Someday. Yes. Someday

This is one of those dumb internet-meme things, but I think it's actually funnier than most. And yes, maybe, someday that will be me with an extra-tough piece of sheet music.


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I really need to get my stuff together and do one last read-through of a manuscript, and decide it's GOOD ENOUGH and then submit it.

But I saw this, and it was just silly in the way that tickles me, and it made me laugh:

SRS SOX strikes again!

Doubtless, you've seen this meme all over the place:



(And yes, there is something a bit creepy about that cat's face)

Well, the SRS SOX can go that one better:

Y SO SRS?

Apparently there is an attempt in the fashion-world to revive the trend of socks-with stilettos.

IMHO (and in other people's opinions) it doesn't really work. As Charles said: wispy shoes require wispy socks; serious socks demand substantial shoes.

Which is why, more often than not these days, I'm wearing my handknit socks with some chunky clogs (which I will need to replace soon, I see...)



(Actually, going through my flickr stream, I'm struck by how many of my socks are lace, or odd bright colors...and therefore, probably not describable as serious. But still not something I'd wear with stilettos. If I wore stilettos, that is.)

Because I am waaaaaay too pointy-headed and have more education than is good for me:


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Another LOL recaption.

Sometimes, stupid things make me laugh.


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As I said on the CPaAg group, apologies to real hillbillies. (And I know, it's an old joke, but seeing it in LOLcat form made me laugh.)

Heh.

It's been quite a while since I posted a LOLcat here (and yes, although the cool "popular" sorts may have deemed them passé, I still like them)

But this one made me laugh, and also pretty accurately demonstrates how I am feeling about one of the "skill building" pieces (it is from "Sportacular (ugh) Warm-Ups") I am learning for this week:


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I have a busy day ahead of me (I really need to get down to work and finish the bits of grading and do the bits of prep for my 9:30 class), but this made me cackle with delight:


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I would very much like a t-shirt of that.

In ecology, there is a concept called the Red Queen Hypothesis. (It is named, whimsically, for the character from "Through the Looking Glass" who had to "run constantly to stay in place"). In a nutshell, it suggests that birds and mammals must change up their immune systems every generation (hence, use sexual rather than asexual reproduction) lest viruses and other parasites "beat" them in an evolutionary arms race.

So naturally, when I saw this photo, that was the first thing that came to mind:


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(Yes, I captioned that. I am probably one of very few people on this Earth who would think that first - well, after thinking, "How does she see in that" and "what the heck?")

When you're online and free
And bewildered by the world you see
Why do people hate LOLcats so
Only those cynics would know
What a day without cats can do

If we stop to laugh at Winston
People talk about how we are so dumb
We are not sophisticates
We like tigers in a cage (or in a pool)
What a day without cats can do...

...How can we keep LOL alive
How can these memes survive
When these little minds tear you in two
What a day without cats can do

No, it isn't very pretty what a day without cats.....CAAAAAAN DOOOOOOOOO!

(some rogue websites have declared today to be a "day without cats" on the Web. Well, here's how I feel about that:)



And one more, because of my long-time love of the movie which inspired this:


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Lynn can have her Squeez Bacon, I'm going for ANOTHER wonderful Think Geek product they have chosen today (OF ALL DAYS) to roll out:

Unicorn Chaser. Yes, the very first version of brain bleach!

Not that I see so very much horrible stuff on line (though on one of the Ravelry boards I frequent, someone posted a photoshop mash-up of a lotus seed-pod and a breast, and it took me weeks to stop shuddering and imagining tiny worms), but I could sure use it for those times that students want to "share" their troubles and I can't quite shut them up by playing either the HIPAA card or the "but if I'm called on to testify in court I shouldn't have heard this" card.

Of course, I suppose in 15 years they'll find that Unicorn Chaser has some terrible side effects, including brain blankness and random drooling.

I think I know at least one person who will find this as amusing as I do:


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I don't CARE if people say these things have "jumped the shark," they still make me laugh and I check that site almost daily.

Start bobbing your heads now...



