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fancy.</description><link>http://www.bowlofgranola.com/</link><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (Josh)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>143</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/BowlOfGranola" /><feedburner:info uri="bowlofgranola" /><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/" /><geo:lat>42.309998</geo:lat><geo:long>-71.111711</geo:long><feedburner:emailServiceId>BowlOfGranola</feedburner:emailServiceId><feedburner:feedburnerHostname>http://feedburner.google.com</feedburner:feedburnerHostname><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-245748072270330283.post-2944825059761632635</guid><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:49:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-27T15:46:59.096-05:00</atom:updated><title>This blog is, and always has been, entirely for sale</title><description>Hello world.  And by "world", I mean the one or perhaps two of you who  are negligent enough to have left this blog in your RSS feed.  Perhaps  you've done so out of affection for yours truly; perhaps you have  thousands of atrophied blogs in your Google Reader roll that you can't  bother to sort; or maybe you're my stalker, and you make a nightly habit  of pouring over these old entries in a dimly lit freight container down  by the docks, burning eye holes in photos of me with a lit cigarette.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Whatever  the reason, I'm disturbed by you.  You shouldn't be here.  There are  more enriching ways to spend your time.  Perhaps you're a candidate for  tropical fish ownership.  It's not much more exciting than checking in  on once-a-year-updates on an obscure blog, but at least you'll have  something to show girls when you bring them to your room.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.theperfectpicture.org.uk/galleries/tropical_fish_2_l/tropical_fish_40l.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 327px; height: 244px;" src="http://www.theperfectpicture.org.uk/galleries/tropical_fish_2_l/tropical_fish_40l.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:85%;" &gt;See, almost completely worthless.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since  you are here, and apparently have decided to wage on beyond the barrage  of verbal assaults I'm both writing and thinking right now, I can only  assume you're considering the purchase of BowlofGranola.com.  What a  shrewd business person you are.  What a captain of industry.  You, much  like a distant past version of myself, have recognized the potential for  profit in owning such a URL, and you are to be commended for your  acumen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You should know that when I got in to the blogging game, I  did not do so for frivolous reasons.  Much like a prospector recognizes  the financial potential in the hills of old timey California, I began  this endeavor with comical cartoon dollar signs dancing around my head  to a cacophony of cash register noises.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zU06R5F9o8w/TyMNE6OGpGI/AAAAAAAAAy4/w8vlelcQ3pY/s1600/Dollar-sign-eye.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 222px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zU06R5F9o8w/TyMNE6OGpGI/AAAAAAAAAy4/w8vlelcQ3pY/s320/Dollar-sign-eye.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5702415931180229730" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now that I have achieved all of my financial goals and am posting this  from my 100-foot yacht with a customized, stem-cell-infused, Rhino ivory hull,  I am ready to pass along this incomparable financial boon to you.   Think of all you could do with BowlofGranola.com.  You could start a  nutrition website.  You could start a website that sells bowls.  The  possibilities are literally endless.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you are a smart, attractive, business-savvy individual with above  average prowess in the bedroom, then you're the perfect candidate to own  this url.  Contact buythisurl@bowlofgranola.com today to start your new  life.  &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" &gt;You won't be sorry you did!&lt;/span&gt;*&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;* BowlofGranola.com is not responsible for the remorse you will  ultimately experience from purchase.  We are also not responsible for  any financial ruin, personal unhappiness, or general life-ruining that  results from this sale.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/245748072270330283-2944825059761632635?l=www.bowlofgranola.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BowlOfGranola/~4/qzjoNeh2j_4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BowlOfGranola/~3/qzjoNeh2j_4/this-blog-is-and-always-has-been.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Josh)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zU06R5F9o8w/TyMNE6OGpGI/AAAAAAAAAy4/w8vlelcQ3pY/s72-c/Dollar-sign-eye.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.bowlofgranola.com/2012/01/this-blog-is-and-always-has-been.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-245748072270330283.post-2232134204433999910</guid><pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 19:29:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-02-22T16:05:48.792-05:00</atom:updated><title>A new direction...</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.fiftiesweb.com/tv/howdy-doody-c.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 191px; height: 219px;" src="http://www.fiftiesweb.com/tv/howdy-doody-c.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:85%;" &gt;Howdy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A resounding "howdy" is more than overdue to all you lovely, patient denizens of the web's dark, dank nooks, crannies and corners.  Sadly, as I'm sure you've noticed from The Bowl's pitiful posting frequency, it looks like it too has fallen in to said disused nooks, crannies and corners.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But like the phoenix who must rise from the ashes, or the inebriate vagrant who must hit rock bottom before discovering a revolutionary new theory in quantum physics, so too must Bowl of Granola renew and revitalize.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the furtherance of this objective, I'd like to present three alternative themes for future content on this site.  If you do find the time to dust-off your RSS feeds and view this post, feel free to weigh-in on these prospective new directions for The Bowl.  If you have your own unique ideas about future content, get the hell out of here and start your own blog.  It's not hard.  Really.  I did it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1.  BoG Celebrity Breakfasts&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQM9LML8YpS5SWc9yQ1wpTDnF_qIARQIhxpZfobo-FAdoliP_cEkA&amp;amp;t=1"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 262px; height: 192px;" src="http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQM9LML8YpS5SWc9yQ1wpTDnF_qIARQIhxpZfobo-FAdoliP_cEkA&amp;amp;t=1" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:85%;" &gt;Nomnomnomnom...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Capitalizing on the intrinsic search engine value of the url www.BowlofGranola.com (one I've spent literally tens of dollars to maintain over the years), BoG Celebrity Breakfasts would scour the web for the very latest articles, tweets and posts on the dietary proclivities of today's brightest stars.  If Halle Berry enjoyed a hearty portion of Muesli in West Hollywood last Tuesday, the public deserves to know.  If Michael Cain paused on a London street corner to nosh on a Clif bar, The Bowl will post, syndicate, aggregate and repost.  The fertile grounds of Hollywood breakfast gossip are ripe for the plow, and Bowl of Granola has the perfect opportunity to get in on the ground level before mainstream sites like the Huffington Post and CNN.com snatch up all the market share.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2.  Bowl of Granola's Above Average Pet Adoptions&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.thesisterteam.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Adopt_Me1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 268px; height: 310px;" src="http://www.thesisterteam.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Adopt_Me1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:85%;" &gt;Not so fast there, buddy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let's face it, animal shelters are filled with hundreds, if not thousands of adorably homeless pets.  That said, not all of these fuzzy friends are created equal.  What originally appeared as a bright and sociable tabby can eventually become nothing but a fluffy burden of only mediocre intelligence.  For the discerning adopter, Above Average Pet Adoptions weeds out the chaff.  Our series of patent-pending animal IQ and personality tests apply a rigorous set of standards that take all of the annoying guess-work out of adopting a pet.  Never again wonder if that adorable beagle could ever really learn to balance a rubber ball on his nose.  Above Average Pet Adoptions selects only the very best and brightest forsaken animals to feature for adoption.  &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Above Average Pet Adoptions - The Only "Natural Selection" You'll Ever Have to Make&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;3.   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;[insert niche porn category site here]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nm9ySucveA8/TEYgGF9iEWI/AAAAAAAAAOo/uC62nczWcEk/s1600/unicorn1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 269px; height: 201px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nm9ySucveA8/TEYgGF9iEWI/AAAAAAAAAOo/uC62nczWcEk/s1600/unicorn1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);font-size:85%;" &gt;If you tilt your head at just the right angle...