Bone-cracking Thai massage or Zombie Virus?

Decaying humans
make for good target practice.
WATCH OUT BEHIND YOU!

*Dedicated to my friend Mike, who requested for a zombie-themed haiku.

Years of high school chem
Did not prep us for this change.
I want a refund.

Scientists are updating the periodic table to show the range of weights of elements (rather than the fixed atomic weight like in our old table that is so 2010) . What does this mean? It means that high schoolers will have extra numbers to commit to memory.

The elements affected? Hydrogen, lithium, boron, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, silicon, sulfur, chlorine, and thallium. Life will never be the same again.

What is the One A Day Project?
The One A Day Project is a community of creative types aiming to post things on their sites as regularly as possible.

Do you have to be a blogger to participate?
No! If you’re not a writey-creative type and would rather do a daily sketch, photograph, animation, video or miscellaneous doohickey, we’d love to have you on board.

Do participants have to post every day?
No. Despite the name, all participants have to do is make a commitment to posting regularly. Whether this is daily, twice weekly, weekly or some other interval is up to them.

Why are you doing this?
Two reasons. Firstly, to allow people to practice the discipline of regular, non-stop creativity. And secondly, to benefit two good causes: Cancer Research UK and To Write Love On Her Arms.

I decided that I want to post a haiku every day. I can’t promise that they will all be quality. I can, however, promise 17 syllables. And yes, they might have a geeky-theme to them occasionally. Here’s the first:

One A Day Project.
Committed bloggers promote
good change in the world.

Happy 2011!

Don’t run, little girl
from the vicious hurricane.
All’s well in the end.

From Discovery News: World’s Smallest Stop-Motion Animation Filmed

I think the answer is yes… though I really should be thankful for them every day. It would just be extremely odd if I expressed it every day. As much as I would love to throw my arms around my friends, squeeze the air out of them, kiss them on each cheek and identify their moisturiser (they better be buying from The Body Shop and not Bath & Body Works – or else)… I have to hold back. Because that would just be creepy as hell.

Plus, it’s much more fun to share whine and cheese than to shower someone with compliments (mostly because I would run out of adjectives to describe how utterly great some of these people are). Right?

Personally, I find it difficult to show appreciation to the people I care about (and who care about me, too). I struggle with sounding “sincere enough”. It’s easy to rant… but to rave about my friends? The words escape me. I just know that they are people I respect and they possess great qualities.

So here’s my haiku dedicated to my old friends (and some new ones, too!) – because anything worth saying is best said in seventeen syllables.

Words seem too futile
to use in thanking the few
great heroes I’ve known.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Plastic sheets trap air.
Free them with your fingers – Pop!
Instant ecstasy.

I should strap someone to an FMRI while they pop bubble wrap. There HAS to be a correlation between mood and bubble-wrap-popping. Could this be the beginnings of bubble-wrap treatment?

I dedicate this video to Paul as a testament to the superiority of cephalopods over all other living things.

(Thanks @tweetfever for the video!)

And of course, a haiku:

Tentacled seer
sleeps in his watery grave.
Rise once more, he will.