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Man, I don’t get this Donald Duck cartoon. I mean it’s pretty clear that it’s supposed to be anti-German during world war II, but it seems like they passed up a lot of opportunities for jokes in favor of play up the drudgery of working in a German factory. Is that really the best propaganda they had to work with? It seems kind of lame.

I always run out of clean socks before I run out of clean underwear. However, today, for reasons that must involve some kind of ancient black magic, I’m out of underwear, but still have plenty of clean socks. How does something like that happen? It’s not like I haven’t been wearing socks or wearing dirty socks? If X > Y AND, you deincrement X and Y equally, then you’re always going to have leftover X once Y == 0.

It’s like the laws of mathematics and cause and effect are breaking down around me. Either that, or I have a particularly pervy secret admirer.

Thank you Democrats for having the courage to embrace our best chance for a better tomorrow. I’ll confess that given the history of your party, I didn’t have complete faith in you, but I did hope that if given the chance you might be able to rise to the challenge and make the right choice.

Tonight, that hope is vindicated.

It was kind of hot today, and in an effort to get out of my oven of a home to enjoy the great outdoors, I grabbed my camera and headed over to the South Bay Botanical Garden. I’ve been there a few times before, and I knew that in the heat most of the plants would be fairly wilted.

Still, it has the advantage of being reasonably close, so I didn’t have to do much driving. I was hoping that under the shade of the plants it would be nice and cool. It was when a breeze would kick up. The breezes were all too infrequent though, so most of the trip was spent sweltering. I did manage to make a few photos, including one interesting dragonfly.

Just setting a memory point to come back to 99 Flickr Groups for Design Inspiration later when I have time to go through them all.

I spent a nice Saturday afternoon at Kenneth Hahn Park in Culver City. I had my camera with me, and you can see a few Park photos. I’m happy to say I finally managed to get a shot of a humming bird. It isn’t great, but I did get it, so that’s something.

I’m just setting a bookmark to this Mac Mini Media Center post. I may have to pick one up and try that some day.

I spent the past week or so working my way through 5 years worth of Questionable Content back archives. It’s a web comic strip.

On April Fools Day, this super geeky comic that I love, XKCD switched comics in a round robin “prank”. I read a few, and was kind of interested in the characters. I got busy and forgot about it, but then earlier in the week, I was reminded and decided to start from the beginning.

I think I liked it generally. A lot of the drama seems pretty goofy, and many of the characters (particularly the 3rd tier characters) are basically the same unrealistic character with like 1 quirk to make them different, and in the case of parents really unbelievable. Still, it held my interest, and there are a bunch of Dune references that I love. Really, more things should reference Dune.

I took my camera up to Descanso Gardens to photograph some spring flowers. It’s weird. I haven’t been to Descanso in about 5 years, and I remember it being a lot smaller. I don’t know if my memory was playing tricks on me or if I didn’t fully explore the place last time. It was a nice day though.

Presidential Candidate Mike Gravel’s cover of Helter Skelter is surprisingly awesome. Oh sure, it lacks some of the zen koan like absurdity of his throw a rock into a lake video. But, what it lacks in inscrutability it makes up for in disturbing images of war and violence and Bill Shatner like ironic song stylings.