Monthly Archives: June 2006

Potato Fry

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Bear with me. I have a fast, easy, delicious potato recipe for you. But first, Vulcan camel toe:

Here’s me and the wife:

Me: Karen! My ‘male camel toe’ search pulled up Spock and Kirk!

Karen: Which one has the camel toe?

Me: Spock.

Karen: I knew it. Nimoy has no shame.

Me: Of course he has no shame. He’s half Vulcan. Except for some occasional bouts of horniness, he’s emotion-free.

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Walnut, June 4, 2006. Category: Food.

Flickr and Google go toe to toe

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In high school, we called them crackers. They functioned as eye magnets and brain-befuddlers, distracting us from the joys of higher learning. A teenage boy cannot not look at a cameltoe.

No, no, not that.

I almost changed my mind about writing this post. Could I stoop this low? But this very afternoon in the grocery store, I heard a muzak version of the Beach Boys’ Kokomo, which everyone under 35 knows as The Camel Toe Song.

Clearly, a Higher Power was speaking to me.

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Walnut, June 3, 2006. Category: Flickr follies, Pix, Sex.

Flickr Follies

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Hat tip to Jurassic Pork for pointing me to Tom Hilton’s post on If I Ran the Zoo, Fun & Games, Random Flickr-Blogging.

Here’s the idea: pick an image from Flickr and write about it. Flickr has millions of photos posted, some dull, some intriguing.Â Pick a photo. Write about it. Here are Tom Hilton’s suggested rules:

Here’s how it works:

Every week, we all start with the same randomly-generated four-digit number (call it ####).

Go to Flickr and search for “IMG_####”. There should be anywhere from a few hundred to a couple thousand results.

Choose an image from among the results, post it to your blog (be sure to include attribution and a link back to the page where the image appears–this is done automatically if you use the ‘blog this’ feature in Flickr).

The rest is up to you. Write about the place shown in the image. Make up a story about it. Connect it to some issue you care about. Or just post it as an image you really like. Do whatever you want.

As Jurassic points out, this could be a delightful way to break a writer’s block, not to mention an answer to the eternal wail, “What will I blog about nooooow?”

And I already have an idea what to do with it. Forget the random stuff — I’ll do that some other time. This evening, we’ll see how Flickr and Google Images match up on a specific image search. Something special. Something for me.

Tonight: The Great Camel Toe Race of 2006!

Walnut, June 3, 2006. Category: Flickr follies.

Hobbit update

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They’re defaming my ancestors.

A recent issue of Science (19 May, Vol. 312, pages 983-984) dishes on the controversy of Indonesia’s Homo floresiensis, the one-meter-tall humans who “made stone tools and hunted dwarf elephants 18,000 years ago.” Anatomist Susan Larson of Stony Brook University reported at a recent meeting that H. floresiensis seems to be descended from Homo erectus, while paleoanthropologist Robert D. Martin of the Field Museum (Chicago) “argue[s] that the single skull is that of a mondern human suffering from microcephaly.”

Microcephaly. Teensy head syndrome. (Next time you want to insult someone with language that escapes them, call them microcephalic.) I’d give you a link, but in my opinion, there’s nothing more disturbing than images of malformed babies.

“More surprises are still to come,” reports Elizabeth Culotta. “[William] Jungers said in his talk that LB1 [the H. floresiensis skeleton] includes an essentially complete foot, something not identified previously, and hinted that the foot is extremely large. Indonesia’s hobbits, like J. R. R. Tolkien’s fictional creatures, may have trekked about on big hairy feet.”

Now that is more like it.

In other science news, Elizabeth Pennisi reports that human and chimp lineages may have split only 6 million years ago. More controversial still is the claim that “early hominids interbred with their chimp cousins.”

Hey, I’ve got news for you. They still do.

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Walnut, June 2, 2006. Category: Blinded by science.