Anima's Interesting-chip Cookie Journal

Fire-warming Santa and Snowman

2009-12-20T05:58:09Z

I saw this at Big Lots last night. It's...wow. I wish the camera had gotten a better angle of Santa's butt, because the cheeks move. >,

Skunky

2009-12-13T15:09:06Z

skunky
Originally uploaded by animakitty

Yesterday I found Skunky on her side by the water bowl, stiff and still. I don't know what happened...

Rest in peace, kitten.

Birthday!

2009-12-11T13:18:25Z

Happy birthday Ionotter! May your day be filled with feeshes and joy.

I've deserved this a few times, I'm sure.

2009-12-10T20:59:57Z

see more Lolcats and funny pictures

Daniel Duke of Danger Juggling at the Ohio Ren Faire

2009-12-09T23:05:37Z

One of the videos I took at the ren-faire this year. Enjoy jokes and juggling!

YES!

2009-12-08T11:54:52Z

I wish I'd found this a decade ago.

http://thatwasnotok.com/

Saaaaaaauce.

2009-12-06T12:05:30Z

Taking three and a half hours to make a good tomato sauce: the only advantage in being unemployed.

The Rape Tunnel

2009-12-01T04:01:07Z

http://www.artlurker.com/2009/09/the-rape-tunnel-by-sheila-zareno/

An artist wants to build a 22-foot long tunnel that constricts to a quite narrow opening, forcing people into a submissive posture when they enter the otherwise-exitless room at the end of the tunnel. In that room is the artist, and the artist will rape you.

This builds upon a similar installation he built a couple years earlier called THE PUNCH-YOU-IN-THE-FACE TUNNEL. Three people took him up on the 'offer' and he broke the nose of a young female model in the process who consequently sued him. (You miss, are retarded.)

What is truly the point of this 'artform'? To hi-light the self-destructive properties of the human species? To challenge our concepts of what is permissible under the umbrella of 'art'?

Or is he laughing at the art world? Lots of people, including the police of course, are trying to get this project crushed. The gallery owner is fighting to keep it, even hiring lawyers to defend it. I'm sure he has many supporters as well as antagonists. Does he respect his supporters? Or are they the object of his derision and disgust, the real target of his work?

I'm actually having a hard time believing this is happening at all. It sounds like an article from The Onion.

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...Ah. It isn't real. I typed the above without reading the comments. I got trolled.

Birthday

2009-11-27T19:53:23Z

Happy birthday foxwing/Elly! Love ya suneling, have a great day.

Back to the Future Delorean Crysis Mod

2009-11-26T11:49:25Z

....Wow. This isn't just a skin for an existing car. It actually, somehow, seems to travel through time in-game. It leaves the flaming tire tracks. It makes the sonic boom. It emerges from the wormhole frosted over. KICK. ASS.

Bioshock 'Big Daddy' suit on eBay

2009-11-24T09:29:48Z

This is very impressive, http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=180436488073

It has fans, red LEDs for the mask portholes, and the drill actually spins. The shoes provide some lift, so you'd be appropriately tall if you're at least somewhere in the neighborhood of 6' already.

Go here for the build process blog, http://volpinprops.blogspot.com/2009/09/big-daddy-bioshock.html

Most recent entry here has a nice gallery from a photo-shoot they did at an aquarium for the proper atmosphere. http://volpinprops.blogspot.com/

Red Fall Leaves and Sunlight

2009-11-15T21:24:55Z

Red Fall Leaves and Sunlight
Originally uploaded by animakitty

Amazing what beauty you can find even in your backyard.

What're you drivin' at?

2009-11-14T05:32:50Z

Oooh,

2009-11-12T02:49:34Z

Bored? Try a little post-apocalyptic cinema. "A Boy and His Dog!" http://blip.tv/file/1100366 Stream to your heart's content.

It's a film about...well, a boy and his dog, but set in a post-nuclear USA that the Fallout games drew a lot of inspiration from. It's funny, rather twisted, and not at all PC.

Wonderful artwork

2009-11-06T22:37:48Z

StumbleUpon took me here today, http://www.michaeldashow.com/zoom/zoom_wanderingmonsters.html
and I'm floored by this guy's work. It's funny, the details are rich, the colors and shading are excellent...just top-notch. If he's still around when I start getting books published, I'll definitely try and get him for the cover art.

Blob-bot will squeeze through cracks, eat your family.

