Like passing a needle through the eye of a camel

1. Ursi linked me to 249 WAYS TO ENJOY TOAST, and really who can argue with the beauty of toast?
   
   
2. Flood Maps is a Google mashup that shows you what your coastline would look like if the water got higher. Here's my neighborhood after a 7m increase: BLUB BLUB. Bye bye Huntington, all of old Newport, etc.
   
   
3. In other climate news, Maciej Ceglowski reports on huge fucking glaciers totally fucking collapsing with a fucking gigantic crashing noise. Fuck!
   
   
4. I am playing with Platial and so far I really like it. It's a mapping site where you can annotate locations with your tags and photos and share them.

bang bang, i've got mine

One of my favorite states of being is the sweaty, slightly congested, and fully satisfied glow after eating a good curry. That's the state I inhabit now after making a pot of chicken curry and eating a couple of servings of it over basmati rice. The rice cooker makes perfect basmati if I press the "quick cooking" button.

Today I was driving through the Edge of Civilization portion of South County (Foothill Ranch, Portola) which is a set of brand new shiny suburbs and malls. At one point I looked at the car next to me at a stoplight. It was a brand new Mercedes sedan, with one male occupant in his forties. He had perfect hair. He was smoking a cigar, which being a nerd I recognized as a Hoyo de Monterrey Prensado Oscuro. And his car stereo was blaring... ...an evangelical sermon. Acres of Diamonds, people, Acres of Diamonds.

I saw a blue Mustang with the plate: MEMERY too.

Dips O'Mania

Dips O'Mania, originally uploaded by conradh.

Kids, you too can get the D.T.'s!

Someday they'll all be President

It pisses me off when people post warnings about DUI enforcement online. They say stuff like "take a cab tonight if you're going towards $TOWN" or "they're running a checkpoint at Newport & Flower, pass it on".

How about just not driving drunk? Ever? It's not hard to avoid. You'll be helping your friends the best possible way by not killing and maiming them.

If you can afford to go out and drink but you somehow can't afford to cab it home then you're just being a fucking sociopath. Stay home and drink, okay? Helping the other sociopaths mow us all down isn't nice.