Monthly Archives: February 2008

links for 2008-02-28

That cat does not exist

I was talking with someone on our ski trip about taking the Garfield comic strip and removing the word bubbles from Garfield as a way to show the true story in the Arbuckle house. Today I found garfield minus garfield, which erases Jon Arbuckle’s hallucinatory cat to show “the tortured mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against loneliness and methamphetamine addiction in a quiet American suburb.”

The comic is so much better and makes so much more sense when you know that the cat doesn’t exist.

links for 2008-02-27

links for 2008-02-26

I built a bed.



The Bedframe I Built, originally uploaded by snarkhunt.

I got a bed from my buddy Sol. It was huge and too big for my bedframe. So I built one with my neighbor Matt Scott.
The central bit is built out of 2X4 douglass pine in a ladder frame sort of way.
The sides are sanded oak veneer plywood.
The legs are 4X4s, I forget what.
Behold my craftyness!
Click through the picture for a bigger view and notes on how it was made.

links for 2008-02-14

Surveil me better

I’ve joined the travel site dopplr. It’s pretty simple. Put in trips, connect through them. Useful for the frequent flying types that I’m supposed to become soon. You can see the little badge over there on the left telling you that I’ll be in Mount Snow this weekend.

Except that it tells you West Rutland, because neither Mount Snow or West Dover are understood as places by Dopplr. I picked a town near Killington, but that seems a bit lame to me.