For example, this week's batch of unanticipated excellence, just out of the dehydrator. Homegrown content scarce this time around, what with settling into the new job - BUT, a family-sized, finger-lickin' bucket of everything amusing I've come across recently, whether new or (mostly) not, plus a few minor annoyances at the end. The scary part is that this list, long as it is, represents only a fraction of the junk I noticed since last time, and wanted to blog about, but didn't have time. oh well.
Just for extra pretty, in rainbow.
Just for extra pretty, in rainbow.
1. The way Germans have a different (harsh) word for everything.
2. Ellen and Michelle Obama have a pushup smackdown:
...but wait, there's more...
3. Napoleon Dynamite's Top 10 signs you're not the coolest kid in school, on Letterman: http://www.youtube.com/watch?
3. Napoleon Dynamite's Top 10 signs you're not the coolest kid in school, on Letterman: http://www.youtube.com/watch?
4. Letterman's Top 10 California names: an oldie but a goodie. http://www.youtube.com/watch?
5. Sh*t Knitters Say: http://www.youtube.com/watch?
6. Time.com's 140 Best Twitter Feeds of 2012: http://techland.time.com/the-
7. A classical-style mural using nearly half a million staples: Please click the link to get the full effect and see the closeups.
9. Another foil rabbit to be a friend to Douglas: a found one, not a made one. http://rebeccamosley.blogspot.com/2010/03/foil- rabbit.html
10. NUIverse on Microsoft Surface: Must watch this demo by creator David Brown. Mind will be blown. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzoXPav7uzs
11. NYTimes: A High-Profile Executive Job as Defense Against Mental Ills: A courageous story about an executive who manages her mental health through maximum transparency and treating herself right. Would that the stigma be gone forever.12. Samantha Cameron's dress (wife of British PM David Cameron): don't know why I like it, but I do. Dorky chic. Michelle looks crazy-good as always.
13. Is the intro for this piece done by Harry Shearer, or is it for real?http://www.tradestreaming.com/2012/02/27/how-michelle-obama- added-5b-in-market-cap-to- apparel-stocks-with-david- yermack/
15. Bless Roger Ebert for tweeting his brains out. Roger generates so much Tweet data that someone graphed it.14. Masterpiece of Dollmaking: Stephanie Perga posted this "fantastic" link to a handmade Prince doll on FB last week. A must-see. http://www.troygua.com/work/le-petit-prince/
16. This Hasbro Queen Amidala doll that I found years ago at KB Toys for $1 (retail price $29.99 if you can believe it). I was so excited, I bought a dozen of them and gave them out. Even the boys got one. My other totally favorite things about her are:
1. The fact that her Padme face is attached to a hood that completely comes off; and
2. I took one look at her at the store and dubbed her...wait for it...Queen I'm-a-Dollar. And apparently only one other person has ever come up with that, so I'm pretty psyched.
3. We also had the Ultimate Hair Amidala (at right), but her hair bits wouldn't stay on her head. It was fun, however, to discover tiny hairpieces scattered throughout the house.
17. Dubious Plastic Toys, part 2: As long as we're talking plastic action figures, we must remember Stink from the remake of Land of the Lost, a gift from Sean to my brother Dave several years ago. Dave's been asked several times about where Stink is these days, but he's not talking.
18. Dubious Plastic Toys, part 3: On the subject of epic gifts we've bought for Dave, here's a favorite: a pen that talks and sings in the loud, demented voice of Gingy, the Gingerbread Man from Shrek. Have a listen.
19. Dubious Plastic Toys, part 4 (I swear this is it for now): Frank E. Post, the singing, talking lamppost. I bought him for Sean one Christmas, then "white elephanted" him at Christmastime to Uncle Dave, much to my later regret. Frank met a tragic end when he was accidentally squinched between a car and the back wall of the garage. But take heart! Frank lives on in Youtube tributes as well as two Facebook pages.
...but.....it ain't all sunshine and stupid plastic toys, you know...
1. Bad news: my recent no-chip manicure won't come off without lengthy soaking in scary acetone and much jimmying off with a wooden stick. It's plastic, and it's on there good. My nails are too wimpy to withstand that treatment, so I wait for them to grow out. A worthwhile experiment but never again.
Update: After 16 days I decided to peel them all off, and I realized there is a reason why everybody says not to peel them off. It left my nails thinner, ridgy, sensitive/painful, peeling, and with white spots under the nail. I had to go get Revlon Post-Stress Nail Trauma treatment, which seems to help tremendously. So. never again. ever.
2. Raising a lidded Starbucks cup for a drink without looking and then spilling it down my front because it has no lid.
3. Wondering happens to those unfailingly polite young Indians who are forced to neutralize their accents and lie about their jobs? Do they pay a price?
4. Cutting my pinky on a FedEx box yesterday morning. Cardboard, being stiffer than paper, cuts through skin like an ultra-dull jagged knife. Drops of blood literally jumped out of my finger.
5. Enough with the warm weather and thank goodness for the cool rain. The summer weather in March was starting to freak me out. Where's that good old freezing rain that pelts you in the face? Careful what you wish for, I suppose.
4 comments:
Brilliant staple mural. I'm forwarding that to Tom. I'm intrigued by the scratch thing (for work, I'm on a crusade to get my students computer savvy in a positive direction). I think I'd need a demo though. How old was the Napoleon Dynamite clip?
I think the Napoleon Dynamite clip is from 2007. Scratch is really cool and easy - our 9-year-old could show it to you in a flash!
The Germans have 63 different words for "invade France."
also in the un-PC but funny department, an old Woody Allen joke: The only problem with German food is an hour later, you're hungry for power.
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