Archive for 'Win/Fail'
Wasp in the Grass
Posted on 20. Jul, 2010 by rents in Featured | No Comments
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.
See? Cacti are awesome.
Posted on 13. Jun, 2010 by rents in Featured, Tiny Cactus of Joy | No Comments
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 [...]
Tiny Cactus of Joy, Mark III
Posted on 05. Jun, 2010 by rents in Tiny Cactus of Joy | No Comments
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. [...]
Everything on the Internet
Posted on 04. Jun, 2010 by rents in Featured | No Comments
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 [...]
New word: maxistercus
Posted on 19. May, 2010 by rents in Illiterature | 24 Comments
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, [...]
