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Probably too late to be useful this year, but this pumpkin carving applet is quite enjoyable nonetheless. Have fun!

My jaws pumpkin was a complete failure. Drat. I’m kinda digging my Calvin & Hobbesy though

(h/t to Tom)

Every now and then a phrase will pop into my head. Eventually a few of these become part of my artistic ouevre. More often, they just sit there, looking cool. Taunting me with their potential that I just can’t quite grasp.

Here are some that I know I’m not going to be using anytime soon. Well, probably. They may appear in a story somewhere. Anyway, they’re stuck in my head so they’ve got to go somewhere. Lucky you.

• Babies with Rabies
• Christianarchy
• Falafellatio
• Grandson of Sam
• George Oh, well
• Jesus Loves to Bake
• Wait Loss
• Arm the Homeless
• Colonel of Truth

Most of these fall into the too-punny-to-be-useful pile. Just wait to see what I’ve got on tap, y’all.

Wired’s doing this thing of six-word stories submitted by actual writers.

It sounded like fun, so I thought I’d do a few:

• Will you be mine? No? Damn.
• I tried to fly. I failed.
• The feather fell slowly, unlike Margaret.

Feel free to add yours in the comments.

HowManyOfMe.com

There are: 4,857 people with my name in the U.S.A. How many have your name?

First name: 13th most popular in the US
Last name: 9th most popular (really?!?)

Damn, I’m beloved. Bow before me, bitches, for I am a popular mofo!

Sorry, the evil soulless corporate drone trolls (not to mention Betty Bulldozer) are keeping me busy. Booooooo.

Guess I’m not hitting my 67% this week.

Stealing Time

One senior professional I met had a rule that she lived by: the 80:10:10 rule. She spent 80% of her workweek doing the best work she could possibly do, 10% of her workweek focused on her personal and intellectual development, and the remaining 10% telling as many people as possible what a good job she was doing during the 80% of the time she was actually doing her job!

I’m awesome. And clearly anal enough to have broken down my Guide to a Successful Work Life into a neat pie chart. Here it is, though in list form. Bow before me and tremble, foolish mortals:

• 2% – Telling people how awesome I am at what I do.
• 6% – Meetings with psychotic control freak admin assistants.
• 7% – Work. It totally blows.
• 18% – Showing people how awesome I am… by correcting their screwups.
• 67% – goofing off and surfing the web Personal and intellectual development.

My development is through the roof!

At the end of my lunchtime constitutional today, I was walking by these trees on a side street in downtown InsertNameofCity. The wind was blowing the leaves off the trees. The wind was so strong and the currents so swirly that the leaves were flying off the trees vertically, as if they were bubbles rising to the sky. Floating and dancing up to the heavens before taking a random flitty flight about the town.

It was beautiful.

Shocker 101 Mugs

They’re going to be all the rage as stocking stuffers this year, I just know it.

I’m not quite sure what happened, but my Shocker 101 t-shirts (available in white or black!) are suddenly selling like virtual hotcakes.

Supplies are unlimited! Make sure you get yours today before they don’t run out!

Because everyone needs to know the difference between the Spocker and the Showstopper.

I accept Red Right Hand’s One Page challenge to put up one page of something I’ve written in the past year with no set-up or explanation. The other peeps seem to be putting screenshots over html, so that’s what I’m going to do as well.

Here it is, from my “Oh, the Horror” vignette. Click for full size.

Another trouncing of all opposition…
Inertia Boys:

Scared Hitless:

In the money in every league but one (other finishes were two 2nds, a third, and a fifth). The big two are above, though (Inertia Boys are 3-years running champs now, Scared Hitless 2-years). Logs after the jump. ExCITing. (more…)