Desktop Goodies 8/15
Let’s begin this post with a luminous sunrise over the rolling hills of a meatscape…
As you may know by now, I love photos of glistening industrial structures.
Nature is amazing.
Two bits of street art that really grabbed my attention recently:
Excellent display.
He’s late for a very important date, indeed…
No idea:
Had this mode of transportation been available to me, I might have attempted to attend Sunday school…once.
I know nothing about the origin of this illustration, save for the title: “Experiment With a Unicorn Horn.”
Arguably the world’s most useful superpower:
I wonder if there’s a number around which the subject matter starts to get a bit tired (101? Really? It’s almost impressive).
Ooh…the candle makes it fancy.
A beautiful clock (it sings!) for the minimalist:
Where is this an actual problem?
I’ve saved the best for last. Here’s a great wedding greeting to send all your newlywed friends. Feel free to post your interpretations in the comments.
August 15, 2011 at 3:00 pm
Neat post. The meatscape made me hungry.
August 15, 2011 at 8:51 pm
Ah, salami trails as far as the eye can see…
August 15, 2011 at 3:40 pm
Is there really a market for hamburger jokes?
Dang…now I want sandwich
August 15, 2011 at 3:57 pm
I cannot possibly imagine coming up with 101 hamburger jokes. Even if there’s no market for it, I dare say the effort is commendable.
August 15, 2011 at 4:18 pm
I don’t think that newly wed card really holds much meaning any more. Abstinence? pffffffft.. what’s that?
August 15, 2011 at 8:50 pm
Colleen, I figured it was a “Yay! No more abstinence!” reference as well…albeit in a bizarrely literal below-the-waist fashion. I wonder what the modern equivalent would be. Maybe there isn’t one.
August 15, 2011 at 7:46 pm
Amazing collection! I can scarcely believe that “meatscape” can be such a useful and descriptive word.
I have absolutely no idea what that wedding card is about. It seems to suggest that they’ve gotten married for one reason and one reason only…
August 15, 2011 at 8:52 pm
I find that this blog has allowed me to incorporate the word “meatscape” into my working vocabulary quite nicely (after all, I have a whole tag for “meat”). And there are some cases, like the one above, when a scene can scarcely be described as anything BUT a meatscape.
August 16, 2011 at 8:41 pm
It says “dental technicians” under the crest, so I’m guessing it’s the crest of a dentists’ guild or something.
The wedding card reminds me of the Addams family with the hand running around on its own… It’s like someone’s legs have eloped without the rest of the body.
August 19, 2011 at 12:43 pm
Thank you for the translation! I love how the readers of this blog can fill in the information I don’t have about the obscure things I find!
August 24, 2011 at 2:29 am
It might also be singular (“dental technician”)—but I agree, it looks like something that someone validly thought was a good idea: a family or local crest (the two eagles) combined with a symbol of their job (quite common in Germany, even today). I wonder if they even considered that it looked like the craziest proof that Germans are weird ever or are totally proud of it.
August 19, 2011 at 10:55 am
Haha. If I knew any chaste people who were getting married I would totally wish them some happy genitalia.
August 19, 2011 at 12:42 pm
Hahaha…same here, Asa!
August 22, 2011 at 4:31 pm
Great images and captions, as always! My interpretation of the wedding greeting: “May you BOTH ‘wear the pants’ in your relationship!”
August 24, 2011 at 2:44 am
That’s a new interpretation of the image. Hadn’t even thought of that one!