Karaoke Kitty's Blog

2007-08-09T14:43:00.000-04:00

Imiskoumbria - Amerikana (click the link, then click the download file button, type the code in the box and click the 'get it' button to hear the song)

Funny Cats!

2006-09-25T19:55:00.000-04:00

This made me laugh so hard I almost peed my pants!

I love science!

2006-09-25T12:07:00.000-04:00

Weird Al Rocks!!!

2006-09-22T14:20:00.000-04:00

White and Nerdy video

Tickle My Elmo

2006-09-01T11:16:00.000-04:00

Found this little funny on the web. Gotta love a good Minnesota joke!

There is a factory in Northern Minnesota which makes the Tickle Me Elmo toys. The toy laughs when you tickle it under the arms. Well, Lena is hired at The Tickle Me Elmo factory and she reports for her first day promptly at 8:00 AM. The next day at 8:45 AM there is a knock at the Personnel Manager's door. The Foreman throws open the door and begins to rant about the new employee. He complains that she is incredibly slow and the whole line is backing up, putting the entire production line behind schedule. The Personnel Manager decides he should see this for himself, so the 2 men march down to the factory floor. When they get there the line is so backed up that there are Tickle Me Elmo's all over the factory floor and they're really beginning to pile up. At the end of the line stands Lena surrounded by mountains of Tickle Me Elmo's. She has a roll of plush red fabric and a huge bag of small marbles. The 2 men watch in amazement as she cuts a little piece of fabric, wraps it around two marbles and begins to carefully sew the little package between Elmo's legs. The Personnel Manager bursts into laughter. After several minutes of hysterics he pulls himself together and approaches Lena. I'm sorry," he says to her, barely able to keep a straight face, "but I think you misunderstood the instructions I gave you yesterday..." Your job is to give Elmo two test tickles.

Which Director Would Film Your Life Story?

2006-08-04T20:07:00.000-04:00

I've been totally into this new online dating site called OKCupid.com (check it out - it's free!). It's a cool idea thought up by a couple Harvard Mathematics graduates. The dating site is based on answering an array of questions ranging from love, sex, and money to totally random questions about how really strange you are. Anyway, many of the dating sites have you answer up to 100 questions; this site has you answer thousands. It seemed like a more accurate way to gauge an individuals personality. In addition to the questions written by the website, several tests are submitted by the users. These tests are a lot of fun. Like, "what kind of fruit are you?", or "what is your muppet personality?" I had a lot of fun answering silly questions (check out my profile darkangell). Be warned: since this site is largely run by users, you have to wade through A LOT of sexual content. If you can get past it, it can be quite fun! Below is one of the user submitted tests about which director would film your life story. Very cool. I love that I got Woody Allen, I think that's about right!

Link: The Director Who Films Your Life Test on Ok Cupid

Woody Allen

Your film will be 72% romantic, 39% comedy, 37% complex plot, and a $ 24 million budget.

Be prepared to have your life story shot entirely in New York City -- though lately Woody's been loving shooting in London. Also, your music soundtrack is all jazz from before 1949. Filmography: Annie Hall, Manhattan, Stardust Memories, Everyone Says I Love You, Match Point, etc. Woody has released one film per year consistently for the past 35 years. For the past 15 years he's been trying to make films like his older, funnier ones, just like characters in his Stardust Memories film suggest throughout. Regardless of his personal life, his films are American classics.

Take My Super Fun Super Friends Test

2006-07-10T11:27:00.000-04:00

Didn't you just love the great 70s cartoons from Hanna-Barbera? Me too! I especially loved the Super Friends - Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and Aquaman fighting against the evil League of Doom!

Each of the Super Heroes has a very distinct personality. Using an advanced algorthim, I can determine which Super Friend your personality most closely matches. So which Super Hero are you most like? Take my quiz and find out!

The Super Friends Test

MadLibs online!!!

