Substantive Contributions

Shameless self plug

2009-10-16T08:48:00.000-07:00

I just recently started a new blog. Head on over to Literasaurus if you have the chance!

Bakerella

2009-08-30T22:32:00.000-07:00

I totally promised this a long time ago, but here is a really awesome cupcake and dessert blog. It has recipes, secrets, tricks, and ideas that you can take! It's Bakerella and I'm totally loving it! I recently-ish made her fast food cupcakes and they were a huge success!!

She makes everything super easy by giving you step by step instructions with excellent photos, as well as ideas for getting creative on your own! Some of my favorites that I want to test out are:

Easy as Pie
Candy Cup Caps
Easter Cake Pops
Fourteen Layer Cake
Yellow Cake
Chocolate Souffle

Enjoy!

I'm on a roll and I can't stop now!

2009-08-30T22:26:00.000-07:00

Last one of the night, but here is Web Site Story, a parody of West Side Story on College Humor.

All RA Floor

2009-08-30T22:07:00.000-07:00

Wow. That was totally my life for a year. Ew. I hope I wasn't that bad. But I'm sure I was. :(

Star Wars...sorta...

2009-08-30T22:00:00.000-07:00

Star Wars: Retold (by someone who hasn't seen it) from Joe Nicolosi on Vimeo.

Wedding Processional

2009-08-30T21:54:00.000-07:00

I totally want to do this when I get married. It is SO cute!

What a plan for our future!

2009-08-30T02:03:00.001-07:00

MJ tribute

2009-07-10T19:56:00.001-07:00

So, if there is one thing I have learned in the past few weeks, it's that EVERYONE takes Michael Jackson's death very seriously. If it's not the people who think he was the greatest performer of all times, it's the people who firmly believe that he was a creepy child molester. Everyone is very firm on their stand of who MJ was.

I actually in the middle. I think he was a great pop star, but I think people are remembering what they want to remember because you're not supposed to speak ill of the dead.

However, this is one tribute page that I think EVERYONE can get behind. It focuses on the most important aspect of MJ's time in the spotlight - something everyone will remember him by. I can't stop watching it.

Michael Jackson Tribute

Don't hate me!!!

2009-06-22T23:42:00.000-07:00

Three reasons not to hate me:

1) I'm posting a new blog!

2) I found a new cupcake website that I'm going to talk about tomorrow (It's super-cute!)

and

3) I only want to see this movie because it's summer and I've unplugged my brain and I'm not thinking.

...and it looks really freaking funny!

What's the movie, you ask? Well, it's Zombieland.

Yeah...anyways, trailer is below, imdb is here, and official site is here.

Sorry guys...

2009-05-18T10:47:00.000-07:00

see more Fail Blog

New favorite website!

2009-04-30T19:26:00.000-07:00

I found this site today, and it is great! It searches flickr photos for a specific color palette that you choose. I love seeing what crazy colors people use in their photos. One of my favorite color examples is this one.

Multicolor Search Lab

Being prepared is overrated.

2009-04-14T15:02:00.000-07:00

So, it's the end of my last year in college. Wow. I wish I could say that I have been full of sadness at leaving this institution, but really, I just want to get out. I am very excited to leave, and I don't think I ever want to come back. Is that sad? I don't know. I have my last band and orchestra concerts of my career here coming up in the next few weeks. I'm looking forward to that. They are going to be really good, and you should come see them if you want to.

Anyways...yeah. That's all that's up with me. Wanting to leave and working on my senior project. And goofing off while I'm supposed to be working on my senior project.

For example, watching old episodes of Jeeves and Wooster (The picture is of Hugh Laurie as Bertie Wooster, and Stephen Fry as Jeeves). My new favorite part of the series is at about 7:35 until about 8:15 of this video. Gussie shows Bertie (Hugh Laurie, yes the guy who plays House) what the male newt does to propose marriage to the female. And then at about 0:26 until about 0:31 of this video. I don't really know why, but it made me laugh so hard that I had to pause the show. I (obviously) recommend that you watch the entire series, starting with this one. There is a person on youtube who has every single episode and many videos from the show "A Bit of Fry and Laurie." They are very fun, you should check them out.

