How is it possible that as of this writing, there are no guesses as to this week’s installment of Unidentified Earth? Did it slip through the cracks for my readers, or have I managed to pull out my second stumper? I hope for the latter, actually; I’ve been burning through the Quatloos lately.
Nothing to see here….
OK, I suppose this is a sign that this blog has just about run its course: when I start posting LOLCat pictures. Sorry, folks, but while I find most LOLCat things mildly to moderately amusing, this one just appealed to my sensibilities perfectly:
Of course, the comments over there have all kinds of “alternate” captions, many of which are obviously derived from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. I think Shamus should work it somehow into DM of the Rings, though….
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I look…blocky.
Sentential Links #109
One hundred nine! Woo-hoo! Do you know what that means? Me either, but a little Googling reveals that “109 is the smallest number that is palindromic in bases 5 and 9.” OK then.
:: We aren’t doing these things for ourselves. We’re doing them for our grandchildren. (I knew I’d been reading SDB all this time for a reason! This is an outstanding post of his, and I gotta say, it’s brief by his standards. Time was when he’d preface this with some long thing about some obscure engineering principle or something someone discovered in battle in 1547….)
:: I used to have a boyfriend. He was actually perfect: cute, funny, thoughtful, lots of chemistry, pulled my hair at all the right times. He was, for a period, even attentive–that is, until June 29, 2007, when the iPhone went on sale. (Naughty language alert, but this post is hilarious. Oh, and this must surely be a sign of the coming apocalypse, which makes me say, “I for one welcome our new horsemen overlords.”)
:: I don’t know why my outfit was so offensive to her that she felt she had to stop and tell me about it. (Just found this blog — I’m astonished at the rudeness mentioned here. Also, one day I should write a post about why I find overalls extremely flattering on women; this blogger’s picture provides some pretty good evidence in my favor.)
:: Better a brief but creative life than a long and not so creative life. However I think it goes without saying that a long and creative life would probably be best. (Another blog that’s new to me this week.)
:: Not many men are secure enough in their masculinity to wear a dress. More than once. (And another! Yay!)
And that’s all for this week. Back next Monday, give or take….
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Wow….
I saw this “Get Well Soon” style card as part of a display among the antiques in the Crafts building at the Erie County Fair. The display was of old bits of media that depicted the kinds of wild racial stereotypes that used to be regular fare in America’s “white” culture. It’s always a shock to see tangible reminders like this of just how openly we used to display our racism in this country.
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Sunday Burst of Weirdness
This week’s nuggets of oddity from around the Intertubes:
:: Steven directs my attention to a wonderfully-named product. But what happens if you’re a guy and you eat these cookies?
:: A few weeks ago, the Burst of Weirdness had a delightful bit of bathroom graffiti that I suspected was a lot more wide-spread than I had ever known. And sure enough, it is: someone has a Cafepress store selling clothing emblazoned with “Press Button, Receive Bacon”. Hooray!
:: Thanks to SamuraiFrog for this:
This makes me think of the drive-thru ATM’s whose buttons nevertheless have Braille on them.
:: The Stephen Colbert “On Notice Board” Generator is a lot of fun. Here are some I came up with:
All for this week. Enjoy!
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Inner Piece
I feel the need to enshrine today’s installment of Get Fuzzy. Our story so far is that Satchel has taken up Tantric meditation (which he’d misread as “Tantrum meditation”), and is now apparently teaching Bucky how to do it:
Bucky’s line there belongs on a t-shirt or something.
UPDATE: It occurs to me that I haven’t complained about For Better or For Worse in a while, so the current storyline — yet more in the inevitable pairing of Liz and Anthony — makes me want to vomit. And remember, I love a good sappy love story. This one, though? Blecchhh. What is with Lynn Johnston’s rather creepy apparent belief that true happiness involves marrying one’s grade school sweetheart and never moving more than a mile or two from home?
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Headline Writers who Suck
Here’s something else that annoys me: News headlines that are deliberately misleading, in hopes of getting people to click through.
