Justin Bajema | twitter | flickr | email _uacct = "UA-332015-3"; urchinTracker(); Tumblr (3.0; @bajema)http://justinept.com/“An infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar. The first goes up to the bartender and says, ‘I’ll have a pint of lager, please.’ Each next one says, ‘and I’ll have half of what he’s having.’ The bartender says, ‘You’re all idiots,’ and pulls two pints.”<br/><br/> - <em>Bill Bailey (from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_joke">Wikipedia</a>) (via <a href="http://found.boxofjunk.ws/" class="tumblr_blog">inky</a>)</em>http://justinept.com/post/953590131http://justinept.com/post/953590131Sat, 14 Aug 2010 12:41:28 -0700<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l6y455xdBv1qz4rmbo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.lettersofnote.com/2010/08/tiger-oil-memos.html">Letters of Note: The Tiger Oil Memos</a> </p> <p>Actual Memos from the CEO of a Houston Oil Company in the late 70s.  Hillarious and worth reading.  (via <a href="http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/08/09/tiger-oil-memos">Gruber</a>)</p>http://justinept.com/post/932547095http://justinept.com/post/932547095Tue, 10 Aug 2010 09:51:05 -0700<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l3ps1rMz611qz4rmbo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/4672158546/in/set-72157624209158632/">Visualizing Photos by Locals and Tourists On Flickr: Seattle</a> (by <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/walkingsf">Eric Fischer</a>, via <a href="http://waxy.org/links">waxy.org</a>)</p>http://justinept.com/post/677733080http://justinept.com/post/677733080Tue, 08 Jun 2010 14:08:14 -0700<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l37f5e458L1qz9ufeo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://paultough.tumblr.com/post/646550216/via-muxtape" class="tumblr_blog">paultough</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>(via <a href="http://muxtape.tumblr.com/">muxtape</a>)</p></blockquote>http://justinept.com/post/647585808http://justinept.com/post/647585808Sun, 30 May 2010 12:47:32 -0700<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://justinept.com/swf/audio_player.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/559773315/tumblr_l1o2huOvCl1qz4rmb&color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best"></embed><br/><br/><p>My college buddy <a href="http://djringer.com/">David Ringer</a>, who works for the Audubon Society was on the <a href="http://www.kpfk.org/programs/prog-highlights/78-highlights/2749-letters-from-washington.html">radio</a> today talking about birds threatened by the oil spill in the gulf.  He starts about ten minutes in.</p>http://justinept.com/post/559773315http://justinept.com/post/559773315Thu, 29 Apr 2010 18:51:30 -0700<object width="400" height="325"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/08xQLGWTSag&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/08xQLGWTSag&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="325" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08xQLGWTSag">As Seen on TV - a tribute to doing it wrong</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Whenever a TV product commercial plays I bust a gut during the parts where they show us what we’re doing wrong and why we need the product.</p> <p>This is my tribute to the hilarious work the actors in these infomercials do.</p> </blockquote> <p>By <a href="http://youtube.com/user/kickintheheadcomic">kickintheheadcomic</a>. (via <a href="http://www.marco.org/539134777">marco</a>)</p>http://justinept.com/post/539543703http://justinept.com/post/539543703Wed, 21 Apr 2010 18:07:04 -0700<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l0ul5wIMyW1qz4rmbo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://helpmyphysics.co.uk/wordpress/?p=276">Sun`s path June to December</a> (via <a href="http://kottke.org/10/04/mystery-photo">kottke.org</a>)</p> <p>The photo is from a homemade pinhole camera left outside for six months.  Very cool.</p>http://justinept.com/post/519914839http://justinept.com/post/519914839Tue, 13 Apr 2010 20:46:43 -0700<a href="http://www.futilitycloset.com/2009/05/08/better-late/">Better Late…</a>: <blockquote><span>Shizo Kanakuri disappeared while running the marathon in the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm. He was listed as a missing person in Sweden for 50 years — until a journalist found him living quietly in southern Japan.</span></blockquote> <blockquote>Overcome with heat during the race, he had stopped at a garden party to drink orange juice, stayed for an hour, then took a train to a hotel and sailed home the next day, too ashamed to tell anyone he was leaving.</blockquote> <blockquote>There’s a happy ending: In 1966 Kanakuri accepted an invitation to return to Stockholm and complete his run. His final time was 54 years, 8 months, 6 days, 8 hours, 32 minutes and 20.3 seconds — surely a record that will last forever. </blockquote> <p>That must have been some garden party. (via <a href="http://found.boxofjunk.ws/post/518938135">inky</a>)</p>http://justinept.com/post/519855676http://justinept.com/post/519855676Tue, 13 Apr 2010 20:21:26 -0700“If you think it seems worthless to protect things you’ve made, try making things that seem worth protecting.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://twitter.com/hotdogsladies/status/11950337007">Twitter / Merlin Mann</a></em>http://justinept.com/post/515850076http://justinept.com/post/515850076Mon, 12 Apr 2010 08:02:19 -0700<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l0baz5AULe1qz4rmbo1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>St. George’s, Grenada (via <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bajema/sets/72157623633792253/">justinbajema</a>)</p>http://justinept.com/post/493743141http://justinept.com/post/493743141Sat, 03 Apr 2010 10:52:16 -0700<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kzvucdTWiF1qzdfi4o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>“Don’t play everything (or every time); let some things go by. Some music [is] just imagined.”