All This Is That Staff Drawing

By Jack Brummet

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Beyond The Time Barrier: A 1960 movie about ten years from now

By Jack Brummet, 1960's Ed.

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Arnold Genthe's 1925 photograph of a Teodor Benda mask

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Poem: The World Seems Especially Verisimilitudinous Tonight

By Jack Brummet

Swim run fly crawl & creep —
Animals don't kill time
And time loves them back.

Threading high fidelity cirrus,
The sun unloads the last of its rays
And blesses the mountain palisade.

So much depends upon
Keeping this up.
And a red wheel-barrow.

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The paddle ball sculpture at Big Fish Games in Seattle

By Jack Brummet

I was at Big Fish Games for a meeting today.  The last time I was there must have been nearly ten years ago, when they were still pretty much in startup mode. Wow. Things have changed.  Really impressive offices.   The paddle ball sculpture in the parking lot was created by the artist Catherine Mayer in 2011.  

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Don't sit or lie down on the streets of Fremont

By Jack Brummet, Frelard Ed.

This sign is around the corner from my office in Fremont.  Those are pretty similar to the hours when people sleep on the street in Mumbai--they settle in at dark and are up and about just after sunrise.  I've never seen anyone sleeping on our block or nearby, but the sign must be there for some reason.

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The 13th Man: Seahawks Fairweather Fans

By Jack Brummet

A flag for the 13th Man, the Seattle Seahawks fairweather friends,  Go Hawks!  LOB!

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The Finger: our bi-monthly round up

By Mona Goldwater, Signs & Gestures Ed.

Our irregular scheduled round-up of middle fingers we've collected, a couple from College Humor, and a handful of reader submissions.

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The "fail whale" of Ello

By Jack Brummet

Not too surprising, if it is really growing as fast as they say. Remember the frequent Twitter fail whale?  I think they said they were either receiving 30,000 invite requests an hour, or were adding 30,000 users an hour... 

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Alien Lore No. 264 - Intelligent Life Beyond Earth

By Jack Brummet, Alien Lore Ed.

At a panel discussion on Monday, scientists from NASA said they were closer than ever to finding out for sure if we have cousins Out There.

Former astronaut and NASA Administrator Charles Bolden made it clear where NASA's collective head is on this issue in his opening statement: 

"Do we believe there is life beyond Earth?" he asked. "I would venture to say that most of my colleagues here today say it is improbable that in the limitless vastness of the universe we humans stand alone."

Read the entire story in the Los Angeles Times here. 

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An amazing houseboat on Lake Pend Oreille

Katrina Bondra's photo of a houseboat on Lake Pend Oreille (non NWers: pronounced Pond O-ray).

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We Pick Dick!: photo from a Richard Nixon for Governor rally in 1962

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