Tag Archives: Humor

Ick! Sins!

Posted on February 17, 2008 by Kelson

Sign: ICK SI NS (normally QUICK SIGNS)

According to Katie, this actually said “quick sins” the previous time we drove past it!

This shot almost cost us our new car. The sign faces the freeway, and rather than stick Katie with shooting from a moving vehicle at night, I tried to find a good angle from the parking lot. We saw that the lot extended far enough to see around the corner, and headed for the end of the lot. As I prepared to turn into the last space on the end, a truck came zooming around the corner of the next building over, a Carl’s Jr. with a drive-through and absolutely no visibility. Clearly they weren’t expecting to see anyone in the lot at 10:00 at night. Fortunately we both stopped in time.

Also, I now know that the horn works.

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Santa’s other job

Posted on December 24, 2007 by Kelson

Spotted last summer. In case you were wondering…

Catering truck: Santa’s Catering.

…now you know what he does for the rest of the year!

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Londo/G’Kar in 2008!

Posted on November 6, 2007 by Kelson

This just showed up in my email from babylon5scripts.com:

J. Michael Straczynski with campaign sign: Londo/ G’Kar ’08: How much worse could it be?

From JMS’s Cafe Press store (the same site through which he’s selling his script books with commentary):

With the coming 2008 elections, there aren’t a lot of candidates we can agree upon. So as a public service, we are now providing a slate of candidates that will bring the country together in common cause and preserve many of this nations’ finest electoral traditions.

Slates available include Londo/G’Kar, G’Kar/Londo, and Zathras/Zathras (trained in crisis management!)

I remember having an unofficial Sheridan/Ivanova ’96 (or possibly Sheridan/Delenn) bumper sticker, but I’m fairly certain it was a homemade “Elect The Brain” (as in Pinky and the…) sticker that I actually put on my car that year.

Now if only they’d used the correct punctuation on the ’08 instead of trusting smart quotes. (That should be an apostrophe, not a left single quote.)

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New Age Drinks?

Posted on October 12, 2007 by Kelson

Grocery aisle containing New Age Drinks

Okay, maybe I’ve missed a memo or something, but can someone tell me: what exactly is a new age drink? Nothing in the aisle stood out as being particularly new-agey.

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Icy?

Posted on October 7, 2007 by Kelson

Warning sign by road: Icy. Everything’s green.

I found this photo while looking for the UCI Student Center pic. This was taken on the way back from a camping trip with UCI’s Campuswide Honors Program in the Angeles National Forest in April 2000. IIRC it was along Angeles Crest Highway.

A permanent sign isn’t necessarily the best way to indicate a transitory condition.

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Not a problem

Posted on September 27, 2007 by Kelson

No Parking sign… in the middle of the lawn.Ordinarily, there wouldn’t be anything odd about this sign. But look at the placement.

Why do they need a No Parking sign in the middle of the lawn? It’s a new sign, too—they just redid the entire lawn last year.

Seriously, I don’t think they’re going to have much of a problem with people parking on the lawn in front of an office building in Irvine.

Come to think of it, though, this is only 50 feet or so from the crosswalk warning device.

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ΠR8

Posted on September 19, 2007 by Kelson

If ye be wonderin’ why this site be lookin’ strange this day, wonder no further. It be Talk Like a Pirate Day.

This day o’ pirate speak is brought to ye by the Text Filter Suite of Dougal Campbell.

I might be recommendin’ ye set course for the sea shanty, Voyage of the Fyrefawkes, or embark upon the Tall Ships of San Diego. Or if ye wish, ye might search yerself fer more pirate tales.

Katie at Nav

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Cylon Sighting

Posted on September 18, 2007 by Kelson

Hmm, does anyone else think that the logo on this sign….

ACC (All Counties Courier) sign

…looks a bit like a Cylon Basestar?

Cylon Basestar

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BEM: Ladies Man

Posted on September 3, 2007 by Kelson

Take a look at this public service announcement I found in a 1967 comic book:

BEM Shows Up: 3 teen boys, Brains, Emotion and Muscles, each try and fail to chat up a girl at a party. By combining themselves they become BEM, who succeeds.

Continue reading →

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click: a lesson in font design

Posted on August 30, 2007 by Kelson

Two views of Katie’s mousepad:

Mousepad: click (unimpeded) Mousepad: dick (space blocked by a cord)

I don’t think that second view is quite what they had in mind…

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