Someone on my LiveJournal friends list shared this site, especially this part. They have a really cool collection of art images, especially from the 13th-17th centuries.
The other day, I stumbled upon yelp, a site that rates all sorts of things in cities (restaurants, shopping, etc). I think I’d been there before, but it’s grown since the last time I’ve been there. I’ve linked to the Columbus site because you want to know what you can do here, right?
This is my favorite new web site- although others may have heard of it waaaay before me. Science, math and relationahip cartoons. Yes, they are funny! http://xkcd.com/
Today’s XKCD includes a shout-out to one of my favorite web-comics – Questionable Content (despite the name, it actually isn’t (almost ever) even near NSFW)
I love xkcd too, though! If you’re new to it, don’t forget to mouse over it after reading, there’s always another nugget there!
**GT **-- when yelp starts covering my neck of the woods, you’ll be really talkin’!
ETA – **VBob **-- “Thread Tools” -> “Subscribe to this thread” allows you to subscribe to a thread without posting to it
One of my favorite sites is Comics Curmudgeon. I actually started reading soap opera comics because of this site.
This week’s going to be hell at work. Exams start on Thursday? and the library’s going to be open 24 hours except this weekend when I have to work. I’m contemplating whether or not I should make a sign for the reference desk. “The library closes at X tonight. No, we’re not open 24 hours on the weekend. Put your books down, go out, and relax. I said RELAX dammit! You’re working too hard!”
noonie got mine. I am hooked on QC and must read it every day. Also IHasAHotdog.com.
gt, I LURVE the art site. Now I can ogle my favorite 14th and 15th century Italian artists whenever the mood strikes.
Quite weekend at the Anachi ranch. The pool water is now up to 81 degrees murkin and Mr. Anachi and I are contemplating our first swim.
Dept. Head is in CA presenting to a potential client. Thank God! I don’t think I could stand another day of her anxiety about it translating into abusing everyone she came in contact with. If I make it till 65 under her administration, it’ll be a GD miracle.
Meanwhile, team leader is in Mexico probably trolling for a case of swine flu. Who wants to bet he comes home sick?
Andy, the Golden Retriever/mutt pup that looked like the Caddyshack gopher, has returned to the VunderLair. With bells on. :rolleyes:
He was the pet of a pair of rather indigent sisters who had 0 experience with dogs, pets, or kids. Whenever anything went wrong, we’d get a call to come get him and nurse him back to health from imminent death. We saved him from worms, starvation because they were trying to bottle feed him as an 8 month old, and so on. This weekend, they figured out that he’s going to be ginormous, and they were in over their heads.
Sooooo, Andy came to the VunderLair, and VWife took one of the sisters to a shelter adoption event, where they looked for a much smaller and mature dog. They found one, what appears to be a dachshund/ terrier mix. Imagine a long legged weiner dog. Anyways, Red went home with them on a trial basis while we watch Andy. If Red works out, we find Andy a new home, preferably with a pre-installed boy.
Dammit, that little fuzzbutt has fallen in love with me. I can’t do anything without him being underfoot or outside arm’s reach. I got around to finishing the bathroom floor yesterday, and he had to help. There was a dire emergency when he tried to walk on an overturned self-adhesive floor tile, and got stuck on it like a mouse in a glue trap. :rolleyes: Even better is the way the little bastige howls whenever I go out the door without him.
I went fishing yesterday, again. TVCTPMO must have had advanced intel and filled them in, because the fish had fun playing FU. They would not bite on the worm, but they’d jump 2 feet from the bobber. :mad: At least it was 2 hours away from the wife and my new fuzzy shadow…
Good morning all! I have quite happily enjoyed most of my homemade hummus. Yes, I ate some this morning, after I got to work :eek: My breath smells like garlic. It was worth it though. LOL
Okay, I’m obsessive/compulsive and I’ll admit that the swine flu thing has got me all bent out of shape. I’m trying to cope but the more I hear about it, the worse it makes me get. I have plenty of hand sanitizer and also wash my hands quite thoroughly but I ride public transit to and from work every work day and it scares me. Oh well, I gotta deal, right? :dubious:
I refuse to get bent out of shape over it. I’m in good health, and I’ll weather the flu easily. If I get it, I get it, and I’ll be home sick for a few days. Although I am in a position where I have more exposure potential than the average Jo(e).
What cornfuzzes me is why it broke out in the northern hemisphere spring, when influenza normally becomes active on our side of the equator late fall into the winter. Maybe we could blame Australia?
: oink : : oink : : cough : : oink : : vomit :
Good weekend. KT thinks he did well on the Fundamentals of Engineering exam, but the 8-hour-long exam on Saturday did suck. Just because it was an 8-hour-long exam on a Saturday. Afterwards we went out for dinner at a fun seafood place in a park that’s only open in the summer (well, April through Oct). Yum!
I decided to bike to my church (9 miles each way) on Sat for a knitting retreat. The weather wasn’t the best for biking, but I feel proud that I made it that far with that many hills this early in the season. So yay. And it was fun to sit around and knit for 4 hours.
gt, I giggled out loud over the socks. I’m still working on my first knitting project, which is equal parts frustration and satisfaction, but I can already see how dangerous this is going to be… as if I didn’t already have a serious yarn problem thanks to years of crocheting.
Here are a few of my favourite sites: Ffffound - super-awesome visual archive of user-submitted found images Dress A Day - a vintage-obsessed lexicographer who makes her own dresses… could she be any cooler? Tastespotting - a “visual potluck” of cool food sites - tons of amazing food photos, recipes and ideas.
I also love xkcd. But isn’t that a prerequisite to become a Doper?
So we’re officially poor. We spent entirely too much at Costcovia on frivolous things like butter and flour and ground beef, and then proceeded from there to Petsmart and Crappy Tire, where we spent a whole lot more money on totally unecessary things like cat litter, garden supplies, and various hardware-type thingies needed to patch up the house.
Holy hell… why didn’t anyone warn me that a Boy and two fuzzbutts and a house on a corner lot would be this expensive? I’m switching over to a diet of bread and water immediately… once we’ve eaten up all the provisions from Costovia, that is.
On the bright side, we’re now the proud owners of this lovely BBQ/smoker/grill. So even though we’re now too impoverished to eat out, at least we can still eat in style. Also, The Boy will now stop twitching whenever he smells woodsmoke.
[microbiologist hat on]One thing to remember is that the deadly forms of the flu kill the healthiest people first. The people with the strongest immune systems tend to succumb to pandemic flu, such as the one that struck in 1918 (Spanish flu). It is thought that those particular strains are new to the species, as opposed to strains we evolved along with, so the immune reaction is often over the top. People die from their own immune reaction. This is a similar situation as the Hanta virus that struck the Southwest US. Freaky, huh?[/microbiologist hat off]
(despite the name, it actually isn’t (almost ever) even near NSFW)
It was worth it though. LOL