Monthly Archives: October 2004

Lightbulb Politics

From John Cleese – How many Bush administration officials does it take to change a light bulb?

None. There’s nothing wrong with that light bulb. There is no need to change anything. We made the right decision and nothing has happened to change our minds. People who criticize this light bulb now, just because it doesn’t work anymore, supported us when we first screwed it in, and when these flip-floppers insist on saying that it is burned out, they are merely giving aid and encouragement to the Forces of Darkness.

Mini Fire Elemental

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Now all we need are some miniature marshmallows, a box of Honey Graham’s cereal and some chocolate chips…

We are a hedge.

Is this actually topiary? I mean, if you spend all that time gardening so that you can have a perfectly square shrub in your yard, wouldn’t it be just a rather truncated hedge?

Mini Air Elemental

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Hey, it’s another mini photo! This little bugger is an air elemental, to go with yesterday’s water elemental. It’s a slightly more exciting model, with a really fun face…

Sew I see…

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My wife is learning how to sew! My sister is teaching her, and I’m helping her document her progress. I know she’s going to be posting a couple pictures and sewing stories, but this is one that I took that I decided to appropriate for my own site… It’s a fairly low light shot, maybe a 3/4 second exposure and I really like how the moving needle left blurs of light in the air.
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Mini Water Elemental

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First of the elemental mini pictures! And, sadly, the least interesting. Unless you were a 28mm tall surfer or something.

I don’t mean to offend

I’m getting back into a hobby that I picked up in college. Actually, I suppose it’s a sub-hobby, since it’s attached to an existing superset of hobbies that I’ve had since high school. Or would it be a hobby extension? Never mind. It doesn’t matter how you wind up drawing your particular personal Venn diagram of hobbyism, the point is that I’ve started painting minis again. I may post a couple pics at some point…
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Stay in the shadows!

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Just a quick image for today. Caught sight of this guy out of the corner of my eye as he was creeping around, trying hard to stay in the shade of the few trees around the parking lot outside of work.

Shiny & Shadowy

If you’re using Safari and have nothing better to do than compare tiny details of layout between one day and the next, you may have noticed a slew of drop shadows popping up on the site. Not to worry, I haven’t gone Photoshop-mad. I just ran into a neat article on MacWorld about some stuff in CSS that Safari will render that other browsers don’t, yet…

Um. If you’re not using Safari, you probably haven’t noticed anything odd and have no idea what I’m talking about. Nothing to see here then. Move along…
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Should I worry?

Should I be worried that most of my comment spam from the last few days seems to be coming from machines in the .mil domain? I can’t think of any valid reason that someone in the armed forces would want me to go to some of the sites that I’ve blacklisted, but I guess it could be a very strange recruitment program…
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