I figured it’s been just long enough for everyone to forget…
Category: Imagery
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Wonka
Okay, tell me this guy doesn’t look totally cool:
Photo thanks to Simone at Emerald Bay Photography This guy was with the fire dancer troup that performed Saturday night at the Bite of Bend. We decided he looked like Willy Wonka, though now I’m also thinking the Mad Hatter. Watching him, I also think he had a Johnny Depp thing going on. Anyway, I begged and pleaded with Simone for a picture of him so I could post it… how could I not? That guy rocks. Seriously.
Top hats are cool.
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Pictures of the cistern
This post is really to supplement my Water in the Desert post from yesterday; I wanted to include some pictures of the cistern we used to play on, because that was one of my favorite parts from that post. So while we were out at my parents’ place today, I snapped a few pictures.
Here’s a view of the thing. The concrete’s a little worse for the wear after 20+ years, but you can see it’s shaped like a box, and has those weird steel blade-looking things sticking out of it. Like rebar, only sharper. And sideways. Plus, you can get a sense of its height; I was standing on an elevated spot, and the top was still over my head a bit, and I’m six feet tall. 
Holding the camera over my head and shooting blindly… here’s the top of the cistern. Nice and flat. The pumphouse is adjoining; from the cistern you could wander around on top the pumphouse. That wasn’t as much fun though. 
Nice view along the side, closeup on the blade thingy. Yes, we would climb on those. They’re what, maybe an eighth of an inch thick. -
For Dummies book cover generator
This is pretty cool: Dummies Book Cover Generator (via eMusings). Now you can generate a fake “For Dummies” book for any occasion (which would have been handy when I originally created this and this). Imagine the mayhem…
At the very least, I can now mockup my For Tards ideas:
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Crazy skull
I admit, when I first saw this skull, I would not have guessed what animal it ultimately came from. I mean, that is some crazy wicked toothwork…
So, who can identify it without cheating?
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Earthquake off the Oregon Coast
There was a magnitude 4.5 earthquake off of Oregon’s coast this morning. Interesting. Not a huge one—not enough to strike up a tsunami—but a good reminder that a big one could hit at any time.
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Anagram map of Downtown Bend
Inspired of late by Boing Boing’s pointers to subway maps that have been remixed to used anagrammed names, I thought it would be fun to do the same with Bend. Only, Bend doesn’t have a subway (or any mass transit, grrr), so I did the next best thing: remixed the map of downtown.
The only constraints I followed were dropping the directional part of the street names (the NW in NW Franklin) and spelling out the type of roadway (“Avenue” vs. “Ave”).
Enjoy! Oh, and the Internet Anagram Server came in amazingly handy for this.
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10 ways Dick Cheney can kill you
Okay, in light of all the Dick Cheney hijinks, I saw this on Boing Boing the other day and I finally succumbed. What can I say? This makes me want to laugh out loud every time I see it:
For the record, my favorites are “Telekinesis,” “Raining blows down upon you,” and “With his bare hands.”
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Strangely enough, it’s a real book…
It’s amazing what they’re publishing in For Dummies books these days… I almost wish I had made this up:
This just makes me laugh. The fact that it’s for real just makes this that much more irrationally funny to me…
