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They Found The Hand of Franklin
In the Beaufort Sea, of course. Well, ok, one of the boats, but they're hoping for some well-preserved artifacts. Pretty dang cool! It just took Fraser and Kowalski a little longer than they planned cuz of all the honeymooning they had to do on the way, of course ( Read more... ) -
March!
Despite weather drama last week, all of the snow went south of us. Not that it's exactly Spring-like out there with negative low temps, but I'm enjoying the not-shoveling :). Poor Ontario is getting to the point where water mains are breaking in Toronto because it's been so dang cold for so dang long (and those folks aren't exactly weather wimps). ( Read more... ) -
Happy Anniversary Eve, Parent Bears!
Tomorrow is June 1! Which is a very important day! I'm hoping to be climbing Mount Osceola with folks from work, so I'm posting this today ( Read more... ) -
Movie, Crossfit, Plague
I've continued with my trend of lazy weekends, though this last one I did bike to my brother's for the first time since starting Crossfit (those 16 miles felt good \o/). We watched Fritz Lang's M at home (cool!) and did get out and to see Django Unchained, which was fun, but [spoilers!]( Read more... ) -
Y'no what's awesome?
When you compose a post, but it doesn't post due to varnish errors, so you've lost it. You vent your frustrations to a new (private) post, then realize that the "post" button is grayed out because it's the "new" version of the posting page, which is frequently screwy for you. So you hit "switch to old version"... and lose the second post ( Read more... ) -
Happy 40th Birthday, Clean Water Act!
We take so much for granted today, environmentally. Or sometimes we believe the fearmongering that we live in the most Toxic environment ever, and should just buy some detox drink to fix that. But the reality is that good governmental regulation and our tax dollars have done things like take the Nashua River and make changes like this:
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QED, It is Spring
- I walk out the door at work and I'm more likely to hear a European language than English. The tourists are back ( Read more... ) -
Goofy hats
Overall I approve of this trend toward goofy hats. It's like a large proportion of the population is joining me in embracing their dorkitude. The animals are nice, but today I saw my favorite thus far: a knit cap with a brown edge, then a bright orange top with a curling stone handle knit out of it. Oh, and of course, some variant of Rule 34, I can ( Read more... ) -
Impulse Purchases
I've heard any number of people say they were out shopping for other people and found something for themselves instead. This usually doesn't happen to me, largely because I'm usually shopping for legos and spices. But I was in my local Ten Thousand Villages for the second time this season, and this guy caught my eye Again. But I told myself (again ( Read more... ) -
Parent Bears: Needs More Cops Edition
Should you have stopped by the Parent Bears' Saturday night, you'd have found five cop cars, the police shift supervisor's SUV, and, eventually, a fire truck. Now, Grosse Pointe is a pretty nice neighborhood, and the septuagenarian PBs aren't really known for being troublemakers, but, hey, maybe they were finally throwing that wild party we've ( Read more... )