Showing posts with label Random. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Random. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Alternate Starship Enterprise Models
As part of the runup to the new J.J. Abrams Star Trek movie, they distributed 30 models of the
movies Enterprise to various designers, trekkies etc. The one below which is my personal fav is
by Jesus Diaz of Gizmodo. You can check out the whole lot here Enterprise Gallery
Monday, April 13, 2009
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Friday, March 27, 2009
Monday, March 9, 2009
The Ace Cycle Car
Built by Liberty Motors in Seattle on a custom basis, the Ace is a modern interpretation of the Morgan Aero V-Twin Trike from the 30's and 40's. Powered by a Harley Davidson motor coupled to a 5 speed car
transmission, I am sure it's a blast.
transmission, I am sure it's a blast.
Monday, March 2, 2009
AFS/Kriket car speakers
Planetary Nebula - Go Figure
from Wikipedia:
A planetary nebula is an emission nebula consisting of a glowing shell of gas and plasma formed by certain types of stars when they die. The name originated in the 18th century because of their similarity in appearance to giant planets when viewed through small optical telescopes, and is unrelated to the planets of the solar system.[1] They are a relatively short-lived phenomenon, lasting a few tens of thousands of years, compared to a typical stellar lifetime of several billion years.
At the end of the star's life, during the red giant phase, the outer layers of the star are expelled via pulsations and strong stellar winds. Without these opaque layers, the remaining core of the star shines brightly and is very hot. The ultraviolet radiation emitted by this core ionises the ejected outer layers of the star which radiate as a planetary nebula.
Planetary nebulae are important objects in astronomy because they play a crucial role in the chemical evolution of the galaxy , returning material to the interstellar medium which has been enriched in heavy elements and other products of nucleosynthesis (such as carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and calcium). In other galaxies, planetary nebulae may be the only objects observable enough to yield useful information about chemical abundances.
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Graffiti Coloring Book
For all you city kids out there, the Fake Project group has made a coloring book for budding
taggers to practice their craft prior to application to private property. Personally I just like the images. Best of all it's available as a free download
Friday, February 27, 2009
This is what I love about the internet - talk about the long tail
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Saturday, February 21, 2009
Talk About Random
This song came into my head a few days ago unbidden and I made a mental note to look it up on tEh Internetz. I Subsequently forgot all about it only to remember and forget three more times
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(No Lie). So here is is for your consideration from 1979...which BTW makes this as old for our kids as the 1951 hit "Sixty Minute Man" was for us in 1979. For another 1970's treat try Warren Zevon's "Poor Poor Pitiful me"
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Too Funny
Wm. Shakespeare's Five and Twenty Random Things Abovt Me
The meme is older than anyone guessed! Here it is, something I just dug up at the library: the First Folio edition of...
Wm. Shakespeare's Five and Twenty Random Things Abovt Me
1 Sometimes I Feele so trapp’d by iambic pentameter... Does that make me a Freake?
2 I haue been Knowne to cry at Bear-baiting.
3 I am not uery ticklish. I am Not. So prithee, do not euen try. Waste. Of. Time.
4 I cannot keep Lice, and know not why.
5 Sometimes I thinke plays are all Talke, Talke Talke, and wish for a cart-chase scene. I tried one in The Merry Wives, but it looked like Shitte, so I cut it. The men playing the horses were so Pissed at me.
6 I once threw vp on a man's head, from a high Windowe. I was so fvcking Sicke that Daye.
7 I hate to wear a Ruff, for I haue such a pleasing Necke.
8 As a player, I am painful-slow to learn my part. Once whilst playing Edward I, I used the prompter so ouermuch that a groundling yell’d ~Stop interrupting, Will! And it was my Dadde. (Kydding!)
9 Sometimes when I am Stvck for a rhyme, I new-mint a Worde because I jvst want to get the Damned script ovt the fvcking doore.
