brain waste

getting into politics?

2010-09-12T12:51:00.001-04:00

I had an odd dream last night: a group of people and I were helping to set up a political booth at a local festival. I've never cared a whit for politics… it just annoys me. This booth wasn't for a particular candidate, because we hadn't chosen one yet; it was essentially for a new party.

After I woke up, I kept thinking about it. This party could be great! The entire premise of the organization is logic. Too many politicians today are more emotion than logic, and it's painful to watch their speeches and debates. Forget mores and values—we just want a voice of reason in government.

One of the fundraisers at a promotional booth could be this: give us $10 and you can have a debate/discussion with the candidate on one topic. Take, for example, gay marriage. The conversation could go like this:

"I think gay marriage should be illegal!"

"Why do you think that?"

"It's against x religion, and that's just not right!"

"What about the separation of church and state? What political reason is there for gay marriage to be illegal? Two people getting married doesn't affect that much in the grand scheme of things. It lets them file taxes jointly. I see no reason that two persons of legal age cannot be wed."

"But they can't get married in my place of worship!"

"Then they won't. An officiant can refuse to marry someone or put restrictions on the ceremony. Many faiths already do; try to get married in a place of worship of a different faith and see what they say."

How nice would that be? Yes, things you like could get cut. If we're already head-over-heels in debt, we probably shouldn't be spending on things that don't majorly affect our economy or basic needs. There wouldn't be drama over what the candidate does with their personal life; if their work runs on logic, it doesn't really matter what they believe or what they do with their free time. Lobbyists won't affect their judgement. Yes, our candidate can be harsh at times, but their arguments will be logical.

If you ask me, it's about time we had a little more sense.

I'm torn between two party names: the zombies (we want braaaaiiiins in government) and the Vulcans (is it legal for me to use that?).

Month at the Museum

2010-09-03T19:53:00.007-04:00

…it's like Night at the Museum, but thirty times better!

The Chicago Museum of Science & Industry is searching for a roommate from over 1,500 entries. The winner gets to live in the museum for thirty days as an experiment, documenting everything all the while. What an amazing, life-altering experience! As if that weren't enough, they get $10,000, tech goodies, and a lifetime membership to MSI. Call me crazy, but I'd take it just for the fun! …until my bills come due, that is.

This is the coolest contest I've ever encountered, and I wanted a piece of it! I applied, of course, and bought the requisite lab coat and goggles. When they announced the semi-finalists, however, I received a well-crafted "It's not you; it's us" email. Sigh. Ah, well. Life moves on. Since I'm out of the running anyhow, I thought I'd post some of my entry materials, since I worked so very hard on them.

The application included:
• a 60-second video (why you should be chosen),
• a 500-word essay (why you want to be chosen),
• the application form itself,
• and a 5" x 7" head shot.

Here's what my folder looked like (front & inside):
I had a blast just putting the whole thing together—it's the first time I've done any kind of branding in a while, and I was pretty proud of my work. I went for a clean orange-on-white look to match their branding for the contest.

The logo on the front of the folder is a white paper cutout that I based on the MATM logo. My DVD (its label was printed on the disk) is in the bottom half of a slimline jewel case that's glued to the folder. I lightly glued my picture to a labeled, folded sheet of paper that was then glued to the folder pocket, and I put my essay in the pocket behind them.

Yaaaay design fun!

And here's my ridiculously dorky video, just for your amusement:

I had a lot of fun putting everything together, and I hope the winner has an absolute blast!

MSI put up a pretty swell Thank-You video that helps show off just how popular this contest was, which was super-cool.
It doesn't hurt that mine is the first picture in the video, either. Squee!!!

Thanks, ChiMSI, for coming up with this awesome opportunity!

tweet tweet

2009-05-01T23:18:00.002-04:00

Man... I really don't blog much. I have a twitter account, though. I find it easier to blurt out my thoughts 140 characters at a time.

Hockey Moms Against Sarah Palin

2008-10-12T19:51:00.001-04:00

tee-hee! =D

Gettin' involved with TV

2008-09-12T15:08:00.002-04:00

Recently I've started following along with some of the sites that accompany TV shows... namely, LOST and The Office.

LOST's accompanying site is DharmaWantsYou.com, where you apply for a job at the Dharma Initiative. You take assessment tests and such so they can judge how good a 'fit' you are for the company. It's pretty fun.

This past week, they opened it up so users can create their own quizzes that 'colleagues' can take... and, of course, I had to make one. So go take my quiz on cephalopods! It's fun! I promise! ...plus, I get points when you do. hee! Just be sure to sign up for an account. You don't have to use it, and you can unsubscribe from their emails. Ple-ea-ase!!

The other is DunderMifflinInfinity, which is more of a social site. I'm not totally hooked on that one yet, but it shows promise.

new bike!

2008-06-03T19:49:00.005-04:00

So I got a new bike a couple weeks ago, and of course I took it out for a ride that same day. I hadn't ridden for about 4 years, and I way overdid it. My hips, knees, and ankles were aching pretty badly for about a week.

Distance cycled: 9.04 miles

2008-05-28T22:15:00.001-04:00

this commercial is so freakin' sweet… behold!

play!

2008-04-07T23:01:00.005-04:00

wow… I haven't been around much. Don't know who actually checks this out, anyhow.

update: was sick. getting better. yay! in the meantime, I've gotten slightly hooked on Travian. It's basically an online civilization game of sorts… you're in charge of a village. Starting from scratch, you have to build your resources and build up your village. Being online, you have to defend said village from other locals. You can form alliances, attack the unsuspecting, establish trade… all kinds of funness. I'm still building resources and learning the ropes. See?

I'm building an Embassy. As you can see, things take a while to build. It's cool, because you set something in motion, then check on it later in the day. Some stuff takes minutes, and the more you build it up, the longer it takes—longest wait I've had so far was about 55 minutes.

but yeah… you should totally go check it out. Definitely worth playing around with. =)

dag, yo.

2007-06-13T15:41:00.001-04:00

So I've been working on this one dumb sudoku puzzle for the past few days. It's been kicking my butt here, there, and backwards. Arg. This is the one:

It's from a book called 10x10 Sudoku. They've added a 0 and changed the board. It's infuriatingly refreshing. I had all but given up on doing sudokus... they just seem so boring, once you get it going. But this one got me back in. Crap.

Anywho, I finally finished it today. Try your hand at it. I'm going to go clean or something.

