January 2010
17 posts
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.
Whenever I listen to Hüsker Dü, I end up having a...
I don’t pretend to understand the correlation.
“I get a craving like a fiend for nicotine, but I don’t need a cigarette,...”
– Eric B & Rakim — Microphone Fiend
Today, I celebrated one week without smoking. Here’s to another week.
Not the way to do it (a.k.a. The Way I Roll)
Let hair grow pretty long
Buy new glasses
Wear new glasses all the time
Get hair cut
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...
Marilyn Munro →
A ‘Marilyn’ is a type of mountain or hill in Great Britain, Ireland or surrounding islands with a relative height of at least 150 metres (492 ft), regardless of absolute height or other merit. The name was coined as an ironic contrast to the designation Munro, used of a Scottish mountain with a height of more than 3,000 feet (914.4 m), which is homophonous with (Marilyn) Monroe.
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Interesting Fact That Hadn't Occurred To Me Before
Local television and radio stations have pre-determined passwords with schools to confirm the announcement of snow days.
It makes sense, I guess, otherwise some kids could have a lot of fun, but I’d never thought about it before.
WatchSizes in Space
There is something about this video that is almost comedic. I think it’s to do with the timing of some of the pull-backs. Still, it’s important to be put in your place every now and then.
Muphry's Law
The principle that any criticism of the speech or writing of others will itself contain at least one error of usage or spelling. Coined by John Bangsund in a 1992 article in The Society of Editors Newsletter.
(via jhnbrssndn : errorgorilla)
To true.
Toynbee Tiles →
The Toynbee tiles (also called Toynbee plaques) are messages of mysterious origin found embedded in asphalt in about two dozen major cities in the United States and three South American capitals. Since the 1980s, several hundred tiles have been discovered. They are generally about the size of an American license plate, but sometimes considerably larger. They contain some variation on the following...
December 2009
51 posts
My name is John Connor.
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