Recycled wire musings

It's like a thought in wire form, sort of bounced around and then reformed into something new. Well, it's amusing, if not a musing. *Phhbt* I'm tired and my brain is mush.

Yeah, the explanatory details are needed.

18 gauge aluminum wire.
It used to be a Batman symbol, wire noose/balloon/invisible-dog-leash, and another dragon. (It's been through several reincarnations.)

Biology and drinking don't mix-- academia is not, in fact, soluble in alcohol.

So in Costa Rica, we couldn't go five minutes without "bromeliad" or "epiphyte" being said. In a stroke of genius (or heat stroke of genius, I'll let you decide), we decided this would make an awesome drinking game.

I give you:

It's a shot glass with a bromeliad-in-a-tree (aka: epiphyte).

Three Stages of Drinking

Images pulled and tweaked from The Bunny comic

Ockham's Straight Razor.

Numquam ponenda est pluritas sine necessitate.

"Entities are not to be multiplied without necessity."

A real straight razor with "Ockham" engraved on it. (Dremel & engraving bit and some creative set up. The little bugger is /sharp/.) This was made awhile ago, so it's not a recent creation.

Oops, forgot to toss this one up earlier: Know Thyself

"Know Thyself" pulled from Arkham Asylum inspired by Delphic inscription, popularly attributed to every Pre-Socratic Ever And Their Mothers.

Feb. 12 == Darwin Day

Inspired by Putting-Off-Studying-For-An-Evolution-Exam and QoW- Darwin Cartoon

Calvin and Hobbes!

It strikes me as a bad thing that I have to superglue and tape my cuts shut on my fingers. The two deeper cuts don't really hurt, but they're going to take awhile to heal. The really annoying cut is a much shallower cardboard-cut from, of all things, a microwavable-macaroni&cheese box. Oh the ignominy!
Despite these cuts, though, I have sucessfully finished (with ample aid from Trillian):

(J.CALVIN&CALVIN) & (HOBBES&T.HOBBES)

(There are two glasses, each etched with two images. The two Calvins are on the same glass, two Hobbes on the other.)

Shots IV: More philosophers

Hey, I have been doing stuff besides shot glasses. It's really hard to bring these things around, so my chainmail is still my portable anti-narcolepsy. (Turkish roundweave! Eee~)

(I'll be trying to get better photos someday.)

John Calvin & Thomas Hobbes (keep watching, I'm thinking of doing the cartoon Calvin & Hobbes on the reverse of these glasses!)

Locke & Rousseau

Dostoevsky

My philosophy department loves these

BATMAN!

John Smith's map sketch of the Jamestown fort. (I blame historic preservation.)

Kierkegaard & Socrates.

Hume & Kant.

We might see a trend here... Philosophers + Anime

Pika-pika!

Newcomers to my philosophers line: Descartes on the left, Spinoza on the right.

Full Metal Alchemist's Cross, A penguin, the kanji for "wine" (Sake).