Senator McCain has picked Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. This strikes me as incredibly panderous, for one thing. It is as if he’s saying “See? She’s a woman! This way, you can vote for our side of the ticket and still make history!” This ignores, of course, Palin’s single term of experience as …
You’re Welcome, Solange., originally uploaded by grabbingsand. Apropos of nothing, I was looking up Solange Knowles in Wikipedia. Her new album is much better than I expected it to be, so I wanted to learn who was responsible for producing. And that’s when I spotted what might just be a bit of editorial commentary hidden …
With Apologies to Larry Elmore, originally uploaded by grabbingsand. I’ve little more to add beyond what was posted here and the comment I made here … so instead, I decided to take it to the wonderfully geektastic extreme.
Gravitron in Reverse, originally uploaded by grabbingsand. Last Tuesday, I pulled into the parking lot at a local Chick-Fil-A for pre-work breakfast. Between parking my car and ordering my bagel, I noticed a carnival. Unoccupied, very temporary, just established in the parking lot of a mostly defunct strip mall. I had to take a picture …
That is all. (Original photo is here, found in Flickr User AfroBoof‘s collection.)
Very Fresh Produce, originally uploaded by grabbingsand. At Barrington Hall.
This is awesome. Click on through for the full image and the story behind it. And it goes without saying that I want this on a t-shirt. Now.
We spent last weekend in Tampa. Previously, I’ve posted about our visit to MOSI and to Tarpon Springs. For everyone’s convenience, I have broken down some other parts our brief vacation into a handful of topics. For no reason at all, let us start with … Books. We had no car (see Planes), so for …
Otherwise, you might not get the full effect of this bit of video that Nikki took over the weekend. We visited Tampa’s Museum of Science and Industry. I’ve some photos of my own, but Nikki has beat me to the punch on getting them online. One of the exhibits was called “Disasterville” and it was …
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