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June 30, 2005
Finger of God!
Hey, remember that movie Twister? (It also went under the title "The Best Movie of 1996.")
Well, my favourite part in it was when the storm chasers are gathered around Aunt Meg's dinner table, heartily chatting about old times, when the conversation turns to how a twister's destructive power is based on it's Fujita-scale, like F1 and F2 and so on. And so, the naive city girl asks "Is there an F5? What would that be like?"
And then everyone goes quiet, and looks at each other like she's just asked about something really serious, and the fun party guy -- the guy who's usually really extroverted so now that he's gone solemn you know we're about to hear some profound stuff -- he whispers: "The Finger... of God!"
Ah, Finger of God. I wish I felt that strongly about absolutly anything in my life so that I could have that kind of profound revelation.
With God's digits in mind, here's a very cool short film clip of a twister forming and then terrorizing a small farmhouse.
Posted by gavin at 06:38 PM
June 27, 2005
Physics vs. Woman
This is an interesting little flash simulation. You take a rag doll and throw it around to observe it's physics... which you'll have to trust is more interesting than I just made it sound.
Of course, in this case the rag doll looks like a woman in a bathing suit, so the effect of watching her faceplant giant surrealist bubbles is a little unsettling.
Posted by gavin at 11:52 AM
June 25, 2005
"Batman Begins" Review
Great movie, up until that one scene where Batman drops what he's doing and goes off to chase Michael Jackson for like 10 minutes. It just took me right out of the film.
The night has it's own brand of justice
Posted by gavin at 11:47 PM
June 17, 2005
Lightning storm says goodbye to Goodyear
Hey, remember the Goodyear blimp?
Nobody died, so feel no guilt as you enjoy these photos of this downed dirigible.
Posted by gavin at 05:21 PM
June 16, 2005
You're not sending ME to the COOLER, batman!
Personally, my favorite batman was of course George Cloony. But you know me, I'm man who likes quality.
Posted by gavin at 03:12 PM
This digital clock made of paper is arousing me
I just wet myself again. It's turning out to be a bad day for that. But I have a better reason for it now, look: A paper digital clock. Seriously, it's all flexable and everything. This rapid pace of technology is nothing short of amazing.
Hey, now could we make it so the clock in my computer doesn't drift by an hour a day, or that the automatic time syncing software that comes with windows XP could maybe get past my goddamn firewall? Hey, could we do that? You know, now that we're smart enough as a species to get paper to tell the time and all, how about we make it so that the clock in my taskbar doesn't insist on informing me that it's July 23rd, 1994 every morning when I wake up. I'm so angry I could wet myself.
Posted by gavin at 02:54 PM
Steve's super speech
This is Steve Jobs' speech from this years commencement ceremony at Stanford. I always dig when clever people write clever speeches. It's nice and inspirational.
Random Quote: "My third story is about death."
Posted by gavin at 02:20 PM
Play with me
Holy crap, I just wet myself. Seriously, I'm not kidding. Actual urine.
This is 50% due to the creepy movie, and 50% because I have a serious medical conditon.
Posted by gavin at 10:32 AM
June 09, 2005
And yet he looks so normal
Here's a charming story to perk up the midweek blues...
A man carrying a home-made sword and what looked like a blood-stained chainsaw was allowed into the US from Canada, the Associated Press reports...
The next day he became a murder suspect after bodies of his two neighbours were found in his hometown in Canada...
My photo in my high school year book looked a little like this. Oh, and I also used a chainsaw to murder a bunch of people too. I guess that's just the facial expression that comes with it.
Posted by gavin at 11:13 PM