Got new bedsheets today. The old ones were old and worn anyway, enough that the other night with one of my untrimmed toenails I sliced the fitted sheet and pad and somehow every time I turned over put my foot in it and ripped it further.

I like the new ones. It was fun going around feeling all the samples. I got a 200 thread count cotton one which I liked better than the ones even up to 1000. The most comfortable ones, though (which I didn’t buy, ‘cause they were crazy expensive) were 87% polyester and 13% spandex, like yuppie athletic clothes.

Force & The Evolution - Perfect Dreams (DB7 remix)

Did you know that Styles’ wikipedia page lists him as “half of the hardcore duo Styles & Breeze” and there isn’t a Force wikipedia page? WTF?

Also fuck Ultrabeat in an orifice to be created by Judge Dredd, rite rite oi oi oi fish & chips.

I missed getting petty hurt in the course of things since I stopped falling out of trees and playing pickup football.

Oh man sparring works so well for that. My arms and shins are always bruised, I haven’t walked without a limp in at least two months, and probably less than 6 months of the previous year.

So what was so cool about the Battlestar Galactica reboot pilot is that they established Adama’s worthiness to lead not by scenes of him putting himself in danger to save his people, but instead by scenes of him deciding to abandon people to die, perhaps unnecessarily, to preserve the mission. (four times!)

Almost as if he were a real commander

Northern Lights - Love Of My Life (Brisk mix)

This is all.

barthel:

jarburst:

Ross Racine creates artwork from fictitious communities and subdivisions. Investigating the relation between design and actual lived experience, the works subvert the apparent rationality of urban design, exposing conflicts that lie beneath the surface. These digital drawings are a comment on the fears as well as the dreams of suburban culture.

(via) - (via) - (via)

Mmmmm.

A rhombic drive Sterling engine.

and here it is in action

Blossom - Neverland

I remember they developed a chicken pox vaccine a few years back. Do many kids get it? I kind of hope not. Between the low stakes, the visible manifestation, the easy-to-understand transmission, the typical age at infection, and the tendency to get a whole cohort in one pass, it’s really hard to think of a better “My First Illness” experience.

Fade & Bananaman - Love Is

I remember watching Bananaman on Nickelodeon with my dad, back when their schedule was all imported from countries where they spelled it “colour”. Thames Television represent. Danger Mouse was better, though.

I took flying lessons starting when I was 13. Did you know that? At a school/charter company/pilot services shack at the local field. Cessna 150/152s, a 170 or 172 once, a few Katanas there at the end. By the time I was ready to solo I was still too young for it and never got around to finishing my license.

Anyway, I’d go out with whoever was available for the time slot, and there was turnover, and switches due to last-minute charters. Messed things up a little - I got taught slow flight, which is pretty basic, three times, on the other hand this one guy insisted on taking me through stalls way too early. Those planes are built to be hard to stall though, and at that age I wasn’t strong enough to pull the yoke back enough, so he took over to show me and in the process accidentally put us into a spin, which is a) terrifying, and b) the exact thing you’re supposed to avoid by learning to handle stalls.

But the thing that draws my attention today, I just remembered one of my instructors - José, I think, this scruffy-looking 30something guy with mirrored aviators and a Columbian accent so thick it sounded like it was coming from the bottom of a bottle of whiskey.

And the connection I made - this was like 1996? Which means in 1986 he was a scruffy-looking 20something pilot with mirrored aviators and a Columbian accent.

Looking back on it, man, that guy probably has some stories to tell. Or not tell.

So here’s a site for you: the Closing Logos Wiki, a collection of production company logos from the end of shows. (This month is 2-D and 3-D Logos Month). Pretty comprehensive, still pretty compulsive in a kind of pre-2007 internet way.

Mostly seems to be the work of one guy. Fair enough, you read around, you read the descriptions of enough, and you notice each one has a “Scare Factor”, which - it’s not really clear what it’s for. Sometimes he seems to be using this for an esthetic critique - he’s not very fond of black/neon color combinations, which makes him not very fond of the late ‘80s-early '90s graphics. But sometimes he’s being strangely earnest about it, that the logo is scary or “terrifying”. And then you read enough of these entries, each with their own “Scare Factor” section, and you realize there’s not actually a line there, for him.

And you realize that not only is this site the product of a guy who felt compelled to compile every production company logo he could find, but one of the things he made a point of addressing for every single one is “whether this production company logo could possibly scare you”. And the answer is sometimes yes! (Another thing he addressed are “what are three or four nicknames I could coin for this logo?”)

Check out all the “Scare Factor: High” reviews. Check out the MGM one especially, where a lot of them are fine but one is terrifying because it involves a particularly scary lion, and also banner.

And now look at this “rules’ page. I mean as petty as any forum mod, though the enthusiasm for putting "BANNED” in red caps is something, but also of interest is the only rule with a listed exception:

17.) To the Writers and Up: Do not add personal comments to the articles. That includes personal scare factors, your own side notes, making the articles your own forum and telling people not to upload images or videos on the articles (that even includes locking pages where no one can edit or put up images or videos). The pages here are for logo descriptions, pictures and videos ONLY. If you want to share personal opinions, go to the Favorite Logos and Dreaded and Hated Logos pages, or use the discussion feature. If you disregard this rule, you will receive a warning. If you do it again, you will get another warning and a demotion, and if it continues, you will be BANNED!

• 17b.) If you must make a thread about a logo that scares you, do it on the page the logo is described on, and nowhere else. Any thread running afoul of this is at risk of deletion.

There’s a story here.

Hixxy - People’s Party (‘97 remix)

Breeze - Jump A Little Higher

attack the dancefloor like a bulldozer, those who came to stand move over

hookersorcake:

That I spent the last 2 hours creating this, makes my heart soar like a hawk.

Sy & Demo - Sensation

tumblr tells me to like this, tumblr is right.

fromme-toyou:

Caught in the rain

Hope you have a weekend full of surprising moments