Odd thoughts, quirky ramblings, random pictures, and the latest in quirky finds from across the web, QJ has a little something for everyone.
Chris Griffin, 31, poses beside the half-ton wild hog he shot near Alapaha, Ga., in a Thursday, June 17, 2004 photo. Hogzilla, a near-mythical monster hog that roamed south Georgia, is about to get a little bigger. An independent filmmaker is producing a horror movie about the super swine called 'The Legend of Hogzilla,' and has even enlisted the beast's killer on the set as an adviser.That's a lot of pork...
Personally, I've never had a problem with separating eggs. You just crack the egg in half, keeping an eggshell in each hand with the whole egg resting in one of them, and then gently scoop out the yolk into the other, rocking it slightly back and forth to cradle off any egg white that didn't separate. Problem solved.
This, however, seems to be a much sillier, more giggle-worthy method. "Just break an egg into the separator, tilt it 45 degrees, and watch as the egg white drips out of his nose, leaving a perfect yolk inside the dish!" reads the site. Interesting method. Strain the egg through a ceramic guy's nose, and let it drip out like snot. That's 'exactly' what I want to be thinking about while I watch the sticky, gooey stuff slide down into my mixing bowl. Yummy. *cringes just a touch*
The One and Only Chocolate Calculator
It looks like chocolate. It's wrapped like chocolate. It adds up calories like chocolate. It even *smells* like chocolate. This lovely choc-u-lator is running a second place with the real thing, though, as it's completely functional as a calculator...but doesn't 'taste' like chocolate, which is what we all want, right? See site for more pictures and details.
A Moment on Earth
Ever wonder what the earth looks like in various places all over the world at any given moment? yeah, me either, but apparently someone did, and the above link is what they created. Give it a bit to load, and then watch the flash words before clicking 'explore this mosaic' or it won't make much sense.....if you switch to another site and miss the words, just click 'refresh' and it'll start over.
This site is so true...and yet, we never complain about it....
http://www.thewvsr.com/adsvsreality.htm
Or so Yahoo seems to think.
Miss America 1944 has a talent that likely has never appeared on a beauty pageant stage: She fired a handgun to shoot out a vehicle's tires and stop an intruder.I 'do' think it's great that an 82 year old woman was not only capable of shooting as she did, but she also had the guts to do it...(I admire her feisty-ness, too, when she says "I didn't even think twice. I just went and did it," she said. "If they'd even dared come close to me, they'd be 6 feet under by now.")....but does that really make it 'talent'? I think a writer got a little too enthusiastic about getting his/her first line to be an eye-catcher with a pun twist, but oh well. Read the rest of the story here.
Ain't that about the truth? *Rolls eyes, sighs, and walks away*
(Clicky to read it better)
Some of you probably already know about this, but it was completely new to me, so I'm passing it on. Gmail will apparently print off whatever you want from your email account....for free. All they do is put some ads on the back of the paper and off they go. They even print photos on high-quality paper. Has anyone tried this out to see how well it works? Here's a bit from the site, but head over there to see some user comments and such:
Is it free?Yes. The cost of postage is offset with the help of relevant, targeted, unobtrusive advertisements, which will appear on the back of your Gmail Paper prints in red, bold, 36 pt Helvetica. No pop-ups, no flashy animations—these are physically impossible in the paper medium.
How about attachments?All part of the deal. Photo attachments are printed on high-quality, glossy photo paper, and secured to your Gmail Paper with a paper clip. MP3 and WAV files will not be printed. We recommend maintaining copies of your non-paper Gmail in these cases.
Is there a limit?You can make us print one, one thousand, or one hundred thousand of your emails. It’s whatever seems reasonable to you.
But what about the environment?Not a problem. Gmail Paper is made out of 96% post-consumer organic soybean sputum, and thus, actually helps the environment. For every Gmail Paper we produce, the environment gets incrementally healthier.
WWSTLPATQWOJ=Weird Web Searches That Landed People At The Quirky World of Jessi
So I've been gone for a while from blogging as regularly as before because of a couple moves and the lack of internet access during that time, but my page views didn't drop any....in fact, I got even more page hits while I was gone, which is quite sad, but oh well. The worst part is some of the search hits that landed people here, though. Now granted, we've had some quirky ones stop by that wanted to know about hippo dentistry...and we've had some typos that ended up in 'foof' searchers coming here. Even "yahoo emoticon bra" landed one lucky user here. I get some requests from time to time, too, that I like to fulfill....like users searching for lyrics or how to save the slender loris.
Well, it's that time again, and someone has searched for "see my panties," only to stumble here. Frankly, I can't stand the 'p' word and it makes me cringe every time it's used, but whatever. I originally quoted a 4 year old asking to see mine, which is how the user ended up here. Poor unsuspecting user, hoping to get a little peep show, and finding an entry about a child molesting me instead. Ah well. Maybe he/she will enjoy the granny panties above the next time they stumble across here.
(I do believe this is the longest I've gone without blogging here, so sorry guys. I was out of town the last couple weekends without much net access and I'm moving yet again this week, so busy, busy...here's a quick Easter story for you, though).
As with many traditional Easter gatherings, ours consisted of lots of hard boiled colored eggs without much of a purpose after the hunt was over. Typically for us, a few are eaten here and there and the rest are tossed out after we get tired of looking at them a week or two later.....or maybe it's the smell that forces them into the trash. Either way, we rarely end up using them beyond watching the little ones dunk them in dye and later hunting the things down.
This year, though, an aunt went ahead and whipped up some egg salad to go with the rest of our picnic-style lunch setting of sandwiches, chips, and random things like make-shift guacamole, olives, and green apples tossed in a bowl. All the little ones had been chowing down on the hard boiled eggs anyway, so they were given egg salad sandwiches first. They're on a need-to-know basis, so they weren't told what they were eating...they were just told to eat it.
Seeing as how they had been running around all morning and hadn't eaten in hours, it wasn't a surprise that they all chowed down quickly, barely taking the time to chew. As the adults finally got their food, too, the room hit patches of complete silence as we all scarfed....you'd think we hadn't eaten in days.
During one of these rare moments of silence, the four year old girl pipes up with disgust. "Ewww!! There's egg in my sandwich!!" We all looked over to see her holding up less than half of her already mangled sandwich, and couldn't help but laugh at her as she discovered that there was indeed egg in her egg salad sandwich. Poor girl. She must've assumed it was tuna salad or something, but it was a little late to complain after eating so much of it already!
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