she's just saying...

Why we love the high desert

This is a Friday frylet freezlet for sure.

Happy Memorial Day weekend! Looks like a great weekend to stay in and knit.

Fri. frylet: where to post your status

This chart has been making the rounds and you know I love flowcharts so had to share. Click on the image to embiggen it.

Status conscious? Check out this social media flowchart.

Clever thoughts bubble up constantly, but what’s the right venue for all of them? Now you can consult this handy graphic to help make those hard choices among Google+, Foursquare, LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter. Dilemma solved!

This is all from the breakingcopy copywriting blog. Check it out.

 

Friday Frylet for Friday

The blogging service I use has a terrific spam filter for comments, so we're spared the weird ads for health aids, if you know what I mean. (I don't plan to attract more here.) But occasionally I get the the odd random comment from out of the blue. Like the one on my post about eyebrows that showed up today and reads:

Cheap True Religion Jeans said...

I saw a police cruiser going in that direction as fast as a cruiser can go on city streets last night around 9:30 and thought it was unusual that the city attorney packed his bag and left the council meeting around 10 or 10:15 pm.

A line from a bad cop show? A random private conversation? A weird guerrilla marketing ploy? Dunno. Mildly disturbing though. I want to know what went down in that town...

Of course I went to that website. It looks legit and all, but investigating further (on my lunch hour! really!), here's the copy for its Women's Jeans section:

The true religion bootcut was become the most favored jeans by the men of today,which comes with the unique style and the extreme comfort.In a successful womens true religion bootcut behind,there are a long and hard work.Due to the designers put great efforts and zeal into the design to make a product friendly to the men,it meets with considerable success.On the appearance of the jeans,you can see the finest cotton,lavish swarovski crystal buttons,rivets and other interesting accessories.This jeans also decorated with many exquisite detailed design,and from these design you can see designer's efforts.This kind of bootcut jeans is very great that worth you to owning.So many jeans for you to choose,just come here to pick your favorite up.

Hmm. I'm guessing not the company copywriter's original description. However, they are pretty cheap (and I'm sure they're not counterfeit), so if it's worth you to owning a behind friendly to the men, go for it!

Rattlesnake hits the High Desert, reports back

NOTE: By popular demand, I am reposting this from April 1st. However, please be aware that this is not funny. Or true. So don't send me any scolding emails. Thank you.

April 1, 2011, Bend, OR: Inspired by the Bronx Zoo's Cobra, one of our local rattlesnakes escaped from its exhibit yesterday to explore the town of Bend and its environs. However, after 24 hours on the loose, the viper returned and attempted to re-enter its enclosure, complaining that there was nothing new to see in the area.

Fresh from the twice-daily appearance in the hit show Venom & Vipers over spring break, the rattler thought it was time to break free and see what the big city had to offer this aspiring singer/actor/dancer.

"Really, what a let-down. B.Z.Cobra hit the Empire State Building, Times Square, Yankee Stadium. All I got to was the D&D, and they carded me. Drake Park was filled with geese - a little too messy if you know what I mean. I had to shed a skin just to clean up."

The viper continued: "It was way too far to Bachy*, plus I'd freeze my rattle off up there. Buying snow gear was going to cost an arm and a leg, neither of which I have."

"All I saw for miles around was sagebrush. I come from sagebrush! At least back here I get all the mice I want and have a 24-hour heatlamp. Plus I hang with the gila monsters - pretty cool dudes once they loosen up."

Museum officials were quick to reassure the public that the snake enclosure was secured. "HD TV and a Wii have been added to the exhibit so the snakes can exercise, although Wii Boxing is unavailable to them at this time for logistical reasons," said a spokesperson.

Image courtesy of Jill Rosell Photography - thanks, Jill!

*Mt. Bachelor for all you non-snowboarders.

Animals + alcohol = trouble

By popular demand (OK, my brother), this week's Friday Frylet will reprise one in the series of Melissa's Pet Disasters with the Eggnog story. Enjoy, and remember, don't let your pets drink and drive.

Just you wait...

Friday Frylet - literally

From Utterlyboring.com, an entertaining local website:

It's A Lot Warmer Today Than I Thought It Was Going To Be...

