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12.07.2007
My Kind of Tree...
A tree sent to me from M&Ms... (this is so my kinda tree!!)
12.06.2007
Word of the Day
(Just about every other conversation I have goes like this...)
Urban Word of the Day
www.urbandictionary.com
December 06, 2007: pre-sequitur
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pre-sequitur&defid=2674550
Like a non-sequitur, a pre-sequitur doesn't follow what immediately preceded it, but instead relates to something that came much earlier. It is a sudden or jarring break in the chronology, but it does follow... when you remember what it refers to.
Jen: Why did you leave Los Angeles?
Keith: Well... have you ever lived there?
Jen: I visited once, for a week. I liked the street performers on the boardwalk...
Keith: Oh, the boardwalk is where I got this red scarf!
Jen: I was trying to knit a scarf just like that last year but I never finished.
Keith: Where do you get yarn around here?
Jen: There's a good store just a few blocks from here, wanna come see?
... ten minutes later ...
Jen: Huh, do you smell Indian food?
Keith: Hmm, not really... but now I'm in the mood to get some Indian Food.
Jen: Sure, let's!
Keith: It was the pollution, that's why.
Jen: pollution?
Keith: Yeah, I wanted somewhere with real air, and LA wasn't it!
Jen: Oh, why you left Los Angeles
Urban Word of the Day
www.urbandictionary.com
December 06, 2007: pre-sequitur
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pre-sequitur&defid=2674550
Like a non-sequitur, a pre-sequitur doesn't follow what immediately preceded it, but instead relates to something that came much earlier. It is a sudden or jarring break in the chronology, but it does follow... when you remember what it refers to.
Jen: Why did you leave Los Angeles?
Keith: Well... have you ever lived there?
Jen: I visited once, for a week. I liked the street performers on the boardwalk...
Keith: Oh, the boardwalk is where I got this red scarf!
Jen: I was trying to knit a scarf just like that last year but I never finished.
Keith: Where do you get yarn around here?
Jen: There's a good store just a few blocks from here, wanna come see?
... ten minutes later ...
Jen: Huh, do you smell Indian food?
Keith: Hmm, not really... but now I'm in the mood to get some Indian Food.
Jen: Sure, let's!
Keith: It was the pollution, that's why.
Jen: pollution?
Keith: Yeah, I wanted somewhere with real air, and LA wasn't it!
Jen: Oh, why you left Los Angeles
12.05.2007
Word of the Day
(hehe this happens to me far too often, especially when tired)
Urban Word of the Day
www.urbandictionary.com
December 05, 2007: mental constipation
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=mental+constipation&defid=595934
An inability to articulate one's thoughts or ideas, resulting in significant psychological distress and frustration.
Typically, this form of [cognitive impaction] is self-resolving. However, in cases where productive interchange with the afflicted is urgently needed, a [deadline] may be administered; indeed, this has proven to be one of the most effective treatments for stubborn cases of mental constipation.
Mark: "So, you know, it's like... uh, er... damn, you know, that, uh... thing!"
Dave: "Yeesh. It's too bad that they don't make a laxative for mental constipation!"
Urban Word of the Day
www.urbandictionary.com
December 05, 2007: mental constipation
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=mental+constipation&defid=595934
An inability to articulate one's thoughts or ideas, resulting in significant psychological distress and frustration.
Typically, this form of [cognitive impaction] is self-resolving. However, in cases where productive interchange with the afflicted is urgently needed, a [deadline] may be administered; indeed, this has proven to be one of the most effective treatments for stubborn cases of mental constipation.
Mark: "So, you know, it's like... uh, er... damn, you know, that, uh... thing!"
Dave: "Yeesh. It's too bad that they don't make a laxative for mental constipation!"
12.04.2007
Word of the Day
(Well they had to come up with a word for it sooner or later...)
