I stumbled across these rocks the other day. They are 'apparently' moving across Racetrack Playa in Death Valley on their own! I know, I know, rocks can't do that but they are moving nonetheless. They look they are all meeting up in a little rock rendezvous!
The playa turns to mud at certain times and the rocks could potentially move across the mud with some wind assistance quite readily. This is the favoured theory by geologists. Still to me that seems like some serious wind power to move rocks, some of which are estimated to be several hundred pounds each. I like the idea that they're having a little rock meet up better.
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This cake was in fact baked by Delia Smith. How very.
Those Cookies are at it again! This Swedish company have made some naughty cutters. Great present for that stuffy Aunt.
The translation is pretty special too:
We honor out gingerbread pigs and goats, but now they are finally here,
the gingerbread cutters that make the Christmas tree rise and the
candles glow.
OK then.
I'm doing some work with dub at the moment and during a meeting the other day the subject of Steven Seagal came up (obviously). Tom (from Dub) then asked if any of us had read about the mystical dog Incident on his Wikipedia page. Unsurprisingly everyone said no and so we clicked some buttons and found us some fun.
Mystical Dog Incident:
While being interviewed by PETA, Seagal was asked to provide an
example of a special interaction with an animal. To lend context and
meaning to his animal rights work, Seagal offered the story about a dog
which approached him during his early aikido years in Japan. Seagal
described feeling as if he had known this white dog forever. After
keeping the dog for a few days, the dog (by barking) warned Seagal that
his dojo was on fire. Seagal quickly summoned help to put out the fire.
He never saw the dog again.
I think everyone loves Stephen Seagal, he's so wonderful. He's into solar power, animal rights and Native American rights. He's even done some humanitarian work in the Ukraine. I really don't know how he finds the time.
If all that is too much to take in, just check out some of his tunes.
It's pretty interesting the people we choose to love, even in an ironic way, how easily these figures can fall out of favour, how we love that they take themselves so seriously. It is curious.
For some inexplicable reason I stared thinking about Cory Haim the other day, you know, License To Drive, The Lost Boys. So I looked him up to see what he's been up to. Oh boy, he's not doing so well. Check this YouTube clip.
The guy is obviously not doing so good. Then I found his website. It's amasing, honestly - nuts. He's a painter too it seems and he'll do you a painting to order.
You have to let him know your favourite colours and some hobbies or keywords to set the mood, no I'm not kidding! Oh and of course you select one of the two sizes that he paints to!
This would obviously make a pretty cool gift for someone if it wasn't $1000!
Damn Corey, you ain't cheap bro but oh so talented. Keep it up. I'm hoping they'll be a sculpture section opening up on the site soon.
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