(via: Ffffound)
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Say hello to my little friends
[YouTube link]
Husband and I will be attending a class performance at Child's school tonight. Is it wrong for me to hope that it'll be something like this Scarface school play?
It's fudgin' AWESOME!
(via: Mashable)
Monday, March 29, 2010
To Bea or not to Bea
Me: I found the coolest site. It's called "That's What Bea Said" and it's filled with Bea Arthur quotes.
Husband: Mmm-hmm.
Me: Isn't that cool?
Husband: Mmm-hmm.
Me: I just really like Bea Arthur.
Husband: I like Bea Arthur too.
Child: I don't even know who he is.
That's what Bea said
Combine "That's what she said," the most versatile phrase on Earth, with one-liners from The Golden Girls and you get pure awesome: That's What Bea Said!
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Friday, March 26, 2010
Nom nom nom
Scanwiches is a blog that contains nothing but flatbed scans of bisected deliciousness. Strange, but fascinating.
The ingredients in the sandwich above: tahawus, chicken salad, slab bacon, lettuce, tomato, hot peppers, white cheddar, on multi-grain.
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Thursday thirteen: 13 birthday quizzes
My birthday is this week. To celebrate I took 13 highly scientific internet quizzes to find out what the date of my birth can tell me about myself (do I know how to party, or what?). Surprisingly, most of the results are pretty accurate...
1
What does your birth date mean?
2
What does your birthday predict about you?
3
What color is your birthday?
4
What's your birthday's wisdom?
5
What's your true birth month?
6
What's your Celtic animal?
7
What element were you born into?
8
What does your birth month mean?
9
What's your rising sign?
10
What animal were you in a past life?
11
What's your travel horoscope?
What sign should you be with?
13
What is your life path number?
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The thinks I thought 2 years ago:
Some good news & some bad news
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Smart and irrelevant
I work in IT. Information Technology in my company has recently been trying to become more engaged with its customers, focusing on providing better service, that sort of thing. Basically, IT has finally figured out what the rest of the world has known for a long time: customers are the reason we exist. If we're not customer-focused, we will become irrelevant (if we aren't already).
So why is it so hard for my team to understand that we need to listen to our customers and actually GIVE THEM WHAT THEY WANT?
Some members of my team believe that customers are too stupid to know what they want. They think we're much smarter than our customers and we can completely ignore what they want. After all, we give them what they NEED. They should be thanking us!
I bet Blockbuster believes they're giving customers what they NEED too. Their impending bankruptcy couldn't possibly be because they've failed to deliver products and services that their customers WANT, could it? And it certainly couldn't be because clever competitors like Netflix and Redbox, not to mention video-on-demand services, give customers exactly what they want (when they want it), thus rendering Blockbuster completely irrelevant.
I'm sure that will never happen to us. (We think) we're too smart.
Monday, March 22, 2010
Sunday, March 21, 2010
The Farnsworth Parabox
Child got a box of kidrobot Futurama toys for Christmas and ended up with a bunch of duplicates, so she and Husband customized the extra characters and turned them into their parallel universe counterparts.
Husband and Child are both so geeky and talented!
I don't think I'm living up to my potential
Best Occupational Category
You're a CREATOR
KEYWORDS
Nonconforming, Impulsive, Expressive, Romantic, Intuitive, Sensitive, and Emotional
These original types place a high value on aesthetic qualities and have a great need for self-expression. They enjoy working independently, being creative, using their imagination, and constantly learning something new. Fields of interest are art, drama, music, and writing or places where they can express, assemble, or implement creative ideas.
CREATOR OCCUPATIONS
Suggested careers are Advertising Executive, Architect, Web Designer, Creative Director, Public Relations, Fine or Commercial Artist, Interior Decorator, Lawyer, Librarian, Musician, Reporter, Art Teacher, Broadcaster, Technical Writer, English Teacher, Architect, Photographer, Medical Illustrator, Corporate Trainer, Author, Editor, Landscape Architect, Exhibit Builder, and Package Designer.
CREATOR WORKPLACES
Consider workplaces where you can create and improve beauty and aesthetic qualities. Unstructured, flexible organizations that allow self-expression work best with your free-spirited nature.
Suggested Creator workplaces are advertising, public relations, and interior decorating firms; artistic studios, theaters and concert halls; institutions that teach crafts, universities, music, and dance schools. Other workplaces to consider are art institutes, museums, libraries, and galleries.
