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Laws, Rules, and Axioms, oh my!
Agnes Allen’s Law: Almost anything is easier to get into than out of. Army Laws: If it moves, salute it. If it doesn’t move, pick it up. If you can’t pick it up, paint it. Barth’s Distinction: There are two types of people: those who divide people into two types, and those who don’t. Bartz’s Law of Hokey Horsepuckery: The more ridiculous a belief system, the higher the probability of its success. Baruch’s Rule for Determining Old Age: Old age is always fifteen years older than I am. Basic Law of Construction: Cut it large and kick it into place. Becker’s Law: It is much harder to find a job…
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Wanted: Mr. Manchu
Go create a police sketch of your own.
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The Ring of Fire
When I was a kid I used to make miniature gladiator rings in my backyard by digging a ring in the hard-packed dirt and filling it with water, so the gladiators inside the ring could not escape. The gladiators, of course, were ants, because ants are just badass. I used to hold these fights between red ants and black ants, in a ratio of about 10:1 because the red ants were so much bigger and stronger. The black ants basically acted like a bunch of sissies until the red ants started tearing them apart – then the group mind thing would kick in, and the black ants would swarm the…
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Lord Lopan Likey Likey
What do you get when you cross South Park with Big Trouble in Little China? Big Trouble in Little South Park, of course! Long live the Porkchop Express!
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Life Imitates the Captain’s Log
This is straight out of Star Trek, right? The one that featured the Monterey Bay Aquarium, I believe.
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Batizado 2005 Photos
Some pictures of the capoeira meet we saw this weekend: Click on the photos to see larger versions in a pop-up window. If you liked these, there’s many, many more I posted here.
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Baby Got Banjo
Possibly the best cover of Baby Got Back (I hate that fucking song) ever made: Thing a Week 5 – Baby Got Back In the proud tradition of many white Americans who came before me I hereby steal and white-ify this thick and juicy piece of black culture. Watch for my album “Jonathan Coulton Sings Songs by Black People.” I think I like this version even better that Richard Cheese’s. But RC’s Man in the Box still reigns supreme.
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Fan San’s Kimchi
T made this.
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Music for this fine Monday
A list of old TV show mp3s: http://uglypc.ggh.org.uk/chrisb/old_tv/old_tv_mp3/ (via Kottke)
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A nice Sunday
Yesterday Nam and I set out in the morning for a day in Osaka. My little brother has been studying capoeira with a group that practices in Shinsaibashi, and they were holding a west Japan tournament in Minatomachi. (My photos will hopefully be posted tonight.) So we got to Osaka by utilizing the cheapest method available to individuals or small groups of people living on Awaji island for day trips to the mainland – the recently established one-day return ticket on the hydrofoil to KIX (2500 yen, including free parking). We had lunch at Bombay Kitchen in Shinsaibashi (after all, God forgives sinners on the Sabbath as long as they…
