+Allen Simpson has no pride fear

n class=”proflinkPrefix”>+Allen Simpson has no pride fear. (See comment on original post) Any other takers? Will send Christmas baked goods to winner. ;-D Can modify work to "public place" if you desire.

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MUSICAL CHALLENGE — I Touch Myself by Divinyls

+10 Points if you play it (out loud).
+10 Points if you play it with other people around.
+10 Points if you are at work.
+10 Points if your coworkers can hear it.
+10 Points if at least one of your coworkers is the opposite sex.
+50 Points if you get up and dance.

Point scores in the comments please. Winner gets a prize including and probably limited to ultimate bragging rights. ๐Ÿ˜‰

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This is how I imagine people's reactions are

(edit: not a request to plus or share! just thought it was funny!)

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Star Trek TNG Ambient Engine Noise (Idling for 24 hours)

I made it 37 seconds.

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MUSICAL CHALLENGE — I Touch Myself by Divinyls

+10 Points if you play it (out loud).
+10 Points if you play it with other people around.
+10 Points if you are at work.
+10 Points if your coworkers can hear it.
+10 Points if at least one of your coworkers is the opposite sex.
+50 Points if you get up and dance.

Point scores in the comments please. Winner gets a prize including and probably limited to ultimate bragging rights. ๐Ÿ˜‰

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My Nephew's Birthday Cake + Hidden Cell Phone

Edible images are the bomb. ๐Ÿ˜‰

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Here is the birthday cake +Lori Cramer made for our son's 10th birthday. We decided to hide the cell phone we bought for his birthday inside the cake. The best wrapping job we've ever done!

We slipped the phone into a cavity we made in the top of the cake and then covered it with an edible image (thanks +Scott Cramer for the photo-shopping Charlie's face into the Wild Ones image!)

I set the ringtone to one of his favorite songs, "We Will Rock You." After we sang "Happy Birthday," I called the cake. The LCD screen on the phone caused the edible image to light up and you could hear the ringtone playing through the cake.

The cake was hit with my son. Of course it may have had a lot to do with him getting a cell phone out of the deal. ๐Ÿ™‚

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Merry Christmas! — Lora Zombie style

Merry Christmas! — Lora Zombie style

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Paintings by Lora Zombie — LOVE HER

I first saw her work this year and the more I see, the more I love!

Check her out:
http://lorazombie.com/
http://lora8.deviantart.com/

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Fab.com history (I did not know this) and personal experience with the site.

Fab.com history (I did not know this) and personal experience with the site.

I found fab.com when I was doing a search for unique gifts earlier this year. It was invitation only, which I thought was weird, but I was curious at that point and ended up with an account. Yes, they did have a lot of unique products, but most were a little over the top or expensive for me. I kept with the newsletter and started getting some that made me consider purchasing. Just recently I found some limited edition prints by Lora Zombie (depressed Superheros; alternate link below) that I was about to break down and purchase — and I waited a day too long and they are gone. They were at a good price, too. Sigh. However, when I logged in, the site gave me a free invite link for folks (see below if interested) which led me to learn a bit more about the history of the site before I posted anything about it. That's when I found the Forbes article below. So, all in all, brain dumping everything into this post for y'all.

First… Lora Zombie prints I missed. *bawl* They were $35 and everywhere else I was seeing them for $50+. Oh well. Not the season to be buying myself things! ha.
http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/depressed-superheroes-by-lora-zombie

Invite for an account at Fab.com (see disclaimer below): http://fab.com/uicaqs

Disclaimer: Yes, they try and entice me with credit for getting them customers. I have no problem if you dig up the link elsewhere — I'm sure they are out there! That's how I did it. But if you want to use the link they gave me, go ahead. There's nothing spammy with them. Not sure why they are trying to be exclusive. Here's the full text:

"Give your friends this special invite link: http://fab.com/uicaqs and they'll get $10 free credit when they join. Offer expires at 09:28 AM Eastern on 12/14/2011. Plus, get $25 for yourself when they make their first purchase of more than $25 within 30 days of joining."

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Fab.com Is To Groupon What Facebook Is To MySpace – Forbes
The world didnโ€™t need another flash sales site. It just needed this one.

