This doesn’t bode well for me and my abysmal sense of smell.
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The (lack of) smell of death
Sunday, January 16th, 2011Why doesn’t my job doesn’t bring me into contact with anyone like this?
Thursday, November 18th, 2010Olivia Munn has been named Tech Girl of 2011 by Men’s Health magazine. I’ve sometimes watched her show on G4, but not particularly often. I like this photo of her from the article:
It’s a very nice photo, but there’s something familiar about it … ah, yes. Here we go.
I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit.
Wednesday, November 17th, 2010It’s the only way to be sure. (NSFW photos at link)
This is being (humorously) referred to as a follow-on to Sarah Palin’s Alaska. I’ll admit that there’s some humor there, just because of the juxtaposition of values and representatives. There’s a point, though, at which something goes from “disturbing and uncomfortable” to “absolutely wrong.” San Francisco is already partially into the second zone, and apparently moving further into it all the time.
There are definitely reasons
Wednesday, November 17th, 2010One website I go to classifies some posts under a category named something like, “Reasons we aren’t nearly afraid enough of the Japanese.” I think this would fall into that category. There is a type of performer in Japan called the idol singer. There have been idols who were “merely” popular performers, idols who were corporate image representatives, and so on. They’re a long-lived enough cultural phenomenon that they’ve been reasonably common in anime, as well, with one character whose singing was sufficient to stop an interstellar war.
Now, they’re not even required to be real people for live performances in the real world.
One has to wonder what the people in the audience actually saw – is the technology advanced enough for them to see what we can see in the video, or was this done in postprocessing? But don’t worry about where they can possibly go from here – they went there about a year ago.
Video found at Snapped Shot.
I live in a dangerous neighborhood
Sunday, October 17th, 2010I suppose it *could* be considered an offensive weapon system
Sunday, October 17th, 2010Depending, of course, on what music is being played.
Sadly, my kung fu is not strong
Sunday, October 17th, 2010How’s that again?
Saturday, October 9th, 2010Easier than doing it myself
Thursday, October 7th, 2010I’d collected a number of links to various takes on the abhorrent 10:10 video, and had thought of doing a post rounding up the assorted reactions I’d come across.
Luckily for me, The Daily Bayonet has done exactly that, almost certainly better than I’d have managed.