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Humor: Summary of Life

December 19th, 2007 9:45am. Distractions

GREAT TRUTHS THAT LITTLE CHILDREN HAVE LEARNED:
1) No matter how hard you try, you can’t baptize cats.
2) When your Mum is mad at your Dad, don’t let her brush your hair.
3) If your sister hits you, don’t hit her back. They always catch the second person.
4) Never ask your 3-year old brother to hold a tomato.
5) You can’t trust dogs to watch your food.
6) Don’t sneeze when someone is cutting your hair.
7) Never hold a Dust-Buster and a cat at the same time.
8) You can’t hide a piece of broccoli in a glass of milk.
9) Don’t wear polka-dot underwear under white shorts.
10) The best place to be when you’re sad is Grandpa’s lap.

GREAT TRUTHS THAT ADULTS HAVE LEARNED:
1) Raising teenagers is like nailing jelly to a tree.
2) Wrinkles don’t hurt.
3) Families are like fudge…mostly sweet, with a few nu ts.
4) Today’s mig hty oak is just yesterday’s nut that held its ground.
5) Laughing is good exercise. It’s like jogging on the inside.
6) Middle age is when you choose your cereal for the fiber, not the toy.

GREAT TRUTHS ABOUT GROWING OLD
1) Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
2) Forget the health food. I need all the preservatives I can get.
3) When you fall down, you wonder what else you can d o while you’re down there.
4) You’re getting old when you get the same sensation from a rocking chair that you once got from a roller coaster.
5) Its frustrating when you know all the answers but nobody bothers to ask you the questions.
6) Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
7) Wisdom comes with age, but sometimes age comes alone.

THE FOUR STAGES OF LIFE:
1) You believe in Santa Claus.
2) You don’t believe in Santa Cl aus.
3) You are Santa Claus.
4) You look like Santa Claus.

SUCCESS:?
At age 4 success is…not piddling in your pants.
At age 12 success is…having friends.
At age 17 success is…having a drivers license.
At age 35 succes s is…having money.
At age 50 s uccess is..having money.
At age 70 success is…having a drivers license.
At age 75 success is…having friends.
At age 80 success is…not piddling in your pants.

Eye Popping Optical Illusions

November 4th, 2007 5:34pm. Distractions, General, Other Sources

Don’t look at these. They’ll hurt your eyes.

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Heavy Ink

September 9th, 2007 2:49pm. Distractions, General, Notable

Heavy Ink is going to be a better place to buy and trade comics than any currently exist online OR IN PERSON. Doors open in October.

Trav’s “Progress Report #1″ gives you a good primer:

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Women in Art video

August 12th, 2007 3:05pm. Distractions

posted on Youtube.com by eggman913. (he’s got several more similar videos on his Youtube site)


Hype Machine

August 12th, 2007 2:32pm. Distractions

Hype Machine

Search music blogs and upcoming concerts, and hear the music with the click of a button.

Gigapan

July 15th, 2007 4:46pm. Distractions

Neato

Gigapan

A friend is on this project to use a regular digital camera, a tilting base, and stitching software to make gigapixel cameras.

Blinkybug

July 15th, 2007 4:22pm. Distractions

BlinkyBug is neat.

Saw Ken Murphy, Chief Bugmaker at Maker Faire and an Open Dork. :-)

D&D Laughs

July 15th, 2007 11:12am. Distractions

Trav pointed out DM of the Rings. It’s right-on.

This scene had me laugh so unexpectedly, I sputtered out a laugh and spit all over my monitor. I suppose it isn’t really the funniest of them, but it hit a chord.

Spatial Robots and Suicide Bots

June 15th, 2007 1:16pm. Distractions, Product Reviews

http://www.spatialrobots.com  is pretty groovy.

 http://www.suicidebots.com is pretty cool.

New Sensory Organs

May 8th, 2007 12:10pm. Distractions

I want new sensory organs for my birthday (via).

