Thinking in vain...

Getting ready to leave on a photo shoot. YAY!

Write later. :)

I'm not crazy busy - but I have nothing to post about.

I've agreed to train with a neighbor of mine for a 5K. We'll see how it goes. I power-walked the 4 miles with her that we'll be training on yesterday. It wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, but I'm secretly glad I'll be out of town on a photo shoot Wed – Friday. Even though I will try not to be a slacker and I'll see if the hotel has a gym.

The ADDYs were Saturday. We did well. I even had a name on the credits of two of them. Which was kinda cool. I ran into my old boss and she gave me a very big hug. It wasn't as awkward as I would've imagined it would be. So yay for that.

I'm going to go find something to do.

Some of you know I love weird stuff. And if you don't, now you do. LOVE it. Let me be clear that I don't necessarily BELIEVE it. But I love to watch and read up on it. Bigfoot, UFOs, ghosts, all of it.

So articles like this catch my eye. It's about a Firefighter's manual that supposedly has a chapter about what to do if you have to respond to what ends up (I'm guessing) and alien crash site. Best part though - it's Chapter 13. REALLY??

A 600-page guide may lend credibility to UFO believers.

The Fire Officer's Guide To Disaster Control can apparently be found in firehouses across the United States.

It covers everything from fire and flood response to aviation disasters.

Chapter 13 of the book has an unusual twist. Titled "Enemy Attack And UFO Potential", it outlines what could happen in the event of a UFO crash.

If you're bored and need a laugh, the article is here.

I'm trying to log out and I get this:

403 Forbidden: The server understood the request, but is refusing to fulfill it.

Damn it. I'm going to try Safari. Maybe it's a problem with Firefox. Me and Firefox are going to fight if it doesn't start behaving.


UPDATE: No, it's a Twitter problem. Firefox isn't out of the doghouse yet though.

I'm going to do this:

Absolute Powerpoint Corrupts Absolutely
Professor flipping rapidly between Powerpoint slides: Take notes now, suckers!


Overheard by: a fan of this professor
via Overheard Everywhere, Feb 15, 2008

I wished I'd known about this contest BEFORE. Oh well. I think this is my favorite. See the others here.

BTW - I got my Holga for $12. Amazon has them for double and other sites are only selling starter kits for $70+.

I'm such a luddite when it comes to photography.









Jenny Zink Reames, Field of dandelions in Grinnell, Iowa.

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I think I hurt my arm. Specifically I think I pulled a muscle in my bicep. Basically because I'm an idiot - ow, it hurts to type - and because I have nothing else better to write about. Unless you want to hear about what I did last night or the stupid Lectric Shave commercial. That. They. Will. Not. Stop. Playing. It's so creepy too... "Wake up your whiskers!" Yeah, didn't think so...

Now you wouldn't think this would hurt my arm. I was carrying books. 4 books to be exact. Yeah, they're design books - but not the big ones. I cleaned off my bookcases and had extra books, so I figured I'd just bring them to work. They weren't that heavy when I left the house. It took me about 6 minutes to figure out how to get everything in my hands and out of the car. The parking attendant is staring at me the whole time - then I remembered why it was so difficult. I'd stopped for coffee (btw, the drive-thru has been around for like 60 years - how do people not know how these things work???? MOVE.)

Also, the walk to my office is a LOT longer than the one from my house to my car. I almost dropped the books when some random person honked and waved at me. I don't think I knew the person. Either way - if you see someone struggling like I was, how about we not honk at them when you're less than a foot away and scare the shit out of them.

Also, getting in a door with an arm full of books and a cup of coffee is a challenge as well. Next time, I will hopefully think this out a little more - but I can't guarantee that. I gotta take a break - my arm hurts.

The Joe left this on my Myspace page saying: "I found Awesome on YouTube."

We've got another college in the area on lockdown.

UPDATE: Seems like nothing happened or well I guess I should say no one got hurt and they don't think shots were fired. Don't know what's going on.

Also a guy I went to highschool with was arrested for prostitution. He's a teacher.

I want some.

Via Geekologie

Let me preface this by saying that I LOVE Cheetos. I could eat them all day long. Really. I don't like Cheese Puffs - I like Cheetos.

