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Friday, September 29
It would be cool if they actually called them proconsuls. This examination by the Washington Post of the real face of America around the globe is fascinating.
posted at 6:04 PM by Timothy J. Gibbons | link
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"News of the Weird has occasionally reported technological and architectural advances in bathrooms, from full-service toilets (1988) to Singapore's (1996) and South Korea's (1999) national pride in having the world's cleanest or fanciest public restrooms.
"A July 2000 Wall Street Journal survey on the state of restroom design mentioned the one at the China Grill (Miami), inside which users can order drinks, and the one at the Mandalay Bay casino (Las Vegas), where patrons can use 11 glass cabanas that house televisions playing music videos. At a Royalton Hotel (New York City) restroom, a lavish waterfall is triggered when a patron enters, and at Bar 89 (New York City), the stalls have clear glass doors that become liquid-crystal-activated, non-see-through only when the door is tightly closed."
I've been to the last one on this list .. and when I went into the bathroom, I wondered exactly how many drunk people forget to lock the door. The follow-up question which occured to me soon after: what type of eating establishment bases its claim-to-fame on its bathrooms?
posted at 5:36 PM by Timothy J. Gibbons | link
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I'm being stalked by Ganesh. And let me tell you, seeing a being with the head of an elephant riding a mouse isn't the type of thing you can be mistaken about. Sure, he's wearing dark sunglasses and has a hat pulled down over his face. But disguising a trunk isn't that easy ...
posted at 12:58 AM by Timothy J. Gibbons | link
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Thursday, September 28
From Sydney...
* How long until this doctor is found floating face down in the Danube?
* "The way we slide through life, wasting time by the hour, we ordinary humans never notice it. Yet elite athletes, for whom a wasted hour is 360,000 opportunities to grab a hundredth of a second, seem to have some highly calibrated internal timepiece. The sprinter Ato Boldon, of Trinidad and Tobago, says he can feel the hundredth of a second."
posted at 6:16 PM by Timothy J. Gibbons | link
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At long last, to the ecstatic cries of the clamoring hordes, the Links section of my site has come online. Go, my faithful minions -- read what I read! Think like I think! Soon, we can take over the world!
Bwaahaha!
posted at 3:03 AM by Timothy J. Gibbons | link
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Tuesday, September 26
I will take nails,
long nails
and hammer them into my body.
Very very gently,
very very slowly,
so it will last longer.
I will draw up a precise plan.
I will upholster myself every day
say two square inches for instance.
Then I will set fire to everything.
It will burn for a long time.
It will burn for seven days.
Only the nails will remain,
all welded together and rusty.
So I will remain.
So I will survive everything.
- Slovenian poet Tomaz Salamun, 1962
posted at 10:53 PM by Timothy J. Gibbons | link
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Monday, September 25
The number and kinds of people who show up for a citywide Renaissance festival absolutely amazes me: People pretending to hit people with real swords, people really hitting people with pretend swords, musicans of all stripes, Goths (why, exactly, would you wear a black trenchcoat in 70-degree weather?), merchants and folks selling everything "ona stick" -- chicken ona stick, meat (why not beef? why "meat"?) ona stick, bread (bread!) ona stick. Oh, yeah, and a few normal people.
Seeing the really insane people still surprised me, though: There was a group of 30 or so people handing out "Nader for president" buttons. It seemed like such a risky political move for Nader, committing -- what, something like 60 percent of his supporters -- to this one event.
posted at 12:11 AM by Timothy J. Gibbons | link
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Sunday, September 24
"The real world has a lot of pointy scissors, bunky."
posted at 6:09 PM by Timothy J. Gibbons | link
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