Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV), Apollo 15, 1971, Parking Meter, 10 cents, 2 hours
Note: Three LRVs from Apollo 15, 16, and 17 (1971 and 1972) remain on the moon. Who’s feeding the meter?
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Windshield Wiper for iPad
If it’s already on the market, please don’t tell me. Something Ann said over the phone this evening made me think of the concept, but I can’t remember what. As I sketched it, I thought of my father and how he would routinely save a half a meatball in order to sop up the remaining spaghetti sauce on his plate. Invariably, as Spring follows Winter, one drop of spaghetti sauce would land on his tie or shirt. If he were still with us, he’d probably need one of these:
Related products: The iLighter.
Taking Everything Personally: Tic-Tac-Mitote
As much as I try to embrace Don Miguel Ángel Ruiz’s Four Agreements, my mitote place me in situations in which it seems like there’s no alternative but to take things personally.
Bundlin’
Today’s the day we get hooked up. We went with complete bundling: cable TV, Internet, gas, electric, dark beer, and margaritas…oh, and they threw in nitrous oxide for laughs!
Moved 101
It’s one thing to see your life flash before your eyes; like when you’re driving through high winds on black ice way up in the mountains in a rear-wheel-drive cargo van with baloney-skin tires in winter. That’s traumatic enough; but, when you see all of your stuff coming out of a huge moving van, piece by piece, box by box, a steady stream of things directly and indirectly related to you with varying degrees of usefulness, but all relatively sentimental…when you see this, the trauma is there but it’s subtle.Why? Because you’re too busy wondering how in the world you’re ever going to unpack and find a place for everything!
Winding Down with the Parranderos Latin Combo (PLC)
My last Friday night here in Des Moines, IA was positively electrified by the Parranderos Latin Combo (PLC) at Vaudeville Mews. Just last December at the Moberg Gallery I saw them perform – and even “illustrablogged” on it! These guys are going places, literally, check this out!!! Something tells me I’ll be seeing Fernando Aveiga and the PLC in the future.
What if…
Somehow after routine cleanings and multiple moves an ancient jar of pepperoncinis manages to remain, except there are no pepperoncinis left, just the pickled pepperoncini brine. I’m guessing it’s from the early 1990s. What if I gargle with it?
Hair Conditioner for Offensive Lineman
Every team has at least one. Football players with long, flowing hair, hair, by the way, with special needs, especially on offense! Now, you can be the one. You and your hair can run with the ball just like the pros. Game on!
Illumination and Nocturnal Emission
Incandescence is a hot subject these days, especially in light of how cool fluorescence is becoming in some circles. When this occurred to me last night, a light bulb went off, and I realized something was different but I couldn’t quite put my finger on it.
Just Another Night … Take My Wife-Please
Why didn’t I think of this in the first place?
(Here’s what I mean by “the first place.” I did this same drawing in another post entitled Stand-Up Anthropology with a different twist and corresponding word bubble roughly related to the old comedic phrase, take my wife. As I was doing that post, it occurred to me that it might be even more anthropologically relevant and perhaps funnier, per se, for a female comedian to utter that old line in a regular comedy-club setting.)
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