This was an ad on the sidebar of a SiteMeter page I visited. Not only does the pic look like a face to me, it looks an awful lot like Homer Simpson.
Monthly Archives: April 2008
A Surprised Woman Working Overtime
I’m a regular reader of Lotsa ‘Splainin’ 2 Do, celebrated blog of the illustrious Matty Boy.
One of his entertaining recurring features is They Wouldn’t Believe Me&trade.
The last several times he’s published this feature he’s used a graphically striking picture of a surprised woman against a yellow background:
For lunch today I grabbed something from my company’s cafeteria to bring back to my desk. As I was waiting to get my food, I glanced around and saw some “health” pamphlets arranged against a wall. One pamphlet immediately drew my attention. I had to pick it up and take it home:
I tell you, some of my most cherished moments in life are seeing things like this. There’s some stock photo of a surprised woman floating around, which a health pamphleteer took and shoved an enormous image of food in front of. This is golden to me, people. GOLDEN.
I’m so happy with this discovery I am making a surprised woman with food composite image in Matty Boy’s honor.
Say, You’re Not That One Monkey, Disguising Yourself With Glasses, Are You?
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What’s Going On In .nl?
Let’s visit with another domain name extension. This time we’ll be visiting the pages of the Netherlands (.nl).
I’m going to be linking to pages that are in the English language. Please realize that whatever I’m reading might be tailored for an English-reading audience.
So what’s going on in the Netherlands?
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Peace Palace Library, home of International Law
Frequently Asked Questions About The Dutch Drugs Policy (Openbaar Ministerie – Public Prosecution Service)
Unique Defence Contract with US (Dutch News in English — 02/12/2008)
One in Seven Children Aged below 12 Commit Crime (Dutch News in English — 04/11/2008)
Overheid.nl (Central access point to all information about government organisations of the Netherlands)
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If you want to do your own searching of the .nl domain, you can use Google to enter your search criteria, adding the text site:.nl.
For example, here’s a search for Splotchy:
List Of Link
I read a lot good stuff, websites, blog posts and such, but one post I saw recently on Manx’s site floored me.
If someone asked me what kind of sense of humor I had, I would point to this post.
I’m still not sure if the Obama meerkat pic was doctored or not.
Goodbye, Frank
It’s been a good run, but now I must bid adieu to my old avatar, Frank, the lovely creation from the mind of Jim Woodring.
Old avatar:
New avatar:
This new avatar (a portion of a screenshot from the game Elevator Action) shows that I mean business, and won’t hesitate to knock you out with a well-placed ass-hit to the face.
You have been warned!
Just Some Guys From Queens
Did you know that the fictional comic book character Peter Parker, who would later become Spider-Man, grew up in Forest Hills, a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens?
Did you know that the punk group the Ramones were from that same neighborhood in Queens?
Did you know that the Ramones covered the theme song from the 1960’s Spider-Man cartoon?
Well, you do now.
The Ramones – Spider-Man
USB Face
When I was a kid I used to always see images of faces in my surroundings. The closest term I have found to describe this phenomenon is pareidolia. It doesn’t happen to me as much as it used to, but every once in a while I’ll see one.
Tim has a nifty little set of photos on his photography page of everyday objects that appear to have faces.
Today I happened to glimpse the USB end of my iPod connector cable and saw a face looking at me.
So here it is. For some reason, I think the cable looks very pleased with itself — maybe because it’s proud of the bitchin’ pitchfork t-shirt it’s sporting.
What’s Going On In .cu?
Hey, let’s visit with another domain name extension. This time we’ll be visiting the pages of Cuba (.cu).
I’m going to be linking to pages that are in the English language. Please realize that whatever I’m reading might be tailored for an English-reading audience. If I wasn’t estúpido I would speak Spanish and be able to read a lot more pages in their domain.
Oh well. Soy estúpido.
One thing I noticed about Cuban webpages is that they were quite slow to load. I’m not sure for the reason of this. If anyone not in the US wants to try and visit some Cuban pages, let me know if it’s any faster, wouldja?
So what’s on Cuban websites?
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Frequently Asked Questions about the cuban radio (Portal of the Cuban Radio in the Internet)
179 countries vote against the blockade at the UN (Cuba vs Blockade)
Discuba Home Page. Cuban Music Shop
Alfredo Guevara will Make his memoirs ( CUBA: News and informations of art and culture-CUBASI.COM — April 3, 2008)
Okay, this last link isn’t in English, but I saw that it was some sort of baseball page. I just thought it was too nifty to not include here.
CubaSi.cu: Béisbol Cubano
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If you want to do your own searching of the .cu domain, you can use Google to enter your search criteria, adding the text site:.cu.
For example, here’s a search for Splotchy:
Fun Fun Fun With Found Sounds
I’m happy to inform you that A Blog Of Notes continues to expand into unexpected, interesting directions.
My fellow sounds contributor Tim has taken a lovely toy elephant toy sound and set it to a beat here.
It’s quite the dancy love jingle!