respect...

...for google's "extra large images" search results, in general. i just nabbed one of stephen hawking floating in some zeroG space-age thing: 3504 x 2336 pixels. no big deal. the size really takes the shot from just-plain-bizarre to extraordinarily bizarre. the poor man already looks like he has a bunch of problems (and he does), but here he looks like a mummy - at best. plus, i can see all sorts of ephemera wedged up in his brown teeth. i need to do something with this image (besides keeping it as my desktop background forever)...

normally:

(so bummed on life)

as a mummy:

(having a blast)

obviously, these were way more detailed before blogger shrank em down...