Boxing Day

Good Morning Blog Readers,

So, in blog news. I almost deleted my blog today. I have been uninspired and inconsistent with this puppy for the last few months. I believe that most of it had to do with stress and my life getting in the way of my thoughts.  However, as I sat here, typing out a do long and thanks for all the fish type message, I feel like I was about to kill my child. I knew at that point, I needed to resist the urge to give up on it.  I just need to be less lazy. I need to make more time for this. I think that I just need to refine what I am doing in my life and what I am showing to the world. It will not be a random dump of links and shit, but really just an honest assessment of what I see and how I see it. There will be things that I show on here that will be in the realm of , " Oh, hey, I think this is cool." but I think that from now on, I need to blog with purpose. Call it a New Years Resolution. I do however, like the only people reading this right now are guys who are Googling Jenna Mourey and reading the post I made about her when I first started this blog. I really like 25 hits a day for that blog post alone. Hopefully, they will read this letter and leave me a comment, or learn history or something. I can dream, right?

Ok, now to the post of the day. Today is Boxing Day in Commonwealth countries. If you are American, it is most like Black Friday. Boxing Day is going to be somewhat of a Pajama Holiday, from now on. It is a day to recover from the craziness of KwanzChannakahYuleMas. This year, we are watching the start of the Juniors, being sleepy and recovering from.. my very first ice skating adventure.

We went to Robson Square in Downtown Vancouver. My dear husband taped my ankles with hockey tape and we got me in some skates. I made it around the rink a couple of times on my own, I had my hand on the rail for most of the time.. I didn't fall, that was a plus. I think that since I didn't eat shit and die my first time out.. that I will try and continue to learn how to stay up my own.

This week I do not have to go into work, because.. well..my job is kinda rad like that ( side note, they finally hired me, I am not longer a temp.. I am a real admin.)  I shall spend this time cleaning my apartment and starting the packing I will need to do, because we are giving notice on the 1st. I will also be doing a New Years day Wii Bowling Tournament, at the local geek hangout.

I am a diciple of Mark Twain

I have always been a "precocious" child. I learned at a young age how to dupe my friends and family into doing what I want them to do. I attribute this to my natural Tom Sawyer ability to convince people that doing me a favour is fun. Today is Mark Twain's Birthday! Happy Birthday Mr. Clemens! I would like to thank our dark overlords over at Google for putting up a birthday tribute which is thoughtful inspiring and based on my favourite part of Tom Sawyer.. Paying Tom Sawyer... To White Wash A Fence.  Here.. listen to Tom Sawyer by Rush

Then.. watch this legomation.. narrated by a little Russian boy.. of the best scene in literature.

Wasn't that AMAZING!?!?!?!

It is getting to be that time, where you want to start making snow flakes on the interwebs, here is a link so that you can do it.

Because.. Canada is awesome, we are curing anemia in Cambodia by tricking people into cooking with a large chunks of iron in their stews by turning it into a magical fish charm that is good luck. What is your country doing?

I was watching My Drunk Kitchen during lunch yesterday, her description of what Toronto is, is pretty accurate. My husband however, said that she is offensive.. I think that she is just drunk.

I have recently joined Good Reads! You should be my friend. Good Reads is essentially a look what I have read website, it also makes it so that you can join Book Clubs. I recently joined a book club with members from the BC Creative Geeks and BC Browncoats. Our first book we are going to read is going to be about DRAGONS! :D * is a geeky nerdy dork*

Have a good day

What I did on my Veteran's Day/ Remembrance Day Vacation

I went to Montreal to visit family over the long weekend that was Veteran's Day/Remembrance Day up in Canada.  It was a great time, filled with family and friends and spousal bonding.  I ate food I was allergic too, but also found some thing that were amazing to behold and felt like they should be in my life more often.

So this is the cool mobile  I blogged about..

And more it

and more 

and yet more

It was pretty cool.. totally worth many pictures

oooo a turny key

These names are important

I really like them and wished that I could have them in my  place of living

I totally turned of my phone and took a picture of the clouds 

This.. this was the best salad in the world. It was from a chopped salad place in a mall food court

mmmm poutine

Seriously.. look at how lovely the cheese, gravy and potatoes!

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

This is a donut that Peter is was in love with.. I ate  one as well.. I got sick, but it was  worth it.

