( Seriously, how many three-year-olds want to know about the atmosphere of Jupiter? )

The night before I left for Albany, I did laundry, and while I distinctly recalled my favourite T-shirt going into the wash, and even my turning it inside out to protect the writing before putting it in the dryer, when I got home, it was not in with my clean laundry. I searched everywhere, repeatedly. Searched bag of clean dry laundry, searched wet ( Read more... )

This article, which someone on Facebook posted a link to, has some disturbing information about new agreements in the US which give corporations the right to all water within certain jurisdictions, even if it's on private property. So independent farmers getting water from a spring or well on their own property could be regarded as "stealing" water ( Read more... )

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Amusing gym incident: was back there for the second time this week after slacking off for a while before that, and having to take it a little easy on lower-body stuff due to cycling 20km yesterday. But I was surprised when I got to the first machine in the second row (after all the lower-body machines) - for some reason, I seemed to be having a ( Read more... )

Found via Craftastrophehttp://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=11729730Read more... )

Not to mindlessly repeat the name of the blog I found it in, but this really, truly is an epic win:

The Secret Life of Everyday Things

There are many more addictive photo series on that site... Must. Tear. Self. Away...

It is 18° C right now. Eighteen. Degrees. In November. In Toronto. The hell?(For Americans, that would be 64° F ( Read more... )

On the way back to kettunainen and optimystik's place earlier tonight to drop off the Smallest, I had a very... unusual encounter ( Read more... )