But this, this makes me never want to eat them again. This is disgusting. WTF were they thinking? What is with making food/snacks (ala Planter's Peanuts) as unappetizing as humanly possible. Don't you want the opposite effect on customers??

I found the website that the Official Apology Form came from.

(I had no clue about this and no, I didn't get there by noticing that the web address was at the bottom of the forms.)

I'm going to have some fun with these now...

I could have $25 million. But look - he almost spelled everything correctly and made complete sentences. Thank goodness the money has nothing to do with drugs.

Dear Friend,

I am a financial consultant based in Cote d'Ivoire. I have a client (a widow) who has $25 million dollars with a private equity investment trust company for safe keeping only. She wishes to invest in a stable economy.

Her interest is in companies with potentials for rapid growth in long terms. My client is interested in placing her fund in your company, if your country's bylaw allows foreign investment. I prefer you contact me for more details.

Yours faithfully,
Mr. John Kulma
NB: The fund is free from drug and laundering related offences

Great post on the new Applebee's commercials. When my sister first saw it she looks at me and goes, "Is that a... talking apple?"

I found it (scroll to the bottom). And on top of everything - they're proud enough of this to put it on their website.

Who thought this was a good idea?? I doubt I'm the only the that finds this degrading... and as Jetpacks put it on the previous post - reminiscent of date rape.



JC Penny Hypnotize Commercial

Some of you may not know it (and some of you do), but I love these commercials. I can't help it. I think they're funny. I was looking for the one with the mailman (Mr. Slowsky is getting awfully angry lately)... but found this one instead. Still on the hunt for the "lecture" one.

Am I the only one that thinks this is kinda creepy?

Via Geekologie.

It's... back.

And it's loud. And it's acting odd. At 6:20am every morning this week, he lets out an excruciatingly loud and 2 second long call and then... nothing. Other birds start at around 7:00am... but he just chirps once. Perhaps he is know officially the King of All Birds in my little area of the neighborhood and he doesn't have to show off like he did last year.

This also reminds me that I need to trim the holly bush. Because this makes him go away.

UPDATE - 2.21.2008: I spoke too soon. He went all out this morning. Damn bird.

Or at least I am. An eclipse saved Columbus.

Stranded on the coast of Jamaica, the explorers were running out of food and faced with increasingly hostile local inhabitants who were refusing to provide them with any more supplies.

Columbus, looking at an astronomical almanac compiled by a German mathematician, realised that a total eclipse of the Moon would occur on February 29, 1504.

He called the native leaders and warned them if they did not cooperate, he would make the Moon disappear from the sky the following night.

The warning, of course, came true, prompting the terrified people to beg Columbus to restore the Moon -- which he did, in return for as much food as his men needed. He and the crew were rescued on June 29, 1504.

Full article here. Enjoy the eclipse tomorrow night.

How is this new? I think I was told years and years ago that most identical twins weren't exact "clones" because of genetic mutations. Or am I reading the article wrong?

I mean, I can roll my tongue, my sister can't. There are others. Those simple little recessive vs. dominant gene tests you do in 9th grade biology.

My sister and I were part of a twin study when we were little. We were always within 1/2 inch and a 1/2 pound of each other growing up and we're mirror images (I'm left-handed, she's right). I got birthday cards from them up until I moved out during college. So maybe I'm just smarter.

Dallas County DA's office finds cache of JFK memorabilia

You know my big accomplishment this weekend? I took down my Christmas decorations.


Lemme 'lone. I should get a free pass or something. At least I took my Christmas tree down on New Year's Eve.

I should keep a stack of these at work... no, actually - I've got a whole list of people I think I should mail these too. And, personally, I can always check the option that my "evil twin" did it.

Found here.

You can buy them at Etsy, which I found through Design Crush, which I'm 98% sure I found through WAS.

I have absolutely no idea why I like to post links about baby pandas.

I like donuts. We have one dunkin' donuts here - it shares a store with Baskin Robbins. I don't go in there at all because the temptation is too great. I like their logo.

And I was getting ready to rag all over the commercial I saw last night and how I didnt' get it until I realized the song is by They Might Be Giants. And then I liked it.

