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February 4, 2006
in case you were wondering
why I've been so quiet lately...
this would be why
Whew I'm waaay out of practice with this now..
August 15, 2005
April 20, 2005
in case you were worried about it...
You don't need parmesan cheese to live in a van down by the river.
You don't need lead poisoning to steal somebody's nougat.
You don't need stain-resistant pants to wax your elbows.
Words of wisdom and validation via the The Doctor Phil Random Quote Generator. Better than the real thing if you ask me.
from my sister who should be checking her snail mail this week.
March 3, 2005
Best Links I've seen this week
The Top 100 Gadgets of All Time
The Fifty most important computer games ever made (so far)
Top Ten Gas Guzzlers of 2005
The number one most offensive tv clip of the week according to the Parents Television Council (of pearl-clutching ninnies)
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Otherwise known as prison art
Barbie Lip Gloss Maker
I didn't watch the Academy Awards and still have no idea who won or even who all was nominated. I used to genuinely care but my interest has been on a slow decline (with my cynicism on a sharp incline) over the last ten years or so. Not only is it on network television which I don't watch but it's just so blatantly fixed for high drama, utterly self-congratulatory amongst a group who already think that their high colonic-ed shit doesn't stink, and well, their movies may be fun diversions but in the grand scheme of things - it really doesn't matter what dress was worn by whom and who won in what category. It all just comes off as a big diversion for the media from telling us things we really should know about. But these are some nice portraits of actors anyway.
Small towns in the midwest are offering incentive packages to move to their towns - including free land and long term tax discounts. If they can only get rid of the racist homophobic bigotted neighbors that made their children run for the big cities in the first place.
A girl and her harp
Color photographs of the French Army during World War ONE
Google maps: miserable failure in washington dc
January 25, 2005
January 17, 2005
swimming in mud and digging in sand
I've drunk almost an entire Bodum teapot of caffeinated tea today and still can't find the energy to accomplish a damn thing. Like trying to swim in mud. Fucking depression. Fucking thyroid. Fucking weight. All three of you can bite my butt.
Here are two fun links though.
You WILL experience the Ninja Burger difference! Totally stolen from Yummy Wakame. Again.
Reminds me of that time the ninjas tried to rob the Burger King in Hoover.
BBC - 100 things we learned in 2004. I think I stole this from ack3.
I think I'm going to get Mr Man to take me out to dinner somewhere tonight. It's Saturday night in our alternative working schedule universe. So what should it be? Sushi? Indian? Seafood? New Mexican? Actual Mexican? Italian? Cajun? Ninja Burgers?
Suggestions?
January 2, 2005
get it out!!
Thanks to more nyquil and being easily amused that guinea pig song is now on permanent repeat in my brain. So I guess that's the annoying cutesy song of 2005.
Only in Kenya was 2004's. And did you catch the lapland holiday version? Before that there was Peanut Butter Jelly Time, the viking kittens singing led zeppelin at rather good (not exactly a cutesy song but I think it qualifies), the south park underpants gnomes jingle, and, of course, hamster dance.
Oh and the bright and shiny song from Bubble Boy.
What really annoying song is stuck in your head today?
January 1, 2005
December 8, 2004
December 1, 2004
mini link roundup
Mom's Cancer - a comic strip about a very smart man's mom getting diagnosed with lung cancer. It's not as depressing as it sounds but it is interesting, poignant, sad, and thought-provoking.
There's a Confederacy of Dunces fan group on LiveJournal where the postings are rare but usually written in character and are damn funny.
The Authentic History Center - looking at pop cultural artifacts from a different, more prejudiced time from a modern perspective. (Right, go check out some of the cartoons from 2001) Reminds me of the "Coon Chicken" scenes in Ghost World.
Salon article on A Very Long Engagement, the new Jeunet film with Audrey Tautou, most people know her sweet face from Amelie.
November 25, 2004
random link roundup
Art
Beautiful pinhole photos of camera obscura cityscapes
Also the winners of the 2004 College Photographer of the Year - a great variety of subjects in several categories
Had some fun with photos of phunq using the surprisingly easy Dooce effect in PhotoImpact (the "Bougie" Photoshop)
Literature
The Wasp Factory in a text file. A few sites included it in their "Best books of the 20th Century" lists.
(How) To Kill A Mockingbird aka Boo Radley: Space Pirate Robots prepare to cringe if you love the book like I do. Funny but not unlike having someone pee on photos of your childhood pet.
Oxymoronica
Music
Feeling mellow? Go listen to Kestrel's Radio Blog. It's a particularly wistful and melodic collection right now.
Getting frustrated dealing with fun family holiday bullshit? Then make your own angry punk songs with The Dirty Punk Fuckin' Anarchy Machine
Tech
Skinning gmail - I have several invitations if anyone needs one just leave a comment with your email address.
BotSpot
WOW vs EQII
Sid Meier's Pirates hasn't been discussed by game people nearly enough dammit. Talk about a dark horse.
Etc
American Family Association invites us to order their instructional video on how to not be gay
What to buy your child for xmas if you want him to become the next Amish Norman Bates prototype
'Crats from the South say "Well, Fuck you too"
November 22, 2004
how cool!
Sleepbot Environmental Broadcast is a streaming audio service that plays a variety of relaxing "sleepworthy" sounds 24-7. There's even a reference tone of the loudest it will ever be so you can set your speakers accordingly.
November 7, 2004
wotd
Again this isn't really about politics but I couldn't resist putting up what Jocelyn just forwarded to me.
Go see what today's word of the day is.