2007-05-09T17:44:00.001-04:00

not dead in a ditch, I promise!

moo!

2007-03-19T03:12:00.000-04:00

having fun with the swapping of moo cards... at least three of mine have somewhat miraculously made it to their respective destinations! woo! er... moo!

my moo-related pictures are here:

what up, home slice?

2007-03-10T17:21:00.001-05:00

what up, home slice?
Originally uploaded by wonder wombat.

so... I got my moo cards a week or two ago, and I'm finally getting around to having some fun with them. If you want one, send my your address and a request for the one you like. If you have moo cards, I'd love to swap!

I was pleasantly surprised at the quality of the cards. I'm going to order another set or two in the future, once I have cooler pics. Hmm... where am I going to get cooler pics? crap. there's always a catch. ::think, think::

Yakko is teh rule.

2007-03-06T18:18:00.001-05:00

gimme a hand here...
Originally uploaded by wonder wombat.

Crete, Mauritania, then Transylvania—
Monaco, Lichtenstein, Malta and Palestine, Fiji, Australia, Sudan!

fun stuff

2007-02-25T21:40:00.000-05:00

playing around with a flickr widget made by NymphoBrainiac.

mwahaha!

2007-02-22T00:38:00.001-05:00

omg run!
Originally uploaded by wonder wombat.

This is, by FAR, the most popular pic I've had on flickr. Not in terms of view numbers, but by the response.

thought you might enjoy it... ^_^
go check it out and leave comments. I heart comments. and fav's. love me! I need validation!

365, at long last. ish.

2007-02-15T12:52:00.000-05:00

I'd been thinking about it for a while, and now I've taken a deep breath and jumped on the 365 Days bandwagon. The goal? Take a picture of yourself every day for a year. The catch? The shots have to be unique. It's kind of an exercise in creativity… forces you to stretch your imagination. I'm only up to day 4, so no troubles so far. But when the subject is yourself and it's always yourself, 365 unique pictures can seem pretty daunting.

well, here goes nothing…

happy hallmark day!!

2007-02-14T00:57:00.000-05:00

lip-smacking!

2007-02-07T14:18:00.000-05:00

I love Jell-O!! Have a bite!

Norway!

2007-02-03T11:28:00.000-05:00

Back from Norway! I've got pictures up for our first day (Oslo). I'll be putting up more pictures as time goes on, so check my flickr page from time to time.

The trip was fantastic, and I can't wait to go again. Norway is awesome!

waxing philosophic

2007-01-13T19:24:00.000-05:00

So this other company, Noisebot, bought my 'Pla-To' shirt design. Go check it out! And buy it if you feel so inclined. :)

woo!

Quarter Horse

2007-01-08T13:52:00.000-05:00

So the Quarter Horse Congress takes place here in Columbus every October. I don't know how they get anything done, though... anytime there's a vote, all you hear is 'nay.'

On a related note, is the Kentucky Thoroughbred Horse its own breed? Because that's the horse on their state quarter. I've heard, though, that the horse on the quarter is a quarter horse. Which would be amusing. I just don't know my horses.

ill-fated...

2007-01-03T12:54:00.000-05:00

woo! I've got a design up for voting at Threadless. Go check it out! And gimme high scores! woo!

flickrfly

2006-12-30T04:28:00.000-05:00

So this is my most-viewed image on flickr... it topped 1000 views yesterday. The next pic down has 130. Interesting part? I doctored this pic up on a whim to illustrate a point and uploaded it only so I could link to it. pfft. Just goes to show.

textual directions

2006-12-26T19:24:00.000-05:00

Google does a great job with accessibility, no question. In fact, they've released a text-only version of Google Maps so that visually impaired people can know how to drive from one location to another!

think about it.

Seriously, though... it's pretty cool. especially if you know the address of the place and don't want to wait for the map to load.

Google rocks. :)

santa terror!

2006-12-25T10:26:00.000-05:00

happy freakin' Christmas! woo!

spread the Christmas cheer with pictures of kids scared of Santa!

make pictures better!

2006-12-22T02:59:00.000-05:00

If you take digital pictures (and I'm sure you do), check out the Digital Photography School blog. It's full of all kinds of tips and tricks for making better pictures, both while you're taking them and afterwards in the computer.

An even larger repository are the forums. You know you want to sign up. If you do, remember who sent you (googlit). ^_^

Why am I promoting it so? Cause I'm a little addicted. And I'm a contributing Photoshop writer now. woot! So go check it out and sign up.

short short fiction

2006-12-15T01:51:00.000-05:00

Ever heard of flash fiction? No? Then read these short stories, each comprised of six words.

Honey, please... put the chainsaw down.

organization

2006-12-14T04:13:00.000-05:00

I'm so proud of me... I'm finally starting to get organized! woo!

Finally made the switch to Firefox. My home page is the customized Google page, where I've got my calendar, email, and RSS reader. woot! I'm getting there.

Google Earth, if you didn't already know, is abso-friggin-lutely awesome. Check out the layers of old maps you can turn on and off, and tour the world with an eye out for links to wikipedia that you can view in-screen. That, and pictures that people have taken around the world, geotagged to their locations. Awesome!

I could waste hours touring the world...
can't wait to try in real life. The family is going to Norway next month, and I can't wait! It's promising to be an amazing trip.

crap. I should get more work done. boo.

photo-fun

2006-11-30T15:46:00.000-05:00

I found a tutorial on turning pictures into pop-art and thought I'd give it a go... so here's what I came up with. I picked the originals off of flickr. I can't find the first one again, but the Ronald pic links back to the author's page.

before:

after:

before:

after:

Hap, happiest time of the year...

2006-11-28T13:21:00.000-05:00

Are you kidding me?

"The tree sits on the floor in stand included and is a not only a great conversation piece, but very practical as well, taking up much less floor space. Much easier to get to packages under the tree or for use in small area."

what's their secret? Their trees go in upside-down… or even hang from the ceiling, leaving "even more room for presents!"

I thought it'd be cool to hang a tree from the ceiling, but now that it's commercialized, I think it's tacky. Go figure.

Christmas is just an excuse to sell stuff now. So very commercialized. Oh, well.

wheels keep on spinning 'round...