Take that how you will.

It's hump day and it's already about 1/4 over. Smile. :)

And for today - a little boy gets stuck in the handcuffs he found in his mother's room. But what I can't figure out is if the firefighter quoted is really serious with the last sentence:

It's beyond my wildest imagination why someone would keep handcuffs in their bedroom!"

Article.

This is two cow stories in the last 4 months.


Article here.

You can read about giant geese if you really want to.

It's not a panda... but it's still cute.

I used to love riddles. In fact, I had this very old book of my mothers and I took it upon myself in about the 3rd grade to memorize all of them... and then probably proceeded to annoy the hell out of everyone I knew.

Like this one:
What comes once in a minute, twice in a moment, but never in a thousand years?
Answer: The letter M

or

What did the old woman say when she opened her refrigerator and saw that it was bare?
Answer: O I C U R M T

Yeah, I thought I was funny. And either my mother received unmeasurable amounts of joy at seeing my pleasure when I could tell her the answer or she was worn to a frazzle after a day of me and my sister and my stupid jokes and couldn't remember the answer.

So I'm a fan of the new Lexus commercial for their hybrids... even though it annoys me to no end that they decided to give the answer away.

Just kidding. Article here. I can't get to the article on www.badastronomy.com, site won't load.

Gives me nightmares. At least it did Monday morning. I tend to have the most vivid dreams if I wake up early and then go back to sleep. Unfortunately for me, Monday that meant a nightmare.

My nightmares have 3 general themes:

1. I'm walking/standing on some extremely high precipice or something - either a bridge or a mountain or a ledge and I'm desperately trying not to fall off.
2. I'm attempting not to drown in water.
3. Michael Myers

Monday would have been the third theme. I hate these. I can sometimes figure out the symbolism in the first two. This third I got nothing. Sometimes I catch a few minutes of a movie on TV, sometimes I don't. Monday I saw nothing.

It started out innocuous enough, I was taking photographs of a 30-40 year old crime scene. Well, I guess that was kind of ominous. I'm not sure why I was taking photos, but there I was. Several of my coworkers were there, which led me to believe that the crime scene was in one of our offices in another city (Richmond specifically but I've never been there or seen it). Well, the other give away was the fact that they were asking me what I was doing and I told them I was taking pictures for our boss.

The crime scene was at the end of a very long hallway and I was taking photos at the other end from the actual scene. And there was yellow carpet. Horrible yellow carpet. And ugly white walls.

At this point, a acquaintance/friend of mine was standing behind me. Apparently not totally weird in my dream state as he lives in Richmond. I believe it is now at his suggestion that we stay the night and see if the killer comes back or we stay so I can take pictures of ghosts or something. I'm a little fuzzy about this. I'm also a little fuzzy as to why I said yes as that would be insane behavior on my part.

Jump to that night. We're hiding in a tiny, tiny hallway where we can see the crime scene. Oddly enough - no camera. You can reference the diagram I drew. Yeah, I drew one. Don't judge, I did it rather quickly when I couldn't make what it looked like make sense in words.




So there we are, hiding. And then all of a sudden - there he is. Yep, it would be Michael Myers. Apparently, this is his crime scene. So he's standing there looking down at the carpet and then he slowly turns his head and looks at us. Cue the horribly creepy music.

We make a snap decision to jump up on to the partition, since it doesn't go all the way to the ceiling and run for it. He lifts me up, I run to the other side, slumped of course since the ceiling's like 3 feet above where I jumped. When I get to the other side, I jump down land on some grass (???), manage to hurt my leg and all of a sudden I'm now in the neighborhood I grew up in, which is not in Richmond.

I'm not sure what happened to my friend. He's no longer in the dream. More than likely he sacrificed himself to give me more time to get away. I'm not sure he'd do that in real life. Either way, it made me sad. But it made me sad when I woke up because, remember, I still have a deranged lunatic after me.

I am now inside my house waiting to see if he also teleported and followed me. My sister is in her room asleep... and I decided at some point to run outside the house to save her if he's followed me. I look out the window and yep, he's there.