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Much like overfilled animal shelters are a harsh, but unavoidable reality of life, so too are the swaths of niche pornography websites available on the internet.  This idea is admittedly the most underdeveloped of the three, but it's also worth noting that it has the most potential to provide a return on my to-date investment of both time and approximately $25 in BowlofGranola.com.  I'm not sure what sort of niche a pornography site called BowlofGranola.com would fill, but I'd certainly be interested to find out.  Maybe it would feature animated gifs of attractive people eating cereal in the nude (note the potential crossover with idea #1).  Or it could abandon the url's theme entirely and create a long-overdue home for Crypto-zoological-philiacs (those who fantasize about intercourse with Unicorns, Dragons, etc...).  It's too early to say what my porn empire will ultimately look like, but it's not too early to say that it &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;will&lt;/span&gt; afford me a gold-plated XBOX.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Because otherwise, what's the point?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/245748072270330283-2232134204433999910?l=www.bowlofgranola.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BowlOfGranola/~4/5FUUWrzVmIc" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BowlOfGranola/~3/5FUUWrzVmIc/new-direction.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Josh)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_nm9ySucveA8/TEYgGF9iEWI/AAAAAAAAAOo/uC62nczWcEk/s72-c/unicorn1.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>2</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.bowlofgranola.com/2011/02/new-direction.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-245748072270330283.post-7436053148450246796</guid><pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2010 21:53:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-10-21T17:56:02.265-04:00</atom:updated><title>Boredom in Perpetuity</title><description>So, it being nearly a year since my last post, I thought I'd drop back in and say hello. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I bring you today, a delightful song parody written by yours truly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This was inspired by a post on a gaming forum I frequent titled "The Day Games Died".  It got stuck in my head and resulted in the following:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A long, long time ago...&lt;br /&gt;I can still remember&lt;br /&gt;How my XBOX used to make me smile.&lt;br /&gt;And I knew if I had my way&lt;br /&gt;I could play most every day.&lt;br /&gt;And, maybe, I’d be happy for a while.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But three red rings, they wrecked my morning,&lt;br /&gt;Crashed my rig and gave no warning.&lt;br /&gt;Those little lights were once green,&lt;br /&gt;Now I'm staring at a blank screen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, I can’t remember if I cried&lt;br /&gt;When Master Chief's death was implied,&lt;br /&gt;But something touched me deep inside&lt;br /&gt;The day my XBOX died.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh why, why, did my three-sixty fry?&lt;br /&gt;Lost all control of my console,&lt;br /&gt;Now I just want to cry.&lt;br /&gt;And I get no help from their lame tech support guy.&lt;br /&gt;He says my warrantee expired last July.&lt;br /&gt;My warrantee expired last July.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Did you play Oblivion,&lt;br /&gt;And shoot-off fireballs just for fun,&lt;br /&gt;Or was your character melee?&lt;br /&gt;Or do you excel at C.O.D.,&lt;br /&gt;And let grenades fly far and free,&lt;br /&gt;With enough kills for a thousand UAVs?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, I thought that I should try a Wii&lt;br /&gt;or just go get a PS3.&lt;br /&gt;But I just bought a year of Live,&lt;br /&gt;They pressured me to subscribe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now I'll spend way more than a buck&lt;br /&gt;To fix this deluge of bad luck.&lt;br /&gt;Damn, the whole world sure did suck,&lt;br /&gt;The day my XBOX died.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I started singin’,&lt;br /&gt;Why, why, did my three-sixty fry?&lt;br /&gt;Lost all control of my console,&lt;br /&gt;Now I just want to cry.&lt;br /&gt;And I get no help from their lame tech support guy.&lt;br /&gt;He says my warrantee expired last July.&lt;br /&gt;My warrantee expired last July.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now for one month I was on my own&lt;br /&gt;While I just sat there and bitched and moaned,&lt;br /&gt;Cause' that's just how it had to be.&lt;br /&gt;While the techies solder, prod and poke,&lt;br /&gt;Laughing at this cosmic joke.&lt;br /&gt;Cause' my fee, it pays their salary.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh and while my three-sixty was down,&lt;br /&gt;I was the saddest kid in town.&lt;br /&gt;I had just bought GTA,&lt;br /&gt;but had no means to play!&lt;br /&gt;And while my friend edits his avatar,&lt;br /&gt;and a "Hero" played his fake guitar,&lt;br /&gt;All I had was NPR,&lt;br /&gt;The day my XBOX died.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We were singing,&lt;br /&gt;Why, why, did my three-sixty fry?&lt;br /&gt;Lost all control of my console,&lt;br /&gt;Now I just want to cry.&lt;br /&gt;And I get no help from their lame tech support guy.&lt;br /&gt;He says my warrantee expired last July.&lt;br /&gt;My warrantee expired last July.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Smackdown, Crackdown I'll just have to back down,&lt;br /&gt;Fallout will wait while I sit with a slacked frown,&lt;br /&gt;Watching my XBOX gather dust.&lt;br /&gt;I'll no longer be Left 4 Dead,&lt;br /&gt;Only slaughter zombies in my head,&lt;br /&gt;While the Gears of War will slowly start to rust.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now instead of playing Bioshock,&lt;br /&gt;I'm stuck here staring at the clock.&lt;br /&gt;No genes around to splice,&lt;br /&gt;Or junkies to freeze in ice!&lt;br /&gt;So The Big Daddies are forced to yield,&lt;br /&gt;And the doors to Rapture all are sealed.&lt;br /&gt;My low HP just can't be healed,&lt;br /&gt;The day my XBOX died.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We were singing,&lt;br /&gt;Why, why, did my three-sixty fry?&lt;br /&gt;Lost all control of my console,&lt;br /&gt;Now I just want to cry.&lt;br /&gt;And I get no help from their lame tech support guy.&lt;br /&gt;He says my warrantee expired last July.&lt;br /&gt;My warrantee expired last July.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh, once we were all in one place,&lt;br /&gt;Connected through cyberspace&lt;br /&gt;Sporting censored gamertags.&lt;br /&gt;So come on: Microsoft please fix it quick!&lt;br /&gt;Don't drag your ass and act like pricks.&lt;br /&gt;Because Sony and Nintendo can contend.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh, but hey that looks like UPS!&lt;br /&gt;With a package for my stoop to bless.&lt;br /&gt;Was that just my doorbell?&lt;br /&gt;Oh god, I'm through this hell!&lt;br /&gt;As I swung the door with sheer delight,&lt;br /&gt;I stumbled on a loathsome sight&lt;br /&gt;They didn't have the address right,&lt;br /&gt;The day my XBOX died.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We were singing,&lt;br /&gt;Why, why, did my three-sixty fry?&lt;br /&gt;Lost all control of my console,&lt;br /&gt;Now I just want to cry.&lt;br /&gt;And I get no help from their lame tech support guy.&lt;br /&gt;He says my warrantee expired last July.&lt;br /&gt;My warrantee expired last July.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I tried to play my PS2,&lt;br /&gt;Then sit and watch some Doctor Who,&lt;br /&gt;But it was just not the same.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So I went straight down to my Gamestop,&lt;br /&gt;And brought some games that I could swap&lt;br /&gt;But I left there empty-handed, full of shame.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And back on Live, the PWNers reveled&lt;br /&gt;The children cussed and the noobies leveled,&lt;br /&gt;I could not have spoken,&lt;br /&gt;My XBOX still was broken.&lt;br /&gt;And while the gamers I admire most&lt;br /&gt;Lost connection to their host,&lt;br /&gt;I went to Tweet a nasty post.&lt;br /&gt;The day my XBOX died.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And they were singing,&lt;br /&gt;Why, why, did my three-sixty fry?&lt;br /&gt;Lost all control of my console,&lt;br /&gt;Now I just want to cry.&lt;br /&gt;And I get no help from their lame tech support guy.&lt;br /&gt;He says my warrantee expired last July.&lt;br /&gt;My warrantee expired last July.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They were singing,&lt;br /&gt;Why, why, did my three-sixty fry?&lt;br /&gt;Lost all control of my console,&lt;br /&gt;Now I just want to cry.&lt;br /&gt;And I get no help from their lame tech support guy.&lt;br /&gt;He says my warrantee expired last July.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/245748072270330283-7436053148450246796?l=www.bowlofgranola.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BowlOfGranola/~4/UdzWn0XB7TU" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BowlOfGranola/~3/UdzWn0XB7TU/boredom-in-perpetuity.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Josh)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.bowlofgranola.com/2010/10/boredom-in-perpetuity.