2006-11-19T14:41:00.000-05:00

In a seedy karaoke bar by the banks of the mighty Bosphorus
Is a Japanese man in a business suit singing Smoke Gets In Your Eyes.
And the muscular cyborg German dudes dance with sexy French Canadians
While the overweight Americans wear their patriotic jumpsuits.

that's been stuck in my head for a couple days. just that verse. meh.

Dennis has some kind of awesome surprise for me today, but on the condition that I finish my homework. I let myself get behind again, and I pretty much don't see that happening. I have four hours left. I'm maybe halfway through my essay. It was due yesterday. Blegh. I can't seem to care about humanities or english anymore.

I started working for MJP again, this time as a freelancer. Three days last week, about 30 hours. I love that place. Going back again Tues. I've seen just about everybody but Bill, Marcus, and Russ. I got a couple double-takes. That was fun.

Dennis is probably going to schedule an appointment for me with his psychiatrist. woo. should be interesting.

sorry... I'm not very amusing today.

meh.

2006-11-04T17:38:00.000-05:00

I hate myself for not caring, but I just can't seem to care.

meh. It comes and goes.
been meaning to find a psychiatrist. psychologist? whichever.

one of these days.

DVD club

2006-09-29T13:54:00.000-04:00

I'm trying... so hard... to resist...
the Shatner... DVD club...

Lift your razor high, Sweeney…

2006-09-28T23:35:00.000-04:00

BWAHAHA! Apparently, Tim Burton is doing another movie adaptation of Sweeney Todd starring (who else but) Johnny Depp. It's slated to come out at the end of next year. Should be delightfully morbid. Meat pies!

What's the sound of the world out there?
What, Mr. Todd, what, Mr. Todd, what is that sound?
Those crunching noises pervading the air?
Yes, Mr. Todd, yes, Mr. Todd, yes all around…
It's man devouring man, my dear,
And who are we to deny it in here?

Try a little priest!

meh... football.

2006-09-09T20:50:00.001-04:00

I spent all day yesterday learning the accounting system for the company. What fun! Now I know how to plague clients with overdue notices. Whoopie!!

Dennis is out at some guy's house watching the game. It may have been a fun thing for me to go to. Meh. So I'm home. Maybe I'll do laundry or one of the many other things that need doing...

At some point I want to try making ginger ale. If you follow the links on that page around, you can find out how to make your own cheese and root beer, too. All of which I'll have to do before I can take over the world! ::cue Pinky & the Brain theme song::

Gotta start being more postitive and productive. That's my vague, unmeasurable goal. School starts again in a week and a half.

Holy cow... the windows are open, and every now and again I hear this rabid screaming from one of the backyard neighbors. I've finally figured it out! It's the game! Rabid OSU fans. I swear, it's an epidemic. This is supposed to be one of the biggest games of the season. OSU taking on... Texas. Whatever their initials are. Meh. football.

on answering exam questions

2006-08-19T23:23:00.000-04:00

The following concerns a question in a physics degree exam at the University of Copenhagen:

"Describe how to determine the height of a skyscraper with a barometer."

One student replied:

"You tie a long piece of string to the neck of the barometer, then lower the barometer from the roof of the skyscraper to the ground. The length of the string plus the length of the barometer will equal the height of the building."

This highly original answer so incensed the examiner that the student was failed immediately. The student appealed on the grounds that his answer was indisputably correct, and the university appointed an independent arbiter to decide the case.

The arbiter judged that the answer was indeed correct, but did not display any noticeable knowledge of physics. To resolve the problem it was decided to call the student in and allow him six minutes in which to provide a verbal answer that showed at least a minimal familiarity with the basic principles of physics.

For five minutes the student sat in silence, forehead creased in thought. The arbiter reminded him that time was running out, to which the student replied that he had several extremely relevant answers, but couldn't make up his mind which to use. On being advised to hurry up the student replied as follows:

"Firstly, you could take the barometer up to the roof of the skyscraper, drop it over the edge, and measure the time it takes to reach the ground. The height of the building can then be worked out from the formula H = 0.5g x t squared. But bad luck on the barometer."

"Or if the sun is shining you could measure the height of the barometer, then set it on end and measure the length of its shadow. Then you measure the length of the skyscraper's shadow, and thereafter it is a simple matter of proportional arithmetic to work out the height of the skyscraper."

"But if you wanted to be highly scientific about it, you could tie a short piece of string to the barometer and swing it like a pendulum, first at ground level and then on the roof of the skyscraper. The height is worked out by the difference in the gravitational restoring force T =2 pi sqr root (l /g)."

"Or if the skyscraper has an outside emergency staircase, it would be easier to walk up it and mark off the height of the skyscraper in barometer lengths, then add them up."

"If you merely wanted to be boring and orthodox about it, of course, you could use the barometer to measure the air pressure on the roof of the skyscraper and on the ground, and convert the difference in millibars into feet to give the height of the building."

"But since we are constantly being exhorted to exercise independence of mind and apply scientific methods, undoubtedly the best way would be to knock on the janitor's door and say to him 'If you would like a nice new barometer, I will give you this one if you tell me the height of this skyscraper'."

The student was Niels Bohr, the only Dane to win the Nobel Prize for physics.

why do I hate Microsoft so much?

2006-07-28T15:11:00.000-04:00

haha... I love quotes like this... :)

"After 20 years of date raping every one of its 'business partners,' Microsoft still manages to lure people into its spiderweb."

taken from the secret diary of Steve Jobs. Incredibly amusing. :)

Did I mention my newest most favorite quote? "The day Microsoft makes products that don't suck is the day they go into the vacuum cleaner business."

wheee!

housewifery!

2006-07-15T17:41:00.000-04:00

My man and I had lunch with Kevin Bacon the other day.

But it's not what you think! I got root beer and a Philly.

on a food-related note, I made a pie! From scratch! That makes my housewifiness official.

And I only burned it a little...

We made corndogs, too. I wasn't expecting them to come out so fantastically. If corndogs weren't a sometimes food, I'd eat them all the time. C is for Corndog, that's... dang tasty. I found the recipe at AllRecipes.

coleslaw's a fascist regime

2006-07-11T13:28:00.000-04:00

hours of mind-numbing amusement to be had perusing pictures of mutated vegetables and processed foods from the deep...

we didn't start the fire

2006-06-21T22:52:00.000-04:00

so. I sure do never update. woo for me!

