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Rina Donnersmarck Gallery
Beware the Giant Mushroom
This is a sculpture by Patricia Piccinini called The Embrace
Bug Costumes



Here's a list of a few things I've learned since I started this page:

  • Snick and Snee is a combat with knives.

  • The giant prehistoric turtles are known as Archelons.

  • Leonardo da Vinci designed a robot.

  • Lyle Lovett is afraid of cows.

  • Another word for the symbol # is octothorpe.

  • The Cuca is a Brazilian alligator witch.

  • Contagious Yawn is alive!

  • Grimace used to have six (4?) arms and was known as "The Evil Grimace".

  • A scarecrow used to be called a dudesman.

  • The reason cheese was invented many thousands of years ago was to store milk in a condensed and efficient manner.

  • There's a brand new undiscovered diminutive hominid!

  • Being 'berserk' originally just meant you were going shirtless.

  • John Lennon's first girlfriend was named Thelma Pickles.

  • Deathwatches are HOT.

  • The Roman Catholic Church calls the act of a witch flying, “transvection.”

  • Moriarty was a professor of mathematics and wrote the definitive book on asteroids.

  • Last thing Lincoln heard: "you sockdologizing old man-trap..."

  • Wombats are different than numbats.

  • Hell was inspired by a real place.

  • Platypi are the only venomous mammals in the world.

  • And finally, who knew?!...
             - The Omnipotent Oom!
             - Nellie Bly!
             - Spring-heeled Jack!



    I forgot to mention something in my yeti update. See this picture?



    Click to enlarge. Note what the yeti is holding... A bunny rabbit? Awesome.





    ROBOTS GONNA GIT YOU!



    I would like to talk about robots in the present tense. They perform numerous confrontations.



    Scientists have to study them, and they use a process called anatomisizing. Then they put them in front of children and program them to speak.



    They say things in Japanese. They are so very fluent.

            



    There are numerous incarnations, and I am only required to speak about one.



    Bobot the Robot.



    What do you suppose a bride and groom are doing with a robot? Let the couple have a modicum of privacy.



    Robots occupy spaces and obey laws of perspective.



    This is incredible, and I'm going to leave you with the final image : A ROBOTIC PLATYPUS



                                        

    Can anyone tell me whose head this is?



    Mr Angry & Mrs Calm, or is that Mr Calm & Mrs Angry?

    List of Unseen Characters

    Article about Mountweazels

    Expressionless Girl

    Weird and wonderful vocabulary from around the world

    Natasha Allegri makes with the comics




    "Yeti" by the incomparable Carson Ellis

    Yeti page is updated... Today's topic is "action figure"



    3 things to view:
  • 'ptikobj' cartoon
  • High school student makes video for Weird Al hardware song
  • Parody of Power Rangers short film







    A friend of mine sent me this back in March:

    Here's a semi-random sample of comics that will be available this year at the SPACE comics convention in Columbus OH:

    Man of Prey
    Cemetarious
    A Raze of Hands
    Legends of If
    Watusi -The Talking Dog
    Spudd 64
    Axel & Alex
    Coveted: The Anthology
    The Life and Death of Tanique Octagon
    Dullsville
    Visions of Morty
    Those Funky Idiots
    Fantasy Theater
    Plungerboy
    Lackluster World
    Runes of Ragnan
    Wotta Life
    Dawg
    Zephyr and Reginald: Minions for Hire
    Dungar
    The Electric Weenie
    Miracle Force
    Izzy Challenge
    Oh, Comics!





    My great-grandfather would have been 146 years young on this day (10/24/05). Happy Birthday!



             

    This is an inside joke.



    LINKS OF TODAY!


  • UFO Toys

    Also:
  • Jinyoung Shin's illustrations and rland's paintings (Both Via)
  • Creators of Urinetown Unveil New Musical — Set in the Primordial Goo
  • Lifelike Robotic Chimp Head for your Desk
  • Do They Know It's Halloween video
  • Say Goodbye to the Lightbulb





    A couple of mad scientists at a zombie protest

    And an even better picture here.







  • A Blog Devoted to All Things Cyborg: Cyborgblog
  • From Emily: Cute Things
  • The Big News in Science: Ulcers Caused By Bacteria, Not Stress





    Kelly and I just ordered this lovely poster by Andrice Arp.

    We will put it appropriately up in our dining room, which is already filled with books, monsters, and a place to eat. Woo!







    A friend of a friend likes the description of this fossil:

    Quote:
    "It has massive fang-like front teeth, behind which are three small teeth. Behind those are bigger teeth and then rows of smaller teeth."

