Smeg Happens...

What does one TRILLION dollars look like?

2009-04-02T12:02:00.000-07:00

What does one TRILLION dollars look like?

And it's all money that I will likely never see...

This is why you're fat.

2009-02-10T16:37:00.000-08:00

YUMMY!!!

Zzz-mail: What happens when sleepwalkers go online - Telegraph

2008-12-17T07:48:00.000-08:00

Zzz-mail: What happens when sleepwalkers go online

Mind Hacks: Ganzfeld hallucinations

2008-11-21T07:52:00.000-08:00

Mind Hacks: Ganzfeld hallucinations

2008-09-15T07:35:00.000-07:00

Check out this cool LP...My favorite title is the hit “Criticize Lin Piao and Discredit Him Completely”

LP Cover Lover | Mao sounds!

"Artistic" Spiders Trap Prey With Light, Study Finds

2008-06-13T16:52:00.000-07:00

"Artistic" Spiders Trap Prey With Light, Study Finds

Sunset and Boba Tea at Swami's

2008-04-11T09:30:00.000-07:00

Gipsy Kings in Cerritos

2008-04-11T09:26:00.000-07:00

2008-02-07T21:00:00.000-08:00

OK, OK....Here's the original photo...

2008-01-31T15:04:00.000-08:00

Funny movie parody of Google Street View...

HEMA - online winkelen

2008-01-30T20:51:00.000-08:00

The best product page EVER!!!

HEMA - online winkelen

Lunch at the Hotel Del Part Moi...

2008-01-28T08:55:00.000-08:00

Lunch at the Hotel Del...

2008-01-28T08:49:00.000-08:00

2007-12-14T09:38:00.001-08:00

2007-11-12T14:08:00.000-08:00

Ancient Chinese Beer Cans...

2007-11-07T07:16:00.000-08:00

Most ridiculous British law:

1. It is illegal to die in the Houses of Parliament (27 percent)

2. It is an act of treason to place a postage stamp bearing the British monarch upside-down (seven percent)

3. In Liverpool, it is illegal for a woman to be topless except as a clerk in a tropical fish store (six percent)

4. Mince pies cannot be eaten on Christmas Day (five percent)

5. In Scotland, if someone knocks on your door and requires the use of your toilet, you must let them enter (four percent)

6. A pregnant woman can legally relieve herself anywhere she wants, including in a policeman's helmet (four percent)

7. The head of any dead whale found on the British coast automatically becomes the property of the king, and the tail of the queen (3.5 percent)

8. It is illegal to avoid telling the tax man anything you do not want him to know, but legal not to tell him information you do not mind him knowing (three percent)

9. It is illegal to enter the Houses of Parliament in a suit of armour (three percent)

10. In the city of York it is legal to murder a Scotsman within the ancient city walls, but only if he is carrying a bow and arrow (two percent)

2007-10-10T13:41:00.000-07:00

The danger of running with the pack...

Brian The Brain. at Hammacher Schlemmer

2007-10-04T16:09:00.000-07:00

Brian The Brain. at Hammacher Schlemmer

This is totally unauthorized by me...

2007-09-18T13:37:00.000-07:00

Q U O T E D

"I was so happy to have found a woman who finally understood me. Then it turned out that I hadn't found anyone new at all. To be honest I still find it hard to believe that the person, Sweetie, who wrote such wonderful things to me on the Internet, is actually the same woman I married and who has not said a nice word to me for years."

-- Adnan Klaric, of Zenica, Bosnia, now going through a divorce after finding out that the online soul mate with whom he'd been swapping stories of troubled marriages was in fact his wife.

World's Most Bizarre Statues

2007-09-06T14:40:00.000-07:00

World's Most Bizarre Statues

2007-08-31T14:33:00.000-07:00

Help me Obiwan Kenobi...You're my only hope.

Street Anatomy · Wearing your anatomy on your skin: the anatomy tattoo gallery

2007-08-15T15:11:00.000-07:00

Wearing your anatomy on your skin: the anatomy tattoo gallery

2007-08-13T14:09:00.000-07:00

Thriller - Part Deux

Q U O T E D

"If I was not in prison, I would not be famous. Before ... we just get our food and go back to our cell, and if we don't have anything to do, we just talk. But it is different now. Every day we are very busy preparing to dance for our upcoming shows. We are very proud of what we have done."

-- Wenjiel Resane, an inmate at the Cebu, Philippines, Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center, says the online popularity of the prisoners' mass dance numbers to songs like "Thriller" and Village People hits, has raised morale considerably.