For six weird weeks in the fall of 2004, Udo Wächter had an unerring sense of direction. Every morning after he got out of the shower, Wächter, a sysadmin at the University of Osnabrück in Germany, put on a wide beige belt lined with 13 vibrating pads — the same weight-and-gear modules that make a cell phone judder. On the outside of the belt were a power supply and a sensor that detected Earth’s magnetic field. Whichever buzzer was pointing north would go off. Constantly.

“It was slightly strange at first,” Wächter says, “though on the bike, it was great.” He started to become more aware of the peregrinations he had to make while trying to reach a destination. “I finally understood just how much roads actually wind,” he says. Deep into the experiment, Wächter says, “I suddenly realized that my perception had shifted. I had some kind of internal map of the city in my head. I could always find my way home. Eventually, I felt I couldn’t get lost, even in a completely new place.”

On a visit to Hamburg, about 100 miles away, he noticed that he was conscious of the direction of his hometown. Wächter felt the vibration in his dreams, moving around his waist, just like when he was awake. [...]

When the original feelSpace experiment ended, Wächter, the sysadmin who started dreaming in north, says he felt lost; like the people wearing the weird goggles in those Austrian experiments, his brain had remapped in expectation of the new input. “Sometimes I would even get a phantom buzzing.” He bought himself a GPS unit, which today he glances at obsessively. One woman was so dizzy and disoriented for her first two post-feelSpace days that her colleagues wanted to send her home from work. “My living space shrank quickly,” says König. “The world appeared smaller and more chaotic.”

Some brainstorming should be able to come up with other new senses for people… yes?

magnetic compass - as seen above :-)

X-Ray vision - If you can’t turn it off, you’d have to be careful not to walk into walls. And giving all your friends radiation sickness isn’t cool.

Thermal imaging

GPS

eyes in the back of your head

What else?

What I want for Christmas

May 8th, 2007 10:28am. Distractions, General

I want a Methane Powered Rocket for Christmas.

Hell, I’d settle for the soundtrack.

Original (higher res) .WMV


Fun Toys

April 17th, 2007 10:05am. Distractions

http://flowtoys.com/

I’ve got a  Flow Wand :-)

SodaPlay.com

April 15th, 2007 11:28pm. Distractions

I had forgotten about this gem. Check it out. http://sodaplay.com/

Political Science for Dummies

March 21st, 2007 2:11pm. Distractions

Here’s a funny for you. If you don’t like funnies, don’t click on the “More” thingie

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Steampunk Keyboard

March 1st, 2007 10:33pm. Distractions, Other Sources

Steampunk KeyboardOk, this is cool. I should stop being such an “aspirational reader” as is the parlance and build stuff like this.

(via) and Other Lee

Web Economy Bullshit Generator

October 11th, 2006 9:09am. Distractions

I had seen this a few years ago but Charlotte reminded me of it. It’s still perfectly relevant. I got a(nother) hoot out of it.

http://www.dack.com/web/bullshit.html

Incredible Art/Science

September 22nd, 2006 9:56am. Distractions

Ned Kahn

I’ve seen some of his pieces in San Francisco. Wow.

Etsy.com

August 25th, 2006 10:53am. Distractions, General

Etsy.com is a site to get buyers and sellers of hand-made merchandise together. It fills a gap that ebay doesn’t. Cool.

3,000 Gallons of Propane

August 21st, 2006 12:41pm. Art, Distractions, General

The Serpent Mother is expected to use 3,000 gallons of propane on the playa.

500 gallons per night * 6 nights
We have:
1 250 gallon tank
2 80 gallon tanks
5 25 gallon tanks

(tanks only get filled to 90%)

Serpent Mother Video

August 4th, 2006 7:55pm. Art, Distractions, General

I’ve been promising I’d show you photos of what I’ve been working on. Here’s a video that shows it off just a bit. This shows off only about 1/7th of the full length of what the sculpture will look like at Burning Man… but it gives you an idea.

Click on “Serpent Mother” in the middle of the screen
http://www.madnomad.net/menu/index.php?iframe=film

(His other videos are pretty cool too)

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