I went to have beach beers with Colin on Wednesday night. Walking home, well past sunset, we saw this. Pitch-black sky, lights on, and one patch of clear blue sky cleanly divided from the rest of the skyline. No clue what could have caused this.
Tag: random shit
Proof there’s a glitch in the matrix
This cup of coffee shouldn’t be there. I have no recollection of putting it there. I must’ve done. But I will swear I don’t remember doing so.
This morning, I made myself a cup of coffee. I went to the bathroom. I came out of the bathroom and went back to the kitchen, but my cup wasn’t there where I left it. I looked around. Nothing. Go to the office/guest bedroom. It was on my desk.
So, for this to have happened, I had to have walked across the flat, gone in the office, put it on my desk, left my office and gone to the bathroom. Except I *do not* remember that sequence of event.
I know that walking through a doorway makes you forget things. That’s a documented, scientifically proven and studied phenomenon. Somehow I managed to do it twice in one go and erase the fact I went into a room, did something, and left.
Either that or the flat is haunted by a coffee-maid. Or the matrix glitch. Or I’m nuts.
Sahara sand
According to SRF Meteo, weather and wind conditions in regions of northwest Africa, including Mauritania, Mali, and Algeria forced desert sand two to five kilometres up into the sky before it was blown towards Europe via southerly winds, the national weather service said.
The result in various parts of Switzerland on Saturday were misty yellow-orange skies, also seen across much of southern and eastern France.
Well, that happened
Katy and I were walking NMD along the lake this morning. Katy says to let Lili go down a boat ramp to let her have a drink. I’m not a fan of letting her go off-lead in general, and there were lots of dogs around that morning and she was acting like a pickle so I walked down with her. Katy told me not to because that the ramp would be slippery, but it didn’t look too bad. And then my sneakers completely lost their grip on the wet algae covering the ramp, I went on my ass, and my ass and I went in the lake.
I was more surprised than hurt, and I was more worried about my phone in my back pocket than anything else… I managed to scramble out back onto the ramp and it could have gone either way about me going back into the lake for a while, but in the end I made it back onto dry, flat ground. At least I can now say I’ve been in the lake, in January.
Cocci vectoriel
The “cocci vectoriel” is a Gram-positive, round bacteria with thick peptidoglycan layers, who wears a vector as a hat. It must have googly eyes and wonky teeth. It was invented in CEGEP biology, between 1992 and 1994.
Deadpan comedy non-sequiturs, one-liners and off-the-wall observations
Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.
Right now I’m having amnesia and deja vu at the same time… I think I’ve forgotten this before.
A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
Hot Fuzz moment
Taking a pootle to stretch out legs along the lakeside, Katy and I ran into a juvenile cygnet just standing in the middle of walking path, looking bemused but otherwise fine. People are walking around it, dogs are walking right up to it, nothing registers. We stood there for a good 5 minutes looking at it. It’s not obviously in distress, but this ain’t normal swanish behaviour. We called the Morges police and they said they woukd send someone ’round to have a look. We carried on with our walk and it was still there on the way back, except now it’d gone for a massive dump and was now taking a nap…
One small difference between the Swiss and the rest of the world
Pay with anything bigger than a 20£ note in the UK? Suspicious glare and 15 different counterfeit tests.
Pay with a 50$ bill in Canada? I’m sorry, we don’t take monopoly money.
Buy a pack of gum with a 200chf bill? That’ll be 198.50chf change, have a good day!
Try and withdraw 500$? Canada bank says hells no.
Try and withdraw 300£? UK bank says hells no.
Try and withdraw 3000chf? Swiss bank says big or small bills? (and by big bills, I mean 3 x 1000chf bills)
Staying alive
This is what morning look like here when we’re all tired.
This is really amusing, in that almost a year ago to the day, RUN DMReenie was getting down to Christmas in Hollis Morges.
Ukiyo Memes
Ukiyo Memes illustrates popular memes in the style of classic Japanese woodblock prints. Called “Memes of the Floating World”, they reimagine pop culture in Ukiyo-e style.
