Food

Sometimes one eats because... well... supposedly one has to. Nothing bad about these burgers, but at the moment I'm craving an appetizer (hot tofu in seaweed broth) followed by some sashimi, amai ebi (with the grilled head), and a small unfiltered sake.

Oh, and unagi with a quails egg or two.

Oh well.

Mammoth Worship

If I was going to worship an extinct animal, it would probably be the Holly Mammoth.

BTW, does Mammoth comes in "plain" or is it only available in "woolly"? Just curious...

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Yeah... I'm posting again to this long dormant blog. Let's see if I can keep doing it.

Precocious Panda Indeed!

So, I'm at the doctors office looking at random magazines when my eye falls on the June 2006 issue of "The Smithsonian" magazine:

Please note the highlighted headlines...

I immediately started wondering about why a panda would care about Mary Magdalene and what the heck Wyeth was doing in Berlin (and wasn't the wall long gone anyway?)

World's Largest Ball of Paint

No, not a ball of wax... a ball of paint. Lots and lots of it. Neat in a "Get A Life" kind of way.

In unrelated news, here is a very neat comic strip about the sport of paint ball. Funny even for the non-paintball enthusiasts amongst us. I hadn't realized that the hacker ethics was a s firmly established in the sport of paintball, but apparently it is.

Kure Kure Takora

Kure Kure Takora (Gimme Gimme Octopus) is an insane 60s Japanese TV show for kids, starring an octopus and a peanut who are in love with the same walrus.

(I would like to savour that last part a bit... so one more time: "...an octopus and a peanut who are in love with the same walrus..." Mmmmmm. Yeah. Not different walruses, but the same walrus! Ah. The plot complications this opens up are just staggering.)

Wikipedia has it as "...absurd, strange, surreal, indescribable..." so I think we are talking about the same show here.

They are 260 three minute episodes available on DVD. An absolute must if you like sweaty Japanese men in rubber suits -- and who doesn't?

Summer Xcode Tips

Some nice advice:

Summer Xcode Tips:

"[...]I’ve been saving up a few ‘gotta share’ revelations. Are these tips no-brainers? Maybe for some of you. But it took me a while to ‘get it’ and I’m hoping some of you will also giggle with glee when you learn out about them.[...]"

(Via Red Sweater Blog.)

500 lb Potato Battery

The author writes about how he constructed a 500 potato "portable" battery:

It powered a small sound system. With the help of the Red 76 crew I installed the battery and sound system in the back of a U-Haul truck and drove it around town inviting people to enter the truck and take a listen.

(Via Improbable Research.)

Really expensive cat toy

(Via improbable.com.)

Cow

Not much else to say but "Moooooo!"

Not Wanted!

This creep has become the focus of a new website after he falsely claimed to several women that he was a US Marshal. His current girlfriend got an anonymous tip that everything wasn't exactly the way he claimed -- e.g., he is married, has a few kids, and is in actuality a maintenance worker in an animal disease lab -- so she created a website dedicated to scum like him and made him the poster boy in the hunt for more like him.

And who can blame her? Richard Kudlik was busted Tuesday after repeatedly posing as a US Marshal in order to get laid. Apparently he has been doing this for some time and the Feds has busted him for it before!

I don't know about you, but I thought impersonating a federal officer was something worth more than a slap on the wrist and a "don't do it again", but apparently that's the way it is. Compare this to a kid who photocopies a five dollar bill and ends up with a federal felony charge. That sucks!

As his kid put it when interviewed in the New York Daily News: Yeah, my dad most likely is a www.creep