[wikiChick]

Mind Habits

noreply@blogger.com (wikiChick) — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 21:24:00 +0000

Give this little game from Mind Habits a try. It's not as easy as you might think to pick out the smiling face from among all the frowning faces. The theory is that we need to train ourselves to look for positive responses instead of negative ones to protect our self esteem.

I found this at LisaBarger.com - some interesting reading.

Got Blinker?

noreply@blogger.com (wikiChick) — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 04:30:00 +0000

This wikiChick is steamed about blinkers. Or their lack of use. I realize that moving a small lever a sixteenth of an inch is taxing, but I would think most drivers would be up to the task. If not, perhaps a finger-strength training program is in order.

Other drivers possess adequate finger-strength but completely lack timing. These geniuses favor engaging the blinker after the lane change or when the lane divider is straddled by the car. This is NOT recommended blinker procedure.

wikiChick wants to assist in driver education by arming her car with a small sign reading "Got Blinker?" to be waved at the blinkerless, with or without an accompanying finger, as the situation warrants.

Mixed Breed Dreams

noreply@blogger.com (wikiChick) — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 03:54:00 +0000

My friends Scott & Berni's adorable dog Whitley in a pensive moment emerging director Scott caught on film. Bravo!

Week's Wacky Headline

noreply@blogger.com (wikiChick) — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 05:36:00 +0000

Spiders: Chastity belts stop cuckolding in the nest.

Yeah, you got my attention, Science Blog. It's been a long time since this wikiChick has encountered the word cuckolding. Ah, the memories.

Read the article for some scintillating revelations about creepy Wasp spiders getting it on and the male, um, breaking it off.* Yikes.

*I chuckled at the Google ads appearing with this post...."painful intercourse." No doubt!

The 411 on Free 411

noreply@blogger.com (wikiChick) — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 13:22:00 +0000

It's worth dialing the extra digits to avoid those pesky 411 charges. 1-800-411 - Booyah!

Wheel of Lunch

noreply@blogger.com (wikiChick) — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 16:07:00 +0000

Can't decide where to go for lunch? Take a chance and let the Wheel of Lunch choose a local eatery for you. Enter your zip code and a query (breakfast, dinner, lunch, pizza, etc.) and spin. I discovered this on Pop Culture Junk Mail. Yummy fun.

Live from Her Minivan

noreply@blogger.com (wikiChick) — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 03:52:00 +0000

This is so flippin' funny. My latest favorite find on YouTube - sketch comedy shorts by headintheoven.

Slippery Sloth

noreply@blogger.com (wikiChick) — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 13:37:00 +0000

The sloth is adorable. And Jeff Corwin is hands-down the hottest naturalist roaming the jungle. He could catch and release this wikiChick any time.

Say What?

noreply@blogger.com (wikiChick) — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 06:06:00 +0000

Excerpt from the Kangaroo entry in Conservapedia, the Christian-conservative alternative to Wikipedia's allegedly "anti-American" and "anti-Christian" bias:

Origins
Like all modern animals, modern kangaroos originated in the Middle East^[1] and are the descendants of the two founding members of the modern kangaroo baramin that were taken aboard Noah's Ark prior to the Great Flood. It has not yet been determined whether kangaroos form a holobaramin with the wallaby, tree-kangaroo, wallaroo, pademelon and quokka, or if all these species are in fact apobaraminic or polybaraminic.

After the Flood, kangaroos bred from the Ark passengers migrated to Australia. There is debate whether this migration happened over land^[2] -- as Australia was still for a time connected to the Middle East before the supercontinent of Pangea broke apart -- or if they rafted on mats of vegetation torn up by the receding flood waters^[2].

Say what?

After laughing out loud, reading this ultimately made me very sad. I will never comprehend why otherwise intelligent, perceptive people put blinders on their brains when it comes to religion. Understanding that Noah and the Ark is a STORY does not detract from its deep spiritual meaning.

In younger years during my brief stint as a theology student at a Catholic university, I had an entire class on story and its role in spirituality. I learned then and believe now that scripture need not be literally true to be spiritually true. Some truths are so profound, so multifaceted, that they simply can't be contained in facts. Their richness demands the layers of meaning that only allegory, symbolism, and metaphor can hold. Insisting that these stories be taken as historical fact actually cheapens them and builds faith on a very shaky foundation.

Science is the best tool we humans have to discover what is. In the stories we tell about this what, together we discover the why.

Okay, wickiChick is stepping down from the pulpit before she falls off. Carry on.

wikiWhy?

noreply@blogger.com (wikiChick) — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 04:05:00 +0000

So, why name this space "wikiChick?" I dig the alliteration, the beat of the word....it's just fun to say. wikiChick sounds hip; it's easy to remember.

All those reasons influenced the name of my blog, yes. But, there is some substance beneath the style. I just love the concept of "wiki." This word with origins in the Hawaiian term wiki (meaning "fast") was first used by Ward Cunningham to describe a web page anyone, regardless of standing, can contribute to or edit. It's a beautifully democratic and egalitarian idea. Deeper still, this process speaks to the nature of ontology: meaning is not created in isolation. It is relational, organic, messy. We birth truth together, and it's not for the faint of heart.

