This One's for JP Stormcrow

Hey, JP, did you make the second parody poster referenced in this recent Verbal Privilege post? Just asking....

Wise Guy Christmas Medley

Crank up the volume and enjoy:

Some Metaphysics for Saturday

Retroactive Prolegomenon to a Series of Blog Posts Using 'Prolegomenon' in Their Title

Word

pre-historic golf

For all you golfers and WAAGNFNP loyalists here's proof that prehistoric man played golf long before he watched TV:



And here he is, doin' the Tiger under the watchful eye of the ultimate ur-golfer:

This One's for the Rainy Season

This will soon be my life at home--rainy season coming to Japan--but I draw the line at cosuplay!



Actually, both floods and droughts are predicted this rainy season in Kyushu. So long as the earthquakes stay away, I'll be happy.

[Update 7/11/07: OK, so the YouTube gods inform me this one is no longer available. Well, here's a version in Portuguese!



Take that, copyright hawks!]

Why Mostly Harmless Will Not Be Honoring Acephalous's Call for a Blogwide Strike Action

By all means, though, do leave the poor guy a comment. And if you want to join me in making this a fundraiser for a worthy grad student in dissertation hell, follow my suggestion in the update here. Or don't--I'm happy to take a CitizenSE vacation for as long as it takes!

But Mostly Harmless is a group blog and I would never dream of unilaterally making a decision of this magnitude. Plus it's too much fun for me to stop here with the daddy blogging and the golf blogging and the animation blogging and the plugging-my-WAAGNFNP-blogging blogging--and whatever other kind of blogging seems fun at the time.

To wit: when I get time this week, I'll be doing all of the above, including more Golden Week family blogging, more LPGA not-quite-live-blogging, and more on the American and Japanese versions of The Powerpuff Girls (which I was a fan of long before I became a dad, thank you very much). I may even get around to that sources of my sense of humor series, or TolkienWatch, or warm-up for the May 23rd Star Wars 30th anniversary blogging thing--all of which I semi-promised a while back. But I'm definitely keeping it light here, as I'll being pretty heavy (for me) at WAAGNFNP the next couple of weeks.

Which makes me appreciate today's peter ramus post all the more!

How to Make a Dinosaur

Not a real one, of course. Just a remote controlled machine that acts like one.



What would Gojira think? And ((almost) big girl now) onechan?

A Paler Shade of Fire

.FNG a ni demusnoc kcurt a yb revo nur saw enoyreve ylnedduS

***BREAKING*** *** Web Only Exclusive*** ***BREAKING***

By KIRBY ALTHOUSE, Associated Press Writer

PALO ALTO - Cyber-researchers at the Hoover Institution on Massively Redundant Sucking and Blowing confirmed the discovery of an Internet White Hole in a rarely visited corner of the blogosphere. Long postulated, but never previously observed, researchers traced the source of the White Hole via Internet tubes to a much more significant Internet Black Hole that had developed several weeks prior (see comment #287 here.)

Experts puzzled over the interesting transformations that the content being emitted from the White Hole had undergone. While certain images and in-jokes were unchanged, other content was not: danger had become harmlessness; hockey, golf; French, American; and 2001: A Space Odyssey emerged as Star Wars. Other key elements and content appeared to be missing altogether. A pair of shoes was found as well.

The significant mismatch in size and information content between the two suggests that the connections between them have split and fused repeatedly, and that this particular White Hole probably represents a mere fraction of the total energy consumed in the Black Hole. This led some to predict that other White Holes might pop up elsewhere on the Internet in the near future.

The discovery caused a ripple of excitement among some of the giants of Internet lore. When some Pseudonymous guy who sounded like indigenous people who had been portrayed in Earth Island Jo heard of the development, his face, at first just ghostly, turned a whiter shade of pale, and he skated off without comment. An earthtone clad Al Gore, however, greeted the news warmly. “Hot damn”, he sighed, “This is the kind of thing we were looking for back at the start. Now we’re cooking with gas!” Internet tubemeister Ted Stevens (R-Dementia) responded by rushing an emergency Appropriations Bill to the floor of the Senate to fund construction of several hundred bridges to locations in his home state where new White Holes might or might not appear.

There is a very loud amusement park right in front of my present lodgings.