Cool pet store that the hubs used to work at. They have big pretty birds that are hand fed. 

This one was bobbing its head and then I would bob my head and then it would bob its head.. it was a cute little game

More poutine pictures 

It looks so good doesn't it.

Yup, proof I am eating food that is bad for me

This is another example of  food that they eat in Montreal.. 2 hot dogs, greasy fries,  coke.

My husband's family dog. hehehehehe He is so cute.. when he is  trying to look ferocious. 

Costumes from Cirque du Soleil. 

This was an interesting poster. It is in French, it has a got Asian girl...who is a goth.  Don't forget your backpack!

This is an airplane wing. I hate airplane wings.. they usually have grimlins on them.

and then... it snowed.. In BC.. 

The end.

Live blogging my trip to my in-laws..

I am sitting at the Calgary Airport.. it is pretty good. I am glad that airports offer free wifi.. and I am glad that my netbook is awesome. I can blog anywhere as long as I can get a signal. I would like to say that also.. I hate flying and that I am easily amused.

These are the cool kinetic sculptures I am sitting under right now while waiting for my flight to board. SOOOoooOooooooOOOOo cool.

I also, learned somethings today.. like.. when you see a double rainbow.. it is really just a rainbow that is being refracted twice through the rain drops... that is also the reason why they are mirror images of each other. 

They are about to board my plane.. so I have to go but thanks for being there for me internet family.

<3 Anne

Insomniacal Internets

I woke up because I had a headache.. here are some things that the internets has shown me.

Kitten +Photoshop + Classic Rock Covers = The Kitten Covers

Toothpick Final Fantasy Weapons Models

I had a friend at work ask me how magnets work.. we were talking about rainbows and ICP..

I had a friend on facebook ask about Norse Mythology books for his son, because they just saw Thor and his kid wanted to know more about Asgard.. and of course I went all nerdy and shit and suggested a book I read a lot as a child.. I wanted to share with you my FAVORITE Norse myth about Thor in the Land of the Giants!

HexDome.com... because you want to spend hours looking at geometry.

Ok, I am not as headachey.. and I am getting sleepy. :D

Geek Christmas

Hello Blog Readers,

I have had a busy few weeks, so I am sorry that my life has been either not news worth or too new worthy to have time to write about it.

Things are chugging along here in Anne Land. I have been alternating between being super busy at work.. and having some sort of illness that makes me sound like Kathleen Turner or a drag queen. I have also, been busy trying to organize a pre-Halloween party at the local geek hangout which happened last night. IT WAS OFF THE WALL.. and pictures will be posted soon. I ended up not being "Desaturated" as my costume.. but instead being a House Gremlin. You know.. the thing that misplaces your keys, your bus pass, puts your shoes in your freezer and in general steals all of your dame socks. It was lots of fun. A member of the group who hangs out there.. brought his 8ft. tall Stay Puft Marshmallow Man.. and let me tell you something.. by the end of the night.. that thing got more action than Gene Simmons! EVERYONE LOVED THAT THING!:)

Today, I am going to be a Zombie Wrangler for Thrill The World.  Tomorrow.. I rest.. because you know.. fighting off the drag queen cold and all.. and then MONDAY IS HALLOWEEN! For work.. I will be doing a variant of the costume I did for last night.. but instead of being a House Gremlin.. I am going to be an office one.. this will consist of me wearing a suit, with messed up technical memos and reports stapled to it.. with binder clips in my hair and jewelry made of paperclips. I will probably also have pens and file folders that look like there have teeth marks bit out of it. It should be fun... then I shall come home and make Peter watch Rocky Horror Picture (for the very first time.. he is a "virgin") and It's The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown!... because.. I am still 6.

So, universe.. what are YOU doing for Halloween?!

I want to be a nurse log when I die.

Much along the lines of the Aqumation, Jae Rhim Lee, has developed a suit of mushrooms that eat you when you die.

The Infinity Burial Project embraces the concept that you can be a nurse log for mushrooms that will break down and cleanse your body of pathogens that are stored in your body.

In Canada... There is a Thanksgiving Monday... I love this

This is Anne.. This is Anne gloating that she isn't at work and all of her American family and friends are.
I am really damn tired. I stayed up late last night at a orphan's thanksgiving party that we were invited to. I made a vegan green bean casserole.. complete with wheat free fried shallots.. and a pumpkin mousse pie with coconut whipped topping. It was fancy. I didn't get to bed until 1 am.. then I woke up at my normal Monday wake up time.. messed around on the internet for an hour... and then went back to bed. It is a pajama day today.

