Wednesday, February 3, 2010 Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Today's Highlights. Seriously.

  • Eating quinoa for the first time.
  • Guessing that there were 250 sheets of paper in the big stack that I had to count. There were actually 256.
  • The bus driver flashing his hazard lights a couple of times, to thank me for letting him pull away from the kerb.

Monday, January 25, 2010
First lineup announcement for the 2010 Download Festival.

First lineup announcement for the 2010 Download Festival.

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Whenever I listen to Hüsker Dü, I end up having a really shitty day.

I don’t pretend to understand the correlation.

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Scrubs — Betty the Seal

I saw this episode (S03E02) of Scrubs for the first time tonight and this scene cracked me up. When Betty shouts at him, I did a real-life spit-take all over my laptop.

Monday, January 11, 2010
Kitchen Counter Graffiti
This is what happens when you leave a freezer bag, that you’ve previously written the contents of onto, to defrost on the kitchen counter.
It’s pretty impressive, and guaranteed to last.

Kitchen Counter Graffiti

This is what happens when you leave a freezer bag, that you’ve previously written the contents of onto, to defrost on the kitchen counter.

It’s pretty impressive, and guaranteed to last.

I get a craving like a fiend for nicotine, but I don’t need a cigarette, know what I mean?

Eric B & Rakim — Microphone Fiend

Today, I celebrated one week without smoking. Here’s to another week.

Sunday, January 10, 2010
Stonehenge on Google Earth
Saturday, January 9, 2010

Not the way to do it (a.k.a. The Way I Roll)

  1. Let hair grow pretty long
  2. Buy new glasses
  3. Wear new glasses all the time
  4. Get hair cut
  5. Start wondering if glasses still look okay with short hair

How to Irritate a Geographer

pterodactyls:

“Ooh, so you know all the capitals, right? What’s the capital of ___?”
(or)
“Hahaha that must be so easy, everything’s been mapped already! There’s nothing left to discover!”
(or)
“Oh, just like Google Earth!”

NO while we probably do know whatever capital you’re asking, our field covers everything from climatology to plate tectonics to demographics. We don’t spend four years at university practicing rote memorization.

NO everything hasn’t been mapped already. Populations are always changing, borders shifting, diseases spreading, coastlines moving. Etc. The world is changing.

NO it isn’t just like Google Earth. That’s a bunch of pictures.

“Geography? So are you going to be a teacher?”

For the record, I read Human Geography, but I could still draw a pretty sweet diagram of a glacier.