Oh, here's one that happened just now.

~20 minutes ago, I was thinking that Su Do Ku would be sooo much easier if you used colors instead of numbers and then I clicked StumbleUpon and found this.

Ahh yes. That site. Those are hours and hours of my life I won't every have again. It is a nice alternative to pulling out my pencil crayons for my morning su do ku from the paper, though.

Still haven't found them? I've done some sleuthing in the past, looking for some of my own relatives. It's great when it's successful. I hope it works out.

When I was in high school a really close friend of mine and I were walking down the hallway after school. It was pretty quiet cause no one was around. At the exact same moment, on pitch, both of us start singing "Brick House" by the Commodores.

As soon as we realized it, we both kind of stared at each other and were like WTF just happened? I couldn't even laugh, it was that strange. I can vividly remember it to this day and it still kinda scares the hell out of me.

Liar! Everyone knows that cows exclusively practice Chinese martial arts and not Japanese! If you would have claimed Super Kung-Fu Cow then your story would have been believable. Ninja cow, harumph!

You reminded me! I have a pretty neat story on how I met one of my friends.

I was in junior high and was walking under a tree and a guy was walking toward me and under the same tree. At the exact same moment, under the exact same tree, this stranger and I went up on our tippy toes to bite the exact same leaf (it was Autumn so there weren't a whole lot of leaves to chose from).

Edit: Sorry about that; my attention was demanded elsewhere. Here's the rest of the story:

It turns out he was also the person who had been having a picture war with me on the desk we sat in during bore class (we sat at the same desk during different classes and every day there would be a new picture defeating the one I had drawn yesterday and then I would draw one to defeat his. I never knew who is was until were were held in detention for drawing on the desk together).

I'm afraid you're terribly mistaken, mrp. You see, ninjitsu was initially developed in China. Scholars debate the exact time frame from when it was concieved to when it made its way to Japan, but it began in China. It is first and formost a Chinese martial art.

Sorry, I've studied 武术母牛 (martial arts cows) for nearly a decade now. Yes, there are some wackos in the field who have made claims similar to what you have said, but they are largely ignored. It is unfortunate that their position has received some attention from the tabloids, where you apparently have gathered your "information." If you want to learn more about the subject keep your eye open for my book (Martial Arts Cows: Myth, Mystery, and Facts) soon to be available on Amazon.

liareatpoop. It has a certain "je ne sais quoi".

Last Night on TV there was a programme on about the ocean. It showed a video of a tidal bore then an advert for next weeks programme featuring the Australian Morning Glory. Claire giggled at that a bit the I explained how it was a 40 kilometer cloud that rolled across the sky in Australia.

Came in from work today and found this link on the front page.

A minor one, but it struck me as strange.

I just got an upvote on this five month old post as I was looking at this zombie love story titled I am a zombie and I feel love.

For several days last week, I could not get a scene from Titanic out of my head. We rented the Simpsons movie and the part with the concert on Lake Springfield triggered the corresponding Titanic scene for me.

For whatever reason, I simply kept on hearing the band playing and the moment when the one guy says "It has been an honor playing with you tonight".

So life got in the way finally and I forgot it ever happened.

Until just now.

Gave me chills.

When DEP posted this I spent a little while looking for a clip of Tom Waits as Renfield in the 1992 Coppola version of Dracula (Waits was, for my money, the one good thing in that otherwise dog's egg of a movie).

I couldn't find anything but tonight, I'm flicking through the channels and suddenly I find that very film at the moment when Van Helsing is splashing Renfield with his Holy Water.

My dad is from Michigan. Several of his sisters moved to Louisiana in the 50s and started families and Dad left Michigan for West Virginia in the 70s.

Cue to 1999/2000ish. I am at an athletics dinner with my mom at my very small private school in Charleston, WV. Mom strikes up conversation with the mother next to her. Her daughter, Lindsey, has been a classmate of mine for the past 6 years but we've never really been close. Lindsey was born in Michigan.

Lindsey's mom mentions this and Mom remarks that my dad is from Michigan. They both chuckle about how funny that is and how their family is all spread out. Mom mentions that three of Dad's siblings moved to Louisiana. Lindsey's mom goes, "Oh, that's so neat! My sister's husband is from Louisiana! *jokingly* You don't know any Leinerts, do you?"

To which Mom, somewhat stunned, replies, "Actually, I think we're related to some of them."

Cue more squealing. Lindsay's mom says, "Well, my brother in law is named Paul Leinert," to which Mom replies, "Is his mother's name Audrey? Because if so, he's my husband's nephew."

And yes, it does turn out that Lindsay's aunt Anita is married to my cousin Paul and that means we share two cousins [their kids]. In fact, during a track meet earlier that year, we'd been making small talk about college searches and she'd b***hed about how her cousin had just gotten accepted into Harvard and I'd laughed at how funny that was because one of my cousin's sons had just gotten into Harvard too. Yeah, it was totally the same guy.


Small, small world.

About a year to two years ago, I took this weird little web quiz and then promptly forgot about it.

YESTERDAY, for no reason at all, it popped into my head.

Then, today I see this.

I was just thinking that I needed a new camo hat when someone here came up to me and said "hey, do you want this hat? It's new and I don't like it."

So now I have a new hat. It's perfect.

I also found the Skype thread that Dav found and linked to. I had been thinking about how I'd like to talk to more people since I'm getting lonely up here. It's perfect.

Ok this is getting freakish. Did I link to the skype thread? because I thought about it last nigt but was too tired and went to bed instead.

This is pretty wild. You could do a reverse search at www.EllisIsland.org... Maybe they registered interest there. Try Ancestry.com too (but be prepared to be asked to pay for the good stuff.) I just went there and can give you info; will pm you.

I was listening to "I was walking with a ghost" when I went into the Platroom and talked to the platroom ghost.


Out of my mind... out of my mind... out of my mind...

The platroom is haunted?

Oh noes!