This is a witty title, pregnant with meaning and suspense.

Wed, 14 May 2008 05:57:18 GMT

OK, I've heard the ferrets cough. They chuckle/dook sometimes, and when they get really rough with each other they'll yelp and whine and screech. They'll hiss, too, especially when the other one steals their tasty treat. I've had them sneeze all over me. But I think this is the first time I've heard one of them fart.

Mon, 12 May 2008 01:50:07 GMT

Another before and after:

Previously.

Fri, 09 May 2008 06:02:57 GMT

Wed, 07 May 2008 03:09:26 GMT

This one is a Marilyn Manson song, so there's some strong language. The video is still amazing, though.

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 06:49:54 GMT

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:10:47 GMT

I think I'm naming him Clyde. Can you guess why?

This Clyde only has two friends.

Am I finding them, or are they finding me?

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 03:23:48 GMT

I think I might have a new cat.

I was making myself a delicious quesadilla, when what do I hear but a cat crying right outside the window. It was very skittish at first, and is still anxious - even cars driving by make him jerk and look for a threat. It took me about five minutes of cajoling until I could even touch him, but then found that he's one of those cats that loves the heavy petting *nudge*nudge*. Every time he gets out of sight, though, he starts crying again. Not so much now, but before I could just look away and he would cry. I've given him some ferret chow and one of their beds, and I'll make sure to introduce them all before I go to bed. If he reacts badly, I'll put him in the spare bedroom over night.

He's well-fed, surprisingly soft, is definitely used to humans, and makes an amusing lion's growl kind of noise when he's eating. I'll figure out what to do with him tomorrow, either see someone's notices for a missing cat, or make my own to post around.

Anywho, that is all.

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Ow, ow, ow, he's kneading, ow, ow, ow...

Digest #6

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 05:18:47 GMT

What fantasy animals are kosher?

Sexpelled: No Intercourse Allowed - a goofy take on Ben Stein's Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed

A mind-melting Flash illusion illustrating contrast asynchrony.

Brandon's mind on how a computer works.

For the fans of Guitar Hero and Rock Band, here comes Jug Hero!

God Must Really Hate Black People.

There's a new GI bill in the works. Still not a good reason to join, but there you go.

They Called The Wind Al Niño

This is how science should really be taught.

Automated latte art.

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 03:41:06 GMT

Everyone gets those spams - OMG FREE GIFT CARD! FREE LAPTOP!! FREE FREE FREE!!!

Sure, it's free... the catch is you have to sign up for a bunch of 'free' trials, with low low shipping costs, for a limited time only, buy now. They pay for themselves by hooking people with the free trial, and when you don't cancel it they charge you a bunch of money for their 'service'.

I figure, I'll play their game.

I found one for a free plasma TV. I've signed up for all the crap they want me to sign up for. I chose the cheapest 'free' trials, the $1-3 dollar ones, and the ones that don't charge up front. Everything is on a disposable email (I only started this a couple hours ago, and already I've gotten three unrelated spams. There is no honor among thieves). I'm keeping track of everything I've signed up for, so I can cancel it as soon as I can. Everything is on one credit card; if they try to screw me I'll point to their fine print and get their charges removed. Once I get the TV I'll probably sell it to pay off bills.

Only one problem... they make you do two referrals. I have to hand out a link that's tied to my offer doodad, and someone else has to sign up for one of these piecemeal things, too. Not the big ones, just one of the free credit report or free colon cleanser or free whatever. If I can find two of you out there who can do my referral bit, I'll give you the link for the TV and then I'll do your referral back. Or if you don't want to go through the whole process, I'll just pay you back for whatever they charge you. You just need to remember to cancel the thing right away.

So, who's with me?

Digest #6

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 04:31:13 GMT

First, I'd like to take a moment to plug something. A month and a bit ago I got one of those PDA/phone thingies, to try and get organized-ish, and so I would have something to do besides read during the slow parts of my day. I'm not plugging the phone (though it's pretty neat), but the insurance I bought along with it, which is through a company called Asurion. Me being me, I managed to break the screen a couple weeks ago. I filed a claim the next day, and they had delivered a brand new one the day after. Had I put the claim in the day I broke it I probably could have had it even earlier. They charged a $50 deductible, and included an envelope to mail the broken one back in. I didn't really have any expectations in place about this kind of thing, but I was really impressed.

Anywho, if you have a piece of digital something-or-other and they support it (not to mention the six bucks a month), I'd recommend them.

