Coffee Art

This is a cool picture from a series of coffee art on napkins.

Here’s the caption from this one…

My inner accountant quickly convinced me to buy one of those little espresso machines (for the price of approximately 10 tall lattes). It had a steam nozzle to heat milk, which one should clean very thoroughly after each use. I didn’t have the patience to do so. Within a few uses, an unappetizing, dark brown, organic lump developed around the nozzle. A few days later it had become unremovable, and I reverted to getting my coffee outside.

That’s right people. Timely advice to clean your steam wands.

December 4, 2008

This is bizarre…

But again, oddly compelling.

“I made this. You play this. We are enemies”

I’d say 60% annoying 40% compelling.

December 4, 2008

I will never understand cat pe…

I will never understand cat people.

December 4, 2008

I want to go home but I brokes…

I want to go home but I brokes the interweb…

December 4, 2008

doesn’t use Twitter enough.

doesn’t use Twitter enough.

December 4, 2008

Soup

I like Soup. I’ve only just discovered it. That is to say, I knew it existed, but I’ve only just created myself on it – oh, and on tumblr. Nothing really exciting happening there yet. Soup on the other hand aggregates all my bookmarks, google reader shared items, blog posts, Twitter tweets (I think I’ve posted 18 in 2 months…) and will have any picasa photos I choose to put there.

December 4, 2008

You know you’ve got too much time on your hands when… Part 2.

You have the time or inclination to build yourself a fully functioning Daft Punk helmet. Like this guy. Who also has a funky rollover thing happening in the sidebar of his site. It’s pretty cool.

My Daft Punk helmet from Casey Pugh on Vimeo.

December 4, 2008

Melting Moments


Oddly compelling protest about climate change.

December 4, 2008

No wonder kids have attention problems…

Just thinking about this makes my head hurt. Things used to be so much simpler.

December 4, 2008

A wordy post

Meriam Webster dictionary has released the 10 most frequently looked up words in 2008. In order they are:
Bailout, vet, socialism, maverick, bipartisan, trepidation, precipice, rogue, misogyny, turmoil…

Obviously some were influenced by the global economic crisis – like misogyny… others by the US election… like bailout. Obviously other people wanted to know where to send their dogs… Or, it could be that the American populace was wondering why Obama was so keen to vet his cabinet. English is a funny language. Why do you need a trained animal doctor to check out a piece of furniture?

Here’s how the list stacks up to previous years – where w00t, Facebook and others all appear. It’s an interesting way to track people’s thinking and concerns. And what they don’t know but are choosing to be educated about.

December 3, 2008

Right Ahead

I’m preaching at church on Sunday night. A Christmas talk. On Revelation 12. It’s a weird passage. You should read it.

Here’s the first five verses:

1 A great and wondrous sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head. 2 She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth. 3 Then another sign appeared in heaven: an enormous red dragon with seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns on his heads. 4 His tail swept a third of the stars out of the sky and flung them to the earth. The dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth, so that he might devour her child the moment it was born. 5 She gave birth to a son, a male child, who will rule all the nations with an iron scepter. And her child was snatched up to God and to his throne.

Seriously, how can you not want to write a 25 minute talk on that (and the next bits)? Will you be putting a seven headed dragon in your nativity scene this year?

Revelation is, along with Daniel, one of those books that gets Christians in a bit of a pickle. It has been so poorly understood and spawned crazy theological ideas and eschatology (end time theology). Revelation was written to the early church, in a time when the early church was being ripped to pieces (quite literally) by crazy emperor Nero.

One outcome of the confusion surrounding the book of Revelation is the unbelievably (in the literal suspension of belief sense) popular “Left Behind” series. I haven’t read them. I have no desire to. But the underpinning idea of secret one world governments and the shadowy “Illuminati” is based on a really poor apocalyptic reading of Revelation that defies context.

I caught Louis Theroux and the Survivalists on TV a couple of weeks ago. These are people who take Revelation all the wrong way. Here’s the full length episode on google video.

I plan one day to write a spoof of “Left Behind” called Right Ahead. I’m not sure anyone will buy it. But at least it will be theologically correct.

December 3, 2008

Conspiracy

Hillary Clinton only has to kill four people – then pardon herself – to be the next President of the United States. The Huffington Post has the order of succession as follows:

PRESIDENTIAL LINE OF SUCCESSION (Obama Administration)

  1. Joe Biden (Vice President and President of Senate)
  2. Nancy Pelosi (Speaker of the House)
  3. Robert Byrd (Senate President Pro Tempore)
  4. Hillary Clinton (State)
  5. Timothy Geithner (Treasury)
  6. Robert Gates (Defense)
  7. Eric Holder (Justice)
  8. TBD (Interior)
  9. TBD (Agriculture)
  10. Bill Richardson (Commerce)

She better watch out though, that Timothy Geithner is a mean looking son of a gun.

December 3, 2008

Need an easy reference card featuring your DNA?

Of course you do. You could mount it on your wall. What if I told you it’s available in 25 different colours? How bout a couple of sizes? Still not sold…

All thanks to dna11.


If you’re curious – here’s the process:

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December 3, 2008

Deus Ex Machinima

I’m no gaming aficionado. I like games. I play a lot of Tetris. And I like Hitman. I just haven’t yet lost the requisite number of kilos (1 down, 9 to go) to earn my Xbox. I’ve also never played Deus Ex. But this project – to provide a high definition texture pack for the game sounds very interesting. Imagine all the old games with great gameplay but lowsy graphics that could be improved in this manner. And to make some reference to my cool title pun – imagine high definition machinima made using old games… like Deus Ex… actually, a quick google reveals Deus Ex Machinima has already been done. But using Halo. Oh well.

Kudos to this design team. Wolfenstein 3D in high res anybody? I’d play that.

December 3, 2008

Dull

I find this blog incredibly amusing. It claims to be the dullest blog in the world and it is.

It has been defunct for two years but still enjoys some popularity. Here’s a sample. They are all this good.

Putting a piece of junk mail into the waste paper basket…
February 2nd, 2004

I discovered a piece of junk mail on my door mat. I carried the item away from the front door and held it above the waste paper basket. I opened my hand, thereby allowing the piece of junk mail to fall into the basket.

December 3, 2008