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Yale vs. Harvard

This was on Metafilter tonight. Too damn funny not to share:

It burns

My latest painting.

Tin Foil Hats

Elaine and I had the idea to spend some time making tin foil hats to protect ourselves from the government's mind control beams. Looks like we sat on this one too long: BoingBoing reports on some college students at UW who beat us to the punch while satirizing LaRouche supporters.

Evolution Stickers

Handy stickers for use on textbooks containing controversial content, or worse, those which fail to mention Intelligent Design.

Meet the family

My family photography project worked out, kind of. I should have used a film camera and much better lighting. Anyway, this was fun.

When You Die

... this will eat you

Photoshoppyness

Airplanes

Got on the plane at 6:30 in the morning. Put my seatbelt on incorrectly, but the flight attendant played a helpful video which clued me in.

The plane took off uneventfully, but soon was hijacked by a guy with a nail file and his partner who claimed to be wearing a hatband made out of C4. Luckily, a fireman (who looked exactly like Nick Cage) got up about half-way through the flight and regained control of the plane through the skillful wielding of a knitting needle his wife had snuck on board inside the empty shell of a laptop computer. The plane got back on course and the rest of the trip seemed to be going pretty normally until about 5 minutes before we landed and somebody who had left their cell phone turned on got a phone call, reducing the plane's electronics to molten ooze. The jet engines exploded into a twin balls of flame. The people manning the exit row doors didn’t know what they were doing. I couldn’t remember where the floatation devices were. Improperly stowed carry-on baggage smashed skulls willy-nilly. Oxygen masks hypnotized us. Etc, etc.

PS. My cell phone is always “turned on.” Pass it on.

Seriously though, I was selected for a full security search both on my way to Lansing, MI and on my return trip. I discovered on my return that I had gotten through both searches with a loaded X-Acto knife in my carry-on luggage with about 20 extra blades. Good thing I'm just a (mostly) harmless designer guy.

Girl Scout

A friend recently worked for the Boy Scouts of America as a District Executive Commando (or something). A big part of her job was to approve or deny applications for scout masters, leaders, scout event role models. Keep out the gay folks, athiests, etc.
A guy applies for a job under her watch who has a record as a sex offender who preys on boys. She objects to his approval as a trip leader. Her objection is received with dismay and denial by her superiors (she says). He's not really gay, nor is he an atheist. They really need scout masters right now.
Anyway, in an interesting end to the story, she apparently mooned her superior and walked away from her job.
Jolly good show mate.

UPDATE: You know, the more I think about this the more I'm not sure I buy it. It could all be a joke. Come to think of it, the Belltown Pizza thing might be a joke or disinformation too, as well as being totally irrelevant to almost everyone.

Belltown Pizza

Rebecca is Dan's ex-wife!

Lame Prank Du Jour

I signed up at a conservative singles site while bored this weekend. They kicked me out, maybe because my catch phrase was "Have fun being a soccer mom." We all need our little bits of revenge.