The other day I saw on AOL this headline: Harry Potter actress reveals pregnancy. Obviously they’re hoping that people will think, “Oh my God, Emma Watson’s pregnant? But she’s only seventeen!” Of course, it’s only Helena Bonham Carter who’s pregnant, not the person most people are going to think of as a “Harry Potter actress”.
And since I’m in a complaining mood, does every home run Barry Bonds hits now that he’s broken the all-time record really warrant a front-page headline on MSN.com?
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I want the word back.
It sickens me that in this day and age, it’s people like the church mentioned in this news article are the ones who get to lay claim to the word family, and get to parade themselves around as champions of family values, even as they cheerfully spit on every family that doesn’t line up precisely into their tiny, small-minded little definition of the word, all the while with that same nauseating smile of false piety on their faces. You know that smile — it graces the lips of every single televangelizing cretin preacher on the Earth, and Jerry Falwell had that smile so ingrained on his face that I’m sure it’s still on his visage even now that he’s several months in the coffin.
These people are not pro-family. It’s just that simple. They’re for and against a lot of things, but family isn’t one of them.
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Tag’d!
TeflonJedi tags me with the Meme of Four. And just for fun, I’m going to morph the rules here before I send this quiz out into the wild. I’m going to add a question to the quiz, at the bottom (but just before the one in which I tag four others), with the expectation that those tagged will add their own question in addition to answering the one I add myself. Does that make sense? Basically I want to see how big we can make this quiz by passing it around!
Wow, this coffee is good this morning!
Anyway, the quiz:
Four jobs I’ve had or currently have in my life:
1. Grocery store maintenance guy.
2. Pharmaceutical sales rep with a telesales company. (Worst job ever. The workplace itself was fine, very nice people and all who really tried to make me into a decent salesperson, but I’m just not temperamentally attuned to sales. At all. I’d face an uphill battle selling freshly-slaughtered blubber at a steep discount to a village of starving Inuits.)
3. Assistant restaurant manager. (I wasn’t bad at this, but ultimately I decided that restaurant management just wasn’t my cup of tea.)
4. Technical services assistant at a college library. (This was mostly fun, albeit occasionally dull and menial. Any assignment that involved working in the Rare Books room was golden — I loved those old books.)
Four countries I have been to:
1. Canada
2. Mexico (although I’m not sure I should count it, since I was no more than three years old at the time and I have no memory at all of this trip)
3. Gondor
4. Florin
Four places I’d rather be right now:
1. Sitting on the porch of an old farmhouse somewhere in the hills of southeastern Erie County
2. Riding a hot-air balloon over the autumn hills of Western New York’s Southern Tier
3. Hiking the Scottish Highlands
4. In her arms
Four foods I like to eat:
1. White peaches, filled with the nectar of the Gods
2. Potato salad, made with lots of mustard and loaded with diced onions, chilled to just above the point of freezing and eaten at sundown on a very hot day
3. Boyer’s Peanut Butter Smoothies
4. A salad consisting of nothing other than mixed greens (but no iceberg lettuce, as that stuff is just horrible), a can of water-packed tuna, and a generous amount of Italian dressing
New Question! Four personal heroes, past or present:
1. Marv Levy
2. Adolph Herseth (former principal trumpet of the Chicago Symphony, and possibly the greatest symphonic trumpet player of all time)
3. Leonard Bernstein
4. Carl Sagan
Four people I would like to tag:
1. Lynn (Your new blog name and design aren’t official until your first tag-quiz!)
2. Belladonna (My favorite source for introspective blogging, which is why I almost always tag her with stuff like this.)
3. SamuraiFrog (Unless you’ve already done this one, since you seem to get all of these.)
4. Messrs. Tosy and Cosh (Who would probably just grab the quiz and do it anyway, even if I didn’t tag him.)
Of course, there’s nothing saying that you can’t grab the quiz and do it anyway, even if I didn’t tag you. Just remember to add a new question!