Now for the links:

An 8 year old girl in Yemen was forced into marriage by her parents, and used by her new 'husband'. She stood up for herself and demanded a divorce, and the courts seem to be working with her.

Limb art.

A fascinating TED talk called 5 dangerous things you should let your kids do.

A Silicon Valley guy built a second Babbage's Difference Engine No. 2, which is now on display in Mountain View, California.

Dyslexia differs by language.

One wonders why they didn't see it coming.

An photo shoot featuring malformed people and elderly ladies - all nude. Not for the squeamish, and not safe for work.

Sometimes I want to kick my country in the ass.

Carnivorous bees!

Heartrending: "Why I am an abortion doctor".
I like finding opportunities to link this one: "The Only Moral Abortion is My Abortion".

I know one of you knew about Haiku Circus before now. WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME?!

An interview with George Clooney, where he finds out what the internet thinks of him. I've always thought he was was an interesting actor, this just cements that image in my mind.

The Sultan's Elephant.

Lots of great pictures of the parade on Flickr.

An Engineer's Guide To Cats

Airtrax. It's a sales pitch, but still cool to watch.

Sun, 13 Apr 2008 02:00:58 GMT

Random word: mark

bullseye
eyetooth
toothbrush
hairbrush
hair band
bandaid
foreign aid
embassy
donkey
mule
stubborn
born to ride
ridealong
all along the watchtower
quartz movement
bowel movement
irritable bowel syndrome
Stockholm syndrome
NYSE
apple pie
pie chart
majority/minority
modern major general
model planes
model glue
brain damage
dain bramage
Drain-O
Hawaii Five-O
surf's up
7-up
7-11
negative four
numbers with positive self-images
self-serve
love, match point
poit
narf
Fran Drescher
Drescher Drawer
underoos
kangaroos
dingo ate my baby
smells like shit
shit outta luck
Lucky Strike
cancer stick
that's what she said!
guess what
chicken butt
chicken dance
liar liar
blue!
blue Taco Bell drink lids
eyelids
iris
cornea
white part
not-white part
Wikipedia
Wikishmedia
schmaltz
waltz
tango
foxtrot
fire in your pants
You Can't Do That On Television
nickel arcade
The Arcade Fire
indier than thou
thou shalt not noogie
boogie on my finger
fingertips
milkshake
Polaroid
Kodiak bear
can't bear it
bared soul
Seoul food
The Illmatic
cheese-o-matic
don't cheese the Charmin
don't touch that dial
oh shit
look at the time
white rabbit
pyramid head
gotta run

Here's one good thing about midwest weather, at least.

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 02:47:45 GMT

Outside there's a gargantuan thunderstorm trying to tear the world apart, with no decent place for me to watch from.

The Q Digest

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 03:25:54 GMT

I'm here, I'm... well, no, not that... but yeah, here, but there hasn't been all that much that's interesting the last week or two to digest.

Other than this, anyway. Enjoy watching an elephant create a painting:

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:40:00 GMT

Poor guy didn't make it through the night. :|

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 00:27:05 GMT

Just found a miserable-looking baby pigeon outside:

I've brought it inside in a shoebox (deepest thing I could find) with it nested on top of a couple washrags. I've given it water and some tiny pieces of a wheat hamburger bud (also about all I could find - yay bachelor life). When I picked it up it started screaming and I thought it was just scared, but after I got it into the light for closer inspection it looks worse for wear. There's a harsh red raw strip between its wings. When I touch its right wing it screams again, so that may be broken. Stroking its head seemed to calm it down a bit. Updates to come.

[edit]

I've contacted a wildlife rescue, and will be handing it over tomorrow morning.

Digest #5

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 03:26:17 GMT

Meesa tired and want to sleepsey, so this one is just the videos that have piled up recently.

Witness the glory of the Yellow Drum Machine Robot

Speaking of robots, a preview and tech demo of Pixar's new Wall-E have been released. In the comments on that page, they list a fake ad for the company that produces the Wall-E unit, Buy 'n' Large. They've made a website for Buy 'n' Large, also. (but be sure to read the fine print)

Do The Test! Will you pass?

useless_facts: Video showing a Surinam Toad giving birth.

Some Easter stuff:

First, melting wabbits!

Now, death metal remix!

The White House held their annual Easter egg roll:

And on to Food Fight! If you get lost, there's a list of countries portrayed and a chronography of battles.

(PS - Dad, you really need to watch this. PPS - Mom, please tell dad he really needs to watch this.)

