Entries from August 2012
Absolutely the Funniest Item of the Day CCLXXXVII
Carlton Draught – Beer Chase
Categories: Food
Swing Sets, Hip Flasks, and Snow Shoes: Must Be From Brooklyn!
Have we already heard of this store because it looks amazing: Kaufmann Mercantile
Categories: Wildcard
Weekend Plans?
2012 Scottish Highland Games & Gathering in Pleasanton, California And omg there’s gonna be sheepdog trials.
Categories: Sports and Leisure
Giddy-Up, Hoss
Cowboys! Horses! Photos of! Daily Mail – The last cowboys: Stunning black and white images show a rugged and romantic piece of Americana as it clings on for survival Click through for the rest of ’em.
Categories: Science and Nature
Neil Armstrong
This is making me cry with laughter, but rather than make it the Funniest Item of the Day, I’ll just use it to illustrate what a thing it was to have been Neil Armstrong. The Onion – Late Edition: Monday, July 21, 1969 Somebody on the internet said a couple weeks ago on the occasion […]
Categories: Science and Nature
Absolutely the Funniest Item of the Day CCLXXXVI
Daddy Skills A music video (which is amazing), featuring Sam D. (San Dorman) and DJDave (Dave Wittman), and shot, apparently, entirely on an iPhone (in San Francisco).
Categories: People and Current Events
The Cercei Lannisters of the Free World
Oh jeez: NRO – Mark Steyn (from 2 weeks ago): Pipe Dreams (File under: Principles, China, and Bullet-Ridden Feet)
Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs
2⁴ + 4²
Categories: Wildcard
The Olympics Vs NBC (Again)
ESPN (radio) – Shin A Lam of South Korea: The Saddest Story of the Olympics that American TV Neglected This is an amazing story, and click through to read the whole thing, but the end: This was a riveting story and one that would have been perfect for primetime television. However, it wasn’t swimming, diving, […]
Categories: Sports and Leisure
Mitt Romney Vs the Olympics: “Kiss My Ass, Show Some Respect” Indeed
Read this: Telegraph Blogs – Tim Stanley: NBC’s Olympic coverage has been a damning indictment of outdated monopoly media Especially this line: As global diplomacy goes, the network makes Mitt Romney look like Henry Kissinger. Then remember this classic from Mark Steyn, writing about how impartial our MSM is and why we rubes should rely […]
Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs
Mars Woo!
This could be another Peter Recommends but I already did that today. He’s very excited about it, and the video is pretty cool (I mean, it wouldn’t be out of place as an ACME made Road Runner gadget gag): Challenges of Getting to Mars: Curiosity’s Seven Minutes of Terror
Categories: Science and Nature
Peter Recommends CXL
I saw some photos of this during the Beijing Games, but here you go: Why hosting isn’t quite the economic/infrastructural boon it’s made out to be: io9 – Eight years after the Athens Olympics, many venues have been left to rot (Although, there are lots of Canadian winter athletes who come from around the detritus […]
Categories: Sports and Leisure
The Dahlia That Lived
Celebrate life, people, cuz this huge branch of my way-too-leggy dahlia snapped nearly completely off last month, but I staked it up a bit (to take the weight off a neighboring citrus) and not only did the branch not dry up (tho it did try every time it got a little warm), but it even […]
Categories: Science and Nature
