By Vladimir Brezina
Most architectural sculptures work hard at their jobs.
Caryatids carry things on their heads….
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… atlants bow down under the weight of entire facades
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… even gargoyles make themselves useful when it rains
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But these guys are just hanging out, shooting the breeze…
What was the sculptor thinking? Any ideas?
By Vladimir Brezina
This week’s Photo Challenge is Wrong.
Stand up paddle boarding is becoming very popular. There’s the right way to do it…
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More photos are here.
Posted in Humor, Photography
Tagged Photography, postaday, postaweek, postaweek2012, Stand Up Paddle Board, SUP, Weekly Photo Challenge, Wrong
By Vladimir Brezina
Update, May 25, 2012: A week later, it turns out that the theme of the official Photo Challenge is also Summer. Ailsa and Sara should really coordinate a bit better! On the other hand, I have my entry all ready:
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Ailsa of Where’s my backpack?, who stepped into the breach and organized last week’s wildly successful Alternative Photo Challenge on the theme of “Reflections”—and then found the time to look at the hundreds of photos and answer the hundreds of comments that flooded in—wants to do it again!
This time she’s proposed a theme that combines her love of travel and that of the summer now upon us, at least those of us in the northern hemisphere…
As soon as I saw her double theme, I knew I had just the photos for her! I offer you… the English summer holiday at the seaside!
Lonely as a cloud
The traditional pony ride
Wetsuits of August
Please, let’s have no indignant defenses of the English summer. I know what I am talking about!
(Or, if you must, do first review the categories that this post is listed under…)
More photos are here.
Posted in Humor, Photography, Travel
Tagged England, Photography, postaday, postaweek, postaweek2012, Seaside, Summer, Weekly Photo Challenge
By Johna Till Johnson
"You're gonna put your BUTT into my MOUTH?!?!"
Courtesy of Dan Kalman (caption mine).
By Vladimir Brezina
As surely as a flame attracts moths, a comment box attracts spam—with pretty much the same results. WordPress has an excellent spam filter that kills most spam outright. But occasionally it presents a particularly delectable piece of spam, under quarantine, for our enjoyment.
These spam comments, which the filter has quarantined but not killed outright presumably because it’s not quite sure whether they are spam or not, have a distinctive tone. They are, indeed, like real comments—but from some kind of mad dream.
Posted in Humor, The Virtual World
Tagged Humor, Spam, Spam Filter, Translation, Unintentional Poetry
... has kayaked the waters around New York for over a decade in his red Feathercraft folding kayak. He comes originally from (the former) Czechoslovakia and has lived in the U.K. and California before settling down in New York. He is a neuroscientist at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City.
... is a kayaker and technology researcher at Nemertes Research. She's an erstwhile engineer, particle physicist, and science fiction writer. She was born in California and has lived in Italy, Norway, Hawaii, and a few other places. She currently resides in New York City.