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-245748072270330283.post-5847503466907836078</guid><pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:02:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-12-08T10:04:01.267-05:00</atom:updated><title>Royal Gaga</title><description>So I know I haven't posted in forever, and I might not post much in the days to come, but this....this requires a post:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/Sx5q2OOX-jI/AAAAAAAAAv4/OmQqu9jTs6A/s1600-h/6a00d8341c730253ef0120a729221a970b-800wi.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 318px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/Sx5q2OOX-jI/AAAAAAAAAv4/OmQqu9jTs6A/s400/6a00d8341c730253ef0120a729221a970b-800wi.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5412881281909783090" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No, your eyes aren't playing tricks.  That is indeed Lady Gaga curtseying to the Queen of Freeking England.  Now I've seen eeeeevvvvrything.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/245748072270330283-5847503466907836078?l=www.bowlofgranola.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BowlOfGranola/~4/WgZEm3dct9E" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BowlOfGranola/~3/WgZEm3dct9E/royal-gaga.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Josh)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/Sx5q2OOX-jI/AAAAAAAAAv4/OmQqu9jTs6A/s72-c/6a00d8341c730253ef0120a729221a970b-800wi.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>3</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.bowlofgranola.com/2009/12/royal-gaga.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-245748072270330283.post-7312704633788240575</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:41:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-30T11:42:29.227-04:00</atom:updated><title>The Hey Jude Flowchart - Charttastic</title><description>I think the following speaks for itself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/SusJRc7pbrI/AAAAAAAAAvw/4P5AI9Xw2Kk/s1600-h/hey-jude-flow-chart-20091029-133742.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/SusJRc7pbrI/AAAAAAAAAvw/4P5AI9Xw2Kk/s400/hey-jude-flow-chart-20091029-133742.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5398418773762469554" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.makemymood.com"&gt;Via.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/245748072270330283-7312704633788240575?l=www.bowlofgranola.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BowlOfGranola/~4/E--hdTyN7Fg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BowlOfGranola/~3/E--hdTyN7Fg/hey-jude-flowchart-charttastic.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Josh)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/SusJRc7pbrI/AAAAAAAAAvw/4P5AI9Xw2Kk/s72-c/hey-jude-flow-chart-20091029-133742.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.bowlofgranola.com/2009/10/hey-jude-flowchart-charttastic.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-245748072270330283.post-6228305451202767520</guid><pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:33:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-23T10:41:48.782-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">design inspiration</category><title>Burning City Firescreens - Friday Design Inspiration</title><description>Apologies for the light volume of updates this week folks.  BoG is a labor of love, and sometimes it falls victim to labors of money, video game experience points and Facebook Scrabble.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That said, here's a little designy goodness to get you through the weekend.  These awesomely apocalyptic creations are right at the top of my Christmahaunakwanzica list this year.  I'm talking to you, Black Menorah Santa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/SuHACNit3SI/AAAAAAAAAvo/KtK0ZDPqxKI/s1600-h/firescreenbbm1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/SuHACNit3SI/AAAAAAAAAvo/KtK0ZDPqxKI/s400/firescreenbbm1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395804972794109218" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/SuHAB8Xig4I/AAAAAAAAAvg/L9Rrtd8HNRs/s1600-h/firescreenbbm-comp.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/SuHAB8Xig4I/AAAAAAAAAvg/L9Rrtd8HNRs/s400/firescreenbbm-comp.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395804968183825282" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh, and can you also bring me a working fireplace?  Yes, I'm well aware of the irony of asking Santa for a fireplace, but still, I've been moderately good this year and I think I deserve it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Thanks to the folks at &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.makemymood.com/2009/10/19/burning-cities-firescreen/"&gt;MakeMyMood.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; for the tip.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/245748072270330283-6228305451202767520?l=www.bowlofgranola.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BowlOfGranola/~4/W60rKJIPgWI" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BowlOfGranola/~3/W60rKJIPgWI/burning-city-firescreens-friday-design.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Josh)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/SuHACNit3SI/AAAAAAAAAvo/KtK0ZDPqxKI/s72-c/firescreenbbm1.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.bowlofgranola.com/2009/10/burning-city-firescreens-friday-design.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-245748072270330283.post-6349286840929787669</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:21:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-21T09:21:00.148-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">youtube vault</category><title>Close Call - The YouTube Vault</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/St3HhRCu0VI/AAAAAAAAAvY/AIXbh_ccLmw/s1600-h/YoutubeVault_logo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 210px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/St3HhRCu0VI/AAAAAAAAAvY/AIXbh_ccLmw/s400/YoutubeVault_logo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394687302984192338" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/BO2rW1alVv8&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;color2=0xfebd01"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/BO2rW1alVv8&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;color2=0xfebd01" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/245748072270330283-6349286840929787669?l=www.bowlofgranola.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BowlOfGranola/~4/MBBH8dcG2YI" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BowlOfGranola/~3/MBBH8dcG2YI/close-call-youtube-vault.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Josh)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/St3HhRCu0VI/AAAAAAAAAvY/AIXbh_ccLmw/s72-c/YoutubeVault_logo.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.bowlofgranola.com/2009/10/close-call-youtube-vault.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-245748072270330283.post-3475062147807153255</guid><pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:55:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-16T11:57:00.058-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">youtube vault</category><title>Drunk Guy Fail - The YouTube Vault</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/StiXlfnZUpI/AAAAAAAAAvM/BDRWuIn-X0w/s1600-h/YoutubeVault_logo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 210px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/StiXlfnZUpI/AAAAAAAAAvM/BDRWuIn-X0w/s400/YoutubeVault_logo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5393227224173859474" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/JqHOE1gD4WQ&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;rel=0&amp;amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;amp;color2=0xfebd01"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/JqHOE1gD4WQ&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;rel=0&amp;amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;amp;color2=0xfebd01" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqHOE1gD4WQ&amp;amp;feature=player_embedded"&gt;Link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/245748072270330283-3475062147807153255?l=www.bowlofgranola.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BowlOfGranola/~4/pvIr80C3SmE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BowlOfGranola/~3/pvIr80C3SmE/drunk-guy-fail-youtube-vault.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Josh)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/StiXlfnZUpI/AAAAAAAAAvM/BDRWuIn-X0w/s72-c/YoutubeVault_logo.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.bowlofgranola.com/2009/10/drunk-guy-fail-youtube-vault.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-245748072270330283.post-3007822386395350666</guid><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:31:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-15T10:47:43.311-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">depths of the net</category><title>Book of Odds - Depths of the Net</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/Stc10pobvFI/AAAAAAAAAu8/va_BF8oyZGM/s1600-h/depths.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 124px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/Stc10pobvFI/AAAAAAAAAu8/va_BF8oyZGM/s400/depths.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392838257444371538" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For this week's startling Depths of the Net, we bring you the &lt;a href="http://www.bookofodds.com"&gt;Book of Odds&lt;/a&gt;.  