Pals
Uploaded by AviatorDave.

There’s a site for everything these days, not just people. Take a look at Catster, where your cat can have its very own webpage. Not surprisingly, there’s Dogster, too, brought to you by the same people behind Catster. I ended up here somehow (?) because a fellow Flickr’r sent me a link to a pbase site for this kitty named Bugs:

Bugs! the hare-lipped feline

What a character! I especially like this photo: a better look at his teeth.

By the way, the kitten on the left in the photo is Hugh as a youngster. (Click on the photo for more info.) David made his own Hugh album. Someone in Japan even noticed this photo of Hugh and blogged it in Japanese, and David attempted a translation:

“The nose, it is huge!”

Somebody sent me this link earlier, and it sent me into a fit of giggling…

http://www.spatch.net/cattown/

I’m sure I’ll get over it soon, but man, it’s a hoot!

If you ever wonder what I’m doing when I’m not writing here, wonder no more. It’s true…

http://gail.ishavingamassage.com

No, I didn’t register a new domain. Besides, it’s already taken… See here for explanation.

Looks like someone is having a little Flickr-style fun. (When Flickr servers shut down for maintenance, this is what the page says, except with the message “Flickr is having a massage…”)

Have your own bit of fun by replacing my name with yours in the URL, and tell everyone that’s your new site…

Check this out, courtesy of my friend Berit in Hamburg, Germany:

In case you’re ever in the market for upgrading your aircraft, ASO (Aircraft Shopper Online) posted a deal for Christmas.

(Sent by David)

He might go all funny on me.

I’ve joined some pretty funny Orkut communities. One of them is Oversleepers Anonymous, where people discuss topics such as:

* least effective alarms
* The most comfortable bed?
* How long have you slept today?
* the irony of it all
* Tips for getting up/being woken up
* When was the last time you overslept?
* snooze button: best ever invention?
* The snooze record
* Ten more minutes

Some of these are absolutely hilarious! I thought I was pretty bad for sleeping in, until I read some of the oversleeping exploits of this bunch. You want to know what some of the sleeping records are? Quite a few are over 24 hours. See, it’s not just me. And I am not the only person who uses my mobile phone as an alarm clock, in addition to the screeching alarm clock, and the portable one I got at MOMA in NYC that is now residing in the bathroom to remind me what time it is.

I think my favourite thread is Tips for getting up/being woken up. There’s this German guy from Hamburg who got his hands on this huge factory bell from the 1950s made of cast iron, used to signal lunchtime for the workers. He hooked up a digital clock-controlled relay that switches the bell on after his two other alarm clocks. He says it helps him get out of bed, because he’s scared the the big bell will start ringing:

“I can’t use it often, because the whole house wakes up and sometimes i keep sleeping for more then 2 hours while its ringing, then even the neighbours will start complaining.”

This one guy in Belgium wrote a script to start playing some song at volume 0 and progressively increase it to 100 over a period of six minutes. It worked for three days, he said. Hmmm… I’d really get in trouble for that one. Christa used to come in and turn off my alarm clock herself because it would wake her up and not me, even though it was beside my head and she was way over in the far end of the living room. I can’t imagine what Volume 100 would evoke, probably a contract on my head.

Here’s a thread from Least Effective Alarms:

Mobile Alarm clock — from the UK
Did anyone here the story/joke about the alarm clock which was part toy car, part alarm clock. The way I heard it was that when it went off it started moving and started making a siren like noise. Think I remember someone telling me about chasing one around. Then again I may have been drinking when I heard the story so I may have imagined that part.

motorized ball! — from Norway
That’s a brilliant idea! My brother has a dust collecting robot, that is really nothing but a motorized ball driving a cloth. Remove the cloth and have a siren in it… you’d have to chase it. Or maybe you’d just become a skilled marksman, throwing stuff at it.

– from an American, in Canada
For a while I tried setting my alarm to my favorite radio station with the volume set pretty loud, but that usually didn’t work. However, one morning I woke up all freaked out because a stranger was in my room, yelling [at] me. I’d accidentally moved the tuner to a talk radio station and the host was ranting and raging about something at the moment when my alarm went off. It was effective, for a while.

