Grandma’s Life #12

A page of fashions from Moda Practica magazine, December 1934. A rather elegant, though austere, fashion range from Europe. It seems it was all about collars and cuffs with a little ankle thrown in for good measure. Burgled from Vintage Scans.

Thought For The Day

I WANT TO BE JUST LIKE E. E. CUMMINGS!!!!!!!

What Kind of Adventure Do You Crave?

You Crave a Cultural Adventure Life has gotten a bit routine for you lately, and you’d like to broaden your perspective. You want to learn and grow from your adventure. You want to know the place you visit as well as your home town. You are an open minded and curious traveler. You’re all about [...]

A Crested Pigeon

In Port Hedland I found a male Crested Pigeon attempting to impress a group of females. He kept jumping after them. When that disn’t work, he gave an impressive tail display. After all that, he seemed to be quite confused about his continued rejection.

Elder Gods Outraged

To: Microsoft Lawyers, Inc. From: Azathoth, Nyarlathotep and Hastur, Elder Attorneys. Sirs: Our agents among the mortal herd have brought to Our attention your recent product entitled Windows Vista. Therefore We now give you statutory notice of intent of proceedings to be taken against Microsoft by the Many-Angled Ones. With this suit We will show [...]

Dangerous Foodstuff

Be very ware of this new product. It may have half the calories of normal water but how do they ensure that it has the full flavour of normal water? How do you know that they haven’t added extra H(OH) to the product? And where is it going to fit into the modern Food Pyramid? [...]

Ace of Diamonds

Keeping an Eye on Things

For Ann

My life is complicated by a cockroach named archie. He used to eat the books on the shelves of a new York columnist named Don Marquis and he would type, by bouncing on the typewriter keys with his head, poetry which reflected what he had been eating. Often he was puzzled by humans and their [...]

The True Goddess Revealed

I have been thinking about the presentation by Brian Greene which I posted on Friday. If the Universe is made up of little super strings then it must mean that someone knotted them all together. It could be time to recognise and worship that Supreme Knotter. Just in case She decides to unknot it all [...]

A Neutron walked into a bar – - -

Burgled from Phil

Ooh La La!

Pierre, a brave French fighter pilot, takes his girlfriend, Marie, out for a pleasant little picnic by the River Seine. It’s a beautiful day and love is in the air. Marie leans over to Pierre and says: “Pierre, kiss me!” Our hero grabs a bottle of Merlot and splashes it on Marie’s lips. “What are [...]

God and Being Wrong

Burgled from I Am your God

Photo Hunt; Twisted

I normally find some sort of twist for my photo hunt entries. But this time I thought I would play it straight. (How’s that for a twist, eh?) There is one place where I know there are more twists than almost anywhere else. The top of a power pole where all the wires are twisted [...]

Nerdigeekiness and String Theory

Way back when I was involved peripherally in the world of physics, we were still coming to terms with Einstein’s theory of General Relativity. Some rather avant garde people were espousing something called Quantum Theory and wave Mechanics. This all seemed to be very strange yet it went part of the way to describing and [...]