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Doodle Week II Is Coming In July

Look right over on the right hand sidebar and you will see the reminder that Doodle Week II is coming next month. It was so much fun to see the doodles (not mine though) that were submitted. Mark your calendars for July 14th through the 20th and be thinking of something to doodle for each theme.

Thanks to Claire and Laura!!

UPDATE! Here are the themes for the next doodle week. With so much lead time, no one should be able to say they didn't have enough warning or time, right? I am telling myself that...I was a lame doodler last time. Ha!

Doodle Bug
Doodle Outer Space
Doodle Garden
Doodle Vacation
Doodle Evil
Doodle Pet
Doodle Body!

A Picture Of Webduck

I have waaaaayyy too much time on my hands it seems. I spent a few hours minutes on Mr. Picassohead last night and this is what I came up with. Yikes! See the original here, and make one of your own.

I Coined A New Word - Dooficity

   

After hours and hours yesterday, we (Jim is the wiring guru) finally got the TV, DVD recorder, receiver and cable box migrated from the old table to the new "media" center. Trouble is, we didn't eat until around 9:30 last night and we were both dog tired, so by the time all the spaghetti wires were all in place and everything was plugged in, when we went to turn it on the TV to watch the news all we got was a message saying the cable would find our channel "soon". Hmmmm...methinks we are guilty of dooficity.

Dooficity: adverb?; Guilty of being incompetent.  (Combination of doofus and complicity).

com·plic·i·ty     /kəmˈplɪsɪti/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[kuhm-plis-i-tee] Pronunciation Key -  noun,  plural  -ties. the state of being an accomplice; partnership or involvement in wrongdoing: complicity in a crime.

doo·fus (dfs)

n. pl.  doo·fus·es  Slang

An incompetent, foolish, or stupid person.

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[Perhaps blend of doof, fool (from Scots) and goofus, fool (from goof).]


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14 May - Doodle Week: MAD

OK Claire, I tried harder this time! :)

14 May - Doodle Week - MAD

Visit Claire's blog and see the other doofy doodlers. :-P

13 May - Doodle Week - Abstract

That's about as creative as I get! LOL

Doodle Week ends tomorrow..... Darn it!

Get Your Doodle On Dude!

Q: Do you doodle?

A: Excuse me? Isn't that kind of personal?

If you doodle (and who doesn't?) make sure you participate in Doodle Week from May 8th to May 14th. Claire has started this and I have been trying to decide all weekend just what I could doodle. I may not be able to participate on all the days since I have houseguests arriving on May 7th and I will be busy with them until May 10th. That doesn't mean you all can't join in so I can see what you doodle! I hope Doodle Week turns into a craze and we are all doodling our brains out. Or not. Doodle on Dude!

Becker's Amazing Animation

Some people would say this guy has too much time on his hands. I would say he has an amazing talent! Click on the link and make sure to move your cursor out of the way. You may have to play it more than once to catch all of the truly wonderful animation. Click the link or on the graphic.

Animator vs. Animation

Waxing Nostalgic About Hostess

"In my day". I hear and think that a lot these days when I talk to my friends and family. Barring all the Cold War worries, growing up in the 50's was a fairly idyllic experience. At least it was for me. Times at home had their challenges, but we were kids and we suffered through as best we could.

We have a joke in our family that we had to "walk 10 miles to school, uphill both ways". In truth, I had to walk a half mile to my gradeschool Peter G. Schmidt in Tumwater, WA. It was neither up or downhill, just a long walk on any day. Sometimes though, if I had some extra change I would walk a little further down Old Highway 99 to the Hostess Wonderbread Store after school, or on weekends. What a wonderful place to have available for a kid! If I was out riding my bike, I could stop in there and get something to snack on!

Some of my favorite things to buy were the Hostess pies, the spice cakes, Twinkies, and chocolate cake snacks. All of them were just the right size for a snack, and I think my favorite was the spice cakes with the gooey white frosting on top. Everything was always fresh and we were welcome customers even though we were kids.

When I was out dropping Entrecards today, I happened to visit Merry's Kitchen on my route, and her last post was about Twinkies and how much she loves them. I like them too, but I never seem to buy them. Maybe once a year I will buy something from Hostess, but it just isn't the same. Why, you ask?

