the first time we saw a howler monkey on our beach it was pretty exciting. seeing them was always kind of neat cause there was usually someone around that was seeing them for the first time, but very quickly they became old news and i started to feel like i've always been surrounded by howlers. "oh, those howler monkeys? i didn't even notice them cause i'm always surrounded by them... why yes you're right, they do have enormous white scrotums... oh, careful, i think one just pissed on you" i'd imagine myself saying to the new tourists.
it's funny what you'll end up learning a lot about when you travel. i feel like i know more about animals from the places i've visited than the animals that are native to where i live. maybe cause the only animal native to waterloo is the frosher.
jen and i just rolled in from our honeymoon in costa rica and i'm already here posting a photo. this makes up for the total slackitude these last 6 months right? no? dang, tough crowd.
more photos to come so get off my back already... that goes double for you hoi.
last weekend seven friends made their way to canada's wonderland for thrills and excitement. when we weren't gawking at 16 year olds with too much (read: just enough) booty hanging out of their shorts and making granddad type comments about the state of youth, we had "sharing time" and silly conversations.
somehow english words that have no rhymes came up and i stated that there are supposedly 3 words that can't be rhymed with and they include orange, silver, and something else. jen correctly, or incorrectly as we'll find out, identified the third word as purple.
without much confidence and mostly joking, aaron said that "door hinge" rhymes with orange, but i immediately dismissed it as bogus since it's two words so that doesn't count. silver got "kill her" and somehow oxygen, which wasn't even one of the unrhymable words, got "kill him".
the preposterous orange - door hinge rhyme became a bit of a joke which was definitely funnier in our mild heat stroke state than i'm sure it is for anyone reading so believe me when i say that yesterday when i decided to google "english words without rhymes" and noticed this wikipedia article that debunks the orange, silver, purple myth and even says "For orange: door hinge (even though it consists of two words) and sporange" i roffle loffled till i could roffle loffle no more.
i'm still calling bs on this though for a couple of reasons; 1st) i don't know what a sporange is and i'm not looking it up so it's not real and 2) there's a big list of words in this article that apparently have no rhymes. words like celebrity, diamond, vacuum... well guess what wikipedia... schmelebrity, schmiamond, schmacuum. what now all knowing wikipedia?.... schmikipidia.
my macbook is so very out of warranty. like way over a year out of warranty and i'm not even the original owner. when i called applecare about a humming noise that it was making when the cpu was idle i thought for sure they'd laugh it up, record the call, and pass it around the office. instead, they picked up the tab for replacing the motherboard. way to go apple, you don't suck!
it's all fixed up now and quiet like it should be. this is a photo booth shot using the built in isight from where it sits when i'm at work. the noggin belongs to josh.
i realized the other day that i've never heard mia bark. even when yelping dogs pass by mia just stands there and stares back stone cold and dead silent. you'd think she's a real hardass or something but she's actually the most tender little pugger ever. she's so damn cute that if her face wasn't already maximum squished i'd squish it some more.
i tend to dive in to hobbies pretty hard. it's what happened with photography. for me, it's hard to keep two hobbies going at the same time so the photography thing has kind of fallen by the wayside cause i've been trying to teach myself to mix records instead.
i bought these 1200's off my friend jay just a couple of days before he died. when the second year anniversary of his death came up i started feeling a bit guilty that they've gone mostly unused so i decided to give beat matching a go. needless to say, at first it was a cringe inducing cacophony of crap. lately though, i'm finding i can listen back to my practice sessions with only minor embarrassment. wow, i'm really selling it here. anyway, check out the mix below that's definitely got a few noob mistakes but should be mostly listenable... well, depending on your tastes in music that is.
clicky click here (zshare - just click the "download this file" link)
tracklist:
q lazzarus - goodbye horses (extended version)
alias - hot feet
toddla t - inna di dancehall (count of monte cristal & sinden mix)
larry tee - licky (herve goes low remix)
aquasky - have a good time (herve and sinden mix)
fake shark real zombie! - designer drugs (designer drugs remix)
bamabounce - wu-tang slide
say wut - let's go / yeah (remix pt. 1)
top billin - shake my ass
le le - la bouche (elroy vanderley's je te vois une baltimore edit)
krazy baldhead - crazy moth3f2ck8z (midfield general remix)
lillica libertine - manhunt (stdjs turn the bass up remix)
huoratron - $$ troopers (charlie fanclub remix)
hostage - stab up
moby - go (trentemoller remix)
drop the lime - come 2 life
herman ross - house now!
boyz noise - oh! (a-trak remix)
midfield general - disco sirens (boy 8-bit short vocal mix)
dizzee rascal - sirens (war games rmx)
edu k - me bota pra dancar (crookers edit)
bonde do role - gasolina (crookers crunk)
jamtech foundation feat. king kong - rumble jumble life
our siamese cat maud and brock & em's siamese cat simon couldn't be more different. maud's a total chickenshit that plays passive aggressive games with us and simon is the feline equivalent of rocky balboa trapped in the body of paul from the wonder years. where maud hides, simon comes out swinging his declawed paws. it's really quite funny. sort of like holding your lil' bros forehead at a distance while he tries to swing at you. not that i would have ever done that to my bro of course -ahem-... sorry tony.