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Feeling Good by Muse

Good Morning Google+ ๐Ÿ˜‰

If you don't let it play until at least 42 seconds in, you've done yourself a terrible disservice. I love the way it picks up. Awesome cover.

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Do South Korean Towers Purposely Evoke Twin Towers Attacks?

This was a post by +Carter Gibson that I took quite a while to read, digest, and finally add my commentary. I found it to be quite interesting and wanted to share the conversation. I'm going to close comments on this post and encourage anyone with thoughts on the matter to join in the commentary on Carter's original post. Original post: https://plus.google.com/u/0/115121555137256496805/posts/CUEXoS8aAEq

My comment (also posted there) is as follows:

Wow, it took a while to read through all the comments and associated links. I break this down into two different discussions. Did the architects intentionally evoke the imagery of 9/11? If they did, is it a bad thing?

Without more evidence than what I've read so far, I don't think we can say irrefutably that the architects had 9/11 on their conscious minds from the beginning. Was it in their subconscious? There is no way of knowing that. My gut feeling is that the project probably came about naturally enough and when you come up with an idea from whatever pool of creativity in the recesses of your mind, then you are blinded by almost everything else except your idea. I can see the possibility that part way into the process someone may have looked at it in just the right way and saw the 9/11 connection. At a certain point a project has enough momentum (and monetary investment) that you just don't want to scrap it. I'd like to go down another thought from that last sentence a little further. Look at the pictures of these buildings. When I view it from above and see the terraces and rooftop gardens, I don't see the 9/11 connection. I really think it's quite cool and envision living in one of the units in the middle and how awesome the view and uniqueness of it all would be. If 9/11 had never happened I think every article about this architecture would compare it to retro 8-bit graphic inspired design, Lego-inspired design, an artist's envisioning of a cloud encircling two buildings, a Jack & the Beanstalk wonderland, or anything whimsical — but not destructive. I don't even get the destructive view unless I look at the buildings at the right angle; and I notice the comparisons showing the 9/11 towers and these buildings all mirror the same angle for the comparison. So they say they did not do it on purpose. Architects, are in my mind, artists. I find it hard to believe an artist would make such a bold statement and then not stand and embrace it fully. The purpose of art is not just beauty, but the reaction (and therefore controversy) that it evokes.

So, let's say the architects did it on purpose; and if not, it no longer matters because the comparison is out there in the world and it's never going away. So what? Are they in any way openly celebrating the negative or destructive events of 9/11? I have not heard or read anything that would suggest that; and they even apologized for the association. Looking at their creation from above (there are several links to images earlier in these comments) I think the imagery is quite striking, in a positive way. If I were the architects I would totally own this conversation and the associations to 9/11 imagery. My version, as the architects would go something like this:

"Okay, there is no argument that terrorists carried out a dastardly and evil deed on 9/11. The image of these buildings evokes a memory of two other buildings and the tragedy surrounding them; however we will not ignore or hang our heads in sorrow and be stuck in that moment of tragedy forever. We will not live in the world that terrorists have tried to mold for us. These buildings, aspects of which echo a moment in time — for we can not selectively erase just the bad from our past — are also standing proud. Whereas some might see a glimpse of that tragic memory, and we do not suggest anyone just forget, we also see a majestic structure full of life, and considering the rooftop terraces, actually covered in vibrant beautiful life. I think we can remember the past in reverence and due respect, yet still look forward with grandeur and awe, and most importantly a celebration of life. As architects, we set out to design something new; something different, of which we, and the city in which it resides, could be proud. As artists we embrace the vision that each viewer brings to the table and would deny no one the opinions or feelings that are invoked from something we have created. This creation was intended as another accomplishment of what we can do physically with the space in which we live. Hearing the comparisons to 9/11, we now hope our creation can also be an accomplishment to what we can overcome in the emotional world we also share."

They should totally own this discussion. Me personally, I like the buildings. I do not find them offensive. I personally thought of old Super Mario graphics before 9/11 imagery. However, 9/11 imagery evoked, I choose to take the buildings not as a monument to the success of terrorists, but as thumbing my nose to past and future terrorists in that we remember but we also go on, undaunted, and stronger than ever.

