Has the TLB Ecosystem changed its evolutionary tree? I was a Flappy Bird for the longest time, and now all of a sudden I'm a Rodent. But my links have gone down, not up. I'm so confused! Heh. Where's my missing link? (what, do I hear groaning???) If you don't know what I'm talking about, go check it out, it's fun! Sign up and learn how to be deflated by your lack of evolution, or worse, devolution!
Lemmesee ... tidbits for today. I've been in sore need of upliftment so I've been looking mostly for the humorous and the strange, which I usually find amusing. And usually I don't have to look any farther than my email junk box, where I can find all manner of strange stuff telling me how to lengthen my non-existant organ, become an alpha male, and peek in on the latest barnyard happenings. Does everybody get this barrage of male-oriented emails? Or is it just because I signed up with Yahoo once and put "male" on my profile? Heh. I thought I was keeping myself protected from stalkers and such. Who knew I'd become the recipient of such a ginormous quantity of man-sex-crap. However, right now it's less amusing than it is depressing and disgusting.
Midnight Madness from Nancy at Soliloquy gave a good chuckle. A girl after my own heart. Many a night ... yes, many a night!
Another hilarious diversion: Small, Medium, Large . It sounds like a Denis Leary routine, if you get my drift. Not for the easily offended. But very funny. Thanks to Coffee Addict for the link.
And for some real upliftment, the non-caffeinated kind - Henry David Thoreau was born today in 1817. Thoreau is author of some of my favorite quotes. Top of the list is "Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler." More quotes...
Although it seems he shunned coffee, Thoreau's Maine Woods says he was a tea drinker. He made teas from plants he found in the woods, and was especially fond of wintergreen flavor of the creeping snowberry, "calling this his favorite of the many teas he and his companions made in the woods".
Are we uplifted yet? Need more coffee? How about some of that creeping snowberry tea?
"Has the TLB Ecosystem changed its evolutionary tree?"
Must have. I "lost" 40+ links overnight and dropped about 600 places. Thought that strange and checked Technotati which saw no dropped links. Gained three links in TTLB system and shot up 500 places.
I think he musta changed his ranking system somehow--weighting of links, active links dating system or some such.
No prob. It's just something for fun, anyway. As long as I'm not an "Adorable Little Rodent" —or worse, _A_ adorable anything, as the TTLB script so ungrammatically proclaims :-) —all's well with my TTLB ecosystem world (curmudgeons are NOT adorable, you hear me?!?!? heh :-)
Nancy's quote did remind me of the Socrates comment that "The unexamined life is not qworth living," which in turn reminded me of an idiosyncratic "translation" of that I once heard: The _untested_ life is not worth living.
Posted by: David | July 13, 2005 at 09:20 PM
re: "Small, Medium, Large" — ROFLKASTMAFO
'tea party with knitting'—knitea party? eww. Something's wrong with my Dynomatic Omnilinguistic Parser, English...
And nancy's ode to Midnight Coffee is posted with honors near my coffee shrine.
Posted by: David | July 13, 2005 at 03:57 PM
A knitting tea party? Sounds great to me. I've heard of quilting tea parties, why not a knitting tea party?
That's a great quote, Nancy. I love that one!
Posted by: Christine | July 12, 2005 at 07:16 PM
Thoreau's birthday? Hmm...I shall have to brew a pot of tea in his honor. He's one of my favorites.
From Dead Poet's fame, my favorite: I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, to discover that I had not lived. :-)
Posted by: Nancy | July 12, 2005 at 04:14 PM
How have other people combined a tea party with knitting? Or is that just freaky?
Posted by: Knitt one, tea two | July 12, 2005 at 12:27 PM