Why Parents Hate their Children

Wouldn't you love somebody to love?

Sand Monkey

I had a great day.

Read Naylor's Baily's Cafe. Wrote for a few hours. Took a swim. Then in the desert went for an hour jog/walk in the big empty. I took these pics before and after.

While some days here feel like prison. Some days feel magical. Must be like marriage, eh Ty?


I have no idea why I posed like this. Nothing in old duder's head. Not a thing. But I think it's hilarious. Maybe I should have tried to talked to someone today. Maybe a little too much solitude.

Ben Folds, "Bitches Ain't Shit"

Thump thump

Double Rainbow revisited

i love da goat

www.artoithegoat.com

Some Rockin' Banjo

Delays Deaths

http://www.theonion.com/articles/existentialist-firefighter-delays-3-deaths,17500/

A student sent this to me. I had all of my classes read it to better understand Existentialism. Sometimes I do love my job.

Heh...

Student Animation

Cool little animation:

Second Wind from Ian Worrel on Vimeo.

Invisible Creature

I love these guys illustration style. Invisible Creature

From Drop Box

The National

The National is a band I've been listening to a lot lately. Their new album 'High Violet' is available to listen to on NPR in its entirety until 5/11 I think.

High Violet Stream

Fragrant and Hot Marxism

Jesus vs. Christ

This sounds interesting:

NPR: What We're Reading

Yesssss!

Tron Legacy Trailer

San Francisco -1905

My sentiments exactly

Stand By Me

Go Big Red!

Wisconsin had allowed 70 points only three times all year, two of those coming in overtime games. Yet Bo Ryan's defense got sliced like a machete through warm gouda. Cornell shot 61.1 percent, the highest percentage by any team against the Badgers in the Ryan era.

Sweet sweet victory.

We'll get some burgers, some brews, our troubles are over

So our day started with the bunny dog (aka Dancer) eating a bag of chocolate and shitting her brains out. Then we got to the mountain and the whole mountain is closed due to wind. So what do we do?

We head straight to the liquor store and are drinking beers at 10:30 am and watching Cornell kick some ass in the tournament. I love it when Tim comes to visit!

I also love it when people talk about Cornell and it doesn't involve the gorges.

Accidentally Wretching

So, this song came on today at my gym and I thought to myself, "Wow" this is the shittiest song ever, I have to find out what it is!" Well I found it and it turns out it's by Counting Crows which is very disappointing. I'm not angry...just disappointed that they would perfrom the worst song ever for the Shrek 2 soundtrack. So I look it up on Youtube and find the music video, which just so happens also to be the worst music video ever. Great!

Actually, the music video has two savings graces:
1. There is a hot girl that does nothing but lie around in her underwear.
2. the end is actually worth it if you can make it through the whole thing. I think space monkey will enjoy it especially.

Uggg. God damned Zombies everytime! EVERYTIME!

card2503.jpg (JPEG Image, 1279x779 pixels) - Scaled (73%)

Digital Nation

PBS has this show on Frontline: Digital nation. (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/).
It's worth checking out. Some funny and scarry stuff.
But it dissapoints because of some rather biased journalism with the South Korean kid. And it dissapoints by lacking the chomps to make a stronger stand.
The antinomy of these two criticisms doesn't bother me, because I'd like the show to have chomps and argue about how this bull shit "multi-tasking" really dumbs down people. Instant gratification of any sort is nothing new, and not impressive. The piece could easily make a good arguement without the maudlin and cheesy South Korean mother lamenting her addict kid. Those aren't chomps; it's cant. (No the apostrophe is not missing. The word is cant. I had to look it up a few days ago.)
Even if you don't watch the PBS show, you should check out: http://www.thearmyexperience.com/about-the-army-experience-center/the-story-of-the-center

The army has a center where you can play video games (including life-sized simulators) for free. It's for recruitment. Plush leather chairs. Free x-box.
Who wants to go? I'll go.
Lord help us.

Everything is Terrible presents: LITTLE BIG FOOT!

I hate you! I hate you! I hate you! I'll miss you...



This site is addictive http://www.everythingisterrible.com/

South Dakota: state of genius

I have a feeling that a lot of southern states are happy they haven't done this yet. I love how they include astrology, thermology, and cosmology in the climate debate, despite the fact they have nothing to do with climate change, and include spelling errors.

LOL Slow Loris

YouTube - Tickling Slow Loris


This one is for space monkey.

the look of sadness when he stops petting him is too much for my heart to bear.

The Bloom Box

AJ, do you know anything about this? Individual Fuel Cells for residential and commercial use.

Bloom Box Fuel Cell

Snow Science

So this last week I've been working on a project at the top of Steamboat. Here are some pictures from one of the NASA guys I've been working with, they maintain a field blog, click on each listing for all the pics. The awesome thing about the week was when we figured out that the NASA Goddard engineers had fucked up the design of the instrument stand. Fucking engineers!

