This week I collected a bunch of stuff but largely failed to remember to note where I got it. That blogroll over there on the right holds everything I read every day. It probably came from one of those places.
- The only way to become great at something
- Via AoSQH, Dude ROCKS IT OUT on The Price is Right. Watch the whole thing, please. You will smile and laugh the whole time.
- From Honu Girl, Do you understand my first grade child’s math homework? The easier they try to make math, the harder it gets. Or so I observe.
- Videos of dogs welcoming home soliders
- Do you think these college students would be able to figure out your child’s first grade math homework?
- Wired’s Arachnid Hall of Fame!
- A really polarizing editorial (jeremiad?) from Dr. Laura on the Evolution of Feminism:
The young women of today automatically think of themselves as feminists because they’ve been brainwashed by their mothers and much of society. Problematically, these women, many of whom write to me or call my radio program, don’t understand much about the male mind. They are convinced that men should be just like women in their thoughts and reactions and are frustrated when that mentality doesn’t work.
- An animal rescuer’s answering machine message. Laugh so that you don’t cry.
- Vipers, Pansies, and Fatcats:
In other words, we cannot expect the new cruelism to burn itself out. It’s more likely to burn us out. At the stake, while vipers in lawn chairs roast hotdogs and marshmallows as they critique the sincerity and intensity of our screams.
- Pardon-Moi cards, wake up calls with humor and tact. I wonder about this item in relation to the previous article, even though the two are not related. But I wonder if it’s not a slippery slope. I wonder if letting slide a few basic courtesies here and there eventually leads to the dissolution of civilization. Not that failing to say gesundheit after someone sneezes will bring the barbarians over the walls or anything, but maybe being constantly subjected to people’s rudeness, and hesitant to do anything about it because we know that two rudes don’t make a proper, might make us less able to determine what the limits of public behavior and discourse are.
Also, do you think these are too twee? Do you think they’re cowardly? Are they really effective? What do you think would be more effective: those little cards, or tapping someone on the shoulder and saying, “Excuse me, you’re speaking very loudly about personal subjects you probably don’t want the rest of us to hear.”?
- Related: When the rudes get ruder, the scolds get scoldier.
- An awesome Star Wars Tauntaun costume
- From Nicki, Pirate! Metal!
- The 10 Weirdest Physics Facts
- From Apollo, Where Should I Eat Flowchart: Fast Food Edition. All my roads lead to Sonic or Chick-fil-A.
- There is no God but Gaia and Al Gore is her Prophet:
It seems the United Nations would prefer to hide the truth and cut off all further scientific research instead of facing the embarrassment of having to retract its ridiculous assertion that Himalayan glaciers may disappear in the next 25 years. Perhaps the United Nations really believes nonscientists and staffers from alarmist environmental organizations are better qualified to report on Himalayan glaciers than actual scientists who have been studying the glaciers for decades.
- From Wade’s tweetstream: Cats for Gold! Some days I wish this worked the other way around.
- Junk food = heroin?
Three sickly sweet doses of bacon a day instead of smack. But it’s never enough.*
- Acorn squash stuffed with bacon and a bunch of other stuff that isn’t bacon
- Fall pear salad is such a prosaic way to describe a meal featuring both bacon and luscious stinky cheese!
- Brussels Sprouts are the New BLT
- Exceptionally rich and fancy potato gratin that covers potatoes in everything good in life: bacon, cheese, garlic, cream. There’s other stuff in there,too.
- Clam and bacon foccacia. This sounds far out. But the post really makes me want to try it!
- Cajun shrimp BLT. Is this the last of the BLTs? We live and hope!
- Eggs Benedict with bacon instead of “canadian” bacon, whatever the hell that is.
- Bacon chutney and relationship advice
- This post does not at first appear to be about bacon, only donuts. But then there is the Flying Pig donut. Oh yes.
- Mac and cheese with bacon and chard
- Bacon peanut brittle
- The Pig Out! Bacon chocolate sampler
*Apologies to Irvine Welsh, none of them overly sincere.
A long-overdue thanks, Sarah. Might be the first time my tweet was cited in a blog post! :)
Wade
QOTD: “THAT’S how you get great. By loving it so much your morning bowel movement takes second seat.”
Spiders don’t typically bother me but HOLYSHITAAAAAGH.
I think those “pardon moi” cards are too twee. While they may be effective and get the point across I think you’d be much better off just telling the person outright. Especially the ones with pick up lines on them. Lame.
That tauntaun costume is epic. I want to wear one. To work.
The pirate metal song was awesome. I’m excited that you’ve had some metal on two straight FFAFs! I like where this is going. FFAF: Mostly Bacon, Some Spiders, Occasional Metal.
I really think that the Where to Eat flowchart should always end in Chick-fil-a or Krystals. Unless it’s 2 AM, then you can add Taco Bell.