Did you know that pseudo-researchers have discovered the Christian gene?

The annual Bring Your Own Big Wheel event took place in San Francisco a couple days ago.

And lastly, a quick way to fold a shirt.

Digests will be back tomorrow.

Sun, 23 Mar 2008 18:34:41 GMT

I just made a gigantic salad and holy crap is it delicious.

Were I a more spiritual man I'd think someone was out to get me.

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:43:31 GMT

Dead alternator, dying battery, and something called a serpentine belt: $650

Another entry in the And The Hits Keep On Coming list: priceless

Digest #4

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 03:43:41 GMT

- Six-word reviews of 763 SXSW festival songs.

- An oddly fascinating site about shoelace knots.

- The Sabbath elevator.

- useless_facts: Was Moses high on Mount Sinai?

- MP3: Barenaked Ladies' Aluminum, which is one of the few songs I listen to for the lyrics in addition to the music.

An absolutely incredible "Hexapod" robot made by some dude in Norway. More videos here. More info here.

The video description says it best:

"In January 2006 while visiting Antarctica, we witnessed a most unusual method for orca to dislodge a crabeater seal from an ice floe - they made large waves to wash the seal off the relative safety of the ice. Later the orca put the seal back on the ice and dislodged the seal a second time which suggested strongly they were training their young."

Bathroom! Accessories! Are! Exciting! Yay!

Produced by the Department of Redundancy Department.

Is it?

You know someone did this to warrant the modification.

One of the flames on my stovetop is randomly orange instead of blue. No idea why.

Fold fold fold, all day long, fold fold fold, while I sing this song...

Digest #3

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 07:03:53 GMT

- A school thinks it's a good idea to plaster smiley faces over their students' faces in its website images to protect them from teh intarweb rapez0rz.

- Guitars made of junk.

- Someone built Escher's curl-up animal.

- I heard that next week JobCorps is also changing their slogan to "Work Shall Make You Free" next week.

- Speaking of, the chocolate ration has been increased to twenty grams from thirty grams.

- Blind faith in India.

- The Pillsbury Doughboy gets his revenge.

- Ten things you didn't know about the Milky Way.

- useless_facts: Disneyland's first murder.

- randompictures: Happiest dog in the world.

- randompictures: Space-age technology!

- useless_facts: How much water and air is there on Earth?

- MP3: Weird Al's Dog Eat Dog. Not only a great Talking Heads parody, but one of several things that made me permanently swear off of pure office work.

Bambi in four minutes. (VERY ICKY)

"Fallen Art". Also icky, but not so much.

I've been catching up on my sleep the last couple days, which got in the way of interbutt time. I'm caught up now, but no picture dump today.

Digest #2

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 05:43:25 GMT

How the pill industry is broken, and how to fix it.

Game called Line Rider + obsession (for men or women) = beauty

The customizable Feel Seating System, starting at only $1600.

The Dollar Stretcher.

Penn Says funny stuff.

Vatican unveils "Sin21". No, really.

politicartoons: Oilo Jima.

useless_facts: What is a rat king?

randompictures: Smoking Dog.

randompictures: Tipping in SF.

randompictures: Polimon.

MP3: Dennis Miller opines about civility.

MP3: Electrelane - The Valleys

Video and pictures:

Worst. Wishing well. Ever.

Speaking of pee: no wonder we're going into a recession.

Everybody screws up. Not everybody does it in style.

Painting at a club in Vancouver, BC. I wish I could have gotten a better angle on it.

Digest #1

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 21:50:53 GMT

In an effort to get me to post more, and because I recently passed 2500 pictures taken on my camera, I'll be doing a couple things. First, I'll start sorting through the reams of unsorted pictures and try to make some sense of them, and post the decent ones here. Second, I'll be doing a link digest of the stories I come across on a daily basis, similar to zarq's pre-baby-stress posts or One Good Move's daily Links With Your Coffee. This will replace my current practice of ~~spamming~~ IMing random people on my list who might find whatever link interesting. You're welcome, you-know-who-you-are. It'll also include the entries I post in the odd community, which will be mostly randompictures, useless_facts, and politicartoons, and marked as such. Third is like the second, and will be the odd video and song I find worthy under a cut at the end of each digest. This will also replace my randomly updated feature, Song Of The ~~Day~~ ~~Week~~ Moment.

