Turtle Thursday: Baby Pic [2008]

This is a pic of Silent Bob when we first got him as a hatchling. He was less than three months old when the pic was taken. He's a Dark Phased Texas Diamondback Terrapin. Photo taken with an Olympus, but I'm not sure which. Either a D-560 of an FE-180. He turns 21 this month!

Thursday, September 24, 2026

fink \ fingk \ , verb; 

1. Slang . to inform to the police; squeal. 
2. Slang . to act as a strikebreaker; scab. 

noun: 

1. Slang . a strikebreaker. 
2. Slang . a labor spy. 
3. Slang . an informer; stool pigeon. 
4. Slang . a contemptible or thoroughly unattractive person.

Origin: Fink emerged as a slang term in the US in the early 1900s. Its origin is unknown, but some etymologists cite the German word of the same spelling, which means "a frivolous or dissolute person," as a possible lexical ancestor.

 

Layout Bitching

• The act of users posting statuses on Facebook, bitching and moaning unnecessarily about new layouts.

Person A: "WHAT THE HELL FACEBOOK, Y U ALWAYS CHANGE LAYOUT?"

Person B: "Shut the hell up and stop layout bitching."

 

confident turtle

• When one sticks their neck out so far as to avoid double chins and exude the confidence of a turtle that comes out of its shell.

She used the confident turtle to replace duck face in photos.

History

• Black Friday: Wall Street panicked as speculators tried to corner the gold market, causing a collapse (1869)
• USS Enterprise: first nuclear aircraft carrier was launched, in Newport News, Virginia (1960)
• 60 Minutes: investigative TV news-magazine debuted on CBS (1968)

Birthdays 

• John Marshall 1755
• F. Scott Fitzgerald 1896
• Don Porter 1912
• Larry Gates 1915
• Jim McKay 1921
• Sheila MacRae 1924
• Anthony Newley 1931
• Jim Henson 1936
• Barbara Allbut (The Angels) 1940
• Linda McCartney 1941 - Musician (Wings), wife of Paul McCartney (Beatles)
• Phyllis "Jiggs" Allbut (The Angels) 1942
• Gerry Marsden (Gerry and the Pacemakers) 1942
• "Mean" Joe Green (NFL) 1946
• Phil Hartman 1948
• Gordon Clapp 1948

• Kevin Sorbo 1958
• Nia Vardalos 1962
• Cedric Dent (Take 6) 1962
• Rafael Palmeiro 1964
• Lisa Matthews (born Lisa Reich) 1969 (PB Playmate Apr 1990)
• Marty Mitchell (Ricochet) 1969
• Megan Ward 1969
• Marty Cintron (No Mercy) 1971
• Kyle Sullivan 1988

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

  

KILL. YOUR. IDOL.

Wednesday, September 23, 2026

serein \ suh-RAN \ , noun; 

• Meteorology . fine rain falling after sunset from a sky in which no clouds are visible. 

Origin: Serein is a French loanword with roots in the Latin term sērus meaning "late." It entered English in the mid-1800s. 

airport vultures

• Passengers waiting to board a plane who stalk around near and clog up the boarding gate before a flight, regardless of where their seat is or when boarding actually is.

The flight attendant became so irritated with the airport vultures that the flight was abruptly cancelled.

 

History 

• "I have not yet begun to fight": defiant statement was reportedly proclaimed by American commander John Paul Jones, just before winning a naval battle with the British (1779)
• Lewis and Clark: explorers arrived back in St. Louis after a three-year journey through the US Pacific Northwest (1806)
• Neptune: the eighth planet from the sun was discovered (1846)
• Checkers speech: as a vice-presidential candidate, Richard M. Nixon denied having received improper contributions, except perhaps for his daughter's dog, Checkers (1952)

Birthdays

• Caesar Augustus 63 B.C.
• William McGuffy 1800
• Victoria Chaflin Woodhull 1838
• Walter Lippmann 1889
• Walter Pidgeon 1897
• Louis Nevelson 1900
• Mickey Rooney (Joe Yule, Jr.) 1920
• Gail Russell 1924
• John Coltrane 1926
• Ray Charles 1930
• Colin Blakely 1930
• Pay (Chiyoko) Suzuki 1931
• Les McCann 1935
• Romy Schneider 1938
• Ben E. King (The Drifters) 1938
• Roy Buchanan 1939
• T3h Bax0jayz Father 1939
  
