September 2009
21 posts
The Great Socks Scare, and Finding Your Cat →
Places I’ve found my cats:
in the box springs. A lot. I no longer have box springs.
when I was moving once I found Caper hiding inside a sofa, he’d crawled up underneath - hear him meow when it was already on the moving truck
in between the mattress and the wall under the fake headboard in a motel room
crawled behind a drawer when it was open. Tried to shut the drawer, got angry...
Kashmir girl fights off militants →
Damn. This is one of those stories where I think, yeah, maybe I don’t have a lot of problems. I didn’t have to get up this morning and kill a dude who was trying to forcibly marry me with his own machine gun.
“When I clicked on an application it spent a small eternity contemplating the...”
– Charlie Brooker - Microsoft’s grinning robots or the Brotherhood of the Mac. Which is worse?
Free Rice →
I made it to level 60 with a bit of *ahem* assistance, and managed to donate 1000 grains of rice in my efforts to know ALL the words.
Perfervid
Word of the day (not made up) courtesy Stephen Fry, to wit,
“I am as aware as anyone that on the subject of smartphone brands perfervid attachments and preferences can foment almost religious fervour in our passionate breasts.”
Dan Brown's 20 worst sentences →
I knew his plot lines were awful, but I’d only read a chapter of his book before giving up in total disgust. Apparently I’m not the only one.
His plot lines, though, I can definitely say are the worst sort of ridiculously misleading historical trash. And I like historical fiction.
Coffee?
Jeanine: Do you want some coffee, Mr. Tully?
Louis: Do I?
Egon: Yes, have some.
Louis: Yes, have some.
“Bhutan’s constitution, which emphasises the importance of Gross National...”
– I should live here. Buddhist Bhutan warns felling trees a threat to happiness
“… never befour did I no what it was to want to See a parent and I could...”
– Letters of Note: A slave writes to her former owner
“People are carrying out breeding which would be, first of all, entirely illegal...”
– Steven Jones via Pedigree dogs ‘being bred to death’
“Eric Burdon, lead singer of The Animals, is claimed by some to be the...”
– I Am the Walrus - Wikipedia