Friday, June 08, 2007

Friday Funny

I love this one...


The 2007 version of I WILL SURVIVE

SING IT GIRLS!!! (Maybe in your head, if you are reading this at work!)

Ready... Set... Go...


At first I was afraid, I was petrified.
When you said you had 10 inches, Lord I almost died!
But I'd spent so many years just waiting for a man that long,
That I grew strong,
And I knew that I could take you on...

But there you are, another lie,
I was ready for a Big Mac and you've brought me a French Fry!
I should have known that it was bullshit, just a sad pathetic dream,
Should have known there was no Anaconda lurking in those jeans!

Go on now - go, walk out the door,
Don't you promise me 10 inches, then turn up with only 4!
Weren't you a brat to think I wouldn't find you out!?
Don't you know we're only joking when we say size don't count??!!

[Chorus]
I will survive! I will survive!
Cuz as long as I have batteries,
My sex life's gonna thrive!
I will always have good sex,
With a handful of latex!
I will survive! I will survive! ...Hey! Hey!

It took all my self control not to laugh out loud,
When I saw your little weiner standing tall and proud!
But to hell with your ego and to hell with all your needs,
Now I'm saving all my lovin' for a cordless multispeed!

[Chorus]
I will survive! I will survive!
Cuz as long as I have batteries,
My sex life's gonna thrive!
I will always have good sex,
With a handful of latex!
I will survive! I will survive! ...Hey! Hey!

Tuesday, May 08, 2007

Book Review - A Man Named Dave

A Man Named Dave
Dave Pelzer
Orion - isbn 0752844083

First of all, let me state categorically that this is NOT the usual type of book that I read. I don't like reading anything too unpleasant, for me reading is a healing exercisae, not an activity that I use to plumb someones darkest hour. I have my own dark hours to deal with, without adding someone else to the equation. That being said, I truely enjoyed this book!

The third in the triology that looks at Dave Pelzers abused childhood and subsequent evolution into an independant, free thinking, responsible adult is truely amazing, and inspiring. Dave touches on the traumatic with such a light and delicate touch that the reader is left with an understanding without being emotionally wrung out. His struggle to do the right thing, to understand why these things happened, his touching reunion with his father, and his eventual forgiveness for his mother are astounding. But for me, I think the best part was when he truely began to care for himself.I haven't read the previous two books, but feel that I haven't lost anything from that. The story reads as a stand alone quite well!

I could write about his courage in "bearing all", his joy in his son, the softly dramatic portrayl of his childhood, and the sweetly poignant moments with his love. But I don't think that I could do justice to it!

In the end all I can say is this: READ THIS BOOK! It will mesmerise you from beginning to end, but not just out of saddness but from joy as well!!!

--shanchan

Monday, May 07, 2007

Ok bad/naughty day at work!!!

No I do have something better to be doing!!!

More Library clothes etc

Pimp my Firefox! Curtesey of Jessamyn West @ Librarian.net

Lolibrarians

The Librarian in Black - A little something about Google

Scary little article on the latest developments from Google

librarianinblack.typepad.com

I think the scariest thing about this one is the comment about giving our work to Google and not reading the terms and conditions!

Cool Librarian Gear!!!

Just cruising the sites of the world when I should be working, and found this one

http://www.cafepress.com/curmudgeony

One of the best library sites I have come across in a while!!! I want so many of the t-shirts, it’s a shame I can’t wear them at work!!!

Sunday, April 29, 2007

Woah, back home then out again!

It seems that my whole world is upside down! I got back from a great weekend down the Eyre and spent the week at work being a goood kid and now I'm out in the country again. This time its with the other family! The kids and I have just come back from dancing up a storm at the pub and having a great time! Mind you it looked like we weren't going to make it at one stage!

We had car troubles from the start, and with the amazing rain we have been having the roads were slippery to start with! We got nearly outside of town when it all started, the wind screen wiper on the driver side stopped working, and we were right at the beginning of the freeway! So we had to pull over and fix it! So I, wearing my 'this is what a feminist looks like' t-shirt is under the hood with a car full of people waiting to go.

We had to pull over several times before we had reached the edge of the city limits. One of those times we had found a stable that opened onto the road and pulled into that to fix it. In the end it was when we had pulled into a truck stop and a nice guy from Beaurepairs (spelling?) helped us by taking off the loverly wiper and replacing it with the other one. Thanks a lot mate!

After a few hours driving, going the wrong way, detouring etc. We finally made it! Yay! 15 mins before the kitchen closed at the pub. So I got my birthday dinner after all! Now it's nearly one in the morning and I'm not in the mood for sleeping but had to leave the pub cos kids can't stay there after 12. Oh well, we only have to get up early in the morning to go to mass any way!

Nite nite all, sweet dreams and all that! Keep your fingers crossed, we have to drive back tomorrow!

--shanchan

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Bus trip from hell...or not!

Well it's somewhat late and we're only half way to Ceduna and the little lass with me is no nearer to sleeping. I know that I need to sleep too, but can't seem to find the ability to.

My cousin who is travelling with us was late as per normal. I shouldn't have been surprised by that!! But then we get told that we can't sit near each other!!! That totally sucks!! I know that is just a small thing but it would have made things so much more fun. Oh well, could be worse. He could have been left behind!

