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Mr Flapper

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About Me


Thank you for visiting! Read more about me on mrflapper.com Vote early and often. Our future is too important to be left to the humans.

Do you sing to your pets? Have you ever hugged your car? Does someone miss you right now? I'm curious by nature. If I have an argument I finish it and never hold a grudge. On weekends I rise at the crack of noon. I pray to the Latte god.

I try to live by Emma Curtis Hopkin's 3 tenants:

1. Don't complain
2. Don't compare
3. Don't be contrary

Or sometimes the Buddist tenants work just as well...

Think these 3 things before you speak:
Is what I'm about to say...

1. honest?
2. kind?
3. necessary?
If not, STFU (Okay I added that last bit myself, in a non-Buddist moment).

SEE THIS MOVIE:

I just ate dinner at the kwik-e-mart!

Mmmmm marketing!

My Interests

Screaming Frog Returns!

Posted Aug 28, 2007

The frog who thinks it's a cat returns for more screaming action.



I have a duck. His name is Mr Flapper. He takes up quackloads of time, so I've decided to bestoy him the title of "interest of mine." Now I have six ducks. Oops! Make that SEVEN. It's out of control. More like an infestation than an interest, really. But I love my ducks. Flapper has a blog. You can read it at mrflapper.com

I also enjoy photography and making iMovies with my video camera. I have a Canon Digital Rebel SLR with various lenses.

I have 7 ducks, 3 cats and a dog.

I like to travel and usually go somewhere at least once every other month. (Oop, not since I got the ducks... they don't travel well). I USED to travel. I've been to the Galapagos, Peru, Ecuador, Belgium, France, Switzerland, England, Italy, Canada, Mexico and many of the United States. I've lived in Salt Lake City, Austin, TX, New York City, San Francisco and now Seattle.

I bought my first house in 2003, so another time-consuming "interest" of mine is yard work, gardening, and other assorted handy-girl tasks.

In January of 2006 I joined a local orchestra. I originally played violin from 3rd grade to 6th grade, but then I quit. I play second violin in my current orchestra and it's a blast. Will you come to my next recital? It's at Eckstein Middle School. You can check out the orchestra at RavennaStrings.com

My other interests include psychology, quantum physics, documentaries, leadership and management theory, reading non-fiction and volunteering at PAWS.org

I'd like to meet:

NEW VIDEO: MAY 25, 2007

I prefer virtual people. Not interested in meeting people in the real world. But when I do, I like someone who can talk about nothing over coffee for an hour.

Movies:

My TOP FIVE List:

Harold & Maude

Office Space

Love Story

The Parallax View

The Dead Zone

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Television:

Eh... I have bad taste in television too. But I'm in advertising - it's my JOB to watch bad TV! American Idol, The Daily Show, Medium, Law & Order(s), Ghost Whisperer, Charlie Rose, Ellen, ANTM, The Office, MTV and anything on Comedy Central. My all-time worst guilty TV pleasure: As The World Turns.

Books:



Ishmael by Daniel Quinn

Time Traveler's Wife

The Tipping Point

Life of Pi

anything by David Sedaris

Kissing in Manhattan by David Schickler

Heroes:

Dian Fossey. Nelson Mandela. Jim Henson.

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My Blog

Flapper's Visit to the Vet

Flapper had to visit the vet this week because he has a swollen cloaca which is resulting in prolapsed phallus (if you don't understand it - it's okay - you don't want to)Quack-in-the-BoxHe is doing r...
Posted by Mr Flapper on Sat, 28 Jul 2007 11:20:00 PST

Morning Coffee for a Pet Duck Owner

[So this morning, I run into Clarence again... a guy from my morning coffee shop who also parks at my parking garage. We see each other nearly every morning so now we wave and say hi. He sees me on t...
Posted by Mr Flapper on Wed, 06 Jun 2007 01:00:00 PST

GRAMMAR LESSON: To, Too and Two

Welcome back. I hope you've fully integrated the last lesson and are no longer saying "your awesome" when clearly the recipient of your comment possesses no awesomeness. In this grammar lesson we tac...
Posted by Mr Flapper on Sun, 21 Jan 2007 11:04:00 PST

Your vs. You're

Let's me 'splain a few grammar-like thangs to sum of u peeps. 'Cause ur stupid txt typing sh!t is driving me insane. I mean it actually depresses me to know how f-ing careless you are with the English...
Posted by Mr Flapper on Fri, 17 Feb 2006 11:45:00 PST