Wednesday, January 06, 2010

Entropy - it doesn't just happen

Axe Whatever Paste

originally uploaded by theimpulsivebuy.
What fools we were in the 1970s when we did not know that we needed a product like this to ensure that our hair looked messy, trusting instead to literal winds of chance, inadvertent bed-head (before that was a scientific term), and desperate self-barbering upon occasion. For if science has taught us anything, it's that one cannot trust nature to revert to disorder when one's (fashion) life might depend on it. I imagine that the Axe people have incorporated nanomachinery into their product to make sure that no two strands parallel one another over a significant distance, and perhaps a dab of adaptive optics to befuddle the hapless viewer's eye to see more of a fractal Medusa's nest than is practically possible to engineer in reality. Back in those days the mathematics of strange attractors was regrettably unavailable to describe the chaotic hair dynamics that is now understood to be essential to sustain modern standards of presentability.

Tuesday, January 05, 2010

The eff word

Perfume name: In-eff-able

Were I to manufacture this, I would support it with a sleazy marketing campaign.

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Saturday, January 02, 2010

Crisis averted for now

Name for the last decade: The kooky glasses era

Makers of novelty eyewear have had to be more inventive than usual this year because of the missing double-aughts in the middle of the year. I predict that next year the available strategems will prove to be too strained to come up with a viable marketable product.

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Tuesday, December 15, 2009

The physical artifact arrives

The literary production mentioned previously here has not only taken shape in the real world but has negotiated the supply chain issues successfully. And of course Annabel Scheme (broken link) makes for a good read. But it's not the San Francisco I remember....

Tuesday, December 01, 2009

The stage show, the film, and the concert tour

via (broken link)

Sequel name: Jesus H. Christ Super-Fricken-Rockstar

The part of Judas 2.0 would be pivotal - he would be a metal android with an autotune voicebox riding in a monster truck.

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