2007-08-10T15:41:00.000-07:00

Wienermobile - Part Deux

2007-08-07T13:11:00.000-07:00

On the Effectiveness of Aluminum Foil Helmets:

An Empirical Study

LiveLeak.com - Extremely strange but cool jumping spider mating behaviour

2007-08-01T13:56:00.000-07:00

LiveLeak.com - Extremely strange but cool jumping spider mating behaviour

GeoGreeting!

2007-07-29T22:40:00.000-07:00

GeoGreeting! How Geeks show they care...

2007-07-29T11:47:00.000-07:00

This is my new "Surfer Dude" look....

This is how it was accomplished (With help from Cheyenne)

Everyone Forever / Technology / 19th Century Robots

2007-07-25T21:14:00.000-07:00

These 19th century Japanese robots are AMAZING!!! One does calligraphy and another shoots arrows.

YouTube - "Thriller"

2007-07-23T15:44:00.000-07:00

Prisoners in the Phillipines do "Thriller"

Bad Gods | Famous Poems Rewritten as Limericks

2007-07-23T15:37:00.000-07:00

Famous Poems Rewritten as Limericks

2007-07-19T14:11:00.000-07:00

What I imagined people around me were saying when I was......

2007-07-13T14:38:00.000-07:00

This ad reminded me of when Patina sold some jeans on Ebay...

2007-07-10T15:55:00.000-07:00

33 Names of Things You Never Knew had Names

1. AGLET - The plain or ornamental covering on the end of a shoelace.
2. ARMSAYE - The armhole in clothing.
3. CHANKING - Spat-out food, such as rinds or pits.
4. COLUMELLA NASI - The bottom part of the nose between the nostrils.
5. DRAGÉES - Small beadlike pieces of candy, usually silver-coloured, used for decorating cookies, cakes and sundaes.
6. FEAT - A dangling curl of hair.
7. FERRULE - The metal band on a pencil that holds the eraser in place.
8. HARP - The small metal hoop that supports a lampshade.
9. HEMIDEMISEMIQUAVER - A 64th note. (A 32nd is a demisemiquaver, and a 16th note is a semiquaver.)
10. JARNS,
11. NITTLES,
12. GRAWLIX,
13. and QUIMP - Various squiggles used to denote cussing in comic books.
14. KEEPER - The loop on a belt that keeps the end in place after it has passed through the buckle.
15. KICK or PUNT - The indentation at the bottom of some wine bottles. It gives added strength to the bottle but lessens its holding capacity.
16. LIRIPIPE - The long tail on a graduate's academic hood.
17. MINIMUS - The little finger or toe.
18. NEF - An ornamental stand in the shape of a ship.
19. OBDORMITION - The numbness caused by pressure on a nerve; when a limb is 'asleep'.
20. OCTOTHORPE - The symbol '#' on a telephone handset. Bell Labs' engineer Don Macpherson created the word in the 1960s by combining octo-, as in eight, with the name of one of his favourite athletes, 1912 Olympic decathlon champion Jim Thorpe.
21. OPHRYON - The space between the eyebrows on a line with the top of the eye sockets.
22. PEEN - The end of a hammer head opposite the striking face.
23. PHOSPHENES - The lights you see when you close your eyes hard. Technically the luminous impressions are due to the excitation of the retina caused by pressure on the eyeball.
24. PURLICUE - The space between the thumb and extended forefinger.
25. RASCETA - Creases on the inside of the wrist.
26. ROWEL - The revolving star on the back of a cowboy's spurs.
27. SADDLE - The rounded part on the top of a matchbook.
28. SCROOP - The rustle of silk.
29. SNORKEL BOX - A mailbox with a protruding receiver to allow people to deposit mail without leaving their cars.
30. SPRAINTS - Otter dung.
31. TANG - The projecting prong on a tool or instrument.
32. WAMBLE - Stomach rumbling.
33. ZARF - A holder for a handleless coffee cup.

2007-07-04T10:42:00.001-07:00

$3700.00

Mingle² - Online Dating

2007-07-03T18:30:00.000-07:00

Only my second day in San Diego and I'm in the presence of celebrity...

2007-06-27T19:20:00.000-07:00

See Hobbes come running when I call her...

2007-06-22T09:31:00.000-07:00

Five seconds of Sheer Drama!!!

2007-06-14T16:49:00.001-07:00

And by 'wildlife' they apparently mean squirrels humping birds...

2007-06-11T18:10:00.001-07:00

I dare you to not smile or laugh while watching this!!!

2007-06-08T16:47:00.001-07:00

We Are Very Small

2007-06-04T12:21:00.000-07:00

Here is the much anticipated Shrunken Cousins photo from the O'Connor Family Reunion in Encinitas, California!

2007-06-03T17:22:00.000-07:00

Misheard Lyrics: Pearl Jam "Yellow Ledbetter"

2007-05-31T12:37:00.000-07:00

RIP Calvin...

