Something Else That Is Cool.

So, if you're going to be covering a historic-type Inauguration event, might as well document it in a historic-type way, right? Photographer David Bergman took his Canon G10 digital camera -- itself no slouch -- and hooked it up to a device called the Gigapan, which basically automates the process of making manymanymany quick photos of everything in sight, so that you can use software to stitch those manymanymany snaps into one ginormous panoramic shot. The result?

My final photo is made up of 220 Canon G10 images and the file is 59,783 X 24,658 pixels or 1,474 megapixels. It took more than six and a half hours for the Gigapan software to put together all of the images on my Macbook Pro and the completed TIF file is almost 2 gigabytes.

Oh, snap.

What's particularly fun is the timing on this one, as Obama speechifies, Clarence Thomas nods off at early nap-time (no references in the speech to pubic hair, I suppose), and Regime Change Victim GWB makes an unpleasantly sour face. I know. I was shocked, myself.



Go check out the photo on Bergman's site to see a pan-and-scan-able version that you can zoom in on, or even order a print of. Whoa.

Farewell To 2008. And Others.

Light on the posting, as I get ready for New Years. Consider me on vacation until next week, y'all.

Drive safe, have fun, Happy New Year, all that stuff.

Go Dawgs.

Peace.

Oh... So... Close...

I ain't gonna lie. I was hoping for exploding shoes. And he ducks the shoe, see, and then looks at the Iraqi guy all cocky and he's like, Ha! You missed! and then the Iraqi guy's all like, not so fast, dude, check it out, and then Bush looks behind him, and there's a blinking red light, and he's all like, Ahhh... Shi-

BOOM!

That shit would rule.

In the meantime, go check out www.superpoop.com -- the source of today's animated ohsoclose. It's from the good people who bring you ToothpasteForDinner, and NatalieDee, and MarriedToTheSea. They're funny. And they live in Ohio. And thus deserve not only our admiration, but also our pity.

Yeah... Umm... The Terror...

So our Chief Execu-douche is on his way out of office, approximately 8 years too late. And he's got nothing for the crumbling economy, but plenty of folks left to send off to his unholy Holy War. Don't worry. I'm sure history will be kind...

More Of The Same... More Of The Same...

Hey, it's a lazy week here, and if it's working for John "Did I Mention That I Was In A POW Camp? Because I Was" McCain, it'll work for me. I'm a Maverick! Whooo!

"Maverick." Right.

"But... he's a Maverick, see..." Thus the mantra of Sarah Palin's desperately stupid time-wasting fake answer when pressed by Katie Couric (!) to explain how a candidate who had spent his entire career pushing for deregulation was suddenly a regulatory champion. Sides with Bush on over 90% of all votes for the last 8 years? Changed his stance on every meaningful issue in order to court the GOP/Fundamentalist base? Named a running mate with no qualifications, just to re-assure said Fundamentalists? Adopted not only the same campaign strategies, but the same campaign personnel that he decried as "evil" and "intolerant" just two campaigns ago?

Right. Maverick.

Awww, Jeez, Not Another One of the Good Guys...

Don't worry, it wasn't. Just another douchebag military strongman who hitched his wagon to wrongheaded U.S. policy at the expense of his own people and national security. (See also: Shah Reza Pahlavi, Augusto Pinochet, Ferdinand Marcos...) This one is actually stepping down while not being an international flight risk, and, in a truly bizarre twist of fate, we *might* not even grant him asylum. I know, the world's a funny place sometimes...

Now if we could get our own illegitimate military-backed whack-job to step down... or even do something about the illegitimate military-backed whack-job looking to take his place...

To Borrow A "Breakfast Club" Line...

I know. I know. It's just too easy. It's not sporting. I agree. But this herd's not thinning itself out -- so somebody's got to pick up the shotgun...

Just Take The Rest Of The Year Off, Huh?

Kids, I'll be off with Mom to the woods all this coming week, so no top-notch hi-tech heirlook-quality entertainment for you and yours to share. Right, right, so what else is new. Ha. Beat you to it.

I'll be back and at least somewhat-active on June 16. Also, I'll try to send some pix from on the Appalachian Trail, Unicoi State Park, and Helen, Georgia, where we'll be passing our hours in peace and tranquility. And bikers.

Sadly, not everyone will just go away for the week -- I'll be facing bears and snakes, and you'll be left with Executive Douchebag. Your loss, kids.



PS: The remote postings will look a lot like this one -- only hopefully not sideways. You will, however, probably get a lot of Sprint-generated text. Consider that to be bonus material.

Well, There's Illegal Prisoners...

... and then there's Illegal Prisoners.

Could you repeat the question?

Yee Haw.

Hey, look -- we didn't invent the rule. We're just saying, is all.



PS: Does "Dubya" count as a name? 'Cause I'd say you could pin a lot more than one victim on him...

I Knew There Must Be Some Reason.

What's funny is this: sometimes, when trying to explain to folks why I'm Pro-Choice, I have to say, regrettably, that some folks just aren't fit to be parents. And sometimes, the other side provides all the evidence I need.



As long as they don't hate us because we're beautiful...