Archive for January, 2009
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009
Some Artwork at the Milwaukee Art Museum
The hyperreal piece on the left is by Duane Hanson; the hyperreal piece on the right is by Chuck Close. At least I think so. I remember walking through the museum as a younger person and being convinced that the giant lady’s eyes were following me. And I also remember undergraduate days, where [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Collections by nerdmeyr
Friday, January 23rd, 2009
Sam Adams, please don’t resign
My folks have been sending me news about a recent “scandal” in portland over the fact that mayor sam adams once had sex with an 18 yr old and when asked about it during his campaign, said that he didn’t. My mom pretty much summed up the whole uproar in one word: dumb.
But I’d like [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Cartography, Displays by k
Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
40% Steve
is my all time favorite name of any band.
1 Comment » - Posted in Categories and cataloging by k
Thursday, January 8th, 2009
Good Health Before Good Hair – No Longer!
A recent medical study published in the Journal of Applied Physiology awesomely titled Thermal effects of whole head submersion in cold water on nonshivering humans has discovered that any uncovered part of the body loses heat at the same rate and proportional to the amount of body part exposed. That is why, on new year’s [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Curation by nerdmeyr
Wednesday, January 7th, 2009
Speaking of train wrecks…
…a Guardian UK article about Lynndie England (remember her? Little Miss Muffett sitting on Muslim tuffets in Abu Ghraib with a nice sprinkling of know-nothing, non-safe-word dom-sub SM thrown in for measure?) titled:
What happens in war happens
That’s like almost a self-referential word anagram. It sounds like an pithy, folksy aphorism, but really its just a [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Cabinet of curios by nerdmeyr
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
A Small Shining Gem in the Large Pile of Crap Bailout
I hadn’t heard before, but tucked into the pork-tastic crapariffic 700 billion bailout for incompetent schmuckos who play pyromaniac with other people’s retirements is a wonderful something seven years in the making:
The Transportation Fringe Benefit to Bicycle Commuters.
That’s right, bicyclists (via their employers) are now eligible for a tax break in same way that carpoolers and [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in the New World Order by nerdmeyr
Monday, January 5th, 2009
right here, right now….
…. I have open in my browser 4 tabs:
NY Times Op-ed piece: The End of the Financial World as We Know It
NY Times Op-ed piece, part 2: How to Repair a Broken Financial World
A site about living totally off the grid, including building your own earthship out of throwaway bottles and packed mud
This blog [...]
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Monday, January 5th, 2009
Year of the Thousand Watt Eyes
Such is the distinction someone gave 1995 on a flyer that hangs in the kitchen of Griffinshire, the Griffin family farmhouse. The flyer also suggests to ring it in dirty. The two phrases came to mind while I was trying to predict the character of 2009. In case you’re interested, I do not think this [...]