Just finished reading Michael Crichton's State of Fear, and I highly recommend it. About crazy environmental people fighting the wrong fights.

speaking of Crichton, who happens to be a fantastic author, you should read this speech of his, given in 2002, entitled "Why Speculate?".

share and enjoy.

the sun will melt your just desserts

2006-05-04T09:25:00.000-04:00

Mr. T is going to have his own advice talk-show... thought I'd let you know.

"My show ain't no `Dr. Phil,' with people sitting around crying," he said. "You're a fool - that's what's wrong with you. You're a fool if you don't take my advice."

yeah.

drum solo!

2006-04-24T17:17:00.000-04:00

Name the missing word.

An arab came to the river side,
with a donkey bearing an obelisk.
But he did not venture to ford the tide,
for he had too good an *.

hee hee!

there's no earthly way of knowing

2006-04-20T01:07:00.000-04:00

i feel so useless.

but at least I didn't do this!

you're always killin' something just by living on the earth

2006-04-18T14:22:00.000-04:00

i hate people.

people who don't make recommendations or requests, then finally blow up when they've had enough... blow up all over the people with the power to adjust it, and who had no idea anything was wrong.

people who whole-heartedly endorse and support the horrid consumerist nature of this country.

people who gleefully smash something to bits purely for the sake of destruction and with no thought at at all of what thought and work went into its creation.

people with no appreciation.

people who do what they're told because they think it's cool or that it's the thing to do. mindless sheep.

people who don't listen or care.

people so intent on their jobs and how much money they're bringing in that they can't appreciate the world around them. take an evening walk. WITHOUT your cell phone/pda/brain implant.

people who stubbornly stick to what they're doing, even though they've been told time and time again that they're wrong, but refuse to change because they're powerful enough or think that if they stick it out, everybody will come around to their way of thinking.

people suck.

these things happen to other people

2006-04-17T03:44:00.000-04:00

IE makes me want to cry. what's so hard about playing nice with all the other browsers? and standards, for that matter...

stupid buggering belgium.

::tuba solo::

2006-04-12T11:17:00.000-04:00

spam masquerading as science vs. religion arguments! what fun! pfft.

"Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us. What influence, in fact, have ecclesiastical establishments had on society? In some instances they have been seen to erect a spiritual tyranny on the ruins of the civil authority; in many instances they have been seen upholding the thrones of political tyranny; in no instance have they been the guardians of the liberties of the people. Rulers who wish to subvert the public liberty may have found an established clergy convenient allies. Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? ... No other human institution comes close."

ram-a-lam a-lam-a-lam-a-ding-dong

2006-04-07T22:52:00.000-04:00

I usually get this queasy feeling when I'm about to go out into a group of people I know I'm going to have to mingle with. Three cheers for social anxiety!

anywho, so I volunteered today with OSU's Women In Engineering at the Columbus School for Girls... basically showing all these younger girls that engineering is fantastical. good fun. I worked both shifts, and it was pretty cool. Saw Jim's girl there, which kinda took me aback. It was a good day, overall. Minus getting drenched in the morning by a passing truck and missing the bus in the afternoon. All good. :) and one of the teachers there (or maybe he was a superintendant or something) said I'd make a great teacher. meh. prob not, but I still have no idea where I'm going with my life.

the me generally presented to the world:

the me that society at large isn't too keen on meeting:

a thousand sharpened elbows in the underground

2006-03-30T23:04:00.000-05:00

good, wholesome, science fun!

lots of fun, easy experiments. great for stuff. and stuff. :)
yeah.

shut up.

vegetables live in oppression

2006-03-30T20:46:00.000-05:00

honestly, who couldn't resist ARTOO-POTATOO?

in other news, not much is going on. weather's great. we're going to the zoo tomorrow.

oh... em... gee... so freakin' awesome!
(it's pi!!!) well... pi. no factorials thereof.
anywho, best mnemonic i've yet seen. ^_^

Poe, E.
   Near A Raven

Midnights so dreary, tired and weary.  Silently pondering volumes extolling
all by-now obsolete lore.  During my rather long nap - the weirdest tap!
An ominous vibrating sound disturbing my chamber's antedoor.
    "This", I whispered quietly, "I ignore".

Perfectly, the intellect remembers: the ghostly fires, a glittering ember.
Inflamed by lightning's outbursts, windows cast penumbras upon this floor.
Sorrowful, as one mistreated, unhappy thoughts I heeded:
  That inimitable lesson in elegance - Lenore -
    Is delighting, exciting...nevermore.

Ominously, curtains parted (my serenity outsmarted), And fear overcame my
being - the fear of "forevermore".  Fearful foreboding abided, selfish
sentiment confided, As I said, "Methinks mysterious traveler knocks afore.
    A man is visiting, of age threescore."

Taking little time, briskly addressing something: "Sir," (robustly) "Tell
what source originates clamorous noise afore?  Disturbing sleep unkindly,
is it you a-tapping, so slyly?  Why, devil incarnate!--" Here completely
unveiled I my antedoor-- Just darkness, I ascertained - nothing more.

While surrounded by darkness then, I persevered to clearly comprehend.
  I perceived the weirdest dream...of everlasting "nevermores".  Quite,
quite, quick nocturnal doubts fled - such relief! - as my intellect said,
  (Desiring, imagining still) that perchance the apparition was uttering a
whispered "Lenore".
    This only, as evermore.

Silently, I reinforced, remaining anxious, quite scared, afraid,
  While intrusive tap did then come thrice - O, so stronger than sounded
afore.  "Surely" (said silently) "it was the banging, clanging window
lattice."
  Glancing out, I quaked, upset by horrors hereinbefore,
    Perceiving: a "nevermore".

Completely disturbed, I said, "Utter, please, what prevails ahead.
  Repose, relief, cessation, or but more dreary 'nevermores'?"  The bird
intruded thence - O, irritation ever since! -
  Then sat on Pallas' pallid bust, watching me (I sat not, therefore),
    And stated "nevermores".

Bemused by raven's dissonance, my soul exclaimed, "I seek intelligence;
Explain thy purpose, or soon cease intoning forlorn 'nevermores'!"
"Nevermores", winged corvus proclaimed - thusly was a raven named?
  Actually maintain a surname, upon Pluvious seashore?
    I heard an oppressive "nevermore".

My sentiments extremely pained, to perceive an utterance so plain,
  Most interested, mystified, a meaning I hoped for.  "Surely," said the
raven's watcher, "separate discourse is wiser.
  Therefore, liberation I'll obtain, retreating heretofore -
    Eliminating all the 'nevermores' ".