    I agree. That's awesome.





    My brother Colin in a commercial for the U.N.!

    He's the third head down (requires realplayer).





    This baby tapir was recently born in Switzerland.



                  

    Today's 'Robot Update' is short but sweet.

        

    The serious men and their robots.



    L.N.X.4.U.

    I think this is sick. SICK. Don't even click here unless you want to be completely disgusted out of your mind.

    The Art & Illustration of Chad Verrill, a talented and versatile fellow

    An Interview with Charles Burns; his complete Black Hole is now out.



             



    Illustrator Claire Murphy
    They bring the party to you
    A few thousand science fiction book covers
    Non-Geographic Mapping



    On my 'Yeah Right, Like You'll Ever Get It' Wish List:



    Little Nemo in Slumberland - So Many Splendid Sundays

    About the restoration



    Dream Conversation

    Last night my dream went like this. I'm at a party and I don't know anybody but the host. She's a friend of a friend or maybe my brother and completely fictitious. She approaches me and we have the following conversation:

    "Hey, I should introduce you to everybody. I wonder if I have any name tags."

    "Hehe, okay."

    "Hm, what nickname should you have? King Henry?"

    "Um, that's cool, but not Henry the Eighth. Everyone will start singing me that song. I hate that."

    "Hehe, all right."

    "How about "The EIGHTH"? I kinda like that."

    "Yeah, that's pretty cool. Did you know the zebra is the eighth animal?"

    "Really?"

    "No, I just made that up."

    "Oh, hehe. Well, it doesn't really make sense now that I think about it. But wouldn't that be funny if we did categorize animals not by type but simply based on some kind of order? And all the textbooks would say authoritatively under zebra : 'It is the eighth animal.'"

    "Hehe, yeah."

    "Actually, the Creationists could really get behind that! They'd be giddy if they heard the sacred lost pages of the Bible were found that list the animals in order of creation. Number 8 could be zebras. Totally! Number 1 could be fleas!"

    "Number 3,440 could be the garden mole."

    "It so totally could be."

    *BEEPBEEPBEEPBEEPBEEPBEEPBEEPBEEPBEEPBEEP*

    Then I had to start my freaking day. Rrr.







    Unshelved - Comic about the library
    Tox Town - Click to see what toxic chemicals you got
    "Airline has no lovin' feline for robot cat" - Achk! Terrible pun!



    I am thinking of changing my first name to Lord Champion.

    So my full name would be:

    Lord Champion "First-Place" Stokes

    Pretty snazzy, eh? Incidentally, that "First-Place" would be my nick-name. You can call me either one - "Lord Champion" or "First-Place", take your pick. I'll be responding to both!!



         

    ROBOTS AGAIN!



    Today I'd like to talk a little more about my thoughts on robots. I have attracted many robot pictures to myself utilizing the privileges of a quite robust internet connection and superior content gathering skills, and now you, my readers, will reap the benefits.




    Click on this fella to see the Big Zoom. It's quite a ginormotron. I really don't know if this picture is real. Now-todays, they have so many fine and liveried things with which to deceive and delude. Did you know that you can take a photo of a man and then later erase his head? I've seen it myself. The man was most unmistakenly decapitated. And not by natural means, as God intended. No guillotine graced that man's neck. No, 'twas some devilry of modernism what made a man's cabesa vanish. Stetson and all.


             

    Robots interact with human beings in a friendly fashion. We know all this because of the imagery on T.V. But why? There should be more animosity between the two groups. When have we ever gotten along? I mean, really. Like never. Let's show some spite! We have angry fists. We should shake them at each other, as God intended.



    Are these for real? What if I were to tell you that the robots are real but the child is not? Would you believe I would be lying? Excellent. You are learning not to trust. Mission accomplished.




    This gentleman has turned himself into a robot with the use of exosthetics (i just made that word up).




    This is the robot whose name I forgot. I give it a B-. I think I like my robots with symmetrical eyes. It looks a little too "Igor-ish" to me. What do you think?

             




    Now we're talking! This is the kind of robot I want: a MACHINE OF WAR/DEATH that will drill VIOLENTLY into things and GROAN with thunderous menace.


    (there's some unintended innuendo in that last sentence, isn't there?)


    FIN!







