Going Swimming

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

We’ve been playing too many video games (Nefarious is working her way through MySims), so today we went swimming instead.

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PS. Google proves…

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“The entire city of Columbus is instantly vaporized… The state of Ohio and its 11 million inhabitants cease to exist in the blink of an eye…”

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

I was talking this morning to Nefarious about how important it is that humans start to migrate across the solar system and then the universe, and we watched some asteroid videos. Several times before in our planet’s history the biosphere has been remade by an asteroid, and a few smaller asteroids at least (1999 RQ36, Apophis, 2007 VK184) are making quite close passes to Earth in the immediate future. Here’s a National Geographic video on a slightly larger asteroid hitting us:

It gets scarier when a big asteroid — say 500 km across — hits the Earth. On one level, the odds of us getting hit with something this big are slim to none, but on the other hand, all you have to do is look up at the Moon with a pair of binoculars and you can see by its scars that it does happen enough times over the life of a celestial body.

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Our Artifacts

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Reading Metafilter this morning, I came across this beautiful gallery of WWII bunkers.

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Something about them reminds me of places like Angkor Wat — eternal objects created by humanity that rise up through the nature that has tried to reclaim its space.

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In a moment of synchronicity, Someone sent me this photo of an Astra GT kit car in a similar state of decay-slash-suspended-preservation.

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The Milk of Paradise

Monday, February 9, 2009

Not too exciting — the least exciting page of all in many ways — but I’m working on yet another page of the book. Hopefully later tonight I’ll be a step closer to confirming the studio apartment… It will be very nice being able to set up dozens of canvases at once. To say nothing of having the space to build a car, host a suspension or trapeze party, or anything else Caitlin and Nefarious and I feel like doing.

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Eyeball King = Me

Monday, February 9, 2009

We all went and visited Ryan and Corrie yesterday who have posted and made public the exciting news of having kid number four on the way. I’m so jealous! I love having kids around. It was a little tiring driving my truck all the way out there though — it’s too slow in its current configuration to drive comfortably on the highway, and it puts me to sleep driving that slow. And it’s a gas hog. It’ll be nice to have the Sterling on the road this summer as it gets about 45 mpg.

I put up another nice interview for the book at bodmodsex — I really would appreciate feedback so they’re in perfect form for print (email is fine if it’s more convenient). And no, even though there’s ranting and raving on BME that I’m “stealing” their material, that’s total BS and the text is all new and any photos are used with permission of the owners (some are new, and some have been posted on a myriad of sites). Sheesh. Focus on building a good site instead of whining about me.

In much more exciting and ego-satisfying news, I discovered that I am the #1 image result for the term “eyeball” on Google Images. Any attention is good attention, right???

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