Listen

Your eggs are talking to you. Are you listening?

Also, I'm off on a cross country drive. Not sure if I'll be able to report in, so if you don't hear from me in a while, blame the talking eggs.

Born too soon

Alas! Poor space frog, with dreams of voyages to the stars in his eyes. Not for you, sad frog. Maybe in a hundred or a couple hundred years. Maybe a thousand. Possibly never. Even though you can easily dream of it, even though we could make it happen if we collectively got together and went for it, even though it should have been your destiny from 1969, alas! Not to be for you.

Stuck with probes, hooray.

An example of an internet meme, by the by, in case you don't already know. Here's how to make an internet meme: 1. Find a picture. 2. Type something over it. 3. Spread hither and yon and hope the seed takes in the cybersoil.

But for true, we are limited by our technology, by our collective achievements, to a degree. Consider the so called Ionian School. From here circa 630BCE - 420BCE,

From the Wiki, also from whence I got the map, in Spanish, for some reason. I like it better this way - more exotic. But that's Turkey, y'all, and SCIENCE was basically born right here, during this time period. Mayhaps it was also invented elsewhere, but we have no records. Here, we have a record - the Scientific Inquiry well and truly got started here and continued through humanity, to today. Word up, Delos!

Anyways, they came up with the concept of the atom, yet had ZERO way of observing the atom, due to the general technological level of humanity. Even a supergenius savant could do nothing about it. And thus the mind, the person is limited by when he/she was born. You, me, today, we sit on the brink of a radical redefinition of humanity, and we'll probably miss it.

Born too soon, but aren't we all, always?

Technical Vacation

We seem to be on vacation, though that is certainly a relative concept in my case. Regardless, to my legions of fans - hark! The updates will be few this week as I luxuriate in the warm sun and surf of Southern Florida, land of everyone else.

Please amuse yourself in the meantime with your favorite Simpsons quotes. Ta!

Mary Jane springs from the ground

A happy American tourist popping out of a tunnel in Vietnam. Communist Vietnam, mind you. Apparently, so many Americans have been visiting that right and proper tourist traps have sprung up. Consider the tunnels - the entrance/exit holes (seen here) had to be widened to allow for proper American access. Hilarious, right? The victor of the Vietnam War modifying the very tunnels used in that war for American tourists to visit. Like an Irony Wrap inside an Irony Burrito, which in turn has those little Irony bacon thingies. Lot's of irony!

But hey, swords to plowshares and all that. Better to barter and haggle than shoot and strangle. Peace through Material Comfort.

Droppin' Pbombs

Photobomb. Invented by Michael Cera? The animal version was made popular, I think, with this beauty:

A wonderful accidental photo. And that's the thing - since the history of photography, there's no doubt been many incidents of funny pop ups and photo crashers. But before the internet, who would you share them with, other than immediate family/friends? And since there was no way to copy that hilarious photo of Great Grandad Lancel on his Olde Tymey bike with a young urchin poking his grimy head into the bottom of the scene, the laughs stayed close to home.

But now! We live as connected in a large web of nets, each attached to the other and messages transmitting web wide in milliseconds. All our thoughts and feelings there to be shared. Also too, our accidental animal photobomb photos.

Kazakhstani Astro Squirrel certifying GO for launch.

Also, I'm not sure what the hell that horse was thinking. Or if that cow is not in fact a photoshop. The Web Net is a tricky thing.

A break from your life

Hail, fellow travelers! I am on vacation this week - and I'm doing my best to make it a real vacation. So little computer action, no damned email or phone calls, and instead hours of something else - rest. Sloth. Sun. Food. Letting go of all the insignificant concerns of the "real world". This is strange for me, since usually even my vacations are action packed stress bombs of do this, do that, do something else.

But today? I stop by to give you this. And then off to the beach.

No Coke - Fuck that Shit

Chicago, July 2011, Navy Pier. Fun place! I took a bunch of awesome shots.

Chicago, 1941. PBR was somehow blended 33 to 1 back then, and, I presume now. Are we not being told of this wondrous process? I've never heard of it before. But then, I'm moving with the Heineken crowd these days.

(I Think I Was In) Heaven

It's a Pope Party Y'all! 

But seriously, one of my favorite sub-sub-sub-sub topics of interest is the general category of "Purported Holy Man Acts Hypocritically". Example: Ted Haggard. There are many, many others.


Not to say John Paul here did anything bad - other than the systematic cover up of institutionalized pedophilia and rape! - but, you know: Funny photo.

Oh and also too: Sorry for the long absence. I was in New Gondolin - I need to get me some Sully Minions or something, or some kind of bot, to keep up in my absences. For I know the Interwebs hunger for more stupid pictures and related stupid comments. Don't we all?

Space Ennui

I've been stricken with a case of space ennui, alas! There's only one cure. Vacation. See ya on the other side!

Unless of course I post remotely.

I leave you with this

It's a troll party y'all!


But seriously, I have no idea what's going on.

Off on a small vacation. See ya on the other side.

Meesa Back!

Hmmm. I went on vacation the same time as Obama. In fact, Obama and I have never been seen in the same place at the same time.

Hmmm.

Fleeing to Canada

Terribly cliche I know, but if McSame wins this election, I'm moving to Canada. ;)


Not really.

But that's where I'll be on vacation for a week, faithful readers. With no Internet! Egads, I don't know if I will survive the vapors I'm surely to feel, but if I do, I'll report back in a week.

Till then: Obama 08!