This, my friends, is a Cadillac Escalade hybrid. “Green by design!” It is still a car, likely to carry only one person and a box of kleenex from point A
Author: Robyn
Libations, election, for the watching of
A week or two ago we were sitting around debating what form of libation this election might require. Tequila, suggested D. Hmm, maybe. A novel idea, because La Fin du
Beware of those who argue the loudest
Quotation of the Day for November 3, 2007 “Beware of those who argue the loudest. The truth does not care if it is questioned; the truth can always stand up
Happy Thanksgiving
Scary concept Originally uploaded by morecoffeeplease. Me, I am thankful that I have wonderful friends like Tom and Anne who fed us on (non-ice-cream) turkey and eighteen billion fabulous sides
It’s true they don’t bleach well
Quotation of the Day for October 10, 2008 “You can clean files and other equipment, but there is just no way to sanitize live fish.” – Christine Anthony, spokeswoman for
Xkcd’s vision becomes reality
Wired points out that YouTube itself has installed a button to do exactly this: The placement of the button is interesting. It’s exactly where the post message button used to
Collins English Dictionary assesses caducity of 24 words
These are great words! It would be a shame to lose them, even if they are obscure. Abstergent: Cleansing Agrestic: Rural Apodeictic: Unquestionably true by virtue of demonstration Caducity: Perishableness
Because they can.
Quotation of the Day for September 24, 2008 “Why then, if not to steal food, would a cat go up on the counter? Why did George Mallory try to go
Jeans, prettified
In our house jeans are required to be “pretty” before M will wear them. I figure it’s less effort to make jeans “pretty” than to buy n-billion pairs of $10
M’s pictures from the summer
People’s toes and tummies! A iPod on the carpet! Some odd self-portraits! Click the picture to see the whole set:
Uh oh, apparently Sarah Palin shuns me
Sarah Palin was de-witched by nutball pastor? What a shame As for Palin, turns out Muthee laid on some hands, delivered a garbled serpents n’ brimstone prayer designed not merely
Alas, poor fishies
We had (note past tense) two tiny cute goldfish for exactly one week, until last night when I went in to check on them and M before going to bed
10 Books Not To Read Before You Die
7: À la Recherche du Temps Perdu – Marcel Proust Yes, yes, he tasted a biscuit that made him think of childhood, we’ve all done that. If I want to
That would do it
We should give 2-year-olds cameras more often
Shadow Originally uploaded by morecoffeeplease. From this summer, a photoessay by my 2-year-old niece: Zoe washes the car with Grampa
Oops.
(This afternoon I’m working on my performance appraisal for work and this floated through my RSS. As I look back on the last year of work I am hoping not
Unphotographable
This is a picture I did not take of four older guys in hard hats, reflective vests and workboots, sitting in a row on the edge of a flowerbed with
I have nothing to add
Quotation of the Day for September 8, 2008 “Bicycling is a big part of the future. It has to be. There’s something wrong with a society that drives a car
Politics
In honour of our most-likely-imminent election: Quotation of the Day for August 30, 2008 “Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying
Well.
In sorting through various papers last night I encountered my Master’s thesis. I re-read big chunks of it and you know? It’s pretty good. Huh. Still, I am glad I