I hate to be crude, but...BOOBIES!

Hubert de Lartigue’s Origami Star Wars Ships « THE FIRE WIRE

Hubert de Lartigue’s Origami Star Wars Ships « THE FIRE WIRE

NASA WISE pics

Very cool images from the NASA WISE spacecraft:

US High School Reform

Flip Book History

Big Lebowski rewritten as a work of Shakespeare Boing Boing

Big Lebowski rewritten as a work of Shakespeare Boing Boing

NASCAR is a Yankie conspiracy to keep you all placated so the South won't rise again.

It's Stout Month, Bitches

February is a good time to pass through Boulder. Here is the opening lineup for Stout Month!

1. Stout Month is here and will be celebrated starting February 1st at all three Mountain Sun locations.
After a year-long wait, the 17th-Annual Stout Month celebration is finally here, and for the first time ever, all three Mountain Sun locations will fill their tap boards with the luscious black ale.
It all began when Jack Harris, Mountain Sun’s original brewer, decided to honor the great stout 17 years ago. We have continued this tradition every February by filling our tap boards with the best local, regional and national interpretations of the stout.

Here’s the starting line-up at all three pubs (available Monday, February 1st):
Nitro Coconut Cream Stout
Nitro Yonder Mountain Stout
Young’s Double Chocolate Stout
Stoked Oak
Addiction – New coffee imperial
Girl Scout Stout – Homebrew winner (chocolate mint stout)
Oak Thunderhead Stout
Nihilist Imperial Stout
Port Brewing - Old Viscosity
Moylan’s – Dragoon Stout
Great Divide Oak Yeti Imperial Stout
Avery – Mephistopheles’ Stout

Fox Most Trusted Name In News

The appocalypse is upon us.

Cornell Men's Basketball

Ty and I are probably the only ones who care, but our Men's Basketball team is really good this year. They are number 27 in the ESPN/USA Today poll this week.

a cappella reaches new depths in the valley

This one's for dad. I have to admit I think this is pretty funny:

Monkey Sex

"So it's time to go break up with your banker and get the hell out. Go to MoveYourMoney.info and see just how easy it is to end your abusive relationship and find true banking love. Or, at least hot, sweaty, monkey, banking sex."

Bill Maher on HuffingtonPost.com

Rodin

Okay, You all know I often ring my own bell. Yes, I'm a shameless show-off. But, this time I'm not really trying to show off. AJ, Dan, and everyone here capture mages in a box better than I, but I think I'm improving. Maybe it's just because Rodin can't be ruined or maybe it's the beer, but I think these are good. Tell me what you think. Honestly. Say they suck, and I'll feel more grounded. I'm used sucking with cameras like footless man at soccer.

This last one is the "Gates of Hell." (That's where the party is. Meet ya there.)

This man can sure shuck an oyster...

American Geophysical Union

yes, we are dorks, but at least we talk about science while double fisting beers.

Dudes are shameless

Moon water?

Water on the moon? Can someone explain?

" Having an abundance of water would make it easier to set up a base camp for astronauts, supplying drinking water and a key ingredient for rocket fuel."

water in rocket fuel? can we dehydrate fuel? That's totally cool if it's true. Can one of you nerds explain?

Quit your whining and check this out

This site has a ton of cool stuff like this.
http://www.good.is/

Nerdtastic

Timmay

Happy birthday freakishly tall man.

Swine Flu

Penny Arcade

Bath Water

Example of Format Change

For example, this would have either had to be sized too small to read under the old format, or would have had the side cropped off making it pointless to post.

Annoying

I find it extremely annoying that our blog does not dynamically resize. I'm messing around trying to change that.
Hmmm, got Dynamic Sizing but screwed some other stuff up.
Sorry Dan, I think I killed your link list.

Working Sunday to Thursday

So, I thought it would be the one time in my life I'd work a different five day week and I may learn something.

After two months of it I can safely say that there is no benefit, nothing to be learned, just confusion.

Not Quite Yet Grumpy Old Men

...except maybe AJ.

Happy belated birthday Jimmy! Congrats on being the first to 30. I was looking in the mirror this morning and was slightly astonished at how fast my grey hairs are multiplying. I've also noticed that I seem to be becoming more attractive to women in their 30s and 40s (had a woman say 'yummy' as I ran by her on a trail the other day!!) Not quite so much luck with those in their 20's. Reading XKCD today further reinforced my feelings of age (hover over the comic and read the pop up caption). Raise a beer this weekend, my friends, to ushering in our 30s and making them even better than our 20s.

