FB Leftovers

I keep saying I'm gonna quit Facebook, and towards that effort I keep moving memorable stuff here, but then I keep going back to FB and doing more stuff - which I so totally WASN'T going to do! I guess it's because everybody else is there? Anyway, leaving FB has proved to be a bit like trying to cross Zeno's bridge. But I'll just keep putting one foot in front of the other and see what happens. So, here's some more of my old posts that I just think are kinda funny or interesting, and worth saving:

February 8 at 7:21am
hopes everyone enjoyed the Centrifugal Bumble Puppy bowl.

January 29 at 7:01am (I re-posted it after Rachel posted it)
Please put this on your status if you know someone who has been eaten by dragons. My wish for 2010 is that people will understand that being eaten by dragons is not something to be ashamed of. Dragons are nearly unstoppable and are truly terrifying. 93% won't copy and paste this... they have been eaten by dragons.

November 4, 2009 at 10:05am
lolA "Samuel Spade's jaw was long and bony, his chin a jutting v under the more flexible v of his mouth. His nostrils curved back to make another, smaller v. His yellow-grey eyes were horizontal. The v motif was picked up again by thickish brows rising outward from twin creases above a hooked nose, and his pale brown hair grew down-from high flat temples-in a point on his forehead. He looked rather pleasantly like a blond satan." (and not at all like Humphrey Bogart. "Consummate v's! I said consummate!") - The Maltese Falcon
November 4, 2009 at 10:55am TAG
ROFL
November 5, 2009 at 9:00am KelMcC
Hey, at least Effie truly loved him
November 5, 2009 at 9:24am (me)
It wasn't only Effie. Apparently, a blonde satan can be quite a ladies man ;) But it's also funny because the author is obsessed with painting Sam with v's. Just like another artist that Rachel and Tommy and I happen to know about.

See this blog on StrongBad stuff.

October 30, 2009 at 12:51pm
Jennifer reviewed Six Characters in Search of an Author  in Visual Bookshelf
Interesting, I guess. The part that probably stuck with me most is "life is full of infinite absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true [...] to reverse the ordinary process may well be considered a madness: that is, to create credible situations, in order that they may appear true. "

September 11, 2009 at 2:05pm
"Yes, but who ever became more intelligent by reading Voltaire??" - Kurt Goedel (explaining why he didn't suspect a conspiracy against Voltaire, and he did for Leibniz)

 September 10, 2009 at 2:02pm
...[Goedel always maintained an active interest in physics] "Active interest" in Godel's case means a level of competence that for any normal person would constitute a career. - Palle Yourgrau

July 24, 2009 at 11:36am
"Jennifer, only you would have ''Adam Smith, Hegel, Darwin, and cream of mushroom soup" all written on the same piece of paper." - I had my mom and bro over for dinner last night, and my mom happened to idly glance over a scrap of paper I had lying around

June 24, 2009 at 9:15am 
[the library] would contain a four-thousand-foot mosaic, the mosaic you passed today on the way in here, depicting Andrew Carnegie burning in hell. - Storytime by Edward Bloor *stifled snickering*

June 18, 2009 at 9:13am Jennifer took the Which mathematical function are you? quiz and the result is Gaussian: e^(-x^2)
You are centered. You are just where you want to be. Some mistake your quiet nature for mediocrity, but you are anything but ordinary. You don't show off, you don't brag,

 ...so, I'm not just average, I'm the entire basis for the whole concept of people (or anything) being average (or not). This is... vaguely disturbing.


June 19, 2009 at 1:58pm Jennifer completed the quiz "What Plastic Army Man Are You?" with the result Minesweeper Guy!.
Semi-worthless. You benefit society somewhat, but usually end up being shot, or blown up..
 "Aaaaaagh! Jennifer! You blew yourself up... in bootcamp. *slaps forehead*" - my younger brother commenting on my performance in the Army Men computer game.
(For more on this, see my blog Video Game Violence)


