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I finally succumbed. I do make a fine Vulcan.

See the creepy results here.

Fanboy.com continues its unending, ass-kicking parade of delights today with photos of a “Popeye Shipwreck Game” , unearthed from the depths of the Great Depression in 1933. The blogger, Michael Pinto, snapped some lovely shots of the well-preserved game, which he spotted in a shop window in NYC.

See the rest of the pix here.

Today I began my volunteer service at the very cool Fort Matanzas National Monument, here in Saint Augustine. This dinky little fort was build by the Spanish over four hundred years ago. It kept watch over the “backdoor” access (up the Atlantic coastway) to Saint Augustine (the nation’s oldest city, in case you didn’t know!).

I am working as a volunteer deckhand on the ferry that takes visitors to the tiny island where the fort stands guard. I have the rope blisters and sunburn of an old salt… it feels good to do some physical work, it’s a welcome change from the anxiety of my endless, fruitless job hunt.

Someone on flickr called spacesick has produced some graphic design masterpieces in his (her?) collection entitled The “I Can Read Movies” Series.

The collection imagines the covers of various movie “novelizations”, a favorite genre of mine. The covers are made to look weatherbeaten and aged, as if they’d been pawed by a million lonely hands in a 1970’s library.

Someone brilliant has come up with the idea of floating cities, and apparently they’ll be ready to go in three years.  The best thing about these Waterworld-ish enclaves is that they’ll be laboratories for “new forms of government”, e.g. ones that allow drug use or that don’t have intellectual property laws.

I’m game for the deviant art colony waterworld, if one emerges.  Read all about it on CNN:

City floating on the sea could be just 3 years away – CNN.com