Urban Word of the Day
www.urbandictionary.com
December 04, 2007: Hobosexual
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Hobosexual&defid=1179918
Adjective. The opposite of metrosexual; one who cares little for one's own appearance.
Examples: Michael Moore, Peter Jackson.
First documented hobosexual - John the Baptist.
12.03.2007
Song of the Week
"Hard Rock, Coco & Joe" - Stuart Hamblen
Ole olady olady I oh
That's Hardrock, and Coco, and Joe
Now listen my children and you shall hear
A story fantastic, a story so queer
It's all about Santa and his helpers three
There's Hardrock, and Coco, and Joe
Now Hardrock's the driver up there by his sleigh
Coco reads maps and he shows him the way
Though old Santa really has no need for Joe
But takes him cause he loves him so
Ole olady olady I ay
Donner and Blitzen away away
Ole olady olady I oh
I'm Hardrock, I'm Coco, I'm Joe
And Santa is busy with his heavy pack
He trusts his drivers and never looks back
Ole olady olady I oh
I'm Hardrock, I'm Coco, I'm Joe
Now go to bed early on this Christmas Eve
I've no way of knowing just what you'll recieve
But you'll hear their laughter that much I do know
‘Twill be Hardrock, and Coco, and Joe
The 3 little men only 2 feet high
Singing to Santa way up in the sky
Laughing and shouting as the sleigh bells ring
It's Hardrock, and Coco, and Joe
Ole olady olady I ay
Donner and Blitzen away away
Ole olady olady I oh
He's Hardrock, he's Coco, he's Joe
And Santa is busy with his heavy pack
He trusts his drivers and never looks back
Ole olady olady I oh
He's Hardrock, he's Coco, he's Joe
Ol' Santa will come in and set down his pack
And Hardrock will hold the reindeer till Santa comes back
If you hear a giggle as he turns to go
It's Coco, a snowball,...and Joe!
Ole olady olady I ay
Donner and Blitzen away away
Ole olady olady I oh
I'm Hardrock, I'm Coco, I'm Joe
And Santa is busy with his heavy pack
He trusts his drivers and never looks back
Ole olady olady I oh
I'm Hardrock, I'm Coco, I'm Joe
Ole olady olady I oh...
Ole olady olady I oh
That's Hardrock, and Coco, and Joe
Now listen my children and you shall hear
A story fantastic, a story so queer
It's all about Santa and his helpers three
There's Hardrock, and Coco, and Joe
Now Hardrock's the driver up there by his sleigh
Coco reads maps and he shows him the way
Though old Santa really has no need for Joe
But takes him cause he loves him so
Ole olady olady I ay
Donner and Blitzen away away
Ole olady olady I oh
I'm Hardrock, I'm Coco, I'm Joe
And Santa is busy with his heavy pack
He trusts his drivers and never looks back
Ole olady olady I oh
I'm Hardrock, I'm Coco, I'm Joe
Now go to bed early on this Christmas Eve
I've no way of knowing just what you'll recieve
But you'll hear their laughter that much I do know
‘Twill be Hardrock, and Coco, and Joe
The 3 little men only 2 feet high
Singing to Santa way up in the sky
Laughing and shouting as the sleigh bells ring
It's Hardrock, and Coco, and Joe
Ole olady olady I ay
Donner and Blitzen away away
Ole olady olady I oh
He's Hardrock, he's Coco, he's Joe
And Santa is busy with his heavy pack
He trusts his drivers and never looks back
Ole olady olady I oh
He's Hardrock, he's Coco, he's Joe
Ol' Santa will come in and set down his pack
And Hardrock will hold the reindeer till Santa comes back
If you hear a giggle as he turns to go
It's Coco, a snowball,...and Joe!
Ole olady olady I ay
Donner and Blitzen away away
Ole olady olady I oh
I'm Hardrock, I'm Coco, I'm Joe
And Santa is busy with his heavy pack
He trusts his drivers and never looks back
Ole olady olady I oh
I'm Hardrock, I'm Coco, I'm Joe
Ole olady olady I oh...
