Thinking in vain...

Yes. Need, not want, need. I need a mustache necklace. You all just don't understand. I must have this.

Supermarket

Saves time I suppose. See the world's strangest liquors.

Via CoastToCoastAM.

That would be a solargraph. It "shows the path taken by the sun as it travelled across the sky above the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol, UK, between 19 December 2007 and 21 June 2008 - the winter and summer solstices. It was taken in a single six-month exposure by photographer Justin Quinnell, using a pinhole camera strapped to a telephone mast."

See the other images here.

OH LORD.



Via coworker, Grant.

I have no idea what's going on. I haven't even turned on the news in 2 weeks. I had stuff to share and can't remember. But I have new stuff to share and will get right on that.

In the meantime I've found out that now there really will be a Mr. and Mrs. Joker - so congratulations!

And yeah. Back to work. *sigh*


Photo via Inspire Me, Now!

This is the recently opened Academy of the Sciences in San Francisco - how awesomely cool.

Although, I totally got fooled, I thought the whole thing was underground, but that photo just makes it look like that - to see the whole building go to their website: calacademy.org, still VERY cool though.

Found via Inspire me, now!, via Archidose.

Who is making me this cake for my birthday? Huh? Anyone? More photos at the original link.

Via Geekologie.

I'm just the messenger people, and I don't make this stuff up. ;)

The Curse of Tecumseh via Cryptomundo, fuller post over at his other blog, The Copycat Effect.

A film maker who wears a prosthetic eye already is considering placing a camera inside his fake eye and using it as a chance to "lifecast."

This is very cool, but something about it freaks me out. Maybe because I avoid cameras like the plague and I like knowing where they are and knowing if I am in fact being filmed. Cool for a documentary, but still creepy.

Via Wired

I am recovering from an ear infection that started Sunday afternoon. Today is my first day back at work and it's not fun so far.

I have my arsenal of medicines on my desk but I keep running into things with these drops in my ears.

However, Joker sent me this wonderful article about a dog being frozen to a sidewalk. He certainly knows how to cheer me up. :p

Also, if this doesn't make sense, I'm blaming the antibiotic. ;)

If you like environmentally friendly construction AND The Hobbit, you'll love this! I want to live there. Part of me thinks I'd be too tall, but we could fix that I'm sure.

Facebook might be slowly strangling my blog. Don't worry, the blog is putting up a valiant fight.

If you haven't talked to me recently or at all on Facebook, you may not know my hilarious recent obsession with Tom Selleck's mustache.

We were talking about things we trusted here at our fun agency and I suggested Magnum p.i. Which led to trusting Tom Selleck's mustache. Which in turn led to my February calendar graphic of Tom Selleck's mustache for the agency calendar.

And now? We have a Plushtache.

I'm heartbroken that it's sold out, because I think pictures of me with it would be about the best thing ever. One of these days, I will have a Plushtache.

;)

Via poppytalk.

I love the whimsical quality of this. Reminds me of Alice in Wonderland.

Via Inspire me, now! There's more at LiveJournal.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

What? That's all I got. :p

Recovering from company retreat. Oh. My. God.

That is all.

You may happen upon one of the most horrific images you've ever seen.


I may not be able to sleep tonight.

WeHeartIt.

It's cold and snowy. Even though it's melting I may go and get some hot chocolate. :)

Via FFFFound.

OMG, the guy hit him so hard (and didn't stop) that the dog became embedded in the grill and hung on for dear life until the guy stopped.

Article from Ananova.

I'm not posting a picture it's kinda - well - you can look if you want to.

Eight-toed Baby

I kinda went crazy this afternoon. And bought a camera.

Via Geekologie.

We're overdue. We haven't had some serious dosage of stomach-churning cuteness in a while. I apologize.


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I had to share this - I love the simple, off-beat humor of it. More at Brand New.

This was too good only to post on Twitter. Steve Chambers photographed some type of Jelly substance in Scotland, a sample has been tested and it's not a plant or animal.

My favorite explanation? Star Snot of course. :D

Read original article and other guesses at Scotland Outdoors. Via Coast to Coast AM.

Holy crap! Joker just pointed this out to me because he knows how much I love weird stuff. That's the picture of the kiteboarder a few seconds before the tail came up and whapped him in the head - he's not hurt.

Article and the Telegraph here.

