Now that I work at home full-time, our cat, Hank, saves me a lot of eyestrain by standing directly in front of my laptop screen when I’m working, sort of a furry anti-glare coating on my life.
Sometimes, I try to work around him, stretching my neck up, up and resting my chin on his back, or leaning way off to the side, sliding out of my chair, still hanging on to the keyboard trying to type, before I snap out of it. Hey! . . .
We had an overwhelming response for possible taglines in our tagline contest. 12apostrophes got all teared up. Really. Here are the winners, currently in tagline rotation:
the Flying Hamster of Doom will rain coconuts on your pitiful city
signs of the apocalypse
the most overused and underappreciated punctuation mark in the English language
has nothing to do with your father
like a mixture of sugar and clarified butter in your mouth
from your keyboard straight to god’s ears
11 infinitives splitting, 10 commas splicing, 9 future tenses, 8 passive periods, 7 subjunctive subjects . . . and a semicolon solving . . .
Since the Flying Hamster of Doom made it into the tagline rotation, we have to bring him (or her) back.
Come up with a caption for this picture.
Artwork, and live hamster model, courtesy of Kirsten.
Had to post this video; just for the madness of typing that title.
I think this post breaks many of the rules set up for the wine section. I’m not even quite sure how to post this in the wine section. But I’d like to alert 12apostrophe readers to a new type and style of wine Dbay and I discovered last night. Since I can’t find an official name for them, I’m going to the name the type of wine “The Volcanics.” Named so if only because it sounds better than ‘grapes of origin grown in high mineral content soil, such as those found near volcanic eruptions.’
The first and only experience I’ve had with such a . . .
By Anirban on April 8th, 2010 in caption contest, India, mass transit
This one’s from Mumbai… y’ know the city in the country famous for its snake charmers and…