Jason Torchinsky is a guest blogger on Boing Boing. Jason has a book out now, Ad Nauseam: A Survivor’s Guide to American Consumer Culture. He lives in Los Angeles, where he is a tinkerer and artist and writes for the Onion News Network. He lives with his partner Sally, five animals, too many old cars, and a shed full of crap.
My tour of blogging duty is wrapping up here, but I wanted to put up some photos I had set aside here for possible blogging use. Here we go:
This squirrel got himself stuck in our homemade squirrel feeder. Ha ha ha! Idiot! (I got him out okay; he’s fine.)
No one here is interested in getting into any Apple vs. Microsoft crap, but I saw this Zune wall-outlet-to-5V-USB adapter, and compared it to the one that came with my iPhone, and was a bit confused. Microsoft is a colossal company, with more money than God’s dad’s boss. Why is their AC adapter about four times the size of the Apple one? Couldn’t they have called, say, anyone in China and asked for an AC adapter as small as the Apple one? I can’t imagine the cost is that much more, in volume. Baffling.
Murillee Martin at Jalopnik has a really wonderful set of junkyard pictures. You can never have too many. I had a Volvo P1800S like the one in the sample image there, too. I hope that’s not it.
There’s a fair number of sites on the web that mock these sorts of improvised solutions. I love them– This guy had a dead van, a working truck, and a dream. Way to go, improviser!
This happened a while ago, but it’s so much fun to talk about. One morning, I pulled back my desk chair in my office, and found this possum.