Uh oh, long time no update. Time for a bullet-point post. Completely random and not on any topic, of course…which has turned out to be what this blog is all about.

• A picspam photo request meme, based on the unlikely presumption that anyone will actually read this: Ask me to take pictures of any aspect of my life that you’re interested in/curious about. It can be anything from my favorite shirt to my cell phone. Leave your requests as a comment to this entry, I’ll snap the pictures and post them as soon as I can. (No requests for anything naughty, of course. Oh wait, I forgot: no one will read this. I’m safe.)
• My current online obsession is the content of my Feedreader, and my obsession among said content is definitely design and DIY blogs. Apartment Therapy is KILLER for people in small spaces and on a budget who still want living spaces made of awesome. It also has several city-specific branches of itself (I read the L.A. version, natch) which do things like offer up local Craigslist ads for cool furniture; How About Orange is a graphic designer’s personal blog with a nice sensibility (except the bitch can paint–artistically, that is–and I can’t, so half her projects I could never achieve); I hopped on the Design*Sponge bandwagon today but am reserving judgment till I see more.
• My blog obsession of TODAY is INSTRUCTABLES. You freaking HAVE to go here, in case you haven’t already–it’s got user-submitted DIY tutorials for EVERYTHING, including How to Make Bacon Soap, How to Make an Invisible Bookshelf, How To Bifurcate Your Own Tongue, and How To (quite illegally) Open A Coke Machine.
• And finally, I took some pictures in a doctor’s office the other day, while stuck waiting. They had this really cool fishtank that was built into a wall–looking through the water, you could see right through to the back office. The fish were pretty–the bright blue one was a total camera whore/busybody, and would zoom right up and get into my face to see what I was doing every time I got close and held up the camera. The eel also looked amazing when he rippled off through the water, but I figured a still photo would never capture the phenomenon so I went for a nice portrait of his face instead. Click the thumbs for bigger pix:
  

And this was my favorite shot, because it the see-through tank makes it look like a fish just floating in mid-air in an office. I call it The Anti-Gravity Fish.

You ever do the thing where you just think up a word you’ve always liked or that you think is interesting–like the classic “antidisestablishmentarianism” or something–and then, just for grins, you add “.com” (and if that doesn’t work, then “.net” or “.org”) to it, type it into your browser and see what comes up?

I like doing that.

It can bring up some interesting, occasionally unexpected sites: the best one my friends and I ever found was by looking up defenestration.com (the act of throwing someone out a window–and sadly no longer there :-{ ).  All that came up was this cryptic site with a painting as its background: the painting showed an over-the-shoulder shot of a man at an easel, painting a picture of an extravagant, glorious bird…but on the stool where the subject was supposed to be posing, there was only an egg.

:D I so loved that. I just googled the crap out of it and couldn’t find a copy anywhere.

Recent successful (though not guaranteed fascinating) tries
(and yes if you don’t know these words I’m going to make you look them up ):
omphaloskepsis.com AND .org
surveil.net
doodad.com
panache.com
wonky.com, .org, AND .net
zaftig.org and .net
sycophant.net and .org
obsequious.org
recidivism.org
anosmia.net  (okay, this one I’ll tell you: “anosmia” is a condition where you’re born without a sense of smell. )
anhedonia.net (very disappointing…)

And of course,
antidisestablishmentarianism.com

Recent unsuccessful tries, regardless of .com, .net or .org:
exsanguination (I loved that word when they used it on The X-Files)
doohickey
truthiness
pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

So now my question is, if I looked up your favorite word, what would that be?