“It’s the most wonderful time of the year…”

Mrs. Rasreth signed a blood oath to wear an Halloween costume to work this year. So, last night she was looking through the internets for some idears.

At one site in particular, she discovered 49 pages of costumes, and she forced me to listen to the ones that were designed to elicit maximum groans (because everyone knows how much I hate puns *cough*).

So, just to be fair (to me), I’ll make you carry them around in your head all day, too.

Stylin’ Mousse: Wear reindeer/elk horns, and carry a hair dryer and big brush.
Chicken-Cord-on-Blue: Dress in all blue and tie a rope (loosely) around your neck with a rubber chicken on the other end.
Pimp and His Hoes: Dress in flashy clothes. Carry as many garden hoes as possible.
Mummy-To-Be: Wear all-white clothes, and add padding to your belly to look pregnant (even better if you actually ARE pregnant). Then wrap yourself in gauze to look like a mummy. Paint your face with white paint and add black all around your eyes.
Waist of Time: Attach watches to your belt.
Milk Gone Bad: Use a cardboard box to create a carton of milk that hangs over your body. Wear an earring, chains, and fake tattoos, and have a pack of cigarettes rolled under your shirt sleeve, etc.

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Faster Than The World

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Michele (formerly of “A Small Victory”) and the Turtle (formerly a teen heartthrob on the soap opera “Ryan’s Hope”) announced that Faster Than The World, their co-blog, has been re-imagined by the Disney Corporation in a slick, new magazine format aimed at the massive “biker chick pastry chef” market. I think they said that most of their articles will be based on re-workings of Shakespeare sonnets and Black Flag lyrics. Or something. Somehow, that’s supposed to keep 20 writers busy on topics ranging “from sports to sex, from punk rock to video games, from fast cars to horror movies…including a weekly comic strip.”

Anyway, whether you are a biker chick, a pastry chef, or simply enjoy pie, you should check it out.

Please, do not interpret the fact that I am listed as “site engineer” to mean that I will entertain your whiny complaints about how sucky it looks in IE. Switch to Firefox like a rational human being with braaaaaaaainssssssss. (Sorry, there’s a little zombie in everyone associated with that site.)

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SGCBL has openings!

Not a lot of openings, but if you’re interested in some high geekery and goofy fun, Solonor’s Groovy Computer Baseball League (aka, Tolkien Baseball) has a couple of spots open. We are finishing our 2012 season and will be heading into 2013 soon. We need both team owners and those willing to GM teams for absentee owners and those who might need a little help.

Our membership is diverse and widespread. Our ages range from 16 to 60, and I’ll bet we have more female participants than any league in existence (6 women currently play, but we’ve had more). We have owners and GM’s from a dozen states, including Florida, Michigan, Oregon, Arizona, Massachusetts, New York, Nebraska, Ohio, and Hawaii, and representatives of Canada, the UK, Australia, the Netherlands, and France. (Time zones are fun!)

You do not need the game to join (but it helps). We have always maintained an open door policy in that regard by creating custom forms and an active forum to keep our “web managers” in the loop. In fact, of the 11 teams vying for playoff spots this season, 4 manage their teams with just the web pages.

Email me (solonor AT gmail DOT com) for details or leave a comment here.

www.solonor.com/baseball

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Great Gobs of Godwin

Godwin’s Law: “As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.”

Thus, we get left wing claims that Bush and Company are the Nazis reborn. And now comes the latest series of speeches from said Administration defending their war on terror and in Iraq: by comparing Osama bin Laden to Hitler and al-Qaeda to the Nazis.

Good grief. This like all Hitler TV.

What disturbs me, though, about the President’s speech is not that he compares one bad man to another. Everyone needs a frame of reference, I guess, and since you can’t really understand how bad bin Laden and his cronies are by, say, witnessing the destruction of a huge chunk of New York City and the murder of thousands of people, it’s good for Mr. Bush to give us some perspective.

No, what really gets me are the subtle ways in which he twists things around to herd the panicked sheep into the pen. The two most glaring ones involve getting the public to disregard the media and that old chestnut: “We never say al-Qaeda had anything to do with Iraq…except when we do.”

On the media, he quotes bin Laden as saying, “…al Qaeda intends to ‘[launch],’ in his words, ‘a media campaign

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Little Miss Sunshine

Best movie of the year. See it now.

That is all.

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Eh? Speak up, sonny!

I thought that this was a joke…until I tried it myself. Apparently, the new fad is for kids to get ring tones that sound above the level at which adults can hear. I knew there was such a thing as age-related hearing loss, but I figured I was immune or something. So, I went to the Cingular Extras site and tried it.

I could hear the Bug Tone, Stealth-Covert Opps and Stealth-Maximum Security. Other than that, nada. And, yet, both kids were like “Ow! What the hell was that noise?”

[ via Busy Mom ]

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Everyone else is doing it…

Make your own here.

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When in doubt…order pizza!

We decided to get pizza tonight, since it won’t be delivered tomorrow, and what we had planned on eating would be fine cold if necessary.

See? We’re totally prepared for the storm!

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Hola, Ernesto. Como esta, butthead?

Thar’s a tropical storm a-comin’! Git outta the way!

Whatever.

I’ll let you in on a little secret: I’m tired of Florida summers.

When am I going to be rich enough to live in Maine from Memorial Day to New Year’s? Huh? When?

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PSA

Pepperkat got her driver’s license on Wednesday. Just in case you were wondering what all the singing and dancing coming from her side of the house was all about.

She drove herself to work last night. And got lost.

Now, if you knew how totally impossible that is between here and her job, you would be ROFL-ing. (Not really lost…she just got in a “turn only” lane…but it’s funny anyway.)

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