Here I am in my lair on a beautiful afternoon; overlooking my drones as they construct not one, but two space-rockets of unusual size- built specially for my upcoming mission to Io and Europa. Godspeed, mindless drones, and may you bring me fame and space-women aplenty.

A couple of Jack Handey quotes:

I bet if you reached total enlightenment while drinking beer, it would make beer squirt out your noise.

If you rob a bank, and your pants fall down, its okay to laugh. and let your hostages laugh too, because come on, life is funny.

NSK

NSK is an art collective as well as the world's first global state ('Neue Slowenische Kunst'= german for 'New Slovenian Art'). Some of their work, done collectively as a corporation under the name IRWIN, is being shown right now at the Frye Gallery.
Be sure to apply for a NSK passport, which may be the only citizenship worth having.
The NSK also collaborate in Laibach, experimental rock/electronic music.
Maybe this short wikipedia article might help explain more.

underwood no.10

My roommate saved an old Underwood No. 10 Typewriter from being unceremoniously tossed into the dumpster. It is very similar to the model shown above, an antique circa 1920's. Now, I'm cleaning up the beautiful machine (it's the same kind that Kerouac used to bat out On The Road).

Researching the typewriter, I came across this great modification of an Underwood into a PC. [also check out: MakeZine.com for lots of great creations.]

I also discovered this pdf of the book Sexy Legs and Typewriters, concerning typewriter erotica.

Immediately after discovering the typeriter, I went out and got a tattoo:

templum arbor

Went for a stroll through Frink Park, pictured above about a hundred years ago. (old archival photos of Seattle here)
Came home and found a great site of photos of said Park: Richard Silverstein's photos.
This is not one of his photos, but is of the Park:

pax hibernia

Found the oldest book in the library that I have found thus far. It is a 1903 copy of Thomas Addis Emmet's Ireland Under English Rule: A Plea for the Plaintiff. Here is a quote:

The great affinity between the Phoenician and Irish language and alphabet has been shown by various learned antiquaries- as Vallancey, Sir Laurence Parsons, Sir Wm. Betham, Villanueva, and others; and they have likewise pointed out a similarity between the Irish language and that of the Carthaginians, who were a colony of the Tyrians and Phoenicians...And Phoenix, brother of Cadmus the Phoenician who first introduced letters among the Greeks and Phoenicians, is considered by O'Flaverty, Charles O'Connor and other to be the same as the celebrated Phoeniusa (or Feniusa) Farsaidh of the old historians, who state that he was King of Scythia and ancestor of the Milesians of Spain who came to Ireland; and that, being a man of great learning, he invented the Irish alphabet, which his Milesian posterity brought to Ireland; and it may be further observed that the Irish in their own language, were from Phoeniusa or Feniusa, called Feine, a term latinized Phoenii, and signifying Phoenicians, as shown by Charles O'Connor and in O'Brien's Dictionary.

[Note- the modern Sinn Fein Republicans.]

And a couple verses:

We hate the Saxon and the Dane,
We hate the Norman men-
We cursed their greed for blood and gain,
We curse them now again.

Sweet tongue of our Druids and bards of poet ages;
Sweet tongue of our Monarchs, our Saints and our Sages;
Sweet tongue of our heroes and free-born Sires,
When we cease to preserve thee our glory expires.

unrelated: check out Liquid Man flash thing. Also, equally interesting: Falling Girl (click+drag her if she gets stuck). Both of these were memed into my world from BoingBoing.