What’s in the water in Washington State???

Mistake advert offers brother for sale

In today’s marketplace, I suppose people will believe all kinds of advertising.

Who wrote this???

Dating Guide

Does anyone recognize this to be true??

Here’s what it says about me:

Gemini Dating Guide

Here are some things you can do with Gemini to ensure a successful date. Go to a book or poetry reading in a cafe or bookstore, attend a party together, go for a picnic, play a game, go dancing, spend the day at the zoo, go hang-gliding, go hot air ballooning, go to a drive-in movie, take a trip to Las Vegas, go to a science museum, go to a cafe or bar for a drink, take a yoga class together, go for a walk at midnight together, take a helicopter tour, fly a kite together, go to an air show

You & Your Gemini

Do’s

Enjoy the game of flirting with your Twins. Be flexible and open — your Gemini will want to play, and you may not be the only partner. Be elusive, seductive and always slightly out of reach. A Gemini enjoys a chase. Be well-read, well-informed and a very good listener. Be talkative — your Twins will engage you in hours of fascinating and entertaining conversation. Use your mind, as well as your body, to make love. A Gemini will respond the strongest to a partner who stimulates their mind. Always give Gemini the freedom that they need. They will broaden your horizons and teach you how to thoroughly appreciate everything life has to offer. Keep up — if you bore your Gemini, they will be gone faster than you can blink.

Don’ts

Never tell your Gemini to stop flirting. Gemini is a natural social butterfly, and won’t understand why you want to repress their instinct. Try not to be a bad conversationalist or a bad audience. Gemini becomes bored easily, and may not want to save the conversation for another time. Don’t question everything that’s going on in your Gemini’s mind. They will not appreciate an intrusion into their complex and convoluted thought process. Avoid being too traditional — if you want to spend every hour in bed, you may have to get used to some unexpected behavior. Don’t act too surprised — they may bring a Scrabble board, some crackers and cheese, and a novel into bed with the two of you. Try not to tie down or hold back a Gemini. They will slip through your fingers like quicksilver.

http://www.awfulplasticsurgery.com
– the good, bad, and ugly of celebrity plastic surgery

Doesn’t Joan Rivers look awful? Her eyes look dead in her face. It mentions on the site that when she talks, only her mouth moves, that’s how much surgery has taken place. I saw her on a talk show once, and she looked so strange I couldn’t tell exactly why, and that is what it was — it was like she was wearing a mask. When people smile and laugh, you see laugh lines and wrinkles around the eyes, but with Joan Rivers, there’s hardly a change in expression!

This site says: “Sarah Jessica Parker, like Sophia Loren, is the queen of good plastic surgery.” Checking out the side-by-side photos, I would have to agree: Sarah Jessica Parker. She’s definitely had work done on her teeth, too.

And I totally agree with this site on Victoria Beckham’s canteloupes, except Tori Spelling looks worse. When I first saw hers (she did a TV special here years ago), they looked like cannonballs. Here’s a funny little animated cartoon called “The Mystery of Britney Spears’ Breasts” that shows how much they’ve changed over time (up and down!).

Parts of this site has entertainment value, but it’s more horrifying to see what people will do to themselves for textbook “beauty.” Look at Jennifer Grey — after her nose job, she doesn’t even look like the same person in “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” or “Dirty Dancing.” If you don’t look like you anymore, what’s the point? This site doesn’t cover all the awful plastic surgeries done — they should mention Liz Hurley’s obsession with collagen, for example (like Melanie Griffith and Kylie Minogue)– but it does show at least that it’s not just women who seek perfection under the knife. There are plenty of men who pay the cosmetic surgeon to cheat nature. They’re not even cheating nature anymore, they’re looking utterly inhuman (check out Bruce Jenner and Burt Reynolds). Let’s not forget the King of Plastic Surgery: Michael Jackson.