the adventures of teapot the cat

Out With The Old Drunk, In With The New

BottleOfBlog has a great rant about Mr. President W Bush and his bush clearing habit. Good for a laugh.

I like to point out that there are only two kinds of grownups in modern American life who show up in public with as many contusions, lacerations, and bruises on their faces on such a regular basis as George W. Bush:

1. Prizefighters; and

2. Falling down drunks.

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Mississippi Meanderings

Pruned wrote about an amazing map by Fisk from 1944 that shows the multitude of ancient paths the Lower Mississippi River has taken during it’s existence (in the Alluvial Valley). This is a wonderful piece of information visualization.

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Optical Mouse Scanner

I don’t think I could build this myself, but maybe I’ll have a friend do it for me, because c’est très shwet. Turn your optical mouse into a crude handheld scanner and create a whole new sort of tool for acquiring funky images for design projects.

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Codual Abba Reconstructed Edit

One More Thing. Coudal’s video documenting Steve’s 5 hour road trip while listening only to Abba’s ‘Dancing Queen’ is a riot. I wouldn’t be able to stand it. But I was thinking they should produce a video ‘remix’ where the video clip is the length of the song and the whole clip has short cuts of the trip’s progression, with the audio reassembled though the use of the cuts, creating the full song with the video jumping through the 5 hour timespan.

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Bald Mountain Mystery

I can’t for the life of me remember what game I used to play on either my Commdore 64 or Atari ST that had Night on Bald Mountain as part of the music. I keep thinking the Goonies, but I don’t think that’s right…

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SpokePOV

This is super-rad. The Spoke-POV kit is probably not very legal, but who cares! I would love to see some ‘action shots.’ I would totally buy this just to take photos of it in motion… Detailed DIY info.

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The Prodigal Cat Returns

Harley the cat was whisked into seeming oblivion in 2004 when the home he lived in was destroyed by a tornado. Harley disappeared, whereabouts unknown. 1 1/2 years later, he has returned home, with nothing worse than earmites. Reminds me of a Mastercard commercial with a lost dog.

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