So, now back to work...

*sigh*

I wish I wrote this

2009-04-02T15:37:00.000-07:00

Excerpts from:

Ten Surprisingly Common Causes Of Death In TV Hospitals

by Linda Holmes

Tonight is the end of ER. The end of an era, the end of the machine that made George Clooney famous, and the end of a fifteen-season run that was good for at least seven seasons. The show is presumably dying of pure fatigue, but how do the patients die? Let's take a look at the ways TV-hospital patients die that other people usually don't.

Heroism. Countless television hospital patients die of heroism every year. One minute, they are valiantly trying to save a cat, dog, old person, flower bed, bicycle, or lottery ticket, and the next, they are lying in a hospital bed while the monitors sing their mournful "eeeeeeeep" in the background. Worse yet, heroism often results in a slow expiration one hospital bed over from someone who is unafflicted with heroism -- say, a terrible bigot or someone unattractive -- who is going to live. These deaths are referred to in the literature as deaths by heroism with ironic complications.

Falling helicopters. As far as we know, there has been one death by falling helicopter in the history of hospital shows, and it took place on ER. But it would seem that, relative to the total number of casualties in ER history, even this likely overrepresents the prevalence of being crushed by a falling helicopter as a cause of death. The greater statistical anomaly, however, is that this happened to Dr. "Rocket" Romano, who had lost an arm to a helicopter blade only a season before he died of having an entire helicopter fall directly on him. You know how some people are unlucky at cards? He was unlucky at helicopters.

A terrible secret. Particularly on House, it is common for patients to die of A Terrible Secret. In many cases, the Terrible Secret is not life-threatening in itself, but the efforts to conceal the Terrible Secret cause the patient to die of something innocuous. For instance, if you conceal your penicillin allergy in the course of concealing the details of the way your penicillin allergy was discovered, you risk dying of A Terrible Secret.

Redemption. ER was particularly fond of having patients die of acute redemption. If you are admitted to the hospital as a wretched misanthrope but, during your stay, you meet a perky, freckled moppet who is keeping a sunny outlook on life, and if the moppet convinces you to become a better person, and you finally thank the hospital staff profusely for all they have done for you, you are showing telltale signs that you will soon die of redemption.

Career aspirations/creative differences. If you are a featured performer on a drama taking place in a TV hospital, your health may be endangered by your impending departure from the cast. This is how Mark Greene (Anthony Edwards) died of brain cancer on ER, and it is also what has given Izzie Stevens (Katherine Heigl) metastatic melanoma on Grey's Anatomy. Beware the termination of your contract.

A physician who does not love life. Selecting your physician is an important part of anyone's care, and a TV-hospital patient must be careful not to choose a physician who is unappreciative of some aspect of his or her life, particularly a romantic partner. There is a good chance that you will wind up teaching the TV doctor something about all that he or she has to be grateful for, and you will probably do so by dying. And you will probably die alone, because the lesson is more effective that way.

Old age complicated by quirkiness. The old and colorful live short lives at the TV hospital. Senior citizens admitted thereto must beware of marching to the beats of their own drummers, extolling the virtues of drinking or cigars, or flirting with young doctors. This kind of upbeat attitude combined with years of experience out in the world most often leads to dying peacefully in your sleep.

Sad montages. TV-hospital patients must learn to advocate for themselves, and should protest if they discover that surgery is to be performed as part of a montage accompanied by a song where the string section is prominently featured or where the only instrument in evidence is the piano.

Found on NPR

Super Mario

2009-03-29T16:22:00.000-07:00

You know how I love Mario. I absolutely love this video! It blends old-school Mario with live action Chicago.

Warp Whistle
Uploaded by MatthewDominick

New things! Yay!

