Category: Spitting Images

Say, that’s a nice mask.

  • December 9, 2016
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This post was precipitated by the necessity of testing a twitter cards WordPress plugin and my desire to share a photo of an exceptionally charming fox half-face mask.

Red sky at night, sailor’s delight. Red sky in morning, sailor’s warning.

  • December 2, 2016
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The ruddy orange hue of the bellies of the clouds visible over the sea one recent evening was so striking that I had to snap a few photos. Then, I turned one of those images upside down and thought it looked even nicer. And now here it is on this site. In retrospect, I might’ve […]

Photo: Clouds at sunset

  • November 26, 2016
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Evangelion/Ghostbusters crossover tee: I ain’t afraid of no Liliths

  • November 21, 2016
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Spitting Images The Diary of Lupin Pooter
Someone replaced the ghost in the Ghostbusters logo with a depiction of Lilith from Evangelion — the original 7-eyed-mask version from Neon Genesis Evangelion as opposed to the redesigned, two-eyed-bone-mask version — and printed it on a t-shirt.

The mozzarella layers resemble sheaths of adipose tissue, no?

  • November 16, 2016
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Spitting Images The Diary of Lupin Pooter
On Monday night, we made eggplant parmesan, according to a recipe variant in which the eggplant slices got coated in finely-grated parmesan cheese instead of breadcrumbs. Viewed from the side, it looks a bit like a cross-section of some unknown animal:

Can’t have these sunsets without that smog?

  • November 16, 2016
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Sassafras! Horsefeathers! Fiddlesticks! Spitting Images
As you know, Bob, Hong Kong, which has next to nil industry in this day and age, is plagued by smog resulting primarily from manufacturing and manufacturing-related activities in the greater Pearl River Delta region. What’s that? You reside in this part of the world and can afford to run HEPA-grade air purifiers, but don’t? […]

Yak Shaving: Resistors, 6500 of ’em, edition

  • November 11, 2016
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Mucking About With Things Spitting Images The Diary of Lupin Pooter
Above: what 6500 1/4-Watt, 1%-tolerance metal film resistors (50 each of 150 different resistance values, ranging from 1 Ω to 10 MΩ) look like if you buy them from Taobao. That cling-film/plastic-wrap-wound bundle was roughly the size of an adult’s forearm, from elbow to wrist. Total cost: $USD 10. For reference, Sparkfun’s Resistor Kit (COM-10969, […]

100-year-old people are much more common than 4-year-old mice.

  • November 2, 2016
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Spitting Images The Diary of Lupin Pooter
The title of this post is taken from a statement made by Dr. Richard Miller, professor of pathology in the Geriatrics Center of the Medical School, as quoted in an April 2004 U. Mich. press release (World’s oldest mouse reaches milestone birthday, via this Reddit thread). One of the Reddit posters found Yoda the mouse’s […]

James looks up, a CSS animation

  • November 1, 2016
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Spitting Images Tygers, Tygers!

In the Track of the Bookworm (used books)

  • October 28, 2016
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In the Track of the Bookworm Spitting Images
It seems a heckuva lot easier to find old books that are worth reading than to choose new (newly-published) books that won’t trigger buyer’s/reader’s remorse. In the Track of the Bookworm is a book published just before the end of the 19th century. The author, one Irving Browne, dedicated it: To book-worms all, of high […]

Side-eyed by a praying mantis and I feel fine!

  • October 28, 2016
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All My Friends Are Insects Spitting Images The Diary of Lupin Pooter
Tonight, on my way to the supermarket to replenish our household’s egg and milk stores, I noticed a large praying mantis on the sidewalk. Fortunately, I was en route to rather than returning home from the grocery store, so I could pause and observe this individual of what I believe to be the species Hierodula […]

So this is what pareidolia feels like. Huh. Neato.

  • October 26, 2016
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Mucking About With Things Personal Firsts Spitting Images
Clicking through some of the photos I took of some of the micro-terrains of a sunflower, I found one that featured something that very closely resembled a creepy staring eye: Instead of being disappointed that there wasn’t a tiny human face beneath the mass of immature sunflower florets looking upwards toward the lens of my […]