This handy little site can calculate the odds of almost any random occurance.  For example did you know that your chances of....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Visiting the emergency room for a drinking straw-related injury are&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;1 in 166,600&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Drowning at work, regardless of your profession, are&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;1 in 91.47&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Having a clothes dryer in your house are&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;1 in 1.29&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Being injured on a mountain bike, if you're a regular mountain biker are&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;1 in 837.7&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/Stc11GCAI_I/AAAAAAAAAvE/chNIEq2w0Ds/s1600-h/odds.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 317px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/Stc11GCAI_I/AAAAAAAAAvE/chNIEq2w0Ds/s400/odds.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392838265067807730" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The site is filled with a seemingly endless stream of similar statistics, most of which are garnered from census data and past surveys.  Check it out.  Not a bad way to burn an hour.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/245748072270330283-3007822386395350666?l=www.bowlofgranola.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BowlOfGranola/~4/l6_i6d3E9jg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BowlOfGranola/~3/l6_i6d3E9jg/book-of-odds-depths-of-net.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Josh)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/Stc10pobvFI/AAAAAAAAAu8/va_BF8oyZGM/s72-c/depths.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.bowlofgranola.com/2009/10/book-of-odds-depths-of-net.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-245748072270330283.post-4517086033492806754</guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:43:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-14T16:44:29.087-04:00</atom:updated><title>Best. Tattoo.  Ever.</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/StY4EHDW5HI/AAAAAAAAAu0/_LW8VW-OJyo/s1600-h/ronburgandytattoo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 299px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/StY4EHDW5HI/AAAAAAAAAu0/_LW8VW-OJyo/s400/ronburgandytattoo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392559247086511218" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are no words.  I wept openly when I saw this tattoo.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/245748072270330283-4517086033492806754?l=www.bowlofgranola.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BowlOfGranola/~4/HqYfQDFHqNU" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BowlOfGranola/~3/HqYfQDFHqNU/best-tattoo-ever.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Josh)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/StY4EHDW5HI/AAAAAAAAAu0/_LW8VW-OJyo/s72-c/ronburgandytattoo.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.bowlofgranola.com/2009/10/best-tattoo-ever.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-245748072270330283.post-7926251759551723292</guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:51:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-14T11:54:32.085-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">design inspiration</category><title>Hand Painting - Daily Design Inspiration</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/StXz_LdvDhI/AAAAAAAAAus/tYhfUMkuYiU/s1600-h/image019.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 273px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/StXz_LdvDhI/AAAAAAAAAus/tYhfUMkuYiU/s400/image019.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392484395580853778" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/StXz-7bePvI/AAAAAAAAAuk/c3d7e59CXb8/s1600-h/image007.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 273px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/StXz-7bePvI/AAAAAAAAAuk/c3d7e59CXb8/s400/image007.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392484391276396274" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/StXz-brdZBI/AAAAAAAAAuc/lYkZZISsEiY/s1600-h/image005.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 273px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/StXz-brdZBI/AAAAAAAAAuc/lYkZZISsEiY/s400/image005.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392484382753514514" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/StXz-Ce3DII/AAAAAAAAAuU/v_mYT1iClFI/s1600-h/image003.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 274px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/StXz-Ce3DII/AAAAAAAAAuU/v_mYT1iClFI/s400/image003.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392484375989783682" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/StXz9jxLHlI/AAAAAAAAAuM/0wpLfTl_WQU/s1600-h/image001.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 273px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/StXz9jxLHlI/AAAAAAAAAuM/0wpLfTl_WQU/s400/image001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392484367745097298" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These are freeking awesome.  You can view the entire gallery over at &lt;a href="http://www.thatwasfunny.com/hand-painting/1082"&gt;ThatWasFunny.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/245748072270330283-7926251759551723292?l=www.bowlofgranola.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BowlOfGranola/~4/Z2Cv2CyvwK0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BowlOfGranola/~3/Z2Cv2CyvwK0/hand-painting-daily-design-inspiration.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Josh)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/StXz_LdvDhI/AAAAAAAAAus/tYhfUMkuYiU/s72-c/image019.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.bowlofgranola.com/2009/10/hand-painting-daily-design-inspiration.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-245748072270330283.post-3645579002383305659</guid><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:53:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-13T14:53:00.664-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">youtube vault</category><title>Bullet Impacts - The YouTube Vault</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/StSinWe_UpI/AAAAAAAAAuE/soNlkSL_Udw/s1600-h/YoutubeVault_logo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 210px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/StSinWe_UpI/AAAAAAAAAuE/soNlkSL_Udw/s400/YoutubeVault_logo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392113450803483282" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/QfDoQwIAaXg&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;color2=0xfebd01"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/QfDoQwIAaXg&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;color2=0xfebd01" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/245748072270330283-3645579002383305659?l=www.bowlofgranola.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BowlOfGranola/~4/t4BH6UUZPcE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BowlOfGranola/~3/t4BH6UUZPcE/bullet-impacts-youtube-vault.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Josh)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/StSinWe_UpI/AAAAAAAAAuE/soNlkSL_Udw/s72-c/YoutubeVault_logo.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.bowlofgranola.com/2009/10/bullet-impacts-youtube-vault.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-245748072270330283.post-6728043702646138244</guid><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:37:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-13T11:41:25.067-04:00</atom:updated><title>Smart-Ass Test Answers</title><description>Thanks to Katie for providing today's two scoops of hilarity.  &lt;a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5739781"&gt;Buy things from her&lt;/a&gt; to show your gratitude.  Do it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/StSe3N5NqNI/AAAAAAAAAt8/EA_UCcOsS3U/s1600-h/-8.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 399px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/StSe3N5NqNI/AAAAAAAAAt8/EA_UCcOsS3U/s400/-8.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392109325328951506" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/StSe2pr0NpI/AAAAAAAAAt0/2Mxb4cpLhcc/s1600-h/-7.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 199px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/StSe2pr0NpI/AAAAAAAAAt0/2Mxb4cpLhcc/s400/-7.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392109315609081490" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/StSe2X6tozI/AAAAAAAAAts/KovbU194Sp8/s1600-h/-6.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 186px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/StSe2X6tozI/AAAAAAAAAts/KovbU194Sp8/s400/-6.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392109310839726898" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/StSexa5Tp5I/AAAAAAAAAtk/xZ-J0UyDFWg/s1600-h/-5.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 79px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/StSexa5Tp5I/AAAAAAAAAtk/xZ-J0UyDFWg/s400/-5.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392109225739790226" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/StSew5gOItI/AAAAAAAAAtc/mQ6XZEq4gDc/s1600-h/-4.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 367px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/StSew5gOItI/AAAAAAAAAtc/mQ6XZEq4gDc/s400/-4.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392109216776200914" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/StSewY-jt5I/AAAAAAAAAtU/zhO-vgZhBQ4/s1600-h/-3.