Sarcastic Monkeys » admin http://www.sarcasticmonkeys.com Tue, 13 Sep 2011 21:47:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Off Target http://www.sarcasticmonkeys.com/2011/09/13/off-target/ http://www.sarcasticmonkeys.com/2011/09/13/off-target/#comments Tue, 13 Sep 2011 21:47:00 +0000 admin http://www.sarcasticmonkeys.com/2011/09/13/off-target/ Wish there was audio to this.

]]> http://www.sarcasticmonkeys.com/2011/09/13/off-target/feed/ 1 Lightning in a Cloud by a Moon http://www.sarcasticmonkeys.com/2011/09/12/lightning-in-a-cloud-by-a-moon/ http://www.sarcasticmonkeys.com/2011/09/12/lightning-in-a-cloud-by-a-moon/#comments Tue, 13 Sep 2011 03:57:00 +0000 admin http://www.sarcasticmonkeys.com/2011/09/12/lightning-in-a-cloud-by-a-moon/ Nothing funny. Nothing even all that interesting. Except it was beautiful in person. A full moon with a thunderstorm – at a distance. The thunderstorm was about 60 miles away, but all we could see was the top and the lightning that was dancing around inside of it.

It was intriguing, but the iPhone camera at a distance doesn’t really do it justice.

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As most viral videos, this one keeps going round and round. (And now it comes here.)

Poor Stacy Hedger. She’s since married and had children. Not sure if her husband saw this before he married her. Perhaps he’s a Star Trek fan.

But I don’t post this to ridicule Stacy. Really, I don’t. It’s a dreadfully bad video, but even worse are the comments I’ve seen about her. Yes, it’s terribly, amusingly, awful.

May the force keep you from infamy.

]]> http://www.sarcasticmonkeys.com/2011/09/09/infamy/feed/ 1 The deal http://www.sarcasticmonkeys.com/2011/07/02/the-deal/ http://www.sarcasticmonkeys.com/2011/07/02/the-deal/#comments Sat, 02 Jul 2011 20:26:11 +0000 admin http://www.sarcasticmonkeys.com/2011/07/02/the-deal/ After a growing sense that my clothes weren’t fitting correctly – and an increasing view of myself in the mirror – I decided to challenge myself for the month of June.

I called it The Deal, as in, I’m going to make a deal with myself. The Deal was this: no desserts, no between meal eating, no extra bread (sandwiches were okay, but no roll or garlic bread with the spaghetti), and whenever I was asked to go for a walk – an evening habit with the females of the house – I had to go.

It was NOT an all-out diet, otherwise I would have limited my portions a little more.

The only time I broke the deal was one night when it really looked like it would storm at any moment and I refused to walk. (It didn’t storm.)

The hardest part of the deal was the walking. I enjoy the company and time with my girls. I just dislike the actual walking.

The Deal began on June 1st and officially ended at midnight on June 30th. The picture shows my start and end weights. I celebrated on July 1st by having French toast for breakfast, but the only other thing I’ve eaten that I wouldn’t have eaten during June was a chocolate chip cookie.

Now…time to make your own Deal.

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]]> http://www.sarcasticmonkeys.com/2011/03/23/3-out-of-209/feed/ 1 I didn’t realize January was that painful http://www.sarcasticmonkeys.com/2011/02/02/i-didnt-realize-january-was-that-painful/ http://www.sarcasticmonkeys.com/2011/02/02/i-didnt-realize-january-was-that-painful/#comments Thu, 03 Feb 2011 04:25:22 +0000 admin http://www.sarcasticmonkeys.com/2011/02/02/i-didnt-realize-january-was-that-painful/ This is long, but after the soccer guy on the stretcher, most everything else is anticlimatic.

]]> http://www.sarcasticmonkeys.com/2011/02/02/i-didnt-realize-january-was-that-painful/feed/ 0 Dartha Vader? http://www.sarcasticmonkeys.com/2011/02/02/dartha-vader/ http://www.sarcasticmonkeys.com/2011/02/02/dartha-vader/#comments Thu, 03 Feb 2011 03:45:48 +0000 admin http://www.sarcasticmonkeys.com/2011/02/02/dartha-vader/ A friend – Graham – points out that this newly-viral video might really be of a girl Vader. Either that, or the boy likes dolls, or he has previously sent his sister to join Yoda and ObiWan.

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]]> http://www.sarcasticmonkeys.com/2011/01/15/google-might-not-be-evil-but-they-fight-dirty/feed/ 0 Facebook Limbo http://www.sarcasticmonkeys.com/2011/01/10/facebook-limbo/ http://www.sarcasticmonkeys.com/2011/01/10/facebook-limbo/#comments Tue, 11 Jan 2011 04:44:26 +0000 admin http://www.sarcasticmonkeys.com/2011/01/10/facebook-limbo/ Just wondering – do you keep potential Facebook friends waiting in limbo like I do?

I currently have 6 people waiting there. Two of them will remain there as long as I have a Facebook account. I don’t want them as a “friend” – that sounds bad, doesn’t it? – but if I reject their request it just gives them an opportunity to ask me again. Leaving them in Facebook limbo lets me retain control. (Are you one of the two? Sorry.)

The other four people I don’t know well enough to decide on yet – though they’ve been there for awhile. Again, if you’re one of these people, I’m sorry. But my guilt won’t get you to be my Facebook friend.

How many people do you have in limbo?

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