Room Results

Here's how the stripe in my room finally turned out! I decided to paint the anomalies just like the rest of the room.

Thank you everyone who helped me figure out what to do. Your rapid responses were wonderful! I'm so glad I have so many friends who care so much. Even if that includes just caring how my room looks. :D

Quick side note to anyone with a GMAIL account, under the new Buzz tab located on the left of your screen under "Inbox" you can follow other people with gmail accounts. It's really nice and an it lets you know when the people you are following blog, tweet, or even upload pictures to Picasa or Flikr etc. So just a nice way to keep updated for all of us with our busy lives!

Ali - To Know Her Is To Love Her

It was a boring, snowy day at work, with nothing to do, when I was hit by the silliness of my dear sister's life. And how it would be awesome fodder for a comic strip. I already had drawn her as a comic for the t-shirts I'd made her and Adam for their engagement so it was perfect!
Behold! Ali in crayon and 2D!

Click to see all the gory details!!!

The Human Mind

Roy stepped out of the ventilation shaft and into the hallway. Glancing around he made his way left past the large murkey windows looking out onto the street. With one hand in his pocket, he fingered a small piece of plastic that was so vital to make everything right..............................

Ok, quick! Don't read what anyone else wrote, just comment and write what you saw in your mind. For example, does Roy have brown hair? Red? Blonde? Purple? How old is he? Etc. Write only what you saw. And if you're over zealous, write more about the story too. :)

To read after you post:

In a flash of not so brilliant light, I thought of the first sentence to this post very randomly. That got me thinking about how different people would see this picture that was in my head if I only wrote down only a few words that were not specific enough to be decisively descriptive. And so I thought I'd share with all of you and see what sort of automatic or generic picture came into your mind and imagination with very little provocation.

When I read the first sentence in a book, I usually get some picture in my head that is shaped as I continue reading by the author's descriptions, and even then I sometimes still stick to my original pictures! So I was just curious as to how everyone else's mind worked too!

La la la LAA!!

Listen to this song by Owl City in the sidebar located left if you haven't heard it on the radio already. I'm sharing because I can, and because it's a fun song! Check around for more periodically. Update: Unfortunately the music service I was using to play the song (lala.com) is disconinuted. Sorryz!

Calling Shotgun

    Calling "Shotgun" is not unusual today, nor is texting "lol," neither of which I have ever felt the need to participate in adding to my vocabulary. But that's just me.

    I don't remember when I first heard someone "calling shotgun" but eventually I deduced it meant sitting in the front of the car (though at first I thought it applied solely to sitting in the front middle seat, which is not present in all cars), which puzzled me. Why "call shotgun" when you could simply say, "I wanna sit in the front?" Which I guess has more syllables but who ever came up with this phrase? And why have I never felt the need to participate in saying it?

    The answer to the latter question I believe is because my parents were never caught up in the phrase and neither were any of my friends growing up. So the phrase was foreign to me until early high school therefore not entering my vocabulary early enough to stick.

    As for where it came from, there is actually an answer to that that I would like to share with you. The simple answer is located at WikiAnswers.com which says, "Riding shotgun refers to stagecoaches. One person handled the reins, the other handled the shotgun."

    Wikipedia offers a more detailed explanation stating that the earliest reference in print was in 1905 in the book "The Sunset Trail" by Alfred Henry Lewis. (I would not suggest reading the Wikipedia entry as it is weird). It also states: "The expression was used to refer to riding as an armed guard in the front of a stagecoach, next to the driver (this would usually have been on the left, as stage drivers traditionally sat on the right, near the brake). An earlier term for the same duty was "shotgun messenger." The use of the phrase in print to refer to automobiles occurred in 1954 simultaneously with the TV series Gunsmoke, which became extremely popular, and used the terminology of riding shotgun nearly weekly."

    So there you have it. Next time you're driving and some one calls shotgun think carefully about accepting that person as your bodyguard and/or cohort in crime for they are responsible for your safety!




Coming soon....

Lazy susan... who was she? Was she really lazy enough to have a spinning disk named after her? Tune in next week for the answer to this preeminent question and and more!