Yes, that’s right. Someone scratched the word “GROUT” into the grout between tiles in this movie theater restroom.
Author Archives: Kelson
Crowds at the Street Fair
I’ve finally found something more crowded than Comic-Con International: The Orange Street Fair on a Saturday night.
I think we usually end up going on Sunday, because while it’s usually a solid crowd, I don’t remember feeling quite so…herded. We ended up not doing much more than getting dinner and dessert.
Still, the baklava on Greek Street was good, as were the “Australian” potatoes (that probably weren’t any more Australian than the ice cream), and one of the lemonade stands was offering diet lemonade sweetened with Stevia, which meant Katie could actually drink it.
Overheard
“Do you want a Viking helmet?” “F%@# yeah, I do!”
“Is your name Don?” “Uh, no.” “I wonder what it would have meant if your name was Don.”
“These cupcakes are insufficiently sized.”
“Do you even know where you’re going?” “Yeah, that way.”
Links: Science as a Subway, App Pricing, Terraforming IRL
Crispian Jago presents the history of science as a subway map (cool visualization).
The comic strip The Oatmeal tackles the irony of mobile app pricing. Or, in the worlds of “Weird Al” Yankovic: “I hate to waste a buck ninety-nine.”
A 19th-century terraforming experiment: Ascension Island’s artificial ecosystem, instigated by Charles Darwin.
Scraped!
Some suspicious pingbacks this morning tipped me off that there’s a splog (spam blog) automatically copying posts from K-Squared Ramblings to their own site. I sent them a complaint this morning, but they don’t seem to care much: They’ve scraped the RSS feed again, and reposted the same 15 articles nine times today!
It seems extremely likely that they’ll repost this article as well. If you’re reading this on “Attorney Legal Blog” (great irony there), the site is ripping off content from other websites — and clumsily, too!
For the record, the site doing the copying, which I won’t link to directly, is “www – dot – legal – dash – attorney – dot – info”. And it looks like a lot of other sites are being copied…just as badly, repeats and all.
BRB K THX
Favorite license plate sighting of the day: “BRBKTHX.”
Iconic Imagery
iTunes 10 has shed the CD imagery in its new icon. And yet a floppy disk is still the universal toolbar image for “save.”
Hey, Look! Comics!
Cool! I’ve been named in The Comics Reporter’s reader poll on Name Five Writers About Comics You Like That Aren’t On CR’s Home Team Of Tom Spurgeon And Bart Beaty. It’s an impressive list, and with some of the big names on it, almost intimidating to be included.
If you’re visiting here for the first time, let me make a bit of an introduction. This is my sort of general-purpose blog, where I write about anything from comics and science-fiction to photos, life observations and technology. If you’ve dropped in from The Comics Reporter, you’ll probably be most interested in:
- The Comics Category here at K-Squared Ramblings.
- Comic-Con International 2010 Experience.
- More Convention Reports
- Speed Force, my other blog focusing on the Flash and other speedster super-heroes.
Thanks to Richard Pachter for recommending me!
