Friday Funnies: 24 spoof – Jack Bauer saving the day with 1994 technology
Found a YouTube version to replace the CollegeHumor direct embedding which broke the blog. (link in case the embedded Flash doesn’t work for you) Oh, the memories: maintaining a dial-up connection uphill both ways in the snow! H/T Pam at Pandagon. Related posts: Quicklinks: #socialmedia #erosion #storm #bust – oops here comes Jack Bauer Captain [...]
Wednesday Wow: A Heart Among Giant Desire
Found in my regular trawl through the WOW! flickr image pool.
I grew up as a bushwalker (hiker/rambler for you foreign types). I’ve never been to somewhere with trees quite like this, but it brings back fond memories of walks through quiet, wild spaces.
Procrastinations
This is the first in an occasional series: as I find especially appealing timesinks I will share them with you all. The first: The Paper Art of David Callesen: A4 Papercuts (Callesen’s index page) Related posts: Tool of the Day Weekly Whimsy: Ten Thousand Paper planes Gratuitous David Tennant photo The holiday hiatus seems to [...]
419: They haven’t forgotten me after all
It’s been so long since I received a solicitation from a 419 scammer in my email. It’s made me come over all nostalgic for the good old days of alt.folklore.urban, and analysing minute changes in these scam-mails as they got sent around. For any of the old mates feeling equally nostalgic, the wording is beneath [...]
Ad hoc hoyden
When I was putting the banners for this blog together, I trudged through the intertubes in search of pics of my favourite hoydens and found heaps, but obviously I couldn’t put all the pics in, or I would have had eleventy-gazillion headers. But I might share some that didn’t make the final cut with you [...]
*That* was exhausting
Just returned from an afternoon of centenary celebrations at a local landmark building. The theme was a sampling from what was going on in 1906, with readings from newspaper clippings (from all around the world, not just locally) and musical offerings, along with displays dotted around the building. People were asked to come in period [...]
Even death won’t save you from James Blunt
From a list of the UK’s most popular funeral songs: 1 – “Goodbye My Lover” – James Blunt 2 – “Angels” – Robbie Williams 3 – “I’ve Had The Time Of My Life” – Jennifer Warnes and Bill Medley. 4 – “Wind Beneath My Wings” – Bette Midler 5 – “Pie Jesu” – Requiem 6 [...]
Weekend Flashback: first Swords and Sandals edition
I feel like I jinxed this last week with my bragging of weather warm enough to wear sandals in the first week of spring. Tonight it is blowing a gale and downpouring buckets of rain. My palm tree shed its dry fronds all over the street two days ago – I guess it’s one way to meet a new neighbour as he helps get them off the roadway.
Anyway, to inaugurate the sandals season, it has to be the one by which all others are measured: are they bigger than this?
Weekend flashback: chainmail chicks and boots galore
This movie didn’t do very well. Partly because this movie poster promised a lot more Conan/Arnie than was there (so the word of mouth was ‘what a ripoff’) and partly because they didn’t give Brigitte Nielsen exactly the costume the fans were expecting, which was more along the lines of this eminently practical warrior garb – the chainmail bikini:
A source of minor joy
is just discovering that the Ermine Street Guard exists. It’s so peculiarly British to take one’s weird hobby involving dressing up in strange outfits so seriously that one’s group ends up as a respected resource for academics pursuing a proper understanding of Roman military engineering and craftsmanship.
Even if they probably wouldn’t let me play with the onager
Weekend flashback – boots of revenge and high adventure
To set the tone just right for the first non-meta post at the new digs, I offer you possibly the best cheese of the early 80s:
General: We have won again. That is good! But what is best in life?
Warrior: The open steppe, fleet horse, falcon on your wrist, wind in your hair!
General: Wrong! Conan, what is best in life?
Conan: To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of the women!
General: That is good.
Is that some portentous cheese or what?
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