The beaver is a proud and noble animal
Notes from a bemused canuck
Last night, during a wine reception, they were playing a Sinatra CD (which is a helluva lot better than the Gypsy Kings CD they were playing during the poster section. My Way and Hotel California will never sound the same again…) and one of the songs was “Something Stupid”. It was the same song (and probably the same CD) that was playing during breakfast this morning. Weird.
In other news, I have discovered marmalade. Good stuff!
I give you two weird sightings:
A 3 pound, 8.5inch wide swiss-army knife that will cost you $1,200 and has 85 gizmos on it, including: 11 varieties of blades (including the essential cigar cutter), 30 screwdrivers and assorted bits, 5 wrenches, 3 pairs of pliers and 36 other tools (including the ever useful laser pointer, 12gauge choke tube, flashlight, glof club face cleaner and tire tread gauge).
The people who brought you the Play-Doh cologne and the bacon bandages now proudly introduce the bacon wallet. Nothing more needs to be said.
“Take a look a your LJ friends list, then list up to ten things you want to say to ten different LJ friends… DO NOT state who these people are. DO NOT confirm nor deny any “comment speculation”. Then tag five people. “
There will be no tagging of others to spread things here.
1. I don't know you enough, but what I've seen so far makes you out to be a very interesting person.
2. You are a selfish person, who looks out for number one. You use the people around you only when it suits you and I've grown to hate how you affect those people who try to care.
3. I admire you for the strength of your character in overcoming so many odds and just jumping blindly in life always knowing you'll land on your feet.
4. I know family is important, but you need to live your life for you, not how you think they want you to live it according to their morals and standards.
5. You have more potential that you think, you just need to stop caring about what others think about you. Go out and see the world outside your doorstep, it'll change your life forever.
6. You have strong opinions and you live by them, so congratulations. Sometimes though, you come seem moralistic and preachy, so you might want to tone it down a notch.
7. Sometimes you come across as cute and quirky, sometimes you just come across as weird.
8. I sometimes regret not taking you up on your offer.
9. I don't understand your lifestyle and I sometimes think you're vain and superficial.
10. You are my rock, and I don't know what I'd do without you.
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You scored as XIII: Death. Death is probably the most well known Tarot card – and also the most misunderstood. Most Tarot novices would consider Death to be a bad card, especially given its connection with the number thirteen. In fact this card rarely indicates literal death.Without “death” there can be no change, only eventual stagnation. The “death” of the child allows for the “birth” of the adult. This change is not always easy. The appearance of Death in a Tarot reading can indicate pain and short term loss, however it also represents hope for a new future.
Which Major Arcana Tarot Card Are You? |
Does this mean I need to talk ALL IN CAPS?
Sometimes I feel like I'm in a classic Disney film when I walk to work. This morning, between the birds chirping, the duckies waddling merrily along the footpath, the huge blackbirds walking in the gravel beds and the wild rabbit warren in the topiary, the amount of wildlife I ran across was quite impressive.
Almost made me break out in song.
Almost.
The campus hosted an exhibition from the Korean National Tae Kwan Do demonstration team. That was… impressive!
They host national tryouts across Korea and take the top 100 people. They train intensively for months and then they take the top 25 of those people to tour around the world doing TKD demos. They showered the cafeteria with kindling and apple blobs for a solid hour.
In a word, wow.
Katy and I went to a BBQ last night at a coworker's place in North Cambridge. Surrounded by chickens and horses, we ate hogfat and Russian Cornish pasties. All in good fun. We ended up home rather late and it was hard getting out of bed this morning.
While dragging my feet to the cafeteria to grab a cup of coffee, I ran across my favourite fowl couple, Grace and Clarckson. In the cafeteria.
Apparently, it's quite common to see ducks wander in in the summertime, pick at the crumbs on the floor and waddle out.
Sa-weet!
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Go to Wikipedia. In the Search box, type your birth month and day (but not year). List three events that happened on your birthday. List two important birthdays and one interesting death. Post this in your journal.
Events on August 7th
1794 – Whiskey Rebellion begins: Farmers in the Monongahela Valley of Pennsylvania rebel against the federal tax on liquor and distilled drinks.
1944 – IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I).
1945 – President Harry Truman announces the successful bombing of Hiroshima with an atomic bomb while returning from the Potsdam Conference aboard the heavy cruiser USS Augusta (CA-31) in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
1990 – At 12:34:56 (both AM and PM) the time and date by British reckoning was 12:34:56 7/8/90 i.e. 1234567890.
[Note: a depressingly large number of events were war-related on my birthday. poo, I say!]
Births on August 7th
1560 – Elizabeth B, Hungarian serial killer (d. 1614)
1876 – Mata Hari, Dutch spy (d. 1917)
1960 – David Duchovny, American actor
1975 – Charlize Theron, South African actress (yay!!!!!)
Deaths on August 7th
1106 – Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1050)
1834 – Joseph Marie Jacquard, French weaver and inventor (b. 1752)
1957 – Oliver Hardy, American comedian and actor (b. 1892)
2005 – Peter Jennings, Canadian-born news anchor (b. 1938)
