This picture made me laugh this morning...check out this frog, chillin' like a villain.  Wish I was doing that....that lily pad looks pretty comfy!




:)

Yes.

Birds on the Wires Inspire Notes of Song

“Birds on the Wires”, a beautiful video created by Jarbas Agnelli of São Paulo who saw a photo of birds on electric wires by Paul Pinto in a newspaper and decided to create a song based on the birds locations as musical notes.

Birds on the Wires from Jarbas Agnelli on Vimeo.

This is so cool.

 

While I don't like the idea of defacing books, some of these are really quite lovely and, dare I say it ( I do!), whimsical.

Things to do with Books Other Than Read Them (SFW).

I love the shelves and the octopus!

The other day Jej and I visited my family farm. On the drive up the lane, we saw a dark blue, shiny bird that we thought might be a blue bird. It was about the right size, and after all, it was blue!   After doing some research, however, we discovered that blue birds are completely different and what we had actually spotted was a purple martin. Pretty!  I had no idea such a cool-looking bird existed.


(not my picture)

For those of you checking in - I'm okay, thank you.  For those of you in DC who ride the metro, particularly the Red Line - I hope you're alright.   That is one horrific metro accident.  More here > 

What did you want to be when you were a kid?  What do you think of that choice now?

Here's mine: I wanted to be a Marine Biologist. Mostly because I loved everything in the ocean....sea life of all kinds, no matter how icky or weird, I found beautiful and fascinating. I won a prize on a snorkel trip in Hawaii because I could correctly pronounce the state fish (the Humuhumunukunukuapua'a, as it happens!  Try saying that 5 times fast!)  I stopped pursuing this as a career when I realized I didn't care much for biology.  Alas.


The fish in question: 

 

Cute little stop-motion video, blatantly swiped from snobahr  :)   

Via enharmonium , Dinosaur Comics: the Japanese Students Learning English version. (SFW)

Hilarious, but those of you that have taught ESL in particular will  appreciate these  :) 

Also - I didn't put it on the Japanese filter, as I'm thinking of doing away with it.  I don't post about Japan often enough to merit it.

 Those of you who have/are interested in Dreamwidth, what's it all about?  Why is it better than plain ol' Livejournal, for example?

I am curious...please enlighten me!

 

This is weird, yet cool, and it's via Neil Gaiman's blog.  

I kind of love this one. 

The mouse-over text is the best.

I'm wearing green to ward off pinching. 

We were promised a circus parade past our office today as Barnum & Bailey's drums up customers while they're in town, but either those elephants marched extremely quickly, or invisibly, because I saw nothing.  I wanted to see some tricked out elephants, damn it.  And maybe some people on stilts. 

missjhyde , I think Ruby needs one of these:



Apparently they're being sold on Etsy.  So cute!

Sam Waterson for Old Glory Insurance (sfw):



Because you just never know when the next evil robot invasion is going to occur.

La la la la (ping)!




(I'd say this is 98% SFW.)

Especially ones that play the theme song to DR WHO.