• Julio Iglesias 1943
• Steve Boone (The Lovin' Spoonful) 1943
• Paul Petersen 1945
• Ronald Bushy (Iron Butterfly) 1945
• Don Grolnick 1947
• Mary Kay Place 1947
• Neal Smith (Alice Cooper, Bouchard, Dunaway & Smith (BSD))
• Bruce Springsteen 1949 
• Jason Alexander 1959
• Elizabeth Pena 1961
• Don Herron (BR5-49) 1962
• Ani DiFranco 1970
• Lucia Cifarelli 1971 (KMFDM)
• Sarah Bettens (K's Choice) 1972
• Mike Felumiee (Smoking Popes) 1974

   

  

Review Tuesday: Incantation (Original title: Zhou) 2022

  

 

Incantation

(Original title: Zhou)

2022

A woman's life is plagued with misery after witnessing a private family ceremony.

When you are trying to find something to watch with friends the hardest part is making a selection. One night one of my friends declared, "I got it! I have the movie!" and suggested INCANTATION. Okay. Why not?

 

Li Ronin (Hsuanyen Tsai) and her two friends have a paranormal investigation channel on the internet. They try documenting a private family ceremony, and everything goes wrong after that.

 

This movie is kinda like a Taiwanese combination of Blair Witch and The Ring in that the main characters want to check something out due to curiosity and all end up dying, and people around them, in a grisly manner. In this scenario the family ceremony is an INCANTATION to spread out the curse that had been inflicted upon the family generations ago. The ceremony is meant to thin it out and spread it around so it's not as bad for the family. 

 

The concept sounds pretty harsh and scary, but the movie is in fact, long, drawn out, and boring. It's all found footage, so it's unstable with loads of filler. It's pretty exhausting as you wait some anything to happen, and when it does, it can be a bit gory, but hardly scary. A couple scenes build up suspense, then it goes nowhere. Totally unsatisfying.   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

Tuesday, September 22, 2026

philology \ fi-LOL-uh-jee \ , noun; 

1. Obsolete . the love of learning and literature. 
2. the study of literary texts and of written records, the establishment of their authenticity and their original form, and the determination of their meaning. 
3. (especially in older use) linguistics, especially historical and comparative linguistics. 

Origin: Philology joins philo- , a combining form from the Greek term meaning "loving," and -logy , a suffix used to refer to writing, discourses and collections. It entered English in the late 1300s.

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Pug: all you do is make infestors 

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Holiday

• Autumnal Equinox

History

• Nathan Hale: the American Revolutionary War hero was hung by the British as a spy, saying "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country" (1776)
• Shaka: Zulu kingdom founder was assassinated by his half-brothers (1828)
• long-count fight: Gene Tunney successfully defended his heavyweight boxing title against Jack Dempsey (1927)
• Fiddler on the Roof: musical set in the shtetl opened on Broadway; it ran for 3,242 shows (1964)
• Iran-Iraq War: eight-year Persian Gulf conflict began (1980)

Birthdays

• Michael Faraday 1791
• Paul Muni 1895
• Allan 'Rocky' Lane 1901
• John Houseman 1902
• Martha Scott 1914
• Tommy Lasorda 1927
• Eugene Roche 1928
• Joni James (Joan Carmello Babbo) 1930
• Harriet King 1935
• Ray Norton 1937
• Paul LeMat 1945
• King Sunny Ade 1946
• Mark Phillips 1948
• Harold Carmichael 1949
• David Coverdale (Deep Purple, Whitesnake) 1951
• Shari Belafonte-Harper 1954
• Debby Boone 1956
• June Forester (The Forester Sisters) 1956
• Johnette Napolitano (Concrete Blond) 1957
• Lynn Herring 1958
• Joan Jett 1960
• Rob Stone 1962
• Scott Baio 1961
• Bonnie Hunt 1964
• Big Rube (Society of Soul) 1971
• Emily "Autumn" Liddell 1979
  
• Laura Vandervoort 1984

 

  

  

  

 

 

  

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