Anyway, I'm going to try to sleep now, and see if things don't look rosier in the morning!!!

--shanchan

Off to the country, tra la la! tra la la! tra la la la la!!!

Yay! It's that time now, we're off to see the wizard, the Wonderful Wizard of Oz!

I have just sid goodbye to the first of the family to leave for the front! And later today, child no 1 and I will be climbing aboard the bus with a couple of others to go to Ceduna to visit my granmother for her 80th birthday!!

A truely auspicious occasion!

so, ja ne

be good!


Ceduna.net

Ceduna on Wiki

Friday, April 06, 2007

Uke or Seme??? Which are you???

Flaming Uke
Flaming Uke
Take Are you a Seme or an Uke? today!
Created with Rum and Monkey's Personality Test Generator.

One of the easiest uke to recognize by sight. Your flamboyantly gay behavior makes it easy for seme to prey upon you, and that is exactly what you want, and you usually have a few tricks up your sleeve as well. You most often have colored hair, designer clothes, and eyes that are constantly roaming, searching for the perfect partner for you. You are best paired with the Chibi Seme, as you don't mind what they look like, as long as they're a seme.


*Sigh* it appears to be official!

Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Little red


This has to be the cutest picture I have come across in a while! Enjoy!
--shanchan

Friday, December 08, 2006

Desirable things!!! - 2007 Booklist

Can I admit to being totally in love with books???

I suppose there is no point in denying it! I have through various methods come up with my wish list for this coming year. Please note that this is a work in progress and will be expanded as time goes on....


Blart by Dominic Barker
Goblins of Labyrinth: 20th Anniversary Edition by Brian Froud
Bareback By Kit Whitfield
Complete Wrecks Unfortunate Events Box Set by Lemony Snickett

I think that's enough drooling for now!

Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Ero Games - a history

An article on the history of ero games and an interesting theory as how the computer market developed because of them.

I'm not sure that I would say that this is all true, but it's bizarre enough to be true!

Eroge

Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Fab AMV!!!

Check this out!!!

This would have to be one of the best AMVs I have ever seen!


Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Unshelved comic strip

I've just found this comic strip all about a young adult librarian!!!

It's great!

overduemedia.com/archive

Tuesday, April 25, 2006

New Layout!!!

Well after about 3 hours coding I have finally finished my new layout.

I use a template that I got from Blogskins.com by Photokicho! There are a few funny quirks to it but I'm hoping that it's not too hard to navigate through it.

If there is too much of a problem with it, I'll just have to re-do it with a new template or something. We'll see how it goes.

Hope you like it and have fun!!!!

Buh Bye!!!

Wednesday, April 19, 2006

Top 20 Sci-Fi of all time

1 Frank Herbert: Dune
2 Orson Scott Card: Ender's Game
3 Isaac Asimov: Foundation
4 William Gibson: Neuromancer
5 Robert A Heinlein: Stranger in a Strange Land
6 Ursula K Le Guin: The Left Hand of Darkness
7 Larry Niven: Ringworld
8 Robert A Heinlein: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
9 George Orwell: Nineteen Eighty-Four
10 Dan Simmons: Hyperion
11 Douglas Adams: The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
12 Joe Haldeman: The Forever War
13 Frederik Pohl: Gateway
14 Ursula K Le Guin: The Dispossessed
15 David Brin: Startide Rising
16 Walter M Miller: A Canticle for Leibowitiz
17 Harlan Ellison [ed]: Dangerous Visions
18 Ray Bradbury: The Martian Chronicles
19 Alfred Bester: The Stars My Destination
20 Arthur C Clark: Childhood's End

Taken from Newsline Spring 2004 Issue

Well I'm not sure that I can agree with that list entirely. There is no mention of Andre Norton, the definitions used are not listed so I would have to say that it's not really definitive. I would have a few different authors in my top ten list.

Also, although not having read many of the ones listed, I have read enough of some of the authors listed, more specifically Frank Herbert, Isaac Asimov, Robert A Heinlein, Arthur C Clark, & Ray Bradbury, and cannot honestly say that I enjoyed their work in anyway. There was a lack of believable female characters or none at all. Some times the females were in such a oppressed/subservient role that I couldn't even finish the books.

Now I'm not saying that in women's writing things are any different for the men, for example Daughters of a Coral Dawn by Katherine V. Forrest, that they were often written for a select audience and not "commercial" in any form. Mind you Daughters is a classic example of lesbian pulp fiction so I think that would say it all!!!

Tuesday, April 18, 2006

You know lifes little bumps has hit you when....

you have nothing better to do with your time than to google your name and those of your family and friends.


Me
Breandan
Eilish



Oh God I'm bored!!! LOL

The Earth is not safe enough!!!

My work mates and I have been in hysterics over an article that I read today.

Apparently there is a company in... wait for it... America! That has the ultimate data backup storage idea, yep you guessed it, on the moon!!!

I mean, how ridiculous can you get? What is going to happen to the Earth in the next ten years that is going require storing data off planet?

As they say... only in America!

Monday, April 17, 2006

myneedleisbiggerthanyourneedle

It must be my sense of humour but I laughed when I saw the title of this blog. All about a bloke who knits! not too bad, now we just have to get him posting a little more of his fascinating stuff!!!!!

myneedleisbiggerthanyourneedle