I came up with a few interesting “Life in Norway” insights to share over the weekend, but I seem to have forgotten them. So instead, I’ll post another interesting link I’ve come across recently: The World Accent Game See how well you can identify speakers’ accents from all over the world. I did surprisingly badly, [...]
I found this on Lorry’s blog, and decided to play around with it. The Lego-Mizers There are a few different varieties, for almost endless time-wasting! If Lucas an I ever showed up in a pre-packaged Lego tie-in set, I guess we’d end up looking something like this: So would LEGO Meg be “MEGO”?
I subscribe to a bunch of airline mailing lists so that I can keep an eye on their sales and promotions, and last week I got an email announcing RyanAir’s fall sale. Anyone who’s ever dealt with RyanAir (or most discount airlines for that matter) knows to take a discount air fare with a grain [...]
There are a lot of things I miss about living in Beijing, but every once in a while, something will remind me of one of the reasons that I’m very happy not to be in China anymore. Last night was one of these occasions. I was fast asleep and dreaming, when I suddenly awoke at [...]
Over the weekend, Lucas shared with me the Random Awesome Album Generator algorithm, which does a surprisingly good job at creating a random band name and debut album, based on the oh-so-fabulous Wikipedia RandomPost function: Band Name – The tile of this article Album Title – The last four words of the very last quote [...]
Lucas and I quote stand-up comedy the same way some people quote movie lines! (Okay, I admit I quote movie lines, too…) In case you haven’t seen them, here are links to a few things that we watched when Erin & Mike were here: Stephen Lynch Nothing like getting a comedy singer stuck in your [...]
Today is Crazy News Friday! First up – The results are in! We have a winner in the 2008 Olympics Doping Pool. The first sport to have a medal taken away for a failed drug test is….. …..Shooting? Yes, the North Korean double medalist lost his silver medal in 50-meter air pistol and bronze medal in 10-meter [...]
A few days ago, I came across a particularly entertaining blog to share: Cake Wrecks When professional cakes go horribly, hilariously wrong. The blog is a gallery of professionally decorated cakes (and cake sculptures) that all have something fundamentally and amusingly wrong with them. In some cases, it’s the fault of the client, who requested [...]
Today was one of those “everything that can run late, will run late” mornings. I slept in a litt, but I wasn’t particularly rushing, since I put in a long day yesterday. I had a meeting at 10, but I figured that as long as I made it in by then, I’d be fine (Okay, [...]
Floating around in my head, and slowly fading from memory, there are still a few classic tales from Beijing that I should really share. One of the unintentionally funny things about our office in China is that the local Chinese employees were still a bit unsteady in their grasp of daily English usage. Their eagerness [...]