Graphs Are Just Great

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POP!

* Angus Maddison’s historical statistics on the world economy, at the time of initial research (February 2005) were available via http://www.eco.rug.nl/~Maddison/, as this is no longer available you can find some of the raw data at: http://www.theworldeconomy.org/publications/worldeconomy/

Built To Spill The Beens

Built To Spill plays surprising well live considering their sound depends so heavily on overtones and subtle melodies. They have added another guitar player increasing the in-harmony of their already somewhat noisy sound. In case you aren't familiar with the Built To Spill sound just imagine indie music that makes you want to drink a bottle of whisky while driving your car around trying to figure out why that person you like so much keeps screwing all your friends (look, I'm sorry - it's just that your friends are so much more fun).

Anyway, they played to a rather large and stoned crowd of extremely docile look-a-likes. While they didn't get highly animated on stage or break any instraments in fit of tranquility they did manage to simultaneously spontaneously combust! It's a good thing everyone was too stoned watching the images on the screen to realize what was going on onstage otherwise I might not have been able to capture the event on camera.

Neighbors Are Awesome

Coming home the other night, to much my surprise, I found that my neighbors had replaced their broken Porsche 944 with an even more reliable form of transportation, a dinning set. Apparently they now drive a table and 5 chairs.

I tried to hunt them down and ask them how the new table and chairs handle but they were out joyriding around on their other seats, the recliner set.

Well, at least I now have a place to eat if I don't feel like carrying my food all the way up to my apartment next time.

Sepak Takraw

The only thing that could possibly make sepak takraw more completely awesome would be adding a rule requiring the execution of the losing three players by electric eel.

Wait, you don't know what sepak takraw is?!?!? Only the most kick ass Malaysian sport ever invented! It basically is better than all sports combined - in fact it could be said that it basically wins sports, with the possible exception of Apocalypse Dishwashing and Downhill Vacuuming.

Austin Texas: Stinking Hellhole of Sin

You might think that this lady is just some religious zealot preaching anti-intellectualism as a platform for righteousness. However, this assumption is completely untrue. She actually holds a degree in linguistics from Harvard, an MBA from Stanford and owns and operates several highly successful reality and property development companies throughout Texas, California, Louisiana, and New York. That’s correct she isn’t a religious zealot at all, but actually a land developing and reality flipping mogul.

She has been going from church to church convincing people that Austin is a despot of sin and which they should move out of as quickly as possible as a show of thier undying faith. Her various development companies then offers to buy the sinful property at a reasonable price - that is, considering the "sinfulness" of the reality significantly devalues the property’s value. She then turns this property around (for a handsome profit) selling it to intellectualists, gay and unmarried couples and anyone with questionable ethical and moral values within the perspective of the church. Thus, adding “sinful” populous to the already “stinking hell hole of sin” which Austin has become, boosting her conviction along her campaign to convice the paranoid religious population that they should move away from thier home town as quickly as humanly possible (and sell her their house cheap).

It is unknown exactly how much money her various companies pull in as she operates them behind various LLPs, LLCs, and REITs. However, the combined income of her various companies is estimated to be somewhere in the billions. Donald Trump has threatened to expose her nefarious plot, however is reluctant to place himself within the sights of such a brilliant and calculating mastermind.

All Things Come Back II

How to fuck up a perfectly ugly painting . . . part II.

Number Five Is ALIVE!

Our new war mongering is more than meets the eye.

Defense/warmachinerist contractors are having a feild day with the new war/s on terror and are probably giggling like little school girls about the recent developments in North Korea. I'm sure Foster-Miller is pretty happy with the $257 mil IDIQ (indefinite delivery/indefinite quantitly) contract they have recieved for thier RC combatbot "TALON" which is being deployed directly.

Ok so I may be jumping the gun being worried about having killer robots on the loose after all these were designed for EOD, reconnaissance, communication, testing, security, defence and resue missions - Wait who cares about this crap! Why don't we just make a bomb the shape of the earth - cut a hole out the shape of the US and finish what we've wanting to do from the start?

Luck?

Here is a quick short about one lucky guy - or is he?

All things come back

This is the 3rd painting on this canvas. It's a painting of a giraffe!

Mac Attack

This guy is so desperate to have a Mac he made one online . It seems to be a fairly succesfull endeavor considering he has raised a little over $800 to date. Now all you have to do if you want something is ask enough people to give you money for it.

UMLAUF

Quit messing around with your mash potatoes, trying to make miniature replicas of your favorite sculpture and get in your vehicle, drive down Barton Springs, turn left at that stop light next to the bridge (You know where it is) and go to the UMLAUF sculpture garden .

Who, what? . . . you know the Umlauf sculpture garden created by Charles Umlauf - a one time prof at UT (40 years of teaching that is) , has dedicated his backyard to the arts and hosts some amazing shows on the sideline at the museum. The museum is currently celebrating its 15th year anniversary hosting the works of Hank Waddell of ATX and I highly recomend the high before the show, but you really don't need it considering the place.

Early Trey Parker and Matt Stone Vid

Looks like they were hired to make a training video for Universal Pictures . . . a training video for a company that makes videos; not too bad.

Link

F#ck TV

I hate T.V. but if I had to watch it I guess I would watch Current T.V. Something called Vangaurd Journalism is sok (so+ok not so ok).

