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I know we have some F-14 fans here, so hopefully this article will be interesting. It’s mostly about the maintenance required to keep them flying, but it’s properly respectful of the mighty bird. Includes a few more pix for the collectors, too.
Shelley gave me an idea for a creative outlet – naming a Color of the Day. It could be based on the day’s events, general moods, or whatever. This will be an experiment – I hope to get suggestions and comments about it. Today’s color is Sandstorm. You may have seen the reports of the sandstorm in the Iraqi desert. (A sign from God?) Also, I woke up today to the sounds of a county truck driving up and down the street trying to clean the curbs with one of those leaf vacuum trailers, but it was too weak to clean up most of the sand from the snowstorms. Instead, it just blew a huge cloud of dust out the top of the truck. Our tax dollars at work – building a stronger, dustier community one street at a time.
Oddmusic.com’s gallery of unusual and experimental musical instruments covers the gamut, from conventional stringed instruments to a very weird “hyper-kinetic scrap metal ensemble” and everything in between. Images and sound clips are available for most of the entries…
Take a look at some Weight Watchers recipe cards from 1974. The page’s author has written funny captions for each one, but the scary-looking pictures of different meals says quite enough in most cases. Also see Lilek’s Gallery Of Regrettable Food.
Happy Tree Friends is a series of Itchy and Scratchy-esque cartoons starring a gaggle of cute, cuddly, animals in situations gone horribly awry. Funny in a grisly, macabre kind of way, like Itchy and Scratchy taken a little further…
Drawtoy vs. Byokal is a really nice kaleidoscope generating program.
Fast Company has a very thorough, informative article on Google, going into the company’s outlook and philosophies as well as the wide-ranging influence the search engine has had on people’s Internet experience. A Google IPO has been rumored for some time now and is highly anticipated by investors. I’m generally hesitant to go into the stock market, especially with Internet company stocks, but I will strongly consider buying Google stock if and when it is available.
Word Spy is a fun site tracking “recently coined words and phrases, old words that are being used in new ways, and existing words that have enjoyed a recent renaissance. These aren’t ‘stunt words’ or ‘sniglets,’ but new words and phrases that have appeared in newspapers, magazines, books, press releases, and Web sites.” Anyway, among the recent entries is “poo X,” referring to the newly fashionable practice of breeding poodles with other breeds of dogs. This results in horrible names like “Schnoodles, Labradoodles, goldenpoos, peke-a-poos, Jack-a-poos and Scoodles,” and some weird-looking dogs, I’m sure. Those dogs are so going to get beat up…
Last week I mentioned the backlash towards France’s unwillingness to back any resolution authorizing force against Iraq, resulting in the lame renaming of French Fries to “Freedom Fries” at restaurants around the nation. Well, the French have retaliated in this food fight, starting a website selling pretzels “for seven euros ($7.56) each, with one euro going to a children’s charity…before being sent to the White House in a historic mass action.” Although my natural tendency is to ridicule the French because they usually deserve it for one reason or another, I definitely give them credit for making fun of W in such a clever fashion. Now stop being such assholes!
“The Czech National Theater said on Monday it was working on an opera to commemorate the surprise gold medal victory of the Czech men’s Olympic ice hockey team in Nagano in 1998.” Must…stifle…hate…of…Jagr. There, I mashed all of my negative feelings into a tiny little ball, to be released during my afternoon commute home. Beware of a Green Jetta on Route 235 at, oh, 4 o’clock today.
