Palindromes

I was told of a great song by "Weird Al" Pankovic the other day called Bob. It's entirely made up of palindromes (phrases that read the same backwards) that are organized into rhyming verses, such as:

Oh, no! Don Ho!
Nurse, I spy gypsies -- run!
Senile felines
Now I see bees I won
UFO tofu
We panic in a pew
Oozy rat in a sanitary zoo
God! A red nugget! A fat egg under a dog!
Go hang a salami, I'm a lasagna hog

If you read each line backwards, it is still the same! But don't try to start at the bottom and work up - it won't work as a song anymore! "Bob" is a song on Weird Al's album "Poodle Hat", if you want to purchase it.

 Like one of his other songs says, however, "Don't Download This Song"!

Snow Fun!

It is actually! Today, we awoke to find a wet floor and a miserable-looking sky, but at around 9:30 we looked out of the window in amazement - there, in front of us, was a mass of white fluffy stuff that melts when you hold it! Little Blubs has made a snowman - click here for more - however, at the time of writing this, the snow has started to melt, causing him to disappear. Even the falling flakes themselves have given up, floating ever so slowly to the ground and disintegrating as soon as they reach it. But, these days don't come often and so we are glad that we were able to enjoy this one today.

Goodbye, Friend

It's always sad to say goodbye to a friend forever. But today, instead of saying goodbye forever, I just gave it to my brother, Harry, instead. The subject? Purr Pals for Nintendo DS, in which you have to care for kittens by feeding them, grooming them and the such. I sold the game to H for £11 - a reasonable price when it's £15 in the shops new - and now he's happy as Larry; all I can hear is Felix meowing for food, a bit like Murray, my real cat!

As a quick note, I didn't write yesterday as we went to Plumpton Racecourse for the Easter races, during which I did not pick the winning horse once.

A Worthwhile Easter

As today is Easter, expect this post to have been written with chocolatey fingers! This year, I received a Mars Planets egg (3 bags of Planets included), a Snickers egg (2 bars included), a Mini Eggs egg (a handful of Mini Eggs inside the egg), a Creme Egg Minis egg (a handful of Mini Creme Eggs inside the egg), a Dairy Milk chick (a handful of Chocolate Buttons inside) and a Lindt Gold Bunny. Fans of the Ramblings will remember that the Mini Eggs egg, chick and bunny were from the egg hunt at the weekend. So far, I have eaten the bunny and the chick's head - and very yummy they were too!

A Revisit To An Old Friend

Today, I, as the title suggests, revisited and old friend. "Who is this friend?", I hear you ask! Well it's not "who" but "what". The subject at hand here is Enigmo 2 - a puzzle game from Pangea Software. The object is to collect 50 drops of water, 50 particles of plasma, or 50...er..."bits" of laser (What do you call a "bit" of laser?!) in a tank. Once you get past level 7 it gets very hard because it starts using three axis instead of two, which means that you have to line the objects up not just up, down, left and right, but forwards and backwards as well. Trust me, it takes a lot of patience!

As an extra bonus note, today's post marks 8 posts on my blog - the first number to mean that there are more than the ones on the first page!

Macromedia (or Adobe) Flash

Today I got the Macromedia Flash 8 editor and I have made 2 documents. Firstly, I made a green circle that changes into a square, then a pentagon, then a red trapezium, then back to a green circle again. I think that's quite good for a first project! When I had made that, I went on to create a pencil that actually looks like it is drawing a line. It took me a couple of tries, but I managed it in the end. Of course the only two techniques I know at the moment are motion- and shape-tweening, but it's a start! 

    

Panic Over

You'll be glad to know that I managed to complete the History homework. Of course, being Mr. Cheese, a lot of it was rambling! 

All set for the Easter weekend here, eggs bought, hot cross buns made in the new bread maker (though without crosses, it seems) and we're all ready to stuff our faces with chocolate. A word of wisdom, though: if you find yourself bogged down with chocolate each year (looking at you, Little Blubs!) then why not ask for Easter presents instead? A book perhaps, or maybe a DVD. That kind of thing. It means that you won't still have last year's easter eggs in a box on the weekend before Easter, like some people...