Ugh.
02 Oct 2007 Leave a Comment
No wonder I always feel sick after eating gummy candy. I had gotten used to the fact that gummy candy is made with gelatin and other weird substances, but they coat it with MINERAL oil to make it shine. EEEEEWWWWW….
These and other things I shouldn’t know brought to you by How It’s Made.
If my socks were an Orbit flavor they’d be Grapemint.
02 Oct 2007 1 Comment
in Fabulous Friends, Off the Needles, The Boob Tube
Last night around midnight I finished the first of my Jaywalkers! Aren’t they pretty? They are a fairly easy pattern, and fun to knit. I have included by favorite shot, on top, as well as a shot without feet in them (for Blenda of Oz who always responds to my lovely photographs with “AUGH… they have feet in them!” Not this time little lady!)
Today I’m trying to make some headway on other projects on the needles. (I’m home sick, but luckily well enough to knit!) Right now I’m working on finishing a seed stitch and cable knit blanket for my friend’s baby due in December. I’m hoping to finish it today since I only have a few skeins left. Other than that I’m watching Cash Cab and How it’s Made on Discovery and hoping anxiously to receive my SP 11 package today. My SP so far has been great and she warned me last week that “something yarny this way comes” but as of yet Mr. Postman has been hoarding my gift for himself. Which reminds me… off to check the mail!
Karmic Retribution
26 Sep 2007 Leave a Comment
in Deep Thoughts, Fabulous Friends, Notes to Myself, The Boob Tube
So tonight I was at Knitmeister S’s enjoying TV night. While he was playing with the kitties on his spiral staircase, I MIGHT have told a story about another friend of ours who fell down those steps at his place. And I MIGHT have laughed a little about it. (In my defense, when she first told me, she was laughing too.)
After television, I went home and lived happily every after.
Well…. not quite.
Then I fell out of the elevator.
How, you might ask, did I come to fall OUT of an elevator? Well I’ll show you. In the diagram below you will notice that the elevator car has not stopped flush with the floor, but rather lingers several scary inches above it.
So I MIGHT have missed that crucial step down and ended up on the tile floor in a nice SPLAT.
That Karma…. ya just never know when she’s going to open up a can of whoopass on ya.
Hugh Laurie Trivia
22 Sep 2007 Leave a Comment
in Groovin' to Tunes, The Boob Tube
“When Hugh Laurie, Jamie Denton, Greg Grunberg, Bob Guiney, and Bonnie Somerville performed at the TV Guide Emmy Party, they asked for, and received, $200,000 that was split equally and donated to charity. The band, called Band From TV, will now be making special appearances. Hugh will donate most of his share to the Save The Children organization.”
Heard on the Tonight Show, found here.
Simpsonize me.
23 Aug 2007 Leave a Comment
in L'il Ole Me, Let's All Go to the Movies, The Boob Tube
Even though I don’t watch the tv show much and didn’t see the movie, I was curious to see what the “Simpsonized” version of me would look like. The verdict? I couldn’t find the right hair, but it’s not too bad. Thoughts?
For your very own, go here.
Time Capsule
23 Aug 2007 1 Comment
A while ago I had a short discussion with Wes. It was so hilarious and wrong at the same time that I filed it away as material for a future post. Essentially, he argued that a catastrophic event (like Mt. Vesuvius or Pompeii) could one day occur in the vicinity of a plushie or furry convention, and that the population encapsulated in rock and lava would surely make an interesting impression upon those who unearthed it later in time. Needless to say I was reduced into a fit of giggles.
If you don’t find this funny, you may need to do some research. I can direct you here for a detailed discussion of plushies and furries. If you still aren’t sure of what I’m speaking, check out episode 406, “Fur and Loathing” of CSI.
Now tell me that’s what you want 2.5 million people to visit each year in the future.
Meerkat Mania
20 Aug 2007 Leave a Comment
I don’t know if you’ve seen the commercials lately, but Animal Planet has been pimping the heck out of Meerkat Manor. This nature documentary turned soap opera is in its third season already. They’re starting to call it the next Sopranos.
Now the next Sopranos it is not, but I have to admit that I was entertained watching a few episodes on Friday night. I can’t tell those little suckers apart, but apparently there’s a whole story. There must be because Wikipedia has a detailed page!
Anyhow, especially during the summer when everything is repeats, this is a fun half hour of whimsy and meerkat.
Crocogator.
