Eyes of the Cosmic Whale
“…leaving the heavens naked, glistening blue-black, like the belly of some cosmic whale…”Archive for Fun!
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Free Rice: play this vocab game and feed a hungry person
Free Rice is a website that allows you to enhance your English vocabulary and feed a hungry person at the same time.
The site asks you vocabulary questions, and for every answer you get right, 20 grains of rice are donated to the UN’s World Food Programme to be distributed in some of the poorest countries in the world. Now, 20 grains may not seem like a lot, but in two months and 4 days, 6,306,039,810 grains of rice have been gotten because of the number of people playing.
This website has two aims:
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Provide English vocabulary to everyone for free
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Help end world hunger by providing free rice to truly needy people
Unsure that this is a hoax? You can cross-check it isn’t at the WFP website and the BBC.
Free Rice gets the rice from the sponsors who put ads in the site.
It helps one’s vocabulary too, since for every word you get right, you’ll advanced to a higher level with more difficult words, while if you get one wrong, you’ll go to an easier level.
But what are you still doing here? Free Rice is fun too, almost addictive, and it makes you (or, well, at least it makes me) knowledge thirsty.
Go to Free Rice and help improve someone’s life!
* Dedicated to Ryan, self proclaimed selfish yet wanting to help the world 
ORISINAL: There are cuter ways to procrastinate
Everybody has played online games at some point or another. The Internet is just full of them, from MMORPG’s with lots of users to smaller ones in interactive E-Cards. Orisinal is a gem unknown to many, so I want to share with the world Ferry Halim’s adorable creations.
Orisinal is certainly different. Ferry himself says, in an interview by b3ta.com that “Everyone has their own style, and mine is the “clean & nice” style.” and that he avoids first person shooters “there’s already a lot of those games on the net”.
Truth is, except for a minimal number of them, Ferry Halim’s games are anything but violent. Most games involve cute little situations with very lovable animal characters. The artwork is lovely and the music fits the games well while being relaxing. The overall effect is a heartwarming addiction to his games, which are certainly dripping originality.
Not surprisingly, the site has millions of hits. Just checking out the Guestbook confirms it. The Guestbook too happens to be a work of art. It allows you to choose and create your own little blob character that reacts differently when the mouse is rolled over.
Anyway, Orisinal is worth being discovered. I, for one, certainly recommend it.
It’ll get your mind off things and into fluffy worlds of squishable cuteness.
<3
Tribute to a crazy afternoon
This blog entry is a tribute to a crazy Monday 11 afternoon, left alone with Lizzy, a board and two whiteboard pens.
To Paulie the sheriff! Who rides the magic cat horse catdammit! Horse gawsh! Geeez! Cat!
It’s a tribute to the sweaty scared guy of the spooky girl and the other girl who was happy even if there was a knife stuck in her head. Not to mention her sister who has a terrible fashion designer.
It’s a tribute to the magic snow in fairyland. To the castle on top of the rainbow on top of two little clouds, (nubecitas felices!) the flower that died in slow motion, and of course the bunnies, the fairy bunnies.
The bunny with the small wings and a huge tail and who was carrying a monkey (+ banana) by the string and of course the INSTANTWIN bunny with ears that were my fingers (“that’s just wrong!”).
And, of course, to the gorrita de porquería.
Am I missing someone? YES! ARAFILU! And the terrible paragraph on Australia, the red hats theory and watching lolhurtadolol out the window.
REMEMBER. DROP COVER HOLD.
It will save your life! (from the black death)
Land of the beluga
I was doing some history homework on Korean War prisoners of war and mentally preparing to study historia del peru (XP) when all of a sudden I had an urge to sing the Beluga song. A true childhood classic!
Baby beluga in the deep blue sea,
Swim so wild and swim so free
Heavens above, and sea below
And a little white whale on the go!
That’s as much as I remember by heart. -loves the song -
So, somehow, attached to the song came a fond reminiscence of the days of the beluga whale and Miss Camogli’s (CA-MOU-LEE) lessons, and racing Belen on who finished classwork first, and Miss Camogli’s oboe CD’s. And I started looking for the song in YouTube. Here’s some real life belugas cutely swimming around whilte the song plays
And here’s some 3 year old kids singing the song with cuuuute preschool voices and gestures and stuff. To think I was only some years older (about 6) when I sang it myself!
Ohman…that was mom asking me if the sound she heard was mine. This is the sort of moment in which I wish my headphones, which were super duper cool, weren’t now super duper broken.
I’ll just turn the volume really really low and do finish off my homework in a light, happy, baby-beluga sort of way n___n.
