Sebbylite

Happiest people by state.

I wonder if there is a “happiest people by country” ranking out there. Well, I’m sure there is, I just need to find it.

• I daresay shes upset because she couldn’t go out in the carriage with the others
• But in private youre cruel and unfair
• before he could drag me out
• like a drilling machine in pants

On the bright side, the spam is getting more and more interesting…

-jQuery
-CSS2/3
-C#/C++

On the bright side, I am getting paid to learn all this stuff. Which is nice.

1) if you give me any more of that Alpo crap, I’m going to rub my harbl all over your toothbrush.
2) yes Timmy, you would get more action without that bowl cut.
3) you do realize that I’m not actually a girl dog, right?
4) hey! My water bowl is empty and the toilet is full of that blue gunk, a little help here?!?
5) bark! Bark bark! Bark! Growl!
6) seriously, grandpa did fall down the well again.
7) I’m just saying, if the ranger tells you that there is a mad cougar on the loose, and you go out looking for him, you’re on your own.

Yes, I have had plenty of time lately (due to the whole surgery thing, and not being at work), but I haven’t used that time to blog more. Why? Well, I could blame the painkillers, and I could blame the fact that my crotchal area hurts, but instead I’ll just say that I’ve been watching too many movies and TV to actually write stuff.

But, on the bright side, I do have quite a few links that I need to share because they are pretty awesome. So here they are, in no particular order:

• Hummer drivers are stupid.
• No more mail on Tuesdays.
• I want to live in Bulgaria.
• “Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem”!
• Pretty cool user interface study.
• Parking: Fail.
• Lastly, a word to myself.

So that’s that. I hope you have enjoyed the fruits of my boredom over the last few days.

I’ve never been a fan of New Year’s Resolutions (honestly, how can you improve upon perfection?), and only partly because I don’t feel like change is necessary just for change’s sake. While I agree that it is a good idea to take stock of yourself and how you are living your life, and then making the necessary changes for a better physical/mental/emotional life, why does it only happen once a year? Why wouldn’t it be a regular checkup, just like you do for your car? Every 3 months or 3000 miles, get an oil change and update your goals list to make sure that you remain on track and motivated. That sounds much better to me.

And that is also the reason that I like this site’s idea. Basically, instead of a New Year’s Resolution, you create an honest list of goals that you would like to achieve. And the list spans about 2 3/4 years, so you can add in goals that will take a little time to come to pass. Then every few months, you can update your list and see where you stand.

Probably the biggest issue for me is coming up with 101 goals that I actually want to accomplish. I know that they are out there, but coming up with them all at once is a little beyond me. Plus I feel like if you saddle yourself with a number (hmmm, “saddle yourself”…there’s something else I can add to the list), you’ll end up adding crap goals that are either too easy (wake up for work tomorrow morning), or so ambitious that you won’t be able to accomplish it even in the timespan (become President of the United States). So I’ll start simple, with this partial list:

1. Go back to Mars (Best. Tournament. Ever.)
2. Pay off credit card debt
3. Get new computer/laptop
4. Find a hotel and rent a room by the hour
5. 15 hikes in the Cascades/Olympics (2 done already)
6. Start yoga
7. Start writing letters to Ty again
8. Stay clean shaven for a month or more (started 1/20/08, finished 2/20/08)
9. Frame my duck
10. Go to more drive-in movies
11. Redesign and get my tattoo redone
12. Go see a live play, somewhere nice
13. See an opera
14. Defragment my laptop(did 2-3 times, computer is still slow)
15. Update my “States Visited” list, and try to finish that
16. No caffeine for 2 weeks
17. No alcohol for 2 months
18. Go to either Teatro Zinzani or Cirque de Soleil
19. Learn how to snowboard
20. Get a job I like and can grow with
21. Fix/tune-up/get a new bike, and ride it more
22. 100 push-ups in under 5 minutes
23. 4:30 mile
24. Get more flexible
25. Visit an art gallery during an art opening
26. Do the tourist things in Seattle that I’ve never done
27. Complete 2 of the things from my idea notebook
28. get 8 hours of sleep or more a night for a month
29. See more Sounders games
30. Take a boxing class/lesson
31. Design, develop, and implement a website for myself
32. Learn Javascipt/DHTML/AJAX
33. Learn Coldfusion
34. Deal with my crappy Wells Fargo IRA and retirement accounts
35. Take a dance class
36. Organize my music in iTunes
37. Start and finish 2 woodworking projects
38. Get laptop power supply checked out, then run sysclean
39. Clean out garage, and make it usable

As you can see, I’ve got a pretty good list started already, and I’ve even got a start on a couple of them. As for the rest, well, hopefully I’ll be back to update this list with new info every couple of months. And yes, I’ll take pictures to post of the “dance class” I take, because it’s going to be pretty amusing. I already feel sorry for my instructor.

• Bowling.
• Dancing.
• Flirting.
• Giving your boss his/her yearly evaluation.
• Yelling.
• Drinking.
• Texting.
• Most forms of communication.
• Tipping.
• Cow-tipping.

These aren’t the Top 10 keywords/phrases that will get you from a search engine to Sebbylite, but for whatever reason they do lead you here. And this is a list of my favorites:

1. slap that ho/slap my ho/ho slap smack that bitch
2. people with big thumbs/weak wrists
3. strippers zach harvey
4. when i wake up the dog was licking my balls
5. multiple concussions jockeys
6. damn dirty hippies
7. google is a retard
8. leading cause of death among beavers
9. just isn’t your day unzipping
10. big doug seattle

These are all from the Site Tracking service I use, and they will get you to Sebbylite.com. I’m a little curious about some of them, since I have no idea when, where, or how I talked about “Big Doug” in Seattle.

