Rough day at the 'berry

I will get some work done today, I swear. But first:

http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/

This was forwarded to me by my coworker. The whole damn blog is hilarious, but this post made me just about lose it.

bird-shit everywhere deep purple

From http://orwelldiaries.wordpress.com/

"Warmer.Leaves of the tulip tree beginning to turn yellow. Sunflowers & gladioli in full bloom. Godetias getting past their best. Mantbretias° coming into full bloom. Elderberries now ripe & bird-shit everywhere deep purple. Purple stains on logs etc. where they have been. Seems difficult to believe that birds digest much of what they eat. The man who keeps the guinea pigs here seems uncertain whether or not they sleep. Says they close their eyes sometimes, but it is uncertain whether they are asleep. First English eating pears today."

Okay, now must work.

Fun website

http://wordle.net/

You paste in a block of text, they create a word cloud. I pasted in the URL from my old website, and this is what I got:

Sort of like a journey into my subconscious. Note the prominence of the word "cat."

The person who forwarded the link said that people were using it with the text of speeches from the DNC, to pick up key themes. I am going to use it for much more important purposes:

dinosaurjoe.blogspot.com

YYHHYYGGEEAAAAHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

As Dean would say.

There's a new Kurt Vonnegut book that I didn't know about! And it's on the shelf at my library!

"Inhabiting the most expansive model of the human, that is our business."

God, I love George Saunders.

While researching

possible answers for an online reference question in which someone helping their daughter with her 6th grade math assignment needed to figure out how to make 21=39 (just ask our President) I came across this site:

http://dinosaurjoe.blogspot.com/

I suppose that was worth it.

Overheard from a group of five preteens at the library

I make smores in the microwave. Take some chocolate chips, smother them with Hershey’s kisses and sprinkle them with sugar…mwah!

You do that to Hershey’s kisses?!

Well, *I* make macaroni and cheese with candy.

I’ve tried Skittles and ham!

I made a hero sandwich, but instead of meat it has candy. And also meat, and hot sauce.

So many people have tried to bite me, and so many people have fallen [? Apparently unrelated to the food discussion]

I put cilantro, meat loaf, Texas hot sauce, all the nasty stuff…I put it in water and then I nuke it. And then I put it on YouTube.

Put Pop Rocks in Coke—

No! That’ll kill you!

It will only kill you if it’s Diet Coke.

Take Juicy-Juice, pop, and two cups of sugar, and make it into mush.

[and we wonder why there are so many behavioral issues here]