meander

meander me·an·der [mee-an-der]

verb (used without object)
1. to proceed by or take a winding or indirect course: The stream meandered through the valley.
2. to wander aimlessly; ramble: The talk meandered on.
verb (used with object)
3. Surveying . to define the margin of (a body of water) with a meander line. noun
4. Usually, meanders. turnings or windings; a winding path or course.
5. a circuitous movement or journey.
6. an intricate variety of fret or fretwork.

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meander: what this blog does all the time.

Pistol Shrimp Packin' Heat

The 2 inch long pistol shrimp can make a noise that can reach up to 218 decibels, 30 decibels higher than the sound made by the blue whale. By snapping its over-sized pincer, it can fire off a 60mph blast of water, creating a low-pressure bubble of water with an internal temperature that is briefly hotter than the sun. When the bubble bursts, it emits a high-decibel boom that stuns the tiny shrimp's prey.

Draw Ball

I'm not sure what the attraction is to Draw Ball, but there is definitely one because according to the counter, there were 18 others on the site when I was there just now. (in the middle of the night, no less...or, the middle of the day on the other side of the world, I suppose)

Wait for the images in the ball to load, then zoom in (and wait for THAT to load) then start drawing. There's an option to change the color and a tool to either write -with a feather- or make dots. You can leave a message and/or chat with other people (drawballers?) on site. You can also turn off the trippy music playing, which is some sort of New Age song with a background of either rain falling or bacon frying...or both, not for sure.

Personally, I got bored with it fairly quickly, but others might not. The most time I spent on the page was exploring what the images were, not in drawing. Draw or not, I didn't have a ball.

Draw Ball

Concrete Calculator

Handy widget for figuring how much concrete is needed for a project, such as a walk, driveway or pad/patio.

doggerel

doggerel dog·ger·el [daw-ger-uhl, dog-er-]
adjective
1. a. comic or burlesque, and usually loose or irregular in measure.
b. rude; crude; poor.
noun
2. doggerel verse.

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I like this word. I probably should have named this blog "The Doggerel Digest".

Surf's Up!

Too bad I'm thousands of miles away from anyplace to surf.

You Love Freedom

Above all else, you seek autonomy and independence in your life. You want to do your own thing. You love sensory experiences and adventures. You like to engage all five senses to the extreme. For you, surfing in the ocean would be all about the freedom you find and practice.  You love the idea of mastering the waves. You cherish the unpredictability of the surf and your own actions. Each time surfing would be a totally different experience. You're a rule bender and a bit of a rebel.  You would do what feels right when it came to surfing, even if it meant skipping work. Of all the types, you're the one most likely to get addicted to surfing. Once you pick up your board, it will be hard to put it down.

The Surfboard Test

10 Decisions That Saved Great Movies

lolz

There's not a lot to lolz at first, just a face and eyes that follow your cursor around the screen.

But, hold your left-click button down and you're treated to a tune and changing face and colors that will shoot out away from the eyes and opposite of the placement of the cursor.

lolz

Drunk as Cooter Brown

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

Cooter Brown, sometimes given as Cootie Brown, is a name used in metaphors and similes for drunkenness, mostly in the southern United States. Cooter Brown supposedly lived on the line which divided the North and South during the American Civil War, making him eligible for military draft by either side. He had family on both sides of the line, so he did not want to fight in the war. He decided to get drunk and stay drunk for the duration of the war so that he would be seen as useless for military purposes and would not be drafted. 

Ever since, colloquial and proverbial ratings of drunkenness have been benchmarked against the legendary drinker: "as drunk as Cooter Brown" or "drunker than Cooter Brown."



There are also other versions of the origin of the phrase.

Will It Go Round in Circles-Billy Preston

On The Midnight Special- 1973

Cat Bounce!

Cat Bounce! is another (Earlier: Bring in The Cats) cat-themed time waster (although IMHO, anything to do with cats isn't a time waster!)

As it says, it's cats bouncing.  If they're not bouncing fast or high enough for you, left-click on a cat and drag it upwards and then let go.  Click the flashing "make it rain" link at the top right-hand corner of the screen to unleash a short but furious deluge of cats.  Sorry, no dogs.

