Random things...
First of, I wanted to thank everyone who voted and participated in the WFA's this year! I'm honored to have been among such an awesome list of works and authors. Thank you! Fandom makes everything more fun :)
Only one more final to go, then I'm free. Mostly. Social service report is really overdue along with my book illustrator thing I haven't finished. Oh ho ho. So lazy/slow...
I just watched The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. I loved the sets and the make-up! It was pretty interesting as a whole, and I kept talking to the screen in the same annoying way my brother kept yelling to the LA vs. Boston game downstairs.. I guess we're not that different after all? The somnambulist was really hot, too! I probably need to watch it again to see it the sets change in the end, I have to admit I stopped paying attention to them while I tried to figure out what were all the crazy people doing. Note to self: Put a vinyl on the stairs to make it look receding like in the movie! awesome sets. Crazy expressionists!
Incidentally, now I really want the Elseworlds of Superman's Metropolis and The Cabinet of Dr. Wayne. Is there a trade for those...?
I need to keep myself in check because now that I have more free time I constantly think up of things I want to buy, and since I don't have a job at the moment, crazy spending sprees should not be had! Behave, self! Though I bought all of Superman Animated and the first The Batman season last week while my brother was here visiting. Also got the soundtrack for Labyrinth! man! I love that movie!
Which reminds me I really want to watch The Hunger again. David Bowie is so hot, damn it! That movie freaked me out pretty bad, it was the goddamn dried body!!! SCARY LOOKING STUFF.
Anyway, I was hanging out in the Scienceblogs and one of the things that never fails to crack me up is when crazies show up in comments. This article here is about a vertebra that spawned a new taxa because it was pretty weird. I don't understand 2/3 of what the article talks about but I get it's pretty awesome -and it's an awesome named dinosaur, too! Xenoposeidon proneneukos, I will obviously get behind anything named Xenoposeidon- and then this weirdo shows up in comments:
"To begin, let me mention that I discovered a race of beings that inhabited the earth, probably before humans were ever contemplated, and that they were sub-miniture in stature. These beings always had to find ways to camoflauge themselves (I don't know what they were protecting themselves from unless from larger beings or animals that inhabited the earth at the same time) and used all kinds of ingenious ways of doing this. They most always used a netting of some kind...apparently to protect themselves from being seen from above. They had developed a kind of aluminum sheeting they used for roofing and formed it into a "Tee-Pee" type building....the one I have is about 3-4 inches tall, but was stepped on by another larger being that crushed it...this is in the form of a fossil. They had nails and hammers, which was what I saw first and led to this discovery. As I reasearched these beings, I began to see gold nails and have a gold needle with the thread still in it and pushed through a ball of a thread that looks like monifilament fishing line. It can only be viewed through magnification. From these fossils, a 3mm long item dropped and looks like a flying dinosaur, but has a head shaped like a horse. To keep from losing it, it is scotch-taped to a card.
Now, my comment about the vertebrae of a dinosaur found and discussed in great detail in this article. After much studying of the photos accompanying this article, I find that this is not a vertebrae. It is one of the many ways the beings discussed above had of making articles for their protection. This is why they keep saying they don't know how to determine what it is. This "vertebrae" was made from various creatures and can be seen when studying it closely. Close examination will show the way it was sewn together and the thread can readily be seen, although they look like veins at first glance. Some of the creatures features can be determined.
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I hope my article will give some insight that may lead to your identification of the item you have. It would be great to discuss some of my discoveries with you and maybe with your knowledge we could find out what these beings were and what catastrophic event led to their demise. They all perished in the position they where in as if frozen in time. My photos would help show what these beings are and help show what I've been saying about your vertebrae. Let me know if you would like them E-mailed to you at a later time.
Keep up the good work. Articles like yours are always refreshing. Thanks...
Posted by: Harry W. McCormack
...what's up??? That's almost too crazy to be a prank, right? ..I don't know what would be more astonishing: to have someone thinking that's a funny prank -it's a long comment! full of... crazy!- or to have someone actually believe this stuff about a tiny dinosaur sculpture they had to tape to a card to keep from falling down while telling a paleontologist they got it all wrong, the veins are obviously sewing marks (o_O?). I remember craaaaaazy creationist turning up every now and then in my old science blog that stopped doing much science and doing more finger pointing at creationists -which I totally support, but.. I really wanted the science...- and they sounded crazy, but.. but religion vs. science is something I can understand getting people acting crazy, you know? specially the people already crazy who think they are chosen ones and stuff. But this dude! With the tiny people who perished frozen in time! ...WHAT'S UP???