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 87px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/StSewY-jt5I/AAAAAAAAAtU/zhO-vgZhBQ4/s400/-3.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392109208045074322" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/StSev_2fYFI/AAAAAAAAAtM/DXBFkaIknvI/s1600-h/-2.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/StSev_2fYFI/AAAAAAAAAtM/DXBFkaIknvI/s400/-2.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392109201300349010" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/StSevvm2zLI/AAAAAAAAAtE/ikLdxPMkN8U/s1600-h/-1.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/StSevvm2zLI/AAAAAAAAAtE/ikLdxPMkN8U/s400/-1.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392109196939807922" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/245748072270330283-6728043702646138244?l=www.bowlofgranola.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BowlOfGranola/~4/htayTwZz5iE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BowlOfGranola/~3/htayTwZz5iE/smart-ass-test-answers.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Josh)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/StSe3N5NqNI/AAAAAAAAAt8/EA_UCcOsS3U/s72-c/-8.jpeg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.bowlofgranola.com/2009/10/smart-ass-test-answers.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-245748072270330283.post-3849790830350880351</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:58:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-12T07:58:00.184-04:00</atom:updated><title>What is Columbus Day? - Fictitious History Lessons</title><description>It is with great excitement and also excitedness that I wish you all a very happy Columbus Day.  Now many of you, like myself, haven't the first clue what this holiday celebrates.  Well my friends, that's all about to not change!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So sit forward, tense up and get ready to learn things that are totally untrue about most people's 3rd favorite Monday holiday, Columbus Day!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Origin:  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's always good to begin at the beginning and present cited facts about historical records, so I won't.  Columbus Day, named after time-machine-enthusiast Timmy Columbus, marks the anniversary of the completion of the Great Pyramid of Giza.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Literally hundreds of years ago, right after Cleopatra contracted the first-recorded case of syphilis from sexy aliens that built the pyramids, Timmy Columbus showed up at Cleopatra's house.  While attempting to visit the distant future, he mistakenly set his time machine clock to whatever year she was living in.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;His time machine ended up materializing in her bathtub.  Thankfully she was out for a walk with King Tut at the time, so no one was injured except for only ten of her bathroom servants who died.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When she returned from her walk, she sent King Tut to the Ancient Egypt Store to buy some beer or something.  Upon entering her bathroom, she discovered Timmy Columbus, who had passed out from all the brain-scrambling time travel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then she killed him with sex and used his ground-up bones to finish the last block on top of the Pyramid.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Observance:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many people observe Columbus Day, most of them with their eyes.  The blind also celebrate, but they do so privately.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In America, until the late 19th Century it was custom to chase pigeons on Columbus Day.  Today, it is considered cruel for adults to chase pigeons, but Americans have been doing so since the late 19th Century, in celebration of Columbus Day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Food:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Columbus Day revelers never eat on Columbus Day.  It is one of the many ways Columbus Day is like lent or some other religious fasting thing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Clothing:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Clothing is important to wear.  If you don't wear clothing, you could be burnt somewhere bad, or end up in jail.  And remember, from each dollar you spend on clothing 10 cents is used to starve children. (see above)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Animals:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There's nothing special to mention about animals on Columbus Day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/Ss5ck0q5fcI/AAAAAAAAAs8/u-I8L9m9DKk/s1600-h/Columbus.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/Ss5ck0q5fcI/AAAAAAAAAs8/u-I8L9m9DKk/s400/Columbus.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5390347591692680642" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So there you have it.  I bet you never knew you never knew so much about Columbus Day, and guess what?  You still don't!  Enjoy the day.  Drink, don't eat, wear clothes and thank Timmy Columbus, without whom Cleopatra's bathtub might still be around today.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/245748072270330283-3849790830350880351?l=www.bowlofgranola.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BowlOfGranola/~4/K8bV_jB6vtA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BowlOfGranola/~3/K8bV_jB6vtA/what-is-columbus-day-fictitious-history.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Josh)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/Ss5ck0q5fcI/AAAAAAAAAs8/u-I8L9m9DKk/s72-c/Columbus.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.bowlofgranola.com/2009/10/what-is-columbus-day-fictitious-history.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-245748072270330283.post-5039530558169862568</guid><pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 12:46:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-11T08:46:00.840-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">wicked stupid hats</category><title>Wicked Stupid Hat of the Day</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/Ss5PzLnpyKI/AAAAAAAAAs0/mmzEdXcPV7I/s1600-h/madonnahat.jpeg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 250px; height: 350px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/Ss5PzLnpyKI/AAAAAAAAAs0/mmzEdXcPV7I/s400/madonnahat.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5390333544720091298" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As the Queen of calculated fashion risks, Madonna generally has her finger on the pulse of today's hip-hoppity, jazzy-fresh, 20-sumpin' style trends.  Many items from her iconic wardrobe age like fine wine, complemented by classic style and elegance. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is not one of those items.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What the hell is on her head?  Could it be a teal seabird thrashing for its life in a twisted ocean of golden locks?  Perhaps a fashion-forward (and teal, did I mention teal?) symbiotic alien thing, a Venom/Versace hybrid if you will, trying to suck out what little grey matter is left up there? &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Seriously Madonna, this hat is wicked stupid.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/245748072270330283-5039530558169862568?l=www.bowlofgranola.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BowlOfGranola/~4/QOemyRUAW_4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BowlOfGranola/~3/QOemyRUAW_4/wicked-stupid-hat-of-day_11.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Josh)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/Ss5PzLnpyKI/AAAAAAAAAs0/mmzEdXcPV7I/s72-c/madonnahat.jpeg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.bowlofgranola.com/2009/10/wicked-stupid-hat-of-day_11.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-245748072270330283.post-6516343691548566058</guid><pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 10:08:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-10T06:08:00.299-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">brb</category><title>BRB - Cape Cod Extravaganza</title><description>Hello internets!  This very special message comes to you from Past Josh.  I know what you're thinking, and no, I haven't perfected my homemade time travel device (which reminds me, does anyone know where I can find some weapons-grade plutonium and an old claw foot bathtub?).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No, this very special message comes from Thursday Josh who, in an impressive display of foresight, decided to create and schedule this entry before a much needed long-weekend-long sojourn to Cape Cod, MA.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/Ss5OIPRGuCI/AAAAAAAAAss/-zMVw_0MW3s/s1600-h/CapeCodAerial1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/Ss5OIPRGuCI/AAAAAAAAAss/-zMVw_0MW3s/s400/CapeCodAerial1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5390331707453257762" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, regrettably Bowl of Granola will remain dormant for the next two days (which for me (Past Josh), are Friday and Saturday, but for you will be Sunday and Monday....got it?) while I soak in what little sun is left in a mid-October New England.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Please totally disregard the preceding message if...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;- Blogger messes up and posts this before Saturday.&lt;br /&gt;- Nuclear holocaust.&lt;br /&gt;- You can't read.&lt;br /&gt;- Zombie War ensues.