It's amazing how when I get motivated to really DO things, how stumbling blocks get thrown out. It can be unnerving, but these song lyrics popped into my head. Looking for a video to further cheer me up, and I found this gem. I Really Needed THIS!



Note that my strong place will never be listening to Matthew Wilder's "Break My Stride". My mom was driving on the FM2234, listening and singing along to this song on the radio. She had JUST gotten past these lyrics:

Ain't nothin' gonna to break my stride
Nobody's gonna slow me down, oh-no
I got to keep on movin'
Ain't nothin' gonna break my stride
I'm running and I won't touch ground
Oh-no, I got to keep on movin'

And that's when she lost control on a curve by the salt mine, and wound up in the ditch! She was okay, and I don't recall there being much damage to the car. DOH!

This one is for bovineone and all the cows. Udderly Delightful!

I REALLY needed to go to my happy place earlier, and so I went to watch "Evil Eye Baby" but found this instead. JUST what I needed!! Be sure to watch the whole thing, it's not what you think!

After sharing this post of chris2342 of "Evil Eye Baby" at this week's Nuclear Taco Night, nugget showed me this one of Baby Ally Whateva. Too entertaining!

For ivo:

I'm a rootin' tootin' lasso loopin' popgun shootin' chickenhawk Henery Hawk

You know who you are!

We are staying in beautiful Wanaka, with a beautiful view of the lake. Accomodations aren't as luxurious as our past, but cheap and easy to tolerate since we aren't stuck inside due to rain. Clear skies, a little rain last night but just enough to feed the rivers.

I left a bra on the bra fence along the road here, pictures to come - I autographed it, and wrote: "Everything really IS BIGGER IN TEXAS!!

We are now in Queenstown, about to leave on a jetboat and whitewater rafting trip in half an hour. We split up for lunch so folks could eat what they wanted - Greg and Amy stopped for Thai, Deci, Heidi and I are at a lovely little cafe where Deci could FINALLY get his chai so he's happy, and Cow and Doppler hit the - *shudders* - McDonald's.

I am excited that we will be rafting down the Kawarau River, which was the scene for the Andouin in LOTR. Unfortunately Argonath was digitally added, so we won't see the Pillars of the Kings :P
Doppler, Amy, and Greg are rafting the more challenging Shotover River, while the rest of us are only jetboating the Shotover.

Time to run, less than 20 minutes to eat!

Remember the Grindhouse trailer contest I mentioned awhile back? Here's one my fellow Special Venues Crew Chief, Thorr, did with his brother. I fell out of my chair laughing....This is so going out to all of our crew volunteers!

I liked the original version of Garden State, but look forward to the recut version. Check out the trailer!

Another great comic from here

This one is for both of the Chrisses (sic?) on my flist - chris2342 and _fool:

ABE-KIDO!!

Thanks to beatnikside for pointing me towards Brandon Bird's Brandon Bird-O-Rama!

Thanks to welfy, I am reposting this Thriller - Bollywood for bloodcicle. BTW - WHICH WITCH posted that odd DND/Jethro Tull unicorn dancing video? I can't find it.

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snaxxy: you know you've been in irc too long if...

[01:24] pinkish: you hump your keyboard?
[01:24] snaxx: 10) you can't understand why tab autocomplete doesn't work, and realize you are in your web browser
[01:25] pinkish: hee
[01:25] snaxxy: 9) you try to look up a name in your cell phonebook, and when you get to the F's for Fogel, you expect to see Fuel3
[01:25] pinkish: hehe
[01:26] michaelloftis: :D
[01:26] michaelloftis: snaxxy luffs me and my bot eheheh
[01:26] pinkish: 8) You wonder why highlighting doesn't automatically copy text and realize it's not IRC. Or is that just me?
[01:27] snaxxy: 7) you share story to the channel of a flame war you are observing,
and the fact you are about to kick some arse, and two admins ask "what nick? what channel?"
[01:27] snaxxy: even though you have told them several times you are in a BAR!
[01:27] michaellofti: hahahaha
[01:27] michaelloftis: :P
[01:27] snaxxy: heehee
[01:27] michaelloftis: flame war in a bar :P
[01:27] * michaelloftis swats
[01:27] * snaxxy ducks
[01:27] snaxxy: and it's a MISS!
[01:28] pinkish: 6) You post a chat log in your blog and instantly get 12 PMs asking
"do geek fights really turn you on?"
[01:28] snaxxy: SWING, batta batta
[01:28] pinkish: Which is true
[01:28] pinkish: cuz it happened
[01:28] * snaxxy falls off chair
[01:28] michaelloftis: pinkish: you seriously posted that?
[01:28] * snaxxy pees pants laughing
[01:31] snaxxy: 5) you know you've been iirc too long, if you don't play your itunes
because you won't hear the audio signal of a PM or flamewar in another channel.

[01:45] snaxxy: #1 should be...you know you've been in iirc around mathx too long, if you decide to put the top ten list on the admin wiki!!
[01:45] pinkish: hehehe
[01:47] snaxxy: #4 you know you have been iirc too long if half of a men's rugby team with British muscles sit at your bartable, and you look away from channel just long enough to say hello...and go back iirc.
[01:48] pinkish: hee
[01:48] pinkish: mmm rugby players
[01:48] snaxxy: #3 you know...when you almost strangle your drunk best friend with your laptop powercord because he laughs a la Seymour style when you don't notice you picked a faulty outlet to plug your laptop into, so your laptop shuts down...and you cry out b/c you hadn't logged channels!
[02:05] snaxxy: #2 you know.....when you reference events or things by a URL, instead of it's name - ie, sxsw.com instead
of South by Southwest 2005