| | Hi! You've found me. This is kind of an experimental / placeholder journal, since the way LiveJournal has been changing recently worries me. You can find me there under the username m03m. That's m-zero-three-m. Since I'm (for now) primarily an LJ user, these entries have been copied from there. Some have even been copied from MySpace first! That causes some problems with linkage. And if there's something about site changes and other ongoing events that makes you go 'huh?' because it doesn't seem to make any sense, it's probably about LiveJournal, not Scribbld. I apologize for any confusion and other kinds of inconvenience. Oh, and copying the entries from elsewhere means losing all comments, as well.
| Da spring has sprung
Da grass has riz
I wonder where da birdies iz?
Some say da birdie's on da wing
But that's absurd
Da wings is on da bird. |
 (It's not spring yet, strictly speaking. But it's sure starting to feel like it.) (No, I didn't write this. I just like it so much.) | |
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| What's not to love? The picture is obviously 'shopped (badly). But yes, the water does glow blue or red depending on the temperature. And it's fun. The only downside is that it makes me want to run the tap needlessly. 
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| What's not to love? The picture is obviously 'shopped (badly). But yes, the water does glow blue or red depending on the temperature. And it's fun. The only downside is that it makes me want to run the tap needlessly. | |
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| ...will not be a review of the year past, or a list of resolutions or plans for the year coming. Instead, it's about a website that's both funny and immensely useful. It's the very best answer when someone asks you something that he or she could have found out by his- or herself in half the time it took to formulate the question. It's slightly snarky. But really only slightly so. And it does actually lead people to the real answers. 'The capital of Burkina Faso? The lifespan of gold fish? Who wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls? Hmmm... Let Me Google That For You.' Be sure to bookmark. You're going to want to use it sooner or later. Probably sooner. Have a splendid New Year, my friends and lurkers! | |
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| ...as mentioned in my previous blog about Saint Nicholas day's traditions. (Some of you may remember last year, when I made a Big Tit.) We're celebrating a week late this year, because some in our group are celebrating with family on the proper date; but never mind that, it's still fun. Here are the 'surpreezes' (phonetic spelling invented by ![[info]](https://www.scribbld.com/img/userinfo.gif) yokospungeon ) I made this year. There are small gifts hidden inside, and each one has a little poem attached. The polystyrene mouse contains a packet of sparklers, that'll come out when you pull the tail. It's not that weird of a gift because I know the giftee loves them. The zebra is a plant watering can, wrapped in zebra patterned paper with some extras taped on, and there won't be much left of it when it's unwrapped; that's why it's nice to have a picture! The cardboard saw is marked 'eyebrow saw', and has a poem to explain that the receipient is getting a handy tool to prune her husbands very bushy eyebrows; inside is a tiny pair of scissors (which was on her wish list). Making fun of people is part of the tradtion; Saint Nick can be humourous or gently teasing, he's never really mean though. stoneshop made a surpreeze for which the receipient will need an angle grinder to open. There was welding involved. *rubs hands in glee* This should be fun! | |
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| I'm a gecko!" I've never seen newts climb up against the glass like this before. It sure looks funny and it makes me glad the tank is well sealed. | |
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| ...manages quite cleverly to make itself look bigger than it actually is.  It's still good, though. Go on, cut yourself a slice. | |
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| Last year, stoneshop, gummihuhn and I went to Finowfurt, Germany, on a nerdy version of summer camp. (Some of you may remember that.) Since we were volunteering to help running things (they called us Chaos Angels... doesn't that sound nice?) I made several cardboard signs, telling people not to climb the bunkers, not to step on the fiberoptic cables or not to let their dogs (which shouldn't have been there in the first place) roam the site and pee on people's tents. Now all of a sudden this picture of one of the signs I made pops up on a 'funny stuff found all over the internets' site, and is spotted by someone who then posts it on a motorcycling forum I read. I never intended this sign for the internet. it was simply a sign, made for practical reasons, and I tried to make it a bit silly so people would notice it more and not think we were nagging about the rules. This must be how memes are born. | |
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| These are for you! Two LJ comunities you may enjoy: library_mofolibpatronssuckSomehow I have a feeling that you'll fit right in! Hope they may help you feel a bit better. The rest of us may enjoy reading them. I know I will. | |
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| It's a question many of us have asked ourselves (and some others should have asked themselves): If a harddisk (or an entire computer) needs to be thrown away, how can you be absolutely sure no one will ever be able to get hold of your data that's stored inside? Deleting it isn't enough. Deleting and formatting is a bit better. Deleting, formatting and overwriting is better still. But the method stoneshop used yesterday is more fun, and even safer! | |
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| Fun with powertools; not for the faint of heart. Most of us know about the quote by Dorothy Parker: "This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force." Stoneshop takes it one step further here. ( Photo series behind the cut, for those who can handle it. ) | |
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| Okay, we've seen memes before... but this one is certainly different enough for me to be amused. I hope you like it, too. | |
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| [Error: unknown template 'qotd']Stand-up comedy. I actually auditioned somewhere.
I can tell a story, and my timing isn't all that bad, but I can't write a decent text... one that's actually funny.
Oh well... live and learn. | |
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