Saturday, September 29, 2007
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Friday, January 05, 2007
Thursday, November 30, 2006
Thursday, October 19, 2006
No Stalling
If I hadn't been running for a flight, I would have stopped to take a picture of this myself. I was just going to describe it, but after searching on Google Images, I found that someone else had taken a picture of it.
As seen in the Denver airport...
It gives a whole new meaning to the term "swirly".
Thursday, September 28, 2006
Saturday, September 16, 2006
Wednesday, August 02, 2006
Prenatal Glamour Shots
This is a business next to kristinmichelle's apartment
My first thought was that it catered to yuppies who will spend a bundle of money to get professional studio-like photos of their pre-born child. Something where the technician would coach the fetus to put his fist under his chin and imagine he's surrounded by hundreds of tiny seahorses so they can get the perfect shot.
Then I noticed the after-hours sign...
"Deliveries can be dropped off."
I guess that's so they can take the very first picture of the baby right after delivery?
Saturday, July 29, 2006
Sunday, July 23, 2006
Wednesday, May 24, 2006
Thursday, May 04, 2006
Highway to Heaven
This is really more inspirational rather than absurd. This is the ramp out of my parking area at work. It's been there as long as the N&O has been there but this church is relatively new. The first time I saw that the cross lined up perfectly with the traffic arrow I got chills and thought "This is no accident." This is God being sneaky creative and I loved the tiny message He was sending. I've always wanted to take a picture of it. Thanks for allowing me to blog it here!
Saturday, April 01, 2006
Tuesday, March 07, 2006
Happy Birthday, Sarah!
For the Comical Absurdity peeps: a look into Sarah's seldomly-mentioned Hollywood career. Ceece's acting tips have paid off!
Scene from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Seen with co-star and longtime friend Mos Def.
Pictured with Keifer Sutherland, during an appearance on 24.
Little-known fact: Sarah was the original female judge on Idol, but was replaced by Paula for being too nice to the contestants... as well as for bringing a Pepsi cup onto the set.
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Giant Gerbil Wheel?
A human powered ferris wheel? Who'd have thunk it? These guys would run/climb/hop from the internal struts, making the wheel go round. Then stop when they got tired and unload everyone.
There were a few problems with this method. For one thing, the operators had little control over the wheel balance. Basically, fat families all seemed to went to get on together, while the other chairs around the wheel were filled with toddlers. This made the wheel unbalanced, which gave the two "running it" a hard time getting started. While I'm sure they were both strong, combined I'd be surprised if they were more than 300 pounds. Once momentum was on their side, however, they were fine.
Also, stopping was a little tough, it seemed. They slowed down the pace of the awkward run/climb/hop they they had going, until finally a guy at the bottom attached what looked like bungee cords with hooks onto the frame, rocking it to a halt. They then went one at a time unloading the old and loading the new customers.
Anyways, this is another elegant Indian solution in an environment where machinery is expensive, electricity is spotty, but people are cheap.
Gangsta' Lean
Saw this while in a taxi in Delhi. Politics in India can sometimes be a bit more physical than in the modern US. So, politicians often travel with armed guards, of which this is an example.
I guess I should have cropped the picture a little. In the back seat is a guy holding a AK-47 with the muzzle sticking out the window.
Sunday, February 26, 2006
Elephant Bath
Another India picture. You all should get used to it, I finally got my HDD fixed, so there are gonna be a lot more of these coming.
This elephant has a kind of a cool story. It lives in the villiage of Hampi, where it offeres blessing at the local Hindu temple. You come up, hold out a coin in your palm, it picks the coin up with its nose, put it in a tray on its head, and then blesses you with a nose-kiss on your forehead. Anyway, this is it taking its evening bath in the river.
Extreme Yoga
The absurd part about this isn't so much that he's holding his head in the pads of his feet; such things seem fairly common in the yoga world. Its that he's doing this on a street corner in the mid-afternoon.
I just find it interesting the things you associate as being "indoor" activities simply because you've always seen them done inside. Yoga is certainly, at least in my mind, one such indoor activty. Paying your taxes is another. Childbirth is the most extreme example I can think of right now, but I'm sure there are others.