Happy Holidays

AND

A bullet through the heart

http://www.defensereview.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=875

If you ever wondered about how they collect organic ballistics data on modern firearms, this article is for you. In addition to the bullet wounds and trauma doctors deal with every day, people also test firearms on animals (carcasses?) to observe how their hearts and lungs explode when penetrated by different types of ammunition.

The photos from this one lean a little TOO hard for a normal trip down permalean lane, but I highly recommend you scroll through them on the original page.

yippi yippi yeah

durian fruit

1997 indonesia
ghostface platinum

"A wild durian fruit from the rain forests of Borneo is cut open, its vivid red flesh exposed. Wild durian has a spiny green exterior, emits an infamous rotting stench, and is mainly eaten by birds.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Borneo’s Strangler Fig Trees," April 1997, National Geographic magazine)"

a/the frag grenade

• What is a fragmentation ("frag") grenade?
• What is the blast radius of a frag grenade?
• What does it feel like to experience a frag grenade?
• When a frag grenade detonates, what are its effects on the human body and mind?

Please post your thoughts in the comments.

cringe binge vol. 1

To:"I honestly don't understand why anyone would ever have to cough again."

Re: "that weird spiky sparkly sprankled feeling, that tingly wingly you get real crazy cringy,
meat grinder sandwich, seeing your Paprika in the 100 yd dash, tussin and turnin' with  40 water head and shoulders knees and toes DRANKED OUT
feeling."

things are not so good here since the mayor died. josh has been his usual self, germane, flimsy, and overall too tart. the couches still exist as they once did at the tops of triangle trees but I feel that jamaica has been a fine place for postcard production. there is truly always another next friday to wish upon. 

only One way back

By Rebecca Cusey, Religion News Service

NEW YORK

"C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia book series is so revered by Christian readers that adapting the books into film becomes a delicate tightrope. Changes risk alienating fans, but what works in the books doesn't always translate well to the big screen"

....

"'The underlying messages are so important, and so vital to the story," says Douglas Gresham, Lewis' stepson and co-producer of the new film.

"Which are the return to faith, truth, justice, honesty, honor, glory, personal commitment, personal responsibility. Also the message (that) no matter how far away we stray, there's only one way back."'

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'"When you talk about seeing, I think it's more believing," he said. "You believe, and then you see. Aslan represents God. People say, 'If God's there, why can't I see him?' Well, because you're not believing."'

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from a wikipedia article on "Literary nonsense:"

"The sentence "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously" was coined by Noam Chomsky as an example of nonsense. The individual words make sense, and are arranged according to proper grammar, yet the result is still nonsense. The inspiration for this attempt at creating verbal nonsense came from the idea of contradiction and irrelevant or immaterial characteristics (an idea may have a dimension of color, yet it is first specified to be without hue), both of which would be sure to make a phrase meaningless. The phrase "the square root of Tuesday" operates on the latter principle. This principle is behind the inscrutability of the koan "What is the sound of one hand clapping?", as one hand would supposedly require another hand to complete the definition of clapping.

Still, the human will to find meaning is strong; green ideas might be ideas associated with a Green party in politics, and colorless green ideas criticises some of them as uninspiring. For some, the human impulse to find meaning in what is actually random or nonsensical is what makes people find luck in coincidence, or believe in omens and divination." [emphasis mine]