I’m horrified to learn I’m guilty of using at least a couple of these on a regular basis. I won’t tell you which ones but I will observe that it’s hot enough today that I could really go for some sherbert. 😉
Someone mounted a POV camera on an eagle and the result is probably as close as I’ll ever get to what it actually feels like to fly (unless they hurry up and invent a workable, affordable jetpack!) (via Reddit)
It’s weird being a blogger sometimes because it affects how you think about things (there are theories that social media sites like Facebook have the same effect where you can’t just enjoy experiences because you’re always thinking how to spin them/frame them/present them to your online audience.) With that in mind, I’ll admit that I […]
For my 40th birthday, a co-worker gave me a green tea flavoured Kit-Kat she’d picked up at a specialty store in Seattle. How I resisted eating it for nearly a month, I’ll never know!
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For the past few weeks, Reddit Gold members (those who pay an annual subscription fee) have been able to beta-test a new feature called Multi-Reddits. That feature has now gone live for all Reddit members. With thousands of sub-reddits, it’s difficult to keep track of them all. Multi-reddits allow you to combine similar reddits into […]
Stephen Wolfram recently published an analysis of a huge dataset of how people are using Facebook that is extremely fascinating (so fascinating that I wanted to except some of the best parts but didn’t know where to start!) One of the findings was that the most common social structure people tend to have two or […]
Like the Beatles ushering in the “Swinging 60’s” in 1964, it won’t line-up perfectly. But you can still chart my life in terms of broad decade-long “eras” fairly easily… ~0-10 years – Figuring out the basics, attending elementary school ~11-20 years – High school ~20-30 years – English degree transitions into a nearly decade long stint […]
Google Poetics Book spine poetry (Google Images) Invented Poetry Forms
Went with Pace while he rode his new birthday bike over to a playground near our house. Along the way, we passed the house of one of his kindergarten classmates who was playing in her front yard and then, at the playground, another classmate happened to be there playing as well. As I sat on […]
If you can get past the gratuitous swearing, the Fucking Home Page actually has pretty interesting content each new day.
