Hoosabrat

Sep 28

augustaxiv: Classy Easter eggs Dude, how crazy is this! I was just studying for my Art History midterm, and I recognize at least two of these patterns. They’re all Ancient Greek designs. The black-on-red on the left is based on a famous copy of a painted amphora by Exekias of Achilles and Ajax playing a dice game (ca. 530 BCE from the Archaic Greek period — can’t remember who made the version this is based on, but they reversed the design, printing it in black-on-red on one side, and red-on-black on the other). The black and white one on top is based on a Minoan Marine style octopus jar (ca. 1500 BCE). Not sure about the one on the right, but I would bet it’s from the Geometric Greek period. I’d damn well better ace this test!

augustaxiv:

Classy Easter eggs
Dude, how crazy is this! I was just studying for my Art History midterm, and I recognize at least two of these patterns. They’re all Ancient Greek designs. The black-on-red on the left is based on a famous copy of a painted amphora by Exekias of Achilles and Ajax playing a dice game (ca. 530 BCE from the Archaic Greek period — can’t remember who made the version this is based on, but they reversed the design, printing it in black-on-red on one side, and red-on-black on the other). The black and white one on top is based on a Minoan Marine style octopus jar (ca. 1500 BCE). Not sure about the one on the right, but I would bet it’s from the Geometric Greek period. I’d damn well better ace this test!

Sep 14

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May 30

twistedfork: I Shot the Serif.Hahaha. Very witty.

twistedfork:

I Shot the Serif.
Hahaha. Very witty.

(via buccaneer)

(via buccaneer)

May 10

“If I have learned anything from my Sims family, when a child doesn’t see his father enough, he starts to jump up and down. And then his mood level will drop ‘til he pees himself.” —

brain of Liz Lemon

Yeah. She plays Sims 2. WHAT UP.

(via greatperhaps)

Feb 23

mamihlapinatapai

giraffesgiraffes:

stumblingneon:

wordjournal:

noun • a look shared by two people with each wishing that the other will initiate something that both desire but which neither one wants to start.

The word is from the Yaghan language, and its morphological structure is as follows: mam- (reflexive/passive morph.) + -ihlapi- ‘to be at a loss as to what to do next’ + -n- (stative aspect affix) + -ata- (achievement affix) + -apai (dual, here reciprocal, marker). [via snee, Wikipedia]

Where has this word been all my life?  And how the heck do you pronounce it?

Feb 20

“The men I’ve sent to death weigh heavily on my mind; but this burden is but a fist of straw compared to the strain of the republic.” Russian LOL Cats = ROL Cats. Strangely poetic.

“The men I’ve sent to death weigh heavily on my mind; but this burden is but a fist of straw compared to the strain of the republic.”

Russian LOL Cats = ROL Cats. Strangely poetic.

Feb 19

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Feb 18

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Feb 07

Guy gets kicked off a My Little Pony forum -

“MyLittlePonyBuiltMyHotRod, this is your first warning. I would like to direct you to read this forum’s FAQ and posting guidelines before posting again. Specifically, we don’t use swear words here, and your picture of Stalin riding a Year3 Limited Edition Starflower inside a German concentration camp was both upsetting and historically inaccurate.”