Tiny flying horse dinosaurs, scotch tape and cards. Oh man X)
Only one more final to go, then I'm free. Mostly. Social service report is really overdue along with my book illustrator thing I haven't finished. Oh ho ho. So lazy/slow...
I just watched The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. I loved the sets and the make-up! It was pretty interesting as a whole, and I kept talking to the screen in the same annoying way my brother kept yelling to the LA vs. Boston game downstairs.. I guess we're not that different after all? The somnambulist was really hot, too! I probably need to watch it again to see it the sets change in the end, I have to admit I stopped paying attention to them while I tried to figure out what were all the crazy people doing. Note to self: Put a vinyl on the stairs to make it look receding like in the movie! awesome sets. Crazy expressionists!
Incidentally, now I really want the Elseworlds of Superman's Metropolis and The Cabinet of Dr. Wayne. Is there a trade for those...?
I need to keep myself in check because now that I have more free time I constantly think up of things I want to buy, and since I don't have a job at the moment, crazy spending sprees should not be had! Behave, self! Though I bought all of Superman Animated and the first The Batman season last week while my brother was here visiting. Also got the soundtrack for Labyrinth! man! I love that movie!
Which reminds me I really want to watch The Hunger again. David Bowie is so hot, damn it! That movie freaked me out pretty bad, it was the goddamn dried body!!! SCARY LOOKING STUFF.
Anyway, I was hanging out in the Scienceblogs and one of the things that never fails to crack me up is when crazies show up in comments. This article here is about a vertebra that spawned a new taxa because it was pretty weird. I don't understand 2/3 of what the article talks about but I get it's pretty awesome -and it's an awesome named dinosaur, too! Xenoposeidon proneneukos, I will obviously get behind anything named Xenoposeidon- and then this weirdo shows up in comments:
"To begin, let me mention that I discovered a race of beings that inhabited the earth, probably before humans were ever contemplated, and that they were sub-miniture in stature. These beings always had to find ways to camoflauge themselves (I don't know what they were protecting themselves from unless from larger beings or animals that inhabited the earth at the same time) and used all kinds of ingenious ways of doing this. They most always used a netting of some kind...apparently to protect themselves from being seen from above. They had developed a kind of aluminum sheeting they used for roofing and formed it into a "Tee-Pee" type building....the one I have is about 3-4 inches tall, but was stepped on by another larger being that crushed it...this is in the form of a fossil. They had nails and hammers, which was what I saw first and led to this discovery. As I reasearched these beings, I began to see gold nails and have a gold needle with the thread still in it and pushed through a ball of a thread that looks like monifilament fishing line. It can only be viewed through magnification. From these fossils, a 3mm long item dropped and looks like a flying dinosaur, but has a head shaped like a horse. To keep from losing it, it is scotch-taped to a card.
Now, my comment about the vertebrae of a dinosaur found and discussed in great detail in this article. After much studying of the photos accompanying this article, I find that this is not a vertebrae. It is one of the many ways the beings discussed above had of making articles for their protection. This is why they keep saying they don't know how to determine what it is. This "vertebrae" was made from various creatures and can be seen when studying it closely. Close examination will show the way it was sewn together and the thread can readily be seen, although they look like veins at first glance. Some of the creatures features can be determined.
[...]
I hope my article will give some insight that may lead to your identification of the item you have. It would be great to discuss some of my discoveries with you and maybe with your knowledge we could find out what these beings were and what catastrophic event led to their demise. They all perished in the position they where in as if frozen in time. My photos would help show what these beings are and help show what I've been saying about your vertebrae. Let me know if you would like them E-mailed to you at a later time.
Keep up the good work. Articles like yours are always refreshing. Thanks...
Posted by: Harry W. McCormack
...what's up??? That's almost too crazy to be a prank, right? ..I don't know what would be more astonishing: to have someone thinking that's a funny prank -it's a long comment! full of... crazy!- or to have someone actually believe this stuff about a tiny dinosaur sculpture they had to tape to a card to keep from falling down while telling a paleontologist they got it all wrong, the veins are obviously sewing marks (o_O?). I remember craaaaaazy creationist turning up every now and then in my old science blog that stopped doing much science and doing more finger pointing at creationists -which I totally support, but.. I really wanted the science...- and they sounded crazy, but.. but religion vs. science is something I can understand getting people acting crazy, you know? specially the people already crazy who think they are chosen ones and stuff. But this dude! With the tiny people who perished frozen in time! ...WHAT'S UP???
Tiny flying horse dinosaurs, scotch tape and cards. Oh man X)