Monday Memes

Just for fun, here are a bunch of meme images I’ve made recently. Most of them were for the Notes section of Substack (its version of tweets). They’re all just my version of interesting memes I’ve seen or good lines that I thought deserved a nice image. Enjoy…

And oldie but a good idea. I’ve seen this as a bumper sticker for many years and thought I’d make my own.

Along with Mark Twain, Albert Einstein is one of the most misquoted popular figures. Adding him to some quote makes the quote sound smart. This is actually a remake of an earlier (much smaller) version:

Which I made a long time ago for a post and only have this small 180×244. That width, 180 pixels, is the standard width I used for sidebar pictures (whereas the lede picture is always 200 pixels wide with an aspect ratio of 0.800 to no less than 0.750 — many are around 0.750).

There’s a worldwide shortage!

Or not. It’s uncertain. I’m not happy with the text colors — they clash too much with the woodgrain background. Need to redo this one someday.

There was planned a similar ad for psychics, but they already knew about the job posting.

Add them all up, and here we are.

It’s a little weird how true all four came to be. But then, science fiction authors are pretty good at extrapolating the future from current trends and circumstances (and a good understanding of human nature). “Pretty good” but with frequent errors and omissions. It’s interesting how few SF authors anticipated the smart devices we carry today.

As I love chuckling over, many thought faxing would still be a thing.

Breaking News: a jar of peanuts contains … peanuts.

I found some better pictures and made a larger version of one of my favorite Venn diagrams. The old one, made for a post, was too small just like the Einstein one above. The original:

I like the new version better, but what do y’all think?

When I posted The Danger of Chemistry on Substack, a new version of The Invisible Killer post here from 2011, I made the above graphic to as closely as possible resemble the ISO warning signs for dangerous chemicals.

Because, for reals, DHMO is dangerous stuff!

You have to be at least a little bit math-y to read this. For those staring in the maths window, √-1, the square root of minus one, is the infamous i, the basis of the complex numbers. Of course, 2³=8. Then comes ∑, the calculus sum symbol. And lastly, comes π (pi).

Put them all together and you have “i 8 sum pi” — “I ate some pie.” Very clever, whoever came up with it. I just had to make my own copy (in part because the one I saw had low image quality).

This and the previous image were for Pi Day this year and the post I published on Substack for it.

I’ve spared readers the various political memes, except for two. This one I made:

And I wonder at this point how many of his supporters are finally waking up to the mistake they made. (What I really wonder is whether many of them will ever understand that it was a mistake. Hard to understand what happened to our supposed American — not to mention Christian — values.)

This last one isn’t mine but one I saw in a post recommended by a friend:

This, I’m afraid, sums up my feels rather precisely. We’re no longer in a situation where both sides are valid, not if we wish to maintain the founding values of this country.

Not if basic human decency means anything anymore.

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Stay memetic, my friends! Go forth and spread beauty and light.

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