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Sent from my Helio Ocean
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Awesome pics of volcanic eruptions from the recent past. As always, the most beautiful things in nature are also the most destructive.
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Genius video lampooning PSAs/corporate anti-harassment videos. The sad thing is, I could see this interspersed between other "training' I have had in the past, and it would not be out of place, at all. If Batman were in videos like that, maybe they would work better.
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Beautiful pics of the Large Hadron Collider as it is nearing completion and full-operational status.
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I must say that I am enjoying the occasional use of Twurl to shorten the links I may append on Twitter. It seems to be the shortest shortener, and it doesn't add advertisements to the links. Good Shit…
I found this lighter as I was purchasing food in a Mini Mart in Guatemala.
Obviously, if you see a skull lighter, you are going to try it, but this one had a little something extra that made it irresistible. It had glowing LED eyes and mouth and laughed insanely when lit.
I purchased it on the spot and giggle a bit when I light an incense with its head…
Originally uploaded by pressuretobear
At the awesome Archeological Site and Ruins of Quirigua in Guatemala, the temperatures were nearing 100 degrees with 100% humidity, meaning that it is approaching the most physically uncomfortable of conditions possible (especially with the mosquitoes biting frequently and the deer flies landing all over my goddamned elbows).
The site is well-known for its excellent representations of zoomorphs, which are boulders shaped into animal-shaped representations of mythological figures. It is easier to just show a picture than describe them:
At the site of the ruins, there is a small museum giving additional information about the ruins and their history as well as an adjoining “Jade Museum.” This museum is, in fact, a storefront for a chain of jade stores selling overpriced Mayan mask replicas. This “Jade Museum” had several advertisements near the entry of the site, with the alluring promise of having an “air conditioner.”
I spent an hour at the site, sweltering in the muggy heat, thinking longingly of the advertised air conditioning in the “museum” that would cool my body after this jungle ordeal. Imagine my shock when I was greeted by stagnant, still air after journeying back to the “museum” that had consistently told of its refreshing cool inside its premises. Not often have I so deeply felt the cruel stabbing of untruth in advertising.
I am posting this picture and the air-conditioning-less actuality of the situation in the hopes that I will keep others from experiencing the joyous anticipation and subsequent heartbreaking disappointment caused by this malicious air conditioning lie.
I have found one other mention of the museum and its non-existent air conditioning on some travel site. The traveller described the A/C operating on this particular day, but they may just be part of a global conspiracy to entice people to the hypothetically air-conditioned oasis.
Other than the picture of the zoomorph and the damned, lying sign, I covered most of the areas extensively in a Flickr set found here.