2006-07-01T22:18:00.000-04:00

Do you remember MadLibs? Those funny stories you made up by filling in the blanks with nouns and verbs and such. I remember every time we took a car trip, my folks would buy me a new book of MadLibs. I came across some MadLibs online (called CoolLibs). They are so funny. Check out this silly one I made today:

The Love Letter
My Darling Jeff,
I am writing to tell you that I think you are incredibly fluffy. I break out in a sweat every time I see you jumping rope. I dream about us running away to Utah and raising turkeys until we are 517. We'll name our children after Sarah and Pres. Bush, and live in a cabin in the mountains. I can hardly wait to kiss your nipple again... Please meet me tomorrow dressed in the purple smock I sent you for Channukah, and we'll celebrate our shiny love together.
Your cucumber,
Jenny

LMAO! This one made me cry I laughed so hard!

Britney...Naked!

2006-06-29T17:40:00.000-04:00

What will this girl do to keep in the media spotlight? Haven't you heard? Britney Spears posed naked for Harper's Bazaar Magazine, exposing her 6 month preggo belly. First we see her cry to Matt Lauer, asking to be treated like everyone else; then we see her naked on a magazine cover - yeah, that's like the rest of us! Not!

Anyway, in looking for more info on the Naked/Spears story I came across this funny game on the web - try it you'll like it.

Undress Britney Spears Game

It's all in the signs!

2006-05-30T09:59:00.000-04:00

Need I say more?

2006-05-22T19:53:00.000-04:00

Happy Birthday to Me!!!

2006-05-17T19:42:00.000-04:00

It was my birthday today - 32, ugh! I can't believe I'm 32 already. I'm still in school (graduate school) so I feel like I'm only 25 or something. I thought that by the time I was in my thirties I'd have a husband and kids and be a grown up - ha! I'm so far from that. I need to finish grad school and actually get a job. As for husband and kids... no propects yet, but I'm still waiting for Mr. Right (or at least Mr. Right Now) to come along.

This karaokekitty got the best birthday present I could hope for. I got a professional karaoke machine! Now I can have endless karaoke in my own living room. I really am a mic hog, so it's the perfect gift! The only downside of this gift is that I may never leave my house again. Although, I do miss the audience - not only am I a mic hog, I'm also an attention hog. I guess I'll still have to torture others at my fav karaoke bar! I'm now addicted to buying karaoke CDs on eBay. I've managed to collect over 1500 songs!! I don't know if I'll be able to stop buying CDs - I may need 12-step intervention!

Blog Quiz

2006-02-02T11:55:00.000-05:00

Came across this funny blog quiz - What's your monster name? I love my results, esp. tormenting Republicans! How true!

Your Monster Profile

Hungry Claw

You Feast On: Olives

You Lurk Around In: Wal-mart

You Especially Like to Torment: Republicans

What's Your Monster Name?

Fears of public speaking?

2006-01-26T13:58:00.000-05:00

I saw this great article today about how sex calms nerves before public speaking. I love this, I'm a scientist so I do a lot of public speaking. Just another excuse to get it on! If it improves my talks, can I use grant money to buy condoms? I love seeing articles like this in the journals. I just can't believe scientists get paid to do the weirdest research.

Dance Dance Revolution

2006-01-24T15:43:00.000-05:00

OMG, I love DDR! It is so fun! It is such a great workout! I can go 20-30 minutes before I HAVE to sit down, but that's a workout right? Anyway, I was surfing the web for exercise tips on the DDR when I came across this site about a kid who juggles while doing really hard levels of the DDR. You MUST see to believe - it's amazing!

Juggling DDR expert

Genes, Genesis and God

2006-01-11T17:20:00.000-05:00

I just started a class today and I had to vent a bit. I'm have to take a bioethics course this semester to satisfy a requirement of my fellowship (I'm a grad student). The only course offered this term was Genetic Bioethics. Sounds harmless, right? When I got to the class and looked at the syllabus I was a bit frightened. The full title of the course is 'Genetic Bioethics: Scientific and Religious Perspectives'. Still, this didn't completely scare me off. But then I looked down to the reading requirements. The textbook is called 'Genes, Genesis and God' and it's written by the professor. Ahhhh!

