Set Up Like A Deck Of Cards

Car Alarms I promise that absolutely nothing happens in this 90...

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:13:36 +0000

Car Alarms

I promise that absolutely nothing happens in this 90 second video, apart from the gradual synchronisation of the flashing red car alarm lights of two cars that were parked next to each other.

Music: Fugazi — Afterthought

This is a stick up! I have no idea how this happened, but happen...

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:38:56 +0000

This is a stick up!

I have no idea how this happened, but happen it did.

Seventies Sky It might not look like it, but this photo was...

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 11:32:17 +0000

Seventies Sky

It might not look like it, but this photo was taken earlier this morning.

I watched Man on Wire for the first time tonight. This photo...

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:20:30 +0000

I watched Man on Wire for the first time tonight. This photo gave me goosebumps and made me feel a little bit ill. I can’t believe Philippe was smiling for the camera while he was doing it.

OK Go — This Too Shall Pass This was all over the internet...

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 22:02:06 +0000

OK Go — This Too Shall Pass

This was all over the internet a few weeks ago, apparently, but I’ve been a bit overcome by work recently, so I missed it.

But I found it today and it is awe-inspiring.

To keep with a Valentine’s Day theme, I don’t think I’ve ever been in love. I think I’d know if I had, because it would probably feel like 2:27 of this video.

joshsuth: Click through for a tutorial on how to make your own...

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 21:37:55 +0000

joshsuth:

Click through for a tutorial on how to make your own perfect Skittles-infused vodkas.

(via thearcticpuppet : therestlessheart)

This got my heart racing faster than any anonymous Valentine’s Day card would have ever done.

This blog is still active

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 11:46:12 +0000

It’s just that work is using up all of my energy at the moment.

I’m sure you’ll get over it.

Map Tunneling Tool

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:01:15 +0000

Map Tunneling Tool:

Easily find anywhere’s antipodes. This fascinated me like a shiny thing would.

Today's Highlights. Seriously.

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:35:35 +0000

Eating quinoa for the first time.
Guessing that there were 250 sheets of paper in the big stack that I had to count. There were actually 256.
The bus driver flashing his hazard lights a couple of times, to thank me for letting him pull away from the kerb.

First lineup announcement for the 2010 Download Festival.

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:18:06 +0000

First lineup announcement for the 2010 Download Festival.

Whenever I listen to Hüsker Dü, I end up having a really shitty day.

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:20:59 +0000

I don’t pretend to understand the correlation.

Scrubs — Betty the Seal I saw this episode (S03E02) of...

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:25:00 +0000

Scrubs — Betty the Seal

I saw this episode (S03E02) of Scrubs for the first time tonight and this scene cracked me up. When Betty shouts at him, I did a real-life spit-take all over my laptop.

Kitchen Counter Graffiti This is what happens when you leave a...

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:47:00 +0000

Kitchen Counter Graffiti

This is what happens when you leave a freezer bag, that you’ve previously written the contents of onto, to defrost on the kitchen counter.

It’s pretty impressive, and guaranteed to last.

"I get a craving like a fiend for nicotine, but I don’t need a cigarette, know what I mean?"

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:57:30 +0000

“I get a craving like a fiend for nicotine, but I don’t need a cigarette, know what I mean?”

- Eric B & Rakim — Microphone Fiend

Today, I celebrated one week without smoking. Here’s to another week.

Stonehenge on Google Earth

Sun, 10 Jan 2010 00:46:53 +0000

Stonehenge on Google Earth

Not the way to do it (a.k.a. The Way I Roll)

Sat, 09 Jan 2010 23:13:27 +0000

Let hair grow pretty long
Buy new glasses
Wear new glasses all the time
Get hair cut
Start wondering if glasses still look okay with short hair

How to Irritate a Geographer

Sat, 09 Jan 2010 16:13:00 +0000

pterodactyls:

“Ooh, so you know all the capitals, right? What’s the capital of ___?”
(or)
“Hahaha that must be so easy, everything’s been mapped already! There’s nothing left to discover!”
(or)
“Oh, just like Google Earth!”

NO while we probably do know whatever capital you’re asking, our field covers everything from climatology to plate tectonics to demographics. We don’t spend four years at university practicing rote memorization.

NO everything hasn’t been mapped already. Populations are always changing, borders shifting, diseases spreading, coastlines moving. Etc. The world is changing.

NO it isn’t just like Google Earth. That’s a bunch of pictures.

“Geography? So are you going to be a teacher?”

For the record, I read Human Geography, but I could still draw a pretty sweet diagram of a glacier.

Bishop Allen — The News From Your Bed I was having a...

Sat, 09 Jan 2010 15:21:41 +0000

Bishop Allen — The News From Your Bed

I was having a really frustrating day, trying to find anything that I wanted to listen to, so I ended up putting iTunes on Shuffle. This was the 13th song to come up.

Maybe the happiest-sounding sad song, ever.

The line, “You know your face is all covered with your birthday cake, that you’re eating in the kitchen at home,” is just perfect.

peetypassion: Put your vision in perspective (via (Zack...

Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:34:50 +0000

peetypassion:

Put your vision in perspective

(via (Zack Henningsgaard) Zack Attack.)

I thought I’d probably end up wearing my new glasses about half the time, and sticking with my contact the lenses the other half. But I’ve worn my glasses every day for the last two weeks.

Marilyn Munro

Thu, 07 Jan 2010 22:22:04 +0000

Marilyn Munro:

A ‘Marilyn’ is a type of mountain or hill in Great Britain, Ireland or surrounding islands with a relative height of at least 150 metres (492 ft), regardless of absolute height or other merit. The name was coined as an ironic contrast to the designation Munro, used of a Scottish mountain with a height of more than 3,000 feet (914.4 m), which is homophonous with (Marilyn) Monroe.

I’ve never heard this term before, and will probably never use it, but I really enjoy the reason it exists.