Feliz Navidad! Brush up on your Spanish and dust off your sombrero, JibJab has gotten a hold of José Feliciano’s classic Christmas track “Feliz Navidad”! Click here! Loading too slow? Try it at the JibJab site.
Thank yous and huggles to beautiful Mags for reminding me of literal videos by posting the “Penny Lane” video to her Facebook wall today. If you haven’t seen one, you’re in for a treat. The literal video is a remake of – and commentary upon – a well-known music video, but the lyrics have been replaced with lyrics that descibe what actually transpires in the video. Captions are usually included. When it’s done well it’s hilarious! There have been some…
125,830 People I’m so sick and tired of being sick and tired. I’ve spiked a fever at 105 degrees, and hovered around 100-101 most of the rest of the time. Vertigo and light-headedness. Fatigue and balance problems. Coughing. Sneezing. Aching, but I can’t rest (and I won’t take that medicine). Crossing my fingers that it doesn’t go into bacterial pneumonia like in many other cases. It’s been a week now, and I’ve racked up five sick days at work. That’s…
Just when I had loads and loads to blog about, I got knocked down by oak pollen. I just knew those trees were hostile. There is too far too much to tell, so here’s just a very quick summary. Equinox Weekend – Inconsolably depressed, and for no good, acceptable (rational) reason. Spiraling outside my will. Surrounded by a wall. Falling down a well. But then… the thunder quieted a little and – between the soundcracks of the whirlwind – I…
You have got to read this article on the virus at Discover! How did I miss this before???? Unintelligent Design A monstrous discovery suggests that viruses, long regarded as lowly evolutionary latecomers, may have been the precursors of all life on Earth by Charles Siebert, Photography by Jörg Brockmann From the March 2006 issue, published online March 15, 2006 Now the viruses appear to present a creation story of their own: a stirring, topsy-turvy, and decidedly unintelligent design wherein life…
The highly successful Facebook meme “25 Random Things about Me” has now – for good or ill – made it into the major news media. Time, Salon, and newspapers like the New York Times and the Boston Globe have all carried stories on the trendy epidemic and how it’s vectored. It’s only a variation of the memes bloggers have been playing with for more than five years now, but considering the viral theme I think it’s kinda neat that I’m…