    Forget it's a commercial... Wow. (mov)
    Art of Roxanna Mundi
    Art of Jessica Joslin
    Concealed Hearing Devices of the 19th and 20th Centuries
    Kermit the Frog is 50 Years Old
    i love egg: Animations (ninja eggs is #7)







  • Presidential Names
  • Robotic Dolphin Vehicle
  • Illustrated Bulfinch's Mythology
  • Knitted Robots







    ... new dinosaur
    ... princess bride musical
    ... videogame aesthetics
    ... scroll down for an interview with the moon




    The World's Largest Buffalo



  • quick web comic hits a little too close to home
  • morphbank will aid you in your cause
  • more bones = more proof they are not just congenitally diseased pygmies







    Here are the last 23 headers in case you missed them:

    Welcome to the website that's...

    "inexplicably no longer classified as a 'blog-like thing' in Dorotha's blog's links list!"
    "able to use its clairvoyant powers to aid the police in solving murders!"
    "offered nano-bot amnesty since 2129!"
    "rockin' the mic like it does all night!"
    "the one that gave Little Mikey from the LIFE cereal commercial the pop rocks that killed him!"
    "sparing you the dramatics!"
    "standing by for Mind Control!"
    "a sockdologizing old man-trap!"
    "worse at what it does best and for this gift it feels blessed!"
    "tearing the shriek out of your throat!"
    "a victory over boredom!"
    "your shot of estrogen for the day!"
    "the electronic equivalent of an oasis in the desert!"
    "Gutenberg's other Bible!"
    "been voted unanimously unatonably uninnovative!"
    "supercalifragilicious!"
    "the birthplace of despair!"
    "what you get when you cross a gorilla and an elephant!"
    "flibberty flum jibbertibbities!"
    "liking that underlying threat of laser danger!"
    "also known as 'Inside Joke City' - Ain't that right... 'Gerbil-Box'? You know the score!" ('56.8'; Am I home, t.g.? FLAGONS. hehehe)
    "up to no good!"
    "all about the Benjamins!"




    Jim Woodring Action Figures
    Doctor Doom's Top Ten Euphemisms for Sex
    New Breed of Fish-bot Unveiled
    War Photographer viking rock cartoon (qt)









    No one must stop Shawn Cheng. This is a warning to all would-be assassins. Let the man be.


    Image yanked from PARTYKA Daily Drawings.







    My friend Curtis from class has a blog and he posted these haikus he made up. I like em.


    Within your stomach
    A small robot is hiding
    No one will find him


    Swimming through the gut
    Quick punches are his forte
    Next target: kidneys



    He also posted this magical photograph.


    Someone named TiggleTaggleTiger is responsible.



    Nada Mucho:
  • Made-up words in the Simpsons
  • One Neck Hates You - comix & drawings by ??
  • Art of Cryptozoology
  • Work of Andrew Zbihlyj
  • Comics Worth Reading
  • Physics of Extra-terrestrial Civilizations
  • Work of Van Beater
  • Sculptures of Kathie Olivas



    This image sums things up pretty well.





    Can I get a witness?

    Heck yeah.
    You said it.
    Uh-huh.





    Many of you probably know: I am a kremerologist.

    Yes, a scholar of the Kremers, specifically the Kremer siblings. This means that I am expected to know the numerous anecdotal accounts and facts surrounding their lives, specifically their childhoods. I should also be fully aware of their favorite colors and food preferences. The colloquial term for my kind is 'kremerhead'.

    Also: kremerite, kremerist, kremerarian, kremellectual, kremerateur, kremeroso, kremereer, kremoisseur, kremagogue, kreme de la kreme

    There's some story about a hot dog or something that I always forget. Anyway, the truth is I'm kind of a sucky kremerologist. You should probably ask one of them for any Kremerian info, not me. One of the rules-of-thumb in kremerology is to go to the primary source. You know, 'cause they're like right there.

    It is indeed a fascinating discipline. I'm planning on writing and defending my thesis in kremerology some time in March (uh, yeah). These are the topics I'm currently contemplating (all with befittingly witty names):

    Ketchup on Mac & Cheese: Why?
    Computers in Our Kneecaps: Pervasive Technology in Childhood Fantasies
    Farmers & Faker He-Men
    "Goo-ja & Goo-jo" : Am I Even Spelling That Right?
    Living in a House of Dead Things
    Ezra Equals Excellence
    Museums Are Not For the Hasty, and Other Kremerian Principles Regarding Relationships to Place
    Laugh, I Thought I Died: Humor and Death in the Kremer Household
    Churchill High School in San Antonio: What gives?!
    That Awesome Duck Dance Thing Their Mom Did Once
    Newts & Sugar Gliders
    My Ancestor was a Famous Pioneer Scientist, and Other Similarities










    I was sad to hear that Jerry Juhl has passed away this week.

