The beaver is a proud and noble animal
Notes from a bemused canuck
Valentine’s Day: the holiday of chocolate, flowers, and cute cards. But this year, instead of keeping things traditional, switch things up with a homemade bacon bouquet. I’m pretty sure I know which one Katy would prefer :)
Full recipe at Not Quite Nigella
“The hotels are lousy. The Olympic village is a mess. The food is horrible. And, well, that’s what happens when you tick off gay people.” –David Letterman
“The Olympics start Friday and Russia’s implementing the most intensive security in Olympics history. The government will monitor every email. They will monitor every social media message and they will listen in on every phone call. In fact, people are now comparing Russia to the United States. That’s how bad it is.” –Jay Leno
“Today, the Olympic torch arrived in Sochi. But Vladimir Putin immediately put it out because he thought it was too flaming.” –Conan O’Brien
“Germany just unveiled its rainbow-colored Olympic uniforms, which seem to be a subtle protest against Russia’s anti-gay laws. You can tell how much the world has changed when Germans are the ones who are saying, ‘Discrimination is just wrong.'” –Jimmy Fallon
“Russia also has the Winter Olympics, and that’s a big mess too because, you know, Russia is really, really anti-gay. You know this? Seriously, they said they would arrest any Olympic athletes for “promoting” homosexuality. In a related story, figure skating has been canceled.” –Bill Maher
A trip of wine infographics. Click to embiggen!
Darwin Day is a celebration to commemorate the anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin on 12 February 1809. The day is used to highlight Darwin’s contribution to science and to promote science in general.
“Pigeon chess” or “like playing chess with a pigeon” is a figure of speech originating from a comment made in March 2005 on Amazon by Scott D. Weitzenhoffer regarding Eugenie Scott’s book Evolution vs. Creationism: An introduction:
Debating creationists on the topic of evolution is rather like trying to play chess with a pigeon — it knocks the pieces over, craps on the board, and flies back to its flock to claim victory.
In response to this:
I give you this:
Women have so much cooler underwear than what’s available for men, it’s so not fair *grump*
Edit: The original is from a Finnish comedy show
We could write a Kafkaesque (*) novel for IT people about this software installation…
(*) Basically it describes a nightmarish situation which most people can somehow relate to, although strongly surreal.