Still, the detestable raven just remained, unmoving, on sculptured bust.
  Always saying "never" (by a red chamber's door).  A poor, tender
heartache maven - a sorrowful bird - a raven!
  O, I wished thoroughly, forthwith, that he'd fly heretofore.
    Still sitting, he recited "nevermores".

The raven's dirge induced alarm - "nevermore" quite wearisome.
  I meditated: "Might its utterances summarize of a calamity before?"  O, a
sadness was manifest - a sorrowful cry of unrest;
  "O," I thought sincerely, "it's a melancholy great - furthermore,
    Removing doubt, this explains 'nevermores' ".

Seizing just that moment to sit - closely, carefully, advancing beside it,
  Sinking down, intrigued, where velvet cushion lay afore.  A creature,
midnight-black, watched there - it studied my soul, unawares.
  Wherefore, explanations my insight entreated for.
    Silently, I pondered the "nevermores".

"Disentangle, nefarious bird! Disengage - I am disturbed!"
   Intently its eye burned, raising the cry within my core.  "That
delectable Lenore - whose velvet pillow this was, heretofore,
  Departed thence, unsettling my consciousness therefore.
    She's returning - that maiden - aye, nevermore."

Since, to me, that thought was madness, I renounced continuing sadness.
  Continuing on, I soundly, adamantly forswore: "Wretch," (addressing
blackbird only) "fly swiftly - emancipate me!"

  "Respite, respite, detestable raven - and discharge me, I implore!"
    A ghostly answer of: "nevermore".

" 'Tis a prophet? Wraith? Strange devil? Or the ultimate evil?"
  "Answer, tempter-sent creature!", I inquired, like before.  "Forlorn,
though firmly undaunted, with 'nevermores' quite indoctrinated,
  Is everything depressing, generating great sorrow evermore?
    I am subdued!", I then swore.

In answer, the raven turned - relentless distress it spurned.
  "Comfort, surcease, quiet, silence!" - pleaded I for.  "Will my (abusive
raven!) sorrows persist unabated?
  Nevermore Lenore respondeth?", adamantly I encored.
    The appeal was ignored.

"O, satanic inferno's denizen -- go!", I said boldly, standing then.

  "Take henceforth loathsome "nevermores" - O, to an ugly Plutonian shore!
Let nary one expression, O bird, remain still here, replacing mirth.

  Promptly leave and retreat!", I resolutely swore.
    Blackbird's riposte: "nevermore".

So he sitteth, observing always, perching ominously on these doorways.
  Squatting on the stony bust so untroubled, O therefore.  Suffering stark
raven's conversings, so I am condemned, subserving,
  To a nightmare cursed, containing miseries galore.
    Thus henceforth, I'll rise (from a darkness, a grave) -- nevermore!

            -- Original: E. Poe
            -- Redone by measuring circles.

the kind you find in a second-hand store

2006-03-25T17:53:00.000-05:00

Hooray for knotty fun!

a golden bird that flies away

2006-03-23T22:53:00.000-05:00

hey, hey! forgot to link our wedding site, which we finally put up.

so yeah.

Jo-Jo was a man who thought he was a loner...

2006-03-21T23:21:00.000-05:00

holy cow... i've been looking for this store for so freakin' incredibly long. obviously not hard enough, but no matter. I found it!!! yes!

we all fall down

2006-03-16T19:39:00.000-05:00

why don't I hear about these things sooner? so cool...

and this is sweet... it's this place in Cincinnati where kids come, play, and make art. this particular gallery is the Toy Lab Zoo... kids pick seven toys and older folks help to break up the toys and attach them as the kids instruct... very cool. it'd be fun to vonunteer there some summer. :)

drive right on, the night is young

2006-03-14T17:30:00.000-05:00

In 1993, medical researchers from the St Jerome Hospital in Batavia performed an experiment on a bowl of Lime Jell-O. They discovered, by attaching the bowl to an EEG machine, that the motion of the set Jell-O has exactly the same waveforms as the human adult brain.

san fran model made out of jell-o. fantastic!

shootin' jello...

possibly one of the coolest jell-o contests ever. at MIT, of course.

oh, and happy pi day. ^_~

it smells like... pork and beans!

2006-03-02T12:22:00.000-05:00

I am the epitome of health!!
AMP for breakfast, ice cream for brunch. Wonder what's for lunch...

I saw Kurt Vonnegut at a forum at school last night. He's 83 now (!!) and this was his last paid public appearance. aww... but yeah. We got there an hour before it was supposed to start and we almost didn't make it in. The line snaked inside and pretty much filled it -- and then there were probably close to a thousand people outside in line. We were in that group. They had seats for 1500. We were probably three or four hundredth in the line, just outside, and got some of the last seats in the auditorium. It was nuts. He was great, though. Vonnegut's one of the best ever. The one tip he gave on creative writing is to always, always, always avoid semicolons.

speaking of writing, I did a paper for my 'college handholding 101' class on how engineering contributes to societal issues... or whatever. This was in the instructions: "Use correct grammar, capitalization and punctuation write a two-page, double-spaced report."

There's not much wrong with it, but there's enough to bother me. And to classify it as pretty funny -- at least to me.

so much work... back to that now. blegh.

know when to walk away, know when to run

2006-02-26T10:54:00.000-05:00

haha... i never have time to dash off more than a little quip of an entry... i'm so horribly busy.

anywho, just thought I'd let you know that Veer is awesome.

I haven't bought anything from them, but if and when I need high-quality stock or sweet new fonts, I think they're my preference. Just because of things like this. I love how they showcase their work. :)

hooray!
now it's back to work...

all the actors broke their legs

2006-02-23T16:57:00.000-05:00

for any of you who have my phone number, it's changed. that was my work number and i've since quit my job, so email me if you want my current number. though it'll probably be changing again in the coming weeks... woo fun.

will post more later when there's time.

in the meantime, listen.

i thought it would be all right

2006-02-20T15:53:00.000-05:00

I passed this HUUUGE wreck on the way home... it was on the interstate going the other direction, and it had completely blocked it. traffic must have been blocked for a mile and a half at least. When I got home I went scouting for police reports and wreck info... this is the only decent bit I found.