31 Jul 2007 Leave a Comment
This week is SHARK WEEK on the Discovery Channel and we’ve been tuning in. (I know it’s not that smart to be watching sharks right before you go on a cruise but I digress…)
Sunday we were watching a special called Robo-Shark where they put a robotic shark with a camera among real sharks to try to observe their behavior without human interference. Once of the things they were doing was profiling Bull Sharks, one of the most deadly sharks in the ocean. The interesting thing about Bull Sharks is how adaptable they are – they can exist in salt water or fresh water, and typically find their way up streams and into lakes were other sharks wouldn’t venture. One of the most interesting things they showed was bull sharks getting into tussles with Nile crocodiles. At which point I turned to Wes and said “What’s the difference between a crocodile and an alligator?” And he responded “Look at those crocogators!!” Well actually he responded with “I think it has to do with the nose… let’s watch the crocogators.”
We all know of the famous crocodiles:
* The croc from Peter Pan who takes Captain Hook’s arm
* Crocodile Dundee (ok maybe not a famous crocodile!)
So what’s the difference?
Wisegeek puts it this way:
The first difference between a crocodile and an alligator is that they are from different families of crocodilians. Crocodiles are from the crocodylidae family, while alligators and caiman are from the alligatoridae family.
Hmmmm, somehow that doesn’t seem to help…..
In terms of physical differences the easiest way to tell the difference between the two is that a crocodile has a very long, narrow, V-shaped snout, while the alligator’s snout is wider and U-shaped. Because of the wide snout of the alligator it packs more crushing power to eat prey like turtles that constitute part of its diet. The narrow crocodile snout, although still very powerful, is not really suited for prey like turtles but is very versatile for fish and mammals.
Ahhh well that helps. You’re right honey… it’s all about the nose!
Another physical difference between the crocodile and the alligator is that the crocodile’s upper and lower jaws are nearly the same width, so the teeth are exposed all along the jaw line in an interlocking pattern, even when the mouth is closed. They also have an enormous 4th tooth on the lower jaw that is accommodated by depressions in the upper jaw just behind the nostrils.
An alligator, on the other hand, has a wider upper jaw, so when its mouth is closed the teeth in the lower jaw fit into sockets of the upper jaw, hidden from view. Only the teeth of the upper jaw are exposed along the lower jaw line. Even the enormous 4th tooth on the bottom jaw, which is exposed in a crocodile, is hidden in the alligator.
Another physical difference is that crocodiles have a lighter olive brown coloration, while alligators appear blackish. Alligators also prefer freshwater while crocodiles like brackish water and sometimes even ocean.
How about some pictorial examples? (I learn by seeing…)
I see a Crocogator!
Discovery Channel
25 Jul 2007 Leave a Comment
Lately Wes has me hooked on the Discovery Channel. As RockStarMommy pointed out today, one of the biggest and hottest bad asses on TV is Bear Grylls in his show Man v. Wild. The premise of the show is to take Bear, a ex-UK Special Forces guy and drop him somewhere remote with only a knife, a canteen and some flint. From there he has a couple days to find civilization. Throughout the process he uses his survival skills – subsisting on plants, animals or whatever he can find out there (read: drinking his own urine or squeezing water from elephant dung) to get out of the jam he’s in. He also sometimes throws himself in new jams (Scotland bogs, quicksand, frozen lakes) just for the hell of it, and to show you how to get out. I have come to the conclusion that if I were lost in the wilderness, I would die in 3-6 hours. Unless of course I were lost with Bear, but then I would be perpetually grossed out. Hmmm…..
Another good show is Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe. Basically Mike takes it upon himself to spend a day doing all the dirtiest jobs in the world, the ones that most of us wouldn’t think of doing. Past jobs include the sewers of San Francisco (complete with cockroaches and rats), dairy farming, cleaning out the engine of a ship, and many, many others too stomach-turning to recall (I must have blocked them.) This is not a show for the weak of stomach but it is awfully fun to watch. Of course, Mike Rowe also has a few hidden talents. For instance – he’s an opera singer!
Here I thought the summer and all the reruns were going to be boring!
Things that sound dirty but aren’t…sort of.
18 Jul 2007 Leave a Comment
in Funny, The Boob Tube
In general, watching the Discovery channel is a good time. But it can be even stranger when drunk. Last night we opened a bottle of Wes’ blueberry mead and watched a few of our favorite shows…Man v. Wild and Dirty Jobs
“So I’m putting the filler wand in the bunghole until it foams.”
See Wikipedia for the definition: A bunghole is a hole bored in a liquid-tight barrel. The hole is capped with a large cork-like object called a bung.
“So when you’re baling hay, you line the hay up like lines of coke.”
Again, from Wikipedia: A windrow is a row of cut hay or small grain crop. It is allowed to dry before being baled, combined, or rolled. For hay, the windrow is often formed by a hay rake, which rakes hay that has been cut by a mower into a row.