2009-11-06T15:14:55Z

http://www.disinfo.com/2009/11/pentagon-unveils-new-chembot/ It's a blob! It's a robot! It's a reconissance tool! It's...CHEMBOT!

The explanation is interesting, and seeing it in motion is...truly creepy. It seems to breathe, and its grub-white coloring doesn't help.

Yay! Autonomous sentry gun guide with software!

2009-11-03T12:17:13Z

http://members.upc.nl/a.kutsenko/guide.htm Finally, a good open-source autonomous sentry gun building guide!

It's not a cheap project, but...how could you assume it would be?

Of course you'll need to adjust it to accommodate whatever you'll be using as the delivery device *cough-http://rp181.110mb.com/index.php?p=1_30-cough* but that's half the fun!

Best Halloween Costume Ever

2009-10-31T13:28:01Z

I might as well give it up, 'cuz no one's going to beat this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_PgQCY1k5c&feature=player_embedded

Man Charged for Making Coffee Naked in His Own Home

2009-10-28T07:55:22Z

http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/news/local/101909_man_caught_making_coffee_naked_faces_charges

This makes me so angry. A man who was home alone made coffee in his kitchen at 5:30 am, naked. A woman who was walking with a 7 year-old kid (trespassing on his front lawn too incidentally) saw him through the window and called the cops. The cops arrested him, and now if convicted he faces up to a year in jail and a $2000 fine.

I don't think I have to enumerate the many retarded elements of this story. I hope this guy sues the woman who instigated this.

CERN sabotaged by John Connor

2009-10-20T10:15:52Z

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/biology_evolution/article6879293.ece

A new theory put forth by respected scientists (respected up until now anyways) posits that the Higgs boson may be 'abhorrent to nature,' and time distortion waves are rippling back from the point in time when the particle is finally created to stop the process that eventually creates it. Or in a nutshell, God hates it.

I find this simultaneously hilarious and awesome. If it's true, it throws a little wonder back into reality, because science this freakin' weird is indistinguishable from magic. :K)

John Hammond pointed out that when the first Disney theme park opened, nothing worked. Ian Malcom retorted that, 'Yes John, but when the Pirates of the Caribbean break down, the pirates don't collapse into a black hole and destroy the solar system.'

Crystalline data storage

2009-10-19T23:35:59Z

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/8312286.stm

Yay! I can't wait to buy my first pack of Crystal-RWs! They'll be so pretty...and they'll sit in this little docking station, while laser light flashes through them, creating a tiny cubical disco. And as it fills up, different colors will show you how much of your cube is still available for writing! AND THEN IT GETS TOO HOT IN YOUR ROOM AND YOUR DATA MELTS!

Well, I'd hope not.

Wedding

2009-10-17T06:24:12Z

So my brother got married about 10 hours ago. It was a very simple ceremony with no bridesmaids or groomsmen standing up front, performing any duties. Afterwards was a nice low-budget reception, wherein I did some awful dancing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py5qAH7wELY is a more extreme case, but I did nothing tonight to redeem the white man in the arena of dance. I did The Lawnmower. For demo purposes only, The Cabbage Patch. And the Roxbury-head-bob, but only for the appropriate song. I think I bruised my brain.

RL Update

2009-10-11T09:33:34Z

Mom was discharged from the hospital today, though they sent her home with a lovely gift basket of junk she'll be pouring into her veins for the next two weeks.

Well, maybe we can disguise the IV pole as a roving flower arrangement for the wedding on Friday.

Playing Fallout 3, now on the PC instead of the long-departed 360. I FINALLY found the %*%@ing sheet music for Agatha. Those Bethesda people are sneaky bastards. Step One: Never reward the player for opening bathroom stall doors. Step Two: Hide a single elusive quest item behind a toilet.

After running through the game normally, I plan to cheat like Bill Clinton on ecstasy and meth, and experiment with mods. I wouldn't say no to replacing the Mysterious Stranger with Stephen Colbert, armed with an American flagstaff. Would you?

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2009-10-10T08:00:54Z

I started using StumbleUpon again, and it took me to Elfwood. I was tired enough to read the site's banner as ElfWad, and not question it. Really, I think that's a far better name for the place.

Somali pirates attack French military flagship.

2009-10-08T04:30:37Z

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091007/wl_africa_afp/somaliapiracyshippingfrance_20091007151820

Now, firstly, this is funny because two tiny skiffs attacked an enormous military flagship.

This is funny secondly because the French only managed to catch one of the skiffs. I hope all the night-show comics pick up on this.