The Library of Babel

Turned out to be a bad idea. Who knew?

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:16:18 -0600

Turned out to be a bad idea. Who knew?

wellrespected: thedailywhat: Doghouse.

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:22:28 -0600

wellrespected:

thedailywhat:

Doghouse.

Building the ultimate weapon. allcreatures:(via mollylambert)

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:22:01 -0600

Building the ultimate weapon.

allcreatures:(via mollylambert)

Space...

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:18:04 -0600

Space Santa

itsfullofstars:spacethebeyond:atompunk:rrrick:pdvmorris: juliasegal:

U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer Bill Mesta replaces an official...

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:11:00 -0600

U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer Bill Mesta replaces an official picture of outgoing President George W. Bush with that of newly-sworn-in U.S. President Barack Obama, in the lobby of the headquarters of the U.S. Naval Base January 20, 2009 in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (Brennan Linsley-Pool/Getty Images)

Was that only 11 months ago? I still feel the same sense of relief when I see pictures like this. Despite all of today’s nonsense, all of this week’s nonsense, all of the nonsense of next month and the months after that, I still take solace in the fact that it could be worse. It was.

He will not stop following...

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:33:37 -0600

He will not stop following me.

giantevilhead:lilicalolica:ak47:urone:remblr:sett4:proust73:46036.jpg

postpunk:(via feastingonroadkill)

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:48:06 -0600

postpunk:(via feastingonroadkill)

Heroes of the last decade, pt. 1: Hans Blix.

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:13:00 -0600

Heroes of the last decade, pt. 1:

Hans Blix.

Snake Plisskin vs. the LHC

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:33:56 -0600

Looks like John Carpenter — who is a genius — anticipated the Large Hadron hubbub when he wrote the second sequel to Escape From New York:

John Carpenter wrote a treatment for “Escape From Earth” which sees the anti-hero character, played by Kurt Russell, escaping the planet before immediate armageddon caused by a dark matter experiment gone wrong, creating a plague of vicious nanites that transform the victims into an undead army of “destructive singularities” that can kill by simply touching their victims, creating an undead army of dark matter clones with the constitution of a black hole, able to bond with non-living matter, and possessing an enormous density that gives them super-strength by virtue of their immense weight.

Sure, whatever.

My money’s on Snake.

comicallyvintage: Superboy Melts his Parents’ Faces

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:25:28 -0600

comicallyvintage:

Superboy Melts his Parents’ Faces

“Auto-reblog,” as the kids...

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 13:13:45 -0600

“Auto-reblog,” as the kids say.

giantevilhead:dontforgetthecoffee:vela:

“Waiting Room” by Fugazi

"Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think about what you shall write."

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:18:22 -0600

“Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think about what you shall write.”

- William Cobbett (via watchmesoar) (via my-ear-trumpet)

Here’s a nice follow up to two earlier posts: Raymond...

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:00:30 -0600

Here’s a nice follow up to two earlier posts:

Raymond Carver and Tess Gallagher a few months before he died. At age fifty. From lung cancer.

giantevilhead: martinis-in-a: I’m trying to quit smoking, but I’m having a hard time of it today,...

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 11:52:44 -0600

giantevilhead:

martinis-in-a:

I’m trying to quit smoking, but I’m having a hard time of it today, which wasn’t helped by my finding of a cigarette under my car seat.

Too bad it was stale and tasted like pizza.

The worst part is that you’ll be off of them for like 5 years and think it’s gross and disgusting and then one day for no reason you’ll grab a friend’s smoke and fucking enjoy it and then you’ll want to punch yourself in the face and kick puppies.

WHY WON’T THIS NICORETTE WORK?

My most recent attempt lasted two days. A friend asked “hey, how’s quitting smoking going?” to which I replied “You know what? It sucks and I’m not doing it.”

I’ve done it before, as silly as that sounds, and that bit about spontaneously returning to smoking couldn’t be any more accurate, at least in my case: I was done for like four years, not a one, and then about 2:30 in the morning at Mangia I said “hey, give me one of those.” That’s all it took. Now it’s a few years later and I still want to punch myself in the face but I don’t want to kick puppies.

That said, I am surrounded by wonderful people who remind me that if it was easy to quit smoking then people would do it all the time.

Raymond Carver is watching you. He’s judging.

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:11:00 -0600

Raymond Carver is watching you. He’s judging.

Germans: they can’t celebrate reunification without a...

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:11:00 -0600

Germans: they can’t celebrate reunification without a little bit of terrifying imagery.

my-ear-trumpet:flutterknife: Australian anti-conscription...

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 08:58:00 -0600

my-ear-trumpet:flutterknife:

Australian anti-conscription poster, 1916

Also the cover to Everyone Who Pretended To Like Me is...

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 08:00:56 -0600

Also the cover to Everyone Who Pretended To Like Me is Gone.

Revenge wears no wristwatch.

my-ear-trumpet:simonf:

Newsies at Skeeter Branch, St. Louis, Missouri, 1910 by Lewis Hine

giantevilhead: quietbrava: seenoevil:

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:05:36 -0600

giantevilhead:

quietbrava:

seenoevil:

questions posed during this morning's computer q&a

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:41:59 -0600

1. How do I upload photos to craigslist?

2. My computer seems slow. Do I need to empty the recycle bin? It was fine when I bought it in 1998, but lately I’ve just been using library computers.

3. WTF is Google Chrome? Is that like the regular Google?

4. Should I just go ahead and get a second line for my fax machine? No: no scanners. I don’t want to do scanners.

5. If I have a desktop and a laptop, can I get the files on the desktop onto the laptop?

6. Is this regular or decaf?