+Keith Cramer, +Kristi Fahlsing, and I got together to raise our tea cups in honor of +Yoon-Mi Kim's birthday. To Yoon!
More pics coming later… 😉
#MadYoonsTeaParty #HappyBirthdayYoon #gplususermashup  
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Our very own +Dirk Reul is publishing his very own Nomable cookbook! His knife skills are impeccable. 😉
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I thought it was a joke. Nope. July 11th on SyFy apparently.
"When a freak hurricane swamps Los Angeles, thousands of sharks terrorize the waterlogged populace. And when the high-speed winds form tornadoes in the desert, nature’s deadliest killer rules water, land, and air."
http://geektyrant.com/news/2013/6/26/sharknado-coming-to-syfy-and-2-new-ridiculous-photos.html
#sharknado  #sharks  #badmovies  #syfychannel  
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Because Cthulhu.
Thanks to WHiTe RaBbiT on deviantART.
http://wytrab8.deviantart.com/
#cthulhu  #starwars  #avengers  #mashup Â
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Delightful mash-up by WHiTe RaBbiT on deviantART. 🙂
http://wytrab8.deviantart.com/art/Doctor-the-Grouch-361579867
#doctorwho  #oscarthegrouch  #sesamestreet  #mashup  
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For the geek girl in your life. 🙂
http://forbiddenplanet.com//88453-portal-2-inter-spatial-earrings/
#portal  #portal2  #earrings  #geekgirl  
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Happy Birthday to +Micha Fire!!! So, I present unto you, the newly created Cramer Shufflebottom. Glasses? Check. Unshaven appearance? Check. Goofy look? Check. Perfect likeness of me.
Now… where's the cake?! 😉
http://disney.go.com/monsters-university/create-a-monster/
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Truly, I prefer to post and talk about pop culture and geekery and general silliness. However, sometimes my interests are in areas which I know are more polarizing, but I think are still worth sharing.
I enjoyed this article and wanted to share. My enjoyment of it did not come from any right wing or left wing political well inside of me. My enjoyment of this article was because it made sense to me. The polices from which we are dealing with the fallout today came from both right and left wing administrations. Lobbyists and corporations really have no preference which side they are buying so long as they get what they pay for.
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Patrick is one of my favorite artists. This is a sneak peek of a print he will be releasing this July for San Diego Comic Con. You can pre-order prints now. I am sorely tempted! 🙂
http://patrickballesteros.blogspot.com/2013/06/sneak-peek-for-comicon.html
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Well, Frodo, at least you're not encased in carbonite. 😉
http://benco42.deviantart.com/art/Simply-walk-into-Mordor-202789893
#bobafett  #frodo  #lordoftherings  #starwars  #mashup  
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So much win. Please visit his site and show him some love.
Buttercup + Batman FTW. 😉
#doctorwho  #batman  #powerpuffgirls  #superman  #comicbookart Â
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Discovered this gem after trying to take a desk shot last week. Auto Awesome can only do so much with what it's given. 😉
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I asked +Kristi Fahlsing to model a new product we found at Walmart. Note to self, do not let her see the name first next time. 😉
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Breath deep. Sigh. Relax.
Because Not at Office Breath deep. Sigh. Relax.
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After the strange +Yoon-Mi Kim forklift drive-by (http://goo.gl/lXiRI), +Keith Cramer and I were standing scratching our heads when we heard the faint electric hum of the forklift in the distance again. She pulled into the parking lot and parked beside us mumbling something about foolish Danes in the middle of the road.
Umm… does anyone have a key to +Halfdan Reschat's place to feed +Fluffy McSharkah Khan?
#BigHeadYoon  #BigHeadHalfdan  #gplususermashup  #definitelynotoshaapproved Â
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The strangest thing happened today. Who gave +Yoon-Mi Kim a forklift? And, where was she going?!
EDIT: Found her! http://goo.gl/Q78gc
#BigHeadYoon #gplususermashup #oshaapproved
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In the last two elections, I was all about "Hope". The hope for a better future. The hope for real and lasting change. I am not ignoring that there have been positive, and even historic changes, but overshadowing everything to me through the years is that, ultimately, Washington continues to work for corporations. It is the one truly bipartisan effort that comes from the U.S. political machine. To avoid any argument about "We the People…" our highest court even defined corporations legally as People. Very big, very powerful, very politically influential People.