POV cam of skier surviving an avalanche

This is insane. Guy drops in, avalanche starts, he falls 1,500 ft in the avalanche and is buried, and then 4.5 minutes later he gets dug out.

Arizona Stadium

I was watching Monday Night Football in Arizona, and they showed how the grass field is on wheels and is rolled out of the stadium to receive natural sunlight. It's pretty darn cool.

Which is Nerdier... (cont.)

Or This:

Which is Nerdier....

This:

I know how much Harvey likes interactive maps

Check out the Grand Coulee Dam bitches. Now that's big!
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=110997398

I often think like this...

Good Stuff

Tiger Balls.by Neil Gaiman

You know, one time I saw Tiger down at the water-hole: he had the biggest testicles of any animal, and the sharpest claws, and two front teeth as long as knives and as sharp as blades.
And I said to him, “Brother Tiger, you go for a swim, I’ll look after your balls for you.” He was so proud of his balls. So he got into the water-hole for a swim, and I put his balls on, and left him my own little spider-balls. And then, you know what I did? I ran away, fast as my legs would take me.
I didn’t stop till I got to the next town. And I saw Old Monkey there.
“You lookin’ mighty fine, Anansi,” said Old Monkey.
I said to him, “You know what they all singin’ in the town over there?”
“What are they singin’?” he asks me.
“They singin’ the funniest song,” I told him. Then I did a dance, and I sings:
Tiger’s balls, yeah I ate Tiger’s balls Now aint nobody gonna stop me never at all Nobody put me up against the big black wall ‘Cos I ate Tiger’s testimonials I ate Tiger’s balls.
Old Monkey he laughs fit to bust, holding his side and shakin’ and stampin’, then he starts singin’ “Tiger’s balls, I ate Tiger’s balls,” snappin’ his fingers, spinnin’ around on his two feet.
“That a fine song,” he says, “I going to sing it to all my friends.”
“You do that,” I tell him, and I head back to the water-hole.
There’s Tiger, down by the water-hole, walking up and down, with his tail switchin’ and swishin’ and his ears and the fur on his neck up as far as they can go, and he’s snappin’ at every insect comes by with his huge old saber teeth, and his eye’s flashin’ orange fire.He looks mean and scary and big, but danglin’ between his legs, there’s the littlest balls in the littlest blackest most wrinkledy ball-sack you ever did see.
“Hey Anansi,” he says, when he sees me. “You were supposed to be guarding my balls when I went swimming. But when I got out of the swimming hole, there was nothing on the side of the bank but these little black shrivelled up good-for-nothing spider balls I’m wearing.”
“I done my best,” I tells him, “but it was those monkeys, they come by and eat your balls all up, and when I tell them off, then they pulled off my own little balls. And I was so ashamed I ran away.”
“You’re a liar, Anansi,” says Tiger, “I going to eat your liver!” But then he hears the monkeys coming from their town to the water-hole. A dozen happy monkeys, boppin’ down the path, clickin’ their fingers and singin’ as loud as they could sing:
Tiger’s balls, yeah I ate Tiger’s balls Now aint nobody gonna stop me never at all Nobody put me up against the big black wall ‘Cos I ate Tiger’s testimonials I ate Tiger’s balls.
And Tiger, he growls, and he roars and he’s off into the forest after them, and the monkeys screech and head for the highest trees. And I scratch my nice new balls, and damn they felt good hangin’ between my skinny legs, and I walk on home. And even today, Tiger keeps chasin’ monkeys. So you all rememember: just because you’re small, doesn’t mean you got no power.

Yes, I'm a dork. Yes, I think this is awesome

Amazing Volcano Photo Reveals Shock Wave

Nations Girlfriends Are a Pain in the Ass

Nation's Girlfriends Unveil New Economic Plan: 'Let's Move In Together'

Check it

Drafted this for Amazon.

Once Again a Bachelor

Yep. A month after moving in together we've called it quits. Amazing how quickly things can change. Anyway, feeling a sense of freedom I didn't realize I had been missing for a while, and am looking forward to some newness in my life.

After 50 Years, Space Monkeys Not Forgotten

Happy Anniversary Space Monkey!

the other day I found myself thinking..

When was it exactly that Eddie Murphy's Career took a down turn. Then I remembered 1986, and yes. That is Rick James bitches!

VH1 TV Shows | Music Videos | Celebrity Photos | News & Gossip

I love XKCD

Seriously, it cracks me up.

Urgent!!!

The CDC has posted a Swine-Flu Specific Questions and Answers document titled “Swine Flu and You” to their

Web site. That document can be retrieved at http://www.cdc.gov/swineflu/swineflu_you.htm.

MMM...Bacon

Oh Baby, Baby

T-Shirt Idea

I think a good idea for a T would be one that just says "Fuck Randy Cohen!"

