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I just happened by the website for the Discovery Times Square Exposition, and they are having exhibits on three things I have absolutely loved during various phases of my childhood— Da Vinci, the Titanic, and ancient Egypt. This is like historical fusion! (Also probably the three historical things that people in general are most interested in, but I’m going to go ahead and look at this as fate)
This describes my childhood. I didn’t know about the F until just now. Dammit!!
Edit: I think the posting of this comic has crashed this site, which lets you play or download SkiFree, without linking to it. How often does crashing by proxy happen? Probably not much.
For the last week, I’ve been seeing all these fancy Thanksgiving recipes online and interviewees in newspapers fretting to reporters that the tomatoes in their tomato-parsnip relish aren’t organic, or they didn’t mix, roll, and bake their own pie crusts. Do they serve the heirloom beet-goat cheese-authentic Tuscan vinaigrette salad before or after the sweet potato-red pepper-ginger root ghoulash, and do they put the infusion of pepitas and lime on top or on the side? Everyone needs to relax. I’m cooking dinner for my family, and they’re lucky I’m making fresh green beans instead of canned.
My Lunch
When I want to eat brownies for lunch, I balance them out by first eating a handful of carrots. I’d say this is no less procedurally questionable than a company claiming to be 100% wind-powered because it buys offsets (I’m looking at you, UWS Shake Shack).
That red dot in the white circle is the light that blinks at the top of the pinnacle of the Empire State Building. Which I can see from my own dorm room. Which I can see and take a picture of if I stand on my heater in front of the wide open window. Ok, NOW I live in New York.
And if that wasn’t enough, I can summarize the day-to-day life of a science student in one exchange that happened while I was waiting for a class to start:
Male student: Your hair looks… different…
Female student: I washed it!
When worlds collide: Ricky Gervais and Elmo
There are very few things in this world that are perfect in every way. Here is a two-minute example of such a thing.
So good.
I’m going to tell you how this works: Elmo will say something funny, and you will laugh, Ricky Gervais will laugh, and you’ll laugh harder, and then Elmo will laugh, which is the funniest sound in the universe, and you’ll die of happiness.
Stars - Calendar Girl
This song continues to speak to me.
Today I saw a guy with a really heavy duty New York Yankees jacket. It was embroidered with all of their different championships and evolution of the team’s logos over the years. Then in big cursive letters it said “26 World Championships.”
So yeah, the rest of the world doesn’t really care that New York won another World Series tonight. But hey, at least that jerk needs to buy a new jacket.
The rest of the world is still also in high school, apparently, where “doesn’t really care” actually means “is crying on the inside their team didn’t win, so they’re pretending the whole contest isn’t important.” Which, hey, it isn’t really, but do we need to be children about it, JKlock?
Kitty, it makes no logical sense to sleep like this.
My Joan Holloway costume turned out as good as I’d hoped… possibly better.
