It's Steve (now in blog form)

A hoodie with a dozen hidden pockets specifically designed to hold electronics?!?!? Oh god, must have.

The doctor wasn’t 100% sure, but he thinks we’re having a boy!!  You should all take a moment to either be overcome with joy or commiserate with my wife.  Here’s his picture.

Ebay is more than just the central hub of the illegal ivory trade, it also has some really incredible things now and again.  I just got something really cool.  The last time I was in Vegas I came across an odd shop in the Venetian.  It sells antiquities; ancient coins, helmets, jewelry, etc.  They also introduced me to the Roman archer’s ring.

Let me bore you for a minute with the details.  Western archers shoot off of their index, middle, and ring fingers.  Eastern archers shoot off the thumb.  Turns out that ancient Roman archers utilized the thumb technique as well.  They protected their thumbs with a specialized archer’s ring that lined in the inner length of the thumb with bronze.  

I didn’t even know that these existed until I saw the one in Vegas for $600.  Vegas shops are always a rip off so I headed to ebay.  Turns out that they are pretty readily available given the fact that they were so common.  After a few failed auctions I finally just won one for $60 with shipping.  It’s from the 1st to 4th century AD found in the Balkans (going to try and get more details to place which provence of the eastern Roman empire  that would be).

Here are some pics.  So cool.

I’m a big fan of vintage travel posters, sci-fi, and space travel.  Steve Thomas has brilliantly combined all of the above into something I know I’m going to end up ordering.  Check out his collection.  I think I’m going to get the Shanghai poster first.

I’m pretty excited right now.  Some of you will remember my plea awhile back for the components to put together my own replicator (part of my long term plan to produce bootleg action figures).  None of you saw fit to gift me any of the major electronics required (since you are all stingy and want me to be unhappy).  Fortunately, there is hope!  Turns out that I can outsource the 3d fabrication part of the process.  Ben and I are going to have a lot of Storm Troopers at this rate.

Poor Mike Seaver.  It turns out that he’s just an actor named Kirk Cameron (and doesn’t have a best friend named Boner).  It also turns out that he’s become the spokesman for some super hard core conservative Christians.  In this video he shows up with Ron Comfort.  

Ron’s gig is debating atheists.  He’s all about intelligent design.  Here he attempts to prove the existence of God with a banana  (a Christian god that is. Bananas provide no evidence of Allah or Buddha, so don’t even try it).  The fundamental design excellence of the banana must indicate a higher power.  Here, you’ll see.

An excellent point, Ron.  Allow me to rebut.  This is my friend the pineapple.  It has a ridiculous amount of segments around it’s circumference perfectly shaped for a plastic grocery bag.  On top, there isn’t a tab for easy opening, but rather a giant spiky crown that would desperately love to take an eye out.  The wrapper isn’t a good indication of ripeness necessarily and if you eat it at the wrong time acids in the flesh can literally sear the inside of your mouth and throat.  The pineapple a fruit intent on killing you if you attempt to eat it.  WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW, RON??!?

Merry Christmas, everybody!