2009-03-19T15:40:00.000-07:00

I changed some links from my "blogs I visit" page elements and I wanted to give a couple explanations:

If I took it down it means that I don't visit that site anymore, making it totally lame.

New ones:
Better Zits (see below for explanation)
Pearls Before Swine (the official blog of Stephen Pastis, creator of Pearls)
PSYCHEDELAJAWEA (a band that my friend is in from Portland, OR)
Daily Comics Review (see below)
and
The New Adventures of Queen Victoria (also see below)

I hope you enjoy them!

Heeheehee

2009-03-19T13:54:00.000-07:00

Thanks to Lolcelebs.

New websites that I've stumbled upon

2009-03-11T10:51:00.000-07:00

I have found some really great new sites that I wanted to share with you.

The first one is Better Zits. Some guy takes zits comics and changes a line to make it more amusing than it was before. Well, some of the time it is. I love the comic, so any "leg up" on their jokes it ok with me.

The next one is another comic called New Adventures of Queen Victoria. It illustrates what the former queen of England would do in modern times. Some of her friends are featured in the comic, too. They include The Virgin Mary, The Queen's mother Anne (who's head is um...not attached...), The Queen's son Edward, and many many more!

And this post would never be complete without a website that critiques comics like these, the Daily Comics Review. Occasionally vulgar, but freaking hilarious.

Enjoy!

Post Secret Rejects

2009-02-24T15:31:00.001-08:00

I just found this site that is full of post-secret reject postcards. It was all started with one I think we can all relate to...

It just gets me every time.

But here are some more I can just really relate to. Especially the last one. I didn't think I'd ever stop crying...it just perfectly captured all my emotions lately.

You should check it out. It reminds me that I'm not alone in the world, you know?

PostRejects

(Ps. When you check out the website, read the VERY bottom of the page for the details.)

Make your own Star Trek Story Line

2009-02-06T16:41:00.000-08:00

(Click to enlarge)

Music Video of the Week

2009-02-06T16:33:00.000-08:00

I ran into this music video and I thought that it was one of the best ones I've seen visually in a very long time. It made me want to watch it over and over again.

Hello from London!

2009-01-17T05:05:00.000-08:00

Hey there! I'm in London right now, and having a great time!! I'll post some pics when I get back, but I've been seeing shows and plays every night and many afternoons, and I'm having so much fun. It's weird being here. I've never been out of the country except for Canada, and this is a great experience for me!

Yeah, got to go, but I've already taken over 250 pictures, and I've only been here a week. Heehee.

Commercial of the Week

2009-01-02T14:37:00.000-08:00

I have absolutely no clue if this is a real commercial. I'm really hoping it's not. I mean, wouldn't someone take one look at this and say "Wow. That's a bad idea"? But who knows. Sorry for the inappropriate content.

Website of the Week

2008-12-26T12:42:00.000-08:00

Cake Wrecks

I stumbled upon this website last night, and I was laughing so hard that I was afraid I was going to wake up the house. It is a website that shows cake decorating disasters. I couldn't believe how many grocery store cakes look that bad and people will still buy them.

Here are some of my favorites...

"The mind, it boggles. Is this a frilly white Santa caterpillar, crawling up a red boulder?"

"Sorry, you can't have any"

"We'll wish you luck, but we don't have to be happy about it."

"Disaster was narrowly avoided at the Smith household today, when 3-year-old Billy took the instructions on his birthday cake a little too literally."

"Ah, the traditional 'Snake in a Flamenco Dress' turkey - of course.
But where are the castanets?"

"The mom-to-be was having triplets, so they ordered a cake with 'congratulations' written on it three times:
...Nice."

Check it out!

Pushpin Mario

2008-12-25T16:49:00.000-08:00

This is absolutely amazing!! I really want to do something like this. Anyone up for helping?

Here are more photos on flickr, you should check them out. (This is a scene from Super Mario Brothers 3 on NES - First level in the first world. Don't ask how I know that.)

Merry Christmas

2008-12-25T12:17:00.001-08:00

May you all have a wonderful Christmas and a happy New Year!