After discussing it with friends, we have come to the conclusion that even Hostess bakery items have gone stale. Not on the shelf, but in general. The icings are all waxy, and the cakes are very dry and tasteless. I don't think it has anything to do with my age or losing my tastebuds. It is just that Hostess is one of many food companies that is willing to sacrifice flavor and quality in order to make a profit. I imagine they even put high fructose corn syrup in their baked goods too. The next time you eat a Hostess cupcake notice how waxy that frosting looks and tastes.

So, I think I can say with some qualification that my Hostess items were much better than what they sell today. For a little while, life was good and I had my cake and could eat it too. Yum!

Who Lost This Tooth?

There is only one of these; this is two views of the same fossil. I found it on the beach at Amelia Island, Florida in about 1990. Any idea what it might be? I know what it is...but do you? It's a mammoth tooth! When we lived on the island, it was a regular practice for us to go to the beach in the evening and stroll along looking for shark's teeth. The Navy has a Trident Sub base just north of the island at King's Bay, Georgia, and in order to keep the areas where the ships and subs need to go in and out open, they dredge off the east side of Amelia Island and "replenish" the beach every few years.

What that means is that they suck up all this old sea bed and deposit it up on the beach. The tides and waves naturally leave the heavier materials like fossilized megalodon teeth, or in this case, a mammoth tooth.

The day that I found it, I almost didn't pick it up. In fact, I walked by it walking up the beach heading north and thought it was 'interesting', but since it was heavy I left it laying where it was. It is a miracle that someone else didn't pick it up since we were not the only beach combers that day. On my way back to the car, I noticed that it was still where I had left it, so I picked it up again and looked at it more closely. At first, I thought it was some sort of seashell or something, but looking at the ridges, I knew it couldn't be something like that. I figured it had to be something from long ago, gauging by its color (very old sharks teeth are black too), so I carried it back to the car and took it home.

A few weeks later I took it with me to our friend Peggy's house to see if she could identify it for me. She was amazed that I had found it, since she was a biology teacher at the time. She told me if I ever wanted to "get rid of it" that she would love to have it. That sealed it for me. If she wanted it, then it had to be some sort of prize. As it is now, it will probably go to one of the grandkids. They can fight over who gets the megaladon teeth and who gets the mammoth tooth.

You might also want to read this article from HeraldNet: A lot can be learned from a mammoth molar. In his article, David Chircop talks about a mammoth tooth found here in my state of Washington. I think you will find it very interesting and informative.

I don't claim to be any sort of authority on fossils, so this was just a fun post for me. Hope you found it interesting! Oh, and to see more detail in the pictures, click on them to see them full-sized.

Easter Trivia 2008

The date of this coming Easter is quite early this year, but I didn't recognize the details shown below.

Easter is always the 1st Sunday after the 1st full moon after the Spring Equinox (which is March 20). This dating of Easter is based on the lunar calendar that Hebrew people used to identify passover, which is why it moves around on our Roman calendar.

Here's the interesting info. This year is the earliest Easter any of us will ever see the rest of our lives! And only the most elderly of our population have ever seen it this early (95 years old or above!). And none of us have ever, or will ever, see it a day earlier! Here's the facts:

1) The next time Easter will be this early (March 23) will be the year 2228 (220 years from now). The last time it was this early was 1913
(so if you're 95 or older, you are the only ones that were around for that!).

2) The next time it will be a day earlier, March 22, will be in the year 2285 (277 years from now). The last time it was on March 22 was 1818. So, no one alive today has or will ever see it any earlier than this year!

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What Time of Day Are You?

I saw this little test on One Quart Low today, and even though I am not really into taking these kind of things most of the time, this one was short and easy. Just my style! Turns out I am an early morning kind of person. Tell that to my friends and family who have all called me at 9 AM and gotten some gravelly-voiced baritone woman!

Anyway, this was a fun test and you might want to take it too. Have fun with it! BTW, One Quart Low is an Entrecard participant and has a very interesting blog about all things car-related. Give Tommy a visit and leave a comment for him.