Happy Confederation Day!

On this day, let's remember the Fathers of Confederation by going to the awesome interactive picture in the Canadian Encyclopedia!

Happy 141st Birthday, Canada!

In his house at R'lyeh Cthulhu pwns n00bs



For more fun, read The Tales of Plush Cthulhu.

An image is worth a thousand blurbs

Found this internet meme: do a Google Image search for your name and post the first picture that comes up.



With my first name, I get a picture of Joe Jack Talcum of early 80s punk band, The Dead Milkmen.

Not sure what that means, since I'm not a huge punk fan (except for The Clash) and have probably never heard a Dead Milkmen song in my life. We're both Italian and play guitar, I guess.

With my full name, I get someone's old family photo (not my family).

Don't you know your Dewey Decimal System?



Thanks to Queen Azura for the pic.

The Puppet Master

"Speak, minion, into the amplification device before you. SPEAK!"



Cheney stalks Bush from the shrubbery.

'At thirty, the wit...'

At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty the wit; at forty the judgment.
- Benjamin Franklin

Well, yesterday I reached another milestone: my 30th birthday. I celebrated with some friends from work including Librariana and her family, MadJenny, and the Deranged Squirrel (who's posted photos at her blog). The Hedda Dabbler clan have posted a video of me slaughtering a pinata. Here I am confronting my nemesis:



Here on the stage of history, we witness the duel between two great warriors. The False Prophet versus the Pinata.

Thanks to Deranged Squirrel for hosting and JL for helping prepare (and if you got your own blog, you'd get a link too!). And thanks to everyone who came and all well-wishers.

"Do you think," said [Caesar], "I have not just cause to weep, when I consider that Alexander at my age had conquered so many nations, and I have all this time done nothing that is memorable?"
-Plutarch, Parallel Lives of Greece and Rome

Since birthdays are supposed to be a time when you ponder your current life situation, I wonder if I've done as much with myself as I could have by now. I've always felt pulled in multiple directions, and as a result, that I haven't gone anywhere. Right now, I'm in a position of incredible financial comfort and secure employment, but I feel like I'm waiting for things to start. I want to settle but I don't want to settle where I am. It's like I have what I want but not where I want it.

Ah well, I hate Februarys. Most depressing of months. Thankfully, this year Daylight Savings Time starts in March.

Incredible

The beauty of our universe:

Now with more deadly sins

See which secondary deadly sin you're guilty of! Choose two of the Seven Deadly Sins closest to your heart and consult this chart:



From Indexed.

Bumper thumpers



This and other bumper stickers available from Stamp & Shout. Some other favourites:

I know how to reduce military spending

This guy has built a scale model of an aircraft carrier out of Lego.

Even better? It floats.

Starship Envy

The Bad Astronomer had a chart comparing the relative sizes of starships and space stations from various science fiction series, films and books. One of his commenters linked to the source site.

This is really cool--almost any space opera setting you can think of is represented, from Star Trek to Star Wars to Babylon 5 to Robotech.

A picture is worth 2000 years of philosophical debate



This picture by Joel Pelletier.