Posted in California, Humor, Miscellany, tagged Albertson's, California, Carpinteria, errors, Google Maps, Idaho on August 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Noodling around on Google Maps, I searched the Casitas Pass and saw a link to the Albertson’s in Carpinteria. Look at the picture below, and tell me if you can spot something a bit off about it….
I know people are fleeing California, but I didn’t know a whole town had relocated.
Posted in Miscellany on August 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The UK’s Telegraph newspaper has a neat slideshow on unusual treehouses from around the world. Oh, yes, I wants one, I do.
Posted in Miscellany, Weirdness, tagged animals, ugly on July 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Presenting the world’s ugliest animals.
I don’t agree with all the choices, but many do have faces that could break a mirror.
Posted in Miscellany, tagged bad mood, blahs, Kierkegaard, melancholy on July 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
To paraphrase Kierkegaard,
“There is nothing so bleak as the memories of futures that will never be.”
Posted in Miscellany, Weirdness, tagged antiques, skull saw, surgical tools on July 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »
While there’s plenty here to make one’s skin crawl, I think my favorite is the skull-saw.
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Posted in Miscellany, tagged elephants, oregon zoo, play, samudra on January 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Samudra, the Oregon Zoo’s baby elephant, plays with his new toy:
Posted in Humor, Miscellany, Observations on January 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Posted in Miscellany, tagged electronics, iPod Touch, metrosexual, toys on January 12, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I am now the proud owner of an iPod Touch. Next up, the black turtleneck.
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Posted in Books, Holidays, Miscellany, Movies, Television, science fiction, tagged Books, Christmas, dvds, History, Jackson, Lincoln, Stargate SG-1, World War II on December 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I have to give in to my Inner Little Kid for a moment and share what I got for Christmas. This is some neat stuff:
Books
Doris Kearns-Goodwin’s A Team of Rivals. Abe Lincoln is a deeply-felt hero to me, so I’m looking forward to reading this.
Rick Atkinson’s The Day of Battle. Part two of his Liberation [...]
Posted in Miscellany, tagged chance, dreams, lottery on December 14, 2008 | 3 Comments »
In case you were wondering what happened with that $10 lottery ticket I found, it was not a “movie moment.” There were ten picks out a total of 60 numbers on that ticket, and I hit …drum roll… four numbers. Le sigh.
At least I wasn’t the one who blew ten bucks on the ticket, however.
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Posted in Miscellany, tagged animals, Zoos on December 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Baby animals at Zooborns.
All together now: Awwww!
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Posted in Miscellany, Weirdness, tagged chance, daydreams, lottery on December 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Tonight I stopped by the market to buy some celery and my usual weekly Lottery tickets: one dollar for Tuesday night’s drawing and one for Wednesday’s. While waiting for my tickets to print, I saw a piece of paper in the dispenser: it was another ticket. Someone had bought ten dollars worth of picks for [...]
Posted in Miscellany, tagged maps on December 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Ever wonder what the name of a place meant? Sometimes it’s easy, as in “San Francisco” being the name of a city named after St. Francis. Other times, however, it’s almost impossible to tell at a glance because the place-name is in an obscure or even dead language.
Enter the Atlas of True Names, featured in [...]
Posted in Miscellany, tagged frustration on December 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today was a cranky-making day.
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Posted in Miscellany, tagged rainbows on November 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
There was a beautiful rainbow over the spires of Kerckhoff Hall at UCLA this morning. Drat.
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Posted in Miscellany, tagged Daylight Savings Time, DST on November 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Daylight Savings Time ends tonight. I’m glad; I’ve always thought it was annoying.
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Posted in Holidays, Miscellany, tagged baseball, game conventions, GenCon, travel, Zoos on August 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’m off on vacation until a week from tomorrow, Tuesday, enjoying the wonders of mysterious and exotic Indianapolis while attending the GenCon game fair. Yes, your host is 50 years old and still a geek at heart!
My ancient laptop doesn’t have wireless, so there will almost certainly be no blogging until I get back. [...]
Posted in Aquariums, City life, Miscellany on July 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
That’s a relief. After today’s earthquake, I was scared to death I’d have a destroyed or at least severely damaged aquarium on my hands. Instead, I get home to find not even a drop has spilled, and the fish are doing their usual thing, wondering where the food is.
Whew!
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Posted in Miscellany on July 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Okay, so I have a weakness for online quizzes and I’ve always wanted to be a Japanese demon. Who doesn’t? Anyway, Here’s my result:
Your result for The Japanese Demon Profile Test…
Yuurei
You scored 18 in Malice and 24 in Chaos!
The Yuurei are the lost souls of those whose lives were abruptly ended in the midst of [...]
