…your moment of “what the fuck?”
To quote TLHines on this matter: “Use Axe anti-perspirant, and you will become a hairy torso with no head, arms or genitalia.”
Curiously enough, the main site for their ads doesn’t seem to have many disembodied torsos at all.
I’m glad to see the media giving, for once, a very vivid and accurate portrayal of what scientists tend to be like.
Not that I would ever engage in this sort of research, of course. Um, really.
They set up a climbing wall at work today. (Just a temp thing) I’ve never climbed on a wall before.
If you’re used to climbing on rocks, wall climbing is very very alarming.
Okay, this one is interesting:
I want anyone and everyone who reads this to post in here something they would LIKE to do with me SOMEDAY.
Then post this in your journal to see what I’d like to do with you.
A church has set up a virtual church on the net. In 3D.
I’m fighting off a certain urge to set up a large server farm, have a 3D interactive world with a full street of small gods. Virtual Methodists over here; virtual synagogue down the block; the imam’s tower is about the same height as the cathedral spire, and the temple of Athena is on a hill nearby…
Seymour Hersh of the New Yorker has a new story on how the entire Abu Ghraib incident came to pass. The story relies a great deal on background sources, so it’s got to be read carefully with a skeptical eye – but it smells more or less right to me.
(Last Tuesday, at a rally in Cincinnati:) “You’ve got to get out there and turn out the vote… that’s what we call the grass roots. I’ve come to fertilize the grass roots.”
This is what we call an “unfortunate metaphor.”
Zwei neibelungen wöhlen, ach! in meiner kopf.
–Goethe, more or less…
Yonatan Zunger’s Blog 