CF

2006-08-09T21:28:00.000-04:00

This site is now gone. Click here.

Lazy

2006-07-25T18:37:00.000-04:00

Thanks to Brad for finding this site. If only I wasn't lazy and started patenting.

<-- MINE

2006-07-24T16:53:00.000-04:00

Pink and Kiefer Sutherland... the same?

2006-07-17T14:12:00.000-04:00

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My First Toy

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Wet 'n' Fun?

2006-07-08T20:38:00.000-04:00

Creepy

2006-07-04T23:43:00.000-04:00

Ignore This

2006-07-04T22:27:00.000-04:00

Coldwater

2006-07-04T16:47:00.000-04:00

Tastefest 2006

2006-07-03T02:12:00.000-04:00

Big Pupils
Second
Photo by AJM
Photo by AJM
AJM

2006-06-28T22:01:00.000-04:00

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Click and Stare

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Flower Girl
Happy

No clue

2006-06-24T14:17:00.000-04:00

Rail
Working out in Detroit
Tree 2
On my corner

2006-06-23T18:01:00.000-04:00

AIM

2006-06-22T02:10:00.000-04:00

In celebration of the Summer Solstice, TheKubrickStare has been retired. New name is Alan Lemma.

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2006-06-03T10:16:00.000-04:00

Mongoria

Kevin on The Wall
Jason climbing up to The Wall
The Future
The Boston Dudes
Beijing Pub
Forbidden City

Sunny Day Youth Hostel
Kevin, Jason, Jenny, Mrs. and Mr. Sure
Ian getting his haircut
Cathy
Tea Ceremony
Forrest under the Bund
Temple
Yuyuan Garden
Tai Chi
A stare
Old Town, Shanghai
Our Shanghai House
Famous international football players
Temple plumbing
Marble boat at the Summer Palace
Bamboo Forest
Chinese Pizza
Mountain Temple

2006-05-31T05:43:00.000-04:00

Atop the Great Wall
Outside the walls of the Forbidden City
If you find this animal in the wild, you will be blessed with luck
A farmer in commute near Shaolin
Incense at the Mountain Temple in Beijing
Bamboo graffitti at Shaolin
Linda... Linda...

2006-05-29T16:20:00.000-04:00

Pinapple Fish
The Bund
Forbidden City
Forbidden City
Forbidden City
Outside the walls of the Yuyuan Garden
Kung Fu is practiced in the street
All streets are hand swept
Sanitary conditions are a top priority in China
At the Shanghai Ocean Aquarium

2006-05-20T07:57:00.000-04:00

Message received just now by room service at the Sunny Youth Hostel in Beijing.

Hello, your friend made three phone call to you, room nobody has met listens, is you yesterday requests her to make the phone call to you but she to hit actually nobody today. She felt very strangely!
- Hotel Onstage

Ah, China.

Jesse Came Over

2006-05-12T00:45:00.000-04:00

backstock

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2006-05-04T21:38:00.000-04:00

I assume this isn't funny, but Cinco de Mayo has been bugging me all day at work. It's all I have. Please love me.

2006-05-01T22:36:00.000-04:00

Thephage

2006-04-23T01:26:00.000-04:00

This is Thephage. Thephage does not believe in thespace. They played at TheBelmont tonight in Hamtramck. They were good.

2006-04-22T20:53:00.000-04:00

This is very common picture of Shiva. This quote is from a book. "Here, the bronze Shiva dances as Nataraja (Lord of the Dance) by spinning on one leg atop a dwarf representing ignorance, which Shiva stamps out as he dances."

I did not know Hindus hate the little people.

A thousand years later and I suppose art hasn't changed that much.

2006-04-19T22:26:00.000-04:00

Note on PICT0842web (3-15-06): While taking fotogralves, it is not necessarary to take pictures of the subject. In 842, I don't know what kind of animalia were lazy enough to stay in frame. They are trivial. The neosubject, the Tree, is of far greater importance. Of course, the pair of beasts do put a strange perspective on a typical tree-shot. I take that back. The photo is not of a tree. It is of the shadow. The Shadow. My point is (1) have a subject to take pictures of. (2) take pictures of what isn't "important" but include the original subject if possible. I'm not telling you to do this, I'm telling me.

Another note, the Zoo did indeed suck. My opinion on zoos in general is far from PETA's, but it was a sad 3 hours of fun. Every animal was sleeping... or dying. Chunks of fur were ripped off some of their bodies. What appeared to be snow fences were randomly strewn about, dusty, dirty. Closed exhibits, dead fountains, man-made replicas of scenery with chipped, faded paint. The depression of Detroit's woes looming in the not-so-excited eyes of our children. And yes, the Penguinarium does still smell like shit.

2006-04-19T17:41:00.000-04:00

There she is... Brad's baby. With his help, you can get there with your peds!

2006-04-17T18:41:00.000-04:00

2006-04-15T16:44:00.000-04:00

Went to the Zoo. (It wasn't worth it.)

2006-04-06T20:04:00.000-04:00

Fire...

... and Tiva is none the wiser.

2006-04-03T16:33:00.000-04:00

Trip to the Henry Ford Museum

2006-04-02T22:55:00.000-04:00

Yep, wires.

