What is this place?
Polytechnic is the online home of Garrett Coakley.
It tends to focus on such geekery as web development, technology, music, film, and photography.
Elsewhere
Other places I can be found on the web.
- Follow my babbling on Twitter
- See my photography on Flickr
- What I’m listening to via Last.fm
- Recently bookmarked on Pinboard
Recent photos on flickr
Colophon
Tag Archives: random
Oddest text message ever
My little girl cat is a little boy cat!
Yes, I know the person. No, I have no more details.
Melancholy thought
I wish they’d hurry up and invent teleportation. Anything to take this time and distance rubbish out of the equation.
Quote of the evening
It’s very hard to describe music, that’s why we listen to it.
Zane Lowe, BBC Radio 1 — 11th Oct 2006
Run!!! They’re coming!!!
Holy shit, that’s one big earwig. Run for your lives people!
(What the hell kind of pesticide are the Germans using?)
Hat tip: Boing Boing
Update: Damn my weakness at entomology. According to this post on the Google Earth forum it’s a thrips. Poor thing got squished between a glass plate and the film during scanning.