Sic Transit Dies Occident

BOLD

noreply@blogger.com (Ajax Telamônios) — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 07:47:00 +0000

The helmet from a set of jousting armor owned by Karl Christian von Breitenbach, an officer of the Saxon court from 1694 to 1726.

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Week Four—Self Portrait

noreply@blogger.com (Ajax Telamônios) — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 06:01:00 +0000

Week Four of LensProToGo's 52 Week Photo Project. View their Flickr photo pool here. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Week One—Representative Self Portrait Week Two—My Front Door Week Three—My Favorite Thing: Toasted

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Pure Genius

noreply@blogger.com (Ajax Telamônios) — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 23:47:00 +0000

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Week Three—My Favorite Thing: Toasted

noreply@blogger.com (Ajax Telamônios) — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 06:29:00 +0000

Week Three of LensProToGo's 52 Week Photo Project. View their Flickr photo pool here. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Week One—Representative Self Portrait Week Two—My Front Door

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Week Two—My Front Door

noreply@blogger.com (Ajax Telamônios) — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 08:42:00 +0000

Week Two of LensProToGo's 52 Week Photo Project. View their Flickr photo pool here. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Week One—Representative Self Portrait

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Week One—Self Portrait

noreply@blogger.com (Ajax Telamônios) — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 06:39:00 +0000

Week One of LensProToGo's 52 Week Photo Project. View their Flickr stream here.

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"Private Sector Jobs Have Been Doing Just Fine…"

noreply@blogger.com (Ajax Telamônios) — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 03:26:00 +0000

…and at this rate, it'll only be another five or six years 'till we get back to normal! Thanks, Harry!

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Microsoft Gobbles Up Yet Another Company

noreply@blogger.com (Ajax Telamônios) — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 05:37:00 +0000

Skypersoft is a reality—Microsoft has completed its $8.5 billion purchase of Skype, officially making the deal Microsoft's largest takeover to date. The tech giant's biggest prior acquisition was its $6 billion deal for aQuantive, a firm nobody had ever heard of (or since), in 2007. The...

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Heinz 'Dip and Squeeze' Container Aims to Conquer a Major Frustration of Evil, Profiteering Corporations

noreply@blogger.com (Ajax Telamônios) — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 01:24:00 +0000

Some people rip the corner off with their teeth. Others, while driving, squirt the ketchup directly into their mouth, then stuff in the fries. Some do the unthinkable and forgo fries at the drive-through altogether to keep from making a mess in their gas-guzzling minivans...

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Picture Perfect ~ Three—Chapel Windows

noreply@blogger.com (Ajax Telamônios) — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 23:55:00 +0000

The windows on the north wall of the Smithsonian Castle's west-wing chapel. For more Picture Perfect, click here.

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Picture Perfect ~ Two—Daisho

noreply@blogger.com (Ajax Telamônios) — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 19:29:00 +0000

The wakizashi (short sword) on top and the katana (sword) on the bottom form a daisho—a pair of swords. Form the Arms & Armor collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. For more Picture Perfect, click here.

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Picture Perfect ~ Five

noreply@blogger.com (Ajax Telamônios) — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 21:22:00 +0000

Five ointment jars with lids, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Egyptian Collection. Three are in Egyptian alabaster, two in obsidian with sheet gold. From the 12th Dynasty, ca. 1887-1813 BC, from El Lahun, tomb 8, chamber E. For more Picture Perfect,...

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Moving Bass Ackwards

noreply@blogger.com (Ajax Telamônios) — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 03:28:00 +0000

UPS is apparently experimenting with time travel. While I'm all for experimentation in the private sphere—especially for the purpose of improving customer service—the least they could do is move in the right direction. I'm hoping that this is an early...

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It Just Ain't Easy

noreply@blogger.com (Ajax Telamônios) — Tue, 31 May 2011 12:48:00 +0000

A frog sitting beneath my air conditioner, soaking up the dripping condensate.

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Communal potty training . . .

noreply@blogger.com (Ajax Telamônios) — Thu, 12 May 2011 10:19:00 +0000

. . . says pretty much everything that needs to be said about communism: Caption from Speigel Online:Potty training in East Berlin. This photo shows children at a nursery school in the Friedrichshain district in 1975. German photographer Thomas Hoepker took the image when he worked as a...

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Yeah, I'm talkin' to YOU

noreply@blogger.com (Ajax Telamônios) — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 11:47:00 +0000

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Lonely is a Freedom

noreply@blogger.com (Ajax Telamônios) — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 05:51:00 +0000

HOW TO BE ALONE by Tanya Davis If you are at first lonely, be patient. If you've not been alone much, or if when you were, you weren't okay with it, then just wait. You'll find it's fine to be alone once you're embracing it. We could...

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Hello . . . ?

noreply@blogger.com (Ajax Telamônios) — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 02:19:00 +0000

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Zenga Zenga

noreply@blogger.com (Ajax Telamônios) — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 01:40:00 +0000

Mixed by a Jewish kid from Tripoli, yet nevertheless a huge hit throughout the Arabosphere.

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The Men from Marlborough

noreply@blogger.com (Ajax Telamônios) — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 18:09:00 +0000

"Death is more eligible than slavery. A free-born people are not required by the religion of Christ to submit to tyranny, but may make use of such power as God has given them to recover and support their ... liberties." -- The Sons of Liberty, December the Sixteenth, A.D. 1773

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The Österreich Strikes Back

noreply@blogger.com (Ajax Telamônios) — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 13:05:00 +0000

An Austrian MP lectures the Turkish ambassador on his country's Islamist hypocrisy.

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Whatever happened to dinner and a movie?

noreply@blogger.com (Ajax Telamônios) — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 01:12:00 +0000

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Application for Stalkership

noreply@blogger.com (Ajax Telamônios) — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 04:54:00 +0000

What with the unemployment rate being so bad these days, I thought I'd pitch in and do a little hiring. Please feel free to distribute a copy to anyone you think might be interested in the position; there are several openings which I need to fill ASAP. Download...

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Bejeweled Bra Exposed in New York

noreply@blogger.com (Ajax Telamônios) — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 12:41:00 +0000

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Back In Black Penguin

noreply@blogger.com (Ajax Telamônios) — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 17:26:00 +0000

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