Holy sh*t. I run for my life out the back door, to the front yard, across the street all the time looking behind me to see that looming figure that manages to keep up with me no matter how fast I run. I then run into the backyard of my neighbors and see all of them in their kitchen. I, of course, run to the back door and scream for them to open it. When he does I beg him to let me in and call the police.

This is when my alarm goes off and I realize I just killed my neighbor's entire family. That is, I guess, if I'd stayed asleep. And of course, I killed my friend.

Freaked me the hell out. I was terrified to look out the window for fear that he'd be standing there.

I have MLK Day off. I'm going to enjoy it.

Oh, and also lay on an ice-pack and watch The Discovery Channel because I fell down my steps this morning and attempted to run yesterday.

The video I first saw here. And all I got is a "WTF?"

Best advice regarding the video from The Joe:

Don't let the aliens get you too! Smack a scientologist today!

And he pointed me to Scientology Lies... just in case, I assume.

Just... wow, go look.

I don't know how old this video is. Maybe it's not very old. Either way, it is extremely amusing to college-aged girls.

Either way, this kid is PRICELESS.

I wondered if this would still be funny now that I have gotten some sleep... and yeah, it's still amusing to me.

This is the blood pressure cuff from the ER last two Saturdays ago.

Take a look at the graphics. The guy in the box is a normal adult. Then there's a bigger guy, then, I presume, a giant... with a deformed right arm. So giants with deformed right arms have to have the blood pressure cuff on their leg.

My mother said that was for men with large biceps. I don't think she thought it was funny as I did.

10AM Tides Me Over 'Til I Can Get Out to My Anarchist Compound

Boss: What's your password? I want to sign in and test the new system we set up.

Office gal: 'Detonate.'

Boss: [Silence.]

Office gal: What? I like typing 'Detonate' and hitting 'Enter'! It's extremely satisfying!

60 East 42nd Street
New York, New York

via Overheard in the Office, Jan 7, 2008

toothpastefordinner.com

It goes with the coat...

The original post is tagged for removal (see):

HAUNTED TV - Toshiba TW40 40
HDTV television I am selling my 5 year old Toshiba HDTV because I am a college student who is unable to transport it to another school. It is rather large because its a projection and weighs about 100 pounds. It works fine, has a nice glossy screen and is in good condition.

There is one caveat that I must bring to the buyer's attention: This TV is almost certainly haunted by the spirit of a 1970's-era baptist pastor named Klent Kloom. He is harmless, but the buyer should be comfortable with cries of "HALLELUJIA"" (sic) at unearthly hours of night. I am unfamiliar with exorcism and cannot find a good reference on the internet. ...

But the best part the experts that the author of the article found to help with the haunted TV in the event that he couldn't sell it. He used Profnet, an online service that "connects reporters easily and quickly with expert sources at no charge."

Expert #1 Dali Wiederhoft, vice president of Estipona Group Advertising in Reno:

"Try wearing an aluminum foil beanie while watching the TV. It won't do much for the shouting minister, but it'll keep his head warm and it helps with reception."

Expert #2 self-described Baptist-in-recovery Neil Gussman of Philadelphia's Chemical Heritage Foundation:

"It is quite impossible to exorcise a Baptist preacher from a hallelujah-friendly venue. To get Kloom out of the TV, the new owner only has to play three consecutive French-language films and Kloom will find a stadium sound system to in-dwell."

Last and possibly best—expert #3 Brian Olson of Video Professor, Inc., a Colorado-based self-paced computer software tutorial company, i.e. a tech guy:

"Those old Toshibas are pretty big," he wrote. "Maybe a preacher is really inside the darn thing. He needs to open the back and check. If it is indeed haunted by a Baptist preacher, I'd donate it to a Baptist Church and take the tax deduction."

Article here.

Best part - the frog needed "grounding."

"Ten people subsequently won the lottery which drew crowds to the house - and then they started losing. So I have had to ground her. I promised one day to take her to the seaside, and her dream has come true."

Read the rest.

I know, I know. I've got a million things to post. Well, not really - but you all know me. I do have a back-up, it's just been a busy week.

