My friend Ed made me this rather hilarious narcissistic photoshopping.  When he gave me the gift, he said (in a classic British understated sort of way).  "I got you a frame, but I felt weird giving it to you with no pictures, so I just stuck some random images in there"



Also, the birthday at 8pm vs the birthday at 10am the next morning:


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I have a lot of unusual dreams, including Inception-like nested dreams, half-lucid dreams, dreams in which I perform psych experiments on myself, dreams in which I'm ( Read more... )

I have completed my projects for Balsa Man.  They are the culmination of more than four hours of work (which, at the 1/16 scale of Balsa Man, is equivalent to over 64 hours of work on an actual burningman project!)

The first project is the epic 24 inch construction, Cruder Awakening.


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Not going to Burning Man?

Come check out the tiny parody event that takes place on Ocean Beach at the site of the original Burning Man.  There's a tiny Man, tiny port-a-potties, tiny sound stages, tiny art, and tiny art grants to support the tiny art.  Getting there takes mere minutes, and the whole event only lasts a couple of hours.

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I emptied out my iphone pictures from the last few months.   A few of them made it to facebook, but I'm gathering the best ones here:

Some rulebound highway engineers performing the Stroop test on unsuspecting drivers.  Quick, left or right?


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Yes, companies can get silly when they get bought out.  However, when the company is already silly all the time, they get even sillier.

Here's an overview by the NYT.

According to the woman to whom the jacket full of patches belonged, this patch is a real sign from the Australian outback.


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I spent the past weekend in a lovely goal-setting retreat with some awesome people ( Read more... )

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During World War II, behaviorist psychologist B F Skinner had an idea to to solve a serious problem facing the US military.  At that time, missiles were unguided and accuracy was low.  Since even rudimentary optoelectronic processing didn't exist back then, Skinner came up with the bright idea of training ( Read more... )