No Love but Lightning

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Sun, 21 Aug 2011 09:44:03 -0400

vanspamme: Wow. Sometimes reality is even more impressive than...

Sun, 21 Aug 2011 07:08:16 -0400

Wow. Sometimes reality is even more impressive than our imaginations.

bella102: Heaven’s stairs,Tian Men Shan (China)

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Sat, 20 Aug 2011 23:38:48 -0400

A Little Bit of Magic This is a 6-inch tall door at the bottom...

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 23:35:16 -0400

A Little Bit of Magic

This is a 6-inch tall door at the bottom of a tree at Lake Harriet in Minneapolis. People of all ages leave around 1500 notes behind the door every year, and every single one of them is answered. Each reply ends with, “I believe in you.” No one has seen the elf, but he’s known as “Mr. Little Guy”

x3beautifulmess: HOLY…

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 23:34:49 -0400

x3beautifulmess:

HOLY…

glukauf: Juana Romani - Portrait de jeune fille Heh, le jeune...

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 18:39:03 -0400

glukauf:

Juana Romani - Portrait de jeune fille

Heh, le jeune fille is le jaune fille too.

nudityandnerdery: hugh2d2: thefuzzydave: Rule 63 Han...

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 18:22:00 -0400

nudityandnerdery:

hugh2d2:

thefuzzydave:

Rule 63 Han Solo

Apparently I need more scoundrels in my life… oof.

Is that… Argh, I can’t remember the actresses name, but she played Stupid Tall Hot Girl on the Guild? Riley? Michelle…. something. Michelle Boyd! I’m pretty sure that’s her.

I’m not entirely sure what the red stripes are for, and I’m not entirely sure I care.

eta: Oh, apparently Han had them. (Although I’d posit that if you can switch the very space-age blue jeans for black leather, you could skip the odd stripes too.)

vanspamme: Dinosoap. The main reason I’d ever have kids is to...

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 17:54:08 -0400

vanspamme:

Dinosoap. The main reason I’d ever have kids is to justify buying this sort of magic.

Oh this is excellent. (Although I can guarantee you the soap would be quickly destroyed in pursuit of the embedded awesomeness.)

tzarinascupotea: fyeahhistorymajorheraldicbeast: It’s only 11...

Sat, 20 Aug 2011 11:42:44 -0400

tzarinascupotea:

fyeahhistorymajorheraldicbeast:

It’s only 11 minutes, but they both sat through the entire thing without making so much as a peep. Afterwards, I launched into a mini-lecture with stories that ranged from Queen Elizabeth’s army service to Jeanne d’Arc.

How true this statement is to me is almost sickening. (Though I usually point to the lovely ladies of the Soviet Union during WWII, especially the snipers.)

From Wiki: “There was also concern that, in aviation, the female body is not as adept at handling the increased g-forces experienced by combat pilots; in fact, there is now evidence that the male body is less able to handle the g-forces than the female body: women are less likely to black out due to shorter blood vessel routes in the neck.”

Science.

(Plus women are shorter/more compact, on average, and therefore can fit and maneuver in smaller cockpits…(although technically they won’t be cockpits anymore.))

vanspamme: urhajos: ‘Kiwi Anatomy’ by Will McDonald

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 20:18:38 -0400

vanspamme:

urhajos: ‘Kiwi Anatomy’ by Will McDonald

drquinzel: anaisroberts: geeksintights: Let the Show Begin by...

Fri, 19 Aug 2011 19:39:12 -0400

drquinzel:

anaisroberts:

geeksintights:

Let the Show Begin by *Andserkiel

And thats my photo.

Anaisroberts.deviantart.com

CLASSY AND SEXY

Oh hot damn.

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 22:51:06 -0400

Oh hot damn.

