innovative clock face*

i sometimes wonder**.

what is wrong with the old clock face, with those little arms pointing at digits, a simple design we grew up with?

what is it one gains, by abolishing the old and simple things, and craving the ‘innovative’?

the curious thing is, that the ‘innovative’ does not mean ‘easier to understand’ or ‘simpler to use’. it only means that all the ‘progressive people’ should get one. to show the other ‘progressive people’ that they are ‘progressive’. just like anyone else.

a strange race, faster and faster, into emptiness.

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* an actual quote from here

**can be taken allegorically, too. sadly so.

in case anyone doubted the intelligence of beaver

the birds in my head

at some point wolfie said sth like – everyone has one’s own birds in their head. and i suddenly thought – gee, what a brilliant formulation. those idees fixe, bees in the bonnet, little tantalising grains of sand in the brainmachine… maybe they are just birds, mucking around and having fun inside our brainspace.

and what happens when we let them out. what a burst of creativity. what a moment of chaotic everywhereness.

maybe this explains the angry birds being so popular?

check out the poll:

the sheer size of it (soo.. the word of today iiiiiiissss…)

CAVE RABBIT*

which, apparently lived in caves and was of comparable size to the cave lion and bear. probably either bigger or better armed, as it had to compete for habitat with the carnivores mentioned above.

nobody is quite sure of what they ate, and their place in the great food chain of the ice age remains undisclosed. it looks like they were hunted to extinction by the cavemen (actually, by the cavewomen) who attacked the beast from behind. they later shared the meat with the cavemen, but kept the pretty tails and skins, and so on as fashionable accessories. given that the cavemen were not particularly bright, they did not know how passionate fashion can get.

so here i have a little diagram of cave rabbit, with important parts labelled accordingly.

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(from my class; a student: well, i think rabbits are those that live in the cave)

why komodo dragon exists

the past three weeks or so have not been the best part of my life by far, and that is, in itself, an understatement.

but then again, aided by fried meat (with onions), some decent drink and a friend who knows little of the lizard world, i came to a solution.

yes, the komodo dragon. (for some reasons, one of the most respectable lizard species in the known universe)

photo by Tim Knight

the komodo dragon is an overkill of evolution. it is huge (3m or 10 ft+). ir can run real fast (about 20 km/h or 12.5 mph), it can climb trees and attack from above, it can dig holes, AND its saliva is poison to most living organisms on earth. the komodo dragon likes human meat (killing the carrier of the meat prior to consumption, lol). in addition, it is hard not to describe it as a beautiful specimen of the lizard race.

so, you might ask here, what’s the point?

but you see, there is some.

exactly my feeling (minus the bourbon, unfortunately)

“If you can heat some bourbon, I can drink it,” said the kzin. “If you cannot heat it, I can still drink it.”

Larry Niven. Ringworld

 

on the flying spaghetti monster* side

this is a counterweight to the monstrous beginning of this day.

if god were a control freak, he’d go insane from the insanity of the things under-evolved humanity is capable of. i will treasure my free will at all times, and thank god i have it.

*those who are interested in the FSM idea, click the banner below: