Concrete

Reduction to the absurd

2011-07-06T15:32:33Z

Ever considered that the human body could be topologically reduced to a torus?

Post-rapture head count

2011-05-22T15:05:18Z

Everybody still here after the rapture please raise your hand!

boox

2011-05-08T01:50:34Z

I grew up with books. My parents' five hundred square foot apartment was practically covered with books. I had more than 500 books by I turned 10. I didn't have an allowance, I had a book allotment.

I still love books and my entire family does. But I've been reading more e-books than real books lately and that got me thinking.

If I visit someone, the first thing I look at is their bookshelf. With the proliferation of e-books, what will we have on our walls? How will we share books with our friends? Where will we smell old books?

PS: bookshelf pic with a thousand others are from bookshelves.tumblr.com

Internet fax?

2011-03-23T22:09:49Z

If like to send and receive a few faxes from my own home, without a fax machine - what do you use?

Can't sleep

2011-03-10T01:11:31Z

So here is a picture of bacons (plural)

an example of industrial noise music

2011-02-01T02:51:02Z

So this is the kind of music I listen to when I wear headphones.

mee mee me mee meme

2011-01-13T01:28:22Z

moominmolly asks why the world doesn't have a meme where everyone leaves screened comments with what they want to say to to the poster but haven't yet for whatever reason -- and I say, I haven't been hanging out with you to HAVE any questions for me!

But if you do, I'd love to hear them :)

Weirdest new years eve resolution you have heard?

2010-12-31T20:03:03Z

Mine is:

"stop talking to mayonnaise."

Truly we live in the future #3

2010-12-11T00:16:54Z

I'm posting this from my flight through my cellphone usting the complimentary free wireless.

Entertainment!

2010-11-27T03:52:46Z

Last night we watched a phenomenally over-the-top Bollywood action-dancing-musical-drama-comedy titled Dhoom 2. It was like watching about twenty different movies rolled in one - with quite a few smoldering dance numbers.

If you ever wanted to get together with friends and comment and laugh for three hours about a movie, this is it. MST3K fodder for our generation.

I feel like an idiot

2010-11-25T02:41:44Z

I just realized that ebooks kill the entire used book market.

Since I do not like this,i wonder if there is any law or precedence or eula about reselling e books.

I also understand that authors must be happy about this, so I am somewhat conflicted.

Tonight

2010-11-18T05:42:54Z

"Tonight I have five questions.
1. How to make a bed,
2. How to make a mattress,
3. How to make a blanket,
4. How to make a wall,
5. How to make a doll."

Conversation ensues

"...so to make a doll, you first draw the front and the back,
Then you cut it out of fabric,
Then you stuff it."
- "but I have a hard time drawing because I can't draw a straight line!"
- "me neither, that s why I use a ruler."
- "yeah-i use straight edges all the time."

from the tightwad gazette

2010-11-14T00:32:56Z

Costco has optometrist offices and they do NOT require a Costco membership to visit! I just paid $55 for my checkup and new prescription.

for posterity's sake:

OD (right) -3.25
OS (left) -3.75

pupil distance 59 (29.5/29.5)

Optometrist said my eyes are light so I should start wearing sunglasses in the summer.

Someone on LJ posted about a blog dedicated to cheap online eyeglass retailers, it was http://glassyeyes.blogspot.com/ There seem to be dozens of cheap online retailers where one can get prescription glasses for 10+ dollars... Reviews are positive, although one gets what they pay for.

In somewhat related news, the iphone game Zen Bound, where one has to tie up objects with a rope (it's beautiful) is free, at http://itunes.apple.com/app/id400670361

the unexamined life

2010-10-27T21:28:40Z

I have been sitting under the awning of an ethiopian restaurant, nursing a coffee, watching the rain for the last two hours,

Nice clouds.

Enquiring Minds Want To Know

2010-10-21T00:26:35Z

I'm putting S. to bed:

- "Do you have any questions?"
- "Yes, actually, I have five questions."
- "Okay..."
- "First: What does love do?"
"Second: How is flour made?"
"Third: What does 'sleep tight' mean?"
"Fourth: How do light bulbs work?"
"Fifth: How are bowls made?"
- "..."

concrete @ 2010-10-07T22:38:00

2010-10-08T02:38:26Z

While I beat my head against a comfy spot on the wall regarding HABTM and the like, here is a question for you:

Would you eat Macaroni and Cheese Pizza?

I just wanted to say

2010-09-25T01:29:18Z

...that I live with someone who keeps boiled fernbrake in the fridge.

welp, back to exploring the fridge!

Truly we live in the future pt. 3

2010-09-13T00:26:04Z

Saturday night S called me from her bus. I didn't notice anything peculiar, but I did recall that her phone was stolen so when she arrived I asked if she borrowed someones phone?

She said no, she called my phone via google talk using greyhounds free wifi.

Trigger happy four year old

2010-09-10T16:00:10Z

"the Happy Fun Ball is Not Supposed to be taunted!"

Shooting stars

2010-09-02T01:43:17Z

- "Daddy I see a falling star! TWO falling stars!"
- "That means you can wish for something."
- "Okay, then I wish that
1. Nobody would be angry at me
2. Nobody would tell me things that I don't like."

Ex-crossfit curiosity

2010-08-30T23:38:16Z

Have you stopped doing Crossfit? Why?

I'm thinking about a long-term sustainable variation of it.

concrete @ 2010-08-28T14:02:00

2010-08-28T18:02:44Z

+ I finally tried anchovies on pizza!
- I understand why people don't order them - it overpowered all the other ingredients!

I have eaten raw herring in a dutch harbor so I am not averse to strong flavors but yeah, it just doesn't work for me. Does anyone else like anchovies on pizza?

concrete @ 2010-08-27T22:11:00

2010-08-28T02:12:13Z

- "Daddy, I don't like it when you use that voice."
- "...what voice?"
- "The calm voice!"

concrete @ 2010-08-16T22:45:00

2010-08-17T02:46:02Z

Proof that irony is now mainstream: Zardoz, one of the worst movies of all time, scored four out of five stars on netflix.

Tipping the sacred cows - part 1: bacon

2010-08-05T04:02:59Z

Having become an American, I feel entitled to express my opinions about what my fellow Americans are doing wrong.

Bacon. You are doing it wrong.

Bacon is a fatty part of a pig, somewhat conserved over smoke or via other methods. In the age of agrarian labor it was a perfect way to deliver the 5000 kcalories needed to sustain a harvest etc.

So why are you burning it to a crisp??? Bacon has much more flavor when it's cooked like meat! You are denying yourselves a great food group. It's like burning French fries to a crisp! You don't do that, why do you do it to bacon?

Please, think of the bacon!