In this age of digital effects, it's hard to see something amazing and not think of what technology they used to make it look real.

This is supposedly a montage from the 80s. If that all *is* really precision driven, then .. wow. I am still not 100% convinced. Maybe I am just jaded.

Anyway - Regardless, I am looking forward to seeing my family

Though of dragoneerl when I saw this. Be careful out there, dude.

I am looking forward to today. I mean, any day where I learn that a colobus monkey has given birth to Gollum can't be all bad.

I know - technically, you are employing a person I am related to. So please, keep doing your thing ( Read more... )

I went to catch the bus after work and the street I walk down comes out right between two of the stops, so I have to choose which one to go to. I usually turn left and wait at the one near the company named 'Workers for the Americas' or something. I am not sure what they do, but they seem busy and I imagine they are taking our continent to the next ( Read more... )

First, I am not making this up ( Read more... )

Wife had dental work done so we went to a Chinese restaurant to get her soup last night. A boisterous but friendly man is sitting there and finds a a coin on the floor and gives it to the waiter. The waiter notes that it is not American currency and is definitely strange. Neither of them can identify the writing of designs on the coin linking it to ( Read more... )

Stumbled across the orangutan story

On the train today I put my book back in my bag and decided to look around and watch the sun rise. I look at various people and their choices of reading material. Nearby there were three different newspapers being read - the SF Chronicle, the SJ Mercury and the Contra Costa Times ( Read more... )

Ok, so I am trying to keep the complaining about illness and work stress to a minimum.

So. Um. What else is there?

The sad and poignant tale that is Garfield without the cat's speech bubbles.Also, the earlier I get to work, the earlier I get to arrive at the train station and I am seeing more and more weirdness. Last Thursday a man said this as I ( Read more... )