Lostcauselessnesses DNA Chart

Artlessness Crime

It seems the cops have nabbed Gimix and Zenac along with a couple of their teenage friends. Turns out these artists errm "criminals"* have racketed up "$76,000"* dollars worth of "damage"* around Austin. Let's just hope they get some paying work from all their soon to be found fame to help them pay off all the fines they are going to be berated with, that is if they aren't put in Juvi on felony charges. If these "criminals" happened to be in the same high school and happened to take art class and I happened to teach that art class I'd probably punch them in the canvas for slacking . . . they have time to f#cking tag half of Austin but not enough to finish their study in three dimensional shading, f#cking slackers !!!!

* I'm too lazy to reference this quote.

I Drink To Fit In

Here is a comercial for all you shyberts out there.

How To Fold Shirts

So . . . I've been folding my shirts this way and no one can stop me. LINK

Junk On The Wall

Hahaaaa, finally I have a half decent digital camera; now I just have to figure out how to use it - stupid flash. But, what to take a picture of is the real question . . . hmmm how about junk on walls? This piece is titled Warsurism.

Ahem - nough said

Best Worse Case Scenario

Looks like some Canadian troops found what they were looking for, an "impenetrable forests of marijuana plants."(Reuters) It looks like growing a giant forest of weed is actually a decent military defence strategy.

Mr. Baggins and his son make a house

Here are the only plans and design schemes to build you're very own hobbitate. That's right Bilbo and his son built this little home for just a little over $3,000 silver dollars, and now you can too since they have provided the blueprints on thier website.

Mmmm sex toys to clean everything with

I know, I know, you're asking yourself 'why didn't I think of this?' yeah well don't beat yourself up over it, it's not everyday a piece on ingeniousness comes along like this. So now that you're over feeling bad that you didn't come up with this idea you're probably wondering who did; some sex crazed house wife right? Wrong! It was Ian Haig, and you can find out more about this mad genius HERE.

Comicalessness

Yeah I know, where's the punch line? Well I lost the last slide - I'll make it again later. In the meantime I started a new series:

North Korea - You're My Hero

With so much going on in the world it can be difficult keeping up with everything that is going on and why it is going on. After all, we US citizens really only get one point of view in our news, ours. So here a little of some perspective you probably won't see in the news about what exactly is going on in North Korea and how why they think we are imperialistic scum:

What's Left: North Korea: A Continuing Struggle against Imperialism

Yeah some of the stuff is so far left it started being right again.

Get Your Omelet On

Ok, so this obviously isn't complete but that's beside the point (I'll finish the other frames and put them in order). The point is I have found yet another great way to waste 4.8 min on the internet, that's right I made this on the i n t e r n e t. Anyway, you too can make your very own comic strip (three frames max) while piddling away the time at that job you hate, just go to www.stripcreator.com register as your favorite alternate comic strip writting personality and off you go. The characters you can use are mostly limited to a couple versions of previously existing characters from existing comic strips, and most of the scenes look like a toddler made them on MS Paint, but hey it really doesn't get any easier, besides it's better than working at your job right.

The Melvins paper dolls !!!

This comes from a 1987 7" that Melvins recorded on Leopard Geck-O records that had two songs on it or one song was actually two or something: Revulsion-We Reach, and Oven. Need to fck off at work then go to thier website and see how far you can make it in: The Melvins, keep refreshing the page.

Sticker Sunday says, KIIIEEEEEEAAAAYY!!!

Subscriptionalist

Here is my list of things to buy that will keep both your coffee table and toilet tank lid from floating away and possibly disrupting the normally undisturbed meandering of your ceiling fan.

McSweeney's : Short stories about stuff and things that really didn't happen.

Science News : Yeah yeah, gimee that quick science fix . . . ahhhhh yeeeeaaaah man thats the stuff!

Scientific America : Wait didn't I read about this article in Science News 4 months ago - well at least now they explain what the hell it was about.

Colors : This should be required reading for all politicidiots, wait that's me - oohhh look pretty pictures!

Foreign Affairs : I don't think issues of this publication are allowed in either house of the senate, was it that or was it that the senate was trying to pass a bill not to allow this into the US, I can't remember.

Daedalus : About this guy who had this stupid son who like fell to his death or something - no really this stuff is way over my head I just put it here to make myself look smarter.

Juxtapoz: Ok so, it's alright I guess, if it just wasn't so damn cool then it might be pretty hip - wait I think I got that backwards.

More to come when my head thingy starts working again.

Just for Thomas

Me: Hey what are you up to tomorrow?

Me 2: Going to see Mastodon at Emo’s.

Me: Ahh badass, Mastodon! What’s the cover?

Me 2: Fuck the cover it’s Mastodon!

Me: Yeah you’re right. Hey, we should send an email to Tomas asking him if he wants to go – doh he’s in Korea.

Me 2: HEHEHHEH let’s do it anyway

Me: HEHEHHEH,

(Pause)

Hey, but that Tom Waits: Big Time movie is playing at the Alamo tomorrow night.

Me 2: Who?

Me: Tom Waits.

Me 2: It’s a fucking movie you twit you can see that anytime, besides do you really want to be surrounded by a bunch of those depressive types who think Tom Waits is some sub-culture hero?

Me: Yeah fuck those guys, lets go to Mastodon.

Me 2: Good that’s better; hey, did you remember to set a hair appointment tomorrow?

Me: Do we really need to get a haircut?

Me 2: Yeah you fucking hippie wana-be – you look like a big ugly dumbass with that half long hair.

Me: Hey do you think it’s a problem that we talk to each other?

Me 2: Only when you whine about stuff.

Me: Do you always have to talk to me like that?

Me 2: Yeah you it’s the only way to make you listen to reason, you whiney bitch.

It's Sticker Sunday