Take the color career quiz!
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Curiouser and curiouser
What Alice in Wonderland Character are you?
Dead on ... except for the part about being brave. I'm anything but!
Friday, March 19, 2010
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Pillow talk
On 30 Rock, hottie James Franco's bizarre predilection for anime body pillows threatened to destroy his career in a most hilarious fashion.
Sadly, it's not nearly as funny in real life.
Monday, March 15, 2010
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Saturday, March 13, 2010
I'm feeling childish today
Today is the anniversary of the day Uranus was discovered. (*snicker, snicker* I said Uranus!)
What do toilet paper and the Starship Enterprise have in common?
They both go around Uranus and get rid of Klingons!
("Captain's log" would have also been correct)
I could do this all day
AT LOL.com something new and amusing appears every time you refresh your screen!
(via: Interesting Pile)
Warning: They're not all gems.
Friday, March 12, 2010
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Frosty reception for Venus de Milo
(via: NJ.com)
A family in New Jersey sculpted a damn awesome snowlady in front of their home that was so cool, people passing by stopped to take photos of it. Unfortunately it also prompted an anonymous complaint from some art hater and police made the family cover up the sculpture with clothing!
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Thought for the day
(image credit: thraxil)
"No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation." ~ Fran Lebowitz
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Ladies and gentleman ... Jeremy Hotz!
[YouTube link]
Husband, Child and I went to see Jeremy Hotz perform on Friday night. Yes, we've become those dopey parents who show up at what is clearly an adult performance with our kid in tow. Oh well, Child didn't hear any language that she hasn't already heard at middle school (and maybe a little from me).
Jeremy Hotz was fantastic, as usual. As Liz Lemon would say, he had us lizzing (laughing and whizzing)!
Monday, March 8, 2010
Sunday, March 7, 2010
Saturday, March 6, 2010
Playing with dolls
Lady Gaga Barbie (via: Incredible Things)
She'd make an interesting companion for Palm Beach Sugar Daddy Ken.
Friday, March 5, 2010
Trippin'
(image via: Toy Traveling)
Don't have the time or money to take a vacation this year? That doesn't mean your beloved stuffed animals can't get away for some R&R. You can send them to Prague, where they'll be shown a good time and sent home with photos and happy memories of their trip.
Pooh caught the travel bug when we drove to Niagara Falls last summer. I wonder if Child would let him go to Europe all by himself?
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Thursday thirteen: 13 strange lists
(via: The Oatmeal)
5 cats that look like Wilford Brimley
Top 5 karaoke-inspired acts of violence
5 reasons why aliens would only land in the US
5 ways to avoid a shark attack
8 ways to prepare your pets for war
9 reasons not to date a tyrannosaurus rex
10 things your body can do after you die
10 very good reasons why you should grow a giant beard
10 ways to hack a peanut butter sandwich
10 ways to tell your Amish kid is headed for trouble
20 ways you can outsmart a ninja
25 funny finger faces
330 ways to enjoy toast
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Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Thought for the day
(image credit: deepchi1)
"You can always tell you're in trouble when the good option involves a prosthetic leg." ~ Hugh Elliott
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Happy birthday, Dr. Seuss!
If Dr. Seuss were a Technical Writer
Here's an easy game to play.
Here's an easy thing to say.
If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
And the bus is interrupted as a very last resort.
And the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort,
Then the socket packet pocket has an error to report!
If your cursor finds a menu item followed by a dash,
And the doubleclicking icon puts your window in the trash,
And your data is corrupted 'cause the index doesn't hash.
Then your situation's hopeless and your system's gonna crash!
You can't say this?
What a shame, sir!
We'll find you
another game, sir!
If the label on the cable on the table at your house
Says the network is connected to the button on the mouse,
But your packets want to tunnel on another protocol,
That's repeatedly rejected by the printer down the hall,
And your screen is all distorted by the side effects of Gauss,
So your icons in the windows are so wavy as a souse,
Then you may as well reboot and go out with a bang,
'Cause as sure as I'm a poet, the sucker's gonna hang!
When the copy of your floppy's getting sloppy on the disk,
And the microcode instructions cause unnecessary RISC.
Then you have to flash your memory and you'll want to RAM your ROM.
Quickly turn off the computer and be sure to tell your mom!
~ Author Unknown
Monday, March 1, 2010
A look at boobs
(via: Online Schools)
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Wanted: stacked rocket scientist
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