You know your presidency is going well when ecstasy manufacturers are making pills in the shape of your head.

Source

http://www.frontarmy.co.uk/bestbits/theyre-obamas-mate-two-for-a-fiver/

Am here in Denver with the lovely lady Ambrosia.

I've started writing about the trip ( here )

Pictures are here, with lots of ridiculous vanity shots that you may want to skip.

But, there's cordial with Ambrosia, and my head out the window.

1

( of tape Love sometimes breaks off before you were done Another way that love is similar to tape That I've noticed Is sometimes it's hard to see the end You search on the roll (search on the roll) Search on the roll (searching round the roll) Search on the roll (search) With your fingernail Again and again And again and again And again. )

Took drug test, got tetanus shot, and did health titers. Worked on modules for the hospitals. Will work at New England Baptist Hospital tomorrow morning---famous for orthopedics. Had dinner with an artistic girl from Vancouver who is here to study permaculture. (Nicole, Canadians are sweet!) Met a Manhattan guy who works as a stand-in and occasional actor in TV commercials and film productions. Stand-in: like a body double.

I both crave it and I hate it. About 75% of the people I saw lately that I hadn't seen in a while start their hello's with a "Wow, you've changed."

I think I have to a certain extent. There is the obvious one, weight. Compared to January 2008, I'm 40lbs lighter. I still feel -and look- chubby because I'm so short, I do hate my butt and thighs, but I feel the difference. Last week I got a big 35lbs bag of cat litter. Climbing the stairs with it made me realize my knees don't hurt anymore the way they used to. I went indoor climbing with my sis last weekend and I was running the wall, it was easy! I did ballet today with some of the show's dancers. I SUCKED. My brain is not wired for movements anymore, but it still felt great. I got myself a bikini. Better/worst yet, I was given a bikini by a friend. It was too big for her, but it actually fits me -feeling very self-aware though! Downside: all my bras are too big.

I am much more decisive than I was. I will always be the girl living in the grey zone, I want to understand everyone's positions and respect everyone's will. I do sincerely believe that I do not hold all the answers and that what floats my boat might make you drown, but all things considered, I'm not so concerned of letting known what it is that I wish for. I still have the social skills of a toaster, I still feel awkward around people, especially people that I like -I'll never understand that one myself so don't ask- but it feels less of an effort to allow myself to be and not only to observe.

I decided that despite the fact that I absolutely love my job, I'm not going to let it be the only thing I do. I go out during the week, I see friends, I go to an exhibit, I rent a workshop for an hour to do messy stuff, I work on my own projects. It makes me more centered, balanced, creative, unrestrained. It also makes me much much more tired, busy schedule + personal stuff + insomnia make for a very sleepy 'nie, but with just a couple nights of good sleep I feel a thousand times better than I was during the past few years.

I do smarty-pants stuff, as Je would have called it. I read more non-fiction in the past few months than I had in years. I learned about flowers and trees and cars and math and countries and computers. I have declared a state of war against my ignorance and though I know for a fact I'll lose that fight, I still love the battle. Throw knowledge my way, don't dumb it down I'll ask questions if I don't get it, I am genuinely interested. I'm having a hard time to stop simplifying things when I talk, but I'm hoping it will come. It's harder than I expected, most of the time when I make an effort to "adultify" my conversations people don't understand me for one reason or another, so I back track. I'll work on it.

I'm genuinely more happy than I was. If you were to ask me what changed, well, not much. Same friends. Same family. Same company if a different job within it. Still single. Still sleepless. But happier, somehow. I found my pride back.

This is my first post here, and I just thought I'd share the work of yet another person who doesn't know wtf they're doing on Etsy :) No matter how hard he tries, I have yet to see anything remotely resembling talent in his store.

Behold, underwater life clusterfuck!



I haven't quite decided if the thing on the bottom right is a frog, a fish, or some sort of amorphous blob.

The more angles I see it from, the more it confuses me completely

Here, have some drippy glass poop as a bonus.

Back in April, I took a walk through Grass Lake, Michigan, and snapped some shots. Grass Lake is a small town just east of where I live. It was the most recent residence of my grandparents before moving to a retirement community in Grand Rapids. I've finally gotten around to post my favorites.

un. Michigan Avenue, the main street of Grass Lake.

( Read more... )

When I moved to Toronto I took a computer monitor with me, and it was an CRT that I'd already had for a few years already. This was this was the monitor I used when I applied to grad school and the monitor I used when starting Dinosaur Comics.

This monitor had served me well, but the past year or so it was clearly dying. The display would get fuzzy, and then snap back. Now I use three monitors and this was on the screen I used mainly for status stuff, so it was okay. I could still read the text when I needed to!