[revised]

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 22:31:37 -0400

Willie: You’re nice. Listen, I’m taking applications — how’d you like to be my palace slave?
Indy: You wear your jewels to bed, princess?
Willie: Yeah — and nothing else. …That shock you?
Indy: Nothing shocks me. I’m a scientist.
Willie: So as a scientist, you do a lot of research?
Indy: Always.
Willie: And what sort of research would you do on me?
Indy: Nocturnal activities.
Willie: You mean like what sort of cream I put on my face at night, what position I like to sleep in?
Indy: Mating customs.
Willie: Love rituals?
Indy: Primitive…sexual practices.
Willie: So you’re an authority in that area?
Indy: Years of fieldwork.

No. No no no no no no no. I’m revoking your innuendo license, Indy, and you can try again when you’ve had a bit more practice.

Do you realize what you do as an archaeologist? You go into caves — although admittedly the ones you find are usually filled with spikes, which is a bit worrying — and you mess around with bones, and you are currently hunting a lingam stone, the whole point of which is that it’s phallic. And…come on, man! You carry around a whip ffs. Subtlety’s not exactly your strong suit, but at least try.

Indy: Nothing shocks me. I’m a scientist.
Willie: So as a scientist, you do a lot of research?
Indy: Research? Sure…but I’d always rather go in and get my hands dirty instead.

See?
(I was actually cringing at that scene.)

beeph: oh lord. can’t wait. See Snopes. Pain isn’t...

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 16:56:13 -0400

beeph:

oh lord. can’t wait.

See Snopes.

Pain isn’t measured in dels; it’s also not really quantifiable. There is a scale that has dols (from the Latin dolor) but it isn’t widely used, only goes from 1-10, and acknowledges that pain is completely subjective.

Soldiers (or athletes) whose bodies are absolutely screaming with adrenaline and endorphins occasionally get shot, break bones, or get set on fire without noticing, because pain is what happens when certain nerves, nociceptors, are triggered and send impulses to the brain — and the brain is really goddamn good at ignoring what doesn’t matter.

And when you’re running from gunfire or finishing a race or fighting to save someone’s life, the things that do matter override everything else…including pain.

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Thu, 18 Aug 2011 06:05:07 -0400

amberzombie: This song makes me want to head bang or something....

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 22:15:00 -0400

amberzombie:

This song makes me want to head bang or something. I don’t even know German and it doesn’t matter.

Still my favorite song. This and Dornentanz and Sandmann (which is Oomph! but whatever) were keeping me awake at the lab today. Thumpy loud German is even nicer than caffeine.

Ich lass dich los
Muss mich befrein
denn meine Sehnsucht
holt mich ein…
Auf ewig dein

Verzeih mir, bleib bei mir
und ich sagte noch
Vergissmeinnicht

I let you go,
must free myself,
for my longing
is catching up to me…
forever yours

Forgive me, stay with me;
and I still said
forget-me-not.

phobs-heh: some of my Ivan the Terrible sketches Viazemsky,...

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 19:10:40 -0400

phobs-heh:

some of my Ivan the Terrible sketches

Viazemsky, Kurbski, Griaznoy and Basmanov Jr.

Курбского фор зе вин, это действительно S.W.A.G. >:3

Messy-haired lanky fencer boys? Basmanov why are you dead and Russian dammit

Naww.

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 19:07:07 -0400

Naww.

es-wird-kalt: triedtosavemyself: So, I don’t go for the bald...

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 19:06:08 -0400

es-wird-kalt:

triedtosavemyself:

So, I don’t go for the bald look at all….but I’m thinking Alexx Wesselsky is the one and only exception to this rule. MY GOD.

^ The general emotion that goes through every Alexx-fan’s head.

That is right.

Him and Ollie Riedel from Rammstein. (Apparently I have a thing for bald be-goateed Neue Deutsche Harte musicians? No clue why.)

A guy who looked remarkably like Voldemort just ran a red light in front of me.

Tue, 16 Aug 2011 18:06:14 -0400

Bald, vaguely menacing, couldn’t see his nose.

Guess he’s still evil in his downtime?