It is my responsibility and my right to define myself. But, I can't define myself alone. Only in opening myself to the world outside me will I fully know the world inside me. Breathe in, breathe out, change and be changed. Blog and comments, comments and blog. It's a wiki good world.

Blog Bling

noreply@blogger.com (wikiChick) — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 06:12:00 +0000

Read an article today in the NY Times about the proliferation of widgets on blogs. Cool toys for your blog.

Trying a few in wikiChick's sidebar. Enjoy!

She's Baaaaaack

noreply@blogger.com (wikiChick) — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 05:19:00 +0000

wikiChick is back from a very loooooooong hiatus. New and improved look; new and improved chick? Maybe a little. New interest...playing with stop-motion animation. Stay tuned for that sillness from the very easily-amused wikiChick.

Hello, Dolly!

noreply@blogger.com (wikiChick) — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 18:46:00 +0000

Dolly and a freaky friend get busy.

Girls will be girls

noreply@blogger.com (wikiChick) — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 14:37:00 +0000

Pole dancing parties....move over, Partylite! The ladies are getting their freak on.

Dolly Busta Move

noreply@blogger.com (wikiChick) — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:18:00 +0000

You go, girl.

MIA?

noreply@blogger.com (wikiChick) — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 21:02:00 +0000

I'm thinking......I'll be back.

Dog Speak

noreply@blogger.com (wikiChick) — Sat, 22 Apr 2006 17:11:00 +0000

wikiChick's pals Polly & Hugo share their
favorite haiku: (authors unknown)

I lie belly-up
In the sun, happier than
You will ever be.

- Polly

The cat is not all
Bad - she fills the litter box
With her Tootsie Rolls.

- Hugo

Blue Balls

noreply@blogger.com (wikiChick) — Fri, 21 Apr 2006 12:40:00 +0000

No, not that, silly! This - Blue Ball Machine

Natalie Portman Has a Huge Head

noreply@blogger.com (wikiChick) — Sat, 25 Mar 2006 03:22:00 +0000

Despite my new-found respect for Natalie Portman since watching her gangsta rapping video, I must post this disturbing picture. Not to be dissin' ya Nat, but what the hell is up with your head? Is it just me, or does girlfriend's noggin look hugely disproportionate to her body?? (click on the pic for the full effect).

The site I swiped the pic from makes fun of her dress, which is horrifying, yes. But that HEAD!! There's the real story. OK, it's probably just the camera angle, but it frightens me.

Cousin Kermit

noreply@blogger.com (wikiChick) — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 04:27:00 +0000

According to the deceptively-named anti-evolution site www.scienceprovesit.com "Modern science shows that evolution's so-called power to turn a frog into a man is as irrational to believe in as the fairy-tale kiss from the princess turning the frog into a prince."

Huh? Well, I don't know about the folks who put out this site, but nowhere in my science education did I learn that frogs directly evolved into humans. Um, I'm no expert, but I think they are, like, two different species?

Here's a thought, from a site with an excellent primer on evolution theory:

"The central idea of biological evolution is that all life on Earth shares a common ancestor, just as you and your cousins share a common grandmother.

Through the process of descent with modification, the common ancestor of life on Earth gave rise to the fantastic diversity that we see documented in the fossil record and around us today. Evolution means that we're all distant cousins: humans and oak trees, hummingbirds and whales."

Oh, my - what a perfectly scandalous idea! We are all distant cousins.....the trees, the mountains, the whales, the monkeys, the frogs - all are part of our family. Actually sounds a whole lot like the spirit of Genesis, doesn't it?

Hmmmmm.

Monday, Monday

noreply@blogger.com (wikiChick) — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 13:25:00 +0000

Monday morning quote:

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware -
joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

- Henry Miller

Wake up, sleepy head!

Tell Me Why I Don't Like Thursdays

noreply@blogger.com (wikiChick) — Thu, 16 Mar 2006 13:46:00 +0000

What's up with Thursdays? I know, without doubt, that traffic on my drive to work today will completely suck. Mondays aren't even this bad. Fridays are smooth sailing. Do hoards of people suddenly wake up Thursday morning thinking, "damn, I didn't do jack so far this week, better hop to it and motor?"

*Watch this - you'll notice it too. And please just get the #$@! out of my way!

*wikiChick is a little grumpy this morning.

Isaac Hayes Takes Off Chef Hat

noreply@blogger.com (wikiChick) — Wed, 15 Mar 2006 13:32:00 +0000

Aw, Chef! I thought you had a thicker skin than that. What will the children without you?

Nothing is sacred in South Park. Lighten up, Isaac!

Where's Marvin?

noreply@blogger.com (wikiChick) — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 12:51:00 +0000

Surfing the red planet on my eMac as I drink my morning coffee. Kudos to you, Google. Way cool.

A Rose by Any Other Name, Sucka

noreply@blogger.com (wikiChick) — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 01:38:00 +0000

My Pimp Name has been revealed to me. From this day forward, please address me only as Delicious wiki Slick.