May 19, 2012
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I feel love

Posted in Music
I feel love

  Hipster Steve says: This is a repost from 06/10/2010     Donna Summer – I feel love   The queen of disco.   This video is a combination of the original song, concert footage, and a movie. Around the middle of the song you get what I call a minimalist break. This is where … Read more

animalliteration

    an awkward auk   animalliteration     a three toed slut   

Avengers and Zebra Fish

    The past 24 hours have been pleasant. I had been happily anticipating a day off and seeing the Avengers movie. This would be a welcome end to a somewhat stressful week. I got together with my friends, who got tickets early, then we went to Polo Park and had food from multiple places. … Read more

Beastie Boys – Body Movin’

    I was going to do a little post with Beastie Boys – Body Movin’, but Comics Alliance already nailed it.   R.I.P. Beastie Boy Adam ‘MCA’ Yauch (1964 – 2012)   You can see clips of the movie Danger: Diabolik on YouTube, if that interests you.    

The Band – Chest Fever

  The Band, which had been the backing band for Bob Dylan, has been in the news lately because of the death of Levon Helm.  This band was all Canadians except for the beloved Levon Helm from Arkansas.  Robbie Robertson (born to a Jewish father and a Mohawk mother) is a controversial figure. The band seems to have … Read more

Stopwatch

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Stopwatch

  Stopwatch is a character I came up with who has a time theme and a penchant for timekeeping devices.  I don’t know the details of this, and this interesting concept might be an unworkable failure.  This is a work in progress, so we’ll all see what happens over . . time.     Nomenclature nonsense: I … Read more

miscellaneous movies – ten thumbs down

  Some “movie blips”:   The Prince of Egypt is a 1998 animated biblical Disney film. I was struck by the scene where the first-born son of every family was killed. It was terrible.  A spirit represented by wind went from house to house, going inside. Only the outside of houses were shown with no … Read more

Tortoise and Hare

    Let me introduce you to what I call “game glow”. I’m feeling very pleased because I just invented a game called Tortoise and Hare. I’ve experienced this so many times after coming up with a concept for a game or sometimes finding out about a game that I call it game glow. Note … Read more

Simpsons city

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Simpsons city

  The news and other websites have been abuzz over the revelation by creator Matt Groening of the the location of Springfield, featured in The Simpsons.     Do you know the city where Homer Simpson came from, as revealed by Matt Groening?    

a joke

Posted in Animals
a joke

    What do you call a lazy baby kangaroo?      

motto of the day

    “Neglect nothing.” General Arthur Currie Commander of the Canadian Corps during the remarkable and successful assault on Vimy Ridge.    

Blue Circles – on my iPod!

  Blue Circles is finally on my iPod. Over and over again I had to explain why it had not been put on my iPod to show people. You might wonder what the big deal is about moving an iPod program from a Mac to an iPod. You can skip to here to find out. … Read more

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skeleton watch

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skeleton watch

    skeleton watch   Here is a YouTube vid of a fabulous skeleton watch.  A skeleton watch is a watch that does not have a face but shows the mechanism.  This is nice, in theory, but in practice it gets messy.  In this particular watch you can see right through it.  Have you got three and … Read more

Belphegor’s Prime

  mathematical madness I think Belphegor is Aramaic for buttface.   The Voynich manuscript, by the way, is a mysterious illustrated manuscript from the early 15th century which uses an unknown script that nobody has been able to decipher.