Archive | Miscellany

I walk about a mile and a half every day in order to get to and from the train station. That time is spent daydreaming. What it would be like to go back in time, and be the only guy with an Army tank in the Punic Wars? Would it make me a ruler? Would I at […]

My brother is a photo bug. Do people still say that? Anyway, one of his photos just took first place in a monthly contest. Check it out.

Sweden is pretty cold. The thermometers all have a big fat ZERO (celsius) right in the middle, indicating (I believe) that the mercury is just as likely to be below it as above it. I was there a week, this time, and never saw it go above that zero. I did see the sun, one […]

As my wife and child head below the equator and further to the sunburnt country, I’ll be flying north north north to Stockholm. So weeklyrob will suffer. Expect the next post some time after December 20th, 2007. [‘Course, if I feel the urge, and have the access, I may drop in a post here or there.]

I’m kinda busy nanoing. Read the Santa thing for for yourself. [Link from Jewlicious.]

Man, I had a post all ready to write. It was about how much I hate the Chinese government, and just about everything that comes out of China (except the people). Seriously. When they’re not arresting people for no reason, or being slipshod in their quality control and health standards, they’re taking over other countries […]

I assume that this is legit. A very rare albino dolphin. I wonder if it gets burnt by the sun. Like, don’t albino humans have to be careful of sunburn?

Check out whether your globe shows Micronesia as US or independant. Or whether Zimbabwe still says Rhodesia. Use the list to figure out when your globe was made. Mine? Somewhere around 1986, apparently. I need a new globe. BONUS HUMILIATION: Trying to find all the countries. I knew most of the few I looked at […]