Mind you, I am not a Republican, nor have I ever called myself a Democrat beyond the casting of a vote. My personal discontent withstanding, I would vote for Obama again over a Republican candidate, though I respect that mine is not the only opinion and I do not begrudge anyone else their choice. However, American politics anymore is about choice in the same aspect that I would choose to have my legs amputated as opposed to my head.
So, hope? I hope I do not get hit by a bus while I am still without health insurance. I hope that I can get approved for a mortgage before I lose my job because I can more easily make a house payment than the exorbitant rent that I pay now. I hope I can teach my daughter the things she needs to get by in life before the "no child left behind" and ISTEP system pushes her out the door with a read and regurgitate education. I hope people stop swallowing talking points from right and left wing media outlets as nuggets of truth and blindly following political parties like professional Football teams on their way to the Superbowl.
One Nation, under the God or lack thereof that fits each person's beliefs, with Liberty that we can agree upon or at least agree to debate and truly work toward a solution, and Justice we can trust for all living and breathing people. Anymore, I just hope for the best.
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Just daughter and I having a bit of fun. 😉
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It has been a dozen years since Dad passed away. There are still so many days when I am working on some project that I want to pick up the phone and ask him a question or, better yet, get in the car and drive across town for help. There is a switch in my brain that is still wired to check with Dad. After that melancholy pause where I remind myself that I can not, I go through the filters of "what would Dad do?" Assess the situation. Creatively use what you have on hand. Do it right. Do it well.
Dad had Bob Villa know-how with a Tim Gunn "Make it work" attitude (and I can even see him watching a show like Project Runway and harping on whiny contestants). For all of us kids, our school or scouting projects were top of the class. Dad was not an engineer and never even went to college, but my Cub Scouts Pine Wood Derby car looked sharp and placed well and he helped me build a catapult in high school. I remember a Halloween party for a sister where he had converted basement stairs into a hidden slide behind a curtain that dropped surprised guests off into the party room. He bought mangled bikes at the police auction and made my brother and I enviable rides. His skills far outweighed what I inherited (he built a motor home out of a bread truck, for instance), but he passed along the mindset and courage to try anything and not panic about it.
In fact, I can not even think of a time when I saw Dad panic. The closest for him was that look where you could see the anxious potential energy in his face, like when one of us kids was hurt and he could not do anything more and it was in a doctor's hands. I remember one time we came home after a short trip and our family room was home to a swarm of bees. Watching Dad was like following a formula. Bees? Find where they came from. Fix point of entry. Remove bees. Within minutes of watching the bees, he saw a hole where they had drilled from the attic through insulation and soft ceiling tiles. A nice steady stream of insect killer, on-hand in the shed of course, stopped any more bees from entering through the hole. Not wanting to spray down our family room with poison, Dad donned head to toe clothes sealed up at all entry points, made a make shift bee keeper's helmet, attached our vacuum cleaner to a long extension chord, and entered the family room through the sheet he had already hung to quarantine the bees. He switched on the vacuum and waving the extended plastic arm like a master swordsman, proceeded to suck every bee out of the room. After that, a trip to the attic with insect killer and some screen solved the problem with any remaining bees and entry points. Just another day.
Just another day, but one to provide for his family and to enjoy them. I saw Dad falter, through bad economic times, leaving a business partner and starting anew, and the loss of one of my sisters. The last, especially, I can not imagine. How does one, with the loss of a child, assess the situation, use what's on hand, do it right, and do it well? I can never fully imagine, and pray I never have to, but I was old enough to watch him hold it together and be a rock for my Mother and all of us. He did it right and he did it well. That was Dad. I carry on in my life and try my best to show my daughter the same attitude and skills. I watch her now in the kitchen baking me cookies for Father's Day, and I appreciate it so much more, because of my Dad. I look out at the table sitting in the middle of our living room filled with her 4-H scrapbook project that needs finished today, and I know I have it under control. Because of my Dad.
In memory and appreciation of my own Dad, Happy Father's Day to all of you Dads out there.
#fathersday  #fathersday2013 Â
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Oh my. New favorite thing! IHOP has jelly donut pancakes. Raspberry jelly between the pancakes and on top; all of it drizzled with donut glaze. Find it on the menu under health food. 😉
#pancakes #dessertfordinner
Jelly Donut Pancakes Oh my. New favorite thing! IHOP has jelly donut pancakes. Raspberry jelly between the pancakes and on top; all of it drizzled on donut glaze. Find it on the menu under health food. 😉 #pancakes #dessertfordinner
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