When we went down to Colorado Springs last month for our anniversary we went to the Garden of the Gods. This afternoon we drove down with my mom and I got to take more pictures. I’ve uploaded some of them onto my Flickr.com account.
Autumn Leaves
Super saturated silhouette of one of the protrusions at the gardens
If you’ve not read engrish.com, one of my personal favorites for a good laugh, then you should go check it out now while I sit here and wait.
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OK, I’m glad you’re back! Funny stuff, huh? This last week in Texas my friend Mike told us a story about a heavy metal concert he went to back in the day and there was a band there from Japan that totally blew the audience away. Not with their music mind you, but with their Engrish. They came out onto the stage and yelled, “LOCK and LOLL!” As Mike tells the story he can’t recall the actual headliner band he went to see, but this band is stuck in his head from now until he dies or the Mannheim Steamroller sets in. So, as I was chatting with another friend tonight I realized that there was a whole area of confusion to exploit: Engrishized acronyms. For example:
<shameless plug>It has been some time since I’ve mentioned Five Iron Frenzy. Well, I am not mentioning them in this post. Nope, I’m mentioning the descendent band Roper. They have a new album out Brace Yourself for the Mediocre. I have listened to samples and am going to get it within the next couple days (get it the first week to help them rank on sound scan). </end shameless plug>
So I don’t plug on a weekly basis but this band is really cool, plus they’re from Denver, which makes them nifty on all sorts of scales. Even fish scales.
One can only ask if this man faked a robbery because of Dr. Phil. Man staged robbery to impress wife. I know that when I see Dr. Phil I want to stage at least some sort of stupid or illegal activity: A book burning, a TV demolition (don’t burn your TV, it’s bad for the environment), or using the dull can opener in the kitchen to open French cut green beans [if the French are really responsible for this style of green beans they should be… never mind].
Link via Dave Barry.
I’ve added more photos on Flickr. Of course one of the real critical issues is bandwidth and storage space. Once things get in order I’ll probably host many of the pictures on this site, but for now I’m putting them up on Flickr to offset my storage limitations with my current host. Subject matter: A duck, some leaves, water, moss and some rocks.
This site cracks me up: In Passing…. It’s a site of quotes that a person heard while passing. Hilarious stuff out of context. Page 3 (in its current configuration) has one about tanning and one about Starbucks that are just hilarious!
via Robin.
The Bible
Proverbs 25
20 Like one who takes away a garment on a cold day,
or like vinegar poured on soda,
is one who sings songs to a heavy heart.
‘Science’ Thousands of Years Later
Suicide chance increases with prolonged exposure to country ‘music’.
Busy Kitties is a book by John Schindel with photographs by Sean Franzen [but it at Amazon.com]. I have known Sean since the fourth grade and he’s an amazing photographer. Sean’s involvement in this book was pretty cool. I’ve known various published authors from seminary but it’s neat to know someone involved with a kids book because it’s a totally different audience. Sean’s pictures are great, but this is a board book mostly for toddlers so you’ll want to keep that in mind. I’m getting one for Abby 🙂 note: you can search for words on Amazon to see pictures of the book, I recommend the word ‘kitty.’
I love TopStyle, it’s a very good CSS+XHTML editing environment. Nick, TopStyle’s author has thought of many features and adds those people suggest. It’s on sale right now if you check out this link. Go ahead and give it a try… I promise you’ll like it. Save 25% on TopStyle until Sept 30!
My uncle sent me this link, which was so incredible I had to post it here: Minnesota trooper writes 205 mph speeding ticket!