...but nothing like the 133° that KTVZ currently is reporting:

"KTVZ pulls the data from the National Weather Service beacon at the Bend airport, and obviously knows there's an issue. But it makes for some interesting graphs on the NWS feed from there:

Apparently the high in the last 24-hours was 176°. Looking at that graph, it looks like a nuke went off east of Bend."

Have you appreciated a squirrel today?

It's Squirrel Appreciation Day!

Actually, in my world every day is squirrel apprecation day. I love them - maybe it's because they're so cute, or maybe because it's so much fun to say the word.I even have a squirrel necklace. In any case, go give out some nuts.

 

By the light of the ammo candle...

This is definitely a Friday Frylet. Note the evocative color choices.

 

And have a Happy New Year!

Jumping the season

Sure feels like time for a Friday frylet, those little tasty remnants at the bottom of the french fry bag. A little salty nibble at the end of the week!

 

 Remember this? The Weebles reenacting the creche scene in a snowy Jerusalem? (Last time I posted this it generated some fascinating comments about the weather in the Mid-East, I recall.)

Anyway, you're warned. The countdown has begun...

Friday frylet from someone much more creative

I'm sick and grouchy and miserable right now (the cold inevitably became a raging sinus infection) so am not fit to write other than to go on about how crummy I feel and how I get no sympathy and have to keep a house, job, child and pets all going and I know you don't want to read that.

So instead I'll point you to a blog-friend's funny and creative slide show chronicling every day of his baby's first year. It's much snappier and wittier than that just sounded and goes very fast so check this out and enjoy.

Magnus - 365 so far with 102 to go... from Chris Kryzanek on Vimeo.

Today's pop quiz

Setting: 7:30 am on a busy Friday morning. Two boys looking at you expectantly, waiting for you to solve their argument.

Question:  A Rubik's cube has more combinations than the number of molecules on Earth. True or false?

Follow-up question:  How do you know?

Your answer?

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hotel sinks - an occasional series

Second sink shot for a Friday frylet (that makes it a series, right?) First was the trendy one in Portland.

This one is from that moderne hotel in Tacoma that offered the spiritual room service menu. This hotel, the Murano, specializes in glass, as in glass art and decor. (It's a tie-in with the Tacoma Museum of Glass - arty.) This is a lovely sink that shares the same problem as the Nines sink of the previous post, which is that it's too chic to mess up. I kept wiping up after myself for fear I'd leave water stains. Kinda defeats the point, but that's what you gotta do for art, I guess. Anyway, happy Friday.

Ooh, glassy!

 

Friday frylet: the birds

Bob better watch his back...

Just think if they were healthy

AP photo

Here's a rundown on the ailing Red Sox, who, even with some of their best players out, are tied for the fifth best record in baseball right now.

RED SOX INJURY STATUS

Player	Injury	Unofficial return date
Jacoby Ellsbury	Fractured ribs, strained back	Minimum 3 weeks
Josh Beckett	Strained back	5-10 days
Dustin Pedroia	Fractured bone in foot	2-3 weeks
Clay Buchholz	Strained hamstring	Next week
Manny Delcarmen	Strained forearm	2-3 days
Jeremy Hermida	Fractured ribs	Week to 10 days
Victor Martinez	Fractured thumb	1-2 weeks
Jason Varitek	Fractured bone in foot	2-4 weeks
Jed Lowrie	Mononucleosis	Rehab in Pawtucket
Mike Lowell	Strained hip	Indefinite

porky frylet

TGIF

It's been a rough week.

I've planted catnap

I think I figured out why my herbs aren't growing this year.

 

Feel like a frylet?

I know I do, 'cause it's Friday! 

Why I can't fold my laundry:

It's all Bob's fault.

Chart geek

I thought I'd ease back into this posting thing with a frylet. So tasty, so salty, so pleasing to find at the end of the workweek!

This is so much more clever than I could ever be. I stole it from here, a fascinating site for data wonks. To be of which I am proud.

Fri. frylet: bad kitty (PG-13)

Tiger Woods’ lawyers threatened to sue PETA if they used the campaign presented below. “We agree and have now turned the focus of our campaign to Mark Sanford,” said a PETA spokesman. The organization has confirmed that the new ad campaign for the South Carolina governor would feature the possible tagline,”Your dog doesn’t have to go to South America to get laid.”

 

(Media note: I got this from Facebook, posted by Cheryl, who got it from Entertainment Weekly who got it from Fox News who got it from the New York Post. I didn't dig deeper than that.)