 | An extreme close-up of a pancake. |
 | One of my failed attempts at making bread. |
 | A screenshot of my login prompt. |
 | This gnarly-looking root came from a blackberry vine. |
 | All the computer-related cables I've accumulated over the years. |
 | Remember to file the teeth off your pliers when making chainmail or you'll mar up the links. |
 | European Paper Wasps building a nest. |
 | A naked Hawking HWR54G. |
 | My Gateway M285-E laptop's screen frame is loose. |
 | Be careful when talking about iPod capacity. As you can see, this empty "4GB" iPod really has only 3.6GB of space available. |
 | ReiserFS will corrupt your files. --rebuild-tree will give you about 95% of your data back, with holes scattered uniformly throughout the entire filesystem. |
 | The OpenBSD installer crashed dramatically during boot on this old laptop. |
 | Once while playing Total Annihilation I was mysteriously granted an invincible peewee. That's the health-bar going way, way off the screen there. |
 | Fry's Electronics three-battery holders have a little plastic nub that gets in the way of one of the batteries actually making contact with the terminal. |
 | The back side of a microwave keypad. |
 | Chainmail, in coil (right), loose links (left), and assembled forms. |
 | These black beans came out purple for some reason. I am told that black bean pigment is pH reactive. |
 | A juicer. |
 | A leather suitcase. |
 | Cooking Thanksgiving dinner. |
 | A hole in my bicycle tire. |
 | Ice crystals growing on a tree. |
 | My jeans always rip in the same place -- at the upper inside corners of the back pockets. |
 | My old computer. Yes, that's two processors and five hard disks. 2002-2008 RIP. |
 | There's a metal penguin in a mall in Seattle. |
 | An earwig. |
 | Some kind of spider. |
 | Between the suitcase and the pancake (above), this page got a lot of image searches for "leather texture" (without the quotes, obviously). I felt bad for those people, so I scanned a piece of leather. Here you go. |
 | National Astronomy Day at Boulevard Park. |
 | Why mustn't I linger in Fred Meyer's Inventory Control System? Is it going to give me cancer? |
 | Warning: Sprint goggles will fall apart after one season! The nose-piece is made of a brittle plastic that just disintegrates. |
 | I am 0 for 2 with these threaded nylon wall anchors. This one just broke. |
 | You have been sentenced to Windows for life. |
 | This bag of one PATA cable and some screws is "REV B". I wonder what one could possibly screw up about putting a cable and some screws in a bag that would necessitate a "REV B". |
 | You are here and here. Wow, that's actually pretty impressive. |
 | Before you can cross, you must find a crosswlk. |
 | "/4 Head Astons - Dont Touch", an apparent glitch in the BBC News ticker. |
 | BBC News defers to Wikipedia. |
 | McDonald's Restaurants claim that more Big Mac® sandwiches have been served than any other kind of sandwich. More than peanut butter and jelly, for example. Bull. |
 | Conformability error: This wind generator can power 550 homes per year. Each year we have to find it an additional 550 homes to power. |
 | This is apparently what Americans look like to the presumably Chinese artist artist that drew these headphone-wearing instructions. Found on the back of some made-in-China headphones at Big Lots. |
 | Why put scare quotes on your own product packaging? |
 | Cheese food, as distinct from, say, cheese. |
 | Food Club Fig Bars are the best non-Kraft Fig Newtons style fig cookies that I've found so far. |
