Buy n Large

Ah yes, Wall-E comes out today!  Does anyone want to see it with me?  Maybe later next week?

To get your robotic fix, check out BuyNLarge … especially interesting is the World News section!  I would also recommend clicking “more” to find out more about their privacy policy.  Read it well. 

Garfield minus Garfield

What happens when you take Garfield out of the Garfield comic strip?

The results are amazingly funny, sad and odd.

Happy Birthday!

Look who’s no longer considered a kitten!

Political rant

Whoopi Goldberg told Michelle Obama on “The View,”:

“I’m really glad to see you because any time you see black folks on the news, particularly women, they have no teeth, and the teeth that they have have gold around them and they can’t put a sentence together and perhaps now, we can, this is, you are helping to change a perception. I know it sounds funny and silly but if you are a black women and you are tuning in and every time you see someone who is supposed to represent black women and women not very very fair skin women, I am talking about dark black women, I just want to say thanks.”

Ummm…What?  Okay, so I’m not a real political activist, but I hate seeing people condensed down to one thing: their race.  Michelle Obama went to Harvard Law School.  She seems brilliant, well articulated and polished.  No, I don’t agree with her every thought, nor do I agree with all of her husbands proposals and views on politics and life, but I do know that there is more, much more to this lady than her race.  How disrespectful can a person be?  Why not ask her something where she can showcase her intelligence?  

If Cindy McCain was interviewed and the focus was on her blond hair and how blonds are generally portrayed as dumb…

“I’m really glad to see you because any time I see blonds on the news, particularly women, they have a blank stare and they can’t put a sentence together and perhaps now you are helping to change a perception.  I know it sounds funny and silly but if you are a blond woman and you are tuning in and every time you see someone who is supposed to represent blond women, not honey blonds, I am talking about platinum blonds, I just want to say thanks.”

Ridiculous.

Oh for cute!

A snoring duck…

What would you do?

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?

Sooooieeee

“Soooieee” is a hog call for those of you who don’t know!

As many of you know, it’s tornado season.  We’ve had a few good ones here in Oklahoma, and one of those was captured on video hitting a hog farm.  I wonder, is this a forecast of things to come in Razorback football? 

Lurking?

How long have you been a lurker, lurker? 

Do you think you’ve gone undetected?

Now ask yourself this question: how long could someone live in your house without you knowing about it? 

In Japan, a homeless woman was caught after living in a man’s closet for a year!  A whole year!  Is that not typical for a male to pay so little attention to detail that a woman lived in his closet undetected for a year?

The funny thing is, he only noticed when some of his food went missing! 

(Makes you want to go home and clean, doesn’t it?)

Step one:

Remove everything!

 

Crying Uncle

Consider this — a person striving towards something they know that they truly want, but not meeting with the success they desire.

With no specific endpoint given, at what point does the person stop striving towards the goal in question? And is the “when” entirely a function of personality?  Does the value of the goal play a part as well?

In other words, does one strive towards the goal with unwavering and steadfast determination (which, by the way, is what most success books would say) or does one, at some point, accept that the goal is one that they were not intended to achieve?

And if so, where is that point?  Presumably, if you answered yes to the when being a function of personality, it would be different for everyone.  But, if you throw personality out and consider only the facts of the situation….when should one give up and accept vs. continue striving mightily?  Is there an answer to this?

 

Sigh.

 

There isn’t much that thrills my little heart more than seeing a jet roar across the sky.  Okay, so SIX in formation does!

Last Saturday we headed out to the Air Force base to watch the Thunderbirds, a Harrier and a F-15.   It’s my belief that I could watch jets fly o’erhead for hours upon hours and not get tired of watching them.  It’s also my belief that the first guy who secures me a ride in one will win my heart forever.    Kidding, kidding…well…sorta. 

Pictures and video HERE. 

Full of beans

A mass marketing e-mail arrived in the inbox of several people here at work.  It was an e-mail from a competitor touting their new product.  It went a little like this (okay, so it went exactly like this):

“Dear sir,

It’s my honor to get your company web on the net.
We are specialized in producing Hyaluronic acid in China. 
And we have been in this line of business for more than eight years. 
It can divides into cosmetic grade,food grade,Pharma grade and sodium  
hyaluronate solution. 
All of our products are produced according to GMP/EP standard. 
I can assure you that you’ll find very good prospects in our products. 
And I will supply you with the lowest price.
I am looking forward to hearing from you.

Best Regards.
Yours,
Jerry(Manager)”

My ever industrious co-worker went quickly to the site listed to check it out.  Here was his response to the rest of us via e-mail:

“According to their website, one of the benefits of oral HA is that it “can make one full of beans and be rich in youth energy.”  We might want to add that to our bargaining platform for the value of bulk HA.  Who can put a price on being full of beans?”

 

Because really, how can you put a price on being full of beans?

And no, our product has nothing to do with beans.  Nothing.

Best so far

This last weekend was the most beautiful of 2008.  The weather was clear and cool, perfect for the little Mother’s Day brunch I held on Saturday morning.  Unfortunately I have no photos as I spent too much time doing and no time taking.  I did however take a few of the beautiful Saturday afternoon that followed, after the clean up, the jaunt out to the herb festival and the mowing of the lawn…as I lounged about eating leftover lemon tart. 

It was a lovely weekend!

Poke, poke

I jumped awake this morning, heart pounding and thoughts racing.  Somebodies finger had just given me a startling poke in my side! 

As is my norm I was lost in a vivid dream, this time it was dusk and a group of picnic tables were gathered in a clearing around a bonfire.   The weather was perfect, the birds were chirping and the mood was light.  At the picnic tables sat more than a dozen or so of my friends and acquaintances from California.  (If you’re from California and you’re reading this, you were there.)  At one table there were three guys singing a little ditty about someone who had crossed paths with a skunk and a possum.  I remember one particular lady (with the initials M.F.) saying “Awww, I like possums.  They’re so cute!”.  We were all laughing and carrying on when all of a sudden somebody sneaked up behind me and goosed my side!  Normally that gets a good laugh, but in this case that poke was reality not dream! 

I enjoy dreaming and I like that brief moment where the line of awake and sleep are blurred but sometimes I wonder if I dream more vividly than anyone I know.  I’ve woken up crying, I’ve woken up scared.  One of the strangest feelings was waking up laughing out loud.  This time I woke up because I had just poked my own finger into my side! 

 

Cloud pic

The tornado sirens were going off and we were told there was baseball size hail and 100 mph winds underneath this monster!