the buddha dimension

2009.11.02

--from a page of stereoviews of old Japan - interesting, by the time I saw it I don't think it had those tropical-looking trees. (The other photos on the stereoview page are probably a bit more interesting though.)

I posted a site using that "wigglegram trick" before, it's a nice way to suggest the old viewmaster style 3Dness.

Speaking of that kind of thing, Crayola has an interesting gimmick I saw when I was looking to buy sidewalk chalk for my "Feynamn Diagram" costume -- at first I thought the gimmick was that the glasses had divergent angles, making everything a bit "wall-eyed" and thus providing a different view of everything, but judging by that page, it must be some prismatic effect that bends certain colors more than others.
http://www.cracked.com/photoshop_3_the-40-most-inappropriate-childrens-book-covers_p40 - a bit risque in parts but made me giggle.
some 'wreckers put my jack-o-lantern wreck to good use.
Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy -- in fact, they're almost incompatible; one emotion hardly leaves room for the other. Both at once can produce unbearable turmoil...
Robert Heinlein
Not sure if I buy it or not but it has a nice ring to it.
I'm not sure what the staff just sang at Chili's but I think it might've been "happy happy birthday / you know we're all excited / we'd like to sing the real song / but it might be copyrighted"