</p> <p><a href="http://jazzchannel.tumblr.com/post/490594429/monks-advice">jazzchannel</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://lowbroweye.com/post/474470004/monks-advice">lowbroweye</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Thelonious Monk’s advice (1960): “A note can be small as a pin or as big as the world, it depends on your <u>imagination</u>.”</p> </blockquote> </blockquote>http://justinept.com/post/490618184http://justinept.com/post/490618184Thu, 01 Apr 2010 22:48:36 -0700<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l03rftx77Q1qz4rmbo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1260946/The-stunning-pictures-sleeping-insects-covered-early-morning-dew.html">The stunning pictures of sleeping insects covered in early morning dew | Mail Online</a> (via <a href="http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/03/30/insects">daringfireball</a>)</p>http://justinept.com/post/484437225http://justinept.com/post/484437225Tue, 30 Mar 2010 09:07:05 -0700<a href="http://www.vatican.va/various/cappelle/sistina_vr/index.html">Sistine Chapel virtual panorama</a>: <p>See the Sistine Chapel without the din of the crowds. (via <a href="http://kottke.org/10/03/sistine-chapel-virtual-panorama">kottke.org</a>)</p>http://justinept.com/post/484343623http://justinept.com/post/484343623Tue, 30 Mar 2010 08:13:22 -0700<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="315" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" src="http://www.archive.org/flow/flowplayer.commercial-3.0.5.swf" w3c="true" flashvars="config={"key":"#$b6eb72a0f2f1e29f3d4","playlist":[{"url":"http://www.archive.org/download/Century21964/format=Thumbnail?.jpg","autoPlay":true,"scaling":"fit"},{"url":"http://www.archive.org/download/Century21964/Century21964_512kb.mp4","autoPlay":false,"accelerated":true,"scaling":"fit","provider":"h264streaming"}],"clip":{"autoPlay":false,"accelerated":true,"scaling":"fit","provider":"h264streaming"},"canvas":{"backgroundColor":"0x000000","backgroundGradient":"none"},"plugins":{"audio":{"url":"http://www.archive.org/flow/flowplayer.audio-3.0.3-dev.swf"},"controls":{"playlist":false,"fullscreen":true,"gloss":"high","backgroundColor":"0x000000","backgroundGradient":"medium","sliderColor":"0x777777","progressColor":"0x777777","timeColor":"0xeeeeee","durationColor":"0x01DAFF","buttonColor":"0x333333","buttonOverColor":"0x505050"},"h264streaming":{"url":"http://www.archive.org/flow/flowplayer.h264streaming-3.0.5.swf"}},"contextMenu":[{"View+Century21964+at+archive.org":"function()"},"-","Flowplayer 3.0.5"]}"></embed><br/><br/><p>In case you missed the 1962 World’s Fair in Seattle, this video should help fill you in on what you missed.  The telephone could do everything and cutting in line was all the rage.  (via <a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2010/03/01/short-film-about-196.html">Boing Boing</a>)</p>http://justinept.com/post/480389280http://justinept.com/post/480389280Sun, 28 Mar 2010 17:32:47 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ky3hhjSXfT1qz4s19o1_500.gif"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://jimray.tumblr.com/post/398685465/the-gettysburg-powerpoint-presentation">jimray</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>The <a href="http://norvig.com/Gettysburg/">Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation</a></p> </blockquote>http://justinept.com/post/398737136http://justinept.com/post/398737136Fri, 19 Feb 2010 08:04:40 -0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kxqts7d0yu1qz4rmbo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/02/olympic_torch_relay_nearly_com.html">Canada’s Olympic Torch Relay - The Big Picture - Boston.com</a></p>http://justinept.com/post/385875018http://justinept.com/post/385875018Fri, 12 Feb 2010 11:21:43 -0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kxqoioCmmY1qz4rmbo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.wardshelley.com/paintings/pages/rockgenres.html">Rock Genres</a> (via <a href="http://kottke.org/10/02/timeline-paintings">kottke.org</a>)</p>http://justinept.com/post/385739839http://justinept.com/post/385739839Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:28:00 -0800<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kwyuvdPOYP1qz4rmbo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://fakeisthenewreal.org/reform/">electoral college reform</a></p> <p>A redrawing of state lines to form 50 new states of equal population. (via <a href="http://twitter.com/rands/status/8329106117">rands</a>)</p>http://justinept.com/post/358095657http://justinept.com/post/358095657Thu, 28 Jan 2010 08:52:25 -0800<img src="http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kwfjx1m8dl1qz50x3o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://mrgan.tumblr.com/post/340942508/crayola-color-chart-1903-2010-weather-sealed">mrgan</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><b><a href="http://www.weathersealed.com/2010/01/15/color-me-a-dinosaur/">Crayola Color Chart, 1903-2010</a></b></p> <p>Weather Sealed made this awesome visualization of Crayola’s colors throughout the 20th century. My inner Tufte approves.</p> </blockquote>http://justinept.com/post/341117949http://justinept.com/post/341117949Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:09:05 -0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kw5ns9OvK31qzfme7o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>This is why I love where I live.</p> <p><a href="http://travelhighlights.tumblr.com/post/331182951/winds-of-color-by-bryan-swan-mount-baker-north">travelhighlights</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><b><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bryanswan/2885448629/">Winds of Color</a></b> by <i>Bryan Swan</i></p> <p>Mount Baker, North Cascades, Washington, USA</p> </blockquote>http://justinept.com/post/331210617http://justinept.com/post/331210617Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:48:00 -0800