Early morning photo of the octopus that lives on the kitchen windowsill.

#photos #tentacles

Help Wanted: Astronauts Needed for Mars Colony

Mars One, a nonprofit organization based in the Netherlands, intends to establish a human settlement on Mars in 2023. Anyone on planet Earth can apply if they meet the basic requirements. But obviously, the job isn’t for just anyone. On Jan. 8, Mars One released its application criteria.

The full site with all the spacey details — Human Settlement on Mars in 2023. I would sign up but on that day I got shit to do.

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Furthermore, the human ability to conceive in reduced gravity is not known, neither is there enough research on whether a fetus can grow normally under these circumstances. Mars One will therefore strongly advise the settlement habitants not to attempt to have children.

No monkey business okay? Mars One has enough on their minds.

#cosmos #careermove

Wendy’s Franchise Cuts Employee Hours To Part-Time To Avoid Obamacare

Not long after the owner of the Olive Garden and Red Lobster chains admitted their anti-Obamacare campaigns hurt more than helped, the owner of a Wendy’s franchise in Omaha, Nebraska plans to cut 300 employees’ hours to part-time to avoid providing them health care coverage.

By moving workers to part-time status in order to avoid paying for their health benefits, the Wendy’s franchise would shift the costs of insurance coverage onto hundreds of employees[…]

Those darn square hamburgers.

#corporatedollars

Actually, cats make the best mathematicians…

Jack Ziegler is a ramblin’ man - he was born in New York City, but has lived in San Francisco and Las Vegas. He began cartooning in 1972, and his first New Yorker cartoon was published in 1974. He now lives in rural Connecticut.

Love it.

#comics #cats

The Star Wars I Know

When I was approached for this job, I took a couple of minutes to think about what Star Wars meant to me, in order to determine if I had anything to bring to the table. I saw Star Wars in the theater; an odd decision for my mother, who tended to err on the side of caution when exposing her five-year-old to the mass media. I, of course, got a bunch of Star Wars toys, collected full sets of playing cards, and reenacted Hoth battle scenes in the snowy woods of Vermont. I was hooked, like everyone was. I realized that for the last 35 years of my life, Star Wars has been there in the background of my mind, in deep storage, waiting for something.

Check out the official Dark Horse page and also have a gander at the Dark Horse Twitter page for retweets of the best articles and reviews.

“This is Red 5, I’m going in.”

#comics #starwars

I guess somewhere along the line I just stopped fucking caring.

#axetogrind

Tina Fey in talks to star in Muppets sequel

The Muppets sequel looks to have lined up some A-list comedy foil for leading man Ricky Gervais, with Tina Fey reportedly in talks to join the furry fun.

Me and The Muppets go way back, I always wanted a slot in the The Electric Mayhem.

#movies

World’s most powerful digital camera opens eye, records first images in hunt for dark energy

Eight billion years ago, rays of light from distant galaxies began their long journey to Earth. That ancient starlight has now found its way to a mountaintop in Chile, where the newly-constructed Dark Energy Camera, the most powerful sky-mapping machine ever created, has captured and recorded it for the first time.

My, my.. how I would love to say, “I work on the Dark Energy Camera.”

#science

If you want to play the mystery card, stop talking.

#rememberthis

Boots — Now With Stripes! Inspired by the Awesome Stripped Econoline Van.

#photos #fashion