Excellent! Who am I supposed to be partnered with?
I'm in. Wouldn't that be awesome?
The human brain is incredibly good at detecting patterns, to the point where it often detects patterns that aren't there.
At one house I lived in, the vinyl flooring was in a kind of random mosaic pattern, and one part looked like a very detailed robot to me and I saw that robot every time I looked at the floor. It was like in Nabokov's memoir, when he talked about looking at the past being like looking for the hidden pictures in something like
Highlights for Children.
Once you see the hidden squirrel, you can't unsee it.
I don't believe in ghosts as actual spirits of the dead, but there are enough stories for me to think that horrific events might leave some kind of imprint.
And I'd vote for Perry Como as our lord and savior.
That's the way I was raised. My mother's had a crush on him for 60+ years.
If you let me shoot the shotgun leftie I'd be willing to help.
And no, I don't think that's a grenade.
Damn. That was the tartest Granny Smith apple I've had in forever. The organic fruit at this one supermarket tend to be watery and disappointing, but that was five apples worth of pucker wrapped up in one.
Bah. Server Changeover of Doom in 10 minutes....
eta: In case of failure, I doubt the excuse that "So what if people not on the local VPN can no longer enter their timesheets" will fly....
I like the idea of teaming up with Nutty, Ginger, and ita. It makes me feel very safe, yet also causes me to giggle a touch maniacally.
This is awesome: Anatomical Illustration of a Balloon Dog by Jason Freeny
After months of observations, dissections and a 25 minute intro to clown school, I have finally successfully mapped the inter workings of the domestic balloon dog.
Wouldn't dissecting a balloon dog be kind of loud?
Wouldn't dissecting a balloon dog be kind of loud?
That's why it's cool someone did it - so we don't have to.
Plus I never knew they had bones and veins and what-not....
Quote of the day:
"I took a city that was known for pornography and licked it to a large extent" - Rudy Giuliani.
Pub ghost taken with a cell phone [link] You can see it in the 3rd photo
Looks to me like there's a reflective plate of glass between the phone and the girl smoking. There's a change in background darkness running vertically along the left side of the frame that's consistent in all 3 images, and would seem to indicate 2 different brightnesses of material along a wall behind the photographer.
Do people here believe in ghosts? My neighbors are always telling me about ghosts they've seen.
Yes. I've experienced a physical object being moved, apparently in reaction to my passing by, in an unoccupied room. I've not seen a ghostly apparition under circumstances where I'm certain of what I was seeing, though.
