The Exploits of a TurboGeek!

This is buddhist relic skull that was for sale. 900 euro. It brings misfortune to anyone who looks into his eyes. Oops.

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Not much to report right now. Since so many people asked, the chamber pictured in the previous post can be found in the the basement of the Church of Our Lady, in Luxembourg City. This is the church I falsely claimed was burned down.

The basement of the church had a cool name like “Alcove” or something. When the sign said “Alcove” closes at 1700, and it was 1645, I made sure and ran down there straight away. There are cool things to be found in places that close. Plus, the deeper into the bowels of a building you go, the better it is (no, the sign didn’t say “Bowels”.)

Anyway, once down there, all we found were some pews, some odd chairs, some neat stained glass windows, and this room. This room was for something, but I forget what. Maybe a pope or something was buried there. All I know, is I didn’t get the boweltastic thrills I had expected.

The chairs were kind of weird. Very high backs, with large flat tops. I think they were like that so one could hang a coat on the back without it touching the floor. Chryss thinks they were setup so that you could kneel on the seat and rest your elbows on the flat part. I disagree. First, the seat part was the same height as the pews, and the chairs faced the same direction as the pews. If people kneeled in the fashion Chryss described, they’d be facing the people in the pews.

This made me think of the types of religious battles people had in days of old. I can imagine a bunch of people praying in the pews, staring down the people praying on the kneely chairs. Then, I started to sing this song… (Sung to “Milk Shake” )

“My Carillon brings all the knees to the floor,

My God is betta than yours, my god is betta than yours”

Of course, I couldn’t think of that immediately, so I just wandered around thinking of lyrics until I got it, and started belting it out at some other random landmark causing much confusion.

My god is betta than yours!

This is from my phone.

Everyone keeps asking for this picture, though I thought I already emailed it. Anyhow, here it is.

This picture was taken with a camera with a timer while precariously attached to a flagpole and aimed no-look style by yours truly. Everybody thought it wouldn’t work… (including yours truly).

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Y’know.  I write a short post about nothing in particular, and I get 10 comments.  I write a bit of creative fiction about a piece of Modern Art and a punitive immolation, and I get one comment (Thanks Jim & D#, BTW).  I guess I need to keep my pieces shorter and fluffier…

Do you remember when you were little, and you didn’t know how to spell a word, and some helpful bonehead would tell you to “look it up.”  And that didn’t work, because you didn’t know how to spell the freaking word in the first place.  I used to like it though.  I’d go to the dictionary, and while looking for words I’d find all sorts of other interesting words.  Then I’d read their definitions instead, and forget how the whole ordeal started anyway.

Do I  have ADD? ADHD? Yeah, probably, who doesn’t?  I doubt I have those things, actually.  I’m sure someone might tell me I do, but I’ll tell them I also have a hippopotamus.

Anyhow, now that I’m a full fledged geek, I don’t have to look up many words.  No, I don’t know them all already.  I use google, and if I mispell them, Google asks me if I maybe wasn’t trying for something else, and then corrects me.  This bums me out, because I get right to my desired information with no innocently informative sidetracks (google sidetracks almost inevitably lead to p0rn)…

Then I found Wikipedia!  Granted, I’ve been using Wikipedia for a long time now.  What I learned was they have a “Random Article” feature, and also a topic of the day.  Just what I need to start myself on a wayward journey into useless information!  Here are two articles I read recently that I enjoyed immensely.  Go forth on your own tangents!  Post back here if you get something really really good!

Heavy Metal Umlaut

Snakes on a Plane

That’s all.  Cheers!