Tuesday, November 06, 2007

What a hassle...

In the spirit of Jim's Handy Visual Guides, I bring you this mini field guide to "hassels/hassles".


Hasselblad - a very fine camera, popular with photographers worldwide





David Hasselhoff - somewhat of a camera hog, inexplicably popular in Germany





Odd Hassel (yes that is his real name) - a Norwegian physical chemist, super duper popular with the 1969 Nobel Prize Committee





Plain, old-fashioned hassle - rush hour in Atlanta, popular with no one

13 comments:

Jeni said...

Boy, that was a "gotcha" moment for sure. I was scrolling through there, looking for a link from each picture and the names, wondering where the heck you were going with the "hassel" theme -good chuckle invoker there!

fermicat said...

Thanks, Jeni. I was mulling this one over for most of the day (which was slow until we had a machine problem that required me to work three hours longer than I had planned.

LL said...

If it's such a hassle, why does everyone rush out there to be in the middle of it?

dr sardonicus said...

You could have posted a photo of Elisabeth Hasselbeck. Not that she's a great intellect or anything, but she would have made up for that pic of David Hasselhoff in his underwear.

wa11z said...

Or you could have put a picture up of my aunt. She's a Hassel.

Kathleen said...

That had to be non-peak rush hour, because when I was in Atlanta, there were a helluva lot more cars on the freeways. Traffic there sucks rocks.

Kelly said...

I totally want that camera.

fermicat said...

ll - because they can't afford to have a McMansion in town.

dr s - there is no antidote to the Hasselhoff picture.

wa11z - if only I'd known...

kat - yes, clearly these cars are actually moving, so it isn't rush hour yet.

Dave said...

That is the Tech sign to the right of the Connector southbound, just north of downtown, isn't it?

As to rush hour, since there's for the most part a car length between the cars in the picture, they are moving at over 60 miles an hour, no way it's rush hour. Fermi probably took the picture at about 3:00 a.m. and lightened it to make it look like day time.

TheWriteGirl said...

That's what I love about you -- you have my sense of humor!

fermicat said...

dave - I didn't take any of these pictures, but yes that is Georgia Tech campus to the right of the highway.

fermicat said...

TWG - glad you enjoyed it.

Jim Donahue said...

I need a new camera ... but it probably won't be a Hasselblad. Or a Hasselhoff, for that matter.