12.02.2007
Cool Gifts for Kids
A good website offering advice on what kids really want for Christmas:
http://shopping.sympatico.msn.ca/content/shp/?ctid=8337
http://shopping.sympatico.msn.ca/content/shp/?ctid=8337
Songs That WILL Get Stuck in Your Head
Not a complete list but a collection of gooders... (sorry in advance lol, also sorry if I've posted these before)
Gummy Bear
Do You Like Waffles?
Banana Phone
Psycho Teddy
Song That Doesn't End
Gummy Bear
Do You Like Waffles?
Banana Phone
Psycho Teddy
Song That Doesn't End
12.01.2007
The Escambia Westgate Snoezelen Complex
This is a really neat Snoezelen Complex that was recently built:
"The Escambia Westgate Snoezelen Complex in Pensacola, Florida
http://www.flaghouse.ca/westgate.asp?category=Sensory%20Solutions
http://www.flaghouse.ca/escambiaWestgateVideo.asp
"The Escambia Westgate Snoezelen Complex in Pensacola, Florida
Dreams do come true!
Our dream started in 1997 when we were told to DREAM—and dream big—which is how the idea was born to construct a building from the ground up that was designed for our most delicate and involved students. A SNOEZELEN building so special that all of our students would be able to participate in the SNOEZELEN/sensory environment and, just for a little while, be free from the bounds of their disabilities.
We wanted to find the right environment to challenge, motivate, stimulate, and also calm our students. We know we have found that magical environment with the creation of this one-of-kind building. We are blessed with dedicated teachers, therapists, and ESPs that graciously allowed us to give the many, many tours needed to explain to different groups and individuals why we needed this very special complex.
We thank FlagHouse for their support in helping Escambia Westgate School achieve the dream of a SNOEZELEN complex, and Ms. Barbara McCormack, the designer of the rooms and environments. And a special thanks to the students of Westgate who are the inspiration and the drive behind the DREAM!
Susan Berry, Principal
Escambia Westgate School
Pensacola , FL
An extraordinary 14,600-square foot SNOEZELEN MSE center becomes reality! The Lacy A. Collier SNOEZELEN Complex was dedicated on November 29, 2005 and includes a large atrium, sensory hallway, four 1100-square foot themed rooms, and utility spaces.
From the dazzling murals, to the overgrown swamp and foliage, the feel of the floor, the accessible treewalk and treehouses, the tactile volcano, the interactive tree, to the warm, humid air and the pungent, earthy smells—there's no doubt that this is the Jungle.
Leave the world behind for an exciting space adventure complete with spaceship, interactive flying saucer, incline elevator, fiber-optic moon, interactive floor, light rope, bubble tubes, interactive panels, and more.
A bubble-tube island with infinite reflections is the centerpiece of this room. It was designed to be themed in many formats, depending on the needs of students and the goals of teachers. That's the real magic of the Magic Room!
A wheelchair-accessible igloo, sound-activated ice wall and cave, glowing lake, penguin colony, and crystal cave are complemented by gentle music, twinkling lights, and soft blankets to create a calm, peaceful space—a place to relax and recuperate away from the stresses of coping with a challenging life. This is the land of Snow.
A long sensory corridor offers smaller versions of each room's theme and is filled with a wealth of sensory experiences, including a Soundbeam, which allows the students to generate real music with simple movements and switches.
The Escambia Westgate School
In 2003, Susan Berry approached FlagHouse to design a world-class, stand-alone SNOEZELEN center that would expand and enrich the sensory world of children with disabilities. Escambia Westgate has 240 pupils, ranging in age from 4-21, with a broad spectrum of abilities from mild intellectual and physical impairments to severe multiple disabilities.