Thank you to everyone for your sweet and supportive comments and emails. You guys are awesome. :D

He's doing much better now - he'll be in a rehab center for the next 2 weeks and then he should be able to go home. My week also got a lot better and I'm going to try to catch up on my sleep. But now, off to the nursing home!

VENIAMIN'S HUMAN SLINKY

Sent to me by iSkew

Facebook Ads Make You the Star -- And You May Not Know It

But are Facebook users aware of the results of their so-called social actions? "When you become a fan of Blockbuster, nothing tells the [Facebook member] what that means," says Jeremiah Owyang, senior analyst at Forrester Research. Indeed, when you add Blockbuster's Movie Clique application, there is no notification that you are allowing Blockbuster to use your name and profile picture in a display ad. Owyang suggests that Facebook ought to inform users up front and make it very clear what "becoming a fan" entails, or change the system to an opt-in model. Currently, there is not even any way to opt-out of participation in Social Ads, other than by avoiding associating yourself with any corporate brands on Facebook.

Whole article here.

I dreamt I got punched in the nose last night. This girl punched me hard enough that it broke it. When I woke up it still hurt and I had to double-check whether or not my nose was actually broken.

I was also taking dance from Anjelica Huston. Possibly ballet. But then I couldn't get down the stairs from her third floor studio because they were too steep.

There's a good 4 other scenes in this dream but I can't remember them.

Yes, yes... I'm a day late. :p

I hope everyone had a relaxing day yesterday. I'm always a little sad when the holiday season ends. Oh well, back to reality.

I'm still recuperating a bit from New Year's Eve. Wasn't doing *exactly* what I wanted, but I made the most of it. And I suppose it's really about being with good friends and that's really what I was doing. Although, I'm a little worried to see the collection of pictures from the other night.

Anyways, enjoy. :)


[Image from The Chalkboard Manifesto]

I'd never seen this. Maybe because this is the kind of commercial that gets shown on channels I don't watch ala ESPN.

ESPN has cooler commercials than the History Channel.

The first time I saw this commercial was in the theater last Saturday. Apparently no one else had seen it either. It came on, the whole theater got quiet and then when the first guy jumps into the "pool" the whole theater went "Ooooh." And that's not an exaggeration.

[Image: Biblical scenes as seen via Google Earth; by The Glue Society]

Found via BLGGBLOG, via The Creative Review

Don't Make Me Come Down There and Rescue You
Police helicopter hovering with spotlight on suspect, over loudspeaker:

Stop running. You can't get away. Just give yourself up. Stop running... No, don't go in the water. You won't make it across. No, don't-- Yeah, it's fucking cold, isn't it, dumbass? Just get out of the water!

American River Parkway
Sacramento, California

Overheard by: Ree

via Overheard Everywhere, Dec 17, 2007

I read that as Antichrist and I was *really* confused.

Head of the local council Etelka Repas said: "It is crazy - I would have thought it was impossible to steal an entire beach. It was cleaned up and covered for the winter and then suddenly this week we saw that it had totally disappeared - beach and all."

Via Ananova

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An elderly Hindu priest who claimed his right leg had magical powers was attacked by thieves who chopped it off... Meanwhile Kondaiah, who was discovered in a drugged state with his leg missing, is said to be recovering in hospital, although he is far from happy about what happened to him.

Read the rest of the article.

Since Every Sandwich aka Fred is always scaring me into wanting a bunker in the middle of nowhere with defensible high ground, I thought he'd get a kick out of this Christmas list.

Check out number 5 and number 8, DANGER ROOM'S 2007 Holiday Gift Guide

Took me a while to get around to posting this.

Seems we've had a little mini-version of Boston. The local community college tried to do some guerrilla marketing to promote their design program (perhaps even better would be to graduate students who knew the difference between CMYK and RGB?, but I digress).

They have a website, a myspace page (who befriended me the first part of the week) and they created some bomb scares.

First off... really? Terrorists using bright pink boxes?

Secondly, the guys did a crappy execution with some packing tape. Guerrilla marketing doesn't need to be sloppy. Perhaps if the execution of the idea had been finessed they wouldn't have looked like home-made bombs to all these people. Other than that, it was a neat idea and I liked it.

I was still getting calls today about how my old agency had a bomb scare.

