Random thoughts

This is sort of funny

This is sort of true

This is true and funny

And this is just fun…

Flickr Geekery

Maybe not so much pure geekery per se but this is pretty darn cool – the Library of Congress is on Flickr. Well, the actual library is not but a a wonderful collection of images from the LOC are.

 

A few other interesting institutions on Flickr include the National Maritime Museum, the National Media Museum and the Smithsonian Institution.

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Wasted Time

A little poem that strikes home

The time that I’ve wasted is my biggest regret,
Spent in these places I will never forget.
Just sitting and thinking about the things I’ve done,
the crying, the laughing, the hurt and the fun.
Now it’s just me and my hard-driven guilt,
Behind the wall of emptiness I allowed to be built.
I’m trapped in my body just waiting to run,
back to my youth with it’s laughter and fun.
But the chase is over and there’s no place to hide,
Everything is gone, including my pride.
With reality suddenly right in my face,
I’m scared, alone, and stuck in this place.
Now memories of the past flash through my head,
and the pain is obvious by the tears that I shed.
I ask myself why? and where I went wrong.
I guess I was weak, when I should have been strong.
Living for the drugs, and the wings I had grown.
My feelings were lost afraid to be shown.
As I look at my past it’s so easy to see,
The fear that I had, afraid to be me.
I’d pretend to be rugged, so fast and so cool,
when actually lost like a blinded fool.
I’m getting too old for this tiresome game,
of acting real hard with no sense of shame.
It’s time that I change, and get on with my life,
fulfilling my dreams for a family, and to be a good wife.
What my future will hold I really don’t know,
But the years that I’ve wasted are starting to show.
I just live for the day when I get a new start,
and the dreams I still hold deep in my heart.
I hope I can make it, I at least have to try,
because I’m heading toward death, and I don’t want to die.

Paula A. Norris

Pithy zombies

I quite enjoy parody’s of motivational posters…

Confidence

Confidence – how much confidence would you place in this fire main connection? It may work just fine but then again it might work in a manner that is suggested by it’s appearance.

I looked at this and thought that I would not want to have my personal safety depend on a fire hose connected to a faded and rusty piece of crap. Maybe it works but I think it’s more likely to be about as useful as a fly swatter when you’re faced with a hoard of zombies intent on munching your brains.

Anyhow, much the same happens with people – in most cases I at first glance place more confidence in them if they are wearing clean clothes. Maybe that’s shallow of me but it works, but, there are exceptions to this rule such as when I’m hiking or mountain biking when clothes are dirty and wet (well, so are the people wearing them) but are in good condition.

So maybe it’s all about placing my confidence in things that are obviously cared for, about making value judgements about people based on how they appear to take care of themselves.

I’m torn about this as while it is a system of judgement that works in many cases, I don’t want to be judged on the basis of whether I am or am not wearing makeup, whether my hair is perfect or wind blown or I’m looking picture perfect or have just come from the gym.

Fantasy?

Maybe, but we all have to make value judgements. If we are smart we refine those initial judgements over time and place more confidence in our opinion.

Zombie wiki

Stolen shamelessly just so you take a look at the Zombie Wiki.

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Do you know what a zombie looks like? Well most people will say “it looks like a dead guy”
Those people will usually kill innocent people by confusing these:

 

To clarify, the guys on the left are retarded and to the right is a zombie. Although zombies will usually NOT pose for a camera, so don’t get any bright ideas.

OK, so here is a zombie:

What do we notice about it?

1. It’s a zombie
2. It’s eyes are dysfunctional
3. It’s teeth have been sharpened so It can bite
4. It’s got a bigger nose so it can smell
5. It has blood dripping from it’s mouth from eating flesh(zombies don’t have table manners)
6. It’s got cuts from people slashing at it(note that they’re on the head)
7. It is skinny because it doesn’t eat

YAY! You know know what a zombie looks like!