The dream
Inspiration for the center had come years earlier at the 1999 SNOEZELEN World Congress presented by FlagHouse. It took the Escambia Westgate Foundation Board six years of determined effort to raise $2 million in funding. The result: a center that takes the concept of using sensory experience within a learning environment further than ever before with:
• tactile, visual, auditory, olfactory and other sensory experiences
• skill-building gross-motor and fine-motor activities
• learning opportunities for all levels of ability
• interactive and empowering opportunities
• small and large spaces for group or one-on-one activities
• opportunities for life enhancement outside the usual frame of reference.
Plus, a completely accessible floor plan that accommodates all participants with elevators, roomy corridors and doorways, and possibly the world's largest ceiling tack.
Every step of the way
FlagHouse worked closely with the school, architect, and construction project manager to ensure that all areas of the center offered interactive, empowering opportunities with a careful blend of SNOEZELEN products, other sensory equipment, and custom-made items. The room themes each have a distinctive color scheme, character, product set, temperature, aroma, floor covering, and sound.
This challenging opportunity showcases the ability of the SNOEZELEN MSE to provide a highly motivating sensory environment in an education setting to further the skills of a wider range of children and young adults with special needs. FlagHouse feels privileged to have been a part of this project and to help open up new possibilities for the children of Escambia Westgate School. We look forward to Phase II with plans for a new sensory aquatic facility, sensory gym with 1/2-mile track, and sensory garden.
http://www.flaghouse.ca/escambiaWestgateVideo.asp
11.30.2007
Send Santa Your Wish List
Something cute from Microsoft, it's a site where children can e-mail their Christmas wishlists to Santa.
"Email Santa your Wish List
It's that time of year again – time to email Santa. Santa's sharpened his email skills and can't wait to hear from all of the good little boys and girls! He, Mrs. Claus and his crew have also been busy renovating the village!"
http://microsoft.msn.com/Key=7897.CGd4y.C.DP.Dn3xmC
"Email Santa your Wish List
It's that time of year again – time to email Santa. Santa's sharpened his email skills and can't wait to hear from all of the good little boys and girls! He, Mrs. Claus and his crew have also been busy renovating the village!"
http://microsoft.msn.com/Key=7897.CGd4y.C.DP.Dn3xmC
11.29.2007
Word of the Day
(um.... creepy!!)
Urban Word of the Day
www.urbandictionary.com
November 29, 2007: manther
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=manther&defid=640896
A male [cougar]. Single, usually divorced, and at a minimum 10 years older than a [cougar].
He did not care if the youth laughed at his ragtop corvette that even at this age he could not afford, for he was manther.
Urban Word of the Day
www.urbandictionary.com
November 29, 2007: manther
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=manther&defid=640896
A male [cougar]. Single, usually divorced, and at a minimum 10 years older than a [cougar].
He did not care if the youth laughed at his ragtop corvette that even at this age he could not afford, for he was manther.
11.28.2007
11.27.2007
11.26.2007
Word of the Day
Urban Word of the Day
Forget those long black Friday lines, I'm going to order on Cyber Monday!
November 26, 2007: cyber monday
Cyber Monday is the Monday after [Black Friday], when online retailers will be looking for their biggest sales from those who checked out products over the thanksgiving weekend, and will now be ordering them Monday at work.
Forget those long black Friday lines, I'm going to order on Cyber Monday!
Song of the Week
"Dani California" - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Getting born in the state of Mississippi
Papa was a copper and mama was a hippie
In Alabama she would swing a hammer
Price you gotta pay when you break the panorama
She never knew that there was anything more than poor
What in the world does your company take me for
Black bandanna, sweet Louisiana
robbin' on a bank in the state of Indiana
She's a runner, rebel and a stunner
On her merry way sayin; baby whatcha gonna
Lookin' down the barrel of a hot metal .45
Just another way to survive
California rest in peace
Simultaneous release
California show your teeth
She's my priestess, I'm your priest
YEAH, YEAH
She's a lover baby and a fighter
Shoulda seen it coming when it got a little brighter
With a name like Dani California
The day was gonna come when I was gonna mourn ya
A little loaded, she was stealing another breath
I love my baby to death
California rest in peace
Simultaneous release
California show your teeth
She's my priestess, I'm your priest
YEAH, YEAH
Who knew the other side of you?
