Category: Linkage

  • This is eerily close to home for me.

    Remember when everything was “e-something,” and then it all became “i-something” except for a couple of holdouts like “e-commerce” and “e-cards”? I’ve never been the world’s biggest “e-card” fan, but in the last two weeks I’ve been introduced to a couple of sites which amuse me. (I hasten to warn my gentle readers that some of the cards include concepts and language which can best be described as “distinctly naughty.”)

    First came the surreal and occasionally amusing Wrongcards, a site that includes a substantial section devoted to zombies. I’m not making this up.

    Today I was led to someecards.com at which I immediately found a couple that I couldn’t resist sending to certain individuals. But here’s the one which made my eyes bug out a bit, in no small part because I happen to agree with it:

    someecards.com Genesis reunion tour card

    I mean, really now. How many Genesis fans are out there in the e-card manufacturing business, anyway?

    (In case my fellow Genesis fans are wondering: I purchased the 2007 reunion tour double-CD set, and I wasn’t particularly impressed. Phil sounds kind of terrible on a few songs, I’m afraid.)

  • I’m allergic, but I still adore kitties.

    Most likely, I’m already a bit late to this one. I know that some of my friends don’t read the sites on which I’ve seen this posted, however, so please allow me to share:

    [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHXBL6bzAR4]

    Because I think everybody could use a smile this Monday morning.

  • I’m doing it wrong?

    Apparently I didn’t do it quite right yesterday. Perhaps this whole phenomenon is beyond my abilities, but I’d like to give it one more try.

    I guarantee a rick and at least one roll. If that’s not enough for you, I’m afraid I’ll have to give up for good. Stupid Internet pranks, anyway.

  • Follow-up Obscure Holiday Post

    Here’s a bit o’ cross-cultural trivia for you: Yesterday may have been Pi Day (and a couple of other Days besides, which I won’t go into here) but today is yesterday was alsoWhite Day!

    Tip of the hat to Brent for bringing this to our attention. We now return you to your regularly scheduled weekend.

    [EDIT] – What do you know? I’m an idiot. I didn’t pay attention to the date on the entry, or what day it is today. Baka.

  • Karel’s Birthday Present

    I despaired of finding the perfect present to convince everyone that they should get me, but now… I think I’ve found it.

    [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GAUnuuBkW4]

    That should do nicely, shouldn’t it?

  • Oh God, save me from your followers.

    In case you need an example of why I grow increasingly skeptical and anti-religious as the years go by, let me share with you a bit of something to make you think:

    The rescuers were there in uniform, and the girl’s parents were interviewed. A reporter asked, “What do you want to say to the rescuers?” The father responded, “I want to tell them that we thank God for sending them!” Folks, let’s get some priorities in place here. This wasn’t a miracle, in any way. God didn’t send the rescuers, a telephone operator did. God didn’t supply the oxygen that the child received, nor the other first-aid techniques they applied. The rescue squad saved the girls life, after the omnipotent, all-seeing, omniscient one to whom churches have been erected all over the state ”“ allowed the child to fall into the water.

    (Tip of the godless man’s hat to James Randi.)