Links that I’m reading/watching/listening to/thinking about
A couple weeks ago a co-worker asked if I had any pictures from our trip to Uluru. I sent her the link and asked why. She said that we were doing a promotion with Flight Centre, and they wanted a vacation picture to use in it. Snookums and I said we didn’t mind, and so… here we are!
Hahahaha, for some reason it just makes me laugh and laugh. Now I need to get into one of the TV commercials…
Edited 24/03/2025: Link is archived, but the image is not. 🙁
For my sister: John Cusack… in the rain. HA! He really is always in the rain.
This beautiful advertisement for natural gas shows a home being covered with knitting as a metaphor for it warming up in the morning.
I also recommend watching the “making of” video. It looks like they started with everything covered and then slowly unraveled it all, bit by bit. Lovely!
Michael is exhorting us all to help the sex life of Chippo’s pumpkin vines. Heh. Both vines that I’ve grown haven’t had a single female flower, so I’ve yet to do any pumpkin fertilisation myself. I’ll be on the lookout though.
Edited 23/03/2025: Link is dead and not archived.
Dooce has written a post about what health care reform means for her family. In short, she, her husband, and her daughter Leta have been been denied coverage by private insurance companies for “pre-existing conditions.” They have had to buy expensive state-run high-risk cover. This bill means that they will actually be able to get OFF the public option and into the private system. Excellent. (Also note: John’s pre-existing condition is HAYFEVER. You’ve gotta be kidding me, right? If I lived in the U.S., that’d be me. WTF?!)
Molasses Coffee Marinated Pork Chops from Alton Brown. Yum. I’ve got some pork chops in the freezer just begging for this…
Peter Sagal (of Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me fame) has a column in Runner’s World this month and has blogged his “Three G’s for Runners”. It’s got some nice pointers for anybody starting out in running.
The fifth cake is a Moomin cake! Sweet.
Q&A session with some of the craftsmen involved in that Rube Goldbert video for OK Go. I’m totally in awe.
Procrastinators vs. incubators. Yes! I am an incubator! It describes me perfectly. I’ve never been very good at motivating myself unless I have a concrete deadline staring me in the face. I don’t operate well with open-ended projects that just meander along. And when I pull the inevitable all-nighter to get stuff done, it’s always really good. Phew. I’m not the only one. (Link found via this related and fascinating discussion about I.T. industry productivity.)
