Picture of the Day - Making Sick Figures

I found this on the internet this morning.... hilariously clever smart-assery!

Meme of the Week - Putin vs. Stormtrooper

This week's viral images of the weasel riding the back of a woodpecker HERE have led to the most clever and quirky memes I have seen in quite some time. In case you don't recognize the human figure that is Russian Kleptocrat-in-Chief Vladimir Putin Photoshopped from his ridiculous bare-chested horseback riding image onto the back of the aforementioned weasel riding on the back of the aforementioned woodpecker. Photoshopped into the image to appear to be in hot pursuit is an Imperial Scout Trooper riding a speeder bike. There are more memes of this out there as you can see HERE. This is the first in a new series on this blog entitled "Meme of the Week." Check out the upgraded redux of this HERE.

More Of The Chile Cook-Off

Here are three additional images of Chile's Mount Villarica erupting the other night that must be shared here. To view additional images of this eruption I posted previously go HERE.

Photo by Ariel Marinkovic, AFP/Getty Images (all rights reserved).

Photo by Carlos Rocuant, AFP/Getty Images (all rights reserved).

Photo by Ariel Marinkovic, AFP/Getty Images (all rights reserved).

Chile Is Cooking Tonight!

About an hour ago these images began to pour in via Twitter from Chile where Mount Villarica is erupting utterly spectacularly tonight. At first I thought they were too awesome to not be Photoshopped but eruption is so amazing that apparently just about anybody in the vicinity of this mountain at present is able to take images like those below. For additional images of this eruption I posted subsequently go HERE.

Image courtesy of biobio via Twitter.

Image courtesy of Cabrogoogleao via Twitter.

Image courtesy of FranciscoLjubet via Twitter.

Spocking Canadians

I came across this phenomenon tonight on Twitter. Apparently, one of their past leaders who appears on their currency bares some facial resemblance to the late Leonard Nimoy's legendary Star Trek character Spock. In times past some geeky Canucks have taken to altering said leader's visage on the currency to appear like Spock. In the aftermath of Nimoy's death there has been a resurgence of this activity in tribute to Nimoy and his character. Read more about it HERE.

Tres Storm Pics

Today's weather over the Central Coast and much of California was unsettled. Below are three images I captured today despite all I have going on in my life.

Rapidly-building thunderstorm's clouds base looming over Atascadero around the time of first lightening strike.

View from my house in Paso Robles, CA, looking east at sunset.

View looking west from the street in front of my house. All photos by Kim Patrick Noyes (all rights reserved).

My Kind Of February

The cold weather back east seems to get all the attention out west it's been quite the opposite and there is a correlation.