Nanowrimo has started a new event that can take place any time of the year. It's called Camp Nanowrimo and it's got a kid's camp sort of theme to it. It's still got all the tracking features, but there's no forums or regions or anything for an ML to do (thank god, honestly- the last two years as ML have been hard).
There's a link to the side if you're interested in looking at it.
I have no idea why but even though my DVR is set to only record new episodes of Ancient Aliens it records ones that are old. But only sometimes. So sometimes I'll come home and there's a new episode, but it's really an old one. Oh well. Sometimes they get confused about actual history in it- I seem to recall some allusion to the crown of Egypt being designed to hide an alien's head- but there's things they bring up that there aren't answers to. Like how the Egyptians built anything when we can't find any of their tools. Or some of the South American monolithic sites that are just preposterously oversized...
I put down Sherlock to read Conan and then wandered off into the horrible sea of trash that is known as Anita Blake. It's so bad in such a... guilt pleasure way. (oh god i can't believe i made that joke) The early evening was so nice I went to sit on the porch and read The Case of the Dancing Men. I didn't quite finish it but the people are dead and Sherlock is hiding behind a door about to capture the main suspect. Sometimes when Sherlock is at his most didactic I just want Professor Snape to show up. Then they could have awesome smart people adventures.
I picked up some kind of spin off Conan novel this morning about a guy named... Anok? I can't wait for the movie to come out. And I keep waiting to get to the story about Sonja- I keep looking at knitting patterns for bikinis and thinking how to modify them with little crochet armor bits into her costume. It's like comics/crochet/fiction madness.
And I accidentally got mom addicted to True Blood. No, not the books. The tv show. "Can we watch it? Are the dvds here yet? What's going to happen to Sookie now?" I'm going straight to hell.
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Thursday, July 7, 2011
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Cute Song
Every time this comes on Capitol 95.8 I'm like yessss. The dance he does on the traffic stops reminds me of Edinburgh- the tour guide we had kept jumping up on those things, even after he started drinking.
It's funny the things I think of that I miss in Europe- mass transit is almost always number one. I still can't get over the fact that when I was in Montepulciano I could get the bus to Chiusi, then the train from there to Rome Termini, a bus from there to the airport, the plane from there to London, ride the tube... I was in Trader Joe's tonight and they had some wine from Montepulciano- it's weird to think that's the winery at the other end of town from where I lived. I miss the ice cream trucks all over London- practically the same as you see in the music video. I miss low tide on the Thames, when I'd climb down some algae infested steps to muck around in the clay and old bricks and mussel shells- one time I found a two pound coin and spent it on boiled candy ten minutes later at some place that makes it from scratch.
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Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Reply
Dear Anonymous,
Sorry it took me so long to reply to this- it's Christmas and I have a lot of holiday hours. But I have been meaning to reply since the day I saw your comment.
I don't want you to think I'm a heartless bastard. I'm not. But I also lived through the whole McDonald's Coffee In My Lap thing and it was one of those moments I knew the world had gone crazy. Someone put coffee in their lap and spilled it on their junk and sued McDonalds for a gazillion dollars. As if they didn't know coffee is hot. Seriously?
And there's this "who can I sue?" billboard on 75 Southbound.
And you're right, I don't have kids. I probably won't ever. But I do have dogs. I have had dogs for going on a quarter of a century and I've also worked in retail for over ten years. I'm not saying dogs and customers are the same as having kids, but they're the best I can go with, really.
And before I get any farther, I feel really bad for the parents that they lost their kids. Any death is sad and important and meaningful. I'm not trying to take away from that.
But what I meant in my blog entry is where has personal responsibility gone? Kids drown in swimming pools and you don't see pools getting closed down- they get gates and locks and I've even seen these wrist band things that sound an alarm in water. Kids put things in power outlets and the power company doesn't issue a recall- you buy those little plastic things that go in outlets. Kids eat stuff under the sink- you call poison control and get lock things for drawers or put rubber bands around the knobs.
