Or close to it, anyway.

Family Spaceroo went garage sale-ing this morning, and one of the sales we hit had a box of assorted ponies for a quarter each.

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We went to the Santa Clara County Fair today. We didn't know when we got up we were going to... we didn't even know there *was* a fair going on. The Fair has been a dying institution in Silicon Valley for as long as I've lived here, and I remember there being "recent" talk of selling the fairground to bloodsucking real-estate developers. Thus it ( Read more... )

Just closing the book on this and this previous posts... this morning I tracked down contact links to Joe Nickell, the skeptical paranormal investigator who appeared in the MonsterQuest episode that got me all hep up ( Read more... )

I suppose I should say why I was so desperate to find a picture of a baby Cacomistle now ( Read more... )

Google has failed me. I'm desperate. I may not sleep until I solve this mystery. This post is a desperate cry for help.

If anyone can find me a photograph of a newborn, as in brand new, Ringtailed Cat (aka, "Miner's Cat", Cacomistle, Bassariscus astutus or related subspecies) I would be eternally grateful. Bonus points if you can produce an X-ray ( Read more... )

The Onion is a hoot today.

Pristine Shipment Of Fish Product Contaminated By Filthy U.S. Inspectors

(Edited out that video. Their embedded viewer is a fat pig compared to YouTube when you're on a slow link.)

Lovingly brought to you by Yu Wan Mei Amalgamated Salvage Fisheries and Polymer Injection Group, dedicated to harvesting the ocean’s great ( Read more... )

As evidenced by an IM conversation I had today with Mrs. Spaceroo, opening with:

Me: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWQgktBR6-w

Click to view

Dawn: That's pretty bad.

Me: The sad thing is that Astromech droids need to regularly inhale carbon-based combustion products to live. C3PO just killed poor R2.

Dawn: That would be kinda funny. But if that were true, ( Read more... )

Today I randomly stumbled across an article about whales in the New York Times. (Go ahead and go look at it now, at least page one and two.) It's a fine enough article and all, but... what the heck is with the Windows Paint illustrations? I think I made exactly the same pictures in 1985 using a Koala Pad on an Atari 800XL. (I'll admit I'm jealous ( Read more... )

For mentioning that "they saved Michael Jackson's brain!"


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When downloading the pictures of Valhalla off my cell phone I found a couple shots of Der Cute One I took on Father's day. (I'm still not really used to the fact that said day actually applies to me, of course.)
( If you can't stand baby pictures, well, drive through. )