Who knew that others died to prove
Too true to say good bye to you
Too true to say say say..
Push the fader gifted animator
One for the now and eleven for the later
Never made it up to Minnesota
North Dakota man was a gunnin' for the quota
Down in the badlands she was savin' the best for last
It only hurts when I laugh
Gone too fast..
California rest in peace
Simultaneous release,
California show your teeth,
She's my priestess, I'm your priest
YEAH, YEAH
California rest in peace
Simultaneous release,
California show your teeth,
She's my priestess, I'm your priest
YEAH, YEAH
11.25.2007
107.5 Dave FM Top 107 Songs of all Time
The local radio station, 107.5 Dave FM, top 107 songs of all time:
http://www.davefm.com/home/Music/CountdownLists/tabid/841/Default.aspx
TOP 107 of ALL TIME | |||
| Artist | Title | ||
| 1 | U2 | PRIDE (IN THE NAME OF LOVE) | |
| 2 | BEATLES | HEY JUDE | |
| 3 | NIRVANA | SMELLS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT | |
| 4 | LED ZEPPELIN | STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN | |
| 5 | BOB DYLAN | LIKE A ROLLING STONE | |
| 6 | ELVIS PRESLEY | HEARTBREAK HOTEL | |
| 7 | AC/DC | YOU SHOOK ME ALL NIGHT LONG | |
| 8 | QUEEN | BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY | |
| 9 | ROLLING STONES | (I CAN'T GET NO) SATISFACTION | |
| 10 | BEATLES | LET IT BE | |
| 11 | BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN | BORN TO RUN | |
| 12 | EAGLES | HOTEL CALIFORNIA | |
| 13 | PINK FLOYD | ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL (PT. II) | |
| 14 | BEATLES | TWIST AND SHOUT | |
| 15 | DEREK & THE DOMINOS | LAYLA | |
| 16 | ELVIS PRESLEY | JAILHOUSE ROCK | |
| 17 | AC/DC | HIGHWAY TO HELL | |
| 18 | U2 | WITH OR WITHOUT YOU | |
| 19 | JOHN LENNON | IMAGINE | |
| 20 | GUNS N' ROSES | SWEET CHILD O MINE | |
| 21 | ELTON JOHN | ROCKET MAN | |
| 22 | BEATLES | YESTERDAY | |
| 23 | AEROSMITH | DREAM ON | |
| 24 | THE WHO | WON'T GET FOOLED AGAIN | |
| 25 | THE POLICE | EVERY BREATH YOU TAKE | |
| 26 | LYNYRD SKYNYRD | FREE BIRD | |
| 27 | GUESS WHO | AMERICAN WOMAN | |
| 28 | MARVIN GAYE | WHAT'S GOING ON | |
| 29 | ROLLING STONES | BROWN SUGAR | |
| 30 | DON MCLEAN | AMERICAN PIE | |
| 31 | BEATLES | A DAY IN THE LIFE | |
| 32 | QUEEN | WE WILL ROCK YOU / WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS | |
| 33 | SEX PISTOLS | ANARCHY IN THE U.K. | |
| 34 | TEMPTATIONS | PAPA WAS A ROLLIN' STONE | |
| 35 | STEPPENWOLF | BORN TO BE WILD | |
| 36 | U2 | ONE | |
| 37 | CLASH | LONDON CALLING | |
| 38 | PEARL JAM | JEREMY | |
| 39 | DAVID BOWIE | CHANGES | |
| 40 | BOB DYLAN | BLOWIN' IN THE WIND | |
| 41 | VAN MORRISON | BROWN EYED GIRL | |
| 42 | FLEETWOOD MAC | GO YOUR OWN WAY | |
| 43 | BEATLES | SHE LOVES YOU | |
| 44 | DOORS | LIGHT MY FIRE | |
| 45 | ARETHA FRANKLIN | RESPECT | |
| 46 | ROD STEWART | MAGGIE MAY | |
| 47 | THE WHO | MY GENERATION | |
| 48 | BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS | NO WOMAN NO CRY | |
