I know I’m just reposting from Boing-Boing (whaddya mean you don’t read Boing-Boing?) but this typographic treatment of Jonathan Coulton’s Shop Vac is near perfect.
Shop Vac
It’s really loud with the shop vac on
Take Note.
Grammar
Partys is not a word. Parties is a word. Party’s and Parties’ are words. But Partys is not a word.
(OK, yes it could be a proper noun, but anything can be a proper noun. Mxyzptlk is a proper noun for crying out loud! Proper nouns don’t count 🙂 )
Waylaid by Art
Cartographical exploits
Spent far too much time over the weekend doing the first bit of art (for a certain value of ‘art’) I’ve done in ages. A hand drawn map of London.
The idea (you can’t just draw something, you need to have an idea behind it for it to be real ‘art’) was to replicate half pages from the A-Z (the London street directory par exellence) by hand and then paste them all together. As each panel would be drawn without referencing the others the end result would be a fragmented, patchwork view of the city – kind of an exquisite corpse map – with roads, rivers and rail-lines fractured or just coming to dead stops. Close up it’s a mess, but zoomed out it’s still recognisably London.
(I suppose I could come up with some art-wank about it representing the tourist’s view of the city as a collection of disconnected enclaves surrounding tube stations, but that’s just a little too pretentious, even for me :))
The end result can be viewed here. Well, sort of the end result as after I scanned it I added another panel to the lower left. But you get the basic idea.
I was inspired to create the map by Londonist’s hand drawn map exhibition. I’ve submitted it – guess we’ll see if they like it.
Endorsement
The Wyrmlog sells out.
Charlies Honest Quencher Old Fashioned Mango and Orange Lemonade is the best orange and mango drink I’ve ever had the pleasure of consuming.
That is all.
Trololololojan
Trololololololololololol
Spent the last two days battling to free my work computer from the grips of a number of really nasty viruses that managed to slip in via a compromised website I visited looking for the lyrics of Eduard Khil’s trolololo song. I think it’s all clean now, I’m running a final scan in the background to make sure.
Not fun. Mr Khil has a lot to answer for 😉
Political Science
You know sometimes I’m tempted to think it would just be easier to nuke North Korea into dust and be done with it.
Pun Unintentional
Talk about ideas that suck
So, they’re apparently making a Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie.
Hmmm, didn’t they already do that? And it sucked?
(While we’re on the subject of awful Vampire movies, I meant to say a while back that I didn’t think there was any way to make the Twilight movies worse, but that the makers of Vampires Suck seemed to have somehow managed it.)
Micturition
You know it’s bad when the most authentic version featured Ted Danson…
Saw a preview for Jack Black’s version of Gulliver’s Travels this week. It’s kind of ironic that the only bit that looks authentic to the book is the one bit everyone would assume isn’t in the book.
(If you don’t get what I mean then go out and read it you phillistine!)
Renaissance of the Geek Underclass
The special extended edition.
Well, I’ve at least accomplished something sort of worthwhile with my week off, a complete rebuild of the Tales of the Geek Underclass. The old site was so badly laid out as to be almost completely unreadable, so I’ve revised it into something that doesn’t make me want to puke. I’ve also started work on revising the content, since some of the writing is as almost as embarrassing as the layout. I may even get some more tales written – stay tuned!
Went to the Dentist on Friday. They said that I might as well not bothered coming, my teeth are in such good shape. They couldn’t even find anything worth cleaning, although they did a clean anyway since I was there. Good to know at least one part of my body seems to work 🙂
The midnight screening of Harry Potter was fun. There were a good number of people in costumes, and the movie was reasonably enjoyable. I’ve always had a problem with the Harry Potter movies in that on the one hand I know the books so well that I immediately notice all the bits they miss out and change, but on the other hand can mentally fill them back in, making the movie seem more complete than it actually is, so I’m an awful judge of whether a given HP movie is any good or not. But overall I had a good time, so that’s what counts.
(Why didn’t they have to say “I didn’t kill you” at Grimauld Place? Why didn’t Harry liberate Mad-Eye’s eye? Why didn’t Voldemort turn up at Godric’s Hollow? Why didn’t they put in more Tonks? Why don’t they ever put in more Tonks? I’ll shut up now :))
Back to work tomorrow. Bah.
Later: The link to the Tales was pointing to a file on my desktop. How does someone do that after 10 years as a web developer? I has an embarrassment! (it’s fixed now).
Murder Your Piano
Much to my disappointment this actually has nothing to do with the late, great John Stump and is in fact music from one of those inscrutable Japanese video games that no one over the age of 30 understands. This does not however prevent it from being awesome.
