Darn, I missed National Men Make Dinner Day yesterday! I let the Snook get away with just buying me dinner at the pub. Actually he cooks about 80% of the time anyway, so I guess it was nice to give him a night off. 🙂

This is broken. Not really. It’s a weblog where people send in pictures and descriptions of bad design. I especially liked this item, which describes a “feature” of our own microwave that I hate: When cooking finishes, the damn thing keeps beeping until you open the door. It drives me crazy.

Your librarian hates you if… Hilarious. I would add: “You’re an oblivious giant who puts your books where I can’t reach them, for I am an ill-tempered dwarf.”

How to make gyoza. Finally some writing from Amy Tan that doesn’t put me to sleep! (Link courtesy of not martha.)

Wow, it was a day of purely autobiographical links. I feel like I should make it up to you. For starters, check out Ebert’s review of The Matrix: Revolutions. He didn’t hate it!

In case any other Australians are wondering, the version of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” that plays during the Dulux paint commercial is by a Hawaiian guy called Israel Kamakawiwo’ole. Rodd and I both love the song so he tracked it down. It’s actually a medley with “What a Wonderful World.” I love it. If you can find it, download it.

Trivia Update: The Snook and I headed back to Kelly’s, our old regular trivia pub, and managed to score second place all by ourselves! (Our celebrations were curtailed by the fact that the winning team was captained by an overweight geek in an “All Your Base Are Belong to Us” t-shirt. It was like losing to the Comic Book Guy. Very mortifying.) Your questions for the night:

• Name the eight countries of the world with one word names (in English) that start with the letter “I”.
• Name the six Jane Austen novels that have been turned into movies.
• Which movie did Shirley Maclaine win a Best Actress Oscar for in 1983, and who won Best Supporting Actor that year for the same film?
• Which city in the world has the most taxicabs?

As you might imagine, I rocked the Jane Austen one. (I’m working my way through her complete works right now.)

Congratulations to my friend Nat, who has become the first of my college friends to have a baby. He and his wife Staci welcomed little Marianne Elizabeth Cunningham into the world two weeks ago. Isn’t she cute? The last time I saw Nat we were drinking our faces off at a tailgater… and now he’s a Dad. It’s a weird feeling.

Uh oh.

Snookums sent me a link to this story about a huge iceberg that just broke in half. He especially liked this quote from the end: “The Ross Sea is on the northern Antarctic coast, 3,832 kilometers (2,395 miles) south of New Zealand.” As he put it: The northern coast of Antarctica, eh? Where exactly are the other coasts?