Me: Were they pink?
Them: Well, yes.
Me: Those aren't bombs.
Them: But they said on the news...
Me: Those weren't bombs.


(image gets bigger when you click it, also - their website has screen grabs of the now-seemingly-pulled previous articles.)

So, I leave tomorrow for a wedding in Pittsburgh, I'll be back sometime Monday.

If you've ever been to Pittsburgh, I'd love to know some things to do while I'm not at the wedding.

Oh, and pray for no snow. I mean it, I don't want to die on my way back.

I may have messed up my blog. I was playing with the Blogger in Draft and then I switched back, which wasn't a good idea. So I took off the pop-ups and other such till it calms itself down.

But I am *so* going to make these.


via Czeltic Girl

Last night I saw the one of the new Hummer Helps commercials. I hadn't read anything on the campaign and I didn't get that it was supposed to be rescue workers - I just thought it had fake newspaper clippings.

Course, when I was looking for the commercial on YouTube, this was the first result - which I thought was hilarious.

On the other hand, this may mean that it takes geniuses to follow my round-about insane logic... or it takes into account the links I post which usually have to do with pretty pictures from space.

via Make the Logo Bigger

I've never seen the Declaration of Independence used to sell dating services.

Although, I will point out that even though inalienable may technically be an alternative way to spell it, it's actually "unalienable rights" in the Declaration of Independence.

I'm just saying.

Or deficiency, whatever.

If someone spells something wrong in an email, I will sometimes spell it wrong back so they don't think I'm calling them out on their mistake.

Yeah, I know... very weird.

Martin Waugh's Liquid Sculpture. If anyone feels the need to buy me Christmas presents, the 8x10 is affordable. ;) (I'm just saying.)

via Geekologie

I think most everybody has seen these, but I nearly fell out of my chair I was laughing so hard.

So I'm used to the annual fight over whether or not advertisers should say Happy Holidays or Merry Christmas... I say both, whatever.

But the new TomTom commercial, the one where the girlfriend/wife gets out of the car in the middle of a traffic jam and runs into the store to by her husband/boyfriend the GPS system.

When she gets back in the car, she says: "It's an early holiday present."

What?! No, it's not an early holiday present, it's an early Christmas present. An early "holiday" present sounds completely ridiculous.

Unless I've missed some big underground movement I don't think anyone who doesn't celebrate the three holidays of choice goes around putting up family trees or giving holiday presents.

Oh I would so use these... all the time. I have too many post-its now anyways.

Well, I'd use these if they stayed put and didn't leave an icky residue.

via Geekologie

Just go read it.

Collegiate Quidditch takes off — figuratively, at least

Yes, this is cool. But I just had to point out one thing.

Its long arms and a face shaped like a giant squashed bean mean it resembles the alien movie character E.T.

It doesn't look like E.T., it look likes Johnny 5.

I'm just sayin'.

via Reuters Oddly Enough

I get several emails all day long from a friend of mine's mother. Chain letters, cutesy images, that kind of thing. Whatever is making the email rounds. I like it because I get to see what's going around and sometimes they're good for a giggle.

But this is hands-down the WEIRDEST thing I've ever gotten.

My favorite math teacher from high school passed away yesterday. He went to my church. He made math fun. And it takes a great teacher to make Advanced Algebra and Trigonometry fun.

He taught me how to fold a sweater in under 3 seconds. I wore his everyday because his room was cold.

He used to threaten to turn all the lights off and run around the room if we didn't settle down.

He'd play with people when they fell asleep.

He was a teacher that inspired other people to be teachers.

Are cats in the UK just smarter or weirder?

Cat's daily routine baffles owner

A cat is baffling his owner by wandering off at night before expecting to be collected by car every morning at exactly the same time and place.

I believe this post to be a public service announcement. I have to use Google's image search with the search terms "feminist tattoo" and "feminist fist."

If you never have to do this, I wouldn't recommend it.

Since my last unwanted text message, I've gotten two more, still coming from 362-45. One from distancevyu@remanchester.co.uk on 11/01/2007 at 10:08AM

Hey it's Abe)Watch and wait everyone dreams of getting a tip like this see SHTP

And from Major@tugaloo.com on 11/06/2007 at 6:32PM

(sup u)Hey, meet locale singles goto: (www.smsformessage.com)

And I'm paying $0.15 for these. But now, I find that I can file a complaint through the FCC.