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Do South Korean Towers Mimic Twin Towers Attacks?
Full article: http://goo.gl/NxUPk

A new plan by Dutch design firm MVRDV is receiving heavy criticism for looking too much like the 9/11 attacks. The architects claim that say no resemblance calling the towers' "explosion" pixelated clouds. The towers are called "The Cloud" and are expected to be completed in 2015.

I don't know really think this too fair. What's your take?

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Exercise is dangerous

I'm so much safer on the couch with my remote. ๐Ÿ˜‰

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Flying Canoe

Why didn't George Washington have some of these crossing the Delaware? ๐Ÿ˜‰

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I Want an Alien for Christmas by Fountains of Wayne

Great Christmas song, and this video was edited by a Doctor Who fan. ๐Ÿ˜‰

Original song:
http://open.spotify.com/track/5MosvqhyVHyDsgoTmfImDP

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Tech stocking fillers and unusual gifts for 2011 via ZDNet

I've seen the gloves in action that work with your touch screen. Pretty cool. The other gifts aren't bad. The last one was a little outrageous, unless you are into buying sofas as gifts. ๐Ÿ˜‰

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These new gloves are designed with the smartphone or tablet user in mind. Trying to use a touchscreen device whilst wearing gloves isn't exactly an ea

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New York Demonstrators 'Squidding'?

I'm all for the demonstrations and I applaud the use of visual aids and I understand the demonstrators may not have much to work with… HOWEVER, it looks like they are carrying a fish head or half a sweet potato with a blue dot.

Shout out to a liberal special effects group — please send a giant rubber squid.

Thanks +Susan Stone for the post.

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PHOTO: New York Demonstrators โ€˜Squiddingโ€™ Goldman Sachs
Today, in addition to thousands marching on the West Coast to shut down ports connected to Goldman Sachs, hundreds of demonstrators are marching against the bank in New York City. Protesters are using the #squidding hashtag on Twitter, referring to Rolling Stoneโ€™s Matt Taibbi calling Goldman Sachs a โ€œgreat vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity.โ€ Hereโ€™s a picture of demonstrators carrying a mock squid:

(HT: @Matthew4300)

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Flea Market — Last Stop for Stuffed Animals?

This shelving display of stuffed animals made The Island of Misfit Toys look cheery. What is the lowest rung for an old stuffed animal; flea market, Good Will, or Salvation Army?

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Flea Market — Do Not Sit On Furniture

If you could have seen the cushions up close, you would know there was no need for the sign.

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Flea Market — Retro Phone

The thing is, they don't think it's retro at the flea market. This is still current tech. Big keys, man. Wave of the future. ๐Ÿ˜‰

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Flea Market — Three Turtles

Went to a flea market today and saw these guys. Thought it was always monkeys. Unless they're hiding Japanese weapons under those shells, it just doesn't work for me…

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The Google+ Experience — A post that touched me

Some good words from +Randy Resnick that he allowed me to post public. My favorite line, "…if you touch one person once in a while on G+, it's already an amazing thing." Here is the rest of his post, in it's entirety:

Someone recently said about G+ "Rather than post stuff you think will interest people, post stuff that interests you." (Sorry I didn't notice who said that, I should have because it's counter-intuitive but I think it's a good idea, pretty much like "Be yourself." Counter-intuitive, because no one wants to be an outsider. Most people want to see those circle numbers grow. Long ago, when I was playing in bars, I learned something about music. Most people in the bar are there for a variety of reasons, but seldom just to listen to the music. So we all realized that if you see one person or a few people during the night and you know they are listening to you play, just listening, not listening while they are scoping out someone, or getting drunk, or dancing, but listening, grooving, hearing you play, you've won the game. The analogy here is that if you touch one person once in a while on G+, it's already an amazing thing. That person may be someone you'd never meet in real life, someone whose country you may never visit, someone who has almost nothing in common with you, yet you have touched them with a thought. Something intangible. Not like buying them a drink, or a hot dog. Just a thought, an idea. Suddenly, the posturing makes no sense.

Re-posted public (he originally posted to extended circles) with permission from Randy. ๐Ÿ™‚

There are so many pictures and animated GIF's and jokes, etc, that when I find some words worth sharing, I hate to see them get lost in the stream. Hope someone else enjoys them as much as I did.

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