Entries Tagged as 'Stuff'

All of those who believe in psychokinesis, raise my hand

Throw the accordion on the grillEarly American Cookbook Entry:
1.) Hit food on head with hammer.
2.) Throw on fire.

Architecture in the ’70s reflects the family spiritual encentives of that time period and often illustrates the monotonous homogeneity we live in today. Take, for instance, the family fire.

Is your kitchen centerpiece a fireplace with built in grill? No? Where do you keep your fire? Where do you cook food you’ve just hit on the head with a hammer? What do you gather around when the youngest male child of the clan unpacks his accordion and stumbles through Umbrella Man and Ain’t She Sweet?

It’s both amusing and somewhat sad. Amusing because…well, come on! Look at the dorky little kid serenading big brother while he throws a couple of freshly hammered hunks of “food” on the fire. But then there’s the sad part. We traded fireplaces and accordians for TVs and the internet. Wait. If I want to hear accordion music, I can surely find it on the internet, and you can generally count on a forest fire or two on the news. Status quo preserved.

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And god saw that there were 0 errors.

Chippewa Lake Park – Pictures of an abandoned amusement park

More abandoned parks at DefunctPark.com

Heh…cat gets punked by herd of puppies

Because there aren’t as many bells these days, every time an automatic garage door opens, an angel gets its wings.

How many collies are there in this picture?How many collies
Hannah relaxes after a marathon dethatching session. Grooming a collie takes a lot of time. About two viewings of the movie Alien. If you have a spinning wheel you can make yarn and knit yourself a new collie. That’s the principle means of reproduction in some species.

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“He should be locked up by his gills and towed to the police!”

Giant list of Linux games

Bad cops wear “Hello Kitty”, feel shame

This is your father’s barf sabre. An elegant weapon, for a more civilized time…haarrrrrgh!

World’s hairiest man has receding hairline. God chuckles.

House Guarded By Shotgun 3 Days A Week. Guess Which Days.

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If you bought a brand new Apple computer back in 1977, this add promised that it would be just like you were living in “The City” from Logan’s Run but married to the blonde chick from ABBA.

Black holes more like Deep Space Nine, less like “The Black Hole” ?

You know your Christmas dinner is going to suck when …

An apple a day keeps the doctor away … but why?

Heard about the latest Mars lander we just sent? Neither did we.

Pungent stench of mildew

Jack-O-PackIt’s August and I’m still looking for that new and creepy monster to add to the graveyard this year. Ray Bradbury’s “The Halloween Tree” is a great source of inspiration, so I’m planning a few quiet evenings to re-re-re-read it.

Remember the “Endless Quest” books by TSR? ‘You have entered the door to the north. You are now by yourself, standing in a dark room. The pungent stench of mildew eminates from the wet dungeon walls.’ Okay, I’m mixing my metaphors. Endless Quest books were popular with some of the younger, nerdier d&d types. I loved them. “Choose your path to adventure!” The b&w artwork, like that in the d&d manuals, was my favorite.

I still can’t come up with a compelling reason to keep this blog.

Today’s Highlights:
Happy Cow Movies
Can Linux replace Windows?
Escher’s impossible waterfall built w/ Legos
Top 10 worst sci-fi shows
Real Harry Potter (78) gets famous every couple of years