Stray Hawkeye

To take a little shine off of that new Christmas toy, especially the electronic ones, here’s a look at where “away” is when you throw the old one away.  Fair warning, it’s really depressing.

Here’s an added bonus.  I found that video via Boing Boing Gadgets.  On the same day, they posted about a Target gift card, with a low resolution digital camera built in.  They described it as:

It’s easy to get all sniffy about the specs of Target’s new digicam gift cards — 1.2 megapixels? 8MBs of onboard memory? The eyeroll of disdain underlined with a wipe of a mucousy nose with the back of the sleeve — but they’re still awesome. A gift card is an inherently tacky and thoughtless gift, but the ability to load photographs of yourself or loved ones before shoving one into a Christmas stocking is a great, humanizing touch.

That’s right, on the same day as posting where all this thrown away toxic trash goes, they post a piece of absolute throw away toxic trash, and deem it “awesome”, with “a great, humanizing touch”.  Bleeding heart environmentalism at its best/worst.

In case the irony there wasn’t thick enough, they also linked to both of of these articles in their daily round up, deeming one “oddly humanizing”, and the other “super disturbing”.  I’ll let you decide which is which.

So, I will admit that with the close of the Olympics, I’m a little disappointed.  It’s obvious that the Chinese put a huge amount of time, effort, and money into these games.  This is especially true of all of the venues that were designed and built specifically for the games.  With all of this, I find it, well, a little rude that a certain guest did not appear.

I know he probably wasn’t explicitly invited, but with the massive, and distinctively designed, Beijing National Stadium (christened by many “The Bird’s Nest”), it is obvious they were hoping for an appearance.  His presence would show that they have arrived as a country.  A passing of the torch of sorts.  A symbol of power and strength settling in their lands.

I know, I know, it would have been a long flight for him, and to a country he’s not used to, when he’s getting up there in age.  But still, architecture like this can not go unrecognized by it’s obvious muse.  I’m speaking, of course, of Rodan.

Come on, at no point during the Olympics did this image cross your mind?

I gotta learn Photoshop better, because that took forever.