January 18, 2009 at 2:26pm Rachel Giles
hey my wonderful sissy! what do you want for your bday??
January 18, 2009 at 3:45pm (me)
A fireberry.
January 18, 2009 at 3:57pm Rachel Giles
I take it that's some kind of plant...?
January 18, 2009 at 4:07pm (me)
Remember in, I think it was The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, there was that really old guy, some kind of retired star, and every morning the birds would bring him a fireberry, and he would eat it and grow just a little bit younger until he was young enough to be a star again.
January 18, 2009 at 4:13pm Rachel Giles
lol awe ok. but... you're still considered a 20-something and I thought that was the ideal age that everyone wanted to be... ps I'm taking glass blowing lessons! it's freaking awesome, you and Adrian should do it too!!
January 18, 2009 at 4:18pm (me)
Once I'm 27, it'll only be 3 years until I'm 30. I don't wanna be 30!!!! 3 years isn't long. Time just keeps getting faster and faster... I feel dizzy just thinking about it. Anywayz... glass blowing??? AWESOME!!! Where do we sign up?
January 18, 2009 at 4:28pm Rachel Giles
lol well sis my dear, you're 26 which means it's only 4 years til you're 30... 4 years and 3 years aint that much of a difference. plus why in the world is 30 a bad thing? you don't die at 30. you don't even get old at 30. you're not even middle aged at 30!
lol and Janet (age 36) is sitting behind me and says to tell ...you "oh, waah.". seriously, when I met her I thought she was late twenties at most... so it's not how old you are it's WHO you are! lol don;t I make an excellent motivational speaker?!
I found glass blowing on craigslist... they've got all kinds of cool stuff on there! just go look under "lessons" or "classes".
January 18, 2009 at 5:18pm (me)
I'm 26 and 11 months. I'll be 27 next month. I'm going to be 30 soon and I don't even have kids yet. I'm too young to be old! Where did my life go? "Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day... And then one day you find ten years have got behind you." Seriously, I almost couldn't sleep last night thinking about ...it. Then, when I did get to sleep, I had a nightmare about you. We were in this weird jungle/haunted mansion place, and you got pulled way down under the sea by a giant squid, and then he, um... attacked you. Then you made it back to the surface somehow, and we were walking around this mansion in the dark, and you were walking straight towards this big hole in the floor, and I was yelling at you to stop, but I guess you couldn't hear me, because you fell straight through the floor into some kind of ravine and plummeted to your death. ...so, yeah, guess I'd better check out craigslist. Now I really wish this conv was on my MySpace wall instead of Facebook.
January 18, 2009 at 5:38pm Rachel Giles
rofl. wow. I'm sorry... but you don't NEED kids to make your life full and meaningful... and you're still YOU no matter how old you get and the ppl who you care about are growing old right along with you, it's not like you're the only unlucky soul that's getting older. and aren't you GLAD that you're getting older? that you've learned so much and that you're a cooler person now (although you were always pretty freaking awesome) than you used to be? I'd give anything to be 30 right now and already have hard lessons learned, be more mature and responsible, learned how to have healthy relationships, done a lot of freaking awesome things! lol like glass blowing! just do cool things every year and it's awesome getting older, not depressing!
January 18, 2009 at 5:41pm Rachel Giles
and I had a nightmare last night too... in fact I couldn't get to sleep til about 3:30 then woke up for no reason @ 5am! but MY nightmare was about my teacher and about how for some reason I couldn't answer this really simple question that he asked me and i just couldn't think or get out a word. rofl and then he handed me this note in teh middle of class saying he blamed me for how horrible his life was because I couldn't answer the incredibly easy question and that he was going to commit suicide because of it and all teh students were going to blame me. lol that was MY nightmare...
January 18, 2009 at 5:54pm (me)
 So you have guilt trip dreams too, huh? That's interesting. That's *very* interesting. Maybe it's hereditary? Wait a sec, you're probably just making that up... like the dream about us going down the amazon river in a house boat for two years? BTW, I happen to think I was quite mature even 10 yrs ago, thank you very much.
January 18, 2009 at 7:17pm (me)
Adrian and I've just been watching a movie from the libary with the girl who plays Eowyn. It's an Australian comedy called "Danny Deckchair" - kinda based off the idea of lawnchair Larry. Yesterday we watched another old comedy called "The Russians are Coming." These are kinda like Balderdash movies!
January 18, 2009 at 8:00pm Rachel Giles
lol this dream is real I promise. lol I think I'm going to have trouble facing this professor on tuesday... and yes you were very mature 10 years ago, but you also missed out on a lot by being so mature so early. :-P go be crazy a little, be irresponsible!! I think I've see the Russians are coming! is that the one about this Coke bottler guy whos daughter falls in love with a communist?? or maybe that was another one... yeah cause that one was in germany. lol oh well.
January 20, 2009 at 2:28pm (me)
I don't think that is the same movie... but I think I've heard about that one before. Tell me the name and I'll probably find a way to see it. Anyway, in answer to your original question, since fireberries are fictional anyway, I think I want a yardbird for my birthday. A pink flamingo. *defensively* Kurt Goedel supposedly had one in his yard!
January 20, 2009 at 8:27pm Rachel Giles
oo oo! lol or how bout a lawn gnome?? I could totally send you pictures of him in all the interesting places here!! but yeah, I think the dragonfly sundial is more pretty than a lawn gnome OR a pink flamingo.... although I'm strongly tempted to get you one just so I can tell ppl my sister is the type of person that has a pink flamingo in her front yard, to which they will nod knowingly and I'll have to explain no further. :)