defiantly, maybe: photos

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Feb 10, 2012

two of my favorite diss-related images

i've been alternating between both of these as my desktop on my work computer for awhile now. they're both pretty interesting visual representations of a lot of the issues i'm writing about in my dissertation with regard to wilderness, civilization, and technology. plus, i took the first one myself. so there's that. the second one is made by someone else and superimposes a bit of minecraft landscape atop what i imagine is probably a 19th century landscape painting.

i've got another post in the pipe for later about roguelikes and why they generally (but not exclusively) enrage me as a genre of video game.

Sep 3, 2010

test post!

pretend i'm saying something interesting!

or, just check out this photograph of a monkey playing football:

Aug 29, 2010

all roads lead to fucking

no, seriously. look at the picture. not photoshopped.

foo, you just got nailed!

last night, i heroically dealt with squads of armacham soldiers the only way i know how...with a nailgun.

Aug 15, 2010

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!!!!

dim lights keep the hulk at bay

it's true. i was reading a study the other day (which i can't link because i forgot to bookmark it and now i can't refind it) that basically showed how any light level that's actually brighter than sunlight (i.e. the interior lighting of pretty much any building in the United States at any given time) is so confusing for the brain that that light level is interpreted similarly to how our brains interpret night-light. the shorter and less shittily-phrased version of that sentence is this: when it's really bright inside, humans' brains think that it's nighttime. this explains a lot about the last 29 years of my life. it also explains why i always fall asleep after turning the lights up real high to keep myself from falling asleep. it ALSO explains why this is my favorite sight to come home to after a long day of work:

i've always liked keeping the lights down rather low, to the point that certain others tend to become exasperated upon entering my office to find that, for the tenth time in a row, it's too dark for them to navigate from one end of the room to the other. in the middle of the afternoon.

of course maybe i'm just a vampire. but not one of the sparkly, effeminate, super-hunky ones. just one of the pale, effeminate, hilariously romantically inept ones.

Feb 20, 2010

new music posters, thanks to LD

i just got these as a gift, to use in future music endeavors, and i thought i'd post them because they are FREAKING AWESOME.

From Spring '10

wilco posters from last week

portland:

From Spring '10

seattle:

From Spring '10

the ben-bear and his mail-order bride.

yes. i bought a 26" tall care bear on ebay for one dollar. because there's something wrong with me.

From Spring '10

Feb 13, 2010

new road trip/wilco photos

have a few pictures from wilco/my trip to seattle this week. just because.

the first few, featuring the weirdly calm reflectivity of the columbia river, were taken by LDz:

From Spring '10

next few are of the wilco show in portland...i mostly gave up on trying to get good pictures of the band because of the giant-headed dude in front of me; however, i wanted to get a few pics just to show off the band's awesome frankenstein/tesla lighting setup:

From Spring '10

Feb 7, 2010

what i would look like as a care bear.

From Spring '10

great (potentially UE-related) graffiti on campus last week.

From Spring '10

Jan 26, 2010

pictures of things i did this weekend

bought these two donuts, which were both larger than my hand.

From Spring '10

fulfilled my lifelong dream of owning one of those 3 foot tall care bears.

From Spring '10

finally got my turntable working.

From Spring '10

Jan 21, 2010

pics-b-gone

as a way of motivating myself to start taking pictures again, i deleted about half of the photos i have up on my picasa account tonight to make room for new ones (i'm down from 92% used space to 43%!). the downside is that a lot of pics linked in old posts on this and my previous blog may no longer work. i'm going to guess that this isn't going to be a crippling emotional blow to anyone, but on the off chance it is, let me know.