| 49 | GUNS N' ROSES | PARADISE CITY | |
| 50 | PINK FLOYD | MONEY | |
| 51 | BEACH BOYS | GOOD VIBRATIONS | |
| 52 | JIMI HENDRIX | PURPLE HAZE | |
| 53 | MICHAEL JACKSON | BILLIE JEAN | |
| 54 | LED ZEPPELIN | ROCK AND ROLL | |
| 55 | FRANK SINATRA | MY WAY | |
| 56 | TEARS FOR FEARS | SHOUT | |
| 57 | KINGSMEN | LOUIE LOUIE | |
| 58 | CULT | SHE SELLS SANCTUARY | |
| 59 | CHUCK BERRY | JOHNNY B. GOODE | |
| 60 | ELTON JOHN | YOUR SONG | |
| 61 | ROLLING STONES | YOU CAN'T ALWAYS GET WHAT YOU WANT | |
| 62 | ELVIS PRESLEY | SUSPICIOUS MINDS | |
| 63 | BACHMAN TURNER OVERDRIVE | TAKIN' CARE OF BUSINESS | |
| 64 | U2 | I STILL HAVEN'T FOUND WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR | |
| 65 | NEIL DIAMOND | SWEET CAROLINE | |
| 66 | PRINCE | WHEN DOVES CRY | |
| 67 | JANIS JOPLIN | ME AND BOBBY MCGEE | |
| 68 | JOY DIVISION | LOVE WILL TEAR US APART | |
| 69 | THE ANIMALS | HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN | |
| 70 | AC/DC | THUNDERSTRUCK | |
| 71 | BEN E. KING | STAND BY ME | |
| 72 | OASIS | WONDERWALL | |
| 73 | STEVIE WONDER | SUPERSTITION | |
| 74 | LOUIS ARMSTRONG | WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD | |
| 75 | BILLY IDOL | WHITE WEDDING | |
| 76 | BEATLES | HELP | |
| 77 | BEE GEES | STAYIN' ALIVE | |
| 78 | BILLY HALEY & HIS COMETS | ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK | |
| 79 | R.E.M. | LOSING MY RELIGION | |
| 80 | AL GREEN | LET'S STAY TOGETHER | |
| 81 | THE BAND | THE WEIGHT | |
| 82 | THE CLASH | SHOULD I STAY OR SHOULD I GO | |
| 83 | RIGHTEOUS BROTHERS | UNCHAINED MELODY | |
| 84 | MADONNA | LIKE A PRAYER | |
| 85 | SIMON & GARFUNKEL | BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER | |
| 86 | THE SMITHS | HOW SOON IS NOW | |
| 87 | BEATLES | I WANT TO HOLD YOUR HAND | |
| 88 | VAN HALEN | JUMP | |
| 89 | DAVID BOWIE | SPACE ODDITY | |
| 90 | DEF LEPPARD | POUR SOME SUGAR ON ME | |
| 91 | GEORGE HARRISON | MY SWEET LORD | |
| 92 | JOAN JETT & THE BLACKHEARTS | I LOVE ROCK 'N ROLL | |
| 93 | RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS | UNDER THE BRIDGE | |
| 94 | JAMES BROWN | I GOT YOU (I FEEL GOOD) | |
| 95 | BON JOVI | WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE | |
| 96 | GRANDMASTER FLASH & THE FURIOUS FIVE | THE MESSAGE | |
| 97 | JOHN COUGAR MELLENCAMP | JACK AND DIANE | |
| 98 | SMOKEY ROBINSON AND THE MIRACLES | TEARS OF A CLOWN | |
| 99 | SINEAD O'CONNOR | NOTHING COMPARES 2 U | |
| 100 | ROLLING STONES | HONKY TONK WOMAN | |
| 101 | TOM PETTY | FREE FALLIN' | |
| 102 | JACKSON 5 | I WANT YOU BACK | |
| 103 | CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL | PROUD MARY | |
| 104 | BRYAN ADAMS | SUMMER OF '69 | |
| 105 | ALANIS MORISSETTE | HAND IN MY POCKET | |
| 106 | ABBA | DANCING QUEEN | |
| 107 | VERVE | BITTER SWEET SYMPHONY | |
http://www.davefm.com/home/Music/CountdownLists/tabid/841/Default.aspx
11.24.2007
Another Facebook Video!
