In honor of Halloween (my favorite-because-it’s-so-ridiculous holiday), I’ve been saving a few links for completely geeky jack-o-lanterns. Cool Gaming Themed Pumpkin Carvings for a Geeky Halloween Aside from the usual assortment of Pacman pumpkins and game console logos, these two rather stood out for me: A sackboy from Little Big Planet! How adorable! (Explanation for [...]
Earlier this year, when Lucas and I were out in Bærum visiting some friends, we all went for a walk in the woods. I wasn’t watching my feet and ended up stepping on a snake, which startled me more than anything else, and made me feel extraordinarily bad for the tiny snake. Our friends were [...]
A year ago, when we received the “Destinations Rated” issue of National Geographic Traveler magazine, I was surprised to see that the top-ranked destination in the US was Columbus, Indiana. This year, the highset-scoring destination is once again close to “home,” as the honor went to the Norwegian fjords. The scores are calculated based on [...]
A few flag links found their way to my desktop recently, and since I love flags, I thought it only fair to pass them along, even if they’re slightly out of date. The first is an extremely thorough grading system that assigns each country’s a numerical score and corresponding letter grade, based on a complicated [...]
So I had a random post scheduled to go up this evening (it was about flags; I love flags), but I have to bump it to next week, because they just announced the Nobel Peace Prize! And Obama won it?! I love Obama just as much as the next American ex-pat, and I am extremely [...]
I have to admit that I love cool computer cases. In the same way I loved Swatch’s old-school transparent watches back in the day, I really appreciate the plexiglass cases that I can see inside. So it’s not a big surprise that I encouraged Lucas to drop quite a bit on a pricey Antec Lanboy [...]
No, I’m not talking about the weather, but perhaps I should: The season seems to have taken a sudden nose-dive around here! On the weekend of our move (was that really only 1½ weeks ago?) I updated my Twitter status to comment how the weather was a perfect fall day. The sun was shining, the [...]
The UN just published their annual ranking of countries, determining where the best places to live by life expectancy, education, GDP, etc. Norway topped out the list, followed by Australia (Good on ya!) and Iceland (apparently their financial issues have not yet decreased their life expectancy). While we’re all proud of our surrogate country, it’s [...]
In my effort to post something (anything) more regularly, I’ve started keeping a collection of random links that have amused me. Since it’s Friday, and I worked late last night, I thought I’d post one today. I hope it makes your Friday more amusing too. You know all of those cute photos of animals that [...]