Katy is not, and hopefully never will be, a stick insect. She has curves, and those curves are getting more definition as her running progresses. Rawr!
Month: June 2016
Le. (Swiss) Pie
I’d love to actually try them, but they all have garlic.
Festival Québécois à Pully
Ça toffe!
Guns! Guns! Guns!
The U.S. has 4.43% of the world’s population and almost 42% of the world’s population of civilian-owned guns. Since not everyone is a gun owner, that means that the typical gun owner owns more than one. In fact, they own, on average, 6.6 guns each. Two-thirds of the guns in the U.S. are in the hands of 20% of the population. Gun ownership is correlated with both gun homicide and suicide. Accordingly, the US also haa the highest rate of gun violence of any developed country.
The return of pigeon chess
Already more than two years ago, I stumbled across the concept of pigeon chess. Simply put, it comes from a quotation to the effect that “debating a (whoever) is like playing chess with a pigeon – it knocks over the pieces, shits on the board, then struts around and flies back to its flock to brag about how it won”
It’s still oh-so-relevant today.
The peanut plays Mancini
Katy’s a little crabby today
Jurassic Parkour
If you needed more proof that people in those inflatable T-Rex costumes are the purest form of entertainment, look no further than the hero who ran the American Ninja Warrior course in one.
How to deal with people (sometimes)
Sometimes, it’s the only way. Even if it’s only in your head.
I like big books and I cannot lie
A book is a dream that you hold in your hand.
–Neil Gaiman
If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.
–Ralph Waldo Emerson
There comes a time when you have to choose between turning the page and closing the book.
–Josh Jameson
I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.
–Harold Kushner
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
–Haruki Murakami
It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.
–Oscar Wilde
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
–Marcel Proust
Beware of the person of one book.
–Thomas Aquinas
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
–Oscar Wilde
The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
–W. Somerset Maugham
There’s nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over.
–Gail Carson Levine
I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
–C.S. Lewis
I divide all readers into two classes; those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
–William Lyon Phelps
You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
–Paul Sweeney
A book is a device to ignite the imagination.
–Alan Bennett