Tyler Stevenson, an urban forester, measures barley that is growing in the fields at the Great Park on Friday morning.
Irvine, California (Strutts News Services, Opinion Section) –
Continue reading “The Great Farm: Urban Forester Scores Job Measuring Barley Crop”
And boy is KayKay pissed, having to drag that sucker around from now on. Or maybe it’s heartworm he picked up while wading barefoot through the swamps of the Hamptons. Either way, he’s got my pity.
[Found here.]
How do’ folks, and Happy VietNamese New Year!
Little Saigon, in Westminster California, comprises the largest population of VietNamese ex-patriots of anywhere in the world. The community was founded by those who escaped the communist invasion that followed the fall of Saigon in 1975.
[More photos after the break.]
Nobody lives in Awesome Town. There is no plumbing, no electricity and no air conditioning. There is no city council, no Police Department, no Fire Department, no Post Office. There is a jail where no one will be incarcerated. There is no telephone service and no weekly trash pickup.
Awesome Town has no industry, no farming, and no business.
There are no stores or restaurants in Awesome Town, but there is a 5-story hotel. Nobody has ever checked in to the hotel and no one ever will. There are no gas stations because there are no cars, and children are not allowed in Awesome Town.
There are no newspapers in Awesome Town because there is no one to read them. There are no medical facilities or pharmacies either, and there is no hospital. There is no internet service or broadcast radio or television.
Awesome Town is located on San Clemente Island, California. It is a Military Operations on Urban Terrain (MOUT) Training Complex.
[From this Architect’s perspective, this would have been a fun project. Found via here. Photos from here. Detailed description from CMA below the break.] Continue reading “Awesome Town is Awesome.”
Good God! The Nicolle Brothers have a goldmine with AXE COP, and Episode 6 is up. Ethan Nicolle reports that since 25 January they’ve been getting 30-45 THOUSAND hits a day, and now they’ve got a splinter thread called “Ask AXE COP.” [Don’t squint, click the image.]
Due to the massive volume of traffic, their site is being revamped to handle the load.
[Related post with links here.]
AXE COP is the most awesome thing we’ve seen on the internest in years.
Imagine Calvin as the author of a comic strip, and this is what you get. Created and written by a 5 year old, his 29 year old cartoonist brother puts it into action in glorious black and white.
Ya gotta read it from the beginning, Episode 1. (Episode 0 comes later.) Unfortunately the website is slow to load, and has some other quirks about it, but it’s worth the time.
Superhero Sockarang is my personal favorite.
He shows up in Episode 5:
“Sockarang came to a try out when Axe Cop was preparing to go on a mission to fight Bad Santa and the Evil Flying Book. Sockarang has socks for arms, and he can shoot them out and they return to him like boomerangs. In his fight with Bad Santa he got some of Bad Santa’s blood on him and he got Bad Santa powers, which he used for good.”
[Link via the Awesome Miss Cellania.]
[Clarification: Although the image above is from the Axe Cop site, the lame-o mspaint editing/coloring job was our doing for purposes of this post only, with apologies to the Nicolle Brothers.]
Mr. Zero. He’s Nothing. Really Nothing.
Although he’s Nothing, he wants everyone to pay attention to him, to pay attention to Nothing.
He knows Zip, Nada, and Everything That Isn’t. No one knows him, yet too many people understand him. He says Nothing to everyone.
Mr. Zero is very intelligent, and agrees to Nothing because he can deliver it. He can give you Nothing as well. He can make sure that you have plenty of Nothing, so much so that you can only give it away, even though nobody wants it.
Unfortunately, Mr. Zero demands a lot. He is capable of taking everything and turning it into Nothing, which is exactly what you will get back if you give him anything.
He creates Nothing, and he sells it, too, at a very high price.
The only way to stop Mr. Zero is to give him Nothing.
[Image found here.]
These are the folks who search for stuff on the internest. These are the same folks who find Tacky Raccoons by searching for stuff on the internest. These are the top 20 search requests over the past year that these folks used to find stuff on Tacky Raccoons. Go figger.
None of this matters, aside from being a curious list, and that I’m honestly surprised that Igde Pshat didn’t show up; not that anyone would google it, or that anyone would search for fuldkommen gak either for that matter. We’ve got bigger ducks to fry. It kinda bothers me that neither phrase showed up in our most-wanted google list.
I’ll get over it. Meanwhile…
The big question today is, Who is Ellie Light?
[Image found here.]
[Update: Ellie Light is found.]
This waterspout off the Huntington Beach Pier came ashore and flipped an SUV last Wednesday. The pier is about 1/2 mile from my office.
Because they’re laden with water, they’re smaller than tornados that touch down on land, but they’re still magnetically attracted to trailer parks and boat slips.
Police Officer Martin Duffy rappels down the side of 2430 Adam Clayton Powell Blvd. in Harlem to shoot a 400-pound Bengal-Siberian tiger, that was kept in an apartment, with a tranquilizer. The sedated tiger, named Ming, and a 3-foot caiman alligator were removed from the building. The animals’ owner was tracked down in Philadelphia and charged with reckless endangerment.
[Image found here with description embedded. Full story from 2003 here.]
Tacky Raccoons 
