On picking battles – BWAHAHAHAHA! This blog is going on my list.
Great photo – Brave pelican? No. Just a birdbrain.
Did Shakespeare smoke weed? – Most likely. It wasn’t illegal in those days, you know.
Flat Earth Map – Fascinating.
World City – If the world’s entire population lived in one city how big would it be? Interesting infographic.
Fascinating trees – Beautiful and interesting
June 30th, 2011 - 9:59 am
I admit that the population-density one makes me twitch a little; the thought of everyone on the earth being crammed into Lousiana, Arkansas, and Alabama….ugh. I’d be all, stop the world, I need to leave.
June 30th, 2011 - 5:20 pm
Well you could go to the whole rest of the globe that now had no people on it, since they were all crammed into one place. I think I’ll take Hawaii.
Re the towel/metal chicken battle (first link). Gosh that husband sure came off as an unpleasant, humorless person. I don’t get the whole “don’t buy towels” anyway — unless she’s a towel hoarder and has rooms crammed full of them. (Though in that case, you just buy more towels and sneak them into the mountain of towels you already own.)
June 30th, 2011 - 6:39 pm
The Blogess rocks – she is hilarious. I’d never be able to live with her, more power to Victor that he can, but she’s funny to read.
July 1st, 2011 - 7:22 am
I know! I wouldn’t want to put up with her. On the other hand, I wouldn’t put up with Victor either.
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About the world city maps – Yeah, it is scary to think about the entire population of the world squeezed into one city but if they would all fit into a city the size of Texas the Earth can’t be as crowded as we think it is.
July 7th, 2011 - 3:21 pm
Did Shakespeare smoke weed?
I think not. If he’d been a pothead, most of his dialogue would have been “like, whatever….”
And he’d never have got further than act one, scene one… In fact, he’d be, like, man, so f***ing far behind the, ah, y’know, ah, man, wow, yeah, the , like, deadline thing, that he’d be, yeah, like , ah… and just hand in Christopher Marlowe’s play instead, and hope nobody noticed.
There are dandelions in my garden. I’ve never smoked any of them. The existence of hemp in Shakespeare’s doesn’t suggest he smoked it either. Far more likely it was grown for its fibre, used in textiles and cordage.