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One sunny afternoon
At a quarter after three
I felt a weird sensation
Coming over me
And before my lips could speak the words
“Whatever could it be?”
I hiccupped.

It wasn’t very loud,
But it made me jump a little
To feel this strange anomaly
Coming from my middle
And this singular event
Created quite the mental riddle
“Why do I hiccup?”
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I generally make it a rule not to do New Year’s resolutions. Really, there’s nothing particularly special about January 1st when it comes to controlling willpower. However, I make it an exception when it’s something that I’ve already been doing successfully… I just haven’t fully announced.

So here and now, I’ll announce it. I promise that in 2009, this site will have at least 2 updates a week of some kind. Music, comics, puzzles, art of all shapes and sizes… with 52 weeks x 2, that means that there will be at least 104 updates this year.

Oh, and I don’t count this as one of this week’s updates. That just feels like a cop-out.

Our work Art Challenge last Monday was “Winter”. (Sorry, didn’t get around to putting it up unti now.)

Caption: And without warning, winter hits the Serengeti in 3.7 seconds.

You know that game “Mad Gab”? Where you have a group of words, and if you say them in a different way, it sounds like a well-known phrase? Like “read earned whose sander” sounds like “Return To Sender”?

Well, if you like those, here’s some for you to try. They’re all fairly well known Christmas Carols:

1. Oak Wrist Mystery
2. Sigh Land In Height
3. Rude Olive Their Head Knows Rained Ear
4. Caw Dressed Deem Air Reach End Almond
5. A Wayne Aim May Injure
6. Lid Dolled Rum Herb Poi
7. Sill Verb Else
8. Far Oz Teethe Is No Man
9. Joint Tooth How Hurled
10. Fall Lease Snuff Eat Add
11. It Cay Map Pawn Amid Nigh Tickle Ear
12. Oak A Mocha Me Manual
13. Could Keen Gwen Senseless
14. Owe Calm Mall Leaf Hateful
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Heard a Christmas CD today. Bet you can guess what the very first song I heard was:

In this puzzle, I will give you a group of four words. Three of them will have a number that the word “equals”, and based on those answers, you have to figure out what the fourth one equals. For instance:

PARTRIDGE = 1
RINGS = 5
DRUMMERS = 12
FRENCH HENS = ?

The answer is 3 (it’s the number based on the song “The Twelve Days of Christmas”). Think you’ve got what it takes to solve these? (Answers at bottom of post.)

1.
GROUNDHOG = 2
PATRICK = 17
FOOLS = 1
HALLOWS = ?

2.
RED = 1
BLUE = 5
YELLOW = 3
GREEN = ?

3.
NINE = 11
TEN = 9
ELEVEN = 19
TWELVE = ?

4.
CANARY = 2
CRAB = 10
SNAKE = 0
BEETLE = ?

5.
NETWORK = 2
STENCIL = 10
HONESTY = 1
CANINES = ?

6.
JOSHUA = 6
JAMES = 59
JOHN = 43
LUKE = ?

7.
DOUGHNUT = 1
NOSE = 2
BOWLING BALL = 3
FUNNEL = ?

8.
DOVER = 1
TRENTON = 3
JUNEAU = -2
AUSTIN = ?

9.
IAN = 1
VINCENT = 6
MICHAEL = 1099
VALERIE = ?
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This was one of the first digital paintings I did… or at least, one of the first ones that I ever attempted to make photo-realistic. While I don’t have an eye for the level of detail needed for photo-realism, I was happy enough with it that it became my avatar for awhile on a few online forums.

Click to see the big version.

With Christmas here and everything, it seemed like an appropriate thing to post… candles seem to be one of my favorite symbols during Christmas.

Let your light shine.

Fact 1: Lead crystal is made up of at least 20% lead.
Fact 2: Superman can not see through lead.
Question: Can Superman see through lead crystal?

This was a real conversation that came up at work about a month ago.

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Made this back in Oct. 2001. I’d still love to turn it into a T-shirt someday.