Tag Archives: Personal Blather

As a designer who’s had to struggle with designing non-denominational holiday cards, this made me laugh out loud.
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Live from YouTube and Neil Gaiman’s blog: it’s the Helsinki Complaints Choir!

A comic which teaches you how to play Ring of Fire on a ukulele!

It’s November. That means National Novel Writing Month.
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Yow. It’s coming down in big honking flakes out there. I fear this means that there will be the standard multitude of morons driving home from work tonight.

A request from the mailbag:

…[M]y Mother used to have the record, “It Hurts to Be Hurt” [by Beulah Kershaw] – she would play it for my boys when they were growing up and they would roll in the floor howling with laughter.

Do you have it downloaded anywhere online? Mother has passed away, we no longer have the record, but I would love to surprise my now grown sons and let them hear it once again.

Yes. THAT Beulah.

So what about it, gentle readers? Anyone out there have the record? Willing to share the Beulah experience?

If so, let me know: quirkblog ? at ? gmail ? dot ? com

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Ran into some fun stuff while looking at the web server logs. The oddest is here:

http://nippongo.hp.infoseek.co.jp/museum/content/ogontoh.html
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I don’t know if there’s been a reputable scientific study on this, but why do paper cuts hurt so much more than ordinary cuts? Is it something to do with the ragged edge of the paper compared to the smooth edge of an ordinary cutting implement? Or is it some left-over chemical from the paper making process?
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Something to add to the old standard “TANSTAAFL”:

TANSTAAFLBTASSEWLIP

There Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch, But There Are Sometimes Staff Events Where Lunch Is Provided.

Wanna buy a used TARDIS?