(I suppose this only makes sense if you've seen those "Night at the Roxbury" sketches on Saturday Night Live or the movie which was based on them. The movie is one of those "seriously dumb" movies - there's not too much of a plot to it - and yet, like Undercover Brother or Zoolander, I find it impossible not to be charmed and amused by the movie, and if it happens to be on cable some dreary Saturday afternoon that I'm home, I'll sit down and watch it. Just because it is so silly and dumb.

Oh, and if you watch the video - watch to the very end. Like, after the credits. There's one more thing at the very end.)

Saturday random:

I couldn't find a still, so you'll have to click on the link (or not, if you know to what I am referring) and imagine "Simon and Garfunkel parody: UR doin' it WRONG" labeled on it in the Impact font, white with black borders:

Simon and Garfunkel impression: FAIL.

Seriously, could they AT LEAST have made fake-Garfunkel taller than fake-Simon? Please.

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I have a bit more free time than anticipated. Because local paper classified ads: FAIL. The church youth group was supposed to have a garage sale today but it turns out the ad never got in the paper, even though the person in charge (not me for a change) took the ad down WELL IN ADVANCE and made the arrangements. And since we're not in an "obvious" location, no one would find us randomly.

So I helped arrange the stuff, and then the other workers offered to repack the stuff for next spring.

Also, there are some items - like a couple of old Paint by Number canvases and some milk glass and a few other borderline-antique things that would probably bring a lot more money on eBay (since we're not in an area where those kinds of things have become hip yet, and selling them at a garage sale would mean a dealer looking to mark up 1000% would be buying them). The sister of one of the women helping out said she'd take photos and put the stuff up.

Actually, though I am leery of eBay (it seems there's too much chance of not getting payment for stuff you've sent out), I'm happy to let some of the more unusual items sell there, rather than, as I said, be "picked" and then have them show up in the local antiques shops with a couple more zeros after the price we had marked on them.

I do have an exam to write and one to grade (it's half graded right now) so I was able to beg off the repackaging. (Thank goodness).

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I finished the "POLICE BOX" stranded work on the first TARDIS side last night. (Which will sound like total gibberish to someone who knows nothing of Dr. Who). It worked out very well...it's actually recognizable as words. I'm pretty happy with this project; I think my brother will be tickled by it. It will be large enough to use as a sofa pillow of sorts. (I'll just have to warn him that if it gets dirty, he will need to surface-wash it rather than throwing it in the machine, or he might find he has a TARDIS that is actually...a lot smaller inside.)

(So I guess that is TARDIS colorwork: SUCCESS, to keep with the LOL-theme).

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So I'm thinking my "reward" this afternoon for finishing the test-grading and test-writing will be to start setting together the Bento Box blocks (say that three times fast). I also have three quilts that need binding applied...one that's been waiting over a year. (Um, yeah. I'm not so fond of the binding thing).

I also think, since it's cold out and this seems a more appealing task right now, I might iron off a bunch of the quilt fabric I've acquired recently and stack it by project. And start thinking about some new projects. I found a bunch of pink and brown fabrics I had put aside for something and I'm contemplating doing a bunch more Bento box blocks and doing a great big mega-Bento quilt, big enough for my bed, with brown background vs. pink background as the color combo. (I even have an appropriate backing stashed away). The Bento Box blocks are kind of fun to make, and I think this time I might just cut block-by-block rather than cutting all at once and sweating whether I have "enough" of the different colors...if I work block-by-block I can judge better. And gather in more fabric if necessary (which probably is not; I'm really fond of pinks and browns together and I have a LOT of them).

(Quilt planning: UR doin' it RIGHT.)

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Oh, and a little PSA for the folks interested in amigurumi or toy-making but who can't find the lock-washer eyes: there's someone on Etsy who goes by the username 6060 who has a wide diversity of them - even some sizes that are normally impossible to find in typical craft stores. I've ordered from her and she ships fast and has fair prices.

(I really love Etsy. I suppose there are people who've had bad experiences with them but all of my experiences have been extremely positive. It's like having a craft mall in your computer. I love being able to find sources for hard-to-find things like the eyes).

More expensive, but really nice (and apparently made BY the person who sells them - wow) are Suncatcher eyes. I've ordered some of these, too, and they are more "special" than the standard lock-washer eyes - they have a more luminous quality. I've only ordered from her once but I was happy with my order.

("Mai eyes: let me show you them"?)