The reason I'm having such a reaction is because, well, I'm a scientist. You don't see many Bible thumping molecular biologists! Anyway, the class got started and it seemed pretty benign. He talked about the basics. What is a gene? Where is a gene? Blah blah blah. But then we started talking about if science affected survival of the species. And then if religion can help a species survive. All valid questions, but it was VERY clear that the prof was VERY religious. He's also about 80 years old and appears to have some clear opinions. I'm a little scared. Will I be able to do well in this class? I'm pretty much an agnostic, I don't have a clue about God. I don't know if I should fly under the radar on this class. Or as my mom put it, maybe I should be the class antichrist. Evolution - duh!

2005-12-25T18:16:00.000-05:00

What Hit Song of 2005 Are You?

My 2005 Song Is

Since You've Been Gone by Kelly Clarkson

"But since you've been gone
I can breathe for the first time
I'm so moving on"

In 2005, you moved on.

What Hit Song of 2005 Are You?

Dominick the Donkey

2005-12-24T17:25:00.000-05:00

I've had this song stuck in my head all Christmas season - Dominick the Donkey (the Italian Christmas Donkey). Have you ever heard the song? I'm from the midwest, and I'd never heard it until I moved out East. The first time I heard it, I would have sworn the lyrics were "it's time to lick the donkey" - only later (after looking up the lyrics on the web) did I find out the lyrics actually were "it's Dominick the donkey". It really is a hilarious song. I found a site nice enough to add a loop of the music to the lyrics. I hope I can infect your brain with this wonderful (wonderfully strange) Christmas song! Check it out. Dominick the Donkey.

Simple joys in life

2005-12-16T09:24:00.000-05:00

I'm always amazed at how my cats are entertained by the simpliest of things. Of course they don't want to play with the fancy motorized toys I get them - they want to play in a cardboard box or with a crumpled piece of aluminum foil. Here is a perfect example of such simple enjoyment.

I put a bird feeder right outside one of my living room windows. My cats will spend hours waiting and watching for the birds to come and dangle from the feeder. I didn't realize a simple bird feeder would give them such happiness. I wish I could find a similar parallel in my life. It seems we go though life needing more and more complex toys to entertain us - email, IPods, DVDs, etc. Remember when we were kids and a mud puddle was all we needed to have fun? I feel like I have to simplify my life and look for that foil ball to play with.

Karaoke

2005-11-11T17:38:00.000-05:00

How many people out there love karaoke? I know, I know - it is a much hated pastime. I happen to be pretty good at singing, so I love it! It gives me a chance to sing somewhere other than my shower. I really hate going to karaoke bars where a bunch of drunk people attempt sing, but just succeed in making fools of themselves. But I also hate singers that obviously deserve a recording contract who hog the mic, ang proceed to blow everyone away with their amazing voices. I think secretly I am one of these people, but I hate being upstaged by someone better than me. I love singing the classics - Carole King, Rickie Lee Jones, Pointer Sisters, etc. All this talk of karaoke - maybe I'll have to go to a karaoke bar tonight! Check me out - I'm on fire!

New Kitty!

2005-11-10T18:09:00.000-05:00

Being the karaokekitty, I obviously have a love of cats. This weekend I got a new kitty. She's soooo cute.

A tiny 8-10 week old muted tortie tabby. She's really sweet. My older male brown tabby is having a moderately ok time getting used to her. Of course there was some hissing and a little cat slapping, but nothing major. By the end of the first day, the big kitty was licking the baby's head - a very good sign. It's so fun having a new kitty in the house. It's crazy to think that she might be with me for the 15 years or so!

Gaelic Phrases

2005-11-10T17:57:00.000-05:00

I saw this link through another friends blog and decided to take this quiz on which Irish Gaelic Phrase are you. The quiz was surprisingly fitting for me.

Take the quiz: "Which Random Irish Gaelic Phrase Are You? "

Is maith liom bananai
Is maith liom bananai - 'I like bananas.'You're laid-back and you enjoy the simple things in life. Some might say you're a little too laid-back. Just what is it you're smoking, anyway?