Ok, this is pretty much the best thing of all time.

Benny Hillifier

How strong is a chimpanzee, really? – By John Hawks – Slate Magazine

Pretty strong. But not THAT strong.

This ought to help with the diet today.

The 10 Most Disgusting Foods in the World – GROSS!!!

One good thing did come from the Crimean War. This:

  Two Bullets Hitting Each Other in Mid-air - Jet Point

Last night I was getting ready for bed and walked down to my office, dropped off some papers on my desk, and walked back upstairs… only to notice a splosh splosh splosh noise when I got to the wooden stairs. Why were my shoes wet? Oh no…

Oh yes. The 2nd floor toilet overflowed, flooding the room below… and it had been happening all evening whenever the washing machine drained the water from the basin. I don’t understand plumbing half as well as any other facet of home repair, so I don’t really grok why this is happening, but as we spent two hours troubleshooting, the reason became abruptly clear as the washing machine drained in the middle of our trying to clean up the mess. I’ve never seen quite a sight as a toilet rapidly rising and overflowing while I desperately tried to stop the mess with about 20 towels and three buckets (turns out the buckets are useless… the water adheres to the sides of the toilet, it doesn’t cascade over like a waterfall). It was like something out of a movie. A horror movie.

A real nightmare and certain to be an expensive one — we’re going to need at least a new ceiling and new carpet below. But first — and this post is a long way of asking for help on this — anyone have a great plumber in San Francisco?

Last night I was getting ready for bed and walked down to my office, dropped off some papers on my desk, and walked back upstairs… only to notice a splosh splosh splosh noise when I got to the wooden stairs. Why were my shoes wet? Oh no…

Oh yes. The 2nd floor toilet overflowed, flooding the room below… and it had been happening all evening whenever the washing machine drained the water from the basin. I don’t understand plumbing half as well as any other facet of home repair, so I don’t really grok why this is happening, but as we spent two hours troubleshooting, the reason became abruptly clear as the washing machine drained in the middle of our trying to clean up the mess. I’ve never seen quite a sight as a toilet rapidly rising and overflowing while I desperately tried to stop the mess with about 20 towels and three buckets (turns out the buckets are useless… the water adheres to the sides of the toilet, it doesn’t cascade over like a waterfall). It was like something out of a movie. A horror movie.

A real nightmare and certain to be an expensive one — we’re going to need at least a new ceiling and new carpet below. But first — and this post is a long way of asking for help on this — anyone have a great plumber in San Francisco?

Man I want one of these kidney-shaped — errr, heart-shaped — pizzas.

Fail: Papa John’s Love (Pizza) Is A Lie

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Everything you know about advertising (and the universe) is wrong.

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Eh, what can ya do?

(This is what happens when your kids are upstairs “playing quietly.”)

Fascinating stuff!

Life at Wal-Mart – Boing Boing

“If you haven’t heard of Adam Shepard, this illustrates my point. His remarkable book Scratch Beginnings, now being promoted through www.scratchbeginnings.com, describes how he went through an experience far more grueling than my brief flirtation with low-paying work. He placed himself in a homeless shelter with $25 in his pocket, found a job as a day laborer, then worked for a moving company, and after 10 months had a pickup truck, an apartment, and $2,500 in savings. His conclusion: People can still make it in the United States if they are willing to live carefully on a budget and work hard.”

Twix? Say it ain’t so!

America's Worst Supermarket Foods – Page 1 – MSN Health & Fitness – Nutrition

17. WORST CANDY

Twix (1 package, 2 oz.)

* 280 calories
* 27 g sugars
* 14 g fat (11 g saturated)

Twix takes the already-dubious candy-bar reputation and drags it through a murky pool of saturated fat. With more than half the USDA’s daily consumption recommendation for these dangerous fats in each package, this is one hazardous after-lunch snack.

Saturated fat equivalent: 11 strips of bacon

Eat This Instead:

100 Grand (1 package)

* 190 calories
* 22 g sugars
* 8 g fat (5 g saturated)

Note to self: No more trips to the grocery store on Super Bowl Sunday. Period. Ever.