YAY another one!!! (others can be found here: http://drelwin.blogspot.com/2007/09/facebook-videos.html)
11.23.2007
11.22.2007
Deadjournal
This one is a parody site to www.livejournal.com It's an online blogging community referring to itself as a "cemetery" where every blog is a "grave" and all the people on your friends lists are "fiends". A nice alternative for people too whatever to have livejournals. LOL
"What is DeadJournal.com? DeadJournal.com is a journal site (much like LiveJournal), but as you will quickly see, not all journals are apple pie and fruitcakes. Here is where you find the journals that nobody else wants to see, or even host. We love pissed off people, if you're a pissed off person who hates incompetence, please sign up now!
Who uses DeadJournal? All sorts of people use DeadJournal to record their rants and psychotic thoughts! To date, 22222 people used DeadJournal in the past 24 hours. Overall DeadJournal has over 495252 members and still growing! If stats and graphs interest you, check out our Stats Page."
11.21.2007
GoogleWhack
Here's a pastime for you... when you're extremely bored and have access to the internet...
What you do is type in two random words into a Google search and try to get just 1 result out of the search.
The top 10 (off the googlewhack website)
1. ruthless hindwater
2. longest ultramicrofiches
3. cumquat hindwater
4. nidd urps
5. magnetotails spacefaringWhat you do is type in two random words into a Google search and try to get just 1 result out of the search.
The top 10 (off the googlewhack website)
1. ruthless hindwater
2. longest ultramicrofiches
3. cumquat hindwater
4. nidd urps
6. snowcap whitemail
7. crystals gravispheres8. echoed dealignments
9. fabrication ultramicrofiches10. whitemail orbiter
Info from the site:
Info from the site:
"What? What?!
Visit Google. Submit a query of two words, but don't use quote marks. (Quotes tell Google to find the enclosed words immediately adjacent - and that's just too easy!) Use no punctuation in your words, and no numbers (just 26 letters from A through Z). Find two words that return one result, then see whether Whack agrees (Whack may not see the same results you see). Whack only accepts words between 4 and 30 characters in length. (Any shorter or longer, again, that's just too easy!) To add to The Whack Stack, please respect these simple guidelines (Whack decides; no exceptions).
What are the rules?
Rule Number One: Your two Googlefactors must exist in Google's view of this dictionary. Not your view; Google's view! Google does the work, and Google has the final word! In the blue bar atop your Google results, accepted terms are linked, and so appear 'underlined.' No line, no link = Googlejack! (As in, You've got jack, so see the FAQ :-)
Rule Number Two: Google also is the arbiter of a whack's uniqueness. Look to the right end of the blue bar atop your Google results. If you see "Results 1 - 1 of (any number),' you found exactly one hit = Googlewhack!
Rule Number Three: Google shows you an excerpt of the page you whacked. Look at that text. If it's merely a list of words (such as a bibliography, concordance, encyclopedia, glossary, thesaurus, dictionary, domain names, or plain old machine-generated random garbage), No Whack For You!
If your Googlefactors don't comply, some other whacker will certainly test them, then expose your treachery to all!
