Dürer's Rhino

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Gregarious misanthrope. Optimistic cynic. I live by the code of 'Beer on! Pants off!'

Angry Birds Is Now Being Served on Chrome

Don’t get enough Angry Birds on your phone? Not enjoying the same functionality from a web-based look-alike? Need a larger screen to see the sweat on the green pigs brow? Well now you can play Angry Birds on your desktop, laptop, any top that has Chrome installed. EDIT: Works great in Firefox, too!

I need to call someone about the hours I’ve already spent lobbing fowl at swine and giggling like a madwoman. Is there an Angry Birds hotline yet? No? There should be.
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QOTD: Guests Will Be Here In An Hour

The phone rings: it’s the love of your life, the president of your PTA, your Mother. It’s someone with a free pass to make a small imposition and announce themselves or guests on short notice.

If you’re like me, all the laundry is clean and very neatly laid out over the love seat in the living room. All 42 loads. The camping gear is in the kitchen in some stage of being cleaned for the next trip. The stack of catalogs and mail in the entryway has been knocked over and haphazardly restacked yet again. Today’s QOTD:

Newt Gingrich and the Democrats’ Blue Dress Problem

Newt Gingrich is the first Republican to officially announce his run for the 2012 Presidential nomination and this presents a potential problem for the Democratic election machine. If they are very lucky, the folks vying for the nomination will take care of Newt for them. If not, they will need to come to terms with the impeachment of President Clinton. Continue reading

QOTD: What Fictional Mother Did You Pretend Was Yours?

Didn’t every kid have moments where they believed they’d been switched at birth or adopted? Create some fantasy that their parents were actually rich star-crossed lovers that were counting the days until they could reveal themselves to you and take you to their private island with its own Disneyland and 24 hour ice cream service? I’m sure most of us had an ideal Mom in mind and they called to us from our televisions, the big screen, and books. In keeping with the Mother’s Day theme, today’s QOTD is:

What  fictional Mom did you want to be adopted by? Continue reading