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August 31, 2006
I'm quite talkative today
The web has been a very amusing place lately. And that's without me reading any news sites at all. So here is a very fluffy, almost totally world-events-free links post. In fact, it's all so trite that I hardly know where to begin...
I've never gotten into the Sims. It looks 1) too addictive, and 2) too dangerous for someone who is as much of a perfectionist about things like that as I am. But even I cannot a Sims rendition of the opening of RENT. People have a lot of time on their hands, but at least they use it to entertain me.
As long as we're talking about video games, here are instructions on how to make your original Nintendo controller into a remote for your television. Would I ever do it, even if our Nintendo ever broke and we had no use for our controllers? No, probably not. But it's still really freaking cool.
Being weighed sucks. There is nothing fun about it. Until now. Instead of numbers flashing at you, you can weigh yourself and find out "which celebrity you weigh". And can I just say that I love that two of the options are "Oliver Twist" and "Oliver Twist (After More)"? That's awesome.
And then there's the more disturbing side of the shopping world. This is the Babykeeper, so that you can hang your child in a bathroom stall while you go to the bathroom. I have a lot of issues with this. First of all, maybe by the time I have a kid I'll change my mind about this, but I'm not sure I'd like my 18 month old dangling above me and watching me pee. Second, and more importantly, I've been told over and over never to hang my purse or bag over the top of a bathroom stall door because of purse snatchers. I know that anyone trying to grab a baby that way is going to have trouble, but really. It just doesn't seem wise.
As long as we're talking about disturbing, how about some pickle juice sports drink? I'm serious. That's not a joke. Go pick some up at 7-11 and tell me how it is.
I'm obsessed with Wikipedia. I use it to search for almost everything. All the info compacted into a neat package. I don't have to read 30 different articles about something; I can just get the general picture instead. And everything is sorted so nicely by every possible way you can think of to look things up. And there are articles about and lists of the most obscure things. Including an entire article about toilet-related injuries. Seriously. Amazing.
When I saw a link to this page demonstrating how rice responds to different resonances, I scoffed. Hardly an interesting link, I was sure. But no, it's actually really entertaining, especially if, like me, you've always been vaguely interested in science but never really cared enough to do the work. Oh, yeah, and they link to a Wikipedia article, so I'm contractually obligated to think they're cool.
You know, it's so embarrassing to have a dinner party and have that ugly white toiler paper sticking out like a sore thumb in my otherwise impeccably designed bathroom. That's why I'm grateful that now there's Renova toilet paper in fashion colors like red, lime green, tangerine, and black. Thanks for saving my social life, Renova! (And for anyone who knows my aunt, please know that I'm working very hard to resist making a comment about her using black toilet paper right now.)
I have a fascination with funny t-shirts, probably because I refuse to ever wear clothes with writing on them (other than names of places I've been). I actually caved and bought a Ramones-style t-shirt with a BSC reference that several people have shown me, even though I've never even heard the Ramones. If you ever catch me wearing that shirt in public, I owe you money, because it's not going to happen. However, the obsession continues. Now I want this awesome Zack Morris t-shirt, even though the guy doesn't look like Zack at all. But if I can't have that one, then can I please have this button down shirt with the Easton (from Facts of Life) seal on it? PLEASE?
I have a ton more links, but I'm trying to wind down at this point. However, I am willing to bump something more interesting to the general public to share this website with scans of almost every BSC book cover as well as captures from the TV show and movie. Wow. Be still my heart!!
Last one. Something worthwhile. This week I saw several references to this article in the San Francisco Chronicle about gender identity in young children and school responses. On the days when I want to cry because the world looks bleak and I wonder if we're moving forward, even a centimeter at a time, things like this encourage me. I can't even imagine a gender neutral school existing when I was in kindergarten. I'm proud. Oh, and I'd like to move to San Francisco and enroll my kids there, too. But for now I'll stick with being proud.
Posted to Links at August 31, 2006 10:37 PM
Loved the rice thing, even if my dog Baytor kept cocking her head to one side, then the other, and my dog Lursa ran around in circles, trying to get my attention.
And I'd so own that BSC shirt if I had a credit card!
Posted by: Krista at September 3, 2006 06:23 PM
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