Why you should always supply a caption
If someone sends you a photo, they should always supply a caption. Otherwise, you might supply your own.
Category Archives: life
Relativism
I’d like to know what this whole show is all about before it’s out. — Piet Hein
Online notebooks
Have you ever wondered how to keep track of all those interesting and ephemeral pieces of trivia that you find on the Internet? The odd photos, strange captions, useful Web sites and such? You haven’t? Too bad: here are Continue reading Online notebooks
Literary references to Macintosh applications
Have you ever said to yourself, “I want a native Mac OS X hex editor that can handle files of unlimited size?” Of course you have. What you need is 0xED, and it is free: http://www.suavetech.com/0xed/0xed.html It is also Lion Continue reading Literary references to Macintosh applications
Beach creatures
1690 Theo Jansen is a Dutch artist who does Rube Goldberg one better. While Goldberg’s creations were spectacularly clever and astoundingly useless, they were very much artifices: without a human creating them, they wouldn’t exist. Your typical Rube Goldberg device Continue reading Beach creatures
Sensible shoes for armored women
4471 Your typical Frank Franzetta or Boris Vallejo book cover or magazine cover featured a scantily clad damsel fighting off an evil orc or BEM (Bug Eyed Monster) or heavily armored galactic overlord. The damsel might have a sword and a Continue reading Sensible shoes for armored women
Feeding is now litter
8832 This sign, posted on a San Diego, California, trolley stop, equates feeding birds with litter. If feeding is litter, this suggests you probably don’t want to try eating a snack on the trolley, or breast feeding an infant. Photo Continue reading Feeding is now litter
Alliteration of lorikeets
9220 These rainbow lorikeets, from Australia, are more than willing to come and land on you, if you are willing to feed them. They are energetic birds, so prefer energetic food, such as sugar water. This photo was taken at Continue reading Alliteration of lorikeets
How many paragliders do you see in this photo?
4957 There are two paragliding chutes, but how many passengers? Taken at Torrey Pines Gliderport, a wind-swept patch of dirt atop cliffs overlooking Black’s Beach and the Pacific Ocean in San Diego, California.