So with that said, here goes:

- Mehdi Kazemi, an Iranian teen, goes to the UK to study English. Back home, his boyfriend is interrogated and executed for sodomy, but reveals Kazemi's name to the authorities. Kazemi then applies for asylum. The British court denies his application, even though he will also be executed if he returns to Iran. He then flees to Holland, which has special laws about gay Iranian refugees. He's currently in Dutch court to see if they will deport him back to Britain or not.

- Plastic bags not really a big threat to the environment, due to a misinterpretation of a 20-year old report.

- Common questions about crows.

- Some nifty around-the-house doodads.

- Too Much Coffee Man presents How To Be Happy. The link goes to the beginning of a surreal and hilarious story arc.

- Herd of elephants rescue a captured herd of antelopes.

- useless_facts: Rush Limbaugh.

- MP3: Cake covers Mahna Mahna.

- MP3: Arlo Guthrie sings I'm Changing My Name To Chrystler.

Videos and pictures:

- The Ford Focus Orchestra:

- Night On Catherine

- randompictures: Bacon salt</a>. Eaugh.

- The Idiots Of Garry's Mod, by the same people who did Half-Life: Full Life Consequences. You can skip the first 40 seconds of the intro. Note that some bits are slightly NSFW:

- Alton Brown promotes some GE products.

- randompictures: Sean Connery, then and now.

Christmas of '06, somewhere in Seattle:

Across the street from my apartment.

Now with CHARACTERS, and PLOT.

Step on spidah!

Strangeness.

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 06:51:11 GMT

ConsumerSalmon: Do you think I'm cute?
Scott: Sure.
ConsumerSalmon: sure what?
Scott: Sure, why not?
ConsumerSalmon: do i know you?
Scott: You messaged me first.
ConsumerSalmon: whoever the asshole was who sent me a robot thing, you suck
Scott: Robot thing?
ConsumerSalmon: robot thing.
Scott: Oh, robot thing.
Scott: Right.
ConsumerSalmon: yes, robot thing.
Scott: More detail, please, as what you're talking about still eludes me.
ConsumerSalmon: haha
ConsumerSalmon: i rest my case
Scott: Was it tired?
ConsumerSalmon: man, this is a shitty robot
ConsumerSalmon: was what tired?
Scott: Your case.
ConsumerSalmon: um yes
ConsumerSalmon: who the fuck is this
ConsumerSalmon: because if you're not a robot thing, then you are just random
Scott: So, if I google for "robot thing", will I find what it was you were sent?
ConsumerSalmon: um probably
Scott: Am I the only one that remembers that you messaged me first?
Scott: I have no idea who you are.
ConsumerSalmon: what the fuck are you talkign about?
ConsumerSalmon: i have no idea who you are either
Scott: Then why did you message me?
ConsumerSalmon: i didn't
Scott:             ConsumerSalmon: Do you think I'm cute?
                       Scott: Sure.
Scott: You did.
ConsumerSalmon: i got a random message that said "sure" from you and that's how it started
ConsumerSalmon: scott?
ConsumerSalmon: whatthefuck
ConsumerSalmon:             ConsumerSalmon: Sure.
                                    BadArtGood: sure what?
ConsumerSalmon: that is what i got
Scott: I got a random message from you asking if I thought you were cute.
ConsumerSalmon: i didn't send it to you
Scott: And it's telling me your username is ConsumerSalmon.
ConsumerSalmon: so either you are a robot thing, or on crack
ConsumerSalmon: that's what it's saying YOURS is
Scott: I see.
ConsumerSalmon: so someone is probably being hacked here
Scott: I'd guess you.
ConsumerSalmon: well fuck my life
Scott: Sounds like mine.
ConsumerSalmon: i guess i will sign off then and try to fix it
Scott: Good luck.

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:56:07 GMT

It's time for a haircut when I wake up and see this:

Also, Saturday's experiment was the result of waking up (not usually a good omen in this household), making some toast, then having the sudden excellent idea that it would be a very good thing to throw up. I calmly walked to the toilet and commenced heaving, which triggered a nosebleed. At first I thought I was puking blood, but luckily (ha ha) this wasn't the case, my nose was just feeding down the delta my lip into the main body of icky stuff.

When that was over, I still had a nosebleed to contend with. I managed to get it to stop coming out, but it was still leaking into my sinuses. I had to leave to start my route, so spitting it into something was not an option. And no, I did not get sick. Well, sicker. Thank you, Fight Club!

If only I had the proper measuring paraphernalia.

Sat, 23 Feb 2008 14:29:46 GMT

Today, I get to test Fight Club's assertion that you can, in fact, swallow a pint of blood before you get sick. Oh joy.