Fast coverage. :) The internet freakin' RULES.

nothing ever changes at all

2006-02-19T21:43:00.000-05:00

sa-weet!

oh, and I saw Cirque du Soleil yesterday -- the Delirium show. It was on its way thru Columbus, and a friend of a friend had an extra ticket and somehow thought of me. hooray! :)

at the end, the performers were running through the ground floor audience (where we were!!) and were throwing out huge balloons and stuff... one of them popped and i got a ginormous fragment. very cool.

sigh... back to work...

nobody wants to have no fun

2006-02-17T11:13:00.000-05:00

While working on my calc homework last night, I was listening to audio books that I got from Literal Systems. They're free, high-quality productions of public domain books, and the collection is growing. Want an uplifting story? Listen to The Brothers' Grimm The Mouse, the Bird and the Sausage.

hehe... I love the Brothers Grimm. :)

now it's to work and then back to math! hooray!

and she'll take her mattress with her

2006-02-16T22:14:00.000-05:00

sweet... now you can be depressed daily by seeing how few people read your blog and how insignificant an impact you have on the world. woo-hoo!

-link-

i thought a better plan could shake this shadowed land

2006-02-13T20:55:00.000-05:00

I've always thought that hiccough (hiccup... however) cures were entirely psychological. especially when the best cure I've had was when my aunt offered me $20 if I could hiccup again. I couldn't, of course. what's really funny, though, is to read about how to cure hiccups at e-how.com. the instructions are, more or less, the standard "cures", but the most interesting bit of all is all the tips offered by readers. It's amazing what people think will cure the hiccups -- saying "this always works for me!" and getting their friends to perform contortions and do all kinds of silly things. Usually accomplishing the task takes so much conentration that you've actually forgotten that you've got the hiccups at all, hence, "curing" them. When I get hiccups, I get them off and on for a day or two, and I notice that they go away when I've forgotten that I had them. It could also have something to do with an adrenaline rush, or at least the processes that go on in your body when you're scared... going into primal instincts mode for that half-second such that you've forgotten your affliction...

summary: I hate the hiccups.

rugs from pakistan

2006-02-12T18:24:00.000-05:00

today really really bites.

and nothing... NOTHING compares to my hatred of IE.

it just works out that way

2006-02-11T21:43:00.000-05:00

hehehehe! it's everything awesome in the world... :)

seriously!

something going on behind the door

2006-02-10T23:22:00.000-05:00

speaking of flash, I just spent the last hour getting addicted to this. holy cow. seriously.

oh, and this is just ridiculously fun. on my first attempt, i was running way negative in my funds. now I've got the gist of the game, and it's time for another venture!

go to them both! holy cow, go now!!

now!

2006-02-08T11:32:00.000-05:00

hee!! I submitted my first design to Threadless. You know you wanna go give me a high score... :) I'd wear the shirt. That means you should, too. mwaha!

marmelade's from scotland

2006-02-04T16:52:00.000-05:00

it's snowing. :)

it's also a ridiculously busy weekend, and getting a blowout on the interstate in the rain didn't help too much. stupid piece of crap car. I can't wait til we have money again, because we get a new car. I'm going to start driving Dennis' since I drive a lot more than he does.

We went shopping for my birthday... at antique stores. Very fun. I got a pair of shoes that are quite likely older than I. I like them. I'll update more and with pictures and stuff, but once I have some time to spare.

*sigh*

Back to work. two big deadlines coming up Monday.
bah.

2006-01-31T11:27:00.000-05:00

hehe... threadless just added a bunch of shirts... check out the Best Mime Ever. :)

i'm eating robustu cheese on crackers. woo!

we went to indiana over the weekend to visit dennis' friends mike and john. we ate at a lebanese hookah place one night and an indian place the next day. all very tasty. I love goat. ^_^ anywho, we went to see A Prairie Home Companion Saturday evening at Purdue. A great episode, if I may say so. 'Twas a great weekend. On the drive back I saw a bird flying down toward the highway, then get hit. I was torn between feeling sorry for it and thinking "ha!" because it was a canadian goose, which are EVERYWHERE down here. and it was trying to land on the interstate. which is full of cars. moving very fast. freakin' geese. anywho, as we passed it, it was lying on its back and kicking in the air... then we passed through the cloud of feathers.

freakin' geese.

put the earmuffs on the cookie

2006-01-19T15:46:00.000-05:00

so... you must go to threadless and buy shirts. Hopefully they'll reprint the communist party one. it mostly sold out in a day. I got one for Dennis. :)

Definitely check out all of their stuff, tho. It's often awesome.

there's the French Army Knife, Neopolitan Bonaparte, Biblical Disaster... I bought You Sank My Battleship, and zach braff thinks it's spiffy, too. so there. :P

yes, a penguin taught me french back in Antarctica

2006-01-18T08:02:00.000-05:00

if you stoop to covering your nakedness with cotton, this is the shirt for you.

we're looking at the end of april or beginning of may for the wedding. maybe. depends on who can make it and stuff.
it's snowing.

scrabble down the hallways yelling 'yahtzee!'

2006-01-17T15:22:00.000-05:00

the other day I heard dysentery mentioned twice from different people in completely different places and situations.
Wonder what that means...

When it started to thaw again, one of the trucks at the warehouse sank in the gravel-covered mud and got stuck. They were trying to pull it out with another truck, then got that one stuck. Out of trucks, they hooked up the old van to the front of the second stuck truck, loaded it up with a bunch of us, and revved and bucked until we got up and going, pulling the truck with us. It was quite an ordeal. :) and I got pepsi dumped all over me. It was sticky-sweet times.

long story short, they got the other truck unstuck and refuse to park it in the back until we get it repaved or it freezes hard again.

fun, fun.

hot and spicy, mild or plain

2006-01-03T19:41:00.000-05:00

30 geese a-pecking,
20 geese a-swimming,
6 geese a-flying,

Five hours spent!

4 fat squirrels
3 guys on bikes
2 parking spots,
and I gave OSU all my cash!

don't do it! okay!

2006-01-01T23:45:00.000-05:00

amusement!

so we went to the dump to -- well, dump -- a bunch of crap from the old warehouse. Mostly old sets and shelves that the company hasn't used since the early nineties. So yeah. It was fun. On the first of two days we spent chucking stuff out of the back of trucks, we dumped 9,000 pounds of crap. The coolest things, though, were the huge trash compactors... there were two of them demolishing everything we dumped out of the backs of trucks. It's amazing to watch a pretty solidly built set piece, be it a podium, wall, huge rolling set piece, explode like a balloon when one of these trucks ran over it.

awesome.

this is about what they look like:

don't judge by the picture, though: they're monstrous in person.

the second day we went, one of the operators stopped the compactor, got out onto his little platform thing, and started talking to us. we think he was hitting on me. heh.

the dump is way too much fun. we almost got the truck stuck in the mud a few times, but it's all good.
so much fun. :)

what cannot be heard

2005-12-31T21:44:00.000-05:00

it's my ring!