&lt;br /&gt;- The cafeteria runs out of mustard.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Update:  After finishing this entry, I got bored and wrote one for each day I'll be gone.  So yeah...you didn't really need to read any of this.  Happy Saturday!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/245748072270330283-6516343691548566058?l=www.bowlofgranola.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BowlOfGranola/~4/T7m-QgtrwCU" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BowlOfGranola/~3/T7m-QgtrwCU/brb-cape-cod-extravaganza.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Josh)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/Ss5OIPRGuCI/AAAAAAAAAss/-zMVw_0MW3s/s72-c/CapeCodAerial1.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.bowlofgranola.com/2009/10/brb-cape-cod-extravaganza.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-245748072270330283.post-2139633078276362135</guid><pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-09T08:00:05.924-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">depths of the net</category><title>The Genre Fiction Generator - Depths of the Net</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/Ss361GEoomI/AAAAAAAAAsE/tAf7A8HhCq4/s1600-h/depths.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 124px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/Ss361GEoomI/AAAAAAAAAsE/tAf7A8HhCq4/s400/depths.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5390240119102415458" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Writers Block, your days are numbered, at least while the Genre Fiction Generator is still in glorious existence.  This handy chart allows its user to navigate the murky waters of genre fiction, specifically Sci-Fi, with snappy visuals and old-world charm.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/Ss361Z98JGI/AAAAAAAAAsM/NGxm6EDela8/s1600-h/sf_fiction.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 377px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/Ss361Z98JGI/AAAAAAAAAsM/NGxm6EDela8/s400/sf_fiction.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5390240124443042914" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now I don't really expect you to read all those teeny tiny words.   The thumbnail is just a taste.  Click here to access the fully monty and to check out &lt;a href="http://wondermark.com/554/"&gt;Wondermark&lt;/a&gt;, which is chock full of similarly useful information.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So next time you're stuck for an idea, why not start with...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On a coal-powered one-way spaceflight, a young  farm boy with dreams stumbles across a time-traveling soldier which spurs him into conflict with murderous robots with the help of a shape-shifting female assassin and her welding gear, culminating in a cliffhanger for the sake of prompting a series.  &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The Astromancer&lt;/span&gt;.  Coming to theaters Summer 2010.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/245748072270330283-2139633078276362135?l=www.bowlofgranola.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BowlOfGranola/~4/8UNoaVMzkSs" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BowlOfGranola/~3/8UNoaVMzkSs/genre-fiction-generator-depths-of-net.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Josh)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/Ss361GEoomI/AAAAAAAAAsE/tAf7A8HhCq4/s72-c/depths.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.bowlofgranola.com/2009/10/genre-fiction-generator-depths-of-net.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-245748072270330283.post-5037865805711193461</guid><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:22:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-08T14:52:53.902-04:00</atom:updated><title>Reasons to Never Go Back in the Water - Oarfish</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/Ss4uWB5a7zI/AAAAAAAAAsU/7GJ97Fwx0K8/s1600-h/Oarfish4041.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/Ss4uWB5a7zI/AAAAAAAAAsU/7GJ97Fwx0K8/s400/Oarfish4041.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5390296760010338098" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's called an &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oarfish"&gt;Oarfish&lt;/a&gt;, and it can grow up to 11 meters in length.  It is officially the longest bony fish in the world, according to the Guinnes Book of World Records.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An adult Oarfish has approximately 400 dorsal spines running the length of its back.  These spines are used as a means of locomotion, and also to ward off predators (scientists claim that they give off a nasty shock, like an electric eel).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/Ss403-5pBjI/AAAAAAAAAsk/3bOSSOeW1JI/s1600-h/Oarfish3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/Ss403-5pBjI/AAAAAAAAAsk/3bOSSOeW1JI/s400/Oarfish3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5390303940391274034" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;They usually stick to deep waters, but they've been known to ominously rise to the water's surface when sick or dying.  It is also speculated that they are one of the origins of the many tall tales about killer sea serpents.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/Ss403X6EA_I/AAAAAAAAAsc/hvXyjJOZpKU/s1600-h/oarfish2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 260px; height: 392px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/Ss403X6EA_I/AAAAAAAAAsc/hvXyjJOZpKU/s400/oarfish2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5390303929924060146" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Read more about this horrifying nightmare-fuel beast at &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oarfish"&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/245748072270330283-5037865805711193461?l=www.bowlofgranola.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BowlOfGranola/~4/kRdq5FbYv_Q" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BowlOfGranola/~3/kRdq5FbYv_Q/reasons-to-never-go-back-in-water.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Josh)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/Ss4uWB5a7zI/AAAAAAAAAsU/7GJ97Fwx0K8/s72-c/Oarfish4041.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.bowlofgranola.com/2009/10/reasons-to-never-go-back-in-water.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-245748072270330283.post-4851682026808321068</guid><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:39:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-07T13:45:21.439-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">depths of the net</category><title>Facebook Status Generator - Depths of the Net</title><description>It's time for another scintillating (spelt correctly on the first try, woohoo!) installment of &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Depths of the Net&lt;/span&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/SszTY4nGu5I/AAAAAAAAAr0/m8Hi6B4fthU/s1600-h/depths.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 124px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/SszTY4nGu5I/AAAAAAAAAr0/m8Hi6B4fthU/s400/depths.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389915278522366866" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This week, we bring you the&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://kunderasostrich.com/facebook-status-generatr.html"&gt;Facebook Status Generator&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/SszTZcq4hiI/AAAAAAAAAr8/jg-aze9rX6o/s1600-h/status.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 75px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/SszTZcq4hiI/AAAAAAAAAr8/jg-aze9rX6o/s400/status.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389915288201889314" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This useful little widget generates delightfully surreal Facebook statuses on demand.  I've generated about 10 random statuses now, and most of them are way better than any status I've ever created myself.  A few highlights:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;...has been frenziedly googling for reluctant geriatrics.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;...collects photographs of Teflon genitalia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;...smokes noodly bazookas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This has also introduced me to the word "noodly", for which I will be eternally grateful.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://kunderasostrich.com/facebook-status-generatr.html"&gt;Link&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/245748072270330283-4851682026808321068?l=www.bowlofgranola.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BowlOfGranola/~4/5RxM2uSaN20" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BowlOfGranola/~3/5RxM2uSaN20/facebook-status-generator-depths-of-net.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Josh)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/SszTY4nGu5I/AAAAAAAAAr0/m8Hi6B4fthU/s72-c/depths.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.bowlofgranola.com/2009/10/facebook-status-generator-depths-of-net.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-245748072270330283.post-9070517196068589094</guid><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-07T06:00:01.824-04:00</atom:updated><title>Wednesday Wordplay</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/SsumqtFqlTI/AAAAAAAAArs/fPlNrwDQ_dw/s1600-h/dictionary.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/SsumqtFqlTI/AAAAAAAAArs/fPlNrwDQ_dw/s400/dictionary.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389584631667004722" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. A bicycle can’t stand alone; it is two tired.