Jul
31
Attack of the Rice Krispie Treat Clones
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Remember the Giant Rice Krispie Treat I told you about a few weeks ago? Of course not; no one visits this site any more. Well just in case anyone does stop by, I feel that it’s my duty to inform the world that it’s multiplying:
The invasion has begun.
Jul
30
I’ve got a lot going on at work today plus will be moderating content all day over at Gather (please send humor), so here’s the obligatory “blogging will be light today” post.
But so I don’t leave you empty handed, here is a video of Christopher Walken cooking chicken (via Fark):
Jul
26
Dimmer Switch Legalese
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The latest offering of The Dimmer Switch is up and ready for your reading pleasures (or displeasure, I’m not telling you what to think):
Addendum to Clarify the Boundaries of Online Friendship
Yes it’s two days late, thanks for noticing (seriously, thanks for noticing; I like the attention). If I were to make up an excuse to [...]
Jul
25
Cheap Christmas Presents
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Toypaper
I haven’t tried any of these yet, but they look like a fun rainy day project to do with the kids.
Of course once we mastered all of these guys we’ll have to move onto the more advanced projects. (A paper motorcycle? Un-freaking-believable.)
Jul
23
Help!
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For the past 4 Mondays, I’ve been serving as member editor of the Writing group over at Gather. On my moderating day, the focus of the group is supposed to shift to humor because I’ve somehow convinced the Gather management that I’m some sort of humor writer type person.
The first week wasn’t too bad because [...]
Jul
20
Saturn’s sixtieth moon discovered.
Hey Saturn, it’s an orbit not a clown car.
Though I would like to note that Frank is an awesome name for a moon.
Jul
19
I went to the bookstore on my lunch break today. I wasn’t looking for anything in particular, just wandering through the stacks as I am wont to do. I made my usual path through the store starting with the new arrivals and moving back through the fiction into the sci-fi/horror section, then making my way over to the cafe area to [...]
Jul
19
With the last(?) Harry Potter book due out in a couple of days and everyone wondering who dies in the book, I decided this week’s offering of the Dimmer Switch should center around spoilers.
Spoiler Alert!
Rest assured my dear Potter fans, this latest offering of the Switch does not contain any spoilers pertaining to Harry Potter and the [...]
Jul
18
For today’s Random Act of Personal Amusement, I’m going to play with the labelmaker. I did this already once back in my Twittering days, but since my work no longer allows me to access Twitter (or Blogger, for that matter) I thought I’d give it another go.
Every office has some type of labelmaker lying about, I [...]
Jul
17
In build-up towards the premiere of the Simpsons movie, Burger King has launched a new website that allows you to Simpsonize a photo of yourself. The website was a little tricky to manage (I kept getting slot full and image errors) but I finally managed to Simpsonize myself. I had to do a little editing [...]