Cat Bounce!

The Ocean Deep

Under the right conditions, light may be detected as far as 1000 meters (3,280 ft.) into the ocean, but there is rarely any significant light beyond 200 meters. (656 ft.)

Source: NOAA

ToTG- Home of the Whopper

"Whopper" - as in stretching the truth. I do enjoy a good burger,though and wish we still had a Burger King franchise here in town.  I much preferred a Burger King burger to those at McDonalds. 

You Are Burger King

You are edgy, irreverent, and a risk taker.  You enjoy anything that's bold and brash. You say whatever is on your mind, and you occasionally offend people... but mostly you just entertain them. You are very unique, and you don't like following rules. You like to have things done your way. And just because you do things your way, it doesn't mean you're stubborn. You're the first person to experiment and mix things up a bit.

What Fast Food Restaurant Are You?

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I don't know what happened to it, but I used to have a plaque for my kitchen that read: "This is NOT Burger King - you get it my way, or you don't get the S.O.B."

Falling Dominoes

There's not a lot to Falling Dominoes and it doesn't waste much time, either. That's probably a good thing, since it's really just a commercial for Coke^TM.

It doesn't take much to start it off, either. Just move your cursor and a hand appears, then move it over to the first domino and nudge it. That's all there is to it.

It IS visually entertaining and there's something satisfying about watching the chain reaction of the cyber-dominoes. A lot of fun and you don't have to spend hours setting up the dominoes...or putting them back in the box, for that matter.

Falling Dominoes

od

od [od, ohd] noun

a hypothetical force formerly held to pervade all nature and to manifest itself in magnetism, mesmerism, chemical action, etc.

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Od: an odd word.

Song of the Seas - Vangelis

Building Blaster

Note: A "bump" from August '09. I found this after checking something earlier and spent an hour playing the game. I also d/l the game to play on my computer, loads of fun!

A fun game from 2DPlay.com.

Drag explosives to desired area, press the + (plus) or - (minus) buttons to set timer, then press "detonate".

Combine explosives for more explosive power!

Here's a screenshot of one of my failures:

As you can see, I left most of it standing, but I got better after I got the knack of where to place the charges and how to stagger the time to make parts fall into others in order to get them to hit the ground.

Play Building Blaster

Also available to put on your website, but you can also download the files to be used on your own computer.

Optional: Air Bag

The first consumer car to offer an air bag as an option was the 1974 Oldsmobile Tornado Brougham.

I used to run around with a guy who had a later model Tornado with air bags, the first I had ever seen.  There had been some news stories of them accidentally going off or people being hurt more by them in wrecks than from the wreck itself.  It was hard to relax while in the front seat, not only from worrying about the air bag, but that he was such a lousy driver that I was afraid I'd need the air bag.   I ran into him a few years back while taking some photos by the side of the highway; he stopped to see if I was having car problems and we started shooting the bull.  I decided I'd introduce myself and stuck out my hand and his mouth dropped open and told me who he was.  (*and I'm sure my mouth dropped open, too) He told me I had aged and that he never would've recognized me. (*and HE had gained at least 250lbs and I never would've recognized him)

His Tornado had one of those long, sloping rear windows and even though he tried to put it in the garage when a hail storm hit, it still was destroyed when he was caught out on the road during a storm that, oddly enough, contained a tornado.  (although I never heard the name of the car pronounced the same, but rather Tor-nah-do)

Note:  I'm not positive that's a Brougham, but it's the trivia fact that's important, not the graphic.  If you want to - in a polite manner - correct me, then please feel free to do so in the comments section.  If you want be rude and tell me I'm stupid, then feel free to email me at kissmybutt@gotohell.com

Bring In The Cats

(Note:  This is the first post in what will be probably too many in a new category:  "Time Wasters")

Bring In The Cats isn't a game, nor is it much of a time waster because you'll likely get tired of it by the time the song cycles through the first time.  There's also not a lot to it other than cat's heads flying around the screen with a flashing, color changing background and a catchy tune that grows annoying...but will probably stay stuck in your head all day  What it is, however is cute.  After all, the Internet needs more cats, right?

