December 2011
1 post
WatchJim
November 2010
2 posts
Multnomah Falls wiggle stereoscopy
April 2010
1 post
Stegosaurus, Internet model
March 2010
4 posts
This song is sweet, though
Don’t you want to listen to a a sugared-up Grizzly Bear rip a 1:44 pop song with CSN(Y?)esque harmony backup vocals? I know!
Just play it. It’s like 40 seconds to get to the chorus, which you already know is your new favorite.
Gender confusion and TV on the radio
When I was a biology tech with a county mosquito control program I got out of work at 4:30, which meant I was driving home in time to catch the second half of NPR’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross.
It would often take me a few minutes to figure out who Terry Gross was interviewing. One day I turned the show on in the middle of a clip from one of her guest’s sitcoms. Something about the...
WatchI’m on this 12seconds site now. It’s like Twitter, except with video and possibly more useless.
February 2010
6 posts
WatchThis is my nephew. He is learning how to use his face.
Wikiphilia: Update your Levi Strauss notes
Like the words “discreet” and “discrete,” Claude Lévi-Strauss and Levi Strauss are discrete.
One “argued that the ‘savage mind’ had the same structures as the ‘civilized’ mind and that human characteristics are the same everywhere.”
The other founded the first U.S. blue jeans company.
Who is more important? That question is like...
The Legend of Bagger 288
Y’all hear about these massive bucket-wheel excavators? This one here is Bagger 288, built by Germans to rent the Earth asunder so that humans might feast on the guts laid bare. It is as big as the moon, which it could probably dig up entirely with profound and terrifying swiftness.
Skip to 5:00 in this video to see a cockpit schnitzel-fest while the Bagger puts its thing down.
January 2010
4 posts
Little wasps
Some blow-ups of the little wasps among the goldenrod first shown in this post.
October 2009
1 post
What is?
Is blog. For blogink.