Entries in The Whack Stack that breach Rule Number Three will be marked WORDLIST :-(.
If you record offensive comments in The Whack Stack, I may remove or change them at my discretion.
Excessive stacking of the same word may cause Whack to ban the word automatically for over 48 hours.
Inappropriate use or abuse of the service may result in your whacks being removed. Deal with it.
Note: When you search Google, you may be able to find more reliable Googlewhacks by prefixing each word in your Google search with a "+" (for example, +endothelial +velveeta). It's not required, but may make whacking easier. Whack always has submitted queries that require an exact match. That is, Whack always has prefixed both words with "+" to require their presence, which (later, serendipitously) also avoided any stemming by Google. The rules here always have been correct; entries in The Whack Stack always have been consistent with the rules.
You're welcome to post your crack Googlewhack in The Whack Stack. To do so, first head over to Google to find a whack you like. Then, you can use Whack!, which checks the rules for you! (It will record a true success, but if you find more than a few results, it will send you to Google where you belong :-)
If you can't satisfy Whack!, you're welcome to post your slightly slack Googlewhack to QuickTopic. (This is especially for those hardcore Scrabble players who just know "That's a real word," even though Google's reference may not agree :-) "
http://www.googlewhack.com/
Visit Google. Submit a query of two words, but don't use quote marks. (Quotes tell Google to find the enclosed words immediately adjacent - and that's just too easy!) Use no punctuation in your words, and no numbers (just 26 letters from A through Z). Find two words that return one result, then see whether Whack agrees (Whack may not see the same results you see). Whack only accepts words between 4 and 30 characters in length. (Any shorter or longer, again, that's just too easy!) To add to The Whack Stack, please respect these simple guidelines (Whack decides; no exceptions).
What are the rules?
Rule Number One: Your two Googlefactors must exist in Google's view of this dictionary. Not your view; Google's view! Google does the work, and Google has the final word! In the blue bar atop your Google results, accepted terms are linked, and so appear 'underlined.' No line, no link = Googlejack! (As in, You've got jack, so see the FAQ :-)
Rule Number Two: Google also is the arbiter of a whack's uniqueness. Look to the right end of the blue bar atop your Google results. If you see "Results 1 - 1 of (any number),' you found exactly one hit = Googlewhack!
Rule Number Three: Google shows you an excerpt of the page you whacked. Look at that text. If it's merely a list of words (such as a bibliography, concordance, encyclopedia, glossary, thesaurus, dictionary, domain names, or plain old machine-generated random garbage), No Whack For You!
If your Googlefactors don't comply, some other whacker will certainly test them, then expose your treachery to all!
Entries in The Whack Stack that breach Rule Number Three will be marked WORDLIST :-(.
If you record offensive comments in The Whack Stack, I may remove or change them at my discretion.
Excessive stacking of the same word may cause Whack to ban the word automatically for over 48 hours.
Inappropriate use or abuse of the service may result in your whacks being removed. Deal with it.
Note: When you search Google, you may be able to find more reliable Googlewhacks by prefixing each word in your Google search with a "+" (for example, +endothelial +velveeta). It's not required, but may make whacking easier. Whack always has submitted queries that require an exact match. That is, Whack always has prefixed both words with "+" to require their presence, which (later, serendipitously) also avoided any stemming by Google. The rules here always have been correct; entries in The Whack Stack always have been consistent with the rules.
You're welcome to post your crack Googlewhack in The Whack Stack. To do so, first head over to Google to find a whack you like. Then, you can use Whack!, which checks the rules for you! (It will record a true success, but if you find more than a few results, it will send you to Google where you belong :-)
If you can't satisfy Whack!, you're welcome to post your slightly slack Googlewhack to QuickTopic. (This is especially for those hardcore Scrabble players who just know "That's a real word," even though Google's reference may not agree :-) "
http://www.googlewhack.com/
11.20.2007
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