I smell a Hollywood blockbuster...

I played volleyball for the first time in 5 years. The first time since the accident.

Here's a refresher course: http://picasaweb.google.com/smerkerg/MTC#5068345593522633250

It was fun to play again. Even if I did break every blood vessel in both of my arms.

Give me a sign. A sign that I want.

Here is a sign:




Am I the only one who looks at the sign above and sees the sign below?

Functional living

I have two belts that are identical except one is black and one is brown. I wear the black one more often. Yesterday I wore the brown one simply because it would decrease the amount of wear in the black belt. Who makes decisions like this? What is wrong with me? On the plus side, it keeps me frugal.

Shh, don't wake him up

You're ready to leave. You get up from your desk and begin walking to the door. A tingling sensation in your right leg. Your foot's asleep. This could be trickier than you thought.

Black Cherry Soda

Do you ever brush your teeth and then when you spit out the toothpaste before you rinse, you struggle to figure out why it is the color it is?

It was black cherry soda.

lolz

You tell a really good joke to someone over your favorite chat application, and you want to know how funny you were.

heh/hehe < haha < hahaha < flol < soq < loq < lol/rlol < LOL < rofl/lmao/roflmao

Of course, there are other variations that you may run into. This is simply a high level overview.

A few words of wisdom and explanations:
1. flol = fake lol. This is used when you would type lol, but in reality you are not laughing.
2. loq = laughing out quiet. This is used when you find something funny and you're smiling. You probably would chuckle if they were in the room with you, or if you weren't at work where people can hear you.
3. soq = smiling out quiet. Same as above, but only in terms of facial expression. You probably wouldn't be laughing even if you could, but you have a big smile on your face.
4. rlol = real lol. This can be replaced by simply lol if you don't use flol. lol should be used only when you are literally laughing and it is audible. A chuckle is ok, but you may want to consider a lower form in this case.
5. LOL. You are laughing. If you're not laughing, don't type LOL. If you're not smiling, you disgust me. This should be the highest form of laughter abbreviation you should need. If for some reason it's not enough, consider adding exclamation marks, or even better, give details about your laughing. "Oh man, now everyone around me is asking me what is so funny because I was LOL" or "You almost made milk come out through my nose. I'm not even drinking milk!"
6. rofl/lmao/roflmao should never be used. For one, it's not true. Where's your integrity? If for some reason it was true, you should use it in the past tense, and give some explanation that it was really true. "I was rofl, and I hit my elbow on the wall."

Now most of you will probably think I'm adding new abbreviations here, and you're probably right. I find it gives me a few more levels of variation in describing how funny I think something is, while not sacrificing my integrity by lying. But... YMMV, HTH, TTYL.

Facebook Phishing

Be on the lookout for this one: http://informednetworker.com/blog/2008/08/09/danger-facebook-phish/

This just happened to me, someone wrote on my wall with a link, I click on it, and it leads to the Facebook login screen, only it's a phishing site attempting to steal my password. I, luckily, realized what was going on by checking the URL (it goes to http://www.faceilbook.com). I'm not sure if this is new, Google gave me only one search result, and it was from another blog post 53 minutes ago, the one that I linked to above. Keep your eyes open people.

The message looks like:
Somebody wrote something really funny in their blog about you . everybody see it here http://charleneko***.blogspot.com

The URL is different each time, but it redirects to http://www.faceilbook.com.