December 2008
11 posts
The Road Not Taken
Now, this is not my poem. I am a very bad poet. And I don’t often enjoy reading them… but today, I was reminded of this one and it remains one of my favorites from High School. It’s “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost.
Try to read it out loud if you can - it sounds better than it reads.
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be...
Repetition
Repetition: 1 a: the act or an instance of repeating or being repeated b: a motion or exercise (as a push-up) that is repeated and usually counted2: mention , recital
[Merriam-Webster]
Even definition of repetition sounds repetetive. Repeat, reiterate, rurun, replicate, duplicate, … These are supposed to be synonyms, but all of them have a different meaning. They fail to repeat the true...
WatchWhile the description is: “watch a Portuguese dog and a statue of Napoleon play Street Fighter”, it can’t even begin to describe the WTF-ness of what is going on here in this video.
I am left extremely confused… Should I feel ashamed for laughing out loud at this?!
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
Oh man. TOO MUCH WORK!
I need some time to do something other than work, work, work, work.Soon I’m going to start shouting “ZUG-ZUG!” whenever I am given new assignments.
Or maybe bursting through doors with a huge-ass axe.
Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeere’s ANN-MI!
WatchSpringfield gets a Mapple shop.
I love this Simpsons parody of Mac!
Cute German and Angry Hungarians
Last night, I flew from Hungary to Finland.
The flight in itself was utterly uneventful, and I can’t help laughing at how utterly Finnish it was. The food served was mediocre factory-made meatballs with mashed potatoes that probably hadn’t seen a potato for a long time. What I mean to say is, the food was perfectly edible, better than usual, but for all its pleasantness, nothing...
Peering into the micro world →
I cringe as I use the cliché, but these images really ARE larger than life. This website features some amazing electron microscope images of tiny tiny details of lifeforms. Have you ever wanted to see eye to eye with an ant or a moth so fluffy it looks feathered? You can even see the little hairs on its probiscus!
There are also beautifully detailed and utterly unreal images of jagged pollen...
WatchRoof sex - by Pes
I love these beautiful stopmotion videos by Pes. My other favorite was the spaghetti western (who knew Rubik’s Cube and Pixie Sticks could be so tasty?), but really you should view them all. If you have any interest in how these amazing videos are created, check out the “making of…” videos of Roof Sex and KaBoom!
WatchAnimusic: Resonant Chamber
“Resonant Chamber” is the 3rd piece on the Animusic 2 DVD. It’s a purely acoustic number played by a complex multi-necked stringed instrument in a peaceful inner chamber high up in the sky.
Beautiful music with a beautiful, impossible machine. This might be a cool dvd worth getting. More details here and a beautiful high-resolution (evil) quicktime video is...