{"id":6933,"date":"2012-03-18T16:32:04","date_gmt":"2012-03-18T21:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/wp\/?p=6933"},"modified":"2020-08-18T09:09:33","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T14:09:33","slug":"exceedingly-miscellaneous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/exceedingly-miscellaneous\/","title":{"rendered":"Exceedingly miscellaneous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the 1970s, Jack Thompson bought a tract of land in the Royal Gardens subdivision on the island of Hawaii and began building a cedar home there. He finished it in 1983. As he installed the second-story windows, he noticed a orange glow on the panes. The light came from the lava fountains that heralded the eruption of Kilauea, which continues to this day. Over the years, lava flows took out all his neighbors&#8217; homes, one by one, until only Thompson&#8217;s was left. This month, <a href=\"http:\/\/hawaiianlavadaily.blogspot.com\/2012\/03\/jack-thompsons-royal-gardens-home.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a vigorous flow found his house<\/a>, leaving little beyond <a href=\"http:\/\/hawaiianlavadaily.blogspot.com\/2012\/03\/jack-thompson-walks-his-lava-covered.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a satellite dish embedded in six feet of basalt<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->*****<\/p>\n<p>Ubu has <a href=\"http:\/\/bridgebunnies.com\/?p=3041\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a word for bureaucracy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a tune from 2003:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/XESreJjGx-I?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s one from 1998:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/QLv9Q5hQ_Dk?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Hmm.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/millmans-shakesblog.tumblr.com\/post\/18791066340\/seussspeare\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I will not kill him with a sword. I will not kill my Scottish lord. I will not stab him in the back. I do not want to, Lady Mac.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehairpin.com\/2012\/03\/the-comment-section-for-every-article-ever-written-about-peta\/#more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Vegan cats are unhealthy&#8221;<\/a>, or why I keep reminding myself not to read the comments at political weblogs.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>Information I didn&#8217;t need to know: there is indeed <a href=\"http:\/\/tsa.transform.to\/misc\/velveetarabbit.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Velveeta fanfiction<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>Time for another musical interlude.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/YpXPtAVdMIY?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/OBGOQ7SsJrw?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>*****<\/p>\n<p>Art and screen captures from here and there:<\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s that watching you?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6937\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6937\" style=\"width: 443px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"lightbox\"  title =\"George Orwell, street camera\" href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/george-orwell-street-camera.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/george-orwell-street-camera-443x600.jpg\" alt=\"Who&#039;s watching you?\" title=\"George Orwell, street camera\" width=\"443\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6937\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6937\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Who&#039;s watching you?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Momoiro Clover Z, who did not distinguish themselves with their performance of the <strong><em>Mouretsu Pirates<\/em><\/strong> opening theme, join KISS and your average visual kei group as a band that should be seen and not heard. Here they are in their primary uniforms, the Waragecha Five of J-pop.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/mz03.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p>No matter what the topic, there&#8217;s Pony art about it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/pony-orientations.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And Lovecraft art, too.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/the_call_of_cthulhu_cover_by_drfaustusau.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Some of the above via <a href=\"http:\/\/eve-tushnet.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eve Tushnet<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dustbury.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dustbury<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/qahatesyou.com\/wordpress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">QA Hates You<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gormogons.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Gormogons<\/a> and others I&#8217;ve forgotten.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 1970s, Jack Thompson bought a tract of land in the Royal Gardens subdivision on the island of Hawaii and began building a cedar home there. He finished it in 1983. As he installed the second-story windows, he noticed a orange glow on the panes. The light came from the lava fountains that heralded &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/exceedingly-miscellaneous\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Exceedingly miscellaneous&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,13,16,28,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime","category-humor-and-horror","category-music","category-science","category-videos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-1NP","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6933"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96390,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6933\/revisions\/96390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}