The Adventures of Cynth

7:50pm: The pwning of Magic Erasers
I like to think I use Magic Erasers (OK, Amaze Aways -- we bought the generic store variety) like Chuck Norris would.* The images on the box suggest an unused Magic Eraser, a partially used Magic Eraser, and a Magic Eraser ready to be discarded. In my opinion, if you have any Magic Eraser left to be discarded, you fail! You're not doing it right! Here are the images on the box as compared to a Magic Eraser I used earlier today:



I wasn't even done with that one; I just took a break to get a picture, so I could educate you people. Here's what it looked like when I was done with it -- a small amount of Magic Eraser shrapnel scattered on the floor:



* -- This hypothetical assumes that the scuffs weren't scared off the walls the minute Chuck Norris walked into the room. It would never happen in this universe. If physicists can have theoretical massless ropes and frictionless pulleys, this theory can have Chuck Norris using a Magic Eraser.

1:06pm: Happy birthday, Learan!
What day is today?
It's learan's birthday.
What a day for a birthday.
Let's all eat some cake.

I stole the song from Futurama and the Nibbler's birthday episode:

4:25pm: Where my geeks at?
I need a surge protector/suppressor for a 20A outlet (w/ a T-slot ... or just one of the pluggy things horizontal), and I'd like for it NOT to be $90. :(

http://www.amazon.com/Panamax-M2A20-20A-Surge-Protector/dp/B00006HYQA

The air conditioner plugs into a funky 20-amp outlet (she said, as if she knew what it meant,) and occassionally trips the circuit. Circuit breaker is in the landlord's unit, so I'd prefer to have this thing go through some kind of surge protector dealy, so I can flip it back on myself without making a phone call or dealing with people. OK? OK.

3:30pm: FML
( What I would like to say )

( What I probably will say )

1:40am: Happy birthday, Momtastic!
Today is a very, very special day -- my mother's birthday. :) I'm sorry I can't be there to celebrate it with you, Mom, but I hope you have a wonderful day.

12:01pm: OMG, buy me this!
http://www.freakinsweetnews.com/2009/05/20/trivial-pursuit-family-guy-out-now

1:43pm: I hate when I can't find things on the internet!
There was a short, most likely from Animaniacs, in which a little plane wants to be jet, but his prop plane father disapproves. They don't talk; they just kind of beep at each other.

It is not Little Johnny Jet! That is much, much older, and most of the planes talk.

I have exhausted every Google search term I can come up with here. I'm going crazy. Someone -- anyone -- help me find this damn cartoon! I swear it exists!

7:28pm: ALS walk
Please sponsor my sister in the ALS walk, if you can. Click here for a link to her walk page. I'm really bummed out that I can't do the walk this year, but I hope you'll sponsor her. Thank you!

8:52pm:
see more pwn and owned pictures

10:52am: I feel pretty strongly that I need to have this.

4:43pm: Amazon sucks!
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/afterword/archive/2009/04/12/amazon-policy-on-lgbt-books-spurs-twitter-uprising.aspx

Open letter c/o rogue_psion:
http://booksquare.com/open-letter-to-amazon-regarding-recent-policy-changes/

12:02am: I thought my name had never been uttered in popular music, but it's in a little song you may have heard of called "Dance to the Music" by Sly and the Family Stone. Sweet. How did I miss that for so many years?!

12:40pm: http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE53648V20090407

11:57am: e-mail from a friend
http://www.goodsearch.com/

I found this search engine through a rodent rescue. The blurb from the rescue is below. You don't necessarily need to enter Small Angels, but I thought you might have an organization you'd like to support, and this is an easy way to do so.

Use this search engine powered by Yahoo! and enter Small Angels Rescue as the organization you wish to support. GoodSearch.com will donate ad revenue - about a penny per search - to Small Angels. Just 50 people searching twice a day would earn more than $350 per year!

By the way, this is the link for the Small Angels Rescue: http://www.smallangelsrescue.org/welcome.html

11:50pm: Yay, Iowa!
Townspeople:
Oh, there's nothing halfway
About the Iowa way to treat you,
When we treat you
Which we may not do at all.
There's an Iowa kind of special
Chip-on-the-shoulder attitude.
We've never been without.
That we recall.
We can be cold
As our falling thermometers in December
If you ask about our weather in July.
And we're so by God stubborn
We could stand touchin' noses
For a week at a time
And never see eye-to-eye.
But what the heck, you're welcome,
Join us at the picnic.
You can eat your fill
Of all the food you bring yourself.
You really ought to give Iowa a try.
Provided you are contrary,
We can be cold
As our falling thermometer in December
If you ask about our weather in July.
And we're so by God stubborn
We can stand touchin' noses
For a week at a time
And never see eye-to-eye.
But we'll give you our shirt
And a back to go with it
If your crops should happen to die.

Farmer:
So, what the heck, you're welcome,
Glad to have you with us.

Farmer and Wife:
Even though we may not ever mention it again.

Townspeople:
You really ought to give Iowa
Hawkeye Iowa
Dubuque, Des
Moines, Davenport, Marshalltown,
Mason City, Keokuk, Ames,
Clear Lake
Ought to give Iowa a try!

1:45am: I've misunderstood cheese for years!
It says 100% natural. It has the seal of the Dairy Farmers of America. It says, "Borden," and has a picture of Elsie. It says, "real cheese." Then in tiny tiny text on the back it says, "Contains 0g of Lactose per serving." ... What the hell? I and every lactose-intolerant person I know have been so wrong about cheese. What's it made of?!

5:00pm: I miss LiveJournal.
Stupid Facebook. No one blogs as much as s/he used to. :( I'm going to make an effort to use this more and that less.

10:58am: Happy Pi Day!
http://www.exploratorium.edu/pi/pi-2008-announce.html

6:36pm: Hans Christian Andersen
I swear I've never seen this, that I can recall, but the song gets stuck in my head from time to time. Just the part where he sings his name. Weird.

6:48pm: Proof that this effing FreeCell game can be beaten!
It took HOURS! Screw you, #10692!

2:22pm: Sign this!
http://www.couragecampaign.org/page/s/divorce

12:42pm: What?!
So, I don't care about the current Grammy awards because I don't know any current music. However, in honor of last night's (?) award show, the radio is playing old Grammy-winning songs. Yay!

I did NOT know this bit of trivia! While I actually like "Winchester Cathedral," did you know that song won a Grammy by beating out the Beach Boys ("Good Vibrations"), the Beatles ("Eleanor Rigby"), the Mamas and the Papas ("Monday, Monday"), and the Monkees ("Last Train to Clarksville")? Um ... what?! Perhaps those songs were all just too good, so the Grammy folks couldn't choose among them.

8:04pm: They no longer make Lipton Giggle Noodle Soup. What ... the hell.

3:37pm: Grey eyelash?!
Did anyone else know you could get these? Creepy...

8:35am: February
I wonder if my degree of elation over this year's February is indicative of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder... In general, while I hate saying it aloud (I insist upon pronouncing every letter), February is one of my favorite months. The weather is usually fabulous: cold but not too windy. On non-leap years, it's exactly four weeks, which I find convenient, and it matches up with the first four full weeks of March days-of-the-week-wise. This year, the first is on a Sunday, and the twenty-eighth is on a Saturday. It only needs four rows on a calendar; it's perfect! I know the days of the week, and I can manage my seven times table up to at least four, so I will ALWAYS know what day it is this February and most of this March. Ahhhh... Thank you, February 2009. You will be an awesome month.