"...a day which will live in infamy!"

(with apologies to the memory of FDR!)



Today is the first anniversary of the Great Boston LED Freakout and Mooninite Pwnage.

"It had a very sinister appearance,"

So does Dick Cheney.

[Massachusetts Attorney General Martha] Coakley told reporters. "It had a battery behind it, and wires."

So does Dick Cheney's heart.

Does this mean that we can get the Boston Bomb Squad to blow up Dick Cheney?

Never Forget!
01-31-2007

(edit) MAKE magazine recalls 01/31/07!

OMG! LED art invades Boston on the first anniversary of 01/31/07!

Make your own LED light board.

And in BLOCKBUSTER April 8th.

"Get offa my lawn, you damn terrorists!"

And I'm officially 'healed'.

I saw the surgeon the other day and he pronounced my sugical wound healed, and that I would no longer need the services of the home health care nurses.



The straight black lines are adhesive residue from the tape used to hold the dressings in place.

You could click on the image for a much larger view, but I wouldn't recommend it. There's really not much to see and the image IS huge.

Now, if it would only stop itching!

Happy Holiday Wishes to one and all!

iSeasons iGreetings

May you reject and be kept safe from the heresies spawned by the Father of All Lies in Redmond, and accept the loving iEmbrace of Sts. Jobs and Woz.

In the Name of The Hardware, The OS and The Holy iPod.

ThinkDifferent!

Ultimate Apefighting

Eventually we're going to see something like this on pay per view TV.

Man vs. Chimpanzee.

Tyson vs A Bigass Monkey is coming. Mark my words!

You can't make this stuff up.

This is not a scene from a movie.



This is a scene from real life.

A street market in Thailand that shares its space with a set of working train tracks and the occasional train.

We live in an absurdly and wonderfully random world.

(Via the ever entertaining Telstar Logistics weblog.)

And how was YOUR Thanksgiving?

Mine was spent recuperating from some minor surgery on my back.

The 21st, I had an abscessed lipoma removed from my back.

I was in at 9 AM and out by 4:30 PM. The worst aspect was the hurry up and wait. The actual moving to the O.R. didn't occur until noon, I was done by 1 PM or so, and then the next three hours or so were just waiting. First in the recovery room, then in the post recovery room.

Since I had a tiny bit of sedation, I HAD to get a ride back to the apartment. Once I was back here, I used the bathroom and then was right out again to get an antibiotic prescription filled.

Apparently, once I walk in the front door of the apartment, any liability that the hospital might have is ended and I'm on my own.

It would have been so much easier and faster had I been allowed to walk out the front door of the hospital on my own, stop at the pharmacy to drop off the prescription.

So it goes.

So as promised elsewhere, before

and

after images of the tumor and surgery.

As Warren Ellis frequently warns readers on his weblog:

"DON'T LOOK!"

Seriously. Do. Not. Look.

The images are BIG and GRAPHIC.