Vainglorious Vicissitudes

I rather like this idea; I'm just a little too chicken to try it out yet. I'm scared of talking to strangers on the phone; usually I can manage it if I have a legitimate and fairly usual reason to be talking to them and can put this reason succinctly into words, but if I have something strange or complicated to request of them, I generally have to rehearse it in my head beforehand to avoid dissolving into stammers during the actual conversation. Being on the other end of a phone line from someone who doesn't know why I'm calling, when I don't know myself? I don't think I can manage that. Maybe if I were a better bullshit artist, but the fact is I hate lying, even for fun, unless it's to someone I don't expect to believe me for more than a moment.

Hmmm. Perhaps I could offer to sing songs at people. Or tell jokes. That wouldn't require bullshitting--or even explanation, for that matter, beyond "oh, I just had this whim." I wouldn't even have to tell people why I picked that particular number.

Some of you out there are probably braver than I. Do tell me if you think of something more amusing to do with this piece of randomness.

Okay...I normally don't link to posts on baaaaabyanimals because the whole community is so filled with cuteness I'd never stop, but this...is a special case.

Oh. Em. Eff. Gee.

It's like a dessert er somethin. With a kyoot little black nose.

*dies and iz ded*

Job posting just encountered on craigslist: "Branding Topic -- Looking for Submission"

*raises eyebrow*


Meanwhile, is it just me or does this ad sound kinda suspicious?

Art project and therapy in one. And there's a feed for it at post_secret.

(thanks to catamorphism for the link)

*glow* I believe I've just had a logicgasm. Anybody else who likes logic games should immediately check out The Self-Referential Aptitude Test. It is most wondrous.

Share your bad jokes. haggis_bagpipes needs a thousand of 'em.

Why? No particular reason. But hey, if we had anything better to do we wouldn't be on LJ, right?

There's just something wonderful about balloon hats.  Especially international balloon hats.

Hey angelbob, I think this would fit nicely into your theology. (If you're even reading LJ at the moment.)

Someone in Canada went and made a pronking robot!

(And to think I found out about this through amusingwords. That is fast becoming my favorite community.)

Finally, an icon generator with real depth of detail! The cartoonier ones are all well and good in their way, but I'd just about despaired of putting together an icon that would actually be recognizable as me. Thanks, kaligrrrl!