2006-04-01T12:54:00.001-05:00

Some Wierd Stuff On the Interweb

There's no such thing as enough coffee.

No way.

Looking at things directly is of the past.

And waste some money while your at it.

April Fools Museum. A few good ones.

2006-03-23T19:53:00.000-05:00

I'm trying to figure out something to take pictures of. The plan is to take pictures of it over a few years, making it a long-time project, maybe a book. Some ideas I had:

Putt Putt Courses of America (a wall calendar would be nice, but who cares?)
Tracking a major news event, like "Bird Flu"
Cars in front of people's houses in countryside-ish places. The kind that have been sitting there 50 years and are part of the ground, the owner having no intension of ever moving it: Procrastination as an artform.

If anyone has any ideas, let me know.

This is a really cool rendition: http://www.ebaumsworld.com/videos/real-life-simpsons-intro.html

2006-03-20T14:16:00.000-05:00

07:30 Woke up.
08:10 Washed dishes so I could make breakfast.
08:45 Made Macaroni and Cheese instead.
09:00 Walked to Barnes and Noble with camera and mp3 player. Took few pictures, because it was cold. Listened to Blind Faith and Spoon. Bought Brian Wilson's SMiLE ($19.99). This album was started in '66 and was released in '03. Brian Wilson is lazy. According to the booklet, the reason all these songs are written is to make you smile. Also bought Fear This ($5.00) by Anthony Suau, a photojournalistic book about protesting The War. The nice guy behind the counter gave me a few samplers. They include Coltrane, Simone, Holiday, etc. If you're reading this, thank you. My finger nails are getting too long, but they are clean.
12:30 Went to the food store and planned on buying two cornish hens. Purchased two cornish hens ($6.00) but they were frozen, so I had to buy more food cause I was hungry. I looked at the meat department for quite some time, and there are a lot of meats I've never eaten (knowingly.) Chicken gizzards, chicken livers, pig feet, turkey tails, chitterlings (I had no clue that's how "chitlins" was spelled,) and pig jowls all are strange to me. I settled on making my version of chicken stirfry (total, $9.07.)
14:16 Trying to figure out what I'm going to do with my life.

2006-03-13T17:16:00.000-05:00

The sign in front of my house.

Detail of lower left corner of sign.

2006-03-11T15:25:00.000-05:00

The sun is going away, but don't panic...
What in Charles Darwin's name is wrong with these people?

Man Says Stripper Delivered a Rob-O-Gram
Best opening paragraph in a news story. Ever.

How Islamic inventors changed the world
Interesting.

I don't know if you've seen this picture. I have, and I haven't known what it was until today. It is a Cat.

Amazing. Mythic.

Ehhh.. Just go to this site.

2006-03-08T18:31:00.000-05:00

Loch Ness Mystery Solved
NESSIE, the Loch Ness monster, is in fact an elephant, according to a Scottish palaeontologist who claims to have solved the riddle surrounding the unexplained sightings of a monster in a lake near Glasgow in Scotland.

Bonds Exposed
* No one with a record should hold that record if they used steroids to make it. Everyone who uses steroids should be fired from the MLB. These are very simple ideas.

New animal resembles furry lobster

2006-03-07T21:44:00.000-05:00

Military Plans Cyborg Sharks
DARPA has taken another page from science fiction writer William Gibson's book by creating a neural implant to enable engineers to remotely manipulate a shark's brain signals. This would allow them to control the animal's movements and possibly decode their perceptions. Given that sharks have senses that humans don't have (like the ability to sense electromagnetic fields), it could open up some interesting uses.

Dealing with Moon Dust
...He once put a small pile of lunar soil brought back by Apollo astronauts into a microwave oven. Taylor found that it melted rapidly, within 30 sec, at only 250 W.
"Picture a buggy pulled behind a rover that is outfitted with a set of magnetrons," he suggests. (A magnetron is the heating element in a microwave oven.) "With the right power and microwave frequency, an astronaut could drive along, sintering the soil as he goes, making continuous brick down 0.5 m deep," Taylor points out. He adds that by changing the power settings the astronaut could melt the top inch or two of the soil to make a glass road.

Plane Lands on 75
A small, single-engine plane crashed in the median of Interstate 75 near Holly, Michigan Tuesday afternoon. The crash site is located about 100 feet from the East Holly Road overpass, near Exit 98.

Prosthetic Legs Returned; Police Stumped
Two prosthetic legs stolen from a 16-year-old California girl have mysteriously turned up in her mother's van, the second time in three months that an artificial limb belonging to the teen has been taken and then returned, police said on Friday.

Two Maids Fight over TP
An argument over toilet paper overflowed into a fight that sent one motel maid to the hospital and another to jail.
Police say the maids at the Siesta Motor Lodge in North Charleston armed themselves with a plunger and mop after accusing each other of taking toilet paper from each other's cleaning carts.

Man Dies over TP
A Florida man has confessed to bludgeoning his roommate to death with a sledgehammer handle and a claw hammer after an argument that started over an empty roll of toilet paper, authorities said Tuesday.

Haha...
An elementary school student was humiliated when the school principal decided it would be a good idea to request in front of his classmates that the kid’s father supply the school with toilet paper, Okaz reported. The student’s father complained to the Education Ministry that the principal should have called him directly instead of making the request to his son in class.