Mise à nu

Mise à nu: [NSFW] …and absolutely fascinating.

Stubby Makes Good

I’d never thought of it before, but the silhouette on the Wyoming license plate of a bronco rider is actually based on a real person. Albert “Stubby” Farlow (1886-1953) was born with short legs, but made his mark as a bronco rider, at least long enough to get his image plastered on every Wyoman’s car. [...]

Confession of an economic hit man

Confession of an economic hit man

via Cowboy Books

Best. Dessert. Evar.

Best. Dessert. Evar.

I can’t decide if they’re being serious or seriously ironic, but this recipe appeared in a cookbook that Jill’s mom had on her shelf. Someone seriously sat down and created this dessert, took a picture of it, and published it for real in a book of banana recipes.I can’t even imagine how one [...]

PaperForms Acoustic Wall Tile

PaperForms Acoustic Wall Tile

I want to do up my office in this.  There are some other designs there on their site, but I like this best.

Jacob, modeling.

Jacob, modeling.

Duncan, modeling.

Duncan, modeling.

You are an Obsession

On his part, my father could never believe in something as comic as an ephemeral old man who lives on a cloud and whom — after a brief burst of creative creationism in his early twenties — has been spending the last six thousand years of his early retirement kookily obsessing about where and how [...]

Tooth-B-Gone

Jakey lost his second tooth today, so the tooth fairy is going to visit tonight. If I stay up late I may see her, too! I’ll get pix.

Jakey’s very own endorsement for the Seattle Storm.

Jakey’s very own endorsement for the Seattle Storm.

wall-e

wall-e
: The script from Wall-E.  I follow along while I watch, it helps because I don’t understand robot-speak.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki

The Effects of the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and other docs at Truman Library. I wish this had an OCR’ed version of the text…

Thanks for Projects

I’m mostly off work this Thanksgiving week, and as is the tradition around these parts, most of the rest of the company is off, too. Either for real or “Working From Home”, as opposed to, say, “Living at Work”. But I digress…

This week is project week. I built a kitty escape hatch so [...]

Pictures of Numbers

Pictures of Numbers
: A great reference for how to display information in ways that are intuitively obvious to the viewer.  Clean, concise visualization is a treat. 

OMG

marco:

daisymay:

kate-elizabeth:

YES.   YES.  YES.  !!!!!

YEAH! Thank you America, you done well!!

Oh yeah!!!!  That acceptance speech was gold.  What a brilliant man!