Bring In The Cats

Gimme Shelter - The Rolling Stones

Live at the Shanghai Grand Stadium April 8, 2006

I'm No Doormat

You Have Balanced Boundaries

You are a kind hearted soul, and you never want to do anyone harm... and that includes yourself. For the things that don't matter, you are very live and let live. But you do have your breaking point. Of all the types, you struggle the most with what to do in any complicated situation. You weigh your options carefully. And while you may make mistakes occasionally, you do a good job sticking up for yourself without going overboard. You are an active and engaged person who is very concerned with doing the correct thing. You try to take the high road. While you may be forceful when it's time to stand up for what's right, you always do so with respect and dignity.

Are You a Doormat?

Nope, not a doormat, but if I was, I'd look like this:

Creepy Carnivorous Caterpillars

Did you know Hawaii has 18 species of carnivorous caterpillars?

What's a Big Brother For?

I just got this in my Gmail account, the one I use for most everything. (I have statements and announcements from them sent to Gmail.)They're referring to my AT&T/Yahoo provided email account, one I never use...and am glad of it. Gmail has its own privacy concerns, but they've never altered my address book.

On one hand, it's good that I don't have invalid email addresses in my address book, but on the other I don't like them making changes w/out my approval, esp. deleting information. 

1984, you got here a little late, but I was hopin' you'd never get here at all.

Funny GIFs

Photobucket has been sending me "You should see these!" types of emails lately; I've used the service for a long time, since MSN Groups, but Blogger lets me add photos using Picassa, so I don't use it much anymore except when I want to put an animated graphic (GIF) into a post. (I guess I "use" it every day because that's where the graphics for the month images at the top of the page are hosted)

I followed a link in the email to see this: Animated_GIFs I would link to the slide show, but there are over 400 graphics and even with my fairly fast connection, the animations wouldn't load fast enough until it was cycling through to the next one. There are some funny ones, worth a look!

(Did you know GIF isn't pronounced "gif" but rather as "jif", with a "J"?  So says the creator of them, but there are people arguing that he's wrong.)

Giddy On Up - Laura Bell Bundy

I was watching another YouTube video and when it ended, one of the recommended videos was I'm No Good (For Ya Baby). (in fact, I liked that song better than the one in the video I posted, but it's not as entertaining) The singer was pretty, but I hadn't heard of her, so a quick search told me she was not only a singer, but an actress and I had seen her in a movie before; she had played the young Sarah Whittle in the 1995 adventure flick Jumanji.

I enjoyed the movie the first time I saw it and sometimes watch it again when it's on the tube. I remember thinking that the girl must have been made up to look like Bonnie Hunt (the actress who played the older Sarah) might have looked at that age, slightly bulbous nose and all. I won't link to any of them, but on the IMDb board for Laura Bell Bundy as well as other forums, her nose has been a big topic of discussion and quite a bit of contention. (Ah, the "joys" of the Internet) It doesn't matter to me if she had a nose job or not, she's a lovely young woman.

Kidding Around

You Were an Intuitive Kid

As a kid, your power element was water. You were a very balanced and intuitive kid. You were probably always more emotionally mature than the children around you. You may have found it easier to relate to adults than most kids. And while it may have been hard for you to relate to the kids around you, it's likely you had a very close friend or two. Deep connections were important to you from an early age, and you were the type most able to form a 'BFF' bond with someone. As a kid, you saw things in the abstract. You did best when you were able to daydream, play, create, and engage your imagination. You probably found it challenging to sit still in a structure classroom. You may not have made trouble, but your mind was likely elsewhere.

What Type of Kid Were You?

I Like to Watch Women Fight

With pillows while scantily dressed or maybe wrestling in mud.

This? A little scary.

Mr. October

Reggie Jackson hit a record three consecutive home runs in a World Series game, all on the first pitch thrown to him by three different pitchers. His post-season exploits earned him the nickname of "Mr. October".

Symphony No.47 in G Major-Haydn

Also known as the "Palindrome Symphony" because the third movement is the musical equivalent of a palindrome - it's the same played forward and backward.