    He was the head writer for the Muppet Show, wrote the Muppet Movie and the Great Muppet Caper, plus Fraggle Rock, Emmet Otter's, and others.

    ,

    A really great guy, he's going to be missed. My brother Brian wrote about him.



    The time is here.



    R O B O T   D O G S



    Things to Click to...

    The Shining as a romantic comedy : QT movie or here, if not working.
    This made me laugh and laugh and laugh. Brilliant.

    See also:
    The work of Nik Daum
    Bio-Robots Build Themselves







    Elias Ashmole, (1617-1692)

  • He was an alchemist and an antiquary, a herald and a freemason.
  • His father Simon was a soldier and a saddler.
  • He inspired Isaac Newton.
  • People say he learned the secret of the Philosopher's Stone.
  • He wrote alchemical poems.

    How many of you can claim the same?







    This puts a huge grin on my face:
    Browse the Images from My Sites

    21 Variations on "They're Coming To Take Me Away, Ha-haa!"

    Art of Keith Shore



    Stuff I learned recently!

  • l’esprit d’escalier:
    ...the "Spirit of the Staircase" - when you think of something awesome to say after the fact.
    For example, the lady at the haircutters said: "It sure is busy today, there are a lot of people coming in."
    To which I said: "Oh... yeah... that's true."
    And what I should have said: "Must be something in the hair."

  • Plants like beer. I can't prove it's true, but that's what I heard.

  • Nietsche wrote 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra'.

  • Originally, Hell was inspired by a real place. There was a valley in Jerusalem that was used as a landfill where there was so much rotting garbage that when it was burned, the fires continued for weeks or months. So people used to say, "Don't be bad; otherwise, you're gonna be in a place just like that place over there."

  • The meaning of the word tendentious. I've already forgotten though.











    Triple Threat:
  • Star Wars curse words
  • Rock, Paper, Scissors, Gun, Fire, Lightning, Devil, Snake, Dragon, Human, Water, Tree, Air, Wolf, Sponge
  • Lovecraft Fiddler on the Roof







  • Monster Gallery. With names like Neurock and Many-Eyed Tanglethrip
  • It Plays Doom. A blog about things that play Doom.
  • I like this music video. It was programmed on an Apple ][.





    So it's the anniversary of the death of Jules Verne. And your town wants to celebrate. What is to be done?

    Here's an idea:

    Employ the Use of Giant Marionette Puppets That Defy Imagination To Perform Outside All Around the Town for the Whole Dang Weekend!

    (Click the bottom right arrows to see each gallery.)

    Here's the explanation of what you'll see (taken from here):

    Residents of Nantes, France woke to a space capsule crashed into a smoking pile of rubble in the central square of the city. Later that day, a giant animatronic elephant and entourage of the Sultan paraded into town to visit the mayor.

    Then, on saturday, the capsule opened to reveal a giant animatronic girl who walked through the streets, mischievously sewed a row of parked cars to the street with a shipping Hauser rope, rode a scooter, and even asked that the crowd give her some privacy while she used the toilet.

    This play went on all day -- the Giant and elephant slept curled together in a park -- for an entire weekend. People were completely involved in this fantasy, and you can only imagine the effect it has on the imaginations and passions of children.








                                 



    This explains so much: Eating Cheese Can Alter Your Dreams
    Common Errors in English
    Scientific sleuth cracks code to $54,000 treasure







    Just a few dumb things:
  • A Lord Of The Rings icon for every line of American Pie
  • The Top 10 Most Ridiculous Black Metal Pics Of All Time
  • Forty One Anomalies of Water





    I have decided to categorize all the Bot Folk for you.


             

    These are the Sleeky Bots. They have big heads, but also, bug heads. And no legs. There are 4 varieties. Here are 3. In Picture One, you can see that the Sleeky Bot has flowers. A lot of people employ Sleeky Bot in Picture One to give flowers. It is unclear to me why. Would you accept flowers from Sleeky Bot in Picture One? I wish I knew how to set up polls for then I would find out the general consensus.

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~

             

    These bots go by many names. The most popular are Squat-bots and Beepee Bots (B.P. or Battery Powered). They are kind to kids and will do things like store your coinage, blend raw materials into edible slushes, emit pleasing tones, and move to music. They are generally amiable unless cornered. Then they will vainly attempt self-defense. The most comedic potential can be mined by provoking a Squat-Bot into desperate resistance. You'll laugh yourself silly.

