Ruff Monday Morning

Journey: Weight Loss - Wow, it was really tough to get up this morning. It was a long busy weekend. Saturday I ventured a little off of the diet. But I won't be able to see what the damage is until I weigh in Wednesday. I discovered that my scales at home are a little tricky. I was just getting on it once. But yesterday I tried it three times in a row and got three different measures. Grrreat!!. I saw some cool looking hi-tek scales on the internet, maybe it'd be worth it.

Anyway, as far as the diet is concerned, what I miss most is being able to eat a big breakfast. The protein shake alone just doesn't cut it. The only other thing I could do would be the protein omelet. And that means getting up earlier to make it. That's really difficult to do these days. Maybe after the time changes November 1st.

The only time I really have trouble with the diet is when I'm feeling down or depressed. I suppose in the "old" days when that happened I would seek comfort food. And that is the least healthiest. So, the majority of my problems are physiological.

Thursday I have my annual physical exam. I wonder what Jeff is going to say about it. I hope I break the 50 lb mark by then. But I may have blown that this weekend. Oh well. I knew it was going to be a long journey.

Martha Aucoin Update

Martha will be having surgery this Thursday morning. Doctors don't expect any surprises or difficulties. Please keep her and the family in your prayers.

Prayer Request

Please pray for Martha Aucoin. She discovered she has stage 1 breast cancer. Found early, her doctor said that her prognosis is good.

It's Only Logical

Just Trying to Get A Head

Just What I Don't Need, But Love

Ok, as if I needed another source of food that I really really really shouldn't eat. Just opened down the street from my office is a new eating establishment, Burgersmith.

I tried it out last night and was very pleased. I especially liked the home baked, toasted bun. The menu isn't very big but it's big enough.

And unfortunately the prices aren't unreasonable. So as long as I must rely on self control, it looks like I'll be there at least two more times.

Signage

At least he'll see it coming.

Batman 3???

Is this a scene from Batman 3: The Revenge of Mrs. Joker.

On the rat-walk: Rodent headdress unveiled

A designer has unveiled a full face headdress made of real mice and rat carcasses on the fringes of London Fashion Week.

A model paraded up and down the catwalk in the headdress, which covered her whole face except her eyes - rat tails dangling down at the front and whiskers tickling her skin.

The creation was designed by French-born hairdresser and wigmaker Charlie Le Mindu, 22.

"I really like mice and rats. But everybody doesn't like them and I just wanted to show people it could be really beautiful," he told AFP after the show.

Asked if he was worried about how animal rights campaigners might react, he said: "It's better to make them [the rodents] beautiful than give them to the snakes."

Le Mindu was not on the official schedule for London Fashion Week but staged a show on the fringes on the final day of the event.

- AFP

Ways to be cool

Why didn't I have this when I was in high school?

10 Gnome Action Movies

1. Toadstool Impact
2. Die Now, Frolic Later
3. Fatal Buttercup
4. Bluebird: Down!
5. Soldier of Merriment
6. Death Wears A Pointy Hat
7. Honeydew Velocity
8. Sudden Cottage
9. Twinkle With Extreme Prejudice
10. The Chipmunk Who Came In From The Cold

by Jason Toon & Scott Lydon

Hey, don't pick on me

Scabs Bandages are band-aids bearing sweet little gross illustrations -- maggots, hatching spiders, eyeballs, or zippers -- for to speed your healing with stomach-churning levity. They didn't make fun stuff like this when I was a kid. Check it out.

Someone is making a cartoon of my life...

This could easily, and might possibly, be a discussion in my house. Click the toon to make it larger.

Game? What Game??

Yeah, yeah, it was fun and exciting and close till the end. But check out here what you might have missed:

Help for Monday Mornings

I came across this little site with a live kitten cam. I needed it on this dreary Monday morning;



I hope you like it too.

8 Unusual College Scholarships

by Kara Kovalchik and MentalFloss.com

Young people just don’t appreciate how easy they have it these days. Back when I was in high school, only the smartest or most athletic students were candidates for any type of college scholarship. Not anymore. Today’s students don’t have to be the best and the brightest to score some scratch – they can parlay a hobby, goofy talent or even a genetic luck of the draw into scholarship money. Take a gander at some of the more unusual opportunities that are available for eight subsets of the population (but first get the heck off my lawn.)

1. Dessert Enthusiasts
Is your sweet tooth serious enough to pursue a future as a pastry chef or chocolatier? The American Association of Candy Technologists offers an annual $5,000 scholarship to students enrolled at an accredited university who plan to major in food science and have a demonstrated interest in confectionary technology. Sounds like a great opportunity to expand both your waistline and your bank account!

