From the Archives & Archivists (A&A) List digest:
Subject: Storage of a grass skirt
Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2012 20:43:43Hello!
Wanted to ask if anybody has any recommendations about how to properly
store a grass skirt?Thank you!
Offer: Elmo toy
Posted to the Dubuque Freecycle list:
Chicken Dance Elmo. A little dirty, but works.
Sent from my Verizon Wireless smartphone
Wanted tea pots of any kind
Posted to the Dubuque Freecycle list:
Wanted tea pots of any kind the odder they are the better I live in Maq. but am willing to drive to Dub but not on bad weather days thanks in advance.
Los grumildos
Low-tech mechanical puppets on the fringes of society. They have the size of a Barbie doll, and everything moves.
Gracias a Tom Sale.
Fairies of Christmas Passed…Deconstructed
The Blue Fairies laid on the table from the tree en masse. These were created by a former greensman employee three or four years ago. I remember, as he made them, into a box-top in the backroom of the greensman offices, I entered the room he was working in. He said, as he shook the boxtop, “Look, they live! ” He giggled and grinned a grin somewhere between the grinch and the baby jesus. That vision will forever live in my heart.
An Introduction
My car is a Kia.
I drive to IKEA.
I had Chick-fil-A for lunch.
Wanted: Globe
Posted to Dubuque Freecycle list:
Just a plain old globe. Condition doesn’t really matter.
some people told me not to walk into nature at all
According to BHMAC (the Mine Action Committee for Bosnia and Herzegovina), just over 3.5% of the land area of the country is still contaminated by landmines. Many of the deminers in the field believe roughly 10% of the country can still be deemed a landmine area. They also feel that nowhere in the countryside is safe, as they may clear one area but a torrential downpour may unearth landmines upstream or upriver; consequently, these unearthed landmines find their way into vicinities that were deemed safe weeks, months or even years ago.
(via BLDGBLOG)
from the spam
This can indicate that a watch has spent some or all of its life in the tropics and was not serviced as regularly as it need to have been.
quote out of context
Using Einstein’s E=mc² formula, which states that energy and mass are directly related, Prof Kubiatowicz calculated that filling a 4GB Kindle to its storage limit would increase its weight by a billionth of a billionth of a gram, or 0.000000000000000001g.
OFFER — BOWLING BALLS
Posted to Dubuque Freecycle list:
I have about a dozen or so of these. Not sure if they could be used for bowling . . . I was making mosaic gazing from them. No, I don’t know the size/weight of them. In Galena.
From the same poster:
OFFER — extruded styrofoam-type insulation
I have three sheets of this stuff. One is pink, the other two are blue. Not full sheets. I was making Halloween (tombstones) decor with them, and had this left over. There’s enough to make another 6-8 of them.
I’m Just Askin’…
The cap I bought at Saks in Pittsburgh last weekend. Me? Or home skillet? My good friend KP said it looked like me.
Smog, To Be of Use
(thanks, Tim)
headline of the day
Man Arrested for Having Sex With Inflatable Raft
headline of the day
Niagara Falls plunge: searchers find man’s body while looking for woman
Artifice and foam rubber
In fact, so much artifice and foam rubber is often used to create the sexually alluring woman that it’s sometimes difficult to know where the lady ends and the foam rubber begins.
Via dangerous minds by way of Roger Ebert.
a comic book with invisible ink
Comics break the rules of storytelling, invent new ones, and break them again – more often than almost any other medium. This graphic novella is about looking – an investigation into perception, storytelling and optical experimentation that inherits some of the curiosities behind the previous work of BERG.
Litho printed on 115gsm silk paper in tones of black and blue, SVK uses a third ink invisible without the SVK object. The object is a UV light source which unlocks hidden layers woven throughout the comic book. Reading SVK becomes a unique and strange experience as you see the story unfold through the eyes of Thomas Woodwind.
First and foremost SVK is a modern detective story, one that Ellis describes as “Franz Kafka’s Bourne Identity”.
It’s a story about cities, technology and surveillance, mixed with human themes of the power, corruption and lies that lurk in the data-smog of our near-future.
Be sure to click through the link, scroll down a bit, and hover over the sample comic with your cursor for a test drive. (via Dave Gray)
from the comments
Hey, I’ve never been an honorary man. I have a guy card — big difference. It was revoked for a time, so I keep it up my ass now. With my grandfather’s watch.
dear clusterflock
_________ is the best technology I have owned.
tweet of the day
Cat-Library™
This would solve all my problems. All of them.
(Via Dylan, who got it from Charlie)
Bath in 100 Objects
A serendipitous notice (in light of Phil’s recent post) from one of my archives/museum conduits.
A Ghost From Christmas Past
I was boxing up Danny’s home-made presents for his family to get in the mail this afternoon. I was visited….
A Jensen household Christmas. The holiday went something like this. (If there have ever been Christmas traditions, these Jensens held the rights to them.) Risengrød late Christmas eve morning, then preparations for dinner. Danny and his mom in the kitchen. Off to church at 5:00 for the Christmas Eve service. Back home for dinner, then cleaning up. Then pulling the Christmas tree to the middle of the living room floor and holding hands and circling the tree, Danish Carols. Then opening presents. (This is a big family, y’all.)
After opening presents, Danny left the room. I don’t remember the rest exactly so I’ll make up what happened next. I found him leaning over, his hands spaced out on the rails of the pool table downstairs at his parents’ house, sobbing. “Oh honey, what is it?” “The box wasn’t there,” he said. I said, “What box?”
Murdered Kansas Abolitionist David Hoyt’s Bloodstained Map and Condolence Letter
What he was doing in the area is not entirely clear. Some reports indicate that he was attempting to negotiate a truce with proslavery elements; others suggest that he was “testing” the intentions of Southerners in Lawrence by entering a proslavery gathering unarmed.
The Cowan’s Auctions copywriter continues,
Included with the lot is a 3pp letter, 5 x 8″, Leominster, 11 Sept. 1856. The letter is from James F. Legate to the parents of David Hoyt expressing his condolences and trying offer some solace in the idea that their son gave his life …that Freedom might live….Take comfort for he died that Liberty might come to the oppressed people of Kansas…. Incredibly, he also asks Hoyt’s parents if they know anyone else who will come carry on the fight: I have been laboring ever since in the State to get a party to go back with me. Has he no friends to go & do battle for which he fell a [martyr]? If so I’ll take them to the spot where he yielded his young, useful life….
Both map and letter sold last month for a mere $705.
Possible moral of the story: Do not “test” the intentions of Southerners while unarmed.
(Via SC.)
Nicholas Brawer’s Radiator Flasks