Here are the interesting things that I found while I was awake for that hour.

Call of Cthulu.. as drawn by Dr. Seuss!

Buy me this shot glass... it is awesomes!

Happy Crocoween!

This is a tutorial on how to make 360 reverse pictures with your digital SLR.. go forth photographer friends.. make bubble pictures!

A beautifully illustrated timeline of the history of Science Fiction.

I really love mini-put. I really love that I can play mini-put.. in my pajamas.. on the internet.

Thanksgiving.. in Canada! It happens in October..

Today is Canadian Thanksgiving. It happens in October. It is designed to give us a three day weekend in October. I am going to an orphan Thanksgiving dinner party tonight. I should be fun, I am making food I can eat. I haven't had much inspiration to look for cool things.. but this morning, I managed to search the interwebs for  things I think you should look at.

This link will take you to a website that has a gallery of intergalactic awesome that is exactly to scale.

ASCII Starwars. 

Geek Dresses. 

This person turned a Nintendo 64 into a handheld 64. * is jelly*

I love it when people Troll things.. Instructions on how to Troll hunters. 

This is something I am going to do to my kids.. but I am not going to tell them it is fake.. I am just going to pay my movie actor friends to help me scare the shit out of the children. More like doing a fire drill, but instead of that.. it will be the zombie survival drill.

Watch this video of a school of fish totally evading larger fish.. but a really smart bird picking off some of the outside fishies.

Did you know?.. is a website that gives you random facts. It is like hanging out in my brain.

I watched this video, it made me want to get piano lessons with Peter so that we could do cute piano things when have been married for 62 years.. he is not going along with this idea. :(

Checking in.

Happy Birthday Gorillaz!



Freddie For A Day is getting really amazing press. It makes me amped for next year and giving me courage to do it.

I had some "losses" in the family this week. My cat Justice passed away and then my "sisters'" cat Clarence also went to the land of eternal catnip/nap.

This was my Justice. We got her from PAWS when she was just a kitten. We needed to get our other cat Tjorwuhlyn ( said Tora-Lyn... don't ask) a kitten because our other cat Kelson passed away because he was old and had everything that a cat could have that would make them sick :(

I miss her.. she was a jerk. She would steal whole steaks and ignore you until you ignored her and then she would be all up in your grill. She was in love with Pinny. They became besties for the year I lived with my mom.

All in all.. my life at this point has been busy/boring. I PROMISE that I will update more soon this week. It is Canadian Thanksgiving and all.

All That Is Seen Is Amazing And Great

I have found the most amazing housewares website. It has key chains that bark when you whistle, drum stick pencils, and well.. just look at the link!

I love SNAP! It is possibly one of the best blogs in world. Ever. I mean it.. really. However, his other blog.. reMOCable is pretty stellar as well.

Speaking of Legos and making amazing things with them... A Great Gallery Using Legos To Recreate Iconic Photos!

You can get an MBA in Legos!

I think that I have found out what I will be for HALLOWEEN ( The should be read.. THE BEST HOLIDAY IN THE WORLD EVER BAR NONE EXCEPT MAYBE MY BIRTHDAY!!!)

Anyways.. I am going Desaturated! It is much like what I did last year.. but you know grey and not spots.

Speaking of makeup.. look at this time lapse of a ballerina putting on her makeup for a show.

Oh The Internets.. You Make It So Easy To Make People Think That David Bowie Has Died!

I was at work yesterday and since I live in Canada.. and also since my job blocks all streaming content but YouTube.. I have made my own work mix via YouTube Playlists.. As I was formatting the worlds ugliest document. I kept hearing Magic Dance from Labyrinth starting and stopping and being weird. Apparently, the video I put in my playlist was altered by the uploader to have weird text and to point out stupid bullshit. However.. looking at the comments.. I FOUND GOLD!

Yup... People think that David Bowie is dead... 

Happy Birthday Childhood Memories.

Yesterday was Jim Henson's 75th Birthday. Jim Henson is another one of those childhood heroes that died too early. My parents were huge fans and made sure that I had an "education" in all things Muppet.
I own Labyrinth and Dark Crystal. I relish spotting Muppets in movies. When I am very bored at work.. I hum Mna Mna!

