| Fun with Fruit |
[Sep. 10th, 2008|03:06 pm] |
 Evidently in Valencia Spain, for a reason that no human can agree on, people throw about 100 tons of overripe tomatoes at one another. The Tomatina Festival lasts a week long with food, parades, paella, and the usual accoutrements.
 It attracts huge numbers of tourists, swelling the towns population three to five times it's normal size.
 The actual throwing of tomatoes lasts one hour and is signaled to start and end with a burst of water from cannons.
It sounds like good filthy fun. |
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| The world is stranger than you can imagine |
[Jun. 19th, 2008|01:36 pm] |
 In this Wednesday, June 18, 2008 hand out photo, nurses are seen, posing near a monument to enemas at Mashuk Akva-Term Sanatorium in the town of Zheleznovodsk, Russian Caucasus Mountains region. Alexander Kharchenko, director of the Russian spa says the world's first monument to enema treatments has been unveiled at the spa in the southern city of Zheleznovodsk. The bronze syringe bulb, weighs 800 pounds and is held by three angels.
I'm actually sort of speechless, I think it's the cherubim holding up the bulb that causes my brain to stop for a moment. I mean, I suppose I can see building a monument, even an 800 pound bronze monument to enemas. But Cherubim? And why isn't this in Japan (following the maxim that Japan produces 74% of the worlds 'weird shit')? |
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| Did somebody bring an ark? |
[Dec. 5th, 2007|11:32 am] |
For those elsewhere, Seattle has had a lot of rain in a short amount of time recently.
Monday afternoon, T reported water coming into the basement from an unknown source[1]. I came home and spelled T for a while on the shopvac[2]. After a few abortive forays with the drywall jab saw, I found the source. They had put a bathroom into the basement [3], and it was coming out of a hole in the floor ( ? french drain ? ) that had been walled the fuck up behind drywall.
Sucking the water out of there was much much more effective. Our neighbors reported similar problems. I'm going to cut a slightly neater (and larger) hole in the wall and add a little access door.
God, the previous owners were lazy assholes.
[1] Other than the obvious one of *outside* that is. We weren't sure if it was busted pipe or what.
[2] I'm really really glad I had that on hand.
[3] Doing the previous owners normal craptastic job. |
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| Perserverance or Stupidity? |
[Mar. 5th, 2006|12:41 am] |
Fun: Staying up late putting together a jigsaw puzzle with your mother.
Perserverant: It's mainly muddy blues and greens with no sharp edges. Human hands and faces stick out, and that's about it.
Stupid: It's a used puzzle that while complete, is in a different box than it came in. The same genre, but a totally different picture. |
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[Nov. 7th, 2005|03:31 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | geek, humour, idiots, wtf | ] |
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| | The Crimson Ghosts - Reborn from Trioxine | ] |
I always find great schaudenfraude in the exploits of audiophools. It seems that I am not the only one. One of many examples:
The Altmann Acoustic Panel: How much for an 80x50cm plank of wood? Two bucks? Maybe three? Hell no, this is audiophile wood. Yours for $240.
/sniff
It's so beautiful. |
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