Tha's a goud wone

http://www.apple.com/trailers/wb/wherethewildthingsare/

Although I don't really agree with the first line scrawled on the preview, the overall experience of the preview made my shitty afternoon feel much better. It looks like some fun sentimental goodness with some cool eye candy. I just wish the first line was the "capacity" for hope.

Champions

Attack of the Windmills

http://www.xkcd.com/556/

Egypt

Here is a quick album I put together of some of my best photos. Still need to do some labeling, cropping, etc.

http://s92.photobucket.com/albums/l18/timroth79/Egypt/

Very Cool Stop Action Video

I'm sorry, I just love this man

"Martin’s show is more reminiscent of Chappelle’s Show, except without the racial edge—as if Dave Chappelle were a white guy who went to Yale and was obsessed with palindromes."

Timing is Everything
http://nymag.com/arts/tv/profiles/54074/

One thing you have to respect Hippies for...

Is their love of the good brew:

Girls

http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=252#comic

New House

Had the inspection today, went smoothly. All that's left is the appraisal. As long as that comes in above our purchase price it is a done deal.

PICTURES

Oh. My. God.

God Bless Capatalism. God Bless it I say.

Don't you just love the British?

Franti and Playstation?

Just saw this on TV and was a bit suprised.

WA # 3 for Ninjas

That's right losers.
We on the west Search for Ninjas more than you guys.
See:
http://laweekly.blogs.com/joshuah_bearman/2009/01/what-state-likes-ninjas-the-most-.html

Regardless of that. You should check this out. It's so damn cool, that I bet some of you probably already know about it:
http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=%22space%20monkey%22&geo=US&cmpt=q

Damn Oregon gets number one for "space monkey" searches.
The author searching is really cool. Southerners like "Faulkner" are mainly in the south, but then the german "rilke" is searched most in Alaska. What the hell? They look into one of the most influential modern german imagist poets?
For most of the author searches there is is black whole in the middle north. I guess ranchers in Montana still don't have CPUs.
The distribution for Vonnegut is bland, but the timeline feature shows a huge spike of searches in the year of his death. They love artists when they're dead.
The Coen Brothers in 2004 (that's as early as it goes) when we knew they were the shit before everyone else, were dominated by New York and very few searches even happened. Now the whole country is on the band wagon.

Not an Ego thing. Just a new experience.

Slowly turning in a circle in the cafe, I had a slight grin. I was holding a hammer. And this old dude stood next to me. He said, "Are you the artist?"
"Yes."

So far 29 isn't that different from 28

Looking for signs of ass

300 Naked Women Feared Lost In Computer Crash

July 18, 2001 | Issue 37•24

The World's Most Famous Bald Eagle

On televised newscasts and on his Web site, Colbert said he has been disappointed by Stephen Jr.'s excursions to Canada. When Stephen Jr. first crossed into Canadian airspace in August 2006, Colbert noted Junior was feasting on fresh Canadian salmon, looking for Vietnam draft dodgers and stopping terrorist pigeons from crossing the border.

On his Web site, Colbert offers factoids about Stephen Jr., including, "He could take your arm off. Hates pelicans, just like his Dad."

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2008568404_colberteagle29m.html

Bon Iver

NPR is giving him best song of the year.

That's-a-good-one:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98637616

At first my expectations dropped, then I started to love it about half way.
High then low expectations may just be the secret to joy.

Another MPKism

"Never trust a bar that opens at 10:30 in the morning, unless, of course, it's 10:30 in the morning."

Why?

"Because people that use PCs have jobs."
- Mathew Phillip King

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Wow

I don't know what else to say. Wow.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/barney/barneycam2008.wm.v.html

Hot Pants for Harvey

Come Fools Come all

All right my loris faced friends, it's time to get serious about gathering in February 2009. Ty has mentioned the weekend of 2/6/09 through 2/9/09. No one has said these dates don't work, so I'm going ahead. I'm getting my plane ticket this weekend. Matt just gave me a maybe. Jim said he'd come, but we all know that's BS, so AJ and I are going to hog tie him and send him in a box. So we have Ty, Tim, Ry, AJ, and Jim.

Dan, Chris, and Vinny we need you guys to get on this gravy train to celebrate the birth of TY, Chris, and Tim's engagement.

Joy

Over the past weeks, I have had a peace, a happiness.
Leaping through the night streets like a cracked out ninja swinging my wooden stick, laughing, smiling, dancing, and relaxing.
It comes
not as an arduous trek across a desert,
not as the slow epiphany of a sunrise,
not through her hand on my back,
not from the depths of a dark booze filled well,

not during in a moment of clarity with blood on my lip,
not through a canvass that fills me with pride,
not through work,
but like that beautiful girl, the tease, who enflames my chest and loins, and fills me with hope, but never
promises consistency, dependency, or duration.