A Brief History of Mardi Gras
Even though I am over 8 years and 600 miles removed, I still observe Mardi Gras by doing something out of the ordinary. See you after I figure out and do whatever that is.
Showing posts with label holidays. Show all posts
Showing posts with label holidays. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Happy Mardi Gras!
Friday, February 13, 2009
...and enjoy your weekend! ☺
Rebecca Solow
via LCSV4
I will be working and in The Lab for the next few days and back on Monday morning. A Friday the 13th, Valentine's Day and the President's Day holiday in the same weekend... should be interesting.
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
belated...
I hope you all had a wonderful Festivus! Around the Uncertain Times household, Grievances were Aired in good form, but I threw my back out during the Feats of Strength, so I'm going back to bed... after I check on my payments to The Human Fund.
Have a wonderful Christmas Eve, everyone!
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Season's Greetings!
Square America - Season's Greetings!
As if it wasn't already obvious, posting will be light-to-nonexistent over the Christmas holiday. There will be more lightness throughout the last few days of December and then business as usual after the New Year. I'll also be dropping the odd item on the UT Tumblr, so feel free to stop by over there.
In the meantime, I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a happy whatever else it is you celebrate, and I look forward to enjoying your company in the Uncertain Times of 2009!
Friday, December 12, 2008
Sunday, December 7, 2008
Roy Doty - Season's Greetings Machine
These are a lot of fun. Roy Doty has been sending his Christmas cards to friends a associates since 1946. This year, he'll be hand-addressing upwards of 500.
The Christmas Card Art of Roy Doty
via Mike Lynch Cartoons
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Friday, October 31, 2008
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
stray bullets
'Intelligent' computers put to the test No machine has yet passed the test devised by Turing, who helped to crack German military codes during the Second World War. But at 9am next Sunday, six computer programs - "artificial conversational entities" - will answer questions posed by human volunteers at the University of Reading in a bid to become the first recognised "thinking" machine.
Blake Pontchartrain on Zulu coconuts Everybody wanted a Zulu coconut, but when you shouted 'Hey, Mister, throw me something," and what you got was a coconut thrown at you, you ducked or suffered the consequences. Believe it or not, lawsuits resulted; lots of them. When Mardi Gras of 1987 rolled around, the Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club was unable to get insurance, so it was a parade without coconuts. One year, back in the day, I had the honor of painting a dozen or so Zulu coconuts.
costume detail: Stripes "The Medieval eye found any surface in which a background could not be distinguished from the foreground disturbing. Thus striped clothing was relegated to those on the margins or outside the social order - jugglers and prostitutes for example - and in medieval paintings the devil himself is often seen wearing stripes." The Devil's Cloth by Michel Pastoreau (via)
The Avant Garde Project is a series of recordings of 20th-century classical-experimental-electroacoustic music digitized from LPs whose music has in most cases never been released on CD, and so is effectively inaccessible to the vast majority of music listeners today. (via)
also:
How to Photograph the Stars (via)
Original Locations of 15 Mega-Chains (via)
Death becomes him: Kevorkian’s artwork on display at Armenian Library (via)
Another rare Serra interview (via)
Best of History Web Sites (via)
Dickens' London Map (via)
Fight Spam With A Direct Message To Twitter (via)
viddy:
Buckminster Fuller profiled on PBS's SundayArts
Ladislaw Starewicz - Cameraman's Revenge (proto-stop-animation)
Scratching With Tape Decks (cassette and reel-to-reel)
Vinyl Record Manufacturing Explained
Smashing Glass To The Anvil Chorus (via)
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
stray bullets
Update: Best Western refutes story claiming 8 million customer records were breached Hotel chain confirms intrusion, but says that only 13 records at a single hotel were exposed.
Giant Galaxy Cluster Seen in Early Universe The discovery of this far-off group, estimated to contain as much mass as a thousand large galaxies, offers further proof of the existence of the enigmatic force called dark energy.
Daphne Oram – Oramics (Drawing sound) A lesser known but important contributor in the field of ‘drawn’ electronic music is British composer Daphne Oram who worked at the legendary BBC Radiophonic workshop in the late 1950’s. Oram dreamed of making a machine that directly translated graphical notation into sound and this dream came to fruitful realisation with her technique of Oramics. (prev)
also:
Surviving the Biggest Wave Ever (via)
Volcanos in Our Times (photo essay)
Bigelow Aerospace Advances Work on Full-scale Space Habitat
How the Roaring Twenties Changed the World
10 Top Spectacular Festivals in the World
Greg Egan interview
viddy:
Luc de Heusch - Tracking the Pale Fox (mythology and rituals of the Dogon)
Experts' memory: Not as expert as they think (take the test)
Thomas Kuntz Incredible Decapitation Automaton (creepy)
Outrageous My Little Pony collection
Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person? — François de la Rochefoucauld (1613-80) (via)
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Baby-Jumping Festival
Not nearly as nutso as the Baby Toss Ritual, the Baby-jumping Colacho Festival is an annual event celebrated all over Spain since the 1620s. Men dressed as the Devil leap over helpless babies. Why? They represent devils that cleanse the babies of evil, sucking it up as they jump over them. Then the babies are forced to scurry out of the way of the Running of the Bulls festival, held right afterward.... just kidding about that last part.
from Fresh Pics
via みずほN◇MIZUHO(N)
Monday, July 14, 2008
Friday, July 4, 2008
May the Fourth be with you...
Happy Fourth of July!
Careful with those explosives and beer and watch out for falling bullets.
For you Britons out there, you're probably better off without us.
For the rest, see you tomorrow!
via this isn't happiness
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