Several people have come here googling these unwanted text messages, so hopefully this helps as well. I'm not sure what it will do, but at least I'm doing something and have an official reference number.

UPDATE: There are a TON of people getting spammed with this message - I hope you are all filing complaints. :)

I had a friend in college who had the best cow story. Her and her boyfriend (and several other people) were driving down one of the more rural roads in our area. As my friend looked over at a cow field she managed to see a baby cow take off running down a hill. However, this baby cow wasn't as sure-footed as he needed to be. He tripped, catapulted forward and rolled all the way down the hill.

Just sit with that visual for a second.

This might beat that. Except... well I hope these people have insurance... and the cow died instead of getting his ego bruised.

Couple Escapes Injury When Falling Cow Hits Minivan

Now I'd heard of the Rock Boat and then I heard about Ships & Dips... but what, now does EVERYONE get their own cruise???


Found via Make the Logo Bigger via Twitter.

Yeah, that's right, here it is. Got this on the 20th.

*If you listen, hit stop after it's finished or it'll loop. I can't figure out how to make that stop yet.

At least the time in which I have to give out candy. I had over 75 kids... thank god most of them were young and cute. I always buy more than enough candy.

On to watch The Live Ghost Hunters.

New Slowsky's commercial... and as usual, it doesn't disappoint. At least not me.

is brought to you by me (of course) and my favorite run-down house.

The image at left is originally a color slide which I developed on a color enlarger with the magenta turned up too high... a happy accident.

One of these days I will brave the no trespassing sign and go inside. I will give adequate notice so that in case I fall through a floor someone can come rescue and then arrest me.

Enjoy.

And I didn't get a picture. I tried too. I didn't realize what the license plate said until I passed him to get into the other lane and then he was driving waaay to slow for me to try to get behind him again.

His plate said:

I EMBALM

Swear. I can't believe someone would have that on their license plate... anyways Happy Halloween!

Check out the "Top 15 Most Famous Freaky Ghost Photos."

God that was painful to watch.

I mean for god's sakes the game isn't over if you've still got 4 minutes left in the 4th quarter.

And kind of ugly... and it's definitely not a jetpack.

A US company have developed a car that can easily beat traffic jams - it can fly.

At the touch of a button the Transition from Terrafugia four-wheeled car extends a pair of wings either side of its main body.

Chief operating officer, Anna Mracek Dietrich, said: "It will take just a few seconds to transform and will be fully automated after the command is given in the cockpit. We're currently sold out for at least the first year, approaching the first two of production".

The Transition will use low-cost electronics and feature GPS and auto-pilot weather radar.

The prototype, which runs on super unleaded petrol, cruises at 120mph and lands at 65mph.

The estimated hourly fuel burn of four gallons equates to 30mpg in flight.

Terrafugia - which means escape from the earth - are selling for £74,000.

The company hopes the first car will be ready by next December.

ananova.com

Via Coast to Coast AM

You ever chew gum so long it makes you nauseous?

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It's a small world. Sometimes too small.

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Does my picture REALLY have to go with a news release about me?

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Anybody know a good program - online - that will work with iCal? I read of a good one somewhere on a blog I trust and now I don't remember it.

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I need a haircut.

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I forgot the rest because I didn't write them down.

Thanks to Myspace I have been informed of the sequel to National Treasure... National Treasure: Book of Secrets.

Now... I'm a dork. I admit it. I like the first one. It's silly and mindless and fun and deals with the weird crap I love. I like watching it. I also like watching it on Sunday afternoons when I have nothing to do and I pop it in so I can nap.

So that said, sequels tend to suck... and people will make sequels to good movies that don't need sequels. And despite the fact that the original cast is all in the movie, something tells me this might suck.

And yeah, there wasn't really any major point to this post... although on the topic of movies, I saw Breach last night and it was awesome.

Is this Pope John Paul II waving from beyond the grave? Vatican TV director says yes

By NICK PISA - More by this author »
Last updated at 21:21pm on 15th October 2007

This fiery figure is being hailed as Pope John Paul II making an appearance beyond the grave.