Now, what I saw on the news for this blind thing was this weird roman blind where it had loops of string at the bottom to draw the blinds up. I have never seen blinds like that in real life. I also saw normal style blinds with strands of cords- they weren't linked at the bottom and weren't long enough to reach the windowsill. In my house we have some sort of cordless roman blind.
My first thought seeing the regular blinds with the hanging strands is, 'can't you just tie the cords in a bow higher up?' because I have been to houses like that. It never occurred to me why, but hey, there you go.
The other thing that bugged me about this case, which you pointed out in that parents can't be everywhere, was where were the parents and where were the kids? Say you left your kid in one of those pen things- there's a loud thump from the other room as the kid climbs out. Then the kid has to toddle across the room a bit until he happens upon the unknotted blinds, and then there's the loud rattling of blinds while the kid plays with them before something bad happens. This is easily ten to fifteen minutes, in my mind.
When I hear a noise upstairs and I don't see my dogs the first thing I do is yell their names- at which point you usually hear them panic and tip over the garbage can. Or I go look to see what they're up to. When I hear a noise I find out what it is, immediatly, because they're dogs. They might be up to anything. I don't wait several minutes to go investigate.
Other story about the dogs- I took Bailey to the petstore and because she was well behaved I bought her this sausage style dog food. And while I was trying to break it into pieces she ate the whole thing in one bite and you could see it get lodged in her throat. And she looked at me like oh my god and started choking and I reached into her mouth and grabbed the sausage and pulled it out. And she promptly tried to eat it again.
They're dogs. They have no idea what they're doing. They'd probably eat laundry soap if it was on the floor. That's why you have to keep an eye on them.
And what I can't fathom with these kids and blinds cases is what the parents were doing. Sleeping? Sure, I guess so. I'm a pretty light sleeper though. In the other room? There are those little walkie talkie things. At my Dad's house when my little brother was kept in a pen, we just dragged the pen to whatever room we were in.
Or when they buy plastic outlet blockers and things to keep drawers shut they could tie the cords up in a bow.
Sorry it took me so long to reply to this- it's Christmas and I have a lot of holiday hours. But I have been meaning to reply since the day I saw your comment.
I don't want you to think I'm a heartless bastard. I'm not. But I also lived through the whole McDonald's Coffee In My Lap thing and it was one of those moments I knew the world had gone crazy. Someone put coffee in their lap and spilled it on their junk and sued McDonalds for a gazillion dollars. As if they didn't know coffee is hot. Seriously?
And there's this "who can I sue?" billboard on 75 Southbound.
And you're right, I don't have kids. I probably won't ever. But I do have dogs. I have had dogs for going on a quarter of a century and I've also worked in retail for over ten years. I'm not saying dogs and customers are the same as having kids, but they're the best I can go with, really.
And before I get any farther, I feel really bad for the parents that they lost their kids. Any death is sad and important and meaningful. I'm not trying to take away from that.
But what I meant in my blog entry is where has personal responsibility gone? Kids drown in swimming pools and you don't see pools getting closed down- they get gates and locks and I've even seen these wrist band things that sound an alarm in water. Kids put things in power outlets and the power company doesn't issue a recall- you buy those little plastic things that go in outlets. Kids eat stuff under the sink- you call poison control and get lock things for drawers or put rubber bands around the knobs.
Now, what I saw on the news for this blind thing was this weird roman blind where it had loops of string at the bottom to draw the blinds up. I have never seen blinds like that in real life. I also saw normal style blinds with strands of cords- they weren't linked at the bottom and weren't long enough to reach the windowsill. In my house we have some sort of cordless roman blind.
My first thought seeing the regular blinds with the hanging strands is, 'can't you just tie the cords in a bow higher up?' because I have been to houses like that. It never occurred to me why, but hey, there you go.