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. A will is a dead giveaway.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. A backward poet writes inverse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5. In a democracy it’s your vote that counts; in feudalism, it’s your Count that votes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6. A chicken crossing the road: poultry in motion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;7. If you don’t pay your exorcist you can get repossessed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8. With her marriage she got a new name and a dress.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9. Show me a piano falling down a mine shaft and I’ll show you A-flat miner.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;10. When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;11. The guy who fell onto an upholstery machine was fully recovered.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;12. A grenade fell onto a kitchen floor in France resulted in Linoleum Blownapart.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;13. You are stuck with your debt if you can’t budge it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;14. Local Area Network in Australia: The LAN down under.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;15. He broke into song because he couldn’t find the key.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;16. A calendar’s days are numbered.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;17. A lot of money is tainted: ‘Taint yours, and ‘taint mine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;18. A boiled egg is hard to beat.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;19. He had a photographic memory which was never developed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;20. A plateau is a high form of flattery.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;21. The short fortuneteller who escaped from prison: a small medium at large.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;22. Those who get too big for their britches will be exposed in the end.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;23. When you’ve seen one shopping center you’ve seen a mall.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;24. If you jump off a Paris bridge, you are in Seine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;25. When she saw her first strands of gray hair, she thought she’d dye.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;26. Bakers trade bread recipes on a knead to know basis.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;27. Santa’s helpers are subordinate clauses.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;28. Acupuncture: a jab well done.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;29. Marathon runners with bad shoes suffer the agony of de feet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://phoenomi.com"&gt;Via&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/245748072270330283-9070517196068589094?l=www.bowlofgranola.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BowlOfGranola/~4/ELJqGD2-E5M" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BowlOfGranola/~3/ELJqGD2-E5M/wednesday-wordplay.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Josh)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/SsumqtFqlTI/AAAAAAAAArs/fPlNrwDQ_dw/s72-c/dictionary.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.bowlofgranola.com/2009/10/wednesday-wordplay.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-245748072270330283.post-2374590184948245602</guid><pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:56:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-06T11:57:02.194-04:00</atom:updated><title>Just Something to Think About</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/SstotcDxTeI/AAAAAAAAArk/p_xuyJL9Q-Q/s1600-h/japanesebirdcookingspaghetti.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/SstotcDxTeI/AAAAAAAAArk/p_xuyJL9Q-Q/s400/japanesebirdcookingspaghetti.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389516508914339298" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.japanesebirdcookingspaghetti.com/"&gt;Via&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/245748072270330283-2374590184948245602?l=www.bowlofgranola.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BowlOfGranola/~4/HCCamArc1OA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BowlOfGranola/~3/HCCamArc1OA/just-something-to-think-about.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Josh)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/SstotcDxTeI/AAAAAAAAArk/p_xuyJL9Q-Q/s72-c/japanesebirdcookingspaghetti.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.bowlofgranola.com/2009/10/just-something-to-think-about.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-245748072270330283.post-7913255196831977708</guid><pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-04T08:00:02.053-04:00</atom:updated><title>Sunday School - Bizarre Animal Facts</title><description>Happy Sunday folks.  Just a few quick facts to keep the brain juices flowing over the weekend.  Happy Hangovers!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/SsZpkt3adzI/AAAAAAAAArc/Mo4WlPvinWY/s1600-h/happy-elephant-01.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 274px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/SsZpkt3adzI/AAAAAAAAArc/Mo4WlPvinWY/s400/happy-elephant-01.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5388110083703600946" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Butterflies taste with their feet.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;An octopus will eat its own arms if it gets hungry enough.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The world smallest mammal is the bumblebee bat of Thailand, weighing less than a penny.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;If one places a tiny amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Honeybees have hairs on their eyes to help them collect pollen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The left leg of a chicken is more tender than the right one, which it uses most, therefore increasing muscle development.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The sperm of a mouse is longer than the sperm of an elephant.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;As carriers of the bubonic plague, fleas were responsible for killing 1/3 of the population of Europe in the 14th century.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The African Lungfish can live out of water for up to 4 years.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;An elephant can smell water three miles away.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;There are more cows than people in the US.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The oldest known goldfish lived to 41 years of age.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;It takes seven years for a lobster to grow 1 pound.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/245748072270330283-7913255196831977708?l=www.bowlofgranola.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BowlOfGranola/~4/LHdou-_Ekg4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BowlOfGranola/~3/LHdou-_Ekg4/sunday-school-bizarre-animal-facts.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Josh)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/SsZpkt3adzI/AAAAAAAAArc/Mo4WlPvinWY/s72-c/happy-elephant-01.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.bowlofgranola.com/2009/10/sunday-school-bizarre-animal-facts.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-245748072270330283.post-2485465559332535510</guid><pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-03T10:00:01.882-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">disney</category><title>Annie Leibowitz's Disney Dream Portrait Series</title><description>These are just gorgeous.  Photographer &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Leibovitz"&gt;Annie Leibovitz&lt;/a&gt; collaborates with Disney and some super-super-stars to breathe new life in to classic Disney fairy tails.  Enjoy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/SsZhnxNb4TI/AAAAAAAAArU/-z_nrQQVQYI/s1600-h/celebrity_fairy_tales.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 331px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/SsZhnxNb4TI/AAAAAAAAArU/-z_nrQQVQYI/s400/celebrity_fairy_tales.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5388101340047860018" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Scarlett Johannson as Cinderella&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/SsZhnsy1_cI/AAAAAAAAArM/6fwQpVr_ULs/s1600-h/celebrity_fairy_tales+%2811%29.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 303px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/SsZhnsy1_cI/AAAAAAAAArM/6fwQpVr_ULs/s400/celebrity_fairy_tales+%2811%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5388101338862583234" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;David Bekham as Prince Phillip&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/SsZhnGogRXI/AAAAAAAAArE/3sNwmvCLJyQ/s1600-h/celebrity_fairy_tales+%289%29.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 294px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/SsZhnGogRXI/AAAAAAAAArE/3sNwmvCLJyQ/s400/celebrity_fairy_tales+%289%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5388101328618669426" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Whoopi Goldberg as The Genie&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/SsZhm1o-SbI/AAAAAAAAAq8/j4maGz9Zh1c/s1600-h/celebrity_fairy_tales+%288%29.