Married to the Sea
I just love Married to the Sea, yet another site where you can lose yourself for hours and roar aloud with laughter.*
It’s the kind of stuff I used to do when I’d clip ads and pictures out of magazines and write captions on them. The site’s creators, Drew and Natalie Dee, must have an impressive collection of copyright and royalty-free clipart. I’m jealous! I know, I can easily find tons of it online, but it’s just not the same.
I think their creations are hysterical!
* Or, if you’re like me lately and it’s 4:00am with your husband sleeping mere feet from where you sit, you can laugh quietly to yourself.
Deciphering Google sets
The last few days, I’ve been messing around with an application over in Google Labs, called Google Sets. What it does is look at a short list of search terms you’ve entered and spit back a list of its own predictions as to what else belongs in that set. It’s harder to explain than to demonstrate.
The example they give is this:
bmw
honda
mercedes benz
Submitted, those three search terms bring back the following list of items:
honda
mercedes benz
bmw
ford
toyota
nissan
volkswagen
audi
chevrolet
renault
mazda
peugeot
mitsubishi
dodge
volvo
Okay, a list of automobile manufacturers. I can understand that.
I’ve had some odd results and/or lack of results when I’ve tried doing queries there. I posted some observations in a feedback e-mail to the Google Labs group, hoping someone might tell me if I’m just misunderstanding how Sets works or if I’m finding flaws in it. It is in Google Labs, after all, their testing ground for new applications.
After the jump, I’m including a copy of my post below since it might help others who have similar questions.
Best office prank. Ever.
None of the offices I worked in did crazy stuff like fill peoples’ workspaces with packing peanuts, balloons, or ping pong balls. Nor has anyone wrapped the contents of someone’s office in aluminum foil. My boss at Caribou used to enjoy asking new hires to get the toolbox out of the basement for her. The guys at the lumber yard where Howie worked years back would tell new guys to go out back and ask the guys for the left-handed wood stretcher. Yeah, that’s about it…Pretty pedestrian if you ask me.
I tell ya, what a bunch of fuddy duddies. They certainly never dreamed of doing anything like THIS:
My comments after the jump since I don’t want to spoil the surprise.
Go, Shelly-Ann, go!
Howie and I have been watching the 2008 Summer Olympics about every night since Friday. Tonight it was with pure pleasure that we watched Shelly-Ann Fraser burn up the women’s 100M race, winning by a whole body’s length.
What made it so utterly enjoyable was the unbridled excitement and joy in her face when she realized she had it!
We laughed as we saw her leaping and dancing on the track, alternately embracing or waving the Jamaican flag, photographers trying to keep up with her as they snapped shots. It was just that fun.
At one point, she lay down flat on her back, kicking her feet in the air with glee. It just tickled us to see her so excited.
This wasn’t the cocky grandstanding seen so often in pro football after a touchdown. This was pure, childlike jubilation, totally refreshing. It just made my day!
Way to go, Shelly-Ann! Don’t ever lose that…Keep having fun and loving what you do!
A pinata’s life
I am camped out in the gazebo, bundled up against the night chill (in AUGUST, people!) and watching videos on Hulu. This one tickled me.
Poor little fella. They scared the candy right outta him. 
The Mean Kitty Song
Anyone who’s had a kitten knows they can be angelic little beings…When they’re sleeping. The rest of the time, they’re terrorists. As Laurief at Dave’s Garden said as a word of advise to Melva, unsure about letting her nookitty Corky out into the whole at large,
And don’t worry about the clutter. Kittens LOVE clutter. In fact, if you don’t have enough clutter to keep him happy, HE’LL MAKE MORE! Don’t worry about losing him in the clutter, either. Although he may, indeed, find lots of fun hidey holes to hide in, he’ll reappear anytime he wants food or affection.
That about sums it up. Snoopy drove us nuts with her “cat toys”, sometimes deftly retrieved from trash baskets, sometimes left accidentally on a table…Bottle caps turned hockey pucks on the hardwood floors, plastic rings from milk jugs, crinkly celophane wrappers from bottles, you name it.
And the nipping! Kittens love to bite and claw. They’re trying out their built-in weapons, seeing how it is to hunt.They have to be taught not to bite and claw their humans or other inappropriate objects. When blowing in the kitten’s face didn’t work, we’d flick her nose with a finger while saying a loud “NO!”. That usually did the trick. Of course, sometimes kittens (and cats) bite because they’re overstimulated and they kind of short-circuit. At times like those, a little time-out from petting and playing is good.
Sybiltwo at DG linked to a video at YouTube that vividly and humorously illustrates what life with a kitten is like. It’s a keeper!
Cory posted the lyrics in the information section on the video’s page.Can anyone relate? I sure can, and I laughed out loud when I watched that. It’s favorited now, you betcha! I like Cory’s style, too, so I’ve subscribed to his channel.
Dave’s Garden people are the best!
Dave’s Garden people are the best! Howie and I have known this for a long time, since 2001 as a matter of fact. When Howie had his life-changing back surgery at Johns Hopkins in 2006, it was DG people who buoyed our spirits in the forums during the months leading up to his surgery and for months afterward. It was DG friends who took us into their Maryland home like family while he recovered. It was DG people who watched a continuing thread I updated right from the waiting room while he had his surgery. It’s a stellar group of people there. It’s family.
Today, I learned of another member, Tracy Pruitt, aka aggiegrl, who witnessed this kind of community support this month. In response to her post regarding her family having to vacate their rental home, she witnessed gardeners arriving at her home from all around Texas, all to help her move her beloved garden. The story was picked up by NPR and All Things Considered aired a story about it. Go give it a listen. It’ll do your heart good.
It makes sense that the people at a gardening website would be nurturing, giving people. A true gardener loves to share!
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