Signifying nothing

Growing sideburns for lisa b Originally uploaded by Theorris I took this shot 2 years ago and it is suddenly getting a substantial number of hits on flickr. Why? Are sideburns in vogue (possibly) or is it my kitchen that everyone is interested in? Or is someone out there searching for everything related to Lisa B. Why the hell was I growing sideburns for you Lisa? Do you remember because I sure as hell don't.

Aside from 6 letters in the same order, Ireland and Iceland also share something else in common: mitochondrial DNA (mDNA). mDNA is the kind of DNA you get from your mother. It, in fact, is handed down daughter to daughter, generation after generation. What is interesting about Iceland is that even though it is assuredly Scandinavian, a good share of its mDNA is closely related to women who lived in Ireland thousands of years ago. How is this possible? you ask. Space aliens ? While space aliens would be a very satisfying answer, scholars speculate that the real answer is much more earthy: rape and pillage. You see for centuries Vikings terrorized the British isles, storming in and stealing goods and women. When settling Iceland randy and wifeless Norwegians took a nip into Ireland and stole some them some wives. Ipso facto. Fascinating!

Over there Originally uploaded by Theorris Woo hoo! My photo was featured today on NewWest.Net . There were many birds in Fort Colliins, Colorado, while I was visiting.

93/365: Happy Birthday! Originally uploaded by Theorris I'm going bowling, bitches! You can check Signifying nothing to determine how many times I've gone bowling on my birthday. I'll be sure to tweet the events.

On the eve of my birth, I feel angry. Listen to the words. Listen to the slap Of angry metal against supple flesh. Can you ever forgive yourself? You will never understand, will you? You will never be right with yourself? But you pretend and you pray. Prayer's got the answer, does'nt it? Doesn't it? Doesn't it? Doesn't it? I forgive you.

Jesus Loves You Originally uploaded by Theorris

Given that my begrudging acceptance of twitter has developed into a full-blown micro-blogging love affair , it makes sense that while I was doing the dishes this morning, my mind turned to creative twitter projects I could engage in. The first is one that I will probably start sometime within the week: "Twitter Haiku Challenge." Basically everything that one tweets must be 17 syllables and contain some natural imagery. Twitter really can't do line breaks very well, so it won't have to look like a haiku. The next project is one, that I find, someone else has already done . Thank god for that, since I doubt that I would have the wherewithal to take on the twitter-guise of Henry David Thoreau and tweet Walden at you. I am still amused, however, at the thought of this tweet: "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. LOL" It looks like twitter Henry David doesn't quite have my sense of humor. Not a LOL or ROTFLMAO in sight.

I'm your only friend Originally uploaded by Theorris

Best lines (not-exact): "Authors take between 10 to 30 years to produce a text." "The author will submit the text to an agent. The agent will staple it and submit it to the editor." "Editors traditionally select character names." "All communication between editor and author is conducted on twitter."

Dreaming of Yes Originally uploaded by Theorris While visiting friends in Colorado, I had the opportunity to go to the Benson Sculpture Garden in Loveland. It is certainly and excellent place and something that SLC would be wont to emulate. While the sculpture was a mixed bag, none of it was exceedingly bad nor amateurish. The garden certainly could appeal to a variety of tastes. Imagine if SLC actually cared for its parks? Imagine a sculpture garden by Lindsay Gardens where the "Salt Lake Garden Club" started a park nearly a 100 years ago and it went to pot because no one cared enough to preserve it. Imagine. I was a bad photographer and did not note the names of the sculptures I was imaging. This sculpture, however, is by far the coolest and most evocative sculpture in the Garden. The motion of it is stunning. I fear I do it little justice.

More than a month ago I submitted a DNA sample to the National Geographic Genographic project. Basically it traces your deep ancestry. While I'm fairly confident in my paternal heritage being Northern European and specifically Scottish/British (and perhaps, due to my specific clan, Viking in origin), I received the following message when I logged in to my Genographic page: ADDITIONAL TESTING REQUIRED Your sample has completed the DNA analysis phase of testing. However, during quality control your initial results failed to clearly indicate your haplogroup. We must perform additional testing to accurately determine your deep ancestral lineage. This is not uncommon, but will delay the posting of your results by two to three weeks. We appreciate your patience. Please also note that this delay is a sign of the Project's success in increasing the diversity of samples in our database. If we find that there is a problem at any point during the processing of your sample, you...

Open speculation is welcome, but I'm on vacation, suckers!

Transubstantiation Originally uploaded by Theorris Open speculation is welcomed.

God I love chickens.

This is one for my mother, Camilla Taylor, Cordelia, Hopabout, and lis (the only truly crafty people I know): Brother Introduces Quattro™ 6000D . My only question is, does it blog?

There are 3 categories to my awards this year: Fine, Great, and Best. Why? I couldn't be assed to think of anything else. And the winners are Fine, but I don't get the hype from Pitchfork division: Fleet Foxes , Fleet Foxes Fine, with some great tracks, but overall lacking something division: The Dandy Warhols , Earth to Dandy Warhols Great, new Canadian find division: Plants and Animals , Parc Avenue . Great, old Canadian find that gets better on each listen but everyone but Win Butler and I seem to really hate division: Wolf Parade , At Zoomer Mountain Best, Beck division: Beck , Modern Guilt Best, forgot that I had it, and recently rediscovered it division: Cloud Cult , Feel Good Ghosts All award recipients will receive one free dagger hallucination and a bar of soap.

I received this in the morning mail: Today is a particularly sad day for all of us at JPG and 8020 Media. We've spent the last few months trying to make the business behind JPG sustain itself, and we've reached the end of the line. We all deeply believe in everything JPG represents, but we just weren't able to raise the money needed to keep JPG alive in these extraordinary economic times. We sought out buyers, spoke with numerous potential investors, and pitched several last-ditch creative efforts, all without success. As a result, jpgmag.com will shut down on Monday, January 5, 2009. The one thing we've been the most proud of: your amazing talent. We feel honored and humbled to have been able to share jpgmag.com with such a dynamic, warm, and wonderful community of nearly 200,000 photographers. The photography on the website and in the magazine was adored by many, leaving no doubt that this community created work of the highest caliber. The kindness, generosity, and su...