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Well done and extremely disheartening info graphic.
yay maud!
Very few words have a birthday so precise, and so precisely known, as couch potato. It was on July 15, 1976, we are told, that couch potato came into being, uttered by Tom Iacino of Pasadena, California, during a telephone conversation. He was a member of a Southern California group humorously opposing the fads of exercise and healthy diet in favor of vegetating before the TV and eating junk food (1973). Because their lives centered on television--the boob tube (1966)--they called themselves boob tubers. Iacino apparently took the brilliant next step and substituted potato as a synonym for tuber. Thinking of where that potato sits to watch the tube, he came up with couch potato.
New Zealand:>)
2011 SCHOOL TERM AND SCHOOL HOLIDAY DATES
Rugby World Cup School Holidays
The usual length of each school term has been adjusted for 2011. Terms One and Two are slightly longer than usual and Term Four is two weeks shorter. This is to align the October term holiday with the final stages of the 2011 Rugby World Cup Tournament.
steve is this true about oregon
The only four places that today openly and legally, authorize active assistance in dying of patients, are:
Oregon (since l997, physician-assisted suicide only);
Switzerland (1941, physician and non-physician assisted suicide only);
Belgium (2002, permits 'euthanasia' but does not define the method;
Netherlands (voluntary euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide lawful since April 2002 but permitted by the courts since l984)
woke up to 3/4" of water on 1/4 of my kitchen floor. dont know how to solve that equation. fortunately i tracked down my landlord before he set out to atone for his sins. not sure if god is trying to tell me something but ive started to construct an ark out of flexible straws and duct tape just in case. i might not be able to save myself but at least the mice will survive to reset the evolutionary process.
in other news i was given a ball that rafael nadal used at the us open this year. no provenance or signature to verify the claim though. so, i got that going for me.
Microsoft has some helpful advice for throwing your own Windows 7 launch party. Most painful video ever?
Thinking about a new phone.
RIP Jim Carroll.
iphone ocarina
if any of you use SIGG bottles, they are replacing the older models for newer ones bc of BPA in the old linings.
Hurricane Bill? Whatever happened to that guy? Oh, I remember--nothing. Sometimes it takes a woman to do a man's work. Hurricane Bill, Bah. Or better yet Bah Hah.
I think there was a paper airplane thread somewhere.
california here i come
How many times does a ball get passed from one person to another? Be sure to watch both basketballs.
tree damage in central park last night
bill blows
The idea that “each man kills the thing he loves” has been interpreted by many—from Oscar Wilde to Paulo Coelho—but it’s always had a particular resonance in the environmental movement, where every hiking trail and ecofriendly resort inevitably destroys or alters nature in the name of love. For 69-year-old activist Ric O’Barry, the paradox is an apt expression for his cause: the preservation of dolphins.
“Everybody loves them, right?” he asks. “But be careful with the word love.”
To O’Barry, even activities as seemingly benign as paying to see dolphins perform at SeaWorld or swimming with them in captivity constitutes abuse. “We love dolphins like they’re our family—I hear that a lot. Really? You lock your family up in a room and force them to do tricks before they eat their dinner?” O’Barry says. “The dolphin is a sonic creature; its primary sense is sound. You put one in a bare concrete box with music blaring and people shouting, of course it’s stressful! If people could see them in the wild, they’d never buy a ticket to a dolphin show.”