The other thing that bugged me about this case, which you pointed out in that parents can't be everywhere, was where were the parents and where were the kids? Say you left your kid in one of those pen things- there's a loud thump from the other room as the kid climbs out. Then the kid has to toddle across the room a bit until he happens upon the unknotted blinds, and then there's the loud rattling of blinds while the kid plays with them before something bad happens. This is easily ten to fifteen minutes, in my mind.
When I hear a noise upstairs and I don't see my dogs the first thing I do is yell their names- at which point you usually hear them panic and tip over the garbage can. Or I go look to see what they're up to. When I hear a noise I find out what it is, immediatly, because they're dogs. They might be up to anything. I don't wait several minutes to go investigate.
Other story about the dogs- I took Bailey to the petstore and because she was well behaved I bought her this sausage style dog food. And while I was trying to break it into pieces she ate the whole thing in one bite and you could see it get lodged in her throat. And she looked at me like oh my god and started choking and I reached into her mouth and grabbed the sausage and pulled it out. And she promptly tried to eat it again.
They're dogs. They have no idea what they're doing. They'd probably eat laundry soap if it was on the floor. That's why you have to keep an eye on them.
And what I can't fathom with these kids and blinds cases is what the parents were doing. Sleeping? Sure, I guess so. I'm a pretty light sleeper though. In the other room? There are those little walkie talkie things. At my Dad's house when my little brother was kept in a pen, we just dragged the pen to whatever room we were in.
Or when they buy plastic outlet blockers and things to keep drawers shut they could tie the cords up in a bow.
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Saturday, August 8, 2009
Nostalga
I miss the good ol' days of the internet when every webpage had gifs of flickering candles and a final fantasy midi playing.
Monday, July 13, 2009
Choose Your Own Senior Thesis Topic
It's probably the six cups of coffee I've had tonight but I saw this picture and it's one of the funniest thing I've ever seen- to the point that I now want to write a thesis paper on it. With a title like "DEATH FROM ABOVE: SHARKNADOES IN THE SOUTH DURING THE RECONSTRUCTION ERA". I could even make up lots of primary sources- letters from Plantation Owners about the how the Great White Sharks that year had bitten the corners off the house and the high winds had damaged the old oak tree.
Heeeeeee.
(Pic is a shopped 'Choose your own adventure novel' in case you didn't recognize it. Shopped by iconzicons)
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Immortality can be yours....
For the low, low price of stinging the living daylights out of innocent beach goers.
That's right. There's an immortal species of jellyfish. How unfair is that? They don't even have brains. I mean, they do, but you know what I mean. It's not like they understand Shakespeare.
And they're not immortal like they'll come back if you cut them up, they're more like immortal until something kills them. But that's still really awesome.
That's right. There's an immortal species of jellyfish. How unfair is that? They don't even have brains. I mean, they do, but you know what I mean. It's not like they understand Shakespeare.
And they're not immortal like they'll come back if you cut them up, they're more like immortal until something kills them. But that's still really awesome.
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
Algorithm March! With Ninjas!
Ninjas appear halfway through. ^_^ I love the "woof woof scramble" part.
Thanks everyone for the health/food/exercise advice! I'll post about it on Thursday.
Sunday, June 24, 2007
The winding, convoluted, confusing path of the Internet
After Cliff and Kevin both told me about AT&T's Ten Dollar DSL, I finally signed up for it.
The process took at least three days. ^_^
Three days of surfing unaffiliated pages telling me about the offer and then tearing through nearly a dozen pages at the official website trying to find it. Arg! The FCC might be forcing their hand with this deal, but AT&T is doing everything they can not to admit such a thing exists.
Supposidly my new modem will arrive Friday, and Randy is going to come help me set it up, if I can't figure it out (not usually the problem. it's the getting them to talk part, for me) and then I can acctually go on YouTube at home. And do... Other things, which require faster internet...
Heh.
The process took at least three days. ^_^
Three days of surfing unaffiliated pages telling me about the offer and then tearing through nearly a dozen pages at the official website trying to find it. Arg! The FCC might be forcing their hand with this deal, but AT&T is doing everything they can not to admit such a thing exists.
