From around the world.
(Thanks Scarlet)
Month: August 2005
My Broken Leg
The site for people with broken legs. If you’re stuck at home with your leg on a pillow, surfing the net desperately looking for a distraction – here it is.
(Thanks Jabberwocky)
Mad Meg
Since the beginning of 2001, I draw in small notebooks 11 cm X 15 cm (approximately), always with a ballpoint pen, always on same paper, always in black. I contrained myself never to tear a page off, what is done…is done. I put the date at the beginning and the end of each notebook. Each day I spend one hour or two drawing in these notebooks. At this day,I made approximately 450 pages distributed in 12 notebooks.
(Some drawings are NSFW)
The Mummies of Guanajuato
This is the first time I have heard of this.
The Guanajuato mummies were discovered in a cemetery of A Guanajuato Mummya city named Guanajuato northwest of Mexico City (near Léon). They are accidental modern mummies and were literally “dug up” between the years 1896 and 1958 when a local law required relatives to pay a kind of grave tax. You could pay the tax once (170 pesos) and be done with it; this option may have appealed to wealthier individuals. But you were also allowed to pay a yearly fee (20 pesos); this would have appealed to less wealthy families. However, if the relatives could not pay this yearly tax for three years, the body (which had, by the way, become accidentally mummified) was dug up from the cemetery and (if the fee still wasn’t paid) placed on display in El museo de las momias. [Of course, what if the person’s family had moved from town–or what if the person was the last person from their family? Well, it didn’t matter; the law was the law!]
Some freaky pictures of the mummies are here.
(Thanks Jabberwocky)
Classic Short Stories
A nice collection of short stories.
Fewer and fewer people these days read short stories. This is unfortunate–so few will ever experience the joy that reading such fine work can give. The goal of this site is to give a nice cross section of short stories in the hope that these short stories will excite these people into rediscovering this excellent source of entertainment.
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Gasoline Price History
One man’s gas price history.
The following plot shows how much I paid for each gallon of gas I bought over the past 26 years or so. The data has a somewhat varied pedigree. Most of the purchases from 1979-1982 were in the Rio Vista/Fort Worth, Texas area. From late 1982-1983 was from College Station/Rio Vista about equally. From 1984-1987 was a Rio Vista/College Station/Houston mix and from 1987 on has been mostly Houston with a little Fort Worth thrown in. Just about everything pre-1984 was full service and everything since has been self-serve. Every tank shown was “super” unleaded (92-93 octane).
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