Hey! Come Over!

What makes me saddest of all, looking at this photo I took of a post on the bulletin board at the William Temple House a few months ago, is that I didn't call this number.

Toucan Totem

A totem is a spirit or entity that watches over a group of people, not just one person, typically a family or a tribe. The totem is typically represented by an animal.

When Charissa suggested the name "Toucan Plan", it immediately resonated with me somehow. Not just the clever wordplay with the Two can plan, but also the image of the Toucan--

Toucans are highly prized in advertising and such because they're so beautiful- (just look at that tongue, it's amazing!)

Toucans are also some of the loudest birds in the forest-- their calls can be heard for half a mile. Their spirit represents sound, communication, speech. Proper words in the proper places, and all that jazz.

But, the toucan can also be unpredictable, and do what they want when they want to. (This is me, to a tee) Also, in some areas, toucans are associated with evil spirits and said to be the reincarnation of demons.


I was first drawn to toucans when going to Walt Disney World and visiting Tropical Serenade (it's since been rennamed the Enchanted Tiki Room)

While I don't remember ever going into the attraction, there were toucans outside that would talk to anyone standing nearby. I was fascinated by the animatronic birds, and would just stand and listen. On and on they would go, yak yak yak.

There are a lot of animal spirits guiding my thoughts and actions, but the toucan is becoming prevalenter and prevalenter.

Whereever they may roam

Believe it or not, this is a grammatically correct English sentence:

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

It was discovered/invented in 1972 by University of Buffalo linguist William
J. Rapaport. It means "Buffalo from the city of Buffalo that are intimidated
by other buffalo from the city of Buffalo themselves intimidate a third group of buffalo, also from Buffalo." From here.

Twenty Five years of Tetris

Today marks the 25th anniversary of the great video game Tetris. Even Google got in on the act, posting a sweet image.

Those Russians are very good at falling blocks, vodka and that spinning piledriver maneuever.

The fabled crunchberry tree

A woman actually sued Cap'n Crunch saying she was misled into thinking crunchberries were real fruits.

While I imagine a land with crunchberry trees would be a magical, enchanted place, even I find this one pretty ridiculous.

A trial where Cap'n Crunch has to show up, and brings in Toucan Sam, Tony the Tiger and that Cookie Crisp criminal in as his witnesses would be pretty awesome however.

Phil Ivey is the stone cold nuts

Phil Ivey, my favorite poker player, won his sixth World Series of Poker bracelet in the no limit deuce to seven lowball event Thursday night.

The prize money was $96,000, but that money meant relatively little to him, as he had prop bets out on him winning a bracelet-- he won at least $3 million in prop bets from the winning.

The picture shows here he took his 96k winnings and sat it on the floor. Reports said he tipped the whole 96k to the dealers, but this is unconfirmed as of this moment.

Congratulations Phil!

Shrinky dink, manic gigantic

If you have a shrinking ray and a gigantic ray and you shoot them both at each other at the same time, what would happen?



A. Nothing, they would cancel each other out
B. The shrinking ray would turn gigantic, and the gigantic ray would shrink
C. The world would explode
D. Some other, offbeat answer