Supposidly my new modem will arrive Friday, and Randy is going to come help me set it up, if I can't figure it out (not usually the problem. it's the getting them to talk part, for me) and then I can acctually go on YouTube at home. And do... Other things, which require faster internet...
Heh.
Thursday, May 3, 2007
Ice Cream, Princesses, and Camwhoring: All in one night.
So, since Facebook kindly reminded me of the date, I went to Baskin Robbin's 31 Cent Ice Cream night with a pocket full of change. I got the pocket full of change while cleaning house, a chore that I loath, and have put off all semester with the excuse of reading textbooks and surfing the Internet (for class! I swear).
Actually going to get my cheap ice cream was more of a challenge than the above paragraph implies. The first one I went to, there was a huge line that I waited in, and then skipped out of (without even getting inside the bloody building) so that I could make it to Work Dinner, one of the highlights of my week. There, Brett did number magic (read: math) and told me I could have SIXTY scoops of ice cream for my twenty dollar bill. SIXTY. Isn't that the best?
Really, I had three once I located a Baskin Robbins not overwhelmed by the masses. Some kind of two-chocolate chocolate mousse, Reece's Cups, and PeanutButter-Chocolate Ice Cream.
While I was cleaning, I found a Barnes and Nobel gift card from my Uncle which I suspected still had money on it. Toting my faithful ice cream along with me for the ride, the nice lady at the store told me I could buy nine dollars and nine cents worth of books with the card I gave her.
So, of course I picked twenty dollars worth of books. Bought two mangas that started with the word "Princess". (At one point I realized I was standing in the Romance isle eating chocolate ice cream, and I just suddenly knew this was a very bad thing) One book was "Murder Princess" (something about bodyswitching between a Princess and a bounty hunter) and the other was "Princess Resurrection" (dude, she has a chainsaw and a princess dress right on the freaking cover. i love it).
/me makes chainsaw noises.
Right. So. Princesses.... Which leads to me coming home and looking for my tiara. Because I have one, somewhere. I found it, and it was all bent up, and then it wouldn't sit on my head right, and I looked like a drunk prom queen in a t-shirt which I thought was perfect for camwhoring. And then, I remembered I have WIGS. WIGS are even better for camwhoring. In fact, I have the exact same wig as the guy on the "How to become an obnoxious Internet camwhore in five easy steps" site. Warning: That site is a little coarse, but quite funny.
And now, I proudly present to you, for your viewing amusement, Bento-chan Camwhoring!!1!
Rofl all you want. I laughed too.
And because the two go hand in hand, like peanut butter and jelly, here's my
My friend Mal was even kind enough to look over my wishlist and offer me help with it:
[01:10] Bento: does it work? are you buying me something?
[01:10] Bento: i added a book thats worth 70 dollars. is that sort of like something that costs 300? or is the $199 replica of Jack Sparrow's compass better?
[01:11] mal: No, like.. a camera or fancy juicer or louis vitton handbag
[01:11] Bento: but i dont' like louis vuitton
[01:12] mal: Not relevant
[01:12] Bento: oh
[01:12] Bento: ok
[01:12] mal: It's about looking presumptuous enough that an admirer would buy it for you
[01:12] Bento: search: porche
[01:12] mal: There ya go, tiger
[01:14] Bento: so it has to be threehundred or more?
[01:14] mal: Yeah, at least a couple things
[01:14] mal: Like a 600 dollar camera
[01:14] mal: Or a really fancy bread oven
[01:14] mal: Or something
[01:14] Bento: er. crap.
[01:15] Bento: i don't know which one is a good camera
[01:15] mal: Something that costs that much
[01:15] Bento: ROFL
[01:15] mal: It's not that it's 'good', it's that it's expensive
Such a nice guy. Still, I couldn't find an expensive camera I liked, so it's all books and movies.
