Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Instead of doing a writeup about my trip to Colorado this weekend (because I’m too busy kicking ass at Scramble right now), here’s a video! These are two elks playfully butting heads in Rocky Mountain National Park. We sat and ate lunch as they butted. I didn’t think elk fighting would be so adorable! Be [...]
I am convinced that the grass in our yard is blessed (cursed) to forever keep growing, unmolested by predatory blades. Currently there are three broken mowers sitting in our cellar, all of them broken beyond repair, according to our former neighbors. Since August, we’ve alternated between using weedwackers on the entire lawn (not fun), or [...]
From the Guardian: a confidential report from the World Bank reveals that biofuels have driven food prices up by as much as 75%. Not much of a surprise that this is happening – the global appetite for both food and energy are insatiable, and you just can’t put all of the strain of that demand [...]
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
As I mentioned before, I am a big fan of public radio (as well as everything on that Stuff White People Like list. Where do I return my Asian card?). One of my favorite episodes of Radio Lab is Space. I’d forgotten just how unbelievably amazing space was, since having pored over my sister’s astronomy [...]