Archive for January, 2007
Snow on Handrail and Tree
(Above, left) Archives/Navy Memorial Metro station, whose street-level escalators are still open to the elements. Falling snow was forming a slushy wet glacier which crept down the handrail and gathered in a pile at the bottom of the escalator. (Above, right) The next morning, a fast-thawing layer of snow on a tree near Dupont Circle.
links for 2007-01-23
Conversation with a comment spammer :: Adam Kalsey (tags: spam) Pop Culture Addict on the history of Grimace. (tags: mcdonalds culture retro advertising) Mighty Optical Illusions. Optical illusions weblog. (tags: fun weblogs vision) AfterAbortion on pro-life shock photos of aborted fetuses. “Do we want to be like Christ, or like those picking up stones to [...]
links for 2007-01-22
i am sparticus: What Is The Square Root Of Cat? (tags: fun cat math) Drugs and Poisons. Various drugs in detail. (tags: drugs health medicine science weblogs) Zirr.us. Taggable to do list web app. (tags: free tools) Things My Boyfriend Says. Her boyfriend says funny things. Some profanity. (tags: fun relationships language weblogs) A New [...]
Finally, Snow
Season’s first snowfall underway. The snow finally started as a shower of fine, tiny flakes just as we were leaving church, and a good dusting had stuck to unpaved surfaces by the time we were done with lunch at Bua. The flakes are much bigger now, and there’s at least a good quarter inch on [...]
Shoppy, Potentially Snowy Weekend
It is a cold, blustery weekend, which Amy and I have so far filled up with registry shopping. We sauntered over to the new BB&B at Gallery Place/Chinatown to go scanner-happy on kitchen gadgets, paused for a Five Guys lunch, then Metro’d to the C&B at Clarendon for tableware, flatware, glassware, more kitchenware, bedding, and [...]
links for 2007-01-20
Internet Monk: Simply or Merely? Comparing Mere Christianity and Simply Christian. Lewis and Wright, compared. (tags: faith books theology) Made With Molecules. Jewelry! Shaped like chemicals! (tags: jewelry gifts shopping fun chemistry science) All Too Flat : Pranks : Cube. Turning the Alamo cube scultpure into a giant Rubik’s Cube. (tags: art nyc pranks fun) [...]
Caturday!
It’s been two weeks since we’ve had a Saturday with cat photos. I’m sorry. Here’s a whole bunch of Pandora pictures to make up for the gap:
links for 2007-01-19
Stupideo: a collection of stupid video comments. I started this on a whim last night after seeing the xkcd strip. Some profanity. And stupidity. (tags: youtube video community fun weblogs projects brownpau) BBC NEWS | In Pictures | In pictures: Storms lash Europe (tags: weather news disaster europe uk) Internet Monk: Don’t Waste Your Missional [...]
links for 2007-01-18
Six Apart – Movable Type News – Announcing Movable Type 3.34 (tags: mt) WordPress: The Complete Post-Install Checklist – Download Squad (tags: wordpress) Internet Monk: A Fine Fried Squirrel Dinner (tags: food animals squirrels) A thirty-five-year-old view of Mars. From the Soviet Mars 3 mission. (tags: space mars soviet) A Whole Lotta Nothing: Pile O’ [...]
Oh, Snap
Something weird happened to me last month, a couple of weeks before Christmas: I lost any and all desire to consume ginger snaps. I was about halfway down a week-old container of Trader Joe’s Triple Ginger Snaps, and midway through one of them I looked at it and realized I couldn’t eat it anymore. (This [...]