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 314px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/SsZhm1o-SbI/AAAAAAAAAq8/j4maGz9Zh1c/s400/celebrity_fairy_tales+%288%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5388101324057233842" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gisele Bundchen as Wendy, Tina Fey as Tinkerbell and Mikail Baryshnikov as Peter Pan&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/SsZhdAQDlzI/AAAAAAAAAqs/tbjhLwaD368/s1600-h/celebrity_fairy_tales+%286%29.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 260px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/SsZhdAQDlzI/AAAAAAAAAqs/tbjhLwaD368/s400/celebrity_fairy_tales+%286%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5388101155106821938" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Beyonce as Alice, Lyle Lovett as the March Hare and Oliver Platt as the Mad Hatter&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/SsZhcg-yJHI/AAAAAAAAAqk/mguU59pQNWo/s1600-h/celebrity_fairy_tales+%285%29.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 272px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/SsZhcg-yJHI/AAAAAAAAAqk/mguU59pQNWo/s400/celebrity_fairy_tales+%285%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5388101146712876146" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jessica Beil as Pocahontas&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/SsZhcQrX4uI/AAAAAAAAAqc/OQzY9m2epJQ/s1600-h/celebrity_fairy_tales+%284%29.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 324px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/SsZhcQrX4uI/AAAAAAAAAqc/OQzY9m2epJQ/s400/celebrity_fairy_tales+%284%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5388101142336496354" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Julianne Moore as The Little Mermaid&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/SsZhb0LO29I/AAAAAAAAAqU/FgP8yXU8KJw/s1600-h/celebrity_fairy_tales+%283%29.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 271px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/SsZhb0LO29I/AAAAAAAAAqU/FgP8yXU8KJw/s400/celebrity_fairy_tales+%283%29.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5388101134685494226" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony as Jasmine and Alladin&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For a few more shots, and much larger versions of these pics, check out &lt;a href="http://amolife.com/image/celebrities/celebrity-disney-fairy-tales.html"&gt;AmO Images&lt;/a&gt;.  All photos are courtesy of and copyright of Disney.  &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Please don't sue us, Disney, we just think these are pretty.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/245748072270330283-2485465559332535510?l=www.bowlofgranola.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BowlOfGranola/~4/7ESkIAxfe6g" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BowlOfGranola/~3/7ESkIAxfe6g/annie-leibowitzs-disney-dream-portrait.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Josh)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/SsZhnxNb4TI/AAAAAAAAArU/-z_nrQQVQYI/s72-c/celebrity_fairy_tales.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>2</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.bowlofgranola.com/2009/10/annie-leibowitzs-disney-dream-portrait.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-245748072270330283.post-7337654509862996043</guid><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:47:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-02T12:48:38.954-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">youtube vault</category><title>Trick Pitch - YouTube Vault</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/SsYuyA1V1KI/AAAAAAAAAqE/rv5PdmGN8wQ/s1600-h/YoutubeVault_logo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 210px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/SsYuyA1V1KI/AAAAAAAAAqE/rv5PdmGN8wQ/s400/YoutubeVault_logo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5388045440947442850" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/cSH1KH4Bcj4&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;color2=0xfebd01"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/cSH1KH4Bcj4&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;color2=0xfebd01" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSH1KH4Bcj4"&gt;Video link&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/245748072270330283-7337654509862996043?l=www.bowlofgranola.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BowlOfGranola/~4/I6HfL9Kn_ls" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BowlOfGranola/~3/I6HfL9Kn_ls/trick-pitch-youtube-vault.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Josh)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/SsYuyA1V1KI/AAAAAAAAAqE/rv5PdmGN8wQ/s72-c/YoutubeVault_logo.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.bowlofgranola.com/2009/10/trick-pitch-youtube-vault.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-245748072270330283.post-4879441627491318520</guid><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 14:58:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-10-02T11:06:55.526-04:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">crimes against the english language</category><title>Crimes Against the English Language - Spam Edition</title><description>So I woke up today to find the following message in my inbox, undisturbed by Gmail's purportedly fool-proof spam filter.  Never before have so many run-on sentences gelled to form such an inscrutable run-on email.  Enjoy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;----------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Dear Daddy,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Is me your dear obedient son who due to circumstances and war crisis in our country has resulted I and my dear Mother now residing in a refugee campus in Ghana which we find a critical situtation since our health is even at risk for everyday and week other in mates living here die of cholera and here is the home where we seeking political aslyum since over in our country it isn't safe anymore because my father Dr.Slyvester D. Slanger of (DR.SLANGER &amp;amp; CO. MINING) who was the Administrator for Gold Mining Company was shot dead in our own country and so it doesn't make our country of origin safe at all,and i am the elderst child of my father and we are 4 brothers as families 2 died in a car accident in our country and experts say they were hit by gun,Is now left with my only surviouring brother who is also here with i and my Mum and he is my junior brother,he is 15 years old and i am also 22years old.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Daddy as we spoke yesterday on the phone concerning my late fathers consignment of (2500KGS) of Gold Bars worth an amount of $50millionUSD that i told you he deposited it with a Global Security company in thier security safe vault in Ghana and for that matter we will need your urgent assistance  to represent as our late fathers foreign beneficiary so we could possibly make claims of my late fathers consignment so that it could be transferred to you at your destination so we could join you to invest from the sales of the gold bars and we hope by so doing you will change our way of living which isn't good at all and as for my junior brother he needs to further his education and i also would want to be an Entrepnuer in future i think you can help us have a better home and also make our dreams come true after we had claim my late father's property from the security company.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;I am waiting to have a chance to go out from the refuge campus to go out and scan so that i can send u the ownership documentations and the gate pass will be given in a few hours from now if not possible i will do that tomorrow so you can know how truly and really we will need your assistance to claim our late fathers deposit to make a new life for us and also your effort will be greatly rewarded and so your urgent reply will be needed so after we have heard from you we could contact my late fathers legal attorney for him to begin with the process on:slanger_evans@yahoo.com.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Get back to us soon Daddy.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;(LTE Dr.Slanger Families).&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First Son,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Evans.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;----------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All this "Daddy-talk" makes this person sound like a spammy Hillary Banks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/SsYWhVzGGXI/AAAAAAAAAp8/OeZnqb41wIQ/s1600-h/hillary.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 321px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/SsYWhVzGGXI/AAAAAAAAAp8/OeZnqb41wIQ/s400/hillary.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5388018766238325106" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Feel free to shoot First Son Evans an email at any point today.  Oh, and tell him "Daddy" says hi.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/245748072270330283-4879441627491318520?l=www.bowlofgranola.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/BowlOfGranola/~4/H2DbpUP8i1w" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BowlOfGranola/~3/H2DbpUP8i1w/crimes-against-english-language-spam.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Josh)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6y9MKbPslj4/SsYWhVzGGXI/AAAAAAAAAp8/OeZnqb41wIQ/s72-c/hillary.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.bowlofgranola.com/2009/10/crimes-against-english-language-spam.html</feedburner:origLink></item></channel></rss>

