Friday Sillyness: So Christmas It Hurts

It’s the holidays, which means two things:
1) WordPress turns on the falling snow app
and
2) I turn on the blindingly colorful Holiday Theme
Because, burning your retinas with an obscene splash of neon red and green?  Yeah, that’s how I roll.

Friday Sillyness: Trust The Mapmaker

So… let’s say you decided to take my advice from last weekend, and head out to Julian for the day.
One of the first things you might decide to do is check the traffic on SigAlert.com.  It takes the CalTrans road speed information and maps it all out for you in a handy, color coded format.

Friday Sillyness: Fly On The Windshield

Funniest thing I’ve seen all week.
Ever wish you were a fly on the windshield of a car?
I sure wish I had been on this trip:

Friday Sillyness: My Blood Runs Cold, My Memory Has Just Been Sold

(Bonus points if you know the reference above. )
National Geographic Magazine isn’t something I read a lot.  This isn’t for lack of desire or interest, mind you.
The honest truth is: I’ve already got so many things (books, magazines, online items) on my reading list already that I just can’t add NGM, as fascinating [...]

Stop-Motion World

For those of you of a certain age, remember shows like “Land of the Lost“?  Specifically, the stop-motion dinosaurs that they had on the show, with the shallow depth-of-field and jerky motions that screamed, well, “stop-motion dinosaurs.”
What if our world were not our world at all, but instead we were all just stop-motion puppets?  Miniatures [...]

Friday Sillyness: The English Paper

Cleaning out some old files this week, I ran across this gem that had been e-mailed to me back in college, which is both funny and has the advantage of quite possibly being true (link at the end).
It also speaks more to males vs. females than most books on the subject.
Enjoy.

Cheater

Mel Heth’s post a couple of days ago reminded me of a campfire many years back.
I was traveling solo on the North Coast, in the redwoods.  I’d stopped in Humboldt Redwoods State Park, staying in the campground there next to the Visitor Center.
I unloaded the Corolla, set up the tent, and went about making dinner.  [...]

Friday Sillyness: Cartoon Style

I went out tonight, pretty much on a spur-of-the-moment whim, to see “UP” tonight.  Needless to say that I enjoyed it, given the time and effort that Pixar clearly puts into each film they make.  Seeing it in 3-d was a nice touch, though the film works just as well without the added “gimmick”, if [...]

Dirty

I really should do it to her more often.
Yeah, I did it tonight, after work.  But I should definitely do it more often.
I mean, I really should.  After all, she deserves it.

Friday Sillyness

This just completely cracked me up, so I figured I must share.