10 I play the Flute yet poorly, but I can make any crumhorn beg for Mercy.
11 When I am happy I call Anne my Kicky-wicky. When I am cross I call her “Olde Fun Killer Hag-Ass.”
12 I keepe my Stashe hidden in our seconde best bedde. Shhh. Don’t tell the Fyve-Oh.
13 The people that loue my Wordes the best are always the most disappointed vpon meeting me. Is thisse List ouer yet?
14 On the topic of dating, my daughter Susanna loues to remind me: ~Jvliet was only thirteen! And I remind her that i) she was Italian, an impulsive race ii), she was actually played by a middle-aged Eunuch named Ned, and iii) she died. That always shvts her right vp.
15 I deteste it when the Low-Comedians improuise the scenes I writ them… becavse they always make them so mvch fvnnier.
16 I haue, on occasion, thovght abovt hiring a Boy to fixe my Latin.
17 When I was sixe, my Goode-Friend Charles brovght to Schoole a wood-cut of his mother, qvite naked. After that we called him Charles Nudie-Mummy, whiche did make him Crye.
18 I take my eggs ouer-medium. If I get them O’er-Easily, I tell my Porter, ~You may thinke this is what I ordered, but it’s snot. I thinke that one is a real Slap-A-Th’Knee.
19 I work ovt my calues thrice weekly, usvally three pyramid sets of Calf-Rises whilst holding a flagon of Meade. I knowe I should stretch afterwards, but it Bores me so I do it not.
20 As a boy in my Bed, I would shriek i’the night that Witches wovld come to eat me. My Mother (bless her) wovld smooth my Hair and whispr ~ Be not afear’d, the Witches onlie eat the Jews.
21 Whitsuntide has become so commercial.
22 Nobody euer forgets where they were the moment they heard that Thomas Kyd died. I was shopping for codpieces in West Cheape. I came ovt of the Change-room and the proprietress was i’tears. I said ~What is it, now? and she replied ~Kyd is dead. There was a melancholy qviet, and then she said~And that Piece is a mite too small on ye.
23 Euery time we do the Taming of the Shrew, some pvnter wants his Money backe, because we don’t actually show a shrew getting tamed.
24 I do not vnderstand all the Fvss over Currants. Sure, they are both sweet and Small, but must they bee added to EUERY FVCKING MEAL these days? Yestermonth, found I currants in a Tarte of Spinnedge. I meane come on, People. Seriovsly.
25 When I am feeling Melancholic, I console myselfe with the Knowledge that, aboue all else, I will be remembered for my Musick.
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Monday, February 9, 2009
Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Snow Shovels
There are any number of different kinds of snow shovels
Snow Pushers
Bent Handled Ergo Shovels
Wheeled Shovels
Folding Snow Shovels
Even Backpacking Snow Shovels
Why can't they just make one with a long straight handle. Regular snow shovels force
you to bend way down to pickup a load of snow, then straighten up to toss it, over and over again. People have been making long handled spades for ever for a simple reason, they are better. What's the disconnection here? I suppose I could McGuiver one up.
Snow Pushers
Bent Handled Ergo Shovels
Wheeled Shovels
Folding Snow Shovels
Even Backpacking Snow Shovels
Why can't they just make one with a long straight handle. Regular snow shovels force
you to bend way down to pickup a load of snow, then straighten up to toss it, over and over again. People have been making long handled spades for ever for a simple reason, they are better. What's the disconnection here? I suppose I could McGuiver one up.
How Fast is IBM's Newest Supercomputer ?
Well, according to IBM it will be faster than all the other Top 500 Supercomputers
Combined...
or
If each of the 6.7 billion people on earth had a hand calculator and worked together on a calculation 24 hours per day, 365 days a year, it would take 320 years to do what Sequoia will do in one hour.
Combined...
or
If each of the 6.7 billion people on earth had a hand calculator and worked together on a calculation 24 hours per day, 365 days a year, it would take 320 years to do what Sequoia will do in one hour.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Monday, January 26, 2009
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