fileg's flight

let the yuletide mayhem begin

2009-12-01T21:24:51Z

The Monarch and Dr. Mrs The Monarch bring you
Fairytale of New York

As some of you know, Jim notarysojac collects Yule music. He began regaling me with choice selections this morning, and I thought - perhaps I should share....

christmas shopping?

2009-12-01T08:24:01Z

I love this article

2009-12-01T06:46:18Z

I’m a photographer for the DA’s office and there is a women there who makes these models (trains, apts, buildings, etc) for court cases, as a visual aid for the jury. The train is perfectly hamster sized so I brought my super tame hamster into work yesterday for a little photo shoot. They came out better than expected. I’m really excited about them.

article and more photos here

I could not resist the description.....

2009-11-30T06:52:25Z

found on boingboing:

A reader writes, "This was our birthday candle a year ago, one day the candle just started playing again (maybe heat change...) and was pathetically trying to get "happy birthday" to sound right... You can't imagine how badly one candle can get this tune."

It's got a sad, defiant, haunted hurdy-gurdy sound to it, like the ghost of Tom Waits was trapped in it, playing a Casiotone.

where do jazz hands come from?

2009-11-30T00:44:17Z

fileg @ 2009-11-27T04:06:00

2009-11-27T09:06:43Z

I am watching last weeks episode of Psych on dvr.

Plot aside, I would pay good money to see the guys from TopGear run with Shawn's idea of welding the Weiner Mobile to a Zamboni to produce the perfect juicy weiner, and the perfect icy surface to enjoy said weiner on ....

fileg @ 2009-11-26T19:13:00

2009-11-27T00:13:05Z

Do any of you play FARMVILLE on Facebook?

Want to be my neighbor?

fileg @ 2009-11-26T04:52:00

2009-11-26T09:52:17Z

Thanksgiving Eve
Words & Music by Bob Franke

It's so easy to dream of the days gone by
It's a hard thing to think of the times to come
But the grace to accept ev'ry moment as a gift
Is a gift that is given to some

Chorus:
What can you do with your days but work & hope
Let your dreams bind your work to your play
What can you do with each moment of your life
But love til you've loved it away
Love til you've loved it away

There are sorrows enough for the whole world's end
There are no guarantees but the grave
And the life that I live & the time I have spent
Are a treasure too precious to save

As it was so it is, as it is shall it be
And it shall be while lips that kiss have breath
Many waters indeed only nurture Love's seed
And its flower overshadows the power of death

A BRAND NEW MUPPETS VIDEO!

2009-11-24T21:47:11Z

fileg @ 2009-11-24T16:22:00

2009-11-24T21:22:35Z

Happy Birthday Robin Wood!

I always miss you more this time of year.
No one else ever asks for blue mashed potatoes.

Symphony of Science #3

2009-11-24T09:03:50Z

'Our Place in the Cosmos' (ft. Sagan, Dawkins, Kaku, Jastrow)

fileg @ 2009-11-22T23:44:00

2009-11-23T04:44:40Z

Oh, Sims - why must I love you so when Maxis/EA hates Mac users so much? Such a pointless relationship. I feel so Wuthering Heights.

fileg @ 2009-11-22T23:00:00

2009-11-23T04:00:33Z

from today's post at Futility Closet:

One afternoon the doorbell rang at Peter Sellers’ London flat. Sellers was working in his study upstairs, so his wife Anne answered the door. It was a telegram for her:

BRING ME A CUP OF COFFEE. PETER.

Now I no longer feel silly about notarysojac and I emailing each other from opposite ends of the couch.

fileg @ 2009-11-21T04:53:00

2009-11-21T09:53:41Z

Remember A Glorious Dawn, the awesome auto-tuned Carl Sagan (and Stephen Hawking) video clip?

John Boswell of Symphony of Science made another, this time featuring Sagan, Richard Feynman, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Bill Nye.

First photo of baby coelacanth

2009-11-20T08:50:32Z

link

project runway

2009-11-20T04:40:53Z

I see the bondage collection won. Love the penis helmets, but they were missing their riding crops. ...

black death

2009-11-16T10:34:19Z

Have you all seen this already...

click for full pic

fileg @ 2009-11-14T07:14:00

2009-11-14T12:14:09Z

Cory Doctorow, at boingboing, on the TSA snowglobe ban:

The TSA says you can't carry a snow-globe onto a plane, even if it fits in your freedom baggie, because they can't measure how much liquid it contains, and therefore it must contain more than three oz of potential explosive, um, water.

TSA, meet Archimedes. He lived over 2,000 years ago and figured out how to calculate the volume of a object by measuring its displacement. If you actually believe that 3 oz is a magical high-danger threshold, please consider adding a delightful, hallucinatory element of science to your pseudoscience by putting an Archimedes tank at the checkpoint. It would be a lovely counterpoint to your other scientific tests, such as the ducking stool and the spirit-rattles.

fileg @ 2009-11-14T01:27:00

2009-11-14T06:27:22Z

charity buzz

CharityBuzz is auctioning off a private tour of Griffith Observatory with Leonard Nimoy! The tour is for two people and the current high bid is $5,250. The proceeds will go to the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights.

Also in the auction block: A tour of Industrial Light and Magic with George Lucas. Max bid on this is $300.

cats don't care what you think you're doing...

2009-11-08T03:59:17Z

Video: When The Cat Needs A Hug Benzer: when, the, cat, needs, hug

Space Doggity

2009-11-05T00:07:28Z

Laika November 3, 1957

The most amazing halloween costume ever

2009-11-04T04:13:08Z

The most amazing halloween costume ever

I grew up in a college town, and one Halloween our doorbell rang and we opened the door expecting to see trickortreaters-- but what was in front of our open door--was another door! Like, a full-on wooden door, that had a sign that said "Please knock."

So we did, and the door swung open to reveal a bunch of college dudes dressed as really old grandmothers, curlers in their hair, etc, who proceeded to coo over our "costumes" and tell us we were "such cute trick or treaters!" One even pinched my cheek.

Then THEY gave US candy, closed their door, picked it up and walked to the next house.

It was amazing.
posted by np312

environmentally friendly

2009-11-03T02:26:53Z

raccoons queuing up for a bus on the MUNI

(Plomomedia at flickr. Click for large)

A Complete History of the World in Halloween Costumes

2009-10-30T10:39:54Z

A Complete History of the World in Halloween Costumes
By the guys from Archie McPhee

fileg @ 2009-10-30T06:34:00

2009-10-30T10:34:22Z

Nathan Fillion as Castle dresses up as Mal Reynolds for Halloween