Don’t worry, I am not turning this into a hipster food blog… but we did go out for a nice meal the other day…

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If you look past the large, scary man… (no, he isn’t scary, that’s our friend, Big Johnny, who has known my wife since high school, and me for a lot of years, and is called ‘Big’ because I am 6 feet 4 inches tall, and he makes me look regular sized)… you will see a doorway.

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There is Big Johnny, with his wife, Eva, and his son, Willie, who also happens to be my godson. We ate at a Vegan restaurant, which I am amused to tell you was actually awesome.

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Yeah, I’m not lost…

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Anyway, this Kindred place had awesome food, and a skull theme.

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I had a large adult beverage… with a spaceman in it…

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Which led me to the men’s room, where you have to use a urinal while heavy metal music assaults you, and this guy watches you pee.

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But, after passing the four-eyed, flower-haired, skull-topped, ram-horned devil on the way to the restroom, that felt like a relaxing place to be.

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There I am, outside, doing the selfie thing, wearing my best dress-tie-dye. It was a cute little neighborhood not too far from downtown San Diego. I can’t tell you how many cute babies and little kids and dogs I met. But it was a lot.

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So yeah, the food was awesome. I am not showing you photos of the food. This isn’t going to be a food blog.

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And I will show you the huge alcohol-filled punch bowl that Eva got for us. Did I mention it was like ten in the morning? And I had to go to work later?

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So, I got a little hammered.

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Which might explain the selfie and this picture of a plane coming in to land.

 

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Tripping the light fantastic… wait, what the heck is that?… part 4…

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Don’t worry, I am going to tell you what all of these are…

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They are all different versions of the same thing…

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And what, I hear you asking with a resigned sigh, fearing that you are just acting as an enabler for my shenanigans,  is that one thing that these are all versions of???

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I’m getting to that…

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Because they are all versions of this photo that I took…

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And you should know what that is, because I did a post about it a long while back. Now, don’t get frustrated yet, because I have more of this series on the way, but I am going to mix in some more of the photos I saved.

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Tripping the light fantastic… wait, what the heck is that?… part 3…

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Another hint: It is still the same image I used for the first posts in this series.

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Dear white supremacist racists, why are all your heroes perverts and sexual deviants who never had a normal relationship with a member of the opposite… or any… sex???

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Low self-esteem and a troubled relationship with their parents seems to be a theme, resulting in paranoia, delusions, habitual lying, a need to find a scapegoat for their failures, and a love of twisted fetishism that crosses most boundaries of the accepted norm, and I mean any norm… and that’s grading on a curve… from a guy who grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area during the 60’s and 70’s… where the norm is pretty far out there.

So, these are the guys you look up to, idolize, worship? I have to say, this seems to say something about you as well.

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Tripping the light fantastic… wait, what the heck is that?… part 2…

I will give you a hint: It is the same thing as this…

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Which is the same thing as this…

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And this…

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And this…

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I hope that helps.

 

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Tripping the light fantastic… wait, what the heck is that?… part 1…

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Well, I guess you are going to have to come back for part 2… and so on… to find out. HA!

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Snake eyes…

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Before I go any further, I have to apologize. I killed a rattlesnake yesterday. It had my daughter and her friend trapped in a car. They couldn’t get out, or move without running it over. I would have moved it if I could, but there are little kids in the neighborhood, and animal control doesn’t respond to snake calls unless they are inside your house or in your yard.

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So, I feel bad, but not so bad that I didn’t break out the digital microscope.

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Seriously, I feel horrible. But it was a wet year in Southern California, which means more plants, which means more bunnies and gophers and rats and mice, which means more snakes and hawks.

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So feel free to hate me as much as I hate myself.

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But it is amazing the variety of scales this thing has… had…

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I could have just thrown it away and not told you about it.

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That is part of his rattle.

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Okay, once again, I am sorry.

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I sort of panicked in the moment. The girls were screaming because Mollie’s friend almost stepped on it trying to get out of the car before they knew it was there, my wife was freaking out, the dogs were barking, the cat was circling. I did the best I could.

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Bye.

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Making the big money… part 1…

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Just playing with my digital microscope.

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I am almost done with the paper money, including ones from my travels.

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This post focuses… HA!… on an American two-dollar bill, and a British pound note.

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I am starting the post with the two-dollar bill.

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Then the pound note.

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See if you can tell when the pound note shows up.

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These are all taken at the zoomed-out level of the digital microscope. I was thinking of running it over these same two bills on the really-zoomed-in level after this, if anyone is interested. If not, I will start on some coins, after a suitable break for other stuff.

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Uh, that is two lips and a nose. At this level, you can see what things are.

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I did notice a strange thing on the back of the back of this bill. There is a reproduction of a famous painting done as an engraving.

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When you zoom in like this, it is funny how many people in it look like George Washington.

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Not all of them do.

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It is amazing how these dots look like little people through the naked eye.

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Ooooh… fancy shoe buckles!

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1776 was a good year… for freedom!

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That guy didn’t shave.

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And that rude gentleman still has his hat on indoors.

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Does anybody want to see all this even closer?

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We can zoom in until those lines fill most of the image. You can see the filaments in the paper. You can see the ink spreading into the paper.

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Or are you sick of this. I do wonder what the coins will look like.

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They might be boring, but I doubt it.

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Uh… does that say: kofefe???

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I know what that is.

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Could you tell when we moved on to the pound note???

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I want to watch a documentary about printing money!

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Is that Issac Newton???

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Did you know he was on the back of the pound note?

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Oh yeah, I would recognize his fingernails anywhere.

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Have I mentioned that I love Photoshop?… part 2…

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Any crazy, silly idea that pops into my crack squirrel-infested mind, I can make it happen!

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Have I mentioned that I love Photoshop?… part 1…

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Every night at work, while I am making my security patrols, I pass the door marked: Human Resources. It seems like such a strange turn of phrase, I thought I would make it stranger… and darker.

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