It was getting old though, and this morning I actually thought I was watching it finally die: the screen slowly faded to black, over the course of about 30 seconds, like a movie would fade to black over a particularly dramatic coda. These were my thoughts as I watched my windows fade away. Even the little green power light on the front of the monitor faded with everything else. My old monitor faded to black I watched it die. Goodbye, faithful hardware!

BUT THEN it faded back! You guys, it faded back just as it had faded out. It was a death-bed deke, and I was totally taken in. The monitor did this cycle a few more times, but I was wise to it now. I wasn't going to be taken in again. Eventually the monitor stopped fading out entirely, and we both got back to what we were working on before.

That was this morning. Just now, it faded to black and hasn't recovered. The power light has died with the screen too, but its switch is still in the "on" position. Okay, so just now I turned the power off and on again and the monitor recovered perfectly fine. MAN I GOT DEKED AGAIN.

Okay, so clearly this monitor is sick but doesn't want to die; it wants a peek at its obituary before it goes. Well here you go, monitor, I've moved this window over to you and I'm writing this on you and this is your obituary. If you do anything awesome after I post this I'll update it appropriately, but I think this is where our two paths diverge. You have been a good and faithful monitor and I will probably not forgot many of the things I saw through you.

You were a good monitor!

British inventor Josh Silver, a former professor of physics at Oxford University, has come up with a game-changer of a product design with his water-lensed glasses.

Silver has devised a pair of glasses which rely on the principle that the fatter a lens the more powerful it becomes. Inside the device's tough plastic lenses are two clear circular sacs filled with fluid, each of which is connected to a small syringe attached to either arm of the spectacles.

The wearer adjusts a dial on the syringe to add or reduce amount of fluid in the membrane, thus changing the power of the lens. When the wearer is happy with the strength of each lens the membrane is sealed by twisting a small screw, and the syringes removed. The principle is so simple, the team has discovered, that with very little guidance people are perfectly capable of creating glasses to their own prescription.

You can mass-produce millions of these, rather than manufacturing myriad individual lenses each tuned to a user's specific vision deficiencies. And while the one-size-fits-all mentality may not fly in developed nations, Silver's goal is to help the hundreds of millions of people in developing countries who suffer from poor eyesight.

Silver calls his flash of insight a "tremendous glimpse of the obvious"--namely that opticians weren't necessary to provide glasses. This is a crucial factor in the developing world where trained specialists are desperately in demand: in Britain there is one optometrist for every 4,500 people, in sub-Saharan Africa the ratio is 1:1,000,000.

The implications of bringing glasses within the reach of poor communities are enormous, says the scientist. Literacy rates improve hugely, fishermen are able to mend their nets, women to weave clothing. During an early field trial, funded by the British government, in Ghana, Silver met a man called Henry Adjei-Mensah, whose sight had deteriorated with age, as all human sight does, and who had been forced to retire as a tailor because he could no longer see to thread the needle of his sewing machine. "So he retires. He was about 35. He could have worked for at least another 20 years. We put these specs on him, and he smiled, and threaded his needle, and sped up with this sewing machine. He can work now. He can see."

So far 30,000 of Silver's specs have been distributed, but more are on the way; his eventual target is 100 million pairs.

Неделя документальной фотографии в группе Игоря Мухина.
Скоро нарисую отчётик.

"Special Place in Hell" for Grave Robbers
Four charged in elaborate off-the-books scheme

The Rev. Jesse Jackson says there's "a special place in hell" for those accused of digging up graves. His remarks echo those of the hundreds of family members that flocked to the historic Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip after investigators discovered that as many as 300 bodies had been dug up and dumped so the burial plots could be resold.

The office manager of the cemetery is being called the mastermind of the whole scheme. She allegedly worked with three gravediggers.

( Read more... )



http://tinyurl.com/kqnd96

come on

I've been feeling uninspired lately, which has contributed to my tardiness in posting photos... Help me out by telling me what to do.

Poll #1427521 seriously late photos
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All

What pictures should I post next?

© Micah Albert

© Barrett Kowalsky
Скоро зима блять радуйтесь спокойной ночи малыши нафиг



А наше солнце тоже съела акула?

Пиздец нам пацаны: http://www.membrana.ru/lenta/index.html?9442

I really don't feel in a "funny hangman game" mood any longer because my sister is moving out of state to live with our selfish, self-absorbed mother. Here it is, anyways.

( Read more... )

Some of these have x-ed out eyes and/or a mouth with a tongue hanging out, but I didn't note those occasions because I am lazy.