Just in case you ever wanted to know. Here’s instructions on how to fuck a dolphin. Also, did you know that Tonya Harding Shot JFK? Thank you Insolitology for sharing this with us.

Spongmonkeys are Love.

I’ve now watched the first episode of Paranoia Agent.

Whoa.

The opening credits, featuring characters laughing in bizarre surroundings, are even freakier after you’ve seen the episode and learned a bit about (some of — not all appear in ep1) those characters.

Like Gokusen, the character designs are more realistic than in typical anime.

The plot, however, is a blend of realistic and bizarre. I’m now eager to watch the other two episodes that have come out so far, in an effort to determine how much of what’s going on is “real” and how much is in characters’ heads.

Saw this on Living Reflections From a Dream a few days ago and it made me laugh because I can just picture the chef running around screaming that.

Whatever Gets You Through the Day..

I just had this IM session with a guy I work with:

Guy: Word of the day: hypnagogic
Guy: something I have right now
Me: what does it mean?
Guy: sleepy feeling
Me: I was going to guess: sense of vertigo brought on by being surrounded by lunatics
Guy: did I ever tell you about the Italian chef I worked with in Germany?
Me: no
Guy: The only thing he could say in German was “I’m surrounded by idiots, please kill yourselfs”. Like, why would anyone go to the trouble of only learning that, it was pretty funny. He would scream it a the top of his lungs when someone made a mistake
Me: that is awesome!
Guy: he was also about 4 foot 1
Guy: Little Danny Devito

I have to learn how to say that in German so I can say it too! [Living Reflections From a Dream]

/usr/bin/girl found a cool contest over at bash.org.

Apparently bash.org had a contest in which everyone sent in pictures of their mess (specifically their messy computer desks, I guess).

I was amazed at how stark some people’s rooms are. That sort of thing would drive me crazy. Now I must take an informal poll: do you have stuf on your walls (specifically near your computer)?

# mess link via grepcomputers. [/usr/bin/girl]

Speaking of commercials, Fedex has all their TV spots online, including one of my current favorite commercials.

Cool article on Slate about the spongmonkeys ad for Quiznos. I actually recorded the moon song the other day and it is now sitting happily on my ipod.

Today I got a call from my parents that I’d been expecting for months. It seems that my grandmother most probably will not live through the week. Given that I’m trying to get moved in a little over that time it’s making my parents all twitchy with that and when they will have time to move me. Strangely, I’m feeling more relieved than anything. In the past two years I’ve watched my grandmother slowly wither. She’s lived over a year and a half longer than anyone expected after her last big surgery. The last few months there have been numerous times I’ve gotten a call like this, but this time it feels like it is really it. I wish her well on her journey into whatever may wait and I will miss her. I’m also relieved that my parents will be able to have some time for themselves. Since they retired they really haven’t had much time for them. And while I am going to need lots of help from them in the coming year or two, my hope is that it won’t be as stressful as this has been for them.

This whole experience has made me think a lot about what I want for myself if I were to be seriously ill. I’ve had a really hard time going to visit her when I’ve gone down to visit my parents because I just don’t like to see someone slowly wasting away. My mom said this morning that the person from the hospice said that hearing is the last sense to go, even if the person is unresponsie. I don’t think I’d want to be laying in bed being able to hear people speak and not being able to react.

Are people so lame now that they can’t peel a hard boiled egg without a machine?

Someone mentioned this link online and like most silly web games it has sucked me in. The idea of Grow is to drag certain materials onto this ball. As you drag more pieces on, the ones you have dragged on may evolve. As far as I can tell the goal is to max everything out. I’m doing okay so far, my score is around 10,000. Supposedly the max is 20,000. The damn propeller and tornado are driving me nuts.

Posted as part of my evil plan to distract people from life with silly web stuff.