Holiday Card Exchange: LAST CALL

Like holiday cards? Want to send some to strange (strange as in unknown)(well, strange as in strange too:>) people?

It's time for the yearly sign up!

By Nov. 30, send me your name & address & how many names you'd like, and sometime between Dec. 1 & 5, I'll send you a list of names. Then you send cards :)

You can email me at otterevil at livejournal dot com or eviltammy at bellsouth dot net.

If you're on one or both of the 2 email lists that this gets crossposted to, please let me know if you just want names from the list(s) or names from LJ also. Usual number choices range from 5-15, but since this is on LJ too, it might go up a bit :) but probably not a lot. If it does, I will warn :)



idea stolen shamelessly years ago from alt.callahans on Usenet.

December 5: International Day of the Ninja

December 5: International Day of the Ninja
Website for this humorous, self-proclaimed day to "plague your co-workers with ninja-ness and wear a ninja mask to work." Includes instructions for making a ninja mask out of a t-shirt and making a paper shuriken (throwing star), and links to related sites.
URL: http://dayoftheninja.com/

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How Ninja Work
"Secretive and silent, the ninja stalks through Japanese history like a shadow. ... Today, the ninja has become a legendary, cult-like figure, showing up in computer games and children's cartoons." This site considers facts and fiction about ninja and examines "the weapons and skills that made ninja some of the most fearsome assassins in the world." Other topics include the first ninja, supernatural ninja, and the modern ninja craze. From How Stuff Works.
URL: http://people.howstuffworks.com/ninja.htm



Hmmmm, I think Ninja Day & Pirate Day should fight it out!

A Fuller Explanation of Original Sin by Isaac Asimov & Janet Jeppson

In the innocent, primeval sea
Terra's cells lived quite singly - and free
    From all risk of perdition
    Since they used only fission
Reproducing - but suffered ennui.

Some adventurous cells said, "We'll grow -
Not alone, though, for that's status quo.
    Let's become he and she,
    Multicellularly -
So hold on to each other - let's go!"

Then together they clung; grew complex.
Fully half went concave, half convex;
    And it all proved complete
    When each came into heat
And announced the invention of sex.

My favorite explanation of the creation of man

Creation by L. Sprague De Camp


That Yahveh manufactured man from dust, the Hebrew tell;
In Hind they said that Varuna had formed him by a spell;
The Norse believed that Odin made the breath of life indwell
    His torpid trunk.

Of all Creation legends, though, the one I like the best -
A myth from ancient Sumer, where perhaps the truth was guessed -
Asserts the gods created man one day, in cosmic jest,
    When they were drunk.



Would explain a *whole* lot, eh?