’t there need to be a coined phrase for this sort of phenomenon.

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Amy Lombard photographed awkward moments in IKEA stores, a book with her series is being published. She’s now raising funds with pre-orders. See more.

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A French doctor specializing in the same operation said hundreds of men applied to him every day, longing for monkey testicles.

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by Kim Noble

(Did you spot the stormtrooper?)

posted by Pete

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What say you, Flockers? Too skeuomorphic or cute-sy?

(via core77)

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Last night demons took possession of someone dear to me. The demons smashed things up, and they cracked up the yarrow stalks I use for I Ching readings.

On my way out the door, I felt the smack of my I Ching volume in the small of my back.

Today I am smiling.

There is a load of yarrow nearby, and the sun is shining. I am cutting yarrow stalks.

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What did I leave out?

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]]> http://www.clusterflock.org/2011/12/dear-clusterflock-2011.html/feed 17 Lost in Translation http://www.clusterflock.org/2011/12/lost-in-translation.html http://www.clusterflock.org/2011/12/lost-in-translation.html#comments Fri, 16 Dec 2011 00:58:53 +0000 Christopher Walken http://www.clusterflock.org/?p=79556 Xfinity recently started adding transcriptions of voicemail messages to its email notifications. Most of the time they’re non-sensical. Sometimes almost funny. Here’s a message to my wife Lois from our Dr. Allegar, reminding her of an upcoming physical.

“Hi this message is for Luis I’m calling from Doctor alexander’s(?) Atlanta to confirm your appointment for Monday at two o’clock for his vehicle immediately. If you could give us a call back here blaming me for Monday at two o’clock. Thank you.”

I can understand Lois->Luis and Allegar->alexander, but it took me a while to figure out that vehicle was the translation for physical. Why they asked us to “call back here blaming me for Monday” still totally eludes me.

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