The beaver is a proud and noble animal
Notes from a bemused canuck
Sometimes I feel like I'm in a classic Disney film when I walk to work. This morning, between the birds chirping, the duckies waddling merrily along the footpath, the huge blackbirds walking in the gravel beds and the wild rabbit warren in the topiary, the amount of wildlife I ran across was quite impressive.
Almost made me break out in song.
Almost.
The campus hosted an exhibition from the Korean National Tae Kwan Do demonstration team. That was… impressive!
They host national tryouts across Korea and take the top 100 people. They train intensively for months and then they take the top 25 of those people to tour around the world doing TKD demos. They showered the cafeteria with kindling and apple blobs for a solid hour.
In a word, wow.
Katy and I went to a BBQ last night at a coworker's place in North Cambridge. Surrounded by chickens and horses, we ate hogfat and Russian Cornish pasties. All in good fun. We ended up home rather late and it was hard getting out of bed this morning.
While dragging my feet to the cafeteria to grab a cup of coffee, I ran across my favourite fowl couple, Grace and Clarckson. In the cafeteria.
Apparently, it's quite common to see ducks wander in in the summertime, pick at the crumbs on the floor and waddle out.
Sa-weet!
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Go to Wikipedia. In the Search box, type your birth month and day (but not year). List three events that happened on your birthday. List two important birthdays and one interesting death. Post this in your journal.
Events on August 7th
1794 – Whiskey Rebellion begins: Farmers in the Monongahela Valley of Pennsylvania rebel against the federal tax on liquor and distilled drinks.
1944 – IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I).
1945 – President Harry Truman announces the successful bombing of Hiroshima with an atomic bomb while returning from the Potsdam Conference aboard the heavy cruiser USS Augusta (CA-31) in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
1990 – At 12:34:56 (both AM and PM) the time and date by British reckoning was 12:34:56 7/8/90 i.e. 1234567890.
[Note: a depressingly large number of events were war-related on my birthday. poo, I say!]
Births on August 7th
1560 – Elizabeth B, Hungarian serial killer (d. 1614)
1876 – Mata Hari, Dutch spy (d. 1917)
1960 – David Duchovny, American actor
1975 – Charlize Theron, South African actress (yay!!!!!)
Deaths on August 7th
1106 – Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1050)
1834 – Joseph Marie Jacquard, French weaver and inventor (b. 1752)
1957 – Oliver Hardy, American comedian and actor (b. 1892)
2005 – Peter Jennings, Canadian-born news anchor (b. 1938)
On Wednesday at two minutes and three seconds after 1:00 in the morning, the time and date will be 01:02:03 04/05/06.
Katy and I went shopping at Waitrose on monday night and I came across this:
I just had to get it (but it was only 99p so that's ok). It's Glenlivet bottled water.
From the website: Welcome to Speyside Glenlivet, where we are pleased to share with you some of the fascinating history, background and detail of this very special Scottish Natural Mineral Water. Its unique and natural blend of minerals provides the essence of Speyside Glenlivet's special appeal. Even the most delicate flavours of what you eat and drink are enhanced when they are accompanied by its cool, clean and pure taste. The outstanding quality of this water was the reason why the first whisky distilleries were founded nearby over 200 years ago.
Saw this in ![[info]](http://stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
userpicks. I confess that I couldn't stop watching it and was almost late for work.
I'm weird.
– What does it say about my LJ habits that I need to browse between 60 and 80 posts a day to keep up with my full friend list?
– Katy and I are going to see a pet-friendly 3-bedroom house in Hinxton tomorrow that we can potentially rent for the same price as our 1-bedroom flat in cambridge.
– I seriously want me one of those: http://www.trek-tech.com/products/
– This picture cracked me up this morning:
– I wrote to two siberian cat breeders in the UK to see when they will have kittens available.
– I'm feeling very bleh today. I don't really know why.