*wishlist fixed thanks to cliff 5-5-07*
Actually going to get my cheap ice cream was more of a challenge than the above paragraph implies. The first one I went to, there was a huge line that I waited in, and then skipped out of (without even getting inside the bloody building) so that I could make it to Work Dinner, one of the highlights of my week. There, Brett did number magic (read: math) and told me I could have SIXTY scoops of ice cream for my twenty dollar bill. SIXTY. Isn't that the best?
Really, I had three once I located a Baskin Robbins not overwhelmed by the masses. Some kind of two-chocolate chocolate mousse, Reece's Cups, and PeanutButter-Chocolate Ice Cream.
While I was cleaning, I found a Barnes and Nobel gift card from my Uncle which I suspected still had money on it. Toting my faithful ice cream along with me for the ride, the nice lady at the store told me I could buy nine dollars and nine cents worth of books with the card I gave her.
So, of course I picked twenty dollars worth of books. Bought two mangas that started with the word "Princess". (At one point I realized I was standing in the Romance isle eating chocolate ice cream, and I just suddenly knew this was a very bad thing) One book was "Murder Princess" (something about bodyswitching between a Princess and a bounty hunter) and the other was "Princess Resurrection" (dude, she has a chainsaw and a princess dress right on the freaking cover. i love it).
/me makes chainsaw noises.
Right. So. Princesses.... Which leads to me coming home and looking for my tiara. Because I have one, somewhere. I found it, and it was all bent up, and then it wouldn't sit on my head right, and I looked like a drunk prom queen in a t-shirt which I thought was perfect for camwhoring. And then, I remembered I have WIGS. WIGS are even better for camwhoring. In fact, I have the exact same wig as the guy on the "How to become an obnoxious Internet camwhore in five easy steps" site. Warning: That site is a little coarse, but quite funny.
And now, I proudly present to you, for your viewing amusement, Bento-chan Camwhoring!!1!
Rofl all you want. I laughed too.
And because the two go hand in hand, like peanut butter and jelly, here's my
My friend Mal was even kind enough to look over my wishlist and offer me help with it:
[01:10] Bento: does it work? are you buying me something?
[01:10] Bento: i added a book thats worth 70 dollars. is that sort of like something that costs 300? or is the $199 replica of Jack Sparrow's compass better?
[01:11] mal: No, like.. a camera or fancy juicer or louis vitton handbag
[01:11] Bento: but i dont' like louis vuitton
[01:12] mal: Not relevant
[01:12] Bento: oh
[01:12] Bento: ok
[01:12] mal: It's about looking presumptuous enough that an admirer would buy it for you
[01:12] Bento: search: porche
[01:12] mal: There ya go, tiger
[01:14] Bento: so it has to be threehundred or more?
[01:14] mal: Yeah, at least a couple things
[01:14] mal: Like a 600 dollar camera
[01:14] mal: Or a really fancy bread oven
[01:14] mal: Or something
[01:14] Bento: er. crap.
[01:15] Bento: i don't know which one is a good camera
[01:15] mal: Something that costs that much
[01:15] Bento: ROFL
[01:15] mal: It's not that it's 'good', it's that it's expensive
Such a nice guy. Still, I couldn't find an expensive camera I liked, so it's all books and movies.
*wishlist fixed thanks to cliff 5-5-07*
Monday, April 30, 2007
The World's Oldest Profession.
This isn't a very work safe entry, especially where it comes to the links, so be forewarned.
I was surfing an imageboard last night when I noticed dozens of people enganged in a thread about... A Sailor Moon Wallscroll.
Sort of odd for an argument, so I opened the entire thread. It turns out that thats not just a wallscroll for sale, but two girls. Two girls who are acutioning a date with the both of them, where you can take pictures, chat, discuss costumes, ect, ect. Except, several people on the imageboard knew the girls for having done this before, and dinner and a date wasn't all that was included in the package deal.
