Ahoy, mates!

So, do tell:

Where’s the best place to live in Seattle? Which are the best schools (public or private (for the children under 18))? Is it really so very rainy or is that just an urban legend?

I have reason to believe this may be in my (relatively) distant future:

http://depts.washington.edu/bioe/programs/phd/phd.html

Best. Blog. EVER.

Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolor disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life? Friends, meet Jon Arbuckle. Let’s laugh and learn with him on a journey deep into the tortured mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against lonliness in a quiet American suburb.

Some of my personal favorites:

(link via Tannhauser, aka Grand Poobah Barabas Maximus)

Also, Stuff White People Like (link via MaxLibris) and Monk-e-Mail (link via…um…shit, I forgot. Wicked sorreh.)

Made at http://www.simpsonsmovie.com/main.html

Post yours here!

Yup, Hats of Meat is exactly what it sounds like. Be sure to check out the brisket yamulke, or the Canadian bacon ski hat.

I’ve been playing the hell out of Desktop Tower Defense, a casual flash games where you build mazes to try to control the flow of little baddies so you can shoot them with your turrets. It’s completely addictive. I’ve started a group on there, so if you want to compare your scores to mine (and all of the rest of us), you can. Just play a game (normal level), and then add your score to group “abunchofus” when the game is over. Fun!

• Instructions
  
• Group scores (enter “abunchofus”)

I should be paying attention in class.

Took this test once a few years ago, and just stumbled across it again yesterday…

The Dante’s Inferno Test has banished you to the Sixth Level of Hell - The City of Dis!

You approach Satan’s wretched city where you behold a wide plain surrounded by iron walls. Before you are fields full of distress and torment terrible. Burning tombs are littered about the landscape. Inside these flaming sepulchers suffer the heretics, failing to believe in God and the afterlife, who make themselves audible by doleful sighs. You will join the wicked that lie here, and will be offered no respite. The three infernal Furies stained with blood, with limbs of women and hair of serpents, dwell in this circle of Hell.

Here is how you matched up against all the levels:

Take the Dante’s Divine Comedy Inferno Test

You may remember the summer Olympics in 2004 when Michael Phelps was slated to tie Mark Spitz by winning 8 cold medals. It didn’t actually happen but he came close. I vowed then that I was going to keep up with Phelps until the 2008 Summer Olympics.  I’ve done pretty well over the last three years. Now that the Olympics are right around the corner there are more competitions leading up to the big event. This week it is the FINA World Championships in Melbourne Australia. Phelps is blowing them away…THREE WORLD RECORDS IN THREE DAYS. 

Here are videos of his three World Record swims. Can’t wait for 2008!

Now that Ze Frank has retired his video blog I have no way of getting my fix for this handsome, clever, brilliant man. If it weren’t for the fact that I’m sure every woman who watched his vlog felt the same way, I would probably contact him and let him know that I want to bear his children or just enjoy trying to…every day…for the rest of my life…excuse me for a second…

In honor of the year project, or internship as he termed it, I want to direct you to a couple of my favorite most recent posts. The first one in honor of my sister and all the rest of us who are master procrastinators. I’m pretty sure he has a hidden camera at our house and did some study on how my sister manages her time.

The second one is for all you Wii players. Golden. I’ll miss you Ze. And don’t mind the Silver Dodge Stratus parked outside your apartment. That’s not me.

I was reading my stack of credit card offers and catalogs otherwise known as the mail when I came across the Restoration Hardware catalog. I love this store and of all the catalogs I get it is one of my favorites to look at.  I’m flipping through the first few pages when what do I come across…SMITTENS!  I had never heard of them but when I read the little write up I nearly died. “With romance in mind, mittens built for two. Each set includes two single mittens and one tandem Smitten” WTF! You mean to tell me you can’t hold hands in regular mittens.  That is the stupidist thing I’ve ever scean or heard.  Don’t believe me here’s a picture.