This is unquestionably the most awesome and best garden sculpture ever created. Nestled amongst the topiary he waits and hungers. Much like Zombie Jesus he rises with the blooming of the flowers, but unlike Zombie Jesus he is actually real (Raptor Jesus was very much real and performed very real miracles.). You can buy him. You can buy him for me, too; I won’t mind.
Here is some more stuff that was just on my desktop. Enjoy.
I bought what could possibly be the coolest shirt ever made. I just feel bad for the rest of you because it sold out. Shirt.woot is truly the greatest website ever.
Jake and I went to CAPE! 2008 this Saturday in Dallas. CAPE! is an annual comic convention that is every May 3rd (which is Free Comic Book Day). To get an idea of what it was like there are a few flickr collections you can look at: here, here and here. The event was sponsored by Zeus Comics that was right next door.
The event is basically 4 or 5 large tents lined with comic book writers and artists. Almost everyone had a book they were selling and a lot of them were doing comissioned sketches. It was a good chance to chat up some intersting people and to see lots and lots of talent.
Jake and I each got a sketch from Josh Howard and a print from Ivan Flores. They’re pretty awesome. Many free comics were had and other sketches were commissioned. Other people are talking about it too!
Afterwards Jake and I raided Majestic Liquors and bought most of the New Belgium products they had in the refrigerator. It is delicious and tasty.
This is either the best or worst idea ever. “Carlos” is a shopping cart pushing robot in the shape of the bottom half of a human. The best part? It’s on fire.
If you could increase the look of this thing a bit you could really scare the shit out of people with your bottom-half shopping cart pushing robot on fire. Imagine it shambling around in circles at your local grocery store parking lot endlessly. Wonderful.
With the XNA toolset (which stands for XNA’s Not an Acronym) finally getting its day in the sun there has never been a more appropriate time to talk about recursive acronyms than now. This is a very important subject and I hope you take this lesson to heart; it might one day save your life.
A recursive acronym is an abbreviation that refers to itself in the expression for which it stands. One of the most prominent recursive acronyms is for the PNG file-type. PNG stands for PNG’s Not GIF (although officially it stands for Portable Network Graphic). This is an especially witty name once you know a bit about the history of the file-type. Regardless of boring file-type wars the recursive acronym PNG uses the acronym PNG inside itself. Talk about clever.
There are other wonderful examples of this, here are a few taken from Wikipedia:
It gets stranger still. A backronym is an acronym that was created ‘after-the-fact’. In other words you create a word and then acronym it later (e.g. iPood could stand for Isolated Programmer On Over-Dose). There are several types of backronyms.
Pure backronyms works like the example above and are added after the fact to change the meaning of a word. Replacement backronyms are acronyms that replace previous acronyms. Spam, which is a combination of Spiced and Ham has been replacement backronymed to sometimes mean Spare Parts Posing as Meat or Slime Posing As Meat.
A Apronym is an acronym that is relevant to the topic of the acronym. An example of this is BASE (Building, Antenna, Span, or Earth) jumping. Most acronyms are usually apronyms as well.
Mnemonic backronyms are used to help with remembering tricky groups of items. An example of this would be HOMES for the names of the Great Lakes (Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie and Superior).
Anacronym are backacronym that have either been replaced with another meaning or removed altogether. The SAT Test (which is an example of RAS Syndrome, more on that later) is a perfect example of one of these. SAT originally stood for Scholastic Achievement Test then Scholastic Aptitude Test. It was then changed in 1990 to the Scholastic Assessment Test. Finally, in 1994 the test was renamed once again to the SAT with SAT having no acronym at all.
The last type of backacronym is the false backacronym, these are acronyms that are falsely believed to mean something when they mean something else. The catch is that the meaning remains the same but the words differ from the original acronym. A fine example of this is R.I.P. Anyone who took latin in high school knows that R.I.P. stands for Requiescat in pace. Anyone who’s school couldn’t afford latin classes (like the good people at Noble America) might think that it stands for Rest in Peace. The interesting part of this is that they both convey the same meaning regardless of the naïve misunderstanding.
One final interesting acronym related top is RAS Syndrome. RAS Syndrome stands for Redundant Acronym Syndrome Syndrome. This is a quite common occurance. Examples include ATM Machine (where ATM stands for Automated Teller Machine), PIN Number (Personal Identification Number), HIV Virus (Human Immunodeficiency Virus). In each of these phrases a term is used twice. Ha! Languages are crazy!
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