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This can be yours for a mere $108. What a deal!
In other news, I’m headed out this weekend to watch the Sandhill crane migration.
And I’m armed and dangerous with this bad boy.
This can be yours for a mere $108. What a deal!
In other news, I’m headed out this weekend to watch the Sandhill crane migration.
And I’m armed and dangerous with this bad boy.
One of the advantages of strong central rule: The Forbidden Game: China’s on-again, off-again war against golf.
The bulldozers arrived at dawn in early December. There were more than a dozen lined up outside the gate of the Anji King Valley Country Club, 140 miles southwest of Shanghai. The convoy drove past the fountain, the bronze [...]
Now that’s a seriously sartorial platypus.
Happy Friday!
I have mixed feelings on this PSA.
Both of my grandfathers were KMT (paternal g-pa was a colonel, maternal g-pa was a 2-star general officer (equiv. to a 1-star American general)). Both fled to Taiwan, and that’s where both of my parents grew up (before moving to the States independently and meeting here). Does that make [...]
The petition to make hella- an official SI unit is one of the funniest things I’ve read in a long time.
Thus, we believe that the SI system can not only rectify their failing prefix system but also honor the scientific progress of Northern California by formally establishing “hella-” as the prefix for 10^27.
Under this designation, [...]
Slate has run a few stories this week about oversize air travelers (fat, tall, etc.) and what can be done about them.
The first story is a little ridiculous. They want me to feel sorry for tall people?
4. Treat height as an in-flight disability.
6. Many tall and wide people can’t afford bigger seats.
Sorry, but no. If [...]
An etsy posting from hemmingwayfun of a platypus USB drive.
You should buy this. And then give it to me.
Happy Friday! I’m off to the mountains for the weekend. Yay Colorado!
Hi loyal readers.
First off, let me thank you for reading my corner of the web every once in a while. I really appreciate the comments, both electronic and in person. Really, I do. It makes all the hours I spend writing worth it, every last one.
Recently, I had the stray thought pass through my mind [...]
From BizarroBlog, by Dan Piraro.
I missed last week’s platypus Friday due to the annual 10% ski trip, which this year, happened to be in Vermont.
And yes, at this point, you’re thinking the same thing that everyone else has already asked me in person: You live in Colorado but are going to Vermont to ski?
What can [...]