The image, said by believers to show the Holy Father with his right hand raised in blessing, was spotted during a ceremony in Poland to mark the second anniversary of his death.

Details appeared on the Vatican News Service, a TV station in Rome which specialises in religious news broadcasts.

Service director Jarek Cielecki, a Polish priest and close friend of John Paul II, travelled to Poland after hearing an onlooker had photographed the image.

Father Cielecki said he was convinced the picture showed the former pontiff.

"You can see the image of a person in the flames and I think it is the servant of God, Pope John Paul II," he said.

The pictures were being broadcast continuously on Italian TV and also posted on religious websites, some of which crashed as thousands logged on to see for themselves the eerie figure formed by the flames.

The bonfire was lit during a service at Beskid Zywiecki, close to John Paul's birthplace at Katowice, southern Poland, on April 2 - the second anniversary of his death.

Hundreds had attended the ceremony. Gregorz Lukasik, the Polish man who took the photographs, said: "It was only afterwards when I got home and looked at the pictures that I realised I had something.

"I showed them to my brother and sister and they, like me, were convinced the flames had formed the image of Pope John Paul II.

"I was so happy with the picture that I showed it to our local bishop who said that Pope John Paul had made many pilgrimages during his life and he was still making them in death."

via The Daily Mail

So as usual these past few months... I'm about a day late and a dollar short.

Yesterday was Blog Action Day and I meant to post something but I was swamped fixing a direct mail that wasn't the right color and the pill was too shiny and, well you get the drift.

I have a very large stack of newspapers sitting in my kitchen [insert would-be photo here] that are accumulating until I can get to the recycling center and my post was going to focus on finding alternative means to deal with my problem. But I didn't have time, so here's the first search result on Google.

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I saw Mr. Las Vegas. He's from my hometown.

:)

When I get home my new, shiny iMac will be waiting for me. :)

Found via Marty Feldmanize Me

My mother just called me to tell me that there was a man in a ski mask and a shot gun walking through my neighborhood the other day and they haven't caught him yet.

I guess I've now got bigger things to look out for during my 6:00am walk than the neighbor's dog not being on a leash.

Yes, I work on one and it makes my life easier... and I love all the cool gadgets, but that is not why I love Apple today.

Flashback to 3 weeks ago and I had to give my shiny Powerbook back to my previous employer. I have an old Powerbook G3 with a 4GB hard drive and it hates me. I can't do anything on it without it crashing. I've always meant to fix it up but never have (one day I will).

Anyhoozle, so I went to buy a new computer. I found a refurbished iMac for a decent price and ordered it... that was on August 30th. And as I watch my order status the shipment dates for my mac keep getting pushed back. Finally on the 15th I get an email telling me that "due to an unexpected delay" my mac will not ship and it will now ship between the 19th and 20th.

The 19th came and went. No update on my order status. I checked all day yesterday... no change.

By this time, my sister (who is as equally as frustrated with the old powerbook) is trying to get me to call apple and get answers. I told her I was going to wait, they'd fix it.

Last night I got an email. I saw it an my heart sank. I figured my shipment had been pushed back again and I would really have to call. And I loathe calling customer service. Actually, I pretty much don't like talking on the phone at all (I worked 2 years in a call center for a bank and that's my excuse).

So I open up the email. They do not have the inventory to send me my refurbished iMac. Total WTF? moment. What am I going to do, I need that computer to work at home.

But I keep reading. They have canceled my refurbished iMac and are instead sending me a new* one for the same price. Yeah, that's right, and they're now shipping it overnight (for free). It is being prepared for shipment as we speak and I'll probably get it on Monday.

And that... is why I heart Apple.


*I'm not sure how "new" it is as it's a 17" and the new-new iMacs come in 20" and 24." Either way it's "newer" than the refurbished one.

**This experience is in stark contrast to Fred's problems over at the porch.

Listening to the radio this morning I heard a commercial for the Ellen DeGeneres Show. They were using testimonials and this was one womans:

I don't drink coffee in the morning, I drink Ellen.

I can't make this stuff up.