And today, The Princess Bride turned 25. I am currently sitting at the local geeky coffee shop with a few dozen of my closest friends watching The Princess Bride. We are quoting it like Rocky Horror.

It is amazing to me to see how well this movie stands up. The one liners are amazing. The cast is epic. Really, every time I see it.. I pick up new and amazing nuances.. like today.. just now, I realized Count Rugen is CHRISTOPHER GUEST!!  Prince Humperdink, wears bronzer. 


Oh well, back to watching!

Morning Blogging.. It is the stuff of champions!

Good Morning Blog Readers,

   

 As you listen to this lovely instrumental that evokes visions of laying on a beach in the South Pacific.. sipping a rum beverage and being fanned by natives. Please remember, that even though it is nasty and raining where you are.. probably. Someone else is living this fantasy. I miss pancakes that I can make and then shape into other things.. I am allergic to these type of pancakes.. but I can still enjoy looking at an AT-AT made of them. The Slate has a cool article on the permanent record cards of a girl's vocational school in Manhattan from the early 1900's.

More tropical music.. this time with lyrics and stuff.

   

 I live near a mall.. I think it is the second largest mall in Canada.. this makes me happy.

Since I live in Canada.. the coolest place ever.. this makes me happy.. not 25$ happy but like.. I hope someone accidentally drops on the street happy. Cryptid Quarters!

I also think that someday I will be a world traveler and be able to go far far away from civilization and look up at Space Porn.

Stars, Antennae, TV Brain Waves, Wave Hi To Your Local Iceberg, I Wonder How Many Words This Blog is Worth?

When I was younger, I remember a few of the rooms I lived in, had stars painted on the ceiling in glow in the dark paint. I say few because I moved a lot when I was younger, and I can safely say that I had at lease 3 rooms with these stars. I remember staring up at the ceiling most of the time... and getting woozy, because the stars would move. I felt sometimes that I would fall into them, even though I was safe in my bed. I would have dreams about swimming in the stars and then getting pulled into a whirlpool and drowning. However, now as an adult, I feel like I would enjoy sleeping under my own "night sky". This man, built himself a planetarium. I envy him.

Speaking of space, I also feel the need to walk around wearing these antennae... I WANT THEM. I want them so bad, I told the maker that I was crazy in love with them.


Yesterday, while I was formatting a really ugly spread sheet and a really ugly PowerPoint presentation at work. I was listening to some TEDTalks. These three were my favorite of the day.


I was looking at my "tags" they are interesting.