Okay, the LOL-theme is wearing thin, and I need to finish these biostats tests....

I can has cheezburger embroidery?

Yes. Yes, you can has:



Yay! it's done! The Happycat pillow, featuring THE iconic LOLcats phrase.

I'm very happy with it. (That photo is without flash, and may be a little dark. Here is a brighter one:)



You can see the colors a bit better in that one.

Some specs: the cat head was a vintage embroidery pattern from "Rectangel's" photostream. (No idea if it's still there or if it was one of the ones purged because of copyright concerns). Script is my own handwriting, done with considerably more care than I usually do. Standard DMC floss in a couple shades of dark grey, black, a mustard color for the eyes, a greyish-pink for the ear, nose, and mouth, and a bright pink for the writing.

The fabric (here is a better shot from the back):



is a 1930s reproduction in colors that went well with the design. (The flower-centers are mustard yellow like the cat's eyes, and one of the pinks in the design is close to the color of the writing).

I'm really pleased with it. It makes me laugh, and yet at the same time it does have that odd frisson that some "vintage" items have. It's like some kind of time portal opened up and the LOLcats of today got mashed-up with the cartoon characters of yesteryear.

I would be remiss if I did not acknowledge that at least some of the inspiration for this came from the wonderful Laugh Out Loud Cats comic strip, which is a similar idea (1930s mashed up with LOLcats) in a different style.

I do have plans for a companion piece. However, as there are no vintage embroidery transfers of walruses (walrii?) with buckets out there, I'm going to have to draft up my own. I do need to search to see if there's some kind of comic-book-like image of a walrus I can modify. (I do want to 1930s-ize it, by, at the very least, giving the walrus those "pie wedge eyes," like the old Mickey Mouse cartoons had).

That's the next project. (And the last. I think two of these are enough). But I think that as I have a pillow with a cat asking if it can "has" a "cheezburger," I need another pillow with a walrus that is happy because it has its "bukkit."

I love the whole "monorail kitteh" running gag:


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It's like Catbus, only non-Totoro related.


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And I love this XKCD (scroll down! There's a knitting-related joke!)

I will say the bit that made me laugh the most was the Rick Astley reference...

(Philosophical question: does it still count as a Rickroll if the subject is, in fact, Rick Astley?)

Online Bulletin Board Thread Titles that Could Mean Something Horribly Different if They Were Not On Ravelry:

"Why is it purple?"

(The thread was about someone who tried to dye something grey with RIT dye and got an unexpected color).

I'm not generally one to see a picture of a cute animal and go "I want one just like that!"

But the kitten in this picture is seriously very cute, and if I were in the market for a kitten, I'd consider one like it:


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(I am also reminded of the old Christmas special about Nestor the Donkey: "Ears, Nestor." Sniff. That one always made me tear up a little.)

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The Laugh-out-Loud Cats Sell Out.

This is that "pseudo-vintage" comic strip I talked about - oh, ages ago - where the artist takes the standard LOLcat conventions and stands them on their heads by placing them in the context of a 1930s style, Krazy-Kat-eque comic strip.

I am totally buying the book when it comes out. This is absolutely delightful to me. I love the strip (which has its own presence on flickr), but I have to admit I hadn't been keeping up with it for lack of time.

Yet another way I have been influenced by The Way of LOL:

Reading a paper this afternoon on allelopathy, I noted that the authors gave the scientific name for purple loosestrife as Asclepias purpurascens.

(I'll wait while you go click on those but will make the observation: Janey Mack*, that got past the REVIEWERS?)

At any rate...now that you're back...in the margin of the page next to it I wrote, in big capital letters, "FAIL.**"

if nothing else it will make me chuckle weeks from now when I'm searching through the paper for some half-remembered conclusion I want to cite.

(*My new favorite expression of dismay/expletive. It's Irish, and as far as I've been able to determine, has no profane/vulgar/blasphemous connotations, so it passes my "expletive test" [working with kids, I find it's best to watch my mouth all the time, so I have a stock of squeaky clean phrases that will be more likely to pop out when something bad happens when the kids are around. Though I must say that last night, the only thing that came out of my mouth when the window broke was "oooooooohhhhhhhh....noooooooooooooo...."])

**sort of mean but it makes me laugh