Wasp in the Grass
These don’t usually sit still long enough to focus on, so I was really pleased to get this photo. The Leica is so great with grasses.
These don’t usually sit still long enough to focus on, so I was really pleased to get this photo. The Leica is so great with grasses.
These don’t usually sit still long enough to focus on, so I was really pleased to get this photo. The Leica is so great with grasses.
I recently wrote something about how much I love cacti. They’re the perfect plant for my area: they love sunlight and heat, they’re extremely water-efficient, and they inadvertently kill small insects and the occasional child. They are also often stunningly beautiful, as when they flower. I don’t know what species this is, but it’s a [...]
I love cacti. I love them so much. You can stick them in the sunlight and do nothing but spit on them once a week and they’ll thrive, and the more talented of them will impale small animals on their spines. So when I saw these adorable pet cacti at ThinkGeek this year, I swooned. [...]
I made this for my mother after she installed some particularly nasty malware that disguised itself as a virus scanner and took over her PC and wouldn’t let go unless she gave it $75, which she was perfectly willing to do. “Hey why won’t this take my credit card number?” “I don’t know. Did you [...]
While browsing the internet today I encountered a very large and overwhelming collection of complete literary crap. Although not a unique experience I nevertheless grasped for a word to describe this finding, only to realize there was no word in English which meant what I wanted. My language had failed me. If I were German, [...]
Before we begin, every day someone visits this blog after searching Google for the phrase “sasha grey foot”. I don’t know who this Sasha Grey is, or why so many people have a fetish about her feet, but I assure you there is nothing here about Sasha Grey or her feet. Nothing at all. Sasha [...]
It’s not nice to judge. Now that we’ve got that out of the way, allow me to introduce you to Rachel, who goes by the name “peacockfeather” on deviantART. Peacockfeather enjoys cosplay, and while she may be immersed in this hobby more than most people would consider healthy there’s nothing wrong with that per se. [...]
Spotted on the roof of one of the many buildings owned by Scientology in Hollywood, this is indeed a half-naked Scientologist practicing the lasso. Nothing really newsworthy here; I simply like saying “half-naked Scientologist on roof with lasso”. You could use it a a metaphor for how cultists trap their own mind, but really it [...]