Potty break
Well, this map will be really useful if I ever decide to road-trip through Australia.
Well, this map will be really useful if I ever decide to road-trip through Australia.
Yesterday I referred to Dale as my “beefy chiggun,” and Scott asked me what the hell I was talking about. I didn’t get around to explaining it to him then, but I just did, and I figured I’d share the story with the rest of you.
Scott: so WTF is a chiggun
Pamela: oh, laf
Pamela: ok
Scott: so are you just not gonna tell me whawt a chiggun is?
Scott: because if its a private thing, its ok.im just curious
Pamela: When Dale was a little boy, maybe 3 years old, his uncle Mark was still in high school and dating a girl named Vonna. One day when Mark called Vonna, he tried to get Dale to say to her, “you’re pretty.” After a bit of coaching, Dale said, “You’re a… a… a… a BEEFY CHIGGUN!”
Pamela: (beefy chicken)
Scott: lol
Pamela: Mark married Vonna, and one day while we were having dinner with them, they told us that story. Since then, it’s been a joke between me and Dale to call each other variations on the ‘chiggun’ name, like ’sexxy chiggun.’
Now don’t you feel more enlightened for knowing that?
bwg started chatting with me about some of the disturbing search requests he finds in his referrer logs. That led me to take a peek at mine. Here’s a sampling of some of the weirder/funnier/obscene referrers from my own logs.
What’s really disturbing, is that those are only from this week’s logs. And there’s still three more days to go before the week is over. (If these aren’t enough for you, go see bwg’s.
Nothing will get you compliments on your breast like making a pair of breast-shaped cakes for your husband’s birthday. (Warning, photos may not be considered work-safe at some places. For instance, if your boss has no sense of humor.)
My sweetheart, my love, my best friend, my beefy chiggun*
(*it’s a long, but cute, story)
Got my first Googlewhack.
phrenology = 19,400
defenestration = 8,810
phrenology + defenestration = 1
Of course, the score on that one is kind of low, since neither of those is a very common word.
Jish asked me to say HI! to my webloggers webring neighbours.
« to the left of me: accidental . Angel Kitty: to the right of me »
Of course, it’s been 4 hrs since my last post, and I haven’t done a bit of cleaning. Instead, I decided to ‘run’ to the store to pick up ‘a few things.’ That translates to 4 stores, two visited twice, and about $130 spent. ouch.
I did manage to find really inexpensive clear plastic storage bins for my fabrics, so I can empty the dresser in what’s going to become guest room #2. And I got all the stuff I needed to make Dale’s birthday cakes. Plus stuff for dinner tonight. And I got myself a nice new pair of khaki cargo pants.
My poor beloved khakis are wearing a bit thin, and it won’t be long until they won’t be fit to wear in public. (Some might argue that’s already the case.) So, while I was in one of the stores I found a cute comfy pair of men’s pants in my size.
Yes, men’s.
The last time I went shopping in a women’s dept., I tried on 7 pairs and didn’t find a single one I liked. So, desperate times call for desperate measures. Plus, I’ve always envied how Dale’s cargo pants are always SO soft and comfortable, whereas mine have required some breaking-in.
Dammit, it’s just not fair! Guy’s casual clothes are already so much more comfortable than women’s. Plus, they have deeper pockets.
I’ve got a network cable running from the computer room, under the door, into the craft room (under that door), hooked to my laptop. I dug out an old pair of speakers and hooked them up. And, voíla! I can listen to mp3s while cleaning up the craft room. I am very happy, except that I don’t have any excuses to put off the cleaning.
Yay! My webcam is running again. ‘Cause I’ve got it hooked up to my laptop. (My PC doesn’t like it for some reason.) But you can check it out now and catch Dale, Steve, Aaron, Mark, and me playing Dale’s newly restored Black Knight pinball machine.
OK, Melly’s Nursery Crimes thread has had me laughing as well as contributing my own bits of demetia.
I just wrote up a long post, and Blogger scarfed it. I’ll rewrite it later if I feel like it.
Though I didn’t post about it the other day, I was able to put my HTML, CSS, and Blogger skillz to good use again by helping Kimsey set up her new blog, darksarcasm.com. She’s just getting started, but why don’t you pop over and give her a visit?
This morning, I was able to help a friend who’d really been stressing over an annoying HTML problem that dealt with cross-browser inconsistencies. I was able to come up with a fix that worked on at least the three browsers we checked.
It made me feel like a little HTML badass.
Even better, I was able to help out a friend. So far, that’s been the highlight of my day.
Remember when I linked to that article pointing out Finland’s less than dignified appearance on the Euro coin? (Here’s the link in case you don’t.) Well, yesterday I received the following email from Tiina in Finland:
I’m your regular reader from Europe. Since you had noticed the “floppy” euro coin, I thought I’d send you the proposal for a new version. I couldn’t find a web page including the pic, but it’s here as an attachment. Much better, huh =)
Yes, indeed, Tiina! Yes, indeed! Thank you so much for sending me that picture!
Maui Monkeys are really quite cute, and I’d love to have this one, but, WOW! They’re expensive!
This afternoon I saw Brotherhood of the Wolf, also known as Le Pacte des Loups.
Aaron and I were kind of surprised to learn that the movie was only playing in one theater in Austin, way down south. Remembering that the ads we saw displayed the movie title in English and French and never played any dialogue, I guessed that the movie was subtitled (I was right about that; consider yourself warned) and so it was only in limited release to gauge audience response. That’s speculation, but once we saw how packed the theater was, Aaron predicted that the movie will probably be playing in wide release within a couple of weeks.
I found the French web site before I saw the English one, and as my French sucks, it only served as more teaser to see the movie to find out what the heck the story was. (By the way, this is my favorite image from the still gallery.) While I checked out the movie site, Aaron looked for nudie pics of Monica Bellucci (and they weren’t hard to find).
OK, now for the review part of this post: Excellent!
Less than 10 minutes into the movie, I whispered to Aaron that I was going to buy the DVD as soon as it’s released. The cinematography and visual effects (I’m not talking about special effects, but camera angles) was some of the best I’ve ever seen. The splash of mud as a foot steps onto wet ground never looked so cool. As a period piece, the costumes were gorgeous, intricate and detailed. The fight scenes were very cool, though not the best I’ve seen as visual tricks like switching from slow motion to regular speed were more distracting than enhanced those scenes. The plot was good and kept us guessing until almost the end, and even though I figured out the secret of the Beast, there was still a lot more revealed at the end.
I wasn’t completely pleased with the movie, though. The first 2/3 was rooted in reality with a hint of the supernatural. The last 1/3 of the movie tripped over into fantasy. The sudden switch from one style of movie to the other was just jarring and didn’t sit well with me. The movie should have been realistic or fantasy. It could have worked very well either way, but not both in one.
Overall, I’ll give this monkey 4 bananas out of 5. Go see it.
Thanks to my friend Mark, my new favorite pickup line is “If you were homework, I’d do you.”
No, I hadn’t really. Which is why I’d been putting it off. But can someone tell me, please, why you’d need an Electrical Engineering degree to be the web developer of a software company?