1. It will just end up on the internet anyway.
2. That damn’d chihuahua.
3. Nicky Hilton is hotter —>
4. She’s friends with Britney Spears.
5. Did I mention that millions will know about it and judge you?
6. She’ll sing for you
7. Or worse, make you watch her tv show
8. Socialite Schmocialite.
9. You can’t fix stupid.
10. Wait, Paris doesn’t have sex anymore

• Hugh Hefner breaks a hip during sex.
• “Transvestite’s on Ice: The Musical”
• Someone makes a Documentary/Mockumentary about Fluffer’s
• The Segway Olympics
• People in Seattle actually learn how to drive.
• Someone thanks a Janitor for washing the bathrooms.

I’ve been a little scattered recently because I’ve been packing up all of my worldly possessions to move closer to work. I’m not too sure how I feel about this, since I like the neighborhood I live in now, I like my apartment, I have the best landlord I’ve ever had, and it’s cheap. But I just can’t deal with the work schedule that it forces on me. I have to get up at 5 in the morning in order to miss out on rush hour traffic in the evening, and it’s killing me.

But, since I haven’t had time to put some real efforts into a post, I thought I’d try to sneak by with a list as a cop-out. If you want more, I could probably finish the Top 10 Reasons Not To Sleep With Paris Hilton that I’ve got going in my head…

I found a link online the other day that told me that I’m a liar. How do I know this? Well, read the following:

How To Tell If Someone Is Lying:

There are nine basic signs that liars exhibit. Not all of these signs may be witnessed, and not all mean that they are lying. They are just guidelines as to the body language that many liars display.

1) A change in the tone and pitch of the person’s voice.
2) An increased or decreased rate of speech.
3) Stumbling over sentences, stopping to think during a sentence, increased use of ‘um’ and ‘uh’.
4) A change in the amount of eye contact. Normal people make eye contact between one-fourth and one-half of the time that they are talking to you. Liars tend to make less eye contact.
5) Turning their shoulders away.
6) Looking very far to the left, right, up or down more than twice.
7) Touching their face or scratching their head.
8) Involuntary moving, jiggling, scratching, or other fidgeting of the legs or feet.
9) Crossing of the arms and/or legs.

According to that post, every time I talk to someone, I lie to them. Because I probably hit about 75% of those symptoms in each conversation that I have.

Meme time, huh!

1. Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 18 and find line 4.
“…are generally marked on partnered sites as ‘featured listings,’…” Search Engine Visibility, by Shari Thurow.

2. Stretch your left arm out as far as you can, what do you find?
Entertainment center (TV, DVD player, VCR, stereo receiver, Ipod, homemede speakers).

3. What is the last thing you watched on TV?
Sadly enough, it was the little bit of Panic Room I watched last night before going to sleep.

4. Without looking, guess what time it is.
3:47pm.

5. Now look at the clock, what is the actual time?
3:47pm (damn, I’m even better than I thought)

6. With the exception of the computer, what can you hear?
KEXP on the radio.

7. When did you last step outside? What were you doing?
Earlier today to play some ultimate frisbee.

8. Before you started this survey, what did you look at?
Various DIY projects that I would love to have the time and skills to complete.

9. What are you wearing?
Pajama pants and a thick sweater.

10. Did you dream last night?
Yep (that’s what happens when you fall asleep watching The Aristocrats). I was a scuba diving bellhop at a restaurant that was very similar to Venice (no aisles between tables, only streams). I would swim from table to table, bringing drinks and checking SCUBA equipment for patrons. Than I sat down at a table, and I was at a team dinner with Woodchuck…CHOMP!, and I was sitting next to Megan Randall, except it looked nothing like her (you know how you know things in dreams, even though there is no evidence to support that knowledge). Then I woke up.

11. When did you last laugh?
Can’t remember. It has been a while.

12. What is on the walls of the room you are in?
A big ass clock (about three feet across), and this:

13. Seen anything weird lately?
You mean besides the cowboy hat wearing nekid mannequin on my wall? No, not really.

14. What do you think of this quiz?
Meh.

15. What is the last film you saw?
The Aristocrats. Two thumbs way up (I’m not going to tell you up where, because you’ll just have to watch the movie and find out for yourself. That damn mime is hilarious.)

16. If you turned a multi-millionaire overnight, what would you buy?
First thing would probably be a bitchin’ camaro. Then a house, and then toys to put in the house.

17. Tell me something about you that I don’t know.
I’ve got a tattoo.

18. If you could change one thing about the world, regardless of guilt and politics, what would you do?
Make doorways taller the world over.

19. Do you like to Dance?
I don’t like to Dance, but I will dance every now and again, when the mood strikes me (mood=Jaeger shots).

20. George Bush.
Crack fiend.

21. Imagine your first child is a girl, what do you call her?
Dillon.

22. Imagine your first child is a boy, what would you call him?
Creo.

23. Would you ever consider living abroad?
If I could bring my dog with me, then definitely.

24. What would you want God to say to you when you reach the pearly gates?
I’m sorry, but this is all just a big joke. Sorry to mess around with you so much, but welcome to the party up here!

25. 4 people who must also do this theme in their journal.
Tall, Pooh, and Frankie. I’m going to save my fourth choice for a possible trade after the draft.