Carving living trees? I guess it's no surprise that they look like they're screaming, or moaning, or just plain dead.

He would have been the answer to a trivia question for the next 100 years. Go bears!

Nice steel box to stew in! Nothing better than spending your afterlife in your own juices. I agree with Lake Troll, although there is a certain point in every cremation when the body is very much like bacon.

It looks remarkably like the Swintec I had back in the late 80's. Of course, I kept my spell-check behind and to the right and usually had a cup of coffee on it.

I have a friend who moved to the US from the Ukraine. She's 8 this year and a Medical Laboratory Scientist! With today's frequency of C-Section-to-order births, I don't put as much stock in the "rarity" than I would those born on their own time, naturally.

Nice Millenium Falcon too!

classy.

What does he expect when he marries an Andorian!

I wonder what they'll pay for the last one.

I vote for the Rhodes interview, but wear eye black.

Helmet Schmelmet. Side impact air bags? right... Helmets add weight to your head and when you're getting tossed around that doesn't help your neck from being broken. Side impact air bags do nothing to keep inertia from tearing your aorta from your heart. The day we get Testacle Cancer Awareness Three Day Weekend and see sexy men examining themselves, I'll send a dollar to the Breast Cancer Bandwagon.

Maybe it was a witch?

The almond tree picture is an English Walnut Orchard. Note the root stock, white trunk and branch pattern. Also, locals in Northern CA call almonds "amonds" with the "a" pronounced like "apple." This is in homage to the way they used to be harvested. Big rubber mallets were wielded by workers, smacking the trunks and knocking the "L" out of the tree to get them down!

Here's my take on the photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/48354369@N00/5694380533/