2007-05-26T09:20:00.000-07:00

2007-04-12T18:43:00.000-07:00

"Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you've got about a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies -- 'God damn it, you've got to be kind.' "

From "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater," Kurt Vonnegut, 1922-2007
(Re-blogged from "Good Morning Silicon Valley")

2007-04-03T20:41:00.000-07:00

Keith Richards snorted his fathers ashes. 'Snuff said.

2007-04-03T18:36:00.000-07:00

2007-03-27T19:39:00.001-07:00

2007-03-17T15:09:00.000-07:00

Happy St. Patrick's Day!!! My family on my Mom's side is having a reunion down in Encinitas, CA next month and since it is the O'Connor side today is the right day to post this.

L-R, youngest to oldest in both photos: Owen, Kathleen, Doris, and Maurine

Kathleen is my Mom. They will all be watching the festivities from above and beyond. 8^)

Brobdingnagian Overlords Command Lilliputian Sailing Vessels

2007-03-17T14:58:00.001-07:00

2007-02-18T22:32:00.000-08:00

Happy New Year to those who dig on swine!!!

2007-01-23T16:20:00.000-08:00

You can get anything you want here...

2007-01-21T17:24:00.001-08:00

It was finally warm enough to ride my bike out to Shoreline Park today!

Marleen in Vegas

2007-01-17T22:16:00.000-08:00

2006-12-27T18:09:00.000-08:00

Oooo...Horsies! With ANTLERS!!!

These were taken at an elk viewing area (duh...) near the Central Oregon Coast.

2006-12-26T12:24:00.000-08:00

"You take one more picture of me and I'm gonna scratch your f***in' eyes out!!!"

2006-12-25T19:07:00.000-08:00

I had the pleasure of spending Christmas Eve up at Stinson Beach with some friends. We hiked up in the hills overlooking the town and beach. The loop was almost 7 miles long and about 1 mile straight up. OK, it was more like 1000 feet but it felt like a mile! Anyway, here are a few photos from the hike. Click on the pictures for larger images.

2006-10-22T15:21:00.000-07:00

Ahhh...It's so nice to be back in California in my favorite sunbeam!

2006-07-29T11:42:00.000-07:00

Jo & Gabe prove that drinking BEFORE eating is way more fun than afterwards!

2006-07-12T12:25:00.000-07:00

Syd Barrett 1946-2006

"Shine on you crazy diamond..."

2006-07-06T20:53:00.000-07:00

I've seen these metal rings embedded in the curbs in Portland for as long as I can remember. But this is the first time I've actually seen a horse tied to one!

2006-06-27T15:39:00.000-07:00

DJ playing house music at Jason & Connie's housewarming party. What a coincidence!

2006-06-21T08:48:00.000-07:00

I started out in life as an unhealthy child...

2006-06-15T19:20:00.000-07:00

Well...Here it is. I now have a blog. And I actually have an interesting story to start it off with.

Last Tuesday I wanted to take a friend and his wife out for a few beers and some dinner to celebrate their birthdays which are this Saturday and Sunday. So he's been telling me about this place that opened up out in Manor which has live music called The Oaks. We decided to go there and hang out for a while and maybe listen to that night's performer. It turns out that Jessie Lee Miller usually sings on Tuesday's but was not going to be this night due to some problem with either a guitar or the guitarist. Because of this there are only a couple people here including the lady working the bar. We had a few beers, played a few games of pool, and just hung out for a while. I had been helping the bar lady fish for beers in the ice trough which was amusing since neither of us were wearing our glasses. So I would verify the brand of the beer she found and she did the same for me. As I was walking back to our table she says "By the way, this is me on the jukebox." Really! Turns out she is Rosie Flores, who it turns out is quite famous in C&W/Folk/Rockabilly music circles. Way cool, and way good! By this time Jessie Lee had gotten there and was sitting at the bar having a beer and chatting with some people. When those people left it was just my three friends and me, and Rosie and Jessie. So Jessie then brings the birthday couple out to the middle of the floor and gives them the best C&W Happy Birthday that I've ever heard!

As you can see, my friends were very pleased with this personal birthday song!

After this, we sat back at our table and listened to both Jessie Lee and Rosie sing a bunch of their songs.

It was just one of those nights when you just luck into really special situations.

I ended up buying the latest CD's from both of them, which they kindly personalized for me.

So I guess the only way that we could finish this special evening was to head over to Casino El Camino over on 6th street for a few more beers and some awesome burgers. By the time we finished it was after midnight, which is early by Austin standards. But since I had to get up early the next morning for work it was way late for me. But after all the fun we had I would gladly do it all over again! Might even go see Vallejo out there this Saturday!

Hey, this is kinda fun!