Expatriate (verb)
Pronunciation: [eks-'pey-tree-eyt] Listen
Definition: To leave one's native land and live elsewhere; to renounce allegiance to one's native land.
Usage: Historically, writers have expatriated: Percy Bysshe and Mary Shelley left England for Italy, T. S. Eliot left the US for England, Samuel Beckett left Ireland for France, Gertrude Stein left the US for France, James Joyce left Ireland for practically anywhere else, and Ernest Hemingway did likewise from the US. The list goes on; many studies have been done of the expatriate [eks-'pey-tree-yêt] writers' habits of expatriation [eks-pey-tree-'ey-shên].
Suggested Usage: Usually, "to expatriate" is taken to mean an ideological difference with one's homeland, but many people expatriate for economic reasons. Russians expatriated to Europe for economic reasons after the Gorbachev revolution. Many expatriate Americans lived in Paris in the '20's because Paris was more fun.
Etymology: Medieval Latin expatriare "to leave one's country" from Latin ex- "from, out of" + Latin patria "native land." "Patria" is derived from pater "father". The same Proto-Indo-European root *pêter emerged in English as "father," French père, Spanish "padre," and Sanskrit as "pitR," and Persian (Farsi) "pedar." (For more on Proto-Indo-European read "How is a Hippopotamus like a Feather" in the yourDictionary library.)
–himes5069@never-enuff.net
LOL!
October 9, 2004
September 17, 2004
the lotion song
Greenskeepers
The night is very cold
I'm feeling kind of weak.
I think I'll make myself a cap
from your right buttock's cheek.
And then I will go walking with my little dog.
And then I'll bury you underneath a log.
It rubs the lotion on its skin.
Or else it gets the hose again.
snagged from waxy
goodbye romania
Weird little photo album of Romania with a story. Every time someone hits the page one pixel in the photo turns white. So I guess you'd better hurry.
September 15, 2004
like they'll hear it any better in colorado
McDonald's franchisees in Cape Girardeau, Mo., Brainerd, Minn., and Norwood, Mass., recently began outsourcing their drive-thru order-taking to a call center in Colorado Springs, Colo. Thus, a Big Mac order shouted into a microphone in Missouri gets typed into a computer in Colorado (and a digital photograph of the customer's car is taken in order to reduce errors) and then clicked back to the originating restaurant's kitchen, which has the order ready in less time (30 seconds less, on average, with fewer errors) than the average McDonald's takes. [International Herald Tribune-New York Times, 7-19-04]
news of the weird
September 14, 2004
September 8, 2004
September 7, 2004
having kids lowers iq?
Indiana University study: having children significantly lowers parents' IQs
A five-year study run by Indiana University’s Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction proves what many in the scientific community have always suspected: having children significantly lowers the IQ of both male and female parents.
Researchers at the Kinsey Institute began their study in 1999 by giving 200 married couples who were planning on starting families within the next four years Intelligence Quotient (IQ) tests. By 2003, all but 27 of these couples had conceived.
Another IQ test was given to each set of parents successful in conceiving and birthing a baby six months after their child was born. These results were compared to the previous intelligence tests.
In every single one of the 173 cases, both parents scored at least twelve points lower on the second IQ test, with the majority of parents losing twenty or more IQ points.
Dr. Hosung Lee, director of the study, was not surprised with the findings. “The research proved that our hypothesis was correct. Having children does retard one’s brain activity, and since both parents lost intelligence, we must assume that this loss has a psychological rather than biological cause.”
The IQ tests show that when a child is born, the part of the brain that makes one think objectively takes the biggest hit when it comes to losing brainpower. “This explains why every parent thinks their child is the smartest kid in class or the best athlete, even if that child is as dumb as a box of rocks or needs a calendar to time their forty-yard dash. People who before were intelligent and open-minded turn into raving lunatics who want to blame a teacher or coach every time their mediocre child fails,” said Lee.
Lee says the Kinsey Institute will continue to test the couples participating in the study to determine if the loss of intelligence is reversible once children grow up and leave the nest and if parents who continue having children lose even more intelligence.
I'm curious what the results were for the 27 couples who didn't have children
though.
snagged from NewMexiKen
August 30, 2004
August 22, 2004
August 5, 2004
July 27, 2004
I (heart) my unmentionables
This is probably tmi but I don't wax down 'thar'. This might be amusing for those who do. I love the "absolutely no returns" note. Hee
July 16, 2004
Sex, Drugs, and Bubblegum music
This is what happens when you go searching for clip art without watching those search words.
Partridge Family Temple
Apparently these folks believe that Ma Partridge is the Virgin All-Mother, Keith is the Angry Male Sex and War God, Laurie is the Whore of Babylon, Danny is the Trickster and we're all Partridges and if we emulate the Partridge credo of 'getting happy' we can all be gods. And that Albuquerque is the promised land. No. Really.
Apparently they've been around for a while. Be sure to check out the crazy Sex Cult page.
July 7, 2004
the mad monk indeed
Knyazkin, 37, a urologist and sexologist, set up the museum in the clinic he runs, partly with the aim of helping his patients overcome impotence. The atmosphere of the museum makes patients "more optimistic and relaxed," he said.
"The aim of the doctor is to free his patient from anxiety and fears. Men who come here are ill at ease because of their problems, and our light and happy atmosphere reassures them."
Highlights in this light and happy atmosphere include Rasputin's huge pickled penis and a staff of "buxom nurses wearing short white blouses and high heels."
snagged from the neurotic fishbowl
June 28, 2004
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