    Tips: Click on the first Squat-bot and notice that it looks like a monkey.

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~

             

    Beau Bots look like men but act like boys. They were named after their inventor's boyfriend.

    Tips: These are the types that appear in the movies.

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~

        

    With one exception, the War Bots were bred for war, hence the name. Picture Two shows one with a camera for a head. Don't expect to fight this kind of War Bot without getting filmed and highlighted on reality television shows. If you're not feeling particulary photogenic or exploitable, think about surrendering. War Bots can turn into 20th century boom-boxes.

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~



    Quiz Time

    Can you identify the Bots in these pictures?

             

    Answers: 1) Beau Bot & Squat-bot, 2) Sleeky Bots, 3) War Bot (in mid-transmogrification)

    Tips: Look for distinguishing physical characteristics.

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Next time on Robot Update:



    ..............Robot Dogs!



    BEWARE THE HORTICULTURALISTS
    Peter's Evil Overlord List
    The story of vehicles with insufficient wheels
    It is a fungus

    GarageBand for Mac is a great program. The first time I used it it took me 3 minutes to whip up this little ditty:
    My Song.mp3





    Based on the contextual clues within this photograph, can you identify the identity of the man pictured?
    Clue: You sure won't guess it by his face.
    Clue: You'd better have a "Brain" for 80's cartoons.



    Happy International Talk Like a Pirate Day

    Wordcount, the 86,800 most frequently used English words, ranked in order of commonness

    The 200-foot-long pink rabbit reclines on the side of the 5,000 foot high Colletto Fava mountain in northern Italy

    Hey, sue me, I like to see a riff on He-Man now and again

    The Flying Mobulas of the Sea of Cortez

    Clips of Eastern European Stop-motion animation

    Enthusiast discovered Roman ruins near his home town using Google Earth





    Its name was modeled on several highly successful medicines which purported to contain electricity in some form.



    A play I wrote in high school:
    You Are A Miserable Wretch!





    LorDy! LorDy! DO We Got LotTa RoButs For You ToDay


             

    Let us begin with no qualms.


                  

  • Robot Rhapsodies:
    Robot Love Poetry
    ROBO-poems

             

             

  • Robot Joke:
    A robot walks into a bar and lays down a bill. The bartender says, “We don’t serve robots.” The robot replies, “Some day you will.”

  • Robot Pun:
    "When He Told Me The Robot Joke, I Laughed My Asimov"


                  

  • Robo-choreography:
    Robot dancing made easy
    On a hoodie: "Somebody Please Teach Me How To Do The Robot"


  • Robot History:


    London schoolboys interested in, and perhaps a little quizzical about, a wonderful model spaceman robot, 'Mr Robotham', which really walks.


    Cartoon of a ‘gas monster’, 1880-1900



          

    LINKS

    Marzooq cartoon
    Shoelacing methods
    Weird science in old Superman & other comics, especially this one


    Tony Millionaire's Billy Hazelnuts...

    ...transmutes nursery rhymes and the golem myth into a storybook about Becky, girl scientist, her friend Billy Hazelnuts (who was created from cooking ingredients by tailless mice), and their journey to find the missing moon while battling an evil steam-driven alligator with a seeing-eye skunk.





    The skeleton people are the ancestors of us all.



    Check out this list of crazy words that all basically mean the same thing:

    potpourri
    smorgasbord
    farrago
    gallimaufry
    hodgepodge
    mélange
    olio
    pasticcio
    salmagundi
    goulash

    Nuts, huh?





    Who would you say this was a photograph of?

    I would never have guessed a young Abraham Lincoln.

    It was discovered in 1987 and according to this site, a forensic study was performed that concluded that the subject was in fact the future 16th president. He did have a lot of personal problems in his 30s and lost a lot of weight. But man, that's a big change in my opinion! Before this, the youngest he's been in a photograph was 39, and he looked like this:



    What do you think? Same guy?



    Are you guys seeing anything out there worth linking to? I'm not. Well, there's this, I guess:

    Guide to Cool Animals





    Lincoln's eldest son

  • He was present at three presidential assassinations and considered himself very bad luck to have around.
  • By sheer coincidence, his life was once saved by his father's assassin's brother, Edwin Booth.
  • He didn't get along with his mom because he thought she was insane.


    By the way, these are the last words that his dad ever heard:

    "Well, I guess I know enough to turn you inside out, old gal — you sockdologizing old man-trap..."