The headline of the article actually says Nessie mystery turns 75, but I had to read St. Columba's biography in Early Irish and British history. If I remember correctly he banished the monster and blessed the lake - guess that didn't work. :p


While not a famous as the (fake) Surgeon's photo, this would be the first photograph of "Nessie." It was taken November 12, 1933.

And in 75 years? We've come this far.



I still seem to have my childhood wonder attached to cryptos and ghosts and the like. One of these days! Coz, hey, you never know. :)

BBC article here.

And Holgas. Via WeHeartIt.

My agency is kinda into health care marketing, therefore - I LOVE this site. It's simple, easy to use and the music doesn't bother me like music on websites usually do. I love the animation style, such a cool idea. See the website here.

Via AdRants.

What you say? Trongs.




Perfect, now I can quit looking retarded when I eat wings with a fork. :p

Via Baking Bites, Trongs website here.

Just might be one of the best pictures ever.


Via WeHeartIt.

Via WeHeartIt, via unicornology.

That is one, ugly, HUGE fish. Salmon to be more specific. It was over 4ft long and weighed 85lbs.

That's like a second grader or something.

Original article here.

I am so cold. Typing is keeping my fingers from going numb.

Fort Knox - June 1942, FSA

I'm hoping I can get home in time so that there is some light and I can take a photo of my neighborhood. The boy scouts come put flags in almost everyone's yard today and on other holidays like it. It's such a picturesque sight.

Y'all should be so proud of me. I made a little Flash intro, all by myself. Yeah, so what if it wasn't very complicated? I did it. :p

Oh, and if I NEVER hear the words "too much white space" again, I think I'll be OK.

Secondly, we hate the Glade Scented Candle commercials in my house. Only the first one is up on YouTube that I can find. Why? Because the woman is a pathological liar and her friends and family should have had an intervention years ago - I mean who lies about candles? To add to the complete horribleness which is these commercials - the latest one has a talking/moving ginger bread cookie. We throw things at the TV.

Lastly, I HEART the new Slowskys commercial where they're in a movie getting ready for it to start. It's not on YouTube yet because apparently not every one shares my love of those silly turtles.

There's another juried art show coming up and I have to figure out what to enter. Something I've done in the last 2 years and the deadline is fast approaching. Cross your fingers I figure something out.

Oh, and happy Veteran's Day. :)

Name something you find trustworthy. Or something you trust.

Please. :)


UPDATE: Also, if you could pick one thing that says advertising to you... what would that be?

on vacation.

and i need one.

see you in a week.

I have been busy. But I'm going on vacation next week! No, I'm not going anywhere, my finances, like the economy, are not as they should be. And I've been busy following the election.

I'm not going to give my opinions necessarily, despite having some strong ones. I don't articulate them very well. But I would urge anyone who happens by here to actually go read up on both candidates. You can't get to the meat of their experience, policies, and records through a 2-minute TV sound byte. Go read an article that is so long it would hurt your eyes to read on your computer. A read ones both for and against both candidates and make up your own mind.

Don't be swayed by oversimplified talking points and pretty graphics.

I found a quote the other day and I really like it and think it's quite relevant for these days. I haven't researched the man that much yet, but the quote, I like.

Television is altering the meaning of 'being informed' by creating a species of information that might properly be called disinformation… Disinformation does not mean false information. It means misleading information – misplaced, irrelevant, fragmented or superficial information – information that creates the illusion of knowing something, but which in fact leads one away from knowing.

~Neil Postman

BTW, I need mine done too.

Found again at FrostFireZoo.

Found via Frostfirezoo. (Click for bigness.)

I love these. First time during the game I saw this one, but we laughed.

It's now officially Fall and last night I came home to a surprise present from a friend: Halloween candy. She has a 3-year old and a 6-year old and it was their idea to leave the candy.

I can ignore milk chocolate, and Whoppers (which I'd never had before) and I can even ignore Kit Kat's and suckers, but dammit she put Reese's Cups and Junior Mints and I am trying my best to stay out of the kitchen.

September is almost over, which means my FAVORITE month in the whole year is starting soon. Shortly the leaves will start changing and the nights are days are already cooler. I'm going to start making pumpkin pies and soups and I'm going to make my sister make her Butternut Squash lasagna.

I really wish I could take the whole month of October off. I can't but I did take a week off and I can't wait for it. It's taking forever to get here.

