This weird combination of creepy and lulz will probably strike a chord in those of us who grew up in the 80s (and early 90s), when you couldn't watch your Saturday morning cartoons without being reminded that every adult you didn't know was totally out to get you. Not that I'm saying you shouldn't teach kids vigilance, bad things go down every day that should remind us of the importance of that. There's just a fine line after which kids are afraid to leave the house.

But anyway, I just had to share this video because it takes on a whole new level if you've ever heard the "it's a trap!" meme. What kind of level? I don't even know. Enjoy?



And if you weren't around in the 80s (and early 90s), then here's a taste of how we were livin' back before Chris Hansen came along to catch predators for us. Now get off my lawn ya damn kids! >:O

YOU GUYS

YOU GUYS

THERE WAS A MOTHERFUCKING SNAKE IN MY MOTHERFUCKING SINK

THE KITCHEN SINK

JUST HANGING OUT THERE

WTFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

HOW DID HE GET IN THERE





He's actually really cute, though. He's (or she's, IDK) reeeeeally liiitttle. Like a living linguine noodle with stripes on it. He's now confined to an elaborate setup involving a tupperware container, a paper plate with holes punched in it, and duct tape. I'm going to let him go tomorrow when it's light outside.

But WTF, you guys. WTF.

Yes, yes, the market, I know, I know. Long story, mother needed help, so on and so forth. Long story.

This will probably be out of the blue for most of you. I didn't want to say anything about it until it was official, but now that it is...

Guess who has two thumbs and is now professionally licensed to perform real estate services in the state of Florida?

*points thumbs at self*

THIS GAL.



...so if you happen to know anybody in the Central Florida area in need of such services...

Comment on this post saying you want a letter - I'll give you one, then post to your journal your five favorite songs that begin with that letter - along with downloads if you like. Or music videos... whatever works!

Ari gave me "G". What do my favorite songs starting with this letter have in common? Almost all of them are at least ten years old.

( Video and download links under the cut! )

Not much to report about life in general. Somewhat injured myself after tripping over a dog and crashing on tile. Still really sore, but think I'm healing normally enough. So... yeah.

In related news, this "Collectonian" individual on Wikipedia is a pretentious doucherocket: "You were bold and added a new character, it was reverted." EL-OH-EL-OH-WAT.

Also, OMG this absolute gem (addressing a different person) on their discussion page: "Your post is seriously concerning me. Please tell me you did NOT create 1000+ articles by stealing content from a public domain source?" (Emphasis mine.)

Um. Um. Someone please tell me I'm not the only who sees the problem with this sentence.

So, on the upside, my brother's friend got the thing running again.

And on the downside, the computer no longer recognizes the speakers. WTF.

Also having that minor annoying special character issue that sometimes follows a Windows reinstall.

Argh.

It's been quite a while since I've done a "Things amaze me, my mind is blown!"-type post and it's high time!

So check this out. Scientists were able to revive super-tiny bacteria that were frozen for 120,000 years. That's simultaneously very cool and perhaps ever-so-vaguely worrisome, since that is how sci-fi movies start, after all. BTW, anyone else think of the original opening of Power Rangers when reading that? "After 10,000 120,000 years, I'm free! Time to conquer Earth!" What hath man wrought?! :O

But that's not even the biological tidbit that really blew my mind upon running into it recently. Please to be reading about the Turritopsis nutricula, AKA, the Immortal Jellyfish. You see, this creature actually reverses its life cycle after reproducing, thereby avoiding the death that usually await jellyfish at that stage, and it seems they may be able to lather, rinse, repeat indefinitely. Your mind is blown too, am I right? :D

If there is one person or more on your friends list who makes your world a better place just because they exist and who you would not have met (in real life or not) without the internet, then post this same sentence in your journal.

I'm... really not a great LJ friend. I don't comment around anywhere near as much as intended and go through long phases where I sort of drop off the radar and hardly make my presence known at all. (And you guys, if you don't hear from me, it's seriously because of my own issues, not because I don't like you anymore or something.) But I'm deeply glad to have met all of you and my world is definitely a better place for it.

The first TEN people to comment in this post get to request a drabble(/sketch) of any pairing/character of their choosing from me. In return, they have to post this in their journal, regardless of their ability level. If you absolutely can't write, I don't see why you wouldn't be able to offer drawings or icons or something instead.

Swiped from sir_hellsing

Addendum I : Fandoms you may choose from include anything you've seen me talk about or listed in my interests. Just ask if you're not sure if I know of it.

Addendum II: I reserve the right to make the response a graphic of some kind (sketch or icon) if I can't write about it. If I feel either is doable, I'll give you the option to pick.

Romance is a highly subjective thing. What warms the cockles of one person's heart can send the next person's cockles recoiling with a "Ew, that's just gross."

But I think most of us can agree that these guys are really, really doin' it wrong. (Although the first guy did sort of warm me... from all the lawling I was doing. The rest are less lolarious in their epic fail.)

(Site linked to me by the darling Sara.)

After reading a few of those, this song popped into my head for some reason (I guess it's vaguely related?), so it should be shared, too. And also because I f'ing love these videos:

They should invent a computer program that allows you to define modes of discussion you'd like to avoid engaging in, and if the program detects patterns in your typing to suggest you are, in fact, engaging in such a discussion, gives you a shock through your keyboard. That way you can say "I'm not going to discuss this further" and follow it with "Because my keyboard will hurt me."

Then headaches can be avoided all around! :D

=/

Also, SARA, if you see happen to see this entry: THAT VAMPIRE HIGH SHOW IS TERRIBLE.

I just got a spam email advertising free overnight shipping on Crocs.

1) Who the hell buys Crocs off the internet?

2) If you're buying Crocs... you should pay shipping.

I fucking hate math. :/

Yoinked from mollypocket:

Explain your RP usernames? OK.

( Cut for length. )

I love you.




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I NEED to share with you what shadmere shared with me. Srsly, just watch it:

I made a Hellsing RP dressing room sort of on a whim last night, because it occurred to me that the fandom didn't have one. Would anyone like to be a co-mod/maintainer? I know these things are generally free-form, but my modding experience is kinda lacking and it would good to have at least one other mod around in case there's a problem and I can't get to it in a timely fashion.

So, any takers?

The comm is question is here: hellsingdrssing

A really boring one, actually. It's a combination of my first name (Rachel) and middle name (Kathryn) that my parents have called me pretty much forever. I'd gone through several other internet aliases over the years before it and settled on this one with the idea that if someone were to give me a nickname based on my username (as happens) that it would be something based on my actual name, and therefore something I'd respond to better than some of the ones I'd been given in the past.

So, yeah. Pretty dull.

Swiped from abaddonnox. I think it's accurate in some ways, but not so much in others:

( And my daemon is... )