Stuff from July, 2006
This is the archive of tumbledry happenings that occurred on July, 2006.
The Life
This is the archive of tumbledry happenings that occurred on July, 2006.
Ogio: my next backpack - My current one is going pretty good, but I’ve found that these large day-pack type backpacks work especially well for those full days of classes.
Amazing tropical pictures - Makes me want to visit Tobago.
Reinventing a company or brand is done from the inside out. This explains why new logos, mission statements, and seminars on “effectively deducing the resource-efficient pathway to maximizing workforce output” are frequently downplayed and rejected as band-aid fixes to deeper problems within an organization. That’s where this ridiculous article from today’s paper about the Presbyterian reinvention (rebranding?) of the Trinity comes into play:
Relive your past - Make a friendship bracelet today.
Video of guy blowing up a computer - He asked for donations to buy a $5,000 G5 … people donated enough … so he blew up his old computer.
During a long hill climb on my run tonight, a passing car came up from behind me and snapped me out of my runner’s reverie. I looked up from my shoes to see no parking signs marking off the distance to the summit of the hill, above which the sun illuminated the sky a blush pink. Suddenly, I saw through it all, saw through it all so clearly that any attempt to explain comes off trite. And yet I’ll try anyway: I realized that my life, no matter what happens, is a gift, that good and bad events are all woven together into something I do not yet understand … all of this and so much more, an eternity in an instant. The event is hard to describe, transient as it was. I think it was what paradise feels like. I don’t believe, bound as we are to the limitations and worries of the world, we are able to experience that kind of perfection for very long.
I was thinking I would state what this post is all about “right out” at the beginning of this post, but then I realized it would be better to get as much fun out of this as possible, leading you guys down the dramatic pathway of blog posting. (Well, dramatic pathway/trail/byway/highway/beltway is a bit of a stretch seeing as this blog never has been all that dramatic in the first place. It would be rather presumptuous of me to suddenly assume my mediocre writing could elicit the emotion of drama in your collective hearts. Work with me here.) I’ve also been thinking how to best phrase this post, because the subject dealt with here is a rather sensitive one. I’ll try to walk the line here and make this work.
Damascus steel - “It is said that when Damascus made swords were first encountered by Europeans during the Crusades it garnered an almost mythical reputation — a Damascus steel blade was said to be able to cut a piece of silk in half as it fell to the ground, as well as being able to chop through normal blades, or even rock, without losing its sharp edge. Recent metallurgical experiments, based on microscopic studies of preserved Damascus-steel blades, have claimed to reproduce a very similar steel via possible reconstructions of the historical process.”
There has never been a pirate, or for that matter a human being, like this in any other movie.
— Roger Ebert, about Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean
A $10 softbox - Mykala sent me this link and … this will produce some awesome images when completed. Even, white lighting is the key to great photos of normally boring things (and goodness knows the boring photos of things I take in the winter when it’s dark and cold and I’m busy with homework and don’t have time to take cool pictures).
Recently, I ran out of soap while taking a shower. That’s a bummer, because you think you can accomplish one thing (getting clean), yet you manage to fail at it. I guess the soapy water I rinsed the bottle out with counted as soap. But that isn’t what this post is about. It is, interestingly enough, random poem time. Bad poetry is extremely easy. Good poetry is extremely difficult. I’ll settle for middling here.
The flowers in the small front gardens outside of Selby were in perfect bloom, but with this heat, their beauty only lasted a day or two.
Taken in the research lab - you can never wear rings or jewlery while doing chemistry, they simply get in the way.
The strangest phrases on this snack food - found in the ethnic section of Cub Foods.
Perfect iPod Accessory - This great gadget features a gramophone-type appearance, but it plays your iPod’s music and incorporates a touch screen album art display. Exquisite.
One of my favorite pictures ever - Perfect composition, execution, artistic vision, and so on.
At the starting line to the Life Time Fitness Torchlight 5k yesterday, I looked down at my race number and noticed a coupon at the end of the race for a free Michelob Ultra low calorie look at how we can appeal to the exercising crowd and isn’t it amazing how little flavor there is in this beer. Recalling how I had felt at the end of the race last year (not too hot), I turned to the guy next to me and asked, “How could anyone want beer after a run?” I guess I assumed that those standing at the front of a crowd of 2500 runners would not be the type to pound back beer after a run. Instead, he said absolutely nothing and stared through my head as if it wasn’t there. To Mr. In The Race Zone, I say: thanks for making the beginning of my race memorable. “Screw talking to people,” I thought, feeling the tension in everyone around me rise as the starting horn was lifted into the air.
Amazing retouching work - The pictures of the people and the shoe are stunning examples of how much Photoshop can be used to retouch a picture.
Agitatin’ Dots - Whoever thought this up: thank you. Can’t beat deadpan corporate comedy.
The FONE is simply a cell phone, nothing more - It does phone things well, and that’s IT. Thank goodness.
