Archive | October, 2011
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Wordless Wednesday: Hanging around

You can’t stop my three-year-old daughter. You can only hope to contain her.

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Everyone loves “The Sound of Music”… except Austria

It’s taken more than 50 years for the beloved musical to be performed live in Salzburg and the vast majority of Austrians have never seen it on the stage or screen. And they claim it’s not just because of lingering guilt about the whole Nazi thing.

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Beware men wielding armadillos

In a news article that pretty much confirms every negative stereotype of Texans, a woman was beaten with a frozen armadillo in an illicit parking lot meat transaction gone bad. Yes, you read that correctly.

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Wordless Wednesday: Not singing

You can drag The Girl to church, but you can’t make her sing.

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VLA seeking a new name

The folks in charge of New Mexico’s Very Large Array have decided after all these years that it needs a new name – one that’s a little more inspiring and a little less literal. Might I suggest Dave? Or Phil? Or Stormageddon, Dark Lord of All?

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Wordless Wednesday: Carousel

The Girl decides that carousels are okay in her book.

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Man uses Photoshop for a higher purpose: messing with kids’ minds

If there’s two things I like, it’s Star Wars and messing with my kids, but even I haven’t gone this far. Also, it must have been an incredibly slow news day at the Daily Mail. Wait until they see my sliding thumb trick.

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Wordless Wednesday: Obsolescence

Back in its day, the IBM Selectric II typewriter was the bee’s knees. Unfortunately, it’s day ended about thirty years ago.

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