In a sort of horrific curiosity I went to visit their website which is mostly about cosplaying and modeling pictures they've both taken. In a good deal of the pictures the girls are... underdressed, and in that state it's quite easy to see that they really need to eat more. I'm not sure which part bothered me more, that someone a year younger than me was selling herself and a friend (I assume) for the paltry sum of $354.99 (any sum is wrong, in my mind), or the fact that this girl, only a year younger than me almost stands to my height and weighs... 40 pounds less than me.
Granted, sometimes I think I'm fat and I gripe about it the same way other girls do, but when I say she weighs 40 pounds less than me I mean it with horror and revulsion. A few more pounds gone and she'll quit looking cute and start looking like a skeleton dipped in wax, hipbones no longer sharply defined but protruding, arms like sticks, face gaunt.
This bothers more than the rest, I think.
I didn't realize this till I flipped back to her page, but we share a birthdate.
I was surfing an imageboard last night when I noticed dozens of people enganged in a thread about... A Sailor Moon Wallscroll.
Sort of odd for an argument, so I opened the entire thread. It turns out that thats not just a wallscroll for sale, but two girls. Two girls who are acutioning a date with the both of them, where you can take pictures, chat, discuss costumes, ect, ect. Except, several people on the imageboard knew the girls for having done this before, and dinner and a date wasn't all that was included in the package deal.
In a sort of horrific curiosity I went to visit their website which is mostly about cosplaying and modeling pictures they've both taken. In a good deal of the pictures the girls are... underdressed, and in that state it's quite easy to see that they really need to eat more. I'm not sure which part bothered me more, that someone a year younger than me was selling herself and a friend (I assume) for the paltry sum of $354.99 (any sum is wrong, in my mind), or the fact that this girl, only a year younger than me almost stands to my height and weighs... 40 pounds less than me.
Granted, sometimes I think I'm fat and I gripe about it the same way other girls do, but when I say she weighs 40 pounds less than me I mean it with horror and revulsion. A few more pounds gone and she'll quit looking cute and start looking like a skeleton dipped in wax, hipbones no longer sharply defined but protruding, arms like sticks, face gaunt.
This bothers more than the rest, I think.
I didn't realize this till I flipped back to her page, but we share a birthdate.
Sunday, April 8, 2007
Food Once More
Well, in a blog that was origionally meant to be about my packed lunches, the topic of food finally returns.
I had the best breakfast yesterday morning. Big bowl of Strawberries and Cream oatmeal, thick as peanut butter. Nice hot cup of tea, with extra Cinnamon and Vanilla. It's Celestial Seasoning's Madagascar Vanilla Red, and it has a Lion on the front. Man, is it good. It's the only tea I drink.
Next, I planned to have a picture of this sweet Waffle House food I had last night, and an interview with the short order cook who made it for me, Mike. But I haven't got the picture of the food at the moment, and I think without it the interview would be really confusing. Maybe. Maybe not. I've got the picture on my cellphone, and I think most of my readers (Sorry everyone else- I'll get the picture up here soon!) are around me, and can ask to see it.
Anyway, here's the Human Interest Story:
Mike, of Waffle House.
Mike is twenty-seven and a very, very nice guy. He's funny too. He works at the Waffle House on Wade Green Road, and can be found there most often after midnight, since he works the graveyard shift. Now, what makes Mike totally awesome is the fact that despite the soul-grinding waitstaff job that he has, he's still funny, and jolly, and nice to talk to. Also, he provides more entertainment than a Waffle House should be able to contain... Because Mike performs many actions upon command, right next to your booth! He dances! He juggles eggs! He performs magic tricks! He even knows all the words to all the Waffle House songs on the Juke Box!
And last night, I ordered the plate with eggs and hashbrowns and toast and sausage, and because I asked, he made the whole thing into a smiley face. (insert picture here)
So, thats why you should go to the Waffle House on Wade Green road. Go to see Mike. Go to see him dance, and perform! Go to see him craft your food into something happy and excited to be eaten! Go eat that really, really good pie that they have, the chocolate one!
