Beat the Carnies

Ok, I promised Pamda I’d come back to my blog….poor neglected bloggy…

Here’s a cool one: How to Beat Carnival Games

So get out there this Labor Day and show em who’s boss! Think of me when you’re carrying around that huge not-so-soft teddy bear.

Your turn, Pamda!

PostSecret

Sorry I’ve been AWOL…I’ve been busy. Life…then blog…then cats.

This is going to be a quickie today, but don’t let the lack of words fool ya – I LOVE today’s cool site, PostSecret. These folks have set up a system where people anonymously mail them postcards with a big secret written on it.

It’s good reading.

The 86 Rules of Boozing

After many years of working in bars, I can attest to the truthiness of THIS list by Frank Kelly Rich.

Here’s a sample:

If you are the bar’s sole customer, you are obliged to make small talk with the bartender until he stops acknowledging you. Then you’re off the hook. The same goes for him.

Never argue your tab at the end of the night. Remember, you’re hammered and they’re sober. It’s akin to a precocious five-year-old arguing the super-string theory with a physicist. 99.9% of the time you’re wrong and either way you’re going to come off as a jackass.

Drink one girly drink in public and you will forever be known as the guy who drinks girly drinks.

Go see the other 83!

Unusual Hotels of the World

I LOVE this. If I didn’t have to go to school and work and take care of cats and pretend to be normal I’d be traveling all over the world and staying in THESE hotels. This site helps you find amazing adventure hotels to stay in all over the world. There’s one where you can stay underwater with a big window looking into the ocean, and there’s one in Arizona where you can stay in a wigwam. I was so excited to show it to y’all that I didn’t even look at all of them yet.

This one looks fun:

It’s in Alaska – you can rent out a restored train car for the night! Way cool. The site rates it a “Wow!”

Sad But Funny

THIS is a couple years old now…but it’s really funny. And sad. But funny.

Feel Like a Rock Star

It’s typical of Americans to want Everything, Now, and Free.

THIS site delivers!

You get to feel really talented with little or no practice and in little to no time. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry. You’ll move to the groove. Now, get over to Chord Studio and whip up a little tune!

5-Year Plan

I love Rodney Yee. He’s a yoga diety.

I hope to incorporate THIS into my 5 year plan.

Oh – I didn’t mention my 5 year plan? I have decided to become a certified yoga instructor…you know – in my free time. They don’t have yoga out here in the cornfields – they just got elliptical trainers, for goodness sakes. I shall be a pioneer.

This is the DVD I’m currently wearing out:

Plan a Garden

I’ve spent the better part of the evening tonight playing with this fun thing over at the Better Homes and Gardens site. No, this isn’t some elaborate game of hangman – It’s their Plan-A-Garden feature and I’ve been planning my front yard. Here’s what it looks like now (top view):

And here’s what it’ll look like when I’m done with it:

Except, you know…3 dimensional, probably.

Anyway, it’s a really fun way to plan a garden…so go HERE to play with it!

For some reason BHG has a lot of pop-ups…so turn on a pop-up blocker when you go.

Make Up Make Out

Ok I’m back! Blog vacation is over. Got the Xmas decorations put away. Unpacked the suitcase from the trip to Hawaii last September. Vacuumed up a cubic yard of cat hair. Watered the plants. And last but not least, I finished my first of 2 projects for my current class – 9 minutes before it was due at 10:00PM tonight! Life is good.

I have to thank my pal over at Titration for today’s cool site. This one is WAY cool! Go to the site, pick 2 cartoon characters and some scenery, and watch them make out! I know, it sounds kind of gross. It is! It’s sort of like the free-love-flower-power movement on crack.

I made George Bush make out with a cat. It made me happy.

Go HERE.

The Inevitable Fame

I opened the newspaper today and couldn’t believe it!

Now you go get famous too!

Confessional

Confession #284 – 03/09/2005 – 07:56 PM

My ex-boyfriend made the mistake of telling me his email password and he never changed it after we broke up. I’ve been reading his email ever since. He really screwed me over so I don’t feel guilty about this at all!

heh heh…

…wha? No! I didn’t write this!

Or did I….

Visit Dave’s Daily and view anonymous confessions made by random interweb users. Or…leave your own.

Carnivale

I don’t know if anybody still remembers Carnivale – it was HBO’s short-lived attempt at dramatizing the lives of a bunch of carnies while personifying good and evil in a farmboy and a priest, respectively. It wasn’t a very good show – every single episode asked more and more questions in an attempt to create a sense of mystery and intrigue. Unfortunately, the writers of the show neglected to answer any of these questions in subsequent episodes, leaving the viewer with a sense of always almost knowing what’s going on but never really knowing but maybe I’ll watch one more episode and then I’ll know what’s going on but nope still no answers and oh well it’s the end of the season and I still don’t know what’s going on so I quit.

Still, I have a soft spot in my heart for Carnivale. My husband and I met about the time Season 1 came out on video and we bonded while watching it over several consecutive weekends.

But all of this is neither here nor there. Way better than the show is THIS WEBSITE. You go there and the chick from Carnivale gives you a tarot card reading – just like in the show! Only, she’s really just a drawing of the chick from Carnivale. But anyway, before moving to small town America I asked the Carnivale Tarot lady if I should leave the city and move to a cornfield to take a job I knew nothing about. Tarot lady said something cryptic I think….which apparently I interpreted as a green light. Hm.

Weird Music and Bubble Boy

Ok, Go HERE for some fun and games. Pick up the balls with the mouse put them in the phonograph…then enjoy the show.

Ok, now this one is really fun! Go there and drag bubble boy around with your mouse.

Wise Words

I just love this stuff.

What to Rent?

I have one of these mail-order movie services. Not Netflix, the other one. Yeah – the one with the primary colors that only stocks movies that reflect family values. Yeah that one. I have noticed lately that I’m getting emails telling me my queue is getting low. What to put in…what to put in…? Hey I know! I’ll go to What to Rent and let someone else do the messy work of making a decision.

So you enter all this fluffy information about yourself, and they recommend a movie you’ll like, based on the info you enter. Supposedly the site has an 80% satisfaction rate. So, you might get a bum steer…but probably not!

And…in honor of Earth Day…one more plug to Save the Rainforests. Who says little ol’ you can’t a difference?