Anyway, to get you in the mood, at least a little, because October also brings Halloween! So here are 7 Spooky Ghost Towns for you to enjoy. Or at least procrastinate a little with.

I can't figure out how to embed this. So go watch it.

But if you need to be put in the mood. I just read about a creepy story on the blog Phantoms & Monsters, the name of the post is titled The Himuro Mansion Haunting: Japanese Urban Legend or Fact? and the original post is over at a blog named Paranormala.

Here's an excerpt:

This is the basis of the “haunting” of the Himuro Mansion. Local legend has it that these souls of the murdered family wander the mansion attempting to repeat the failed ritual using whomever enters the abandoned building. Blood splashes on the walls are reportedly seen, as if they were flicked from the blade of a sword that had recently sliced through flesh. Many have reported seeing spirits and apparitions dressed completely in white, rinsing cloths and preparing the grounds for the ritual.

Reminds me of The Grudge (hence the visual). One weekend my sister and I decided for some reason to watch The Grudge and The Grudge 2 back to back. Freaked us the hell out, probably because we emmersed ourselves a little too much in the story. We also has a friend who can unhinge her jaw (yeah, I'm talking to you Mandi) and make that face. I'd tell her to be that for Halloween, but it would probably freak me out TOO much.

tintinnabulation: a tinkling sound, as of a bell or bells.

That is the word of the day, from I don't know where. Say that 10x fast. I need to work this into my every day vocabulary I think.

I have been behind the 8 ball ever since I got back from out-of-town last week. It was fun, but damn my house needs to be vacuumed.

I'm recovering from a bit of heat exhaustion and sun-burn as well. It's what happens when you're a blond airhead who forgets to drink water and wear sunscreen as she runs all over the VT campus and watches the VT/GT game on the sunny side of the stadium. My sister made me sit for most of the first quarter while I drank water and had another cold bottle on the back of my neck. She's smart. And I'm finally feeling normal.

I had fun stuff to blog about and now I've forgotten everything and lost all the links. I have been reading your blogs, I just haven't gotten the gumption to grace your blogs with my opinion. ;)

Oh, as you know, I hate dolls - so this is FREAKING CREEPY. It's freaking me out just looking at the page long enough to get the link. I watched the first 13 seconds of that video and had to turn it off.

Hers is over 6ft long! And really skinny. (*snicker* the quotes have that middle school humor... )

Not only is that one big zucchini, that is one HUGE zucchini vine. It looks like it's growing on a trellis overhead.

Now that's an idea. Mine were just in raised beds and started taking over the walkway. Although, I'm not sure where to put a trellis like that in my backyard.

She says in the article they usually don't get more than 4ft... does she normally grow 4ft tall zucchini??


Found via YesButNoButYes. Daily News Article here.

If you were a little wary of online dating because you thought the people joining had to be "different", you haven't seen nothing yet.

Enter OtherKinDating.

All the shapeshifters, aliens, werewolves and elves that don't feel loved now have a place to go.


They also suggest taking your OtherKinDates to Renaissance Festivals. Put that on the list of reasons I have not to go to one of those.


Found via Hecklerspray.

Ha ha. Via Travors.com

We have some Virginia Tech football news to announce: Tyrod Taylor is back.

Beamer said he informed Glennon of the decision Monday and that Glennon was very disappointed. Taylor is excited, Beamer said. Neither quarterback will be available for interviews this week.

I feel slightly bad for saying this but perhaps if Glennon didn't crumble under the pressure and throw 2 interceptions on Saturday he wouldn't be "very disappointed." I guess though that I too would be very disappointed. I'd want to prove myself too after the taunting and hate mail he's gotten.

But, I still can't wait for Saturday. :D

VT goes back to 2 Quarterback system.

Supposedly a California man believes his step-father was the Zodiac Killer.

I have a weird fascination with serial killers. Truth be told, the fascination sometimes bothers me. I blame a criminal justice class I had to take in high school. The teacher was one of my favorites (she also taught me American History), she used to crow in the middle of class specifically to bother the English class beside us.

First article here, and the update article here.

The Boston Globe has an article on how important daydreaming is.

And luckily, I suppose, I fall into the good category that is aware they are daydreaming. In other words, I can pay attention to the fact that I'm daydreaming and realize when these daydreams lead to ideas.

