“By Odin!”, exclaimed Clöst Aerfrök, the Village Elder. “My Magical Thinking-Box has ceased to work..the Seeing-Portal has gone a strange shade of blue. What sort of trickery is this that Loki inflicts on us? “How shall I be able to figure out the tide schedule, so we can know when to set sail to invade [...]
Archive for March 2009
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March 31, 2009Stereotype TWITS
March 30, 2009The Carpet-Bombers They leave a Tweet every 5 minutes, for hours on end. Doesn’t matter if anyone answers them or not..they’ll do it anyway. You wonder if these people have day-jobs. The Pimpers “Hey, check out my new blog and http.tinyurl/lookitme.com.“ ( Most of us are guilty of this one, occasionally..including yours truly). The Hucksters [...]
Perfessor Friar rambles about cars, fuel cells and saving the planet.
March 29, 2009All this talk about hydrogen fuel-cell powered cars. Well, what about them? Remember your high-school science class, when the teacher applied electricty to water with two electrodes? It would cause electrolysis of the water. The electrical energy would cause the H2O to to dissociate into hydrogen gas and oxygen: 2 H2O + energy = 2H2 + O2 Hydrogen [...]
Suitable for covering your floor with…
March 27, 2009People often ask me how long it takes to do a painting. I’ll tell them: “Twenty years”. Mabye a few hours to actually do the painting. That’s the EASY part. The tricky part is the 2-3 decades of practice…practice….PRACTICE! that it takes to get to that point. I didn’t realize how much practice, till I [...]
Things I WON’T do, when I retire.
March 25, 2009Hose down my driveway. Note to seniors: a driveway means cars can DRIVE on it. It is outside…it is ALLOWED to get dirty. ****************************** Become a Lawn-Nazi An obsessive-compulsive perfectly-groomed lawn (along with a hosed-down driveway) is a sure sign that someone has way, WAY too much free time on their hands. If I ever [...]
A slice of grease.
March 25, 2009This is the third installment of my watercolor junk-food still-lifes. A generic slice of pepperoni from a forgettable franchise: this wasn’t great pizza, but it was the only place within a 40-minute drive that sells it by the slice. From an artistic point of view, it would have better to get a slice of all-dressed. [...]
A Very Viking Spring
March 24, 2009“Lo, the Feast of Equinox is nigh”, the Village Elder said. “Let us celebrate”. And there was much rejoicing and feasting, and many games were played. Only the bravest dared try “Let’s-Wake-Ursåal, the Sleeping Bear”… …this was enthusiastically followed by the Tradiational Slapping of the Frozen Lutefisk. The lovely village maidens did a splendid dance [...]
Blogging for Nickels…
March 22, 2009I wish I had a nickel for every blog I read that… …gives me a list of “tips” on how I can improve my life. Seems everyone’s an expert on the subject, except me. …kicks me in the arse, because I haven’t self-actualized and fulfilled all my dreams yet. (Because like I said, everyone’s an [...]
Comparing Photos Taken Half an Earth Orbit Apart…
March 22, 2009Last year, I went for a country drive to catch the fall colors, and take some photos. I wanted to find some landscapes to paint later on. I did the same thing today, on the spur of the moment. Coincidentally, almost exactly six months later. I find it interesting to compare the two sets of [...]
Being Anti-Green: 26 Tips on how to Screw the Planet
March 19, 20091. Stick to the Two-Thousand Mile diet. Refuse to eat any food unless it’s shipped in from three time zones away. 2. Instead of a turkey, celebrate Thanksgiving with a California condor. 3. Invent a religion that discourages overpopulated Third World countries from using birth control (no, wait..I think someone’s already done that!) 4. Bring [...]
