Snack - Insane Cursor-Grabbing Bunny

If you're interested in building muscle tone in your mouse-moving wrist, check out this rabbit. He'll watch your cursor attentively, and when you move it too close, he'll make a leap for it and hold on fast. The only way to free your pointer is to shake him around violently for a few seconds. Well, do you have anything better to do?

Lunch - Dugongs and Narwhals and Giraffes, Oh My!

Well, here are the third, fourth and fifth installments in the My Fave YouTube Videos series. Narwhals, Dugongs, and Giraffe are all equally funny and weird, and are all made by the 'Tube user mrweebl. Narwhals and Dugongs are tunes describing the sea creatures mentioned in the title, Giraffe is a musical journey through the plight of having a long-necked mammal in your loft keeping you up at night. The thing to wonder about now is, what's a "weebl?"

Midnight Snack - Holiday Lights in August

I just got back from a wedding/dinner/dance party so I figured I may as well share a midnight snack! This snack is of the photo nature; I believe I'll have some raisin bread myself after I've finished posting this. I took this pic of holiday-ish little lights yesterday and I think it came out quite nicely - it was taken in one of the tents that the wedding was in, actually. I managed to get some nice bulb bokeh (bulbkeh?) in.

Appetizer - No Groin-Drawing Allowed

I just found sketchswap.com, a site with the rather inventive idea: you doodle anything you want, click submit, and your doodle is transmitted to a random user; meanwhile, you get to see the doodle of another user. It's fun but almost frustrating to not know at all who your pic is going to or what they thought of it. Many similar communal whiteboard-type sites are somewhat R-rated - everybody is only into writing swears and drawing ... er ... groins and genitals, but I'm pretty sure Sketchswap has a filter - I doodled for several rounds and received only G-rated materials. It's fun for the whole family!

Late-Night Snack - The Beatboxing Donkeys

If you have a thing for animated singing hooved animals, turn up your speakers and try out this site. Here you'll find four horses (or maybe they're donkeys, it's a bit hard to tell,) who, when clicked, will croon a tune for your entertainment. They each have a different song, so, presumably, you're supposed to turn them on in different combinations to make your own multi-part song. But use it however you want - they're also just kind of cute to watch. Or you could just admire their hairstyles (mane-styles? -) they're pretty fashionable, after all.

Breakfast - Bonfires

This is a pic I took in New Hampshire - my grandparents built a house there, which they lived in along with my mom and her sister and brother, when they (my mom etc.) were all kids. there's still no electricity there or any toilet - we have to use a somewhat odorous outhouse - but we visit every summer and I really love it there. In this pic, I was experimenting with different settings to get a good photo of our fire. Here, the shutter was open for a long time and before it had finished, someone switched on a flashlight. I thought it would ruin the photo, but it added that neat beam thing across the fire. Very abstract, eh?

While we're at it, I'll continue with the fire theme - here's another pic I took that night. The flash kind of illuminated the smoke in an interesting way on this pic of my grandma and aunt. The latter (to the left) looks kind of crazed. Or maybe the smoke is really a giant ghost that only shows up in photos and is terrorizing her. Yeah, that must be it. 

Dinner - Movie Clichés and Numa Numa

Check out this list of popular movie clichés! Some of them are fairly funny and very true. And speaking of movies, here are the first and second installments in the My Fave YouTube Videos series - the ever-popular and ever-bizarre Numa Numa and the even more bizarre kid singing Numa Numa on an American Idol-type show. Actually, maybe the second one doesn't belong in this series. I think it scarred me for life.

Late Lunch - Breathing Earth and Cicadas

I recently discovered this website, breathingearth.net, that shows you every human who dies or is born in what it claims is real-time, by showing a small blip on a world map. You can also mouse over countries to see how much carbon dioxide they are emitting, whether their population is rising or falling, and other stats. With its attractive graphics and ability to work pretty well even on a very slow computer like mine, this site is kind of addictive. A note, though - the whole thing is accompanied by a rising and falling noise that reminds me of cicadas on a midsummer night. Maybe they're just preparing us for the plague of the killer cicadas that they're unleashing in 2080. (Conspiracy theorists, take note!)