2. Duck Callers
OK, this contest may border on the goofy, but the top prize is $1,500 in scholarship money, so if you’ve got a knack for calling ducks we say you’ve got nothing to lose but your dignity (and travel fare to Arkansas). The Chick and Sophie Major Memorial Duck Calling Contest is open to any high school senior in the U.S. Participants have 90 seconds to demonstrate their best hail, feed, comeback and mating calls. The top three placers also receive commemorative jackets, so get quackin’, er c rackin’, because $1,500 isn’t exactly chicken feed. (Me, I’m still looking for that ever elusive Bad Pun Scholarship.)

3. Fire Safety Experts (or literate people with decent luck)
Fire sprinkler systems save lives, and they might just save your neck if you’re sweating that college tuition bill. The American Fire Sprinkler Association scholarship program is not based on financial need; all interested students need to do is read an essay about fire sprinklers and then take a 10 question multiple choice test. Get this – the test is “open book.” You can print out the essay before taking the test! Each correctly answered question enters you into a drawing for a $2,000 scholarship, so if you ace the test, you’ll have ten chances to win.

4. Bagpipe Major s at Carnegie Mellon

One of the least competitive scholarships in the U.S.—it’s not unusual for there to be zero applicants—is the Carnegie Mellon University Bagpipe Scholarship. It offers $7,000 per year to a student who intends to major in bagpiping. (Andrew Carnegie loved bagpipe music, you see, and even brought a personal piper with him from Scotland when he emigrated to the U.S.) On the plus side of this offer, you get a kilt subsidy. On the minus side, class is held in the basement of the building due to the vehement complaints from neighboring classrooms upstairs. (Sorry, no link available. Yeah, like any of you would’ve clicked on it anyway.)

5. Creative Students at David Letterman’s Alma Mater
Because David Letterman was a C student at Ball State University, he established a scholarship at his alma mater that is awarded to telecommunications majors based strictly on the creativity of a submitted project, rather than a student’s GPA. The top prize is $10,000; previous winners have included a satirical script based on the novel Pride and Prejudice and a stop-action animated film of a penguin climbing a beer bottle.

6. People Looking for Unique Prom Attire
If you don’t mind looking like a dweeb (a sticky dweeb, to boot) at your high school prom, you could earn yourself a $3,000 scholarship check from the folks who make Duck Brand Duct Tape. You and your date simply need to fashion your prom outfits completely out of duct tape and then submit a color photo for consideration. Oh, and you have to actually wear those outfits to the dance, too.

7. Aspiring Children’s Television Stars
The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences awards three $10,000 scholarships annually in the name of the late, great Fred Rogers to college students pursuing a career in children’s media. Remember all those puppet shows you used to put on in the garage? Maybe that was an early indicator of your special talent…you are special, y’know.

8. Twins Who Don’t Hate Each Other
If you happen to be a twin and don’t mind spending an additional four years with your sibling, several schools offer scholarships for twins. Morris Brown College in Atlanta, Georgia, waives tuition for one twin when both enroll, Lake Erie College in Painsville, Ohio, offers half-off tuition for each twin, and Wilson College in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, has 45% discounts available on tuition for female twins only.

"We've got to go back to the island"

Ok, I'm really looking forward to this.


Watch too and let me know what you think.

"Every" Simpsons Couch Gag

Disney Star Guitarist: Guitar Hero, But With Real Guitars

Any real guitarist will tell you that Guitar Hero has nothing to do with any real-world instrument. Disney, surprisingly, has created an educational and inoffensive spin that uses a real guitar as a controller.

Disney Star Guitarist, made with help from Washburn Guitars, uses the same style of "falling notes" that Guitar Hero and Rock Band use so well. But instead of cheap plastic buttons that mock my years of slaving over a sweaty fretboard, trying to learn some shitty Dave Mathews Band song so girls at college would sleep with me, Star Guitarist makes use of a real guitar. The special strings are included with the $200 game, and can be strung onto any standard guitar. Disney Star Guitarist, along with similar versions for keyboards and vocals, will be released for both PC and Mac this summer. [Wired]

Start your countdowns.

MercyMe - Cover Tune Grab Bag

One of the great things about the internet is talented people posting their creativity. Christian band MercyMe has a regular feature on their website called "Cover Tune Grab Bag" in which they make home made videos of their favorite pop and rock songs. Here is the latest.

Old Friends

I came across this comic strip from 1998. It's sad and so true. Will we ever learn?