Alien lighting - Büro für Form

I love these. next also has other cool lights, none of which I think I can order in the US. :(

Now this explains the sudden surge in people. And they were all coming to my post on that other winged cat, mostly because the image from that post is the first one in the Google search results. Well, go me. :p

Now there's another one. Apparently he's too stressed out because he's a big ladies man. Poor guy.

Article at FOXNews.

I'm finding a lot of this X-Ray photography lately. I like a lot. :) There's an article on Nick Veasey over at Wired.

I'm not sure how I made it to an illustrious list that includes Make the Logo Bigger and Where's My Jetpack (and the Texan)... but there I am.

This time Joker asked me 20 questions.

And my blog being compared to Ripley's Believe It or Not! is awesome.

The Horned Skull:

During an archaeological dig in Sayre, Bradford County, Pennsylvania in the 1880s, a number of human skulls were unearthed. These skeletons were anatomically correct, except for the anomaly of their projections, two inches above the eyebrow, and the fact that their average height in life would have been around seven feet tall. The bones were sent to the American Investigating Museum in Philadelphia, where they were stolen - never to be seen again.

New post at CultCase about 5 mysterious skulls, very cool.

We have a cat with 4 ears, named Yoda. Maybe he can get with the cat with wings.

Article at The Daily Mail.

Via Pixdaus.

Why is she upset about this? I think it would be awesome, at least she doesn't turn everything to skittles.

Is that Ben Folds in the commercial???

Tired. Migraine. Later.

I had a migraine last night so I didn't get to watch any of the Olympics. *pouts* And I obviously I missed Michael Phelps winning the ENTIRE Olympic games *winkwink*


Via Design You Trust.

Very cool.

From the About section on the BBC - Britain From Above site:

Britain looks very different from the skies. From a bird's eye view of the nation, its workings, cities, landscapes and peoples are revealed and re-discovered in new and extraordinary ways.

Cutting edge technology allows you to see through cloud cover, navigate the landscape and witness familiar sights as never seen before.

Via YesButNoButYes.

more graph humor and song chart memes

Oh, I'm making me and my sister some! Damn skippy. LOL.

Via Pixdaus.

If you haven't heard - they've apparently found a "bigfoot" body in Georgia. There've been blog posts about it for a while, but it didn't really get people's attention until they released photos yesterday/late last nightish. And it's either real or one of the most elaborate hoaxes ever.

UPDATE: Nevermind, move along. See, that's what happens if I post something before I get to read the new stuff - probably fake.

Also, on a related note: as usual some people think this is just a marketing stunt for a movie. Which brings me to an annoyance of mine. Do the people behind dumb, fake stunts kinda like this could be not realize that slowly people will not fall for any of their publicity stunts? "Faking" things isn't a good way to go "viral." Seems more like the boy-that-cried-wolf to me. Why not make it genuinely interesting and cool, oh and relevant instead of making the people that forwarded it feel like idiots? Besides the pay-off on these things is always a let-down. Ooh, cool faceless people = car site. Let down.

People don't believe advertising anyways. Most commercial breaks my sister is turning and looking at me going, "Really?? That's stupid!" Dumb stunts and fake personas and sites isn't going to help in the long run.

I'm feeling cynical today. It's days like today that I think I should go back and finish my teaching degree so I can make sure kids don't fall for this kind of stupidity.


UPDATE 2: One of these guys was on Fox News this morning. *rolls eyes*





[Image via FFFFound, via Chris Judge Illustration.]

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Every 4 years I become incapable of doing anything else but watching the Olympics. I had a child-hood fantasy of being an Olympic swimmer.

I also wanted to do gymnastics but I gave up after the uneven bars in elementary school. That shit is HARD. :p Doesn't help that I can't even do a pull-up now.

I can usually ignore the announcers, I'm used to them. But I'd like to smack the woman who is the "side-line reporter" interviewing the swimmers after their matches. She asks the dumbest questions. Sorry. She was interviewing Natalie Coughlin the night before last about her drifting and insinuating how big of a problem it was going to be for her. Yeah, well she showed you, didn't she?

Also - I LOVE all the VISA Olympic commercials. You can't get a better combination of the Olympics and Morgan Freeman.



Oh, looks like the Equestrian events are on online. Later.

Oh, funny t-shirt.

Via Threadless.

Via Pixdaus