I dropped off the face of the earth for a few weeks due to busyness and a wicked cold that made staring at a computer seem like torture (also I was so out of it that I could not find things that were literally pinned to me). I'll be catching up on comments... uh, mostly next week, since I will be traveling. Oops ( Read more... )

So one of my local-ish radio stations is giving away tickets to the Olympics. That's nice.

But why do they refer to the Olympics as "the real Hunger Games"? Are they going to execute any athlete who doesn't win a gold medal this year? 0_o

So, while watching the speed skaters and... really fast skiers, whatever their sport is called... I started wondering about their sports outfit technology. Specifically, if you're wearing a skin-tight bodysuit for skating or skiiing, what kind of underwear do you wear? "None" doesn't seem like a comfortable option the way it might for swimming, but ( Read more... )

More hilarity with the Urban Dictionary, this time under B.A.M.F.. Definition 3 is "Neville Longbottom." With quotes, because you need to support your assertions with textual evidence.

Now I really need to do my stats homework.

An integrated-curriculum unit on an Agatha Christie story has all sorts of great educational possibilities, as this page shows. However, I am not convinced of the wisdom of this particular suggestion:

In Industrial Arts a student can make a “stiletto.”
As in, the kind you use to murder someone, not the kind you hobble around in. This is for middle ( Read more... )

Wackiness of the Day: hundreds of people in an Antwerp train station dance along to "Doe, a Deer" from The Sound of Music. I assume that they choreographed this beforehand, because I don't think half of Antwerp is part of the Classic Musical Borg ( Read more... )

Headmaster: No Vampires at Our School

Oh, children.

Banned Books Week is coming up, and so I followed a link to the American Library Association's list of 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000.

I'm not surprised to hear of people challenging Women on Top: How Real Life Has Changed Women's Fantasies by Nancy Friday and The New Joy of Gay Sex by Charles Silverstein. However...

A Light ( Read more... )

Last night, my family decided to watch Sideways. I'd never seen the movie. Actually, I still haven't seen the whole thing, because it just isn't my kind of movie, but I still got some entertainment out of the parts I did watch.

( For instance, if I drank, I would now have the best drinking game ever. )

Home Depot thinks 'Lorem Ipsum' is Spanish. Good one, guys. You couldn't ask one of your employees' kids to ask their Spanish teacher?

Sweden disapproves of naming children after bands. It seems odd to me that the Tax Board can refuse to register a name it doesn't like. Is it trademark infringement? Even more peculiarly, they also object to it ( Read more... )