textiplication.com » Uncategorized http://textiplication.com Skott Klebe's blog - reading, writing, music. Wed, 25 May 2011 18:35:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Cheap laughs from GMail AdSense… http://textiplication.com/2007/07/09/cheap-laughs-from-gmail-adsense/ http://textiplication.com/2007/07/09/cheap-laughs-from-gmail-adsense/#comments Mon, 09 Jul 2007 15:37:02 +0000 skottk http://textiplication.com/2007/07/09/cheap-laughs-from-gmail-adsense/

 

Spotted dick is always funny.

These came up on a one-line e-mail about donating PC’s to schools.

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via Steven Gould

]]> http://textiplication.com/2007/06/25/numbers/feed/ 0 Vanity search? http://textiplication.com/2007/06/19/vanity-search/ http://textiplication.com/2007/06/19/vanity-search/#comments Tue, 19 Jun 2007 19:04:02 +0000 skottk http://textiplication.com/2007/06/19/vanity-search/ Google image search allows you to specify that you want pictures of faces.

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=skott+klebe&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2&imgtype=face

Apparently, though, you can’t specify which faces you want.

 

I’m the handsome guy on the left.  The other two guys are my cousins.

]]> http://textiplication.com/2007/06/19/vanity-search/feed/ 0 I wish I were in Seattle…. http://textiplication.com/2007/06/15/i-wish-i-were-in-seattle/ http://textiplication.com/2007/06/15/i-wish-i-were-in-seattle/#comments Fri, 15 Jun 2007 14:24:10 +0000 skottk http://textiplication.com/2007/06/15/i-wish-i-were-in-seattle/ so I could see this.  Chris Jordan is opening a new show with heroically-scaled images graphically depicting American consumption rates of some common products: 8 million toothpicks, one for every tree harvested to make paper for mail order catalogs, two million plastic beverage bottles, the numer used every five minutes.  Five feet tall, ten feet wide.

 

SK

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H/T to Elizabeth Bear, although I can’t find the post any more.

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Courtesy of Maureen McHugh and S. Andrew Swann.

I can’t believe how much I enjoyed Star Trek when I was ten.  No wonder Star Wars blew us all away.

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Fascinating, Captain.

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