Monthly Archives: June 2006

They’ve found me out

What Classic Movie Are You?
personality tests by similarminds.com

Unattractive choices

For three days now a couple of trucks worth of Verizon guys have been making a huge racket outside my window. Yesterday they even had a cop* there collecting overtime pay for standing around chit-chatting (he’s conspicuously absent today, which casts a little suspicion on the necessity of the important work he was doing yesterday). [...]

The Things They Might Be Giants Carried

There’s a pretty funny (but over and closed) mash-up contest here.
Some of my faves:

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Cake
At Play in the Magnetic Fields of the Lord
A Kraftwerk Orange
The Maltese Falco
Mein Camper Van Beethoven
The Chemical Brothers Karamazov

(via, who has a few suggestions of his own)

Fast breaking coelacanth news

Interesting post on the latest coelacanth sightings - I didn’t know they were discovered off Indonesia. I love how they describe the two colors - “beautiful blue” and “beautiful brownish.” I wonder what the difference between “beautiful brownish” and babyshit brown is?
If the’re not careful, they are going to get overexposed…..