Next, has anyone else seen the previews for the "Hoax" movie? I don't know about you, but that puts me in the mind of doing something... Amusing. I think I'm going to interview someone really famous. In my blog. Heh. Heh heh.
And... I had to add this in here, it's pretty much the coolest picture I've seen on the image boards in weeks... It's Leonidas of 300 fighting Kratos of the God of War video games.
PS: Does anyone know anything about the legality of having a fake interview with a real Famous Person that you admit is a fake interview?
I had the best breakfast yesterday morning. Big bowl of Strawberries and Cream oatmeal, thick as peanut butter. Nice hot cup of tea, with extra Cinnamon and Vanilla. It's Celestial Seasoning's Madagascar Vanilla Red, and it has a Lion on the front. Man, is it good. It's the only tea I drink.
Next, I planned to have a picture of this sweet Waffle House food I had last night, and an interview with the short order cook who made it for me, Mike. But I haven't got the picture of the food at the moment, and I think without it the interview would be really confusing. Maybe. Maybe not. I've got the picture on my cellphone, and I think most of my readers (Sorry everyone else- I'll get the picture up here soon!) are around me, and can ask to see it.
Anyway, here's the Human Interest Story:
Mike, of Waffle House.
Mike is twenty-seven and a very, very nice guy. He's funny too. He works at the Waffle House on Wade Green Road, and can be found there most often after midnight, since he works the graveyard shift. Now, what makes Mike totally awesome is the fact that despite the soul-grinding waitstaff job that he has, he's still funny, and jolly, and nice to talk to. Also, he provides more entertainment than a Waffle House should be able to contain... Because Mike performs many actions upon command, right next to your booth! He dances! He juggles eggs! He performs magic tricks! He even knows all the words to all the Waffle House songs on the Juke Box!
And last night, I ordered the plate with eggs and hashbrowns and toast and sausage, and because I asked, he made the whole thing into a smiley face. (insert picture here)
So, thats why you should go to the Waffle House on Wade Green road. Go to see Mike. Go to see him dance, and perform! Go to see him craft your food into something happy and excited to be eaten! Go eat that really, really good pie that they have, the chocolate one!
Next, has anyone else seen the previews for the "Hoax" movie? I don't know about you, but that puts me in the mind of doing something... Amusing. I think I'm going to interview someone really famous. In my blog. Heh. Heh heh.
And... I had to add this in here, it's pretty much the coolest picture I've seen on the image boards in weeks... It's Leonidas of 300 fighting Kratos of the God of War video games.
PS: Does anyone know anything about the legality of having a fake interview with a real Famous Person that you admit is a fake interview?
Friday, April 6, 2007
Hi! (again)
Guten Tag, Berlin! (Is it snowing there? And hows the Chocolate?)
And Hello, Melbourne! (Keep an eye out for those box jellies, and remember to swim in your pantyhose- jellyfish are nothing to mess around with, believe me I know!) (Also, you guys have the best meat pies)
And Hello, Melbourne! (Keep an eye out for those box jellies, and remember to swim in your pantyhose- jellyfish are nothing to mess around with, believe me I know!) (Also, you guys have the best meat pies)
Thursday, April 5, 2007
My Cat's Got Knees
This song makes me wish I had a cat so bad.
Being that I have a dog, I'm not sure how many noses and tails she has, or if they add to the same things. Cats probably have different math, you know.
And if you don't laugh at that video...I guess you don't have a pet or anything. Because pet owners really do stuff like this.
I've got five Picture Albums full of Bailey. And thats just the pictures we put in albums.
Being that I have a dog, I'm not sure how many noses and tails she has, or if they add to the same things. Cats probably have different math, you know.
And if you don't laugh at that video...I guess you don't have a pet or anything. Because pet owners really do stuff like this.
I've got five Picture Albums full of Bailey. And thats just the pictures we put in albums.
