So, since I just had my friend update this blog, and you can actually read it on more than a 1987 monochrome screen, I thought I would compile a bunch of some of my past faves that might get your mind (more…)
Accidental Shifts in Meaning – Bugs Bunny’s Nimrod, & Why did Constantinople get the works?
From here: http://www.dailywritingtips.com/accidental-shifts-in-meaning/ A similar transmogrification occurred with the word nimrod, a generic reference to the biblical character of that name, who in (more…)
Ozymandias, by Percy Shelley
Percy Shelley’s Ozymandias I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand, Half sunk, a shatter’d visage lies, whose frown And (more…)
Dear Pavlov; an insufficient note to your life.
Our little guy, charming sweet prince, rapscallion and profoundly adorable best friend, Pavlov, has dispatched this mortal coil at 8.20p, 16th August 2014. He was healthy until the last two weeks (more…)
Happy Birthday Tiburon, California! 50 years old? You deserve fireworks!
https://plus.google.com/+MichaelHraba/posts/KJCeHQjrj42 Enjoy the photos from the fireworks and absolutely not one shot of a beautiful human. Pardon that. I could have actually documented the wonderful (more…)
Digital Inheritance, & Sentiment Analysis to build biographer’s depictions of a dead soul.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2014/04/09/300614977/the-new-age-leaving-behind-everything-or-nothing-at-all This talks about your “digital inheritance”, how people used to burn letters to (more…)
Home Brewers that will suffer a Fishbits request to name a beer:
I would like to name a beer this: “Ahab’s Whale Tail Pale Ale Tale” as observed by Ishmael, bottled by Fishbits. Please make the back of the bottle note: “Fishbits accidentally bottled a crisp (more…)
An Ode to Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy of my Youth; A Love note to Douglas Adams
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy; A Love note to Douglas Adams (dates not precise) About 1984, my father bought an IBM XT with a 10MB hard drive and 3.5 floppy, with a Hayes 1200 baud modem. Â It was (more…)
Christmas, Easter, Holidays, and continual theft of ancient oral culture.
So basically, it’s like this: The Babylonian and Sumerian Department stores went out of business. The Christians bought the stores for DIRT CHEAP. Then, they basically relabeled everything, and threw (more…)
Shakespeare invented more words than you could possibly believe
Words that Shakespeare invented (or popularized): academe accused addiction advertising amazement arouse assassination backing bandit bedroom beached besmirch birthplace blanket bloodstained barefaced blushing bet bump buzzer caked cater champion circumstantial cold-blooded compromise courtship countless critic dauntless dawn deafening discontent dishearten drugged dwindle epileptic equivocal elbow excitement exposure eyeball fashionable fixture flawed frugal generous gloomy gossip…