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Video of the Moment --Making the rounds... a brilliant study in "Truth in Lyrics" -- and the singer does really well on the long high notes! Quote of the Moment Optimistic bias: People tend to be overconfident about their own abilities and the outcome of their plans. Something like 90% of people think that they are above average drivers less likely to get into an accident than the average joe. This is so pervasive that there is actually a scientific name for the few people who accurately assess their own future, their abilities, and what other people think of them: clinically depressed. --Megan McArdle's blog at The Atlantic. Really good writing there, I might need to add it to my regular rotation.
Still sticking with the sandals. Quote of the Moment "Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else." --Ogden Nash. I think Jeff Hawkins has a pretty decent neurological explanation for this. I find it happening when trying to recollect old coworkers, people I might have seen on a daily basis, but... well, they tend to get lumped into categories, sometimes in broadly physical or accent-y ways. Links of the Moment I felt kind of bad about enjoying engrishfunny, especially since I'm so gridingly monolingual, and I know how many Asian languages even spell themselves phonetically... but then I found Wordsplosion, delighting (or mocking, whatever) signs written by, presumably, native English speakers, so now I feel a little less guilty. (I think making it worse is how professional-looking print technologies has outstripped amateur proofreading.)
Koko has been involved in a number of sexual harassment lawsuits. At least three female former employees have claimed that they were pressured into showing their breasts to Koko. They alleged that Patterson encouraged the behavior, often interpreted Koko's signs as requests for nipple display, and let them know that their job would be in danger if they "did not indulge Koko's nipple fetish." Koko has been known to playfully grab both male and female nipples without warning or provocation. Patterson claims that Koko uses the word "nipple" to refer to humans. All claims of harassment have been permanently dropped as of November 21, 2005 after the foundation and the parties involved reached a settlement. Jody Weiner, Koko's lawyer, writes about Koko and sexual harassment in the book Kinship With Animals. --from Wikipedia's Koko entry. Assuming this is more aobut Koko than Patterson, I wonder what it says about human's obsession with that area... Quote of the Moment "All the world is not, of course, a stage, but the crucial ways in which it isn't are not easy to specify." --Erving Goffman
Here is a lovely portrait by masukomi entitled Kirk is one Bad A$$ MoFo. 
Kevin F and Ilari collaborated on this tower, much more impressive than the stuff I had made from the same grabbag of parts... 
It's cool because the top spins and it's a great use of the odd shaped bricks I got en masse -- 1x3s aren't the easiest to make big stuff out of! Also, axes! Finally, this cartoon lightly mocking the name of my street: 
I believe that might be an original work by Jason Yungbluth, whose terrifically awesome Weapon Brown was lurking in the envelope. Weapon Brown is this marvelously grotesque "Mad Max on Meth" retelling of most of the Peanuts Gang... sexually deviant and violent as anything, and really a lot of fun. In retrospect it is just possible that posting an image of me, a thing by my officemates out of my bricks, and a cartoon about my street is probably not making such big head way in losing the Kirk-centric nature of my website...
Like they say in Rolling Stone... "The great insight of the Palin VP choice is that huge chunks of American voters no longer even demand that their candidates actually have policy positions; they simply consume them as media entertainment, rooting for or against them according to the reflexive prejudices of their demographic, as they would for reality-show contestants or sitcom characters."The sad thing is this is kind of how I've been acting on politics for a long time. It's like this weird continuation of the emphasis of "self-esteem" in schools, 'til we have kids who rate themselves most highly in Math and do the worst. The red states in particular seem to dislike people who act like they might be smarter than them, even if they are, even if they're not snobbish about it. "Jus' Plain Folks" ain't the best way to run a country, in my book. Quote of the Moment "If everyone wore my clothes, I don't think there would be wars, truly. Of course, then I would be the richest man in the world and most people would become bankrupt. My clothes are expensive. So maybe wars are better." --designer Yves Saint Laurent, via Bill the Splut
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