Courtesy of an email from my sister: DJ Lejo. A cute and quite odd video from Lejo Bordje, a Dutch hand puppeteer.

Love the Victrola, what versatility as a turntablist.

Break out your reading glasses, this is the tiniest version of Pacman I’ve ever seen. After you start to go blind, use Window’s Accessories/Accessibility/Magnifier application to make things easier.

Well, I did it. I got over myself and finally adopted those two cats, Todd & Edmond. I went to see them three weeks ago and got the ball rolling last week. This post is probably going to bore some people, so please excuse the excessive rambling.

I met Missy of Best Friend Pet Adoption at the Briar Creek Petsmart on Saturday to pay my adoption fee and sign the contract. If they ever get to be too much to handle, I have to return them to BFPA. I don’t think that will ever be a problem, but I’m fine with that limitation.

I picked them up on Sunday night, as their foster parent Cody has such limited hours. I would have preferred to had them for the whole weekend, but such is life. Last time I got a cat she went into shock and found a hiding place for several days.

I was prepared this time so I let them out in my upstairs bathroom, which I had prepared with their litterbox, food, water, and bedding. Todd immediately goes into hiding under the bathtub. But Edmond seemed quite curious and started exploring the room and me. After 20 minutes of this I thought he was fine so I let him out of the bathroom. He leaves, but goes into hiding under my desk. I guess he should have been confined as well. So eventually I go grab him and put him in the bathroom as well.

Edmond was described as the more adventurous, although I never imagined how much so. After I put him back into the bathroom, he walked up to the vanity, quickly opened the door, and made his new home under my sink. Eventually I left them like that and went to sleep.

At 4:30 I wake up to pitiful wimpers from one of them. I go to see what they’re up to, and they’re quite alert and hanging around the door. So let them out, and I tail them while they checkout the house. Eventually, after several attempts, I get them back upstairs, and they both pile into Edmond’s hangout. When I left for work they were still in there, Edmond even was when I got back.

Monday night was some good bonding time though, they both sat near/on me while I watched TV. Edmond, while adventurous, seems quite independent and almost shy. Todd is quite the sweetheart though, he’s always hanging around for some rubbin. Edmond did want to play, though a little rough I thought.

Anyway, I’m pretty happy so far. There’s a lot of trust and understanding to be given from both sides though. We’re pretty much three strangers living together, although they have the advantage of each other.

Of course, I’ve got a cerebral cortex, so I win! Heh heh.

Lets see, in other news, I got a crown on a tooth yesterday. Well, the final crown was yesterday, the temporary was put in a few weeks ago. After a second visit today because of some weird sensations, things seem to be pretty good. Although I won’t really know until I get a root canal in the tooth that this crown slams into, that pain sort of reduces my incentive to really try crunching down.

My dad emailed these to me earlier today. I don’t have a source, but it feels a lot like Steven Wright or George Carlin. Doing a google just turned up people with similar blog entries. Oh well, unoriginal it may be to post this, its still damn funny:

1. I planted some birdseed. A bird came up. Now I don’t know what to feed it.

2. I had amnesia once — or twice.

3. I went to San Francisco. I found someone’s heart. Now what?

4. Protons have mass? I didn’t even know they were Catholic.

5. All I ask is a chance to prove that money can’t make me happy.

6. If the world were a logical place, men would ride horses sidesaddle.

7. What is a “free” gift? Aren’t all gifts free?

8. They told me I was gullible … and I believed them.

9. Teach a child to be polite and courteous in the home and, when he grows up, he’ll never be able to merge his car onto a freeway.

10. Two can live as cheaply as one, for half as long.

11. Experience is the thing you have left when everything else is gone.

12. What if there were no hypothetical questions?

13. One nice thing about egotists: They don’t talk about other people.

14. When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to look like a nail.

15. A flashlight is a case for holding dead batteries.

16. What was the greatest thing before sliced bread? Hmmmm?

17. My weight is perfect for my height — which varies.

18. I used to be indecisive. Now I’m not sure.

19. The cost of living hasn’t affected its popularity.

20. How can there be self-help “groups”?

21. Is there another word for synonym?

22. Where do forest rangers go to “get away from it all”?

23. The speed of time is one second per second.

24. Is it possible to be totally partial?

25. What’s another word for thesaurus?

26. Is Marx’s tomb a communist plot?

27. If swimming is so good for your figure, how do you explain whales?

28. Show me a man with both feet firmly on the ground, and I’ll show you a man who can’t get his pants off.

29. It’s not an optical illusion. It just looks like one.

30. Is it my imagination, or do Buffalo wings taste like chicken?

My neighbors invited me to a Superbowl party last Sunday. I had planned on attending Halle and Jake’s party, but I was feeling a bit under the weather and a drive to Durham didn’t really appeal. As it turned out, this party was an after-party for their running group. They’re Hash House Harriers, “Drinkers with a running problem”, a bunch of crazy, rowdy, fun people.

It was quite a bewildering experience, I must say. I knew there would be runners there, but I had no idea of the community that is the H3ers, their down-downs, songs, on-ons, and general antics. I’ve been looking to get active, so this sort of appeals to me. But being me, I naturally want to learn as much as I can before I dig in. It wouldn’t be reservedly Grahame-like if I didn’t study up before jumping in.