Monday Mind Melter: Courtney Wins!

Congratulations to Courtney for successfully unscrambling this Monday's animal!!!!!!!!!

There was a lot of confusion about how to solve the animal scramble and I realized I should have posted some explanation of what was going on. Each scramble is just one animal scrambled up - there are four options as to which animal has been scrambled. You just try to, using your knowledge of what animals look like, make an educated guess between A, B, C, and D. Courtney, this week's champion, was probably like "hmmm, I know that it has to be either a dog, a cat, a frog, or a rat...it looks small like a frog but it isn't green...wait...frogs usually won't have fur and they're usually green so I'll rule that out...looks smaller than a dog but it's a picture so it could've been re-sized...I wonder if it is actual size..." and then she would've had it narrowed down to only three animals that have fur and aren't green and now has a 33% rather than 25% chance of a successful guess.


Also, it won't help to look up other sites that have animal scrambles because each one I post will be custom made from scratch on day of posting.


Additionally, I'd like to award this week's winner with a custom desktop pattern entitled "Gimme Four."




Simply click on the picture with your right mouse button and select the "Set as Background" option. To get the most out of your desktop pattern open Control Panel > Appearance and Themes > Display > Desktop > and choose either stretch or tile. Stretch will fill your screen and give you larger hands and tile will fill your screen and give you more hands of the same size.

Then if you minimize the windows you're working in you'll still be able to see some while you're working on something else:

If you didn't win please respect the integrity of the competition and don't just take the desktop pattern for yourself.

Monday Mind Melter: Animal Scramble!

A) Cat

B) Dog

C) Rat

D) Frog

Sleep Etc...

I while back I was searching the iTunes store for podcasts that would help me fall asleep and realized people are under the impression that bad synthesizers and simulated crickets are comforting. I think the majority of people that live in cities aren't around crickets often enough to have developed a sleep inducing conditioned response to their rubbish songs and you'd think that the people that live in an environment in which crickets are a constant would just open their window if they wanted to hear that nonsense. As I browsed these sleep-aids for the uninsured I found one called "Daily Power-Nap - NapSounds Nature" that describes itself as follows:

PODCAST DESCRIPTION:

Imagine yourself in a peaceful valley, you can hear birds singing in the distance. Now, all you need to do is relax. Every day a new power nap is generated for you to enjoy. Specially designed power naps contain original sound recordings, custom resonating frequencies to ease you into sleep and a voice to gently guide you.

The reviews for this one are beyond awesome:

The Dog by Nappy Boy (2 Stars)
Who let the dog loose? It runs around barking and disturbing the nap. Then, at the end, some rooster crows. Let us set our own alarm.

Dog by NoNap (1 Star)
This is a potentially excellent idea, but who on earth considers a dog barking to be relaxing? Isn't that just the kind of noise people are trying to block out when they listen to things like this???

I found it quite suprising that Nappy Boy gave the podcast two stars after being agitated about the dog and then being deprived of the ability to crow his own cock. I wonder if the creators of this podcast are assholes or are just misguided.

I searched for a while longer and found nothing but more of the same and settled on a google video of somebody filming the sun set over the ocean which had some wind and crashing waves. I think by the time you've spent a few hours determining that all your options are comparably poor you're probably ready to sleep so it's one of those journey, not the destination, things.

Here are a few things I find to be sleep inducing:

David Sylvian's album Secrets of the Beehive



John Zorn's album IAO Music in the Sacred Light and Redbird

Naked City's album Absynthe



Led Zeppelin's Rain Song (from Houses of the Holy)

Lead bar to the head/Not browsing for vids.

Somewhere Over the Rainbow

My Favorite Things

In no particular order:




I'm not looking for trouble.

It isn't easy finding people that share more than two of my interests. Solitude is wonderful.

Friday Trivia: Trunk or Junk?

Moping

I was looking through some old pics and realized I always mope.







Pathetic.

Friday Trivia: Name That Boar Breed!

Brotherhoodz: 2 Hot 2 Handle

Tugg Hanson:

Height: 6'2.5"

Body: Business/Casual

Age: 25

Eyes: Deep Brown

Turn-Onz: Henna Tattooz, Contact Lensez

Turn-Offz: Girlz that can't use chopstickz, Unibrowz

Girlz Say Yay: Tugg has a deep sense of romance and will take you 4 mealz at places like Thai and Italian restaurantz with candlez and sensual music, look you in they eyez and melt your heart.

Girlz Say Nay: He'z way into new-age healing and stuff but sometimez talkz about it 2 much and since it'z his job he askz for money when he gives you advice and if you don't give it 2 him he'll say "I guess dinner will do" and you usually have to pick up the tab after that.

Cleffrey Meyers:

Height: 6'1"
Body: Long/Tight
Eyez: Sharp Auburn
Turn-Onz: French Braidz, Tanz
Turn-Offz: Wide Neckz, Gapped Teeth
Girlz Say Yay: Cleff is a really physical guy and will give you back massagez, shoulder rubz, and put you in a state of relaxation and desire.
Girlz Say Nay: His apartment and clothes smell nasty cuz he has a lot of pet ferretz.

Skye Wilkingston:

Height: 5'9.5"
Body: Dense/Martial
Age: 25
Eyes: Gentle Blue
Turn-Onz: Bracez, Brazilianz
Turn-Offz: Thin Hair, Grannie Bagz
Girlz Say Yay: Skye is the full package. He'll bathe you in giftz and rose petalz, write and read you seductive poemz, and flood your email inbox with romantic e-cardz.
Girlz Say Nay: Has a Zune instead of an iPod because he can share music with his friendz but none of them even have Zunez.

Stayne Garcia:

Height: 6'3"
Body: Stiff/Cut
Age: 24
Eyes: Hard Brown
Turn-Onz: Side-Swept Bangz, Sass
Turn-Offz: Wheelchairz, Brazilianz
Girlz Say Yay: Stayne has a sense of humor that will make you bust up laughing. He doez an impression of Dave Chapelle sayin' "I'm Rick James, bitch!" that soundz just like you're listening to Chapelle show and will make you laugh until your stomach hurtz. He also takes his culture seriously and makez those short bikez and spraybrush paintingz.
Girlz Say Nay: He'z on house arrest and he sayz it'z because he got Punk'd by Chris Matthewz.

Series Premier on Sunday, October 12th 8pm MST on TBN

Charles Lloyd w/Keith Jarrett: Love Ship

I went a bit video crazy - the Jarrett solo on this performance blows my mind.