Clik here to view.
And now: A penguin highway.
Some days I write about matters of geopolitical import. Other days I post paleolithic shrews and penguins. But seriously: Penguin highway. * “Instant replay”! Bwahaha! God bless 21-year old Melissa...
View ArticleClik here to view.
I would like to own this, please.
A chest of drawers that looks like a woodpile? Yes, please. designer Mark Moskovitz, h/t Boing Boing
View ArticleClik here to view.
“Not cool, Robert Frost!”
h/t Aasif Mandvi, via the Twitters (because much as I wish I did, I don’t actually know Aassif Mandvi).
View ArticleClik here to view.
It’s hamantaschen time. You all need my latke recipe.
Yes, it’s hamantaschen season (being nearly Purim, and all) and thus not the time for latkes. But there is a lively debate underway on Twitter as regards the relative worth of hamantaschen...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Kid President – now with more Real President!
Look at this adorable thing, posted to Youtube just today, in which the Real President is sweet as pie with Kid President, who is, in turn, adorable: h/t Huffington Post’s Joshua Hersh, also via the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Found words, tucked into a used book.
About ten or eleven years ago, my friend Shaun came on a visit from London. He was reading Andrea Levy’s Fruit of the Lemon at the time, and he left it for me — and a decade or more later, I finally...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Kid President meets the Real President.
Kid President (recently seen on In My Head giving you a pep talk) was invited to the White House for the Easter Egg Roll. Here you see him on the Truman balcony, greeting the crowd with the Obamas –...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Tomorrow’s going to be a better day/ we’re going to make it that way –...
“To the misanthropic, misbegotten merchants of gloom Who look into their crystal balls and prophesise our doom, Let the death knell chime, it’s the end of time Let the cynics put their blinkers on and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Cat. In a shark costume. On a roomba. Chasing a duckling.
Because you deserve it: My source was Nick Harkaway, who retweeted Rick Lipman, who retweeted Susan Arendt. I wish I knew who made the actual gif, because I’d like to buy him/her an enormous chocolate...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Gone fishin’! Left you a humorous video!
My mother and I are about to leave on a trip that I’ve been planning (possibly only in my mind, because she doesn’t remember me talking about it) since high school. We’re off to Scotland! What this...
View ArticleClik here to view.
I’m back! I’m catching up! Have some good music!
A literal hour after my taxi pulled away from O’Hare on Saturday night (following my truly terrific Scottish vacation – about which more later), I was at a bar mitzvah. Can’t slow my roll! In fact, I’d...
View ArticleClik here to view.
All the Spocks. All of them.
You’ve probably already seen this. Or maybe you haven’t and now you’re going to be endlessly grateful to me. I’ve shilled for a cool car with geek cred in the past, and hereunder, I do so again. OMG....
View ArticleClik here to view.
This is just cool, I don’t care who you are.
The ultra-cool Canadian astronaut/commander of the International Space Station Commander Chris Hadfield will be coming home soon (tomorrow? I think? in the course of Monday), and the internet...
View ArticleClik here to view.
More information about me than you maybe needed.
This is me: * This is also me: * And you wonder why I’m self-employed. source: BuzzFeed
View ArticleClik here to view.
My new crush: Canasta (the band, not the card game).
Remember back when I posted about Canasta? Don’t lie, I can see you through the screen. Anyway, since that post went up two weeks ago, I’ve listened to one or both of their albums nearly every day. I...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Swedish meatballs have lingonberry hats.
The Eurovision Song Contest is this mildly disturbing/culturally regressive annual song contest that I have largely ignored since leaving Israel, and which I pretty much ignored even while in Israel...
View ArticleClik here to view.
My brain, the weasel.
In a wild and woolly happenstance, The Bloggess (who, if you’re unfamiliar, is kind of a Big Deal on The Internet as well as Among Geeks) wrote essentially the same post I wrote yesterday. Only her’s...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Musical crush, awesome-cool update edition.
Matt Priest, of Canasta… stopped by this blog. Today. And left a comment. And said thank you. And also linked to the official video for the song that I’ve twice embedded (how the official video escaped...
View ArticleClik here to view.
In case you ever doubt that my husband loves me…
…just know that he sent me this: Nobody ever loved me like he loves me, oh yeah.
View ArticleClik here to view.
For our Canadian friends (& those who love them).
Yesterday was Canada Day, and if you didn’t know that, it’s probably because you’re not Canadian, which is a perfectly fine way to be and frankly a condition shared by most humans. We here at In My...
View Article