100, 27, 27 club, 4chan, abortions,absinthe, alchemy, Aliens, alister crowley, alzhiemer, Amy Winehouse, analytics, Angel, Angela Lansbury, animal crossing, Anime, aquamation, armless ladies, ask palpatine, athieists., autism, babble, babershop quartets, Back to the Future, bacon, Bacterial Vaginosis, barak obama is not hitler, Bartending, batman, Bazinga, BC Browncoats, BC Creative Geeks, bible, big baby, Bitching out Creepers, Bob Marley, boingboing, Bollywood, Bombs, Bozo the Clown, breast milk, bronies, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, buffy was better, BUGS, Bullying, Burnaby, Calvin and Hobbes, can I have this beer, Canada, Canada Day, cancer, cannibals, canucks, carnies, cat playing dead, cats, celebrities, charity fundraiser, charlies angels, charts, cheaters, child molesters, China is crazy, chris cooksey, Christmas Lights, chupacabras, Coffee Batteries, cognitive dissonance, coke, colored pencils, Comics,consumerist, consumption, cookies, Cooksource, cool things to put into my dream house, copyright, costumes, crack, creepy cool, creepy just creepy, Cremaster Cycle, cryptozoology, Crystal Mall, CSI, Cthulu, Danny Kaye, dark crystal, darth vader, dead, death, depression,dia de los muertos, DIAF, diagrams, Dialects, die antwoord, diets, DINOS, Dioramas, Disney Fan Girl, donuts, doodle, douchebags, Dreamy Manager, ducks, Dungeons and Dragons, dying, Dying Your Hair,eco, Edgar Allen Poe, ego, elephants, Eli Roth, emoticons, Endangered Words, engrish, equality now, ER, etsy, evil twins, ewoks, eyeballs, fable, facebook, faith healing, family, fans giga pudding, Fashion, fathers day, Fear and Respect the Escalator, figurines, final fantasy, firefly, FML, folk song, food, foodtv is like eating food, foreign language syndrome, Freddie For A Day, Freddie Mercury, free speech, fugly, FUUUUUUU, garfunkel and oats, gay boyfriends, Geeky, genetics, George Takei, get off my lawn, gilbert and sullivan, Girl Power, Glenn Beck is an asshat, Glynis Johns, Gorrilaz, Grandma's Are Rad, Granville Island, greyhound is ass, gross, gummy stuff, guns, hahahaha, halloween, Han Solo, Hatsune Miku, hedgehog, hedgie, hiphop, Hipsterbonics, hobos, hockey, Holidays, holograms, homestar runner, hookers, How To, how to move to canada, huckleberry hound, hulahoop, husband, hyperbole and a half, I am allergic to fun, I am emo, I like meat (I Miss Meat), I like turtles, I love gay people, I want to marry Jewel Staite,I'm Not A Witch, I-Penis Replacement, idiots, idump4u, Ikea, immune systems, insane clown posse, Internet, invasive species, iphones are stupid, IT Crowd, It Gets Better, James Franco, japan is crazy, jellyfish, Jenna Mourey, Jenny Peterson, jesus, John Cusack, Judith Griggs,juggalos, jussy, Katamari, kazookeylele, Kids Can Be Total Fucking Assholes, Kindergarteners, Kinect,kiss seen around the world, know your meme, Kobayashi, labor day, Labyrinth, lard, larva, Laryngitis, learning how to play the guitar, librarians, lieing about my job, Life Crisis, life story, Link, little shop of horrors, long distance relationship, losing my virginity, lucky stars, maimed ladies, makeup, Maps, marriage, Maru, Mathew Barney, Matt Farnsworth Best Manager In The World, mech, Mediocrity, Meetup, Meme, mentos + diet coke, microhood, milk trick, Miser-y, mlp:fim, moms, Monica Gaudio, MPAA, mr staypuft, Mr. Hanky, MRSA, Music, My Birthday, Naked, nerds, nerfherder, Neverending Story, News, NIN, Nine Inch Nails, ninjas, nintendo fangirl, Nobel Prize, NyQuil, OCD, oh my darling clementine, Old English 40,Old Spice Meme, old timey, Oliver Twist, olivia munn, OMGWTFIDONTEVEN, optical illusions, orgasm, origami, oscar wilde, Ouran High School Host Club, OVER9000, pacman, pancakes, paprika, parade, Parents Can Be Assholes, Pies, Pinball, pinny, pogo, politicians are asshats, Polyamory, ponycorns, poop is funny, pop art, pope, Porn, pot, president obama, print brush, PTSD, Queen, quest metal, rabbits, Racist Snowmen, rape, relgion, Religion, relion, reptiles, riot, rocketboom, rocky horror, rollercoasters, Roy Lichtenstein, salamanders, Sam Raimi, Samwell, Santa Claus is Satan, sasquatch, SAT scores, satan, saturn return, scars, scary, science, Science World, Seattle, seducing men, self deprecation, senses, serenity, sesame seeds, Sesame Street, sex, Sex toys, sex trophies, sexism, sgt. peppers lonely hearts club band, sharks, sheeple, sick, sideshows, Smows, solar system, South Park, Space, sperm wallpaper, spices, spider goat, Spiders, Spudnik, squirrels, star trek, star wars, starwars, stats, std's, steampunk, steve martin, stupid retard moron, surgery, tattoos, technoreality, TEDtalks, Tetris, Thanksgiving,The Bouba- Kiki Effect, The KKK are douchebags, the mitten, the wiggles, thrifting, thumbs, toes, truffles, TurDuckIns, Turkeys, twiggy, Unfriend People On Facebook Day, vajazzle, vancouver hockey riot, vancouver riot make out, Vegan Baking, Vending Machines, video games, vote, warm and fuzzy, weather, webcam, weird diets that actually work, whale sharks, whales, What What In The Butt, What Women Want, Whipahol, wobbly hedgehog, Wooden Scooter, Yoda, You are not perfect, you have letters after your last name you must be a retard,Youtube, zombies