I like it. :)

We're looking at either getting married in March or June. Later if necessary, but we don't wanna do it later.

so... yeah. we're working on a page for the wedding, and we'll see how it goes from there.

why does blood turn brown when it dries...

2005-12-21T21:35:00.000-05:00

I do believe that I've got ADD. Certainly explains a good deal.

pfft.

hahaha

2005-12-20T12:19:00.000-05:00

i am teh engaged!

ring's in the mail. or will be shortly. will post pics when i get around to it. for those of you who care about that kind of thing.

2005-12-13T21:51:00.000-05:00

so yeah. freakin' awesome. Theodore Gray built a periodic table, and under each element is something made of that element. pretty sweet. some other cool bits of his: his triangle table, homemade matches, this interesting bit of info... i particularly like the throwing range.

ok... all for now.

i got dunked!

sirens, women of doom

2005-12-11T19:06:00.000-05:00

A Softer World is this sweet comic that gets updated every so often... yeah.

in the meantime, nothing much happning here. except for snow.

which is cold.

tell me all that you've thrown away

2005-12-03T19:25:00.000-05:00

I downloaded the All-American Reject's Dirty Little Secret music video and thought it was pretty sweet. They show a bunch of postcards from post secret in it, and I found the post secret site, which I'd never actually seen before. It's a really interesting project. You should check it out... and contribute. :)

it kind of reminds me of trashlog... This guy, Nico Van Hoorn, walked around and found, scanned, and posted an interesting piece of trash every day. Seems that he's stopped since I first saw the site. Shame, really.

green finch and linnet bird

2005-12-02T12:53:00.000-05:00

Oh, yeah... forgot. A few pictures!

My Halloween pumpkin

More vegetable carving...

The creepiest fotune cookie wrapper I've ever seen

I gots tattoos! woo!

I don't even know what the crap this is.
I found it after a meeting at the hotel.

i'd like to poison your mind

2005-12-02T09:40:00.000-05:00

Went to see Drew Carey and the Improv All-Stars' Green Screen Tour last night. Holy crap, so funny! It was a mix of standard improv games and some of the bits they do on Whose Line is it Anyway. Drew opened with a little stand-up, which was great. Then they launched into the show, one bit after another. Their final piece was one I'd certainly never seen before: they scattered 100 mousetraps across the stage, blindfolded two players, and had them act out a scene in their bare feet. The best thing ever! There were a number of really great moments, but that's one I'll remember forever. :) The players were: Drew Carey, Kathy Kinney (Mimi), Greg Proops, Chip Esten, Jeff Davis, Jonathan Mangum, and Sean Masterson.

The crowd, at a couple points during the show, started doing the OH-IO thing around the half-stadium, and one of the players said something about the crowd being so good at robotically yelling and chanting anything anyone told them to. Was great. :)

righty-o... back to work.

beadle? i saw you...

2005-11-15T20:52:00.000-05:00

holy crap, i'm so unorganized.

But I'm getting better!
...I promise...

mwahahaha... :)

2005-11-14T09:12:00.000-05:00

check this out...

anyone can play guitar.

2005-10-09T00:08:00.000-04:00

Lots of work. But meh. I've picked up reading again. It's like a relief from life... to lose yourself in the realities of another... I'd forgotten how enjoyable it is. I should reread Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy... amazing books.

Still have yet to put together stuff from vacation. So unorganized. Finally got my pictures off of my camera and onto my computer. I guess that's a step in the right direction. meh.

Have to call the AP folks to get my scores to school, finish up the FAFSA, and get registered for my courses. Starting in the winter.

And holy crap! Yesterday's highs were in the sixties! What the crap is all that about?

crazy.

"I will not forget Tom Hanson."

2005-09-25T23:11:00.000-04:00

Indeed. There's much to say, but no time.

meh. such is liff.

I'll have something interesting to say sooner or later. Maybe concerning Spamalot, Photoshop, Sweeney Todd, or the Kraft plant in Canada. Maybe. But that's for another day.

holy crap!

2005-08-21T14:16:00.000-04:00

oh, no! Google's down!!! I feel so helpless and all alone...

first and last waltz

2005-08-17T22:34:00.000-04:00

I really mean to post more often... I just never seem to have the time. whatever. I'll leave you with one link...

>> tribeca grand hotel
quite possibly one of the coolest hotels in the world (except for maybe that hotel made out of ice).

Okay, back to work. We'll see when next I update.

::suckers::

I am the terror that flaps in the night!

2005-07-31T12:52:00.000-04:00

Well, I was working on this post and had it mostly finished... when I left my computer unplugged and the battery died completely. Eh, well. Such is life.

Oh, and if you're ever at a loss on what to do with those pesky little munchkins, Johnsonville knows what they're doing when it comes to kids.

Anywho, I have two bits of wisdom to pass on to humanity today...

1. When you eat at a cheap Chinese buffet, you get what you pay for. Solution? Raid the Jell-O bowl. As everyone knows, Jell-O isn't actually meant to be eaten; it's meant to be played with. Why else would they make it so much fun?

2. Dollar stores are the best places to get weird crap for almost nothing. It's like going through some batty neighbor's attic, but with a register and a bigger stock. All I have to say is this: if you've got a birthday coming up, you'd better watch out.

I'm actually taking the trouble to document some of the, erm... treasures I found. So sit back and enjoy.

First up, we have a box of Cyber Speak candy! Wooo!

It's essentially like candy hearts, but they're little candy floppy disks with "cyber talk" printed on them.

Brought to you by the folks at Necco, who shamelessly advertise by printing candies with "www.necco." Nice.

Next up is Dummies Man! "Get it done and have some fun" is his motto! Honestly, who at the "for Dummies" firm thought this one up? And is it any wonder that this bendable, triangle-headed guy is available for a dollar apiece? I pitied him and brought him home with me. Now, at last, he has a home!

I still find it amusing that "for Dummies" is trademarked... it's classified as intellectual property. Irony at its best...

