Kate got up even more wickedly early this morning than usual, to go running on John and Mike’s treadmill. I got up a little behind her, but still managed to do the following before breakfast and work began:
Roast two beautiful long red peppers we got from Barb and Elliot at 4-Season Farm, coincidentally about [...]
the show: 07-11-06 - zefrank
zefrank has an every-weekday video podcast (I refuse to call it a v-blog or vlog or any other godawful made up word… er, any godawful made up word more recent than “podcast,” that is) which various friends have raved about in my presence for weeks and months. I’ve been way [...]
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Winners in Our “Thirteen Writing Prompts” Contest.
First McSweeney’s winner is up!
Way too late to second-guess the thing I wrote for it, I suppose.
… spent the weekend down in Maryland, just outside of D.C. and can safely report that it’s freakin’ hot down there.
As to the Whimsy Problem, I realized at the last minute that I’d brought back Indian formalwear from my trip to Bangalore, two (three?) years ago, and had never had such a great chance to [...]
Thagomizer - Wikipedia
The thagomizer is the arrangement of four to ten spikes on the tail of particular dinosaurs, like the famous Stegosaurus, in the clade Stegosauria. The tail is believed to be a defensive weapon against predators.
The term “thagomizer” originated as a joke from a Far Side comic strip by Gary Larson, in which a [...]