Nothing is going to stop her from getting that fly. The computer was a necessary sacrifice for the greater good.
(The computer is fine, by the way.)
(She never caught the fly.)
The Single-Minded Quest of the Dog
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The Mind of the Dog (UPDATED)
This video gives us an important glimpse into the average dog’s ongoing search for its human’s leg vagina, along with all the daily pooping rituals:
UPDATE (01/27/2014): Apparently the embedded video was not “Sad Dog Diary” as advertised. Hopefully this fixes it.
“Good Days Bad Days”
Lauren, who blogs on Tumblr as Iguana Mouth, created this beautiful set of animated GIFs that captures the feelings and experiences of depression and introversion. With permission, I’m sharing it here:
Televised Sunrises
![By Brian Jeffery Beggerly (originally posted to Flickr as IMG_0549) [CC-BY-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons](http://crypticphilosopher.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/659px-Beijing_Forbidden_City_Smog-300x272.jpg "By Brian Jeffery Beggerly (originally posted to Flickr as IMG_0549) [CC-BY-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons")
Apparently residents of Beijing can watch the sunrise again thanks to a giant LED screen that broadcasts a live feed of the sunrise from somewhere that isn’t covered in permasmog.
This is disquietingly similar to a plot point in Hugh Howey’s e-book series Wool, part of the Silo series, which I have been reading lately. Without giving away any spoilers, the books are about a group of people who live in a massive underground silo. They are forbidden from even talking about the outside, which has apparently suffered some sort of massive disaster that makes the outside air deadly to anyone who sets one foot out of the silo. On one of the highest levels, i.e. nearest to ground level, a viewscreen displays a live feed of the outside, which is a dead, lifeless world with a ruined city visible in the distance. The clouds part occasionally, allowing residents of the silo to see the sun and the stars. It’s the only view they get of the rest of the world.
It’s supposed to be science fiction, though.
Photo credit: By Brian Jeffery Beggerly (originally posted to Flickr as IMG_0549) [CC-BY-2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.
Monday Morning Cute: Guardians of the Pillars of Hercules
Gibraltar, the British territory on the southern tip of Spain at the entrance to the Mediterranean Sea, is the home of the only population of wild monkeys in Europe. About three hundred Barbary macaques live there, where they are somewhat erroneously known as the Barbary apes (they’re actually monkeys).
![Gibmetal77 [CC-BY-SA-2.5 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5)], from Wikimedia Commons](http://crypticphilosopher.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Alfred_Holmes_with_Barbary_Macaques.jpg "Gibmetal77 [CC-BY-SA-2.5 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5)], from Wikimedia Commons")
The above picture shows Sergeant Alfred Holmes (1931-1994) of the Gibraltar Regiment with two Barbary macaques, surveying the city from the Rock of Gibraltar. He held the position of “Officer-in-Charge of the Apes” for more than thirty-eight years, calling the macaques “Gibraltar’s greatest treasure.”
![By AlexCurl at en.wikipedia [CC-BY-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], from Wikimedia Commons](http://crypticphilosopher.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/800px-Rock_of_Gibraltar_Barbary_Macaque.jpg "By AlexCurl at en.wikipedia [CC-BY-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], from Wikimedia Commons")
The consensus seems to be that the Moors brought the monkeys to Spain as pets between the Eighth and Fifteenth Centuries, but monkeys had probably been in Europe long before that. Continue reading
Gen X Is Getting Old
The other day, I read that the Super Bowl’s organizers booked the Red Hot Chili Peppers for the halftime show in order to appeal to an older audience. This is one of those “Gosh, I feel old” moments.
I really do hope Gen X doesn’t get as insufferable as the Boomers about getting old, and besides, getting old should not be viewed as somehow inherently bad. Some of the most awesome people in entertainment (where youth might as we be actual currency, like Bitcoin) aren’t exactly spring chickens (cough, Maggie Smith).
Of course, then you see some proof that an icon of your youth has marched through time at the same rate as you, and you can’t help but feel the weight of a few years. I’m talking, of course, about the baby on the cover of Nirvana’s Nevermind (h/t Maredith): Continue reading
This is True Love. Do You Think This Happens Every Day?
This album, which has been making the rounds on the internet for almost two years, ought to make you feel hope for true love in this world, and anger that war makes us feel the need to reassert the existence of love:
Taylor Morris lost all four limbs in a bomb blast while serving in Afghanistan. His girlfriend (high school sweetheart, actually), Danielle Kelly, helped him through his recovery, and they inspired the whole internet.
A Stripper FAQ
An Imgur user going by the handle LittleQueenTrashMouth (probably not their real name) posted a two-part FAQ (part 1, part 2) about the actual business and experience of stripping, and it actually shed light on a job that people tend to either mythologize or severely denigrate. It offers one person’s perspective, but from a viewpoint rarely seen in most media. It focuses exclusively on female strippers serving male clientele, which I suppose constitutes most people’s image of how stripping works. Here are a few highlights (it gets pretty PG-13 from here on, plus a trigger warning for mention of rape and sexual harassment):
How often do the strip poles get cleaned? Continue reading
They See Me Rollin’
This Week in WTF, January 17, 2014 (UPDATED)
UPDATE (01/17/2014): Thanks to a busybody dear friend’s observation, I have updated the post title to reflect the fact that we are in a new year. Lousy Smarch…
![By Christy_Marie_as_Slave_Leia_at_San_Diego_Comic-Con_2006.jpg: Jason Scragz from Portland, Oregon, USA derivative work: Fanfwah [CC-BY-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) or CC-BY-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons](http://crypticphilosopher.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/398px-Christy_Marie_as_Slave_Leia-199x300.jpg "By Christy_Marie_as_Slave_Leia_at_San_Diego_Comic-Con_2006.jpg: Jason Scragz from Portland, Oregon, USA derivative work: Fanfwah [CC-BY-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) or CC-BY-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons")
Christy Marie as Slave Leia at San Diego Comic Con, 2006 (i.e. not a stripper in Atlanta)
Hoping to capitalize on DragonCon’s attendance, the proprietor of a new gentlemen’s club, Jabbu’s Hut, has announced the club’s grand opening to coincide with the fantasy and science fiction themed convention on Labor Day weekend.
“Of course we’d prefer to call it Jabba’s Hut,” said Steve Scizz, owner. “But the lawyers would open us up like a Hoth tauntaun and crawl inside.”
Scizz says his club will feature more than just girls dressed up as slave Leias, although there will be plenty of those, even if he calls them “Slave Laylas.” He plans to have his girls costumed across the full spectrum of fantasy, science fiction, and actual science.
“Just imagine getting a lap dance from sexy Marie Curie — non radioactive and in the public domain — or one of those hot night elves like the ones in WOW. We’ll have it all,” said Scizz.
Yes, of course anything posted on a site called the Atlanta Banana is certain to be satire (and it is), but that didn’t stop a few nerdbros from getting cautiously excited about it: Continue reading