November 6, 2009

Spam

If there's one thing that gets a little tiresome it's the students who miss use Blackboard e-mail privileges and send incessant mass e-mails to their fellow classmates clogging their inboxes with messages they really didn't want in the first place... (deep breath)
Well, I got ANOTHER one of these e-mails yesterday from someone who may hold the record for mass Blackboard e-mails. It was unique enough I thought I'd share it. Enjoy.

"I wasn't able to make it to class today. This was unfortunate and unavoidable, and I really regret it. You now have the ability to make me feel worse by refusing to share notes with me, or to make all of my wildest dreams come true . . . what kind of people are you? Before you answer you should be warned that, as a political science major, I'm conversant in the deadly art of comparing my enemies to Hitler. Thanks."

Hopefully there was some saint out there kinder than myself that responded to this spamers request. Right now, however, I am perfectly content letting this person compare me to Hitler.

November 2, 2009

November 1, 2009

Forced Perspective

This is an amazing picture I saw on the Digital Photography School blog...

The picture is of 18,000 men preparing for war in a training camp at Camp Dodge, in Iowa.
A few facts about the image:

Length from base to Shoulder: 150 feet
Right Arm: 340 feet
Length of Torch and flame: 1000 feet
Total Length: 1490 Feet
Number of men in body and head of figure: 2,000
Number of men in right arm: 1,200
Number of men in torch: 2,800
Number of men in the flame only: 12,000
Total men: 18,000