Monday, March 26, 2007
Greetings from Google Analytics!!
Hi everyone!
I know you're all out there, even if you're not commenting! Heh, see thats a bonus of setting up Google Analytics, which, in case you're suddenly scared of me, allows me to see pretty much nothing about you. It's not that scary, or informative, really.
What it does tell me is how many readers I have, and wow, am I impressed. There's more people than I thought. And there's a world map, too, that shows whereabouts you guys live. *waves*
Anyway, I just wanted to say "Hi!"
Hi to Morristown, whoever lives there! One time I was in New York (see? the map isn't that detailed. I mean, maybe that dot is in New York, maybe it's not. Upper eastern USA in any case. Google says New Jersey) and I got to go see the Met. Isn't that place great? Too bad I was only in there for one day. Thats a two month museum.
And Hi Eureka! Don't worry, you're not my only California reader; there's someone who lives in Mountain View, too. Which shares it's name with the Branch of the Library I used to work at, here in Cobb County.
And.... Lets see here....
'Ello Cricklewood! Wow, a reader all the way across the pond! Thats very cool. How's the tea? And the Cricket? Must be neat over there. And besides, you've got Tony Blair, who I've always admired for his name. It just sounds so darn cool.
And Hi Kennesaw, Marietta, Atlanta, Dallas, and Stone Mountain! I'm pretty sure I know who you guys are, so I'll see you Wednesday! Thanks for reading!
Saturday, March 24, 2007
The other side of StumbleUpon's Glory
Is it's complete and utter ability to find the most terrifing news online. Such as a logical explanation of the end of the Mayan calendar. I think I'm gonna go find my lifevest now, and make sure it's in good condition.
Thursday, March 22, 2007
The Glory of StumbleUpon
It's pretty much the coolest FireFox extension I've found thus far. Using StumbleUpon, which I've had for maybe a year now, you can 'channel surf' the Internet, finding sites that are almost as impossible, strange, and interesting as some of the books you see in a used book store and are pretty sure you're never going to see again. You have some drop downs on what kind of sites to find, things like that, and you vote on what you think of a particular site, but that's not what I really want to talk about here.
What I want to talk about is some of the cool sites it's found for me. Like,
Hungarian Shelf Directions which look so simple and awesome anyone should be able to build them, and yet claim to be the work of a physicist.
play.house a website that tells you all the songs used in all the episodes of House MD.
Squashed Philosophers a site with condensed philosophy reads, which, once read make the original work much more accessible.
Cooking By Numbers which tells you exactly what you can make for dinner, depending on what you tell it you have in the cupboards.
The Letter Project which is basically a guy who will write you a letter. A real, physical letter. And you can reply back if you want.
Thinking Machine which is sort of a chess AI, except you can see what it's thinking. And the thinking is pretty to watch.
And finally,
Tricks of the Trade a message board type site for insider tips and tricks. What kinds, you ask? Any kind. Everything from what kind of bike lock NOT to buy (from a french bike thief) to how to defrost your car windows faster (just put down the sun visors, to trap heat).
What I want to talk about is some of the cool sites it's found for me. Like,
Hungarian Shelf Directions which look so simple and awesome anyone should be able to build them, and yet claim to be the work of a physicist.
play.house a website that tells you all the songs used in all the episodes of House MD.
Squashed Philosophers a site with condensed philosophy reads, which, once read make the original work much more accessible.
Cooking By Numbers which tells you exactly what you can make for dinner, depending on what you tell it you have in the cupboards.
The Letter Project which is basically a guy who will write you a letter. A real, physical letter. And you can reply back if you want.
Thinking Machine which is sort of a chess AI, except you can see what it's thinking. And the thinking is pretty to watch.
And finally,
Tricks of the Trade a message board type site for insider tips and tricks. What kinds, you ask? Any kind. Everything from what kind of bike lock NOT to buy (from a french bike thief) to how to defrost your car windows faster (just put down the sun visors, to trap heat).
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