Here’s a painting that is supposed to make some sort of statement about science. I don’t know for sure what that statement is, though, and I’ve never seen a chem lab or a bio lab that looked anything like this. The anglerfish, at least, needs serious containment for the serious water pressure that [...]

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After thinking about it for a while, I have come to the conclusion that what makes financial sense is to take work up on their offer of work-paid Cox net service, buy some hosting from the slicehost guys, and obtain a domain name. This site will change its name to crow202.org. That’s actually [...]

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Here’s a gilded bronze statue of Venus from the Phoenix Art Museum. The picture really didn’t turn out that well, but the statue itself was pretty good.
At work yesterday, I changed a script, hoping to improve it. Right after that, I got a help desk ticket saying that something was screwed up. [...]

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This piece of art looks vaguely like a thing Van Gogh might have done, though the artist was IIRC from Arizona.
I suppose I should fill in what happened at trivia on Tuesday. We won (yay!) thanks to knowing most of the questions. And there were a bunch of questions about the Olympics, which [...]

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This painting depicted a bunch of people with houses on their heads. It’s not nearly as blurry as it looks here. Flash photography is not allowed in the art museum, and I didn’t have a tripod, so ordinary body movements blurred a few photos.
Late yesterday, as I was getting ready to head out [...]

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This was an interesting piece of art. It was a bunch of charred remnants from a church that had burned down. The artist arranged the pieces of burned wood on wires, then strung the wires up in a rectangular array. In person, it looks like there’s some sort of pattern to the [...]

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I went and rode the bus yesterday. The bus schedule isn’t that great about telling you which bus stop the bus actually stops at, but at least it was very close on the times. I think I’m going to like riding the bus, even though this time, I was too busy looking out [...]

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The first firearm I’ve ever owned, a Ruger 10/22 rifle, shown with a 25-round magazine, the regular 10-round magazine, and the all-important Fine Manual. It’s simple to operate, fun to use, and ammunition for it is cheap. I probably won’t actually be able to use it until Sunday, when a lot of us [...]

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In the last part of the “Iraq Barbecue” painting, we see the Pilsbury Doughboy holding Japan on a stick. I don’t know why he’s holding Japan. Every time I try to attach profound thoughts to this painting, they dissolve into silly meanders on a closer exam. Maybe that’s the real message behind [...]

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Another part of the “Do you like Iraq (Barbecue)” painting. From the left, you can see Italy, Spain, France, Scandinavia, and Great Britain on the first skewer, then Bolivia, Peru, and Colombia on the next skewer, then Argentina and Australia sitting on ice. You can see how this part relates to the previous [...]

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