Month: February 2009
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Pride & Prejudice as a Facebook News Feed. THAT IS MY FAVORITE THING ON THE INTERNET, EVER. “Fitzwilliam Darcy became a fan of Fine Eyes.” It’s just perfect in every way. (Link courtesy of Lara.)
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Blood Clot and Brain Cupcakes. Bookmarking for Halloween… even though nobody ever eats cupcakes at parties, and I always forget that.
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Hey, I know we’ve just had a heartbreaking national tragedy and all, but what I think we all really need is for Germaine Greer and Miranda bloody Devine to start pointing accusatory fingers at everyone they don’t like. Doesn’t that just make everyone feel better? Thought so.
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I forgot to mention that we got a Cat-It Drinking Fountain last weekend. Snookums had noticed that Professor Death liked playing with his water bowl, so we figured he might prefer running water. The pet store at Broadway was out of stock but had an ex-display model they offered us for $50, so we snapped…
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Bush Fire Donation Round-UpI’ve heard from a few non-Australians who want to know where/how they can donate to the Bush Fire Appeal. Here are some campaigns that I know about: Australian Red Cross Online Donation. If you want to straight up give some cash to help the victims, this is where you go. Anyone with…
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Wow! Snookums just pointed out that I’m on cracked.com today, albeit indirectly. See that Valentine at #15 there? Whoever Photoshopped it took it directly from mine! I don’t mind though; it’s worth a chuckle. And a lot of people in the comments seem to think that one was the best of the lot.
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Amish Hackers. Fascinating article about the complex relationship between Amish and technology. I’ll admit that I always thought they were a bit hypocritical – riding in cars but not owning them – but this article has made me rethink that a little bit. They’re slow geeks.
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For the Snook: Whiskey vs. whisky. He takes such things seriously.
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Vanilla Creamed Rice with RhubarbWe got another bunch of rhubarb in this week’s veggie box, and I was at a loss what to do with it. Rodd’s already made a batch of (extremely good) rhubarb and apple jam. We have a big bag of chopped rhubarb in the freezer. What’s next? Then I found this…
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President Obama speaking in Elkhart this week: “Now, with respect to Sean Hannity, I didn’t know that he had invited me for a beer. But I will take that under advisement. Generally, his opinion of me does not seem to be very high. But, uh, but I’m always good for a beer.” I sent that…