Now, the 9 readers that don’t read author information below the title can confuse me with yet another person! I am excited to announce the addition of another member to the Sikkdays.com blogging family! Is it time to balance my sexist comments with a female perspective? No, but let’s do it anyway. Madragoran comes to us from sunny Greece! The last I knew she was finishing up a graduate degree from a university in Scotland, but I couldn’t tell you any more details about that because instead of being serious I asked her the following questions:

#1) Cake or Pie?

Most definitely cake! Especially if you are referring to gâteau which is French for cake and for yummy. My favourite cake is Miss O’Leary’s Irish fruit cake and if you get that you know all about me.

#2) When you were a 3 foot tall child in a jumper you dreamed, “When I grow up I am going to be…”

a lumberjack! Leaping from tree to tree, as they float down the mighty rivers of British Columbia. Heh! Seriously I wanted to be a writer which seems marginally less realistic than being a lumberjack. Though to be honest now I am older I’d prefer to be an axe yielding writer

#3) When one sits down to read Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle which beverage should they drink?

I think the best approach would be to avoid water or anything that might appear to be water, though I am not opposed to mixing something that might at first glance appear to be water but on second glance appear to be premium vodka with some orange juice.

#4) Pluto, planet or frozen ball of space pudding?

I see you are getting technical on me… Everyone knows that the universe exists about 1.5 km around each of us so in reality anything outside that radius may as well be a chocolate sponge cake with chocolate cream filling and little cherries on top, you know the crunchy ones that’s been soaked in syrup? Oh yeah to answer your question Pluto is what it is, human definitions are a farce.

#5) Favorite word?

Deconstruction. Especially if it is coupled with words like post-modernism and philosophy. You really do not want to hear the rest of this answer.

#7) I feel obligated to ask you a question about Greece, since you live there. Parthenon, preserve it or mow it down for condos since there’s a replica in Nashville? (Yes, Nashville. Apparently, Nashville is the Athens of the South. I am so confused about that and now terribly scared of Athens.)

Mmhmm…. You really want me to answer that? Having never been to Nashville I can’t really comment on whether it resembles Athens… Are there lots of garbage festively strewn around? How about smog? Dog shit? Can you walk around alone after midnight? Meh… I say mow down Athens and move the Parthenon to Nashville.

#8) Carpet bags, should they be back in style or continue to be reserved for mysterious folks & cartoon characters?

Carpet what? [insert furious clicking of keys and intense googling taking place] Oh I see! Sorry no. I am into steampunk as much as the next person … [looks at the actual person sitting next to her] Let me rephrase that. I am into steampunk lots but when I travel I wouldn’t change my trolley case with the water proof casing and the telescopic handle for anything.

#9) Theory on why question #6 is missing?

I would attribute that to either a) the amount of empty beer cans to your left, b) to you keeping a grue as a pet or c) to your loss of concentration due to the long legged blond sex goddess doing a lap dance for you right now; well at least it looks to be blond, vaguely female, somewhat human… Arrrgggh! my eyes!

#10) If Spike went back in time and stepped on a butterfly, how would that affect you, Sikk, and the world?

Well applying a Lorentz transformation

and then calculating the integral of 2x over dx from x equals 10 to x equals 13….. x^2 from 10 to 13, that’s 169 minus 100… ahhh…

Now I see… I just hope there is enough Astroglide to go around.

I look forward to her wisdom and genius gracing this website. I also look forward to her getting more hits than Spike Matthews because he always seems to get more than me!

This is adorable.

via Daily What

Of course, this video preserves the last moment of innocence this girl will ever have in her life. As soon as the RIAA sees that she uploaded this song to youtube without permission she’ll be sent to federal prison.

Great news! I’ve managed to capture another blogger for sikkdays.com! Honestly I didn’t capture him, he offered to help out. Plus, he doesn’t have my address so he won’t be able to bill me for his work.

Anyway, Mr. burdenday was the community manager at the game formerly known as PMOG and now he is a community manager/designer at Rise & Ruin. You can also find him at burdenday.com where he shares his experiences managing online communities.  burdenday is just about finished with his English major, so this will be a definite upgrade for those of you that don’t just come here for the pics and videos.

Some of you may be familiar with burdenday, but for those of you that do not know him below are some questions I emailed him along with his answers:

#1) Cake or Pie?

Beefcake!  No seriously though, I’ve never been one much for sweets, but I do appreciate some yellow cake when appropriate.

#2) Do you think it is fair to the other colors of the spectrum to pick a favorite?

Look – here in America we’ve had a long standing tradition of choosing a favorite color and alienating the rest of the spectrum with our “favorite color exceptionalism.”  I’m here to change that 20th century carryover thinking from the past eight years.

#3) Buddy Holly was obviously a star, but if the plane crash of February 3, 1959 never happened who would have had a bigger career, Ritchie Valens or The Big Bopper?

Kurt Cobain.

#4) Automobile of the future: Electric or Hydrogen powered?

So close your eyes for a moment and begin to imagine pictures of the most horrific accidents in the world’s history. Begin to recall those involving air vehicles… Good!  Now I am going to say a word and we’ll do some free association: Hindenburg.

Electric – I’ve been shocked by 120V wires a few times and survived.  I am pretty sure I won’t survive a hydrogen engine explosion though.

#6) We are our jobs, what was your first job ever?

My very first job ever was as a receptionist for my aunt’s Law Firm.  It is considered “very professional” to have a male receptionist, I was told.  I enjoyed it because mostly I surfed the Internet aimlessly and just put people through to voicemail – those were the days!

#7) Theory on why question #5 is missing?

Wow, I didn’t even notice.  I’m adding this to the list of possible drug interactions for Vicodin. (I should note that burdenday just had a minor surgery and is not a junkie that I pulled off the street.)

#8) Favorite childhood game? (video, board, handheld, sport-like activity)

I played EverQuest for far, far too many years.  If I had to choose a favorite, that would be it.  There is nothing quite so satisfying as spending months of your life chopping away at virtual animals and monsters with swords.

#9) If you were stranded on a desert Island, what is the first thing you would build yourself?

A library, so I could begin writing enough books to fill it and then long after my death someone would discover it and they’d all be “classics.”  That’s how it works, isn’t it?

Wow, I thought that last question was weak, but that is an excellent answer. All I could think of was building a bowling alley. Hanging out at the beach is great, but if you lived there I have to imagine you’d get bored of it.

Sikkdays.com hasn’t really had any sort of real focus aside from ‘look what I found on the Interwebs’ & my passion for animation. Therefore, I see no need to constrain burdenday to report on a single subject. I am just happy to have his contribution as long as he doesn’t post anything about Kevin Costner.

So my 3 other blog readers, give a big sikkdays’ welcome to burdenday.

Add it to your weekly time killer bookmark folder.  Cake Wrecks shows you the worst in sugary shame.  Take the example below, or click the link and see the baked goods people actually paid for.