I don't know what first attracted me to this little marvel... was it the advertised "Fill your brain, then empty it!" or was it the creepy-looking pig-boy coolly leaning against a sharpened pencil? Regardless, I find it plenty amusing. It's a brain-shaped eraser that houses a pencil sharpener. I just couldn't pass it up.

I left my favorite for last. It's Darkwing Duck in the form of a night light! Holy cow!

Sorry, but when there's trouble, you call DW, and that's all there is to it. I loved this cartoon... definitely one of my all-time favorites. There's not much else to say about this little piece of awesome, except that Dennis is waiting for it to burn the house down. I keep trying to tell him that such an amazing super-hero would never do such a thing. He still doesn't believe me. *sigh* oh, well.

I was just burning some meatball sub incense...

2005-07-27T16:00:00.000-04:00

Not too much to post at the moment... I need to get some pictures and stuff edited and uploaded, though. But anyway...

>> moon.google.com
it repeats, but who cares? awesome!!

>> personalized Google home
Oh, and if you don't use it already, Google has a personalized home page that's even more customizable than before. glee! You can track your choice of RSS and atom feeds, and... and... yeah. awesome!

>> Malinche
This company is working on bringing back text games. Looks pretty promising, too. The most interesting bit is the nice piece of programming to get it to work on an iPod. Won't work on mine, sadly, since it's a first (or second) generation, but still... once I get a new one (heh... once I have money... haha!). I'm not a big fan of their website, but their support and their products seem to make up for it.

bumble bum!

2005-07-24T18:26:00.000-04:00

We headed downtown Friday evening for the Jazz & Rib Fest [claimed to be] the biggest in the country. It lasts for three days, and about 100,000 pounds of ribs are consumed. Dennis got a boneless rib sandwich at the first place we stopped, and it was a complete ripoff. I got a bratwurst from the huge Johnsonville truck [pic], which was good, and we travelled on to the booth of last year's winner. Much, much better. We ate on the grass by the river and watched some jazz group for a while. Nothing too impressive.

We were sitting probably less than a hundred yards from where they were shooting off the fireworks at the beginning of the month; in about a three-foot radius, I found about half a shell's worth of cardboard fragments from the fireworks. Good stuff.

I think we could have better timed our purchase of a rack of ribs, though, because we had to cook it Saturday, which we did for lunch. It turned out really well, though... the perfect fall-off-the-bone tenderness... mmm... we finished off a rack between the two of us.

Saturday evening was the county fair, which was mostly unimpressive. We only went for the demolition derby, though, which was all right. It had its awesome moments, and had its slow moments.

This picture was taken just before the first heat.

I would have taken more pictures, but pictures don't quite capture the essence of a demolition derby. So I put together a little highlight reel of short videos I took. Don't critique it too much; I spent almost no time on it. There are things I'd change... like using an actual video camera, for one. Well, whatever. The link's below.

[reel link]
quicktime format, 2.7 mb

raaar!

2005-07-23T21:13:00.000-04:00

Traffic is one of the worst things ever invented. Ever. In a stretch that usually takes me about 3 minutes to get through, I sat for probably half an hour or more. All I remember is that I was getting progressively later and later to the hotel.

I had to set up some equipment at the hotel, so I got there with some time to spare, signed out my key, ran upstairs, collected my stuff, carted it back downstairs, got to the room... and it was already set up. The client brought some of their own stuff, and someone else had set up my end of it.

grrr... put everything back, signed my key back in, and left. I found one of my favorite relaxing songs and fumed along to the beat. I don't curse much. Except for traffic.

a couple of my cravings

2005-07-22T22:06:00.000-04:00

Not too much has been happening. Mostly work. Work and forgetting the password for this account. I've had to have it sent to me a few times... I reset it and forget it, then have to reset, change, forget, reset, change, forget... it's great. I think I'm good now, though.

So... links for all! This should make up, I think, for a few days' absence.

.: scitoys.com :.
How to build your own hydrogen bomb... but more like a really complicated squirt gun. Fun little home experiments. I looked around the site a while and am determined to make a good deal of this stuff. Lots of good, wholesome, educational fun. Mwaha, indeed.

.: art lebedev :.
A Russian graphic and industrial design company. They have some quite interesting products, both projective and in production. My favorites are the keyboard and mouse.

.: mind stretchers :.
Fun mind stretchy quizzes, teasers, and the like. Somewhat refreshing... reminds me of the math and logic puzzles and things we used to do in gifted. Those were the days. :)

.: sugar cookies :.
Dennis' mom first sent me to RecipeZaar.com. Awesome! I've never been hailed as any kind of cook. My specialty dish has always been macaroni and cheese. But this is a huge online recipe book kept by the people who use it... it's huge, uses ratings, allows for reviews... It's a beautiful thing. And these sugar cookies are bloody good.

.: whoops :.
Ok, I've run out of links for now. Eh, well. 'Til next time.

This was dessert...

strawberries + mountain of whipped cream + tons of sugar = mmmm...

And this is the most interesting bit of stuff I've yet seen left over from a conference at the hotel...

Oh, Deary Dear...

2005-07-20T18:21:00.000-04:00

Holy crap... so, Harry Potter. Yeah. Wow. Bought the book, but since it wasn't coming in the mail until today, I aquired it temporarily by, erm... other means. Finished it last night while we were eating dinner. Just... wow. Now I have the book itself! Huttah! I hope that adequately explains my absence (not that anybody reads this).

The cat's over there playing in a paper bag... Silly kitty. I have nothing particularly random or witty to speak on today... Still mulling over the story and wishing the seventh book were coming out much sooner than it is. Speaking of which, the fourth movie comes out in November. The trailer's been online for a while. I should reread that one... and the next, then this one again.

yeah... dork. I know. ::sheepish grin::

Well, I need to leave for church soon. I'll throw up a few pictures and leave it at that. Oh, and this place has some great geeky jewelry.

2005-07-17T14:44:00.000-04:00

I actually started this a while ago, but left it unfinished... anywho, I'd forgotten that Google had bought Blogger. Obsessed with Google as I am, I couldn't go without at least giving this thing a whirl. I'll be happy once Google takes over the universe (and it'll be the best thing that ever happened to it).

Anywho, that's that for now. I'll post bits of oddness, news, and/or randomness every day if I can and remember. So... yeah. enjoy. :)

Scrap of paper I found at our new warehouse...
It used to be full of Chinese Antiques.