The Evil Eyebrow

Category: Fun

  • Anatomical Inquisatory Acquisition

    I recently responded to a post on Live Journal, explaining that I had ceased running for a month because I had tweaked my erector spinae and paraspinal muscles. Then I thought to myself, “Self, is it really those muscles, or some other set and you just made that crap up?”

    Off to the web! We need an anatomy resource!

    • http://www.bartleby.com/107/ Gray’s Anatomy. The Authority. But difficult to read on this website.
    • http://www.innerbody.com/htm/body.html This site superficializes. For example, You can’t look at the erector spinae or other deep muscles! Damn them!
    • http://www.msjensen.gen.umn.edu/webanatomy/ This site just weirded me out. I clicked on the page and the first things I read were: “Test Your Knowlege: Self Tests” and “Play Against Others: Multiplayer Games.”

      Mulitplayer anatomy games? Sounds like FUN! Let’s click through…

      Well, it’s a Jeopardy-ish type game, but I didn’t see the multiplayer aspect. Oh well. I elected to be tested in my cardiovascular knowledge and learned that I don’t know much.

      This site is “A collection of study aids for entry-level anatomy and physiology students,” a quote taken directly from the page. Mostly a collection of quizzes. I did not think it was going to help.

    • All right, WARNING! If you click through to this link http://ect.downstate.edu/courseware/haonline/index.htm, you will be able to drill down and see images of a dissected human cadaver. If this would disturb you, do not do it! The link I’ve posted here will only take you to the home page, but it’s on your own head if you keep going. I didn’t think I was going to find what I was looking for here either, and I want to enjoy breakfast this morning (I thought about trying for med school when I was in college—early college—but I didn’t think I could cope with cutting people up for a living).

      • I could go on, but none of these links was really satisfactory. Thankfully, I have a copy of The Anatomy Coloring Book and Gray’s Anatomy (not to be confused with the TV show).

      The lesson here is, the web can’t do everything, yet. There are still plenty of things where you need to sit down and pore over a reference book.

      Back to my coffee now. And I still haven’t answered my own question.

  • Google Sketchup

    No, Google is not making ketchup. They’ve “recently” released a 3D modeling package for free download (with a licensed option for commerical use). It is an easy, intutitive modeler that allows you to quickly build three dimensional models of buildings and rooms. At least, that’s as far as I’ve gotten with it. It is not a true 3D modeler in the sense of ProEngineer or Unigraphics, but it will let you build a house or an apartment room or a building to scale. To see some examples, go to the 3D Warehouse.

    This seems like the perfect thing to use to design our downstairs renovation. At least, to get an idea for it. I don’t think it will drill down to the depth of placing fixtures and plumbing and electrical lines. But, I won’t have to do all the work on paper, or with Microstation CAD software at work!

    I believe that this software was mentioned to me previously by fraudirector and mdsteele47. Yay them!

  • Improv in Best Buy

    What happens when an improv group named Improv Everywhere invades a Best Buy? Madness and Merriment!

    Imagine a large group of people entering Best Buy in khakis and blue polo shirts and milling around.

    My favorite quote from their report on the invasion:

    A little while later, an older woman with a handful of products walked past me at one point muttering to herself, “Everyone in this goddamned store is wearing a blue shirt and nobody knows a thing!”

    This brought to my attention through the offices of Schierer Space.

  • Dross & Nuggets

    This image is clear proof that if you take enough shots with your 2Mpx camera, eventually something will come out that is worthy of being blown up to 8×10.
    Our cat, Pysche, sitting in the sunlight of our bedroom. Click through for a larger image.
    This is our lovely, freaky, hairy cat named Psyche (seye’-kee). She is named for the Greek Goddess of the mind, continuing our tradition of adorning pets with Greek Mythological names. Unfortunately, she has taken the name and applied it directly to its derived word, “psychotic.” She is, without a doubt, a freak.

    Also, she is very hairy and loves to share that hair with us, and the carpet, and the couch, and regularly condenses it into a nice tidy bundle and then vomits it back onto some flat surface in the house. I’ll never have a long-haired cat again.

    Don’t get me wrong, I love our cat. But she’s a freak.

  • Touch his belly!

    I’m strangely fascinated by the concept of this blog. I think that this is something that would have been a good idea in college, at least to break the ice.

    This reminds me of the guy who showered with a hundred women.

  • The Gospel

    In case you have not being paying attention to the most important religous revolution of our times, the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster has released their canonical Gospels.

    Looks like something to add to the Amazon wish list.

  • God hates Shrimp

    The title says it all. I guess we can’t eat Penguins, either. Not unless we catch them on land.

  • Googledemort?

    Performing my duty as the NY Times’ bitch, I mention this story (which you probably won’t be able to access after today) wherein they speak of a new data center that Google is building in Oregon.

    The fact that Google is behind the data center, referred to locally as Project 02, has been reported in the local press. But many officials in The Dalles, including the city attorney and the city manager, said they could not comment on the project because they signed confidentiality agreements with Google last year.

    “No one says the ‘G’ word,” said Diane Sherwood, executive director of the Port of Klickitat, Wash., directly across the river from The Dalles, who is not bound by such agreements. “It’s a little bit like He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named in Harry Potter.”

    Heh heh. Voldemort and Google are teaming up to take over the world! Maybe Bill Gates is Voldemort? Nahhhh. He’s too “pretty.”

  • Animation Domination

    Regurgitating more stuff from milkandcookies.com, here is a fight between animator and animatee. I heartily approve.

  • Conic Juggling!

    I’m a big fan of MilkandCookies.com. It presents a panoply of entertaining videos. I highly recommend it. Some of my friends are incessantly bombarded by IM hits from me containing urls such as the one below.

    Tonight’s plug is for Conic Juggling, an exhibition of momentum and timing.