    From the musical "Our American Cousin", it was quite a punchline at the time. Booth knew the comedy well and chose this particular line for the laughs it got. While everyone guffawed, he jumped into the president's box, shot Abe point-blank, and quoted his little pre-prepared Latin folderol. Then he attempted a dramatic leap to the stage below to make his get-away. It didn't quite work. His boot caught on a flag on the way down and he promptly fell onto his face with a broken leg.    Loser.


    This post inspired by Sarah Vowell's Assassination Vacation







    Candy Killer
    Chinese Propaganda
    Pirate Pictures



    Today I'm bringing you a Double-Jot of what we at Random Things are the Undisputed Masters of...

    The Robots & The Yetis.




    And now for some...
    Robot History

                      


    From the wikipedia entry:

    In classical mythology, the deformed god of metalwork (Vulcan or Hephaestus) created mechanical servants, ranging from intelligent, golden handmaidens to more utilitarian three-legged tables that could move about under their own power.

    The earliest ideas that could be related to the robotics of today was in 350 B.C. by the Greek mathematician Archytas of Tarentum. He created a mechanical bird he called “The Pigeon.” The bird was propelled by steam.


    Did you know that Leonardo da Vinci was the first to invent a robot?! This is the sort of thing I would have expected someone to tell me about.



    From same time-line as above images:

    In approximately 1495, before he began work on the Last Supper, Leonardo designed and possibly built the first humanoid robot in Western civilization. The robot, an outgrowth of his earliest anatomy and kinesiology studies recorded in the Codex Huygens, was designed according to the Vitruvian canon. This armored robot knight was designed to sit up, wave its arms, and move its head via a flexible neck while opening and closing its anatomically correct jaw. It may have made sounds to the accompaniment of automated drums. On the outside, the robot is dressed in a typical German-Italian suit of armor of the late fifteenth century. This robot would influence his later anatomical studies in which he modeled the human limbs with cords to simulate the tendons and muscles.

    More about the Da Vinci-bot
    Second question in interview about 3D reconstruction

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    Article: Robots are "bookish" and a disappointment



    LINKS:

    Sean's comic See How Pretty, See How Smart gettin' re-vued by the same dude

    One Season More is a CG scene from the Star Wars Musical

    The web site featuring the artwork of Serge Seidlitz is an optical barrage



    What are some other web sites putting after their own "welcome to the web site that's..."?

    ...likely to turn your stomach
    ...all about Results-Driven Direct Marketing for Entrepreneurial Businesses
    ...dedicated to my brother Simon, and his wedding
    ...all about the females
    ...all about pool in Shropshire
    ...more than Health & Nutrition!
    ...been made up To purely show you my 1974 Austin 1300 GT.





    Photos of sculptures from Singapore theme park's "Buddhist Hell" exhibit



    Now at the Met:
    The Perfect Medium: Photography and the Occult

    Also:
    Seabread
    The Scree
    Amazing fly-by movie





    Charles H. Fort

  • From his wikipedia entry:

            The term Forteana is sometimes used to describe various anomalous phenomena.

  • He probably coined the term 'teleportation'.

  • From his entry in the Skeptic's Dictionary:

            He postulated that there is a Super-Sargasso Sea above the Earth (which he called Genesistrine) where living things originate and periodically are dumped on Earth by intelligent beings who communicate with secret societies down below, perhaps using teleportation.

  • He once said:

            "I believe nothing of my own that I have ever written."


    I need to read more about him.



    Pirates!
    Patent Room
    English as She is Spoke: the world's most ludicrously inept foreign phrasebook
    How to make stop-motion animation puppets
    Create your own video game
    Robotic space penguin to hop across the Moon





    My brother as George W.





    Robots Halt the Flow of TIME!

    Don't believe me? Ask these freaks:

             

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    This is ISAMU.



    He is a Japanese robot. Most robots are Japanese in origin. What do you think about that? Why are the Japanese making all the robots? This is something our children should learn about in the schools. I am taking our Americans to task. If you are in the audience, raise your hand and we will mark your hands with a scent that is only smellable by dogs trained to smell it. The dogs will bark at you and alert men with nets that will capture you and resell you to the other countries. Oh yeah, back to ISAMU...

        

        

    I can't leave you today without pointing out this digitally created image:



    Robots Is Super



    Link Potpourri
  • Maybe they weren't shooting the rescuers.
  • Who's gonna make me? A skeleton boy?
  • Simulate the construction of virtual creatures.



    I've archived the first thirteen of these. You can find them here:







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