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Unidentified NASA Engineer: Dude, I said Curiosity had found some fantastic stuff.

Unidentified NASA Engineer: Dude, I said Curiosity had found some fantastic stuff. Clean out your ears. Turn your hearing aid up. Whatevs.

If you are in New Mexico and see some lost dogs, please help out my friend.

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If you are in New Mexico and see some lost dogs, please help out my friend.

STRANGER ON BUS: You have a very pronounced chin. Like Jay Leno.

STRANGER ON BUS: You have a very pronounced chin. Like Jay Leno. ME: Uh, yes, I know. It's a family thing. STRANGER ON BUS: Can I touch it? #Portland #TriMet

On Black Friday, corporations try to convince us we need to trample each other to get stuff.

On Black Friday, corporations try to convince us we need to trample each other to get stuff. On Cyber Monday, they try to convince us it is 1998 and we don't have Internet at home, so we have to use our employer's. Why should we trust these organizations about anything?

#austinthebeagle meets a lot of other dogs on his downtown Portland walks.

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Originally shared by Barry Cochran #austinthebeagle  meets a lot of other dogs on his downtown Portland walks. Some dogs, he totally ignores. Some, he sniffs and then ignores. Some, he develops an insta-crush and starts pulling at his leash to get to them.  And then there are the times that he is so in love with the other dog that he starts howling and leash-pulling. Those are Austin's John Cusack/Boombox/ Say Anything moments.

#austinthebeagle meets a lot of other dogs on his downtown Portland walks.

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#austinthebeagle  meets a lot of other dogs on his downtown Portland walks. Some dogs, he totally ignores. Some, he sniffs and then ignores. Some, he develops an insta-crush and starts pulling at his leash to get to them.  And then there are the times that he is so in love with the other dog that he starts howling and leash-pulling. Those are Austin's John Cusack/Boombox/ Say Anything moments.
I've been ignoring trolls for over a decade, now, and they haven't gone away. When is this going to start working?

Who I really want to hear from is the guy at the other pump: "Honey, I was filling the tank on the Subaru and this...

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Who I really want to hear from is the guy at the other pump: "Honey, I was filling the tank on the Subaru and this crazy old man started ranting about how he once ran for President."

If I could draw and could figure out how to do it in a way that wasn't offensive to reasonable people, I'd draw a...

If I could draw and could figure out how to do it in a way that wasn't offensive to reasonable people, I'd draw a parody of the old "Spy vs. Spy" cartoons from Mad magazine.  I'd call it "Theocrat vs. Theocrat," because that's what's going on-- what always goes on-- in the Middle East.  I don't join some of my fellow liberals in radical anti-Israel speech, though it is certainly true that Israel often behaves in an extremely baffling manner for the victims of the most famous attempted genocide in human history. Still and all, to me the whole thing just looks like Old Testament my-god-is-better-than-your-god cheerleading with 20th/21st century weapons.  Joshua sending drones over the walls of Jericho.

Texas Secessionists are probably just borrowing it to try to reuse it.

Texas Secessionists are probably just borrowing it to try to reuse it. I guess the rest of us should be glad they're recycling something in TX. http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news%2Fstate&id=8887185
Man, the right-wingers are acting like they never even heard of Wil Wheaton's Law.

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From Counterculture Through the Ages: From Abraham to Acid House by Ken Goffman, a.k.a. R.U. Sirius:

From Counterculture Through the Ages: From Abraham to Acid House by Ken Goffman, a.k.a. R.U. Sirius: "By the spring of 1969, the majority of Americans opposed the war, but they disliked the freak-left that was starting to dominate leadership of the antiwar movement even more. Meanwhile, the youth, college students particularly-- though they still viewed the hard-core freak-left counterculture and its acid apocalypse rhetoric with a certain trepidation-- were inching further leftward. The conviction of the Chicago Seven ... touched off massive riots on dozens of college campuses. So ... the possibilities for some sort of an effective mass youth political revolt were high. But the very moment they might have mounted sufficient force to bring about social change, the political radicals who had the organizational skills to lead the movement had gone over the edge, hallucinating that they were on the verge of an armed revolution against the most powerful and heavily armed government ...

VOTE!

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VOTE!

Fall. Duniway City Park. Portland, Oregon.

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Fall. Duniway City Park.  Portland, Oregon.

I thought these guys playing at the Portland Farmer's Market were the geekiest geeks of all the geeks until I...

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I thought these guys playing at the Portland Farmer's Market were the geekiest geeks of all the geeks until I realized Ubuntu is also a philosophy. They're still likely in the Top 10, though.

Time for a new profile pic.

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Time for a new profile pic.

GIRL IN ELEVATOR: (pointing at beagle) Is he from Texas?

GIRL IN ELEVATOR : (pointing at beagle) Is he from Texas? ME: What?! How can you tell? Does he have an accent? GIRL IN ELEVATOR : No, his rabies tag is Texas-shaped. ME: Oh. Right.

The Clackamas County Elections office in Oregon is like Saruman's tower, except instead of orcs, they build...

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The Clackamas County Elections office in Oregon is like Saruman's tower, except instead of orcs, they build Republicans out of slime, mud, and magic. http://goo.gl/nqCiv