O. Henry Pun-Off World Championships

I've read quite a few "what it is" articles on the subject event. This piece, the second on the page, is just about the best of recent attempts to describe the event. Check it out...and the event, too. Since we live so far away, I've been missing the event, which is one of my favorite ways to spend an afternoon.

This year, for the first time, we who really can't make it there will be able to aim our data fire hoses at http://www.punpunpun.com/ and soak up the event...LIVE! Again, that will be May 16 from noon to 5 Central Daylight Time. Some photos of last year's event are here.

If you live in or around Austin, grab your sunscreen, hat, folding chair or blanket, some money (It IS a fund-raiser, after all!) and head for the corner of 5th and Neches streets at Brush Square Park. Support the museum by purchasing food and drink, a fun tee shirt. There are usually several means of showing your support available.

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Puns: both intended and not

I had run across this cartoon before, but it really didn't strike me as something that might be worth reading until a fellow engineer buddy pointed me to the one on wind turbines. While I was looking that over, I happened to notice the one shown at the top of this posting. That one, of course, had even more connection to my mind. So, I'm sharing them with you (with attribution, of course, to Randall Munroe of xkcd.com).

Enjoy and comment if needed to relieve the pressure on your mind.

Cat hair handbags

Now one can often find combinations of words that SEEM to make sense. But, if taken at their face value (with the attendant "normal" connotations), they seem to be outside of the norm by enough standard deviations to either be impossible or unlikely. In today's world, it seems, unlikely may be evident around us.

This video details (er, we won't go into the pun that might be possible there) the work of...well, let's look at the MAKE blog entry for the video:

Erica points out this vid on cat groomer Danielle German - Unhappy tossing all the hair leftover from a thorough longhaired feline shave, Danielle decided to try spinning the otherwise unwanted fur into a "silky yarn" fit for an owner's purse.

This CERTAINLY goes ta show ya that it takes ALL KINDS to make up this world!

(The image is from CattyShackCreations.com and has attached such sayings as: "Purr-zazz"; "Shed Happens". Hope they sell some from their Web page ad.)

"Open the door...Robot"

To oh-pun on an old song title ("Open the Door, Richard"), I offer this short tale to give you smiles on a cold almost-winter day. It might make your foam mustache quiver from your melted marshmallow in your cuppa hot chocolate!

Ref: music here and lyrics here.

This plant will not shock you

Let's see now...hmmm. Coulda been (original to this application):

Power to the people

Keep on pluggin'

Socket to me

I'm very cableble, oshifer

Cut the CORD! Cut the CORD!

In an octopus's garden (sic)