Black, White, & Read

Mystery word = ‘dog’

shmerica — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 01:07:58 +0000

Following up something I saw on QI the other day:

NO ONE KNOWS WHERE THE WORD ‘DOG” CAME FROM!

It is, apparently, “one of the great mysteries of English etymology“

Watching Die Hard…

shmerica — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 05:28:11 +0000

… and knitting make for wonderful juxtaposition.

Life has been a little messy lately, and it seems everyone and their dog has had this killer cold. And then, there’s the killer cold.

Some things that I like right now:

My dogs.
My husband (he made dinner).
Knitting.
Blankets.
Yogurt.
Brunch.
The Bronte sisters (and I suppose Branwell, too):

Dramatic Wesley moment on Star Trek Next Gen

shmerica — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:31:46 +0000

“I’m gonna think us outta this!… I’m gonna get to the water and keep you alive… till they find us.”

Liberrian Schewl

shmerica — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 00:59:52 +0000

So I am about halfway done being trained up to be a Liberrian.

I am enjoying the subject matter more than I would have thought. There’s a lot of psychology in things like collection development (basically, what are people gonna need from your library) and reference work (basically, what the heck are people actually asking for).

Winnipeg in winter with hoarfrost

shmerica — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 02:37:00 +0000

I take pretty pictures, no?

Crazy Octopus: Tool use in an invertebrate!

shmerica — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 21:46:00 +0000

Used to be humans were considered special ’cause we used tools. Then it became an ape thing, then a primate thing, then we figured birds do it too. Now… an invertebrate?

Watch this octopus HIDE IN A COCONUT SHELL.

Chain of Ridiculous Association 1: Walkin`- Walken – Walkin`

shmerica — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:43:00 +0000

Walkin’

Christopher Walken

Christopher Robin

Winnie the Pooh
(The Bear Named Winnipeg)

Winnipeg

Winnipeg winter

Winnipeg Winter Walking

Walkin’

If you see people taking their shirts off, it’s time to leave the party

shmerica — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:18:00 +0000

People taking their shirts off
2 steps away from orgy

White guys talking like they’re gangsters
2 steps away from fight… or orgy

WTF AIG?

shmerica — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 21:42:00 +0000

>WTF AIG??? W… T… F…

Consumerist reports that AIG has “fought every request from John Woodson, a man who lost a leg, an eye, and 70% of the vision in the remaining eye while working in Iraq” where he was bombed.

You guys are winners… not.

You guys are not winners.

People driving cars into stuff

shmerica — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 18:06:00 +0000

We were so busy dealing with the flooding catastrophes that we forgot another scourge to fear: people driving into your building.

This morning an elderly couple was woken up by a dude driving into their house:

“Harold Patterson and his wife were sound asleep when a car on Ness Avenue ran over their neighbour’s lawn, through their back fence and rammed into their home, coming within half a metre of their bed.” Cont here.

Yesterday a lady drove into some guy’s new meat shop. (Picture from WFP website).

“Marcello Castellano surveys the damage after a car crashed through the windows into his soon-to-be Marcello’s Meats store in a strip mall at 200 Meadowood Drive Thursday. He was the only person in the store when an elderly female driver drove into the building. The woman was taken to hospital for observation. “

And I remembered seeing one from not long ago where an out-of-control car drove into a closed garage. One of the women in the car later passed away: read about it here. (Pic WFP website).

Were these accidents always so frequent, and I’m just suddenly noticing them more?

Or are people just spring feverish and testing their luck on the newly ice free roads?