This is so amazing. I haven't the words.



Thanks, circlek

Everything you need to know to build a stylin' hobbit house for less than $6000.

http://www.simondale.net/house/index.htm

Thanks, marcgunn

cold, sharp; she struck me
just like a piano wire
slim, taut and deadly

she approached her choice
with faith like a coconut
sweet; empty inside

I suck at haiku
But I still try anyway
incorrigible.

I'm feeling all kinds of: I kinda like the second one

SO. I'm looking through random (and I mean RANDOM) old files I have on random old discs to see if I can find a copy of my old resume, and I find this gem, which apparently won me 100 tokens from Hecklers Online on AOL back in 1998:

UPDATED: 12-08-98 NEXT WINNERS: 12-15-98
Limerickization!
___________________________

NEW TOPIC: Jewel
To VOTE on the topic for the week
of Dec. 8-Dec. 15, click HERE!
___________________________

Charlie Brown/
"Peanuts" Winners

Our #3 limerick honors and twenty-five tokens go to dremphy@aol.com.

Charles Schulz, that nutty mastermind,
Once did a strip that was one of a kind:
That time Lucy and Charlie
Hopped on a new Harley
And FOR ONCE Lucy got to be in behind.

Our #2 limerick honors and fifty tokens go to rainlily22@aol.com.

Charlie's head's an exaggeration.
And Lucy's just an aggravation.
Snoopy's a beagle,
And Woodstock's an eagle,
And Linus, he fears separation.

Our #1 limerick honors and a hundred tokens go to ldysaphyre@aol.com.

Schroeder is really a shy gent,
But one thing makes Schroeder violent:
When Lucy is meanest,
She calls him a pianist,
And claims that the last "t" is silent.

OK, so "gem" is overstating it a bit.

I have only the vaguest recollection of ever having entered this contest.

Ten years ago... so weird.

At a pistol range, shooting Glocks and revolvers. Happy Easter? :)

Drinking hurricanes at Pat O'Brien's, singing along to dueling pianists. Aaaarooo- Werewolves of London! Desperado! Piano Man! <3

Eatin' a catfish po' boy, drinking heavens know what, listening to banjo, upright bass, and singer/trumpeteer plucked from 1924 <3

Sipping absinthe in a bar in New Orleans... Wish you were here :)

This is insanely cool...



Here's an even better video, of Theo Jansen (designer? architect? engineer? artist? father?) speaking at TED:

I'm feeling all kinds of: amazed

This is only a test; please to ignore. :)

So, I'm just now catching up to this nifty meme:

CD meme
Follow these easy steps:
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first article title on the page is the name of your band.

2. http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four words of the very last quote is the title of your album.

3. http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/
The third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

4. Use your graphics program of choice to throw them together, and post the result in your own journal:



I loved all three pieces... I just didn't think they meshed. But the more I look at it, the more it grows on me.

Link me to yours, if you've done it!

I'm feeling all kinds of: undifferentiatedly weird
What I hear: Electric Light Orchestra - Strange Magic

I love Scrabulous. I really do. And I think I'm getting better at it!

Perhaps my most closely-matched opponent is Adam B., who apparently hails from England. I say "apparently," because I've never met him. In fact, he's my only Scrabulous opponent that I don't know irl (or from here on lj). Most of our games are within a few points of being a tie.

I hates him.



You know. In that good way :)

(I ended up going with "partaken"-- I honestly couldn't find a single other word to make!)

I know it's late in the day, and I should have mentioned it sooner... but today is a WOOTOFF day.

What this means: Wacky-cool online retailer WOOT.com is selling not one item per day as usual... but bargain after bargain.

One thing sells out, another takes its place.

It's worth visiting, even if only for the nutty theme song and hilariously-awesome product copy :)

Big Broccoli Ocarina:Angels We Have Heard On High

A big broccoli ocarina can have been done!
As MenT so aptly put